Here it is. Chapter six.

It was supposed to be a big chapter with the fifth but things had not let us do that, so this is the sixth. I hope You like it.

I possess no character and make no money of this.

When Ichigo and the girls arrive to the cave nobody was there.

Ichigo, Orihime and Kagome couldn't see anyone and Kagome couldn't feel the presence of the pearl anymore, as if it had been destroyed again. What had just happened?

"I can't fell neither of them." said Orihime, despite the fact she wasn't a Shinigami nor an expert in Kidou, she could easily know supernatural powers when they were close to her, because now her world was not only the world of souls and the dead. They were getting more into the destroyed cave.

"And I can't feel the presence of the Pearl." said Kagome. She was worried because it was impossible to them to have simply vanished. Maybe Naraku immolated himself and killed Aizen in the process? It was impossible. What could had happened to them? All they could feel were remnants of reiatsu and a quite aggressive Youki. They get to the centre of the cave and now when the dust was settled there were only the venom in the air and on the ground.

They began to investigate. Orihime and Kagome were behind the Shun Shun Rikka of Orihime, while Ichigo tried to think what might have happened and explored around. The cave hasn't roof anymore but even without it there were no sunlight because the purple smoke was blocking it. And the venom was so powerful, he was starting to notice it.

"Inoue, spread your Rikka around you and Kagome." Said Ichigo to Orihime. "The air is contaminated."

"Really? I can't feel it." Responded Orihime, looking at Ichigo a little confused.

"How you can't feel it? It's getting me sick." Said Ichigo taking a hand to his head.

"I don't know. Any idea Kagome-chan? Asked Orihime looking at Kagome who was holding her left hand.

"Maybe the air it's not affecting you because I am purifying it." Said Kagome.

"How are you doing that?" asked Ichigo looking amazed at her.

"My spiritual powers can somehow purify this kind of things."

Ichigo was surprised and Orihime too. Surely Kagome was amazing.

Meanwhile Inuyasha was trying to stand up, to get out of the hole in which he were left. He stuck his head out of the hole, got on a doggy position and shook his hair and ears. He sighed and then looked up and the vision of a gorgeous woman standing a few centimetres away dazzled him, but not for her attractiveness, but because she was shining a very beautiful yellow light. This woman was not there a second before, he might swear it.

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Inuyasha-sama." said the woman offering him a hand to help him up. Inuyasha accepted it, suspicious as always when he met someone new to him, but this time he could tell that this woman was meaning no harm.

"Lately I end up meeting the weirdest people." snapped Inuyasha, caring little of what his words might cause on the girl he had in front but she just smiled brightly.

She was tall and slender, with long golden hair. She was dressed in a long simple dress, not hiding at all her feminine attributes, quite noticeable. Her face was beautiful, Inuyasha could not help but notice it, and her eyes conveyed goodness when they were lost into the golden eyes of Inuyasha. And somehow he could see that they transmitted longing, love and more. Inuyasha got a bit uneasy with that.

With all she looked ready to throw herself into his arms, but she contained in some way. The wistful expression betrayed her while she was watching him. Inuyasha was worried even more.

"I have something to tell you, Inuyasha-sama." said the woman bluntly.

"Really? What could it be?" responded Inuyasha not taking his gaze from hers.

"It's hard to tell."

She looked nervous then. Her smile faded but the adoration in her eyes didn't.

"Say it now." Snapped Inuyasha again. She was a beautiful and weird woman.

"Soon you will embark on a long, dangerous, and sad journey. But do never be dismayed, because you will always have a lot of people who will support and love you and a loyal comrade to go there with you."

"Such a precise prophecy. Are you a prophet or something? Sorry, but I don't believe in those things." said Inuyasha sharply. And he moved her away firmly, but gently, and began to walk towards the cave. He tried to.

A pair of arms grabbed him from behind, and if they had do that with a bad intention Inuyasha would have defended himself butchering the owner of the arms, but he only felt a body waving in silent tears on his back.

"Hey..."

'If Kagome sees me like this, she will kill me!' thought Inuyasha terrified, thinking about how get free from that woman's hug without hurting her. Damn it, did that soft and big things that were pressed against his back a future's thing or something? Why the women of that time had such big breasts?

"It's been so long. I must be the only one who has suffered this much to see you." cried the woman. "All of the others could see you whenever they wanted; only I had to wait 500 years. Why?"

Inuyasha has not clue or hint to what the woman was saying, and he was beginning to think she was a little crazy. He turned to look at her but her face was hide with her hair. And then...

She moved quickly. She stood before him as she looked at him. She was stunning. She closed her eyes and kissed him directly in his mouth.

