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Before she even realized it her hair was soaked and her face was streaming with the sweet rain water. She continued to walk through the forest, farther away from the hut and everyone there. She wasn't afraid, the bond between her and Inuyasha was stronger now then it ever had been. She knew that he would be by her side if she was even frightened in the slightest.

"Wench! What the hell? You are going to get sick, stupid!" Kagome smiled at the sound of the voice behind her. She knew the sweet, soft spoken Inuyasha couldn't last forever but she didn't really mind, this was the way she remembered him, this was the hanyou she had always loved.

She turned to look at him with a confident sweet smile. She didn't even know why she was smiling. Perhaps it was the overwhelming comfort she had just recently discovered, perhaps it was the fact that she had a ball of energy that made her feel warm inside and strong enough to take on anything. Most likely she was smiling because she had to. She had to be optimistic about all of this just so Inuyasha would be alright. She reached her hand out towards him and sweetly said , "I know. Walk with me."

Inuyasha cocked an eyebrow and hesitantly reached out for her hand. He closed his eyes for a moment relishing the softness of her hand. Even though the sky was cool and damp from the rain her hand still felt warm. He wasn't one to follow. It took a lot for anyone to get him to wander aimlessly, it took a lot of trust for him to get up enough nerve to simply go where one commanded. Kagome said to follow, and he did. He didn't even realize that he had lost himself to her until that moment.

"So much has happened you know, so many changes. We're older now, you and I." She began. She had such courage at this point to where she could even look him in the eyes when she spoke.

"Keh, I know that. I'm not stupid." Inuyasha stated, rolling his eyes.

"Why didn't you find someone else while I was gone?" Kagome bit her lip and finally withdrew her eyes from his face and stared at the ground as they walked.

"I knew you were coming...No, I didn't. I don't know, Kagome. I didn't look. I don't know why I didn't look. I just didn't. Does it really matter? It's a good thing we never found anyone else." He squeezed her hand a chuckled.

Tears began forming in Kagome's eyes. Maybe she didn't have the power to do this...No, there was no turning back at that point. "I did..." She muttered lightly under her breath. She knew he could hear her and she didn't really have a reason to yell it out.

"You did what?" Inuyasha said naively, still smirking.

"I found someone while I was gone." She said it flatly. Inuyasha stopped walking and cautiously let go of her hand. Oh no, he wasn't disgusted by her in any means. He stared at her blankly and wanted more then anything to grab her back to him and hold her and pretend that he didn't hear what he just heard. He gapped at her. Never for the briefest moment in time did it ever cross his mind that Kagome might have found someone else.

"You found someone?" He couldn't concept it. He could...but at the same time he couldn't imagine HIS Kagome kissing another man. He couldn't imagine another man even looking at her like he was looking at her. There she stood, unshed tears glistening in her deep brown eyes with rain gently falling around her, she looked like a water angel with her damp hair stuck to her face and Inuyasha could only wonder if her new man had seen her this beautiful. Kagome nodded her head to answer his question, but all it did was confirm all of his fears.

"I came to say goodbye." The tears fell from her eyes mixing with the rain that was already running down her face. She couldn't read his face, he wasn't putting any readable emotions on it. "If you hate me, I understand. I would hate me too if I was you." She said it and meant and he knew it.

"You said you loved me, Kagome. You can't love two people." He said, choosing not to look at her face.

"That's not true. You loved Kikyou and me at the same time. You love me but you still love Kago. You have love for Sango and Miroku and I know you love Shippou as well. I am not a villain, Inuyasha I want whats best for you. We can't work...don't you understand? We are...impossible." She slouched into herself feeling hopeless. She felt like she was lying to him. She only loved him, she didn't love Brad. She didn't really believe they were impossible, but Sango's words still lingered in her ears

Flashback

"He would live to hope, proving to live only in vain!"

End Flashback

"You really believe that? You really believe that I didn't fight for you because I had something to believe in..in you? Why do you think I ...love..all those people, Kagome?" He fumbled over the word love, it was still a foreign word to him, "I love them because you taught me to love. Now you are telling me that everything I gave up was all for an impossible dream? I'm not going to believe that and I sure as hell ain't going to accept that, you got that, wench?!" He was fuming with anger but he watched what he said carefully. He wasn't going to drive her away like last time, but this time she was driving him away.

