"Ugh...what happened to me..." Kagome asks herself as she sat up with an aching head. "Hm? What...how did I get here?" She said as she looked up at the goshinkibu. She stood and touched the tree and smiled lightly. "How I've missed being here." She said as she looked up,but saw no one in the tree. "Inuyasha? Where...where are you?" 'I would have thought he'd be here...' She sighed sadly as she looked across the fields that she and her friends had once played in and smiled. "Well, I'm back I guess I should...huh!" She went to touch the tree again and found that her hand went right through it.

"What...am I...dreaming that I'm here?" Suddenly she remembered the small fire in the shed and that she'd been knocked out and a sudden realization came to her. She had died in the fire, and now she was a ghost. She fell to her knees and found that she was unable to cry. "I'm...I'm dead...I can't be...no!" She denied being dead and turned to the village where she heard Shippo's sad cries. "Shippo...my little boy..." She walked towards the village, then stopped when she saw all the tears in her friend's eyes. Inuyasha, the man she loved more then life itself, was trying, but not succeeding to console Shippo, who was in child-like hysterics.

"Am...Am I really dead?" She wondered as she saw Inuyasha hadn the boy to Sango, whose face had been buried in Miroku's robes. Inuyasha headed towards her and that made her smile slightly. 'Inuyasha...I'm not dead! He's coming to see me isn't he?' She smiled again then turned to the tree in a flash. "Di...did I just see tears in his eyes! Am I trully dead?" She looked again up at the tree and sighed. She had to accept the fact that she was indeed dead.

Inuyasha had been unable to take the crying around him after telling everyone how and that Kagome had died. He walked up the path heading for the tree. The tree, Kagome's body was beneath the tree, his tree. He sighed and continued walking until he saw someone in front of the tree.

His eyes went wide, his heart raced and his mouth opened. He couldn't believe his eyes. There right in front of him, her back turned to him was a woman with long raven hair, and wore a short green skirt and a white blouse. He stepped closer and she turned to him, her hair billowing in the breeze, and settled gracefully against her shoulders. Her face as beautiful as the morning sun, her eyes had a light glint to them, but he also saw in her eyes the saddest look that he'd ever seen her make. He moved closer and she broke into a run and attempted to embrace him, but only went through him. "Kagome..." She collapsed to her knees again as the tears she thought she'd never shed, fell from her eyes. "Kagome," He knelt in front of her.

"It's true isn't it?" He said nothing as he watched helplessly as she cried. He hated to see her cry, always had. He wanted so much to hold her and make the tears go away, but he couldn't even touch her. "I...I really did die...didn't I?" "Yeah..." She hung her head and sighed sadly and deeply. He hated seeing her like this. She was in such pain and he couldn't do a thing to help her.

"I'm sorry Kagome..." "For what?" "For not coming to see you sooner, if I had...maybe..." "Hm...no, it's not your fault and don't ever think that it is!" "Um...if your dead, how are we talking to each other?" "I don't know...my grandmother told me that sometimes a spirit is able to appear and talk to a person, but there haven't been that many sightings." "So, you came to see me..." "Actually, I woke up here under the tree, I thought at first I was dreaming, until...until I saw your tears." "Your family built a shrine for you, you know," "Really?" "Mhm, right here under the tree..." "Thats why this is where I woke," "Yeah, but why not on your side?" "Hm...because, this is my side." "What..." "I was planning to return when you came for me and not return to the future..." "Really..." "Mhm," "What about your family though?" "They'd have missed me true enough, but..." She started to cry again, "I missed you too much to care!" She excalimed and he wrapped his arms around her.

"Inuyasha...we can't touch remember...huh..." As she said that she felt him.

She felt his arms around her and felt him pull her closer. She didn't know how it was possible, but she wasn't about to protest. She'd longed for his embrace and his warmth for so long since she'd returned to the future and now she was in his arms, tears flowing from both their eyes. "How...How are we able to do this?" Inuyasha didn't answer, he just kept his arms around her.

Truthfully the reason he hadn't answered was because he didn't have an answer to the question. He was just as confused as she was, but didn't let that stop him from holding her closer then ever.

The night was long and the embrace lasted for what seemd like forever, until they both fell to their knees, both still holding each other. "Inuyasha...I love you." "Kagome...hm...I love you too."