Inuyasha could not think of get her away, so surprised he was. No woman, ever, apart from Kikyou and Kagome had shown any interest in him, neither had kissed him with such passion. Her lips were sweat and he could feel her desire in them and in her tongue.

The woman had clung to his robes, and moving her hands she grabbed his Kotodama's collar and his katana with each hand. And with a fluid movement she unsheathed Tessaiga, and she ripped Inuyasha's necklace. Their lips separated and the necklace parts were scattered across the ground.

"What...!"

Inuyasha was confused and set a defensive position as he watched how the woman conjured Kuroi Tessaiga with his big sword and cried sadly.

"Meidou Zangetsu Ha!"

But Inuyasha did not run. The attack hit the air to nowhere in particular and he was even more surprised when he watched the woman who had grown twelve white bird wings on her back.

She nailed Tessaiga with both arms on the ground. He could tell that the attack had cost her so much effort, to wield and use Tessaiga, because her face immediately looked tired and overwhelmed. But then she joined her hands and the rosary parts of the necklace of Inuyasha ascended from the ground reuniting in front of her and formed the ripped collar.

She said:

"The only bond that unites you with the two women you have loved the most, now will disappear."

And the necklace broke again, and its bright parts got inside the Meidou above them and disappeared into it, and Inuyasha saw with dismay that the Meidou closed with his necklace inside.

"Why did you do that?!"

But what he saw scared him more. The blaze was stopped, and the woman was kneeling, agitated as if she had run many miles without stopping. And she looked sadly at Inuyasha.

"Those were another 500 years. In another 500 years..."

Inuyasha reached to her with a jump and held her close while he could feel she was fading, like water between the fingers, in his arms. She was there but was disappearing.

"Hey! What's happening to you?!"

Despite what she had done, using Tessaiga and taking his necklace, Inuyasha could not help but worrying about her. The woman seemed to be disappearing as those snowmen he had done with Kagome some time ago when the seasons change.

"You care about me? You're as cute as I remember. Treat me better when we meet again, please?" smiled her. Her wings had disappeared completely.

"Shut up, you idiot! I'll take you with Kagome, surely she knows what to do."

"No! Anything but that!"

The sudden position of not being seen by Kagome scared Inuyasha even more, but he could not think much about it, because the woman in his arms faded more and more.

"Time... Runs very slow... but now has gone so fast ..."

She smiled at him again and touching his face with her hand she disappeared completely, leaving Inuyasha totally disoriented.

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome had come back from the cave, and Inuyasha immediately remembered that Naraku and Aizen should be in front, but he looked that Kagome was heading to him with a worried expression on a shoulder of Ichigo, while Orihime was going in the other.

"Way to go, brat." said Inuyasha, retrieving Tessaiga that was stuck in the ground and putting it back in its sheath.

"Do you have any complaints?" Ichigo was in no mood.

"If I do then what?"

"Inuyasha…" he cringed at the characteristic tone, especially when he anticipated what was to come: "Osuwari".

But nothing happened. Inuyasha had closed his eyes, but he did not fall to the ground. Ichigo put down Kagome and Orihime and the three looked at each other with amazement. Inuyasha did not hear Kagome?

But Kagome, with a feeling of a growing concern approached to Inuyasha and forced him to face her. The necklace was gone.

"Inuyasha... you... How could you...?"

"Hey... I know what you're thinking but it's not my..."

"IDIOT!"

Inuyasha shrugged out of fear, but Kagome turned and walked with long strides. Orihime ran after her friend, worried.

There were left only Inuyasha and Ichigo. And Ichigo only managed to say:

"I don't know how you did it, but I congratulate you."

"I didn't do it." Inuyasha was sad. He never wanted Kagome to see him with those eyes.

"Really...?"

Inuyasha told Ichigo what had happened, since the moment he were left in the ground and about the beautiful woman who had helped him up and had caused him many conflicts.

"And she disappeared you say, did she disintegrated or something?"

"Don't know how to explain it, but she became dust or something like that." said Inuyasha. The closest thing to what he has experienced was when Kikyou died in his own arms. But they were totally different situations.

"And she just grabbed and removed the necklace?"

"Yes."

"Strange."

Inuyasha had no answers. Whenever Kagome used her spell with him, Inuyasha thought how happy he would be without the damn necklace on his him, but now he felt naked and strange without it. A proof of it was now when he was talking as if nothing with the orange haired boy, something must be wrong with him.

Kagome could not hold back her tears, of anger and sadness. But it was no longer angry with Inuyasha, but against herself. Had she hurt Inuyasha with so many Osuwari? Now he would not want to hear of her. And she had suffered so much when she was away from him and now she felt that even her insides ached. It was hurting her so much...