"You didn't give everything up. I brought you comfort." Kagome held out her closed palm which held the shikon no tama cautiously to him. Inuyasha smacked it away, not even really paying attention to what she was doing.

"Comfort?! You think you brought me comfort?! Damnit, Kagome you bitch! The fact that you came to say goodbye and that you don't love me anymore is not comfort!"

Kagome couldn't handle that. She threw herself on Inuyasha and held unto him for dear life. "No, no, no, no, no, no!" She kept saying over and over again.

The lying was too much! She wouldn't let him think for one moment that she didn't love him. She would die there at his feet if he believed that. Inuyasha softened immediately. He dropped down to his knees still clutching Kagome. They held each other for a moment, Kagome was sobbing and Inuyasha sat there rocking her back in forwards trying hard to keep his emotions in tact. He wasn't lying when he said he loved her, he didn't want to see her like this even if she was rejecting him.

"Tell me what I have to do, Kagome? Tell me how to make you love me again." His voice cracked under the pain. He was on his knees in front of her. He was degrading himself...why the hell was he doing this? What was this love thing that was taking control! It just wasn't fair.

Kagome brought her face up. The rain was providing a sweet canopy around them and all she could do was look in his sad golden eyes. She lifted her hand and touched his cheek causing his eyes , out of reflex, to close. She lifted her face and kissed him. It was earth shattering not because of passion or lust, but it's honesty; it was pure, sweet, loving, kind, and everything she wanted him to know that she felt.

Inuyasha whimpered under her lips and brought one hand up into her hair. He brought his tongue to her lower lip asking entrance and she sweetly complied. Every time one of them broke for air they were automatically connected again a moment later, as if they couldn't live without the feeling of their lips touching. Slowly he laid her back on the wet grass and allowed his hands to roam greedily over her fully clothed body. He wanted more, needed more.

Kagome's mind was clouded with the passion she was feeling. She forgot her purpose and she couldn't stifle the moan that escaped through her mouth as Inuyasha ran his lazy hand over her breasts. Her body arched to his hand subconsciously. She could feel Inuyasha's arousal and was in a daze filled with lust.

"I want you, Kagome." Inuyasha said as he lifted his head. It wasn't a comment, it was a plea.

Kagome, not really knowing what she was agreeing to said, "I want you." It was mumbled but sincere. Inuyasha kissed her deeply pushing her head back down in a fit of passion. His hand slid up her skirt trying to get her panties removed when she sat up. "No! Oh Gods Inuyasha! I'm so sorry."

She pushed him off of her and stood up. She covered her face with her hand in shame. "I love you, Inuyasha! I love you with all of my heart and with everything that I am! I owe so much to you and I can't explain why I'm doing what I'm doing...but I have to leave you." She said hysterically. She finally took a breath in to calm herself down and continued, "It kills me, everything is slowly breaking down around me. I want you so bad...so much more then you can know...but we can't. Don't you understand? It'll make this so much harder. Please...take it!" She thrust her hand out towards him and he finally saw what she was trying to give him.

"Shikon no Tama?" His fingers picked it up and he eyed it curiously. "Why?"

"So you can let go of me. So I can let go of you. I will never get over you...you have broken me." She said between sobs.

"You love him that much?" One tear slid down his face. He had lost her to another male, he had just lost her.

"No, I don't love him. She reached a hand out to his face but drew it back hesitantly before it made contact."Not yet at least. I probably could one day. No, maybe not." She let out a shaky sigh and watched as the sun broke through. "I'm leaving."

"I...know." He lifted his eyes from the silly pink marble and stared at her. "I won't be there when you leave. I won't watch you walk out on me again. I love you." Then he walked away from her...leaving her to dry in the newly found sun.

Kagome stood there with her lip trembling. This is what she wanted, wasn't it? She knows he loves her and he knows she loves him. He doesn't hate her and the words were kind enough. She felt cold, cold and lost. Was this what she wanted?

Or was there a way to change the ending after all.

Wooooow, who hates me? No, please! Stop raising your hands! It wasn't a SERIOUS question...geez.

I'm back now. I'll be working on this story and a new one and I will have a new update on either one or the other at least each week. I'm too busy to update everyday.

I'm sorry though for the delay, life can get in the way sometimes