Disclaimer: I do not own IY. Co. Hell, I'd love to own Inuyasha for personal use. *Snickers* ^_~

"Don't go." Kagome stood, huffing and puffing a few meters behind him. She took a step forward and collapse on her knees. The pain was killing her but still she went after him. She stared at her freshly bandaged wounds with little red dots forming on them and looked up at him. He stopped but he did not turn back. "Please, don't go to her." She pleaded softly trying to hold back her tears.

"She needs me." He started to walk again, but this time with every step he hesitated. He could hear the weakness inside her voice, he wanted to scold her for chasing after him when she was still hurt from their final battle, he wanted to turn around and give her a piece of his mind for not taking care of herself, above it all, he wanted to hug her and beg her not to stop him. But he was afraid that he would change his mind and stay here with her if he looked at her.

They had fought with Naraku and they've won. Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and himself had been lucky and came back to the village in one piece. Kikyo came to see their battle too. She had found out the truth and when the battle was finish, she told him to come and find her. She did not tell him where, but with his keen nose she knows he could smell her out easily.

"Inuyasha!" She called out making him stop again. She took a deep breath and gave it her last shot. "I'm going back, I have a test tomorrow and I won't be back for three days." It was a lie. She waited hopefully for him to turn around and shout at her, demanding her not to go back.

"Fine." With one single word, he wiped out all the hopes in her eyes. He continues to walk away. Once again, he had hurt Kagome deeply.



Inuyasha ran as fast as he could. He wanted to get rid of the salty smell. the smell of Kagome's tears. He didn't mean to make her cry, but he wanted to find Kikyo badly. He almost yelled at Kagome when she said she was leaving him. 'She isn't leaving me forever, right? She is going to come back, isn't she?' He made a note to take some rope along with him to her time if she did not come back after three days. He planned to tie her up and kidnap her in his time forever. That thought brought a small smile upon him face. Thinking about Kagome being his somehow made him happier.

'Stupid, do you think Kagome will want to be with you after you made her cry?' A small voice in his head popped out. He decided to ignore it.

The smile fades away when he saw Kikyo sitting under a tree. She was not hurt like his friends because she arrived at the last minute to see Inuyasha giving the last blow to Naraku. He had fallen flat on his back while Kagome and the others gather around him. Miroku, Sango and Shippo were smiling and hugging each other. Miroku received a few bonks on the head for touching Sango's butt. Kagome held his hand gently and wept about him being stupid and careless. But there was a smile on her lovely face, telling him that they really had won. They quiet down when Kikyo appeared asking to meet Inuyasha.

Kikyo smiled when she saw Inuyasha. Her genuine smile. Inuyasha felt his heart sped up, the person (or zombie as I like to call) that was smiling at him look awfully like Kagome. He sat down close beside her. Kikyo placed a hand above his and looked into his golden eyes.

"Do you.. still love me?"

Inuyasha swallowed a choking sound. He had not expected this. He pulled his hand away from her and looked away. "Is it because that I'm no longer living and you despise me?" She asked with a hurt voice, somewhat similar to Kagome's.

"No! How could I ever despise you?" He quickly assures her.

"Then it must be that girl."

"...."

Seeing that Inuyasha did not deny, she sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder. He flinched but did not move away.

"Has she already taken my place in your heart?" Again, she did not have her answer. She closed her eyes. "I want to be with you again. Do you wish I would die?" Inuyasha felt his heartache. He had blamed himself for Kikyo's death for more then 50 years. It wasn't love that he felt for her now it was pity.

"I do not wish that you die."

Kikyo lifted her head and turned her gaze back to Inuyasha's handsome face. "Then you must choose between me and my reincarnate. For I cannot live without you." She was sure that she still had Inuyasha's love. Inuyasha frowned. This was what he had been avoiding since he found out his feelings for Kagome. He did not want Kikyo to die again because of him, but he also wanted Kagome to be in his life. 'What must I do?'

Kagome sighed and lower her gaze onto the pavement. It had been two days since she tried to stop Inuyasha from meeting Kikyo. She had gone back to her time crying her heart out. 'Inuyasha hasn't come for me..' She felt the complete Shikon no Tama at the middle of her breast. 'Or the jewel'.