Orihime caught her and stopped her taking her hand, and making her turn gently Orihime embraced Kagome tenderly.

"Easy, easy ..."

"Inuyasha... Inuyasha ... does not love me anymore!"

"But Kagome-chan, what makes you think that?"

"He ripped the necklace. That was our bond, and it was...!" Kagome remembered the times she had saved Inuyasha from dying because he was wearing the necklace. One of the reasons that make them be together.

"Kagome-chan, I saw that he meant to say something. Maybe everything has an explanation!"

"Do you think so?" Kagome looked at Orihime with an anxious expression.

"Kagome-chan, even when you are crying you are so beautiful!" Orihime hugged Kagome hard and Kagome let herself be loved for a while. She really needed it.

Inuyasha and Ichigo came looking for Kagome and Orihime. On the way Ichigo put Inuyasha aware of what had happened in the remains of the cave. Beside the fact that the presence of Naraku, Aizen and the Shikon no Tama had disappeared, was the fact that the petrified Midoriko and the Youkai around her had also disappeared. They searched for them but found no trace. And then came to them the uproar caused by the woman who was with Inuyasha and they went to look, but did not know what was going on with Inuyasha.

"Crap, it is not the first time that bastard disappears without a trace." Pointed Inuyasha, more used to talk about everything with Ichigo.

"I'm not surprised."

Both had treated hard guys throughout their life of fighting that seemed to never end. But for both, both Naraku and Aizen were their sworn nemesis. But if of sworn enemies was the talking, Ichigo still remembered Ulquiorra.

They reached the girls, and when they did it was night. The four knew that there was no point looking around searching for Aizen anymore, if his trail, smell and Reiatsu ended in the cave, so they decided to return to the village of Kaede. But decided to spend the night in the first clear they could find.

When they were set at a place without trees, Ichigo asked Orihime to accompany him to find food, and she understood immediately by the significant look the boy gave to her. So they both left the camp leaving Inuyasha and Kagome alone.

Between the two the silence could be cut. None could say a word. They looked at each other from time to time without daring to take any initiative.

When Inuyasha could not take it anymore he opened his mouth, but...

"Forgive me... forgive me..." Kagome had clung to the robe of Inuyasha and spoke between sobs. The heart of Inuyasha hurt him hard.

"I don't want you to hate me; I could not live without you now. Three years were long, and now... and now..."

Inuyasha just hugged her tightly, trying to convey all his strength and confidence to her.

"Don't be silly, I will never leave you. Definitely, I feared it was you who would leave me."

"Really?"

"Yes. I thought that you would believe to the end that I remove the necklace on purpose. It is true that I always wanted to do it but I never dared. And now that I don't have it I feel so empty without him. But when you are with me, I am complete."

"Inuyasha..."

Kagome began to mourn again and clung to him as if her life depended on it. From time to time she tapped on his chest, but he just had her tight in his arms. He wasn't very happy with the idea of letting her go now.

And with her embrace he could not help but felt her smell. She was driving him crazy and he wanted to make her lie in the grass and then…

Already calmed, Kagome asked:

"But how did you lost the necklace?"

Making a big effort he tried to hide the urge to make love to her. Inuyasha told her what had happened. He did not miss anything, the fact that this woman could take and use Tessaiga, how she did it, or the fact that she kissed him. He was bad with lies.

"She kissed you?!" Kagome was scandalized and separated her head from his chest.

"Weird, doesn't it?" and Inuyasha just didn't get her reaction.

"Osuwari!"

"No! Huh? Hahaha! I haven't the necklace anymore!" scared, Inuyasha said that without thinking.

"You're a fool, Inuyasha! WAAAAAAAAAAWAAAWAAAA!"

"No, don't cry again, damn it."

Orihime and Ichigo had seen almost everything, because Ichigo had catch fishes quickly in the nearby stream. He and Orihime looked at them smiling, because everything had cleared, or nearly...

The next day they made their way back to the village of Kaede. It would take them another 3 days back, but as they had no clues anymore that fact did not worry them too much. At least for two of them, because Inuyasha and Ichigo wanted to hurry and get back soon to think about other things about what Naraku and Aizen could have done.

On the way back Inuyasha had opened more with Ichigo and Orihime, and knew, without realizing how, that they were trustworthy. Kagome was happy with that. Especially when she saw that Inuyasha and Ichigo now were hunting together. Inuyasha was not of those who taught, but Ichigo learned quickly and soon learned how to hunt without feeling much remorse.