Dawn was begining to cut through the darkness of the night. "It's almost time..." "Time?" "I can only appear at night...during the day I will be unable to see, but I will be with you and everyone."

"Kagome! I wont let you go!" "Inuyasha...I'll be back, I swear." He didn't care. He didn't want to let her walk or fade away, but there was nothing he could do. "Till tonight, Inuyasha." She said as she faded into the morning sun.

"Kagome..." The hanyou looked up at where she'd disappeared and thought he saw her smiling face shinning down at him and he lightly smiled. "Till tonight."

Kagome sighed as she floated through the sky. She still didn't really believe that she was dead, but decided to let that go and just try to get a grip. She hovered over her friends and noticed Inuyasha looking up every now and then and she'd smile.

"Yes, Inuyasha, I'm here."

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Kagome heard the voice and turned to face the evil it belonged to. "Naraku! What! How can you still be here! You're dead!" "Look whose talking." "Shut up! Go away!" "I don't think so and I'm not dead," Kagome felt a sharp pang in her chest.

"You...you started the fire in the shed didn't you!" "Good observation. Yes, I was the one who started it, but you were the careless one who knocked herself out," "You! You were the reason I died!" "Indeed, and I will be the reason that Inuyasha dies as well." "I wont let you do that!" "How can you stop me? You're just a hovering spirit."

Kagome hated to admitt it, but Naraku was right. She was just a spirit, but one that could appear to Inuyasha and only Inuyasha. She didn't want to hear the evil talk and hovered away.

"You can't escape," "How the hell are you able to touch me!" "Easy, I am Naraku thats how." "Yeah, well, shut up and let go of me!" "Nope." "Let go of me!" "Uh uh." "Argh! I hate you! Let go of me!" "Yes, thats right, you hate me, go a head, hate, Hate everything that I've done to you, that I will do to your family and Inuyasha," Kagome didn't want to hear.

"Shall I slice a whole in his gut and let my miazma kill him slowly? Yes, that would be the best way, so he can face a painfilled death." Kagome felt her heart begin to beat faster and faster. "Let go of me." She said firmly and Naraku lost the arm that he's grasped her by.

"Still have you powers I see, that will be a problem...argh! What!" Kagome thought she'd just seen a green, whip-like light slice Narkau's other arm from his body, releasing her from the grasp.

"What..." "How dare you interfere!" Naraku shouted angrily at a cloud. Kagome squinted her eyes and saw that the cloud was actually Sesshoumaru.

'Okay, first Naraku and now Sesshoumaru! What the hell is going on!' "Stay out of this you dang dog!" "Unable to do so." Kagome didn't know exactlly what to make of what Sesshoumaru had just said, but was suddenly pulled over to him by the fluffy thing.

"Whoa!" She was still trying to get used to the fact that she was able to float. 'Okay...this is very strange...' "I know not why you are able to float, nor do I care. However, Naraku seems to still be alive," "So where does saving me fit in there?" No answer. "Hello! I'd like an answer!" Still she got none. "Fine! I can wait as long as it takes, if you don't know yet, I'm dead. Thats why I can float." That earned her a peculiar glance.

"What? I'm not joking you know, I died in a fire." "Have you always been dead?" "No I have not!" "Then shut up and stay silent." "What! Argh! For a lord, you are being slightly rude!" "You do realize that you are nude right?" "What! Argh! Shut up!" Kagome thought about having her clothes back and they appeared on her body.

'That rude arrogant...Argh!' She watched as Sesshoumaru engagd in a battle with Naraku and contempated getting away and getting back to Inuyasha and the others.

"Try to escape, miko, and you're soul shall be sent to hell." "D...did you just have the audasity to call me a miko!" Kagome hated being called a miko. It made her feel more like Kikyo whenever some called her that and now she was pissed off.

"I did, you are a miko are you no...uh..." "I hate being called a miko! I may look like one, and come from a shrine, but I am not a miko!" Kagome shouted angrily and emitted a dangerous power.

"It maybe best Sesshoumaru, for you to flee, as I am doing." "Argh!" Sesshoumaru watched as Naraku fled.

"You do realize that Naraku just escaped..." Kagome had taken that chance to vanish and escape herelf. "Rotten human."