"SIT BOY!" Kagome shouted. Inuyasha went plummeting to the ground like he had done in the past. When Inuyasha arose he did not take a second look at Kikyou he ran over to Kagome and embraced her in a friendly hug. Kagome pulled away vigorously, staring him deep into his eyes, tears forming in hers. "Why didn't you remember me!" she shouted, then turned around and ran for a near single tree. "And to think I actually wanted to find away back to him! That ignorant son of a bitch!' Kagome shouted at the tree, knowing that she couldn't hurt it in any way.
Inuyasha stared at Kagome, still at Kikyou's side. "She wanted to come back to me. I broke my promise. I told her I would wait for her and I didn't." Inuyasha started to hate himself for hurting Kagome. "Why hadn't I recognized her?" he asked as he looked up at the falling sun. "Oh right, the new moon-…" Inuyasha trailed off. Making his way to Kagome. "Maybe there is some way I can explain." He thought to himself finding himself at Kagome's feet. She sat upright, her back to the tree, her head in her comforting arms, crying. "Oh I hate when she cries, I always have. I feel so bad."
Flash backInuyasha let out a low growl that came from the back of his throat. "Am I jealous?" he stopped the growling trying to sort out the feeling in his heart. "Why do I feel like I should apologize to this wench, why does it seem like I know her?" Inuyasha asked himself questions at rapid speed then turned his attention to Kouga. "Why don't you fall in love with someone who isn't travelling with us so I don't have to put up with your pathetic scent. First Kagome now her!" Kouga looked at Inuyasha with surprise and disgrace then smirked. "He is probably playing stupid with me, I will just play along with his dumb game." "Inuyasha what ever happened with Kagome anyway. Was she too hard to handle so you pushed her through the well again." Kouga taunted, knowing very well that Kagome was watching with confusion. "Where you so in love with this dead wench that you couldn't see how much Kagome felt for you." Inuyasha tempter rose at Kagome's name. "She left because she wanted too, I had nothing to do with it! She wanted to leave and I wasn't going to stop her, its not like she couldn't be replaced. The point is she's not here anymore and everyone is getting alone fine without her!" Inuyasha snapped, hoping Kikyou would be proud that he hid the fact that it was his fault that she left.
Sango jumped in the argument, seeing the tears that pushed to the front of Kagome's eyes. "You fool you know that we ain't getting alone fine without her, Kikyou in slowly decaying and we have barely made any progress since Kagome left!" Sango felt Miroku stand beside her.
End Flash Back"She was there when I said that. I hurt her and now I can't make her feel any better." Inuyasha felt terrible, grief took to his face as he looked over the woman he had loved. She had grown, her hair had been cut off just above shoulder. She didn't wear her white and green uniform anymore. Instead it was red and white. "It's great seeing you again." Inuyasha tried to start a conversation, but to no prevail. "How did you get back?" this time Kagome looked up, her eyes red a puffy from crying. "My grandfather rebuilt the well, and then stuck this in it." She said digging in her bag and showing his a jewel shard. "It must have fallen when I tried to jump back into your time to get you to come back." Inuyasha said trying to take it, but it rejected him, creating a self-barrier to protect itself from his grasp. "What the hell?" Inuyasha jumped, shocked by the reaction of the shard.
"How did you get this?" Kikyou asked, looking at the shard in Kagome's hand. Even though it was purified no one could touch it, not even Kikyou herself. "She found it, stuck in her well." Inuyasha answered, he knew that Kagome was trying to avoid Kikyou at all costs. "I didn't ask you I asked the wench!" Kikyou said firmly, staring at Kagome's ghostly white face. "Her name is Kagome, not wench!" Inuyasha defended. Unexpected by both girls, they both eyed him with surprise. Kikyou nodded her head and walked away slowly.
"I'm sorry you had to witness that, Kagome. Kikyou hasn't been herself lately. She seems uptight about something, yet she keeps denying it." Inuyasha explained before he went after Kikyou, leaving Kagome with Miroku and the others.
"How can you stand up for that Ka-go-me girl? Is it that you still love her more than me?" Kikyou asked in an innocent cold voice. "She left you, Inuyasha. She left you for her world, to be with her family. She didn't want to help you," Kikyou coaxed him, turning around to look into his warm golden eyes with her cold brown ones. "How can you still love her when she is the one who left you?"
Inuyasha knew what she was trying to do; he loved Kikyou, but she wasn't the Kikyou he fell in love with. She wasn't warm and caring like the one who lived fifty some years ago. "She left me so I would be happy."
Flash Back"I will not travel with the wench." Kikyou said. Anger grew inside Kagome, she readied herself preparing to string and fire an arrow at Kikyou. "But Kikyou, I need to be with you, I can't stop thinking about you I never have!" Inuyasha words cut deeper and deeper, Kagome released her grip on her bow and wiped a tear from her eye. "Then come, Inuyasha, come to hell with me," Kikyou tested, pulling Inuyasha closer to her. "But what about Sango, Miroku and the others?" Inuyasha replied as he completed the embrace. Kagome's tears started to pour as she turned around shut her eyes and forced her body asleep…
Inuyasha's nose quickly picked up the scent of Kagome's tears and made his way towards her, finding her leaning against a tree similar to the one he slept in last night. As he approached her he heard her ask, "May I go home?" Inuyasha was already beginning to lose his temper. "You just got here three days ago, why do you need to go back now?" Inuyasha shouted, expecting Kagome to flip out on him. Kagome stood and began to walk the way they had came. "You don't need me anymore," she stated, then walked away, back to the Bone eaters well, leaving Inuyasha speechless, not yet allowing him to comprehend what she had said. "But what about the jewel shards!" he yelled after her, receiving a painful meeting with the ground. Kagome quietly muttered "Right," then she threw her tiny jar at him and continued to walk away. "No, Kagome, that's not what I meant," he tried to shout out, but the ego forced him to keep it to himself…
Tears rushed from Shippou's eyes. He curled up into Sango's chest, soaking her kimono in the kitsune tears. "We'll NEVER see her again!" Sango's heart fell. Shippou was right, never again could he see the only person who felt like family.
Inuyasha stood alone, hiding any emotion he felt within himself. Though his eyes were unmistakably grieving for 'his' Kagome.
"You idiot, because of you all of this happened. Now none of us can ever see her again, and it's all because you were chasing after that stupid dead girl!" Shippou shouted, earning himself a goose egg on the top of his head.
"It's not like I made her go, she left because she wanted-…Inuyasha began to defend himself.
"She WANTED you to be happy!" Sango shouted. "All she has ever wanted was for you to see that she cares about you, and you kept throwing it away for that stupid wench, Kikyou!" tears streamed down Sango's red face. All she wanted to do was see her friend.
Inuyasha stood motionless by the door in Kaede's hut. " I am not travelling with that wench."
End Flash BackThat was right. She just left because he said he wanted to be with Kikyou and Kikyou wouldn't go with him is Kagome was there. "I lost her once, Kikyou, and I don't want to lose her again. Why can't you two just get along?" His innocent comment left Kikyou in an understanding. Her eyes fell to the ground but she said nothing. She just walked away.
Kagome paced back and forth at camp. Miroku and Sango watched her anxiously while Kilala and Shippou were sleeping with ease. "Great, I am here for no longer than a week and I already screwed up. To Inuyasha, I am just another face that he once knew," Kagome pestered herself with the hurtful words. Kagome looked at Kikyou who was silently walking back to the camp, quickly looking away avoiding Kikyou's eye contact Kagome walked out of camp in the opposite direction that Kikyou had returned.