Maybe too quickly they returned to Kaede's village, because the four had fun with the return trip. They all pay a visit to Miroku and Sango and find out that Sesshoumaru had returned to visit Rin, but he left before they could see him. Both Orihime and Ichigo felt real curiosity with Sesshoumaru, because they wanted to know what kind of person was Inuyasha's brother.

"He's an idiot." was all that Inuyasha had said.

Rin greeted them happy because she had recently seen her "Sesshoumaru-sama" and was dying to see him from just a month ago he had visited her. Orihime and Ichigo used to think that Sesshoumaru was younger than Inuyasha but that was impossible. Then how this little girl was obviously in love with that Youkai?

After the reunion, greetings and questions regarding the whereabouts of Aizen and shock to known that Naraku had returned to life, Ichigo turned away from the group, leaving Orihime with the others.

He pulled his cell phone out from his Shinigami robes, which Urahara had given him for communication between eras, and dialed.

"Iyaaaa, it have been 6 days Kurosaki-san. Any progress?" answered Urahara from the other side, not asking why Ichigo called him six days later.

"Shut up and listen." Ichigo was in no mood. "We found Aizen, but he escaped."

There were only silence for a moment.

"Well. He must have become very strong!" Urahara was trying to relieve the tension.

"No." Ichigo sounded defeated. "We almost couldn't see him."

"What happened, Kurosaki-san?"

"It's difficult to explain, I just called to inform you, and because I forgot that I brought the phone with me..."

"You are mean, Kurosaki-san! Okay, try to return soon."

Ichigo hung up. It was true: he had forgotten the goddamn cell.

Now they should return. He looked at the group of new friends he had now, and Orihime was with them. She seemed to be having fun. It was obvious that it would hurt her to return, even though they had duties to do with their life in their world.

"You look defeated..." Inuyasha came with a mocking voice from behind and Ichigo just closed his eyes and immediately counterattacked.

"The one who could not even reach the cave in question says that?"

"You bastard..."

They stared at each other furiously, and then both smiled.

"What will you do now?" asked Inuyasha standing beside Ichigo.

"I suppose we will return to our time. We don't have the slightest clue to where the damn Aizen could have go."

Ichigo couldn't get used to the sight of Inuyasha, without his usual rosary of kotodamas around his neck. The same Inuyasha kept rubbing his neck, as if trying to heat that part of his body.

"Did you say that a woman with wings take your necklace?" recalled Ichigo curiously, asking that again.

Inuyasha noticed that his behaviour had betrayed his anxiety. "Yes, I had never seen anyone like her. Well, maybe your voluptuous woman."

"Inoue is not my woman!"

"What is her then?"

"My... My girlfriend...?"

"Well, for me none of those definitions is correct. The one that is better for me is "Woman" or female and that's it. Furthermore, she is your woman even more if... how I put this in words without having you doing a scandal... if you had fucked your girlfriend already.

The reaction could not be worse. Ichigo could master the giant form always adopted by Kagome when Inuyasha said or did something that displeased her. The giant face of Ichigo hung over Inuyasha, who looked startled by the sight of Ichigo who looked a lot like Kagome, and stepped back. But then he remembered who he was and Inuyasha imposed.

"Fu… Fu… Fucked? You could not choose a worst word! At least call it making love!"

"Kagome told me the same," admitted Inuyasha, scratching his chin. "Kikyou called it 'Sleep together'."

He stopped. Even knowing that Kagome and Kikyou were the same person over five hundred years, their personalities and experiences, especially those having to do with him, were completely different.

"Kikyou? Perhaps you were with another girl, apart from Kagome?" asked Ichigo, suspicious.

"Long ago, complicated to explain." replied Inuyasha, remembering the complicated relationship between Kagome and Kikyou.

"If we see each other again, let's take a drink and tell me about that." offered Ichigo innocently.

"Brat, do you drink already?" inquired Inuyasha haughtily.

"In college I learn everything."

"Where?"

Before Ichigo answered him, Kagome and Orihime had approached them to hear their conversation. But Ichigo stopped talking abruptly and smiled nervously. Inuyasha just sighed haughty, and looked away.

"What are you two talking about?"

"That Inoue and I must leave now." said Ichigo quickly.

"So soon?" Kagome and Orihime responded at the same time.

"We got no choice; I have to go and report what happened here and see what we do now." said Ichigo resignedly. Orihime looked at him with sad eyes.

"Inuyasha, what if we go with them? Anyway, I want to visit my mom and see how things are." Said Kagome looking at him.

"You can go there whenever you want!"

"But we can take the chance now, and we can go with Orihime-chan and Ichigo-kun."

"Great!" Orihime was literally jumping with happiness.

"Keh!" Inuyasha just raised his nose.

There you have it. Do not doubt and ask whatever you want.