Year 1397 B.C.

InuYasha paced the length of his chamber's floor nervously, more anxious than he could honestly say he'd ever been in his short 17 years. This was the first time that he and his lover had actually planned a meeting.

They would usually see each other at short intervals throughout the day. Such as when Kagome was sent to his chamber to wake him, or to clean, or throughout the palace tending to whatever she was ordered.

But it just wasn't enough.

He loved her so much and he just had to see her. He was going insane with the need to be close to her, to touch her, hold her close. It was absolute torture to see her only a few times a day—sometimes in a week—and not be able to do those things.

He hated having her in so much danger just to come and see him, but she would have done it anyway even were he to have forbidden her; after all, it was her idea from the beginning.

And on top of that, he wasn't sure how much longer he could stand to be away from her.

He plopped down on his bed and couldn't help remembering how all this had started in the first place. He remembered playing with her anytime he could when they were children. How they had grown up, feelings of friendship turning to pure affection; then to so much love he didn't know what to do with himself when he wasn't with her.

'I wonder if…surely she didn't…get caught on the way over here…?' He frowned in concern.

She did have a knack for getting in trouble. She was constantly picked on throughout the palace. She was the only servant that lived in the palace that came from an extremely poor family. The only reason she was allowed to live there was because her family had died in a fire at the market when she was six years old and InuYasha had demanded she be brought to the palace.

And because of that, she was an easy target for discrimination; especially for the guards patrolling the palace.

His frown deepened. In fact, one of the guards had even tried to rape her on her way to her chamber. (InuYasha had made sure she got her own room, rather than share with all the other servants of the palace. This most likely contributed to her teasing but he refused to treat her like nothing more than a slave) The only reason the guard had failed was because InuYasha had been anxious and went out for a walk, coming across the two.

Needless to say, the prince had been beyond furious. He'd sentenced the bastard to a lifetime in the dungeon. He had wanted to kill him, very badly in fact, but had known that Kagome wouldn't want that.

'If that girl gets in trouble again…'

A soft voice from just below his ground level balcony jerked him to reality.

"InuYasha?" He hurried over to the balcony, peering over the edge to see his beloved waiting for him, quite obviously very nervous. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness you made it. I was beginning to worry."

"You're lucky I love you so much. I nearly died of a heart attack I was so afraid I was going to get caught."

InuYasha smiled softly, reaching down to tug her off the ground and over the balcony, into his room. "Lucky indeed."

She giggled, but was cut off when InuYasha slammed his mouth over hers, pulling her flush to him. Surprised at first, Kagome wound her arms around his neck, purring in pleasure as he led them to the bed, falling back on it with her still in his arms.

"Gods, I missed you so much." He whispered, arms wound tightly around her, nose buried in her hair. Kagome stroked his long silver hair with one hand, the other curled around the back of his neck.

"I know koishii, I know."

"I don't think I can do this anymore Kagome. I can't go days on end without seeing you, weeks without touching you."

Kagome sighed sadly and placed a kiss on his cheek. "But there's nothing you can do about it InuYasha."

"But I want to dammit! I'm so tired of hiding the way I feel about you. I'm tired of seeing you waiting on another one of my father's visitors and just smile and wave when what I really want to do is run over and embrace you and tell the pompous idiot to pour his own damn drink. I can't take it."

"I'm sure you'll think of something koishii." She said sadly, kissing him sweetly.

Unfortunately, he never got the chance to.

Two days later, word got around to the pharaoh about Kagome's relationship with his son and the girl was arrested, thrown into the dungeon. The ruler felt that Kagome was a distraction from the prince's duties and that she would dull his power as a ruler. InuYasha did all that he could to help his beloved, but after three weeks of torture and gods knew what else, she was executed.

Completely and utterly devestated, InuYasha committed suicide.