She sighed again and looked left right before crossing a road that leads to her home. She's on her way home back from school. It is a one-month holiday for her starting from tomorrow and she decided to go back to the federal time. She missed her friends and of course, Inuyasha. Besides, tonight was going to be Inuyasha's time-of-the-month. She wanted to be with him when he feels he is at his weakest.

'What was I thinking when I demanded him not to see Kikyo? I don't own him. .This is not like me. I'm such a selfish bitch. It's no wonder that he hates me and prefers Kikyo.' But then, loving a person (or dog-demon) can change you. Kagome made her way up the stone stairs to the shrine. It's true that he gets on her nerves and she feels like sitting him a million times. But she loves him and he doesn't have any idea.

'Maybe I could knock him unconscious, bring him back to my time and destroy the well.' She smiled wickedly. Thinking of how Inuyasha almost destroyed a bus full of passengers one time because he thought it was an iron machine that eats peoples.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to keep him here after all.

She snapped out of her thought and found herself in front of the well. Her feets had brought her here automatically. She examines the old well and memories flooded her mind. The first time she fall into this well, the first time Inuyasha came to save her from the mask, the first time he came just to get her back to his time and so many more. 'It was this well that made it possible for me to find him. What would happen now after I'm so in love with that baka?' She smiled bitterly.

"It is impossible. We could never be together." She whispers for herself to hear. The truth hurts her. So why is she going back after it hurts her so much? 'Because I'm stupid.'

"I'm home!" She was greeted by silence. She heard laughter from the living room.

"Mama, why are you guys in here?" She stepped into the room and found a pair of red coloured eyes looking at her. She stepped back and gasped. "Gojyo?!" She flung herself at the young boy and hugged him tightly while laughing.

The boy with red coloured hair and eyes hugged her back. He had a big smile on his face. "Kagome.."

When they finally let go of each other they started to talk rapidly. "Oh my god! Where had you been you idiot?" Kagome squealed despite the fact that she just called him an idiot.

"Hey stupid girl, is that the way to call me after four years?" He frowned a bit and pinched her cheeks.

"OW! Don't do that, monster!" She pinched his arm. He suddenly hugged her head and ruffled her hair making it messy. Kagome giggled yelled for him to stop.

Kagome's mother, grandfather and little brother sat there with huge sweat drop on their head.

'Gojyo was my best friend since 10-years-old. We've played and went to school together. He always protected me when I get bullied but he always calls me stupid. Just like Inuyasha. Four years ago, he had to go to America because of his father's new job. He confesses that he loves me the day before he went away and told me to wait for him.'

Kagome gulped as she remembered him telling her that he loves her. She was too young that time and nodded eagerly when he told her to wait for him. But to her, he was nothing more then a friend. From the way he greeted her just now, she guessed that he probably forgot about that little confess thing.

"Kagome?" Came Gojyo's concerned voice.

"H.. hai?" She could kick herself for thinking about such a thing when he was talking to her.

"So.. Kagome, do you have any boyfriend yet?" He rubbed the back of his head and blushed. It was too dark for him to see if she has blushed too. They were outside and Kagome had offered to walk him back to his relative's house. Her mind started to think about Inuyasha.

"No." She replied without hesitation.

"Haha, I guess nobody wants a fierce kitten like you, eh?" he teased her mercilessly. Kagome react by hitting Gojyo on his chest. He laughed and grabbed on both of her fist. What he did next startled Kagome. He pulled her harshly into his embraced and hugged her. No one except Inuyasha had done this to her. Not that nobody wants to hug her, but Inuyasha often beat the crap out of them before they can even touch her. She felt her face turning hot and listened to the steady heartbeat of Gojyo.

"Kagome, I've never forgotten about you since the day I left. Would you be my girlfriend?" He slides his warm hands along her silky black hair. Kagome wanted to reject him but something made her stop. How long didn't Inuyasha give her comfort like this? How long since he whispers kind words into her ears and hugged her tightly? She closed her eyes and felt the comfort that Gojyo provided. 'Too long..' She thought sadly. "I'll. .I'll think about it."

AN: My first every IY fic!!!!! Please don't be hard on me.. I'm just bad at grammars. Inuyasha and Kagome rules!!!!!!!