Chapter 1

A young beautiful woman stood gazing silently at the silvery moon. She stood near the edge of a cliff. Her raven black hair reached beyond her waist. She wore a long elegant white spaghetti strap dress, which flowed lightly in the breeze. With her hand, she gently held her hair from cascading across her face. The moonlight shone down on her, glistening off the single tear running down her cheek.

As she stood quietly at the edge of the cliff, she heard a faint sound approaching the clearing. Paying it no mind she continued to gaze longingly at the full moon above her.

Moments past and a figure emerged from the dark forest and slowly approached the slender woman still watching the round orb in the night sky. She glanced back, pushing her hair aside once again and whispered lightly, "Inuyasha..." Her voice trailed off in the breeze, carrying it like a forbidden memory lost to time.

The figure stepped away from the shadows and into the moonlight. His eyes were as golden as the sun and filled with a mixture of feelings. Doubt, longing, fear and even hope all danced in his eyes as he looked on. "Kagome..." His words were hushed and shaken. He slowly advanced towards the beautiful woman before him thinking to himself : 'But it can't be... it has been 3 years'. The woman turned back to the moon and continued her stare.

Inuyasha was still hesitant as he began to approach the woman still standing in silence. 'It smells like her. But she doesn't look quite the same.' He noticed how long her hair was and the way that it moved in the breeze.

He spoke again a little louder, "Kagome..." Inuyasha had begun to blush, 'She is so beautiful.' He reached out to her, longing to touch her. It had been 3 years since they defeated Naraku and 3 years since they had seen each other.

She turned towards the sad and confused hanyou. The breeze continued as they gazed into each others eyes. "Inu...yasha." she said sadly.

"Kagome!" He rushed over to her, wrapping his arms around her as he blinked, trying to keep the tears back. "Where did you go? After we spoke you disappeared..." She looked into his deep penetrating, beautiful eyes. It seemed as though they could see into her soul.

"Inuyasha..." tears began to well in her eyes as she laid her head on his chest. "Inuyasha.. I missed you."

Inuyasha didn't speak. He had been very hurt when Kagome had left. Now that she was back and in his arms he wasn't sure how to react. He began to run his fingers gently through her hair calming her sobs. With his chin on her head he spoke. "Does anyone else know you are here?"

"No, Not yet."

"Baka!" he whispered in an almost loving way.

The two broke their embrace and looked at each other again. Inuyasha wanted to be mad at her. In fact he searched for her for months. He had kept telling himself that she was going to regret leaving when he got his hands one her. Indeed he spoke bold but he didn't know what he would do if he found her. He always thought that her mother was weird, especially when she told them stories of when Kagome had to be punished and received a spanking. He concluded that she was going to get one of those, after he had Miroku tell him what it was to be spanked. At least the monk would enjoy it, 'pervert monk' he thought.

Inuyasha felt cold all of a sudden. He hadn't realized that Kagome had moved away. She was looking at the moon once again. He couldn't help but be sad that he couldn't hold her any longer. Soon anger began to surface as he remembered the way he felt after she left. And his stubbornness won through.

Inuyasha stepped forward and yelled, "Why in seven hells did you leave?!"

There was no answer, which just angered him even more. "Answer me Kagome! Why did you leave me?!" He didn't realize what he had said until it passed his lips. His cheeks turned a light pink as he became interested in the tree that was off to the side of the clearing at the edge of the forest.

Kagome didn't flinch or look back at him. "Inuyasha... I am sorry. I can't explain right now." Her voice began to tremble as she continued to stare at the moon. "I just can't!" She turned towards Inuyasha and began to walk forward. 'She looks so beautiful' he thought.

Kagome walked right pass him and began to enter the forest. Inuyasha watched as she walked away. He didn't know what to think. She had been gone so long and he had been so mad. Out of the blue he realized that Kagome had gone into the forest alone.

Inuyasha hurried to catch her, worrying about what might happen to her if she was alone in his forest. He jumped onto a tree limb and began to leap from one tree to another until he spotted her. "Hey Woman!" he screamed. "What do you think you are doing walking alone?!" No answer came from Kagome as she continued her path.

Inuyasha was getting annoyed with Kagome's disregard for his demands. ' I know' he thought. 'I will compare her to Kikyo, and then she will come to her senses.' He smirked.

"Hey Kagome, you know who you are acting like... Kikyo!" Like he had planned, Kagome stopped dead in her tracks. She whispered his name, "Inuyasha..." He jumped down and landed gracefully in front of her. "Yes?" he answered.

She took a deep breath and yelled at the top of her lungs, "SIT!!!" Inuyasha's face met with his old friend the ground. When the spell began to ware off and he was able to move Kagome took another deep breath, "SIT, SIT, SIT, BAKA, SIT" She then continued walking past him until he could no longer see her as she disappeared into the forest behind him. Inuyasha was undoubtedly having some choice words with his friend the ground of which was muffled by the dirt in his mouth.

Kagome looked back and crouched down low to the ground and jumped into a near by tree. She was mad at the dog boy. How dare he compare her to Kikyo. "That should teach him." She smirked evilly as she began to jump from limb to limb, similar to the way Inuyasha had done.

When Inuyasha was able to pry himself from the ground, he remembered how much Kagome hated to be compared to Kikyo. 'Maybe I shouldn't have done that. She might leave again' he thought sadly. He sighed, "She hasn't changed much at all."

He scurried up and looked around for her. He was confused when he didn't see footprints or detect her sent. "Where the hell did she go?"