Why am I in Pain

Fading love and Trust

Kagome looked at the jewel shards in her jar, one last time, before they went out to search for more jewel shards. He didn't notice my outfit…

Sango was dressed in her uniform, Miroku holding his hand, ready to use the wind tunnel, Inuyasha's sword in its sheaf and Kagome counting her arrows. They were on another mission: to find as many jewel shards as they could. Time was running out…everyone was drifting apart. Betrayal, secrets, lies and pain. No longer were they fighting like they used to.

Inuyasha suspected Sango would give the jewel shards to Naraku, for her brother. Miroku thought Inuyasha would take the jewel shards and go to Kikyo, and Sango suspected the same thing. Kagome, who had no desire for the jewel shards before, recently got a new opinion for them. She could use them. And no one would suspect her…no one.

They stepped out, one by one. Inuyasha first, determined and ready. Next, Miroku, ready to fight until the death. Then Sango, who wanted to see her brother free before she would die. And last, Kagome. The one that was always optimistic, was now full of hatred and hurt. Her smile had vanished and yet no one knew.

What was happening? Each of them wondered that maybe each minute that passed by might be their last together. Why was this happening? Now, in the battlefield, could they really trust each other with their lives?

"Kagome, how many jewel shards do we have?" Inuyasha asked, but keeping his head forward.

Kagome was on his back, counting them again to make sure. "We have 15."

(AN: just go along with it okay?)

"That's it?" Miroku asked from Kirara's back.

"Yes, and that's why we should find more" Kagome looked down. Yes, we should find more…Kagome looked up at the sky, and remembered something that her dad had once said to her mother. "you and I, met in love…" She couldn't remember the rest.

They continued looking for the jewel shards in utter silence. Finally, Inuyasha sniffed a demon, and Kagome detected a jewel shard.

"It's over there" Kagome pointed towards a bunch of trees.

Soon, they were facing the tiger demon.

"This will be too easy" Inuyasha smiled and unsheafed tetsusaiga, Sango readied her hiraikotsu, Miroku held onto his sacred beads, and Kagome prepared an arrow in her bow. All at once, shots were fired. Windscar, wind tunnel, sacred arrows, large bone boomerang, fox power and Kirara's fire.

The tiger demon's attacks were strong. He created a ball of power and threw it in the direction of the attackers. Instantly, a blinding light hit. It hurt the gang, hard. They lay injured, barely able to stand.

"C'mon, we have to defeat this demon" Inuyasha yelled.

"You…'re right."

"We've got to"

"If we want the jewel shard"

They all stood up, forgetting what pain everyone had suffered.

"We can do this you guys" Kagome stood up, back to her normal self. She brushed off the dirt on her black shirt.

Sango distracted the demon with her weapon, then Inuyasha used the tetsusaiga, followed by one of Kagome's arrows. And the wind tunnel finished the demon off.

" We did it!" Kagome held the 2 shards in her hand and grinned. So did everyone else. And then, for the first time, since so long ago, they were happy and together.

Kagome climbed up on Inuyasha's back, and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo sat in Kirara's back. They went searching for another jewel shard. No one talked. They all wondered what would happen when they had found all the jewel shards.

1 month later

At night

Kagome sat in her sleeping bag. Everyone wasn't acting right. It was ever since she found Kikyo and Inuyasha together with Kouga. She remembered the time they had fought the tiger demon. How they had all been fighting for themselves, so they could obtain the jewel shard. Even she had done that. But, when it really mattered they got together and defeated the demon. She sighed. They were breaking up. I can't wait any longer. We have a lot of jewel shards. I should leave now, before everyone starts fighting over who should keep them.

Kagome looked around the cold place where they were sleeping. She was wearing her uniform, ever since the time when Inuyasha hadn't even noticed her new get up. She slowly packed everything up in her bag. It was the only new thing she kept with her. She had hoped Inuyasha would notice, but he didn't. okay, bye Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kirara. Bye Inuyasha.

Kagome stood up softly, and as quite as she could, she walked away from the camp they had set up. She held the jewel shards tight in her hand. Suddenly, she remembered wat her father had said. She had never found out whether her father had read the quote or made it. "You and I, met in love. Soon, that love faded away and so did the trust, which left us with only hate and pain"

AN: I didn't really spend much time on this chapter…I'll only update if I get atleast 5 reviews…that's gotta be fair enough. I have homework and projects that need to get done! () Succeed