Author's Note: Hello. Thank you for deciding to read my fic. I warn you now; I am not an Inuyasha expert. I am going to need your help in getting this story right. I'm sure that I will be editing a lot throughout this story since I am just a recent Inu fan. Please be patient, and this is my first anime fic of any kind. So, don't be too harsh yet... Okay, here's the deal... this will end up being a Kikyo/Inu/Kagome love triangle, and possibly a very little bit of Sango/Miroku...so, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. If I did, well, I just don't own it...

Rated PG13 for crude humor, mild language, and something else I haven't thought of yet. Chapter One Kagome's POV

Nope. There was no way in hell that I was going to go and get into that...that...swampish river. It reminded me of the marshes, and Shippo was right in the middle of it. His little fox ears and tail were soaked with the muddy, slimy, brownish green 'water' he was frolicking in. And he was having fun.
"Kagome, come on! It's not that bad!" Shippo begged, his little ears twitching as the 'mud' got into them.
"I know it's not that bad...it's absolutely disgusting," I said with dismay. I loved Shippo like a little brother, but I was not going to do that for him. I wouldn't even do that for Inuyasha...
"Inuyasha, why don't you go play with Shippo in the water," I suggested, trying to ignore Miroku's slight giggle.
"Yeah, sure, and get my ears wet. Uh huh. Suuuuuure, Kagome. I'll get up and do that right away," he said sarcastically rolling his eyes.
"Miroku, since you find it so amusing..." Sango began, smirking at the thought of Miroku in that extremely gross situation.
"No thanks," Miroku said properly, though his face lit up and I knew his perversion was kicking in.
"It seems that everything is calm..." I began, as I placed the ancient jewel shards by Sango and sat down. They had seemed so heavy for the past few days I had carried them, such a burden. And they reminded me of Kikyo, too. The one person I wanted to forget ever existed in this world. The one person I wished Inuyasha could forget... But no, he loved her, and true love could not be broken by death.
"Kagome," Inuyasha taunted, waving his hand in my face. I realized suddenly that my eyes had been fixed on Inuyasha, empty and wide-eyed.
"Well, since we're all on a first name basis, Inuyasha, where are we and when are we moving on?" Sango asked persistently, her eyes drilling into Inuyasha.
"Well, the thing is...we're lost...and I don't know where we're going."
"LOST!!!!" I screamed shocked, "Of course when you're lost you don't know where you're going. But how could we be lost?!?"
"Easy," Inuyasha said looking me straight in the eyes, "We got off track and lost our way."
"Kagome!" Shippo, splashing in the 'mud'.
"Yes, Shippo?"
"Come on!"
"NO!" Inuyasha shouted, "For the last time no no no no NO!"
"Inuyasha!" I shouted, not impressed by how he was retaliating to Shippo.
"Kagome!" Shippo shouted.
"SHIPPO!" Miroku, Sango, Inuyasha, and I all shouted at once.
"Okay, okay..." he said, splashing once again ignoring us, "but you just wont get to see this jewel shard I just found in the water..."
"Kagome," Inuyasha said in a mockingly sweet voice, "why did you not detect that jewel shard in the water?"
"I do not know," I sighed getting up and walking over to the edge of the water. Shippo waddled through the water to me, holding his clenched fist up at me. As I reached forward though, his fist opened. It was empty, but not for long. He grabbed a hold of my wrist and pulled me into the swamp. He burst out laughing, getting a mouthful of the slime.
"THAT WAS NOT FUNNY!" Inuyasha shouted, throwing a rock at Shippo. Of course, it didn't travel to far, because Miroku stopped it with his staff.
"It was quite amusing though," Sango said smiling. Miroku nodded at Inuyasha, whose left ear started to twitch.
"Sorry Shippo," he said sarcastically, "the poachers called today. They just wanted you to know that you didn't escape from them. They let you go because you're such an idiot."
"Was that an attempt at a joke or a sarcastic remark?" Sango asked arching an eyebrow.
"No," Inuyasha said getting up, "I just felt like having the last word."
"Well, I'll have the last word this time," Miroku said smirking.
"I-," Inuyasha stopped before saying anything, got up, turned around, and walked towards the swamp.
Meanwhile, I had gotten out of the water, cleaning myself off. Obviously it wasn't going to be easy to remove from my clothing, but I could not think of that, for Inuyasha was approaching me.
"We're not lost," he began, not looking me even in the face.
"Then why did you tell us back there we were?" I questioned. He looked at the setting sun.
"Tonight is the new moon," once again not daring to let any information slide.
"And that's why you want to stay out of harms way?"
"For once."
"Oh, okay." He looked at me shocked.
"That's it, 'oh, okay'?" he asked, shocked that I hadn't taunted it.
"Yes it is Inuyasha." I stared at the sun, though there was little of it left.
Inuyasha. I wondered to myself if whenever he looked at me, he too saw her? Is that why he always felt such pain around me? Or was he happy around me? Was Kikyo really so much like me that he felt the need to keep me around? In a faint moment a thought came to me...did InuYasha love me? No...no...he loved Kikyo.

Authors Note: Please help me out with this and don't be harsh. This is my first Inu. Fanfic.