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Title: Love's Lies
Prologue: Telling You Goodbye


It had only been a year since Yusuke and Kurama had come back from the demon world. Hiei had decided to stay there, but made appearances from time to time in the human world. However, that wasn't the only thing to change in the past year. Kurama had a job in his step-father's company now, and even had a step-brother that was just two years younger than him. Kuwabara was marrying Yukina, today, and he even had a job in his own detective agency. Yusuke worked at the agency with Kuwabara, but he was no longer together with Keiko. Something had happened over the past four years, and they just didn't know each other anymore. Although Keiko did take over her parents ramen shop and go to a very good college. Yes, many things had changed somewhere over the past five years. If only they could know where everything had changed.

Yet, the past didn't matter today. Because today was the day Kuwabara and Yukina were getting married and everyone was here for it. Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, and even Koenma were going to it. And of course Kuwabara's three best childhood friends were going to be up at the alter with him. Kurama had even talked Shuichi, his younger step-brother, into coming as well. So, all the guys were at Shuichi's small apartment getting ready. While the girls, Botan, Shizuru, and Ayame, were helping Yukina get ready. The three of them would be up at the alter with Yukina. It was just a good thing they got Genkai to agree to let them use her shrine for the wedding.

Right now, the boys were waiting for Shuichi to finish getting dressed so they could go over to the shrine. As the three of them wee lounging in the living room, something near the door caught Yusuke's attention. "Oi Kurama. Does Shuichi live here alone?" Yusuke asked as he eyed a pair of women's platform sandals next to the door.

Kurama looked over at where Yusuke was looking, "I thought he did..." He replied unsurely as the Youko in him was giving him some interesting ideas as to what could be making his brother take so long. "Hey Shuichi!"

"Yeah?" the muffled reply came from inside the bathroom nearby.

"Do you live here alone?" Kurama asked a little more quietly as his brother came out into the living room.

Shuichi immediately saw the pair of sandals, "She wasn't supposed to be here for a few more days…"

"Who're you talking about? Your girlfriend?" Kuwabara asked him.

"Ex-girlfriend as of now," a feminine voice said as a young woman stepped into the living room where everyone else was. She had a small box filled with small possessions under one arm and holding a suitcase with another.

"Kago… I thought we discussed this already… It hasn't been a month yet," Shuichi told her in a semi-pleading way.

"I don't care!" she shouted at him in frustration. "I can't take this anymore! I, I just can't stay with you anymore!"

"I already told you, that wasn't me those times," Shuichi told her.

"Just stop! Stop lying to me already! I know it was you! Or do you think that was the first time I've come back early?" she asked him as he looked at the ground ashamed. "I saw you go off to prom with her, instead of me… I saw you two leave here to go on the date you promised me... You know, if you love her so much, then why are you with me?"

"I love you Kago, not her," Shuichi started but was cut off.

"If you don't love her then why did you always go off with her!" the woman yelled in his face. Shuichi sighed and turned away from her, he still had to get ready for the wedding. The woman sighed also before she put down her stuff and went over to finish tying his tie.

"I'm sorry, you know… I never expected this to happen… I never meant to hurt you," Shuichi told her softly.

"Then you shouldn't have gone off with her… But then again, I guess that's all I'll ever be: second place… I remember you used to promise me that you would never do that, yet you have," she had her back facing everyone else as she smoothed out all the wrinkles in Shuichi's shirt.

"Kago don't go… Stay, I promise I'll change!" Shuichi grabbed her hand when she went to grab her stuff.

"He said that today, too... You know, if things had been differently, today I would be staying here forever with you… but this is just the way things go, so let me go and you can be with her forever instead," she told him as he let her arm go.

"I do love you Kago," he whispered to her softly as she turned around and brushed his hair out of his eyes.

"I know, and I did love you too… But, my heart can't take anymore of this," she whispered back before kissing him on the cheek. "Goodbye Shuichi."

He didn't say anything as she put the box back under her arm and picked up her suitcase before walking over and slipping into her shoes. Everyone just noticed how small she was before she put her shoes on. Without them on, she barely even reached Yusuke's shoulders, but with them on she at least reached his nose. They just watched as she opened the door and walked out, without a single glance back.

"Goodbye, Kagome."


-2 hours later, in Hama Rikyu-

Kagome was sitting underneath on of the sakura trees close to the teahouse. The sun had just begun to descend, and she knew she should be getting home, but she didn't want to leave. If only she could stay here for the night. But, she couldn't. The park would close soon, and she would be forced to leave it. It had only been an hour since she had gotten here, but this sunset made the 300 yen worth it. The Shiodome district always looked less hectic at sunset. Kagome let out a sigh as she thought back on today.

This morning she came back from the Sengoku Jidai for good, decided she get a new start on her life, left her cheating boyfriend, and had a good cry over why she was never good enough to be loved by anyone. It just wouldn't make any sense to her. She should be able to love freely now and do anything, but she can't. 'But why though? I don't have the Shikon no Tama anymore, I don't have a double life anymore, and I don't have to fight for my life anymore… So, why is it that nothing is happening right? I guess life just sucks this way,' was her last thought before she got up and left the park. Hopefully there wouldn't be too many people out tonight and she'd be able to get home fast.


Another repost; originally posted in October of 2004.