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Ch.2 Parting Ways

Kagome woke up the next morning when a rooster crowed at the rising sun. Kouga, moaning as he awoke also, wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly to him. "Morning came too early, Kagome." He said in her ear. Snuggling tighter to him, she answered, "Maybe we just went to bed too late." Laughing at her too-true remark, Kouga got up and took care of the morning needs, as did Kagome. After they got dressed, Kouga walked up to Kagome and put his arms around her. "If Sango asks if we have been...together...tell her the truth, and tell her we're going out." Kagome informed him. Hugging closer to him, Kagome thought of a time where a completely different guy held her like this, and it wasn't so long ago....

"Iuyasha, are you ready to go yet? The play is going to start soon." Kagome smiled at him to show there was no hard feelings. "If you weren't talking to me, I could get dressed quicker." Kagome's fiance` Inuyasha said back. They had been going out not too long after her 18th birthday, and she was now 19. They had plans to go see a play the village kids were putting on. Even though they were happy now, things weren't the best for the couple. What had caused the rift betweent the two was Inuyasha's obsession with finding the Shikon No Tama Jewel shards. That Kagome din't mind so much, but he would leave her alone as he went searching. Fed up with is behavior, Kagome cut down on their aura communications, which is how they conversed while the other was away.

But today was one of their better days. On the way back from the play in the village, their happiness was about to be broken for a long time. "Did I tell you that last time I left I found a shard?" Inuyasha started to say, which was a big mitake with Kagome. "Oh you mean the last time that you took me? Wait, I can't even remember the last time I did go." she answered the hanyou snappily. "Kagome, we're not going to start this again, are we?" He said, starting to get pissed at her for being mad. The arguing got worse as a short-tempered female and a very independant male got more pissed off at each other by the minute. Kagome got off of Inuyasha's back and started up to the hut, Inuyasha ran up behind her, grabbed her arm, and turned her around to face him. When he did, Inuyasha's face softend in suprise. When he seen that Kagome was crying in great rivers.Shocked, he released her arm and took a step back. "inuyasha, I think that it's time that I left. We have grown too far apart in the past couple of months. Things just aren't the same anymore" Kagome said through her tears. "I'm going today." Stunned, Inuyasha said, disbelief in his voice. "I can't stand being ignored by the man that I love. live with, make love to, and engaged to, but not anymore. I'm going into the hut, packing my belongings, and leaving the ring. Maybe later I'll tell you where I'm at, but not now." Kagome finished with sadness in her heart, looking at her lover, her evrything, right in the eye, and walked into the hut.

When she felt Inuyasha's aura leave, Kagome started to cry. Through the river of tears she created, Kagome packed all her stuff and walked out the door. Forgetting something, Kagome set her stuff down and went over to a hook in the wall. There hung the charm necklace that used to be around Inuyasha's neck. She had taken it off after they had made love when he proposed, and he had vowed never to give her a reason to put it back on. Sobbing at the fresh flood of memories, Kagome walked out the door, got the horse that Sango gave her for her last birthday, secured her belongings, got up, and left for Kouga's, with sadness weighing her down like lead.

A/N: i know, a cliffhanger, will get real good in next ch.