Loving You From Afar

~ Chapter One ~

A Day Like Any Other, Except...

By Inuyashas Youkai

It had been three days since the girl from the other side of the well made it back to the Feudal Era. Inuyasha at this point was sitting, fuming over the fact Kagome hadn't returned ,while he pouted within his favorite tree of the Goshinboku. Silently grumbling futile threats towards the said girl who seemed to like to spite him every time that he allowed her to go back to her time.

' Damn wench you better not make you come back and get your ass because you found yourself some trouble or ya won't be going back unless I go with you there to protect you there too!' Inuyasha grunted quietly in his mind

Although deep down the hanyou knew it wasn't true, while Kagome almost never was late returning as of late, that when on the few occasions she had been ,the hanyou's mood had soured with the fear the well would one day separate them ,and with both of them on different sides of the well. Inuyasha also knew eventually that the day would come where they would have to day goodbye , but that wasn't today, and if it was up to him it would never come.

Kagome had in time ,became his first and his only real true best friend ,sure Inuyasha had the others that consisted within his pack ,though she came first , and with her the hanyou gained everything else that came with his family now. There was something else that often came when thoughts lingered on Kagome for long and still today the hanyou couldn't understand it himself to be able to figure it out. It wasn't that Inuyasha was dense but it was the emotions that he felt were somewhat foreign to him, and with everything else that had brought what was different than what he was used to always encouraged him to do as always.

Bark loudly and pretend it didn't exist.

Though his motto that would normally work in most instances failed to work in this circumstance because deep down for some odd reason Inuyasha didn't want to forget, not halfling , while her well known companion ,he was a selfishly ,arrogant, greedy hanyou especially with her and very overprotective over their close bond to keep it intact. So even while Inuyasha chose to stay with another ,the hanyou at the same time didn't want to give Kagome up either.

When Sango,Miroku, and Shippo finally got on his last nerve to push him into getting Kagome from her time ,Inuyasha was surprised to learn that she had already left a day ahead of him to return. Slightly confused on how a simple human wench with a scent that could draw him out of the heaviest of sleep could merely be able to sip by him undetected or unnoticed by the others. While in deep thought over the possibilities of the situation that could lead him on the right path in finding Kagome. The hanyou soon began to retrace his steps to return to the past on the other side.

However , when he returned Inuyasha's search was soon proved to be put on hold once he caught sight of Kikyo's soul collectors .The hanyou shortly changed directions to head away from the village to seek out the love he chose, and one who imprisoned him with it and his guilt for her late demise. Granted he loved Kikyo with the same strength and intensity he once had before, but for some reason he felt torn about something every time Kikyo was near.

Once she came within sight of the hanyou, while Kikyo appeared peacefully lounging among a nearby trees branches,and if it wasn't for the cold scowl that she always wore it would've seemed more though with that, he couldn't deny the way Kikyo's pale skin glowed from the subtle moon light and how the wind's breeze sensually tore through her inky locks to merge into the hues of the night sky, simply took Inuyasha's breath away. When she looked into his eyes with the pained expression laced with hatred, concealing the love she once possessed for him,and had entranced him with every move she made.

"Kikyo..." Inuyasha choked out within a rasped whisper

"Inuyasha..!" The ghastly woman resembling his past love answered with the same fluid tone, matching that of her other piece of her once living heart,holding his deep ambers trapped ,within her dulled bark of her eyes,and lulled him with the sway of her ensnaring presence to what once was ,as she moved to stand in front of him.

The two embraced one another as they have longer than both remembered, while keeping their contact intact with everything that could be possibly be touch, beginning with their eyes. Kikyo wrapped her arms around him but in such a way,once he followed she could soon test out her theory. Moments before their lips graced one another's lips to play out their loving passions for each other, and Inuyasha's eyes foolishly closed his eyes excluding him from catching Kikyo's following deceitful actions. With one quick flick of her wrist from her hands lowered position to his gut, Kikyo roughly plunged the blunt object into his flesh of his lower gut and across to the one side, before he fell to his knees grasping the opened gash bleeding heavily from the wound..

"Kikyo!" The hanyou painfully rasped

"Inuyasha you just proved something to me just now ,while Naraku still carries the heart of Origumo .I see a opportunity for me in your actions toward me tonight. Pathetic! How could you allow your guard down after everything we've learned from before.." Kikyo smirked

"Ahh ! Because I could never hurt you Kikyo .I love you ! I thought you would feel the same..."Inuyasha gasped in pain

"Ha! Love ! Inuyasha that wasn't love it was a necessity for you and me to have each other .I don't feel anything but hate, remorse , sorrow, and the longing from my lost freedoms denied to me that my life had once promised. Before meeting you I was lonely and so were you .We simply used each other for what we needed .Besides their was no way I could love you as you were back then when I was alive ,and know I not really apart of anything just wandering for the end. I grow tired of this life and the reminders of anything in it. So I will use what I gained to destroy Naraku before I take my leave to where I belong to acquire the peace my soul longs for. I have grown to despise everything that I was forced to become and those who are living in the boundaries flowing with time. The rest is up to you , give these to Kagome for me ,and tell her I said Thank you for everything ..Farewell and be happy Inuyasha "Kikyo nonchalantly told and gave the arrows to her friend before turning to leave

"No! Kikyo Don't please!" Inuyasha screamed pathetically ,trying to stop her until his injury rippled down it with piercing ,blinding pain pinning him to his spot

It was now the hanyou knowingly knew why she chose to inflict the chosen injury upon him as she had with the harsh words and the painful actions as she had. It was to successfully prevent him from stopping her, and if it was for anything but the deep abrasion he would've still intervened regardless of cold words and heartless actions. The hanyou silently pleaded her to stop from his chosen spot ,also not being able to move there wasn't much he could do, and Kikyo knew this. Although it soon fell on deaf ears as Kikyo's retreating form soon faded into the darkening surroundings.

"No! Please Kikyo don't leave and face him alone ! I don't want to loose you Kikyo!"

"Inuyasha, don't you see this is the way it have to be for the time we left behind needs to stay in the past and to focus on the future. "Kikyo called back behind her within the shadows

Although faint , the hanyou picked it up in a silent whisper ,flowing within his ears,and one that held something else ,a unknown promise..

TBC...