Disclaimer: I dont own Inu-Yasha, or any of the characters from the manga, or TV show.

AN: I know I don't have as many readers as I once did, but I realized that writing helps me cope with different things. So writing this story is my "medicine". I hope you'll like it still. (P.S I'm sorry again, this chapter's a little boring, I just have to get back into the swing of things.)

Oh! and...some of you were confused about the 'last chapter'. It wasn't a chapter, it was just a preview to see if people were still interested in reading. Hence that it's no longer here.

Alright then! On with this story!

Last time on Love Happens:

'I need to make her realize that Kagome belongs with me! She can't take her away! Not now. She just can't!'

"Inu-Yasha, calm down and tell me what's gotten you so worked up!" Mrs. Higurashi tried yet again to sit him down.

Then, it hit him: "You can't keep us apart! Me and Kagome have already mated. It official! She's mine!"

INU-YASHA

It was dead silent.

Both stood looking at each other, neither moving a muscle.

A pin drop could have been heard.

And just like that, Mrs. Higurashi fainted.

KAGOME

"..Ow, my head." she winced.

She looked around herself. She was in the well. She looked up...in the Feudal Era. 'That was weird.' she thought to herself. It shouldn't have been like that. With her jewel shards, she should have gone smoothly. What had happened?

Deciding it was better not to question it, and to enjoy being back, she began to climb out.

Just above her, someone began sniffing. She watched as a pair of emerald green eyes appeared over the rim of the well. But the reaction she had expected, the happiness, and the laughing, the love and the hugging, was far from what she got.

The eyes just ahead of her widened in fear. They stared at her in disbelief. They quickly filled with tears and switched to anger. They suddenly disappeared and she heard the person belonging to those eyes yell something.

She quickly scrambled out, wanting to see Shippo. She was home...in a sense.

But when she did get out, Shippo was standing there, his arms thrown out in attempts to make a barricade.

"Leave!" he shouted.

"Shippo?" Kagome looked at him.

"You heard me! Leave! Get out of here!" Shippo shouted again.

"Shippo, what are you saying?" Kagome stared at him, taking a step closer.

"Don't!" he glared, "I gave you a warning! Now leave!"

Kagome came closer, utterly confused as to what was going on, "What's the matter, Shippo?"

"Don't talk to me! Filthy, little- FOX FIRE!"

Blue green fire shot at her. Kagome quickly rolled out of the way, but still burned her hand. She looked at Shippo from the ground. 'What had got into him?', "Shippo! What are you doing?" she said as she got back to her feet.

"You don't scare me!" Shippo yelled back at her, "Now leave before I kill you!"

Kagome's eyes widened. Kill her? What was going on? Why was Shippo acting like this?

She heard people running towards her and looked past Shippo and into the trees. Sango and Miroku emerged.

They stopped, and stared. Shock spread all over their faces. Sango was the first to take a step forward, "Kago-"

"No! Stop!" screamed Shippo, "Don't fall for it! That's not her!...I-It can't be her...we all saw it! She died! She's-she's never coming back! And there's...nothing we can do! It can't be her...it can't be...her." Shippo said, his voice cracking, and tears rolling down his face.

He looked at her long and hard, hate apparant in his eyes. It hurt to see him looking at her like this.

Kagome looked back up at Miroku and Sango. Both looked just as confused as she felt. But something changed in Miroku's face.

"Right," he said, speaking to Shippo, "I'll try something." Then, looking directly at her,unblinking he said, "Kagome, if that really is you..." he swallowed, "I'm-I'm going to use a sutra on you, and if you're a demon, then be gone...but..." he took out his sutra, still with his unwavering stare.

He came closer, the paper becoming rigid in between his two fingers. He whispered something to himself and came right to her face. "Be gone, demon." he whispered, a hint of disappointment in his voice. He placed the paper on her forehead, it sizzled and disappeared.

"I..." Miroku blinked, "Kagome!" he breathed and embraced her.

Sango ran towards them, and she too threw her arms out and around Kagome.

And here it was, the welcome she had been expecting. They held on to her tightly, whispering words of relief and happiness.

Kagome broke away from them, and looked down at the small kit, "Shippo?" she whispered quietly, not wanting to scare him.

"I..." Shippo stared at her.

It was clear that he still couldn't believe this was her, but Kagome didn't want to wait until he figured it out. She grabbed him, and held him close, petting the top of his head. She was so happy, the emotion coming forth as silent weeping.

"Kagome-sama, is there something wrong?" Miroku asked her.

"No," she sniffed, "I'm just happy, is all." She laughed squeezing Shippo reassuringly, who was now also crying.

-/-/-/-/-

They were sitting inside Kaede's hut, warming up by the fire. They all kept glancing at the door, checking to see when Inu-Yasha was going to come in, mad that Kagome had left without telling him.

"I wonder what's taking him so long. Usually Inu-Yasha's here the minute you come back, Kagome." Sango said.

"Well...he was talking to my mother when I left...," Kagome explained, "I don't know how long that will take, but yeah, usually he is here."

They all looked into the fire as it crackled, waiting for the familiar man to walk in...

INU-YASHA

"Oh crap." was the only thing that came out of his mouth as he looked down at Mrs. Higurashi's body.

He had completely over-reacted, and he knew it. He should learn to keep his mouth shut better.

He picked her up, and brought her to the sofa, making sure she was comfortable. Once she looked fine, he went to Kagome's room.

She was not going to happy when he told her her mother was passed out on the couch downstairs. She would most likely 'sit' him for it being his fault. 'This isn't going to be good...' he thought as he opened her door.

She wasn't there.

He looked in all the other rooms.

She wasn't there.

He ran downstairs, looked in the kitchen, looked back in the living room, looked in dining room.

She wasn't there.

"Dammit, Kagome!" he whispered angrily, running outside.

If she wasn't here, he knew exactly where she would be. She just didn't listen, did she?

He growled (as best as he could in a human form) and walked towards the well house.

He felt strange. This always happened on the night of a full moon. Turning human did something to his emotions...and sometimes his hormones. Right now, he didn't know what had been affected. All he knew was that he wanted to go back.

He ran down the stairs, and looked at the well.

They could really have a life together, couldn't they?

-/-/-/-/-

He could hear the fire crackling inside. He could hear their voices.

Sango...Miroku...Kaede...Shippo...Kagome.

Flinging the straw door aside, he strode in.

Everyone's eyes turned in his direction.

Again, a weird feeling went through him. Inu-Yasha could imagine himself, standing there, illuminated by the fire, looking insane.

But his eyes found Kagome's, and he didn't care. He walked right up to her, stood her up in front of him, and kissed her.

Passionately.

Everyone stopped talking. Kagome grew stiff in his arms.

He knew he looked crazy, but thats how he felt at this moment. Crazy with anger that she never listened to him. Crazy that they could have a future together. Crazy that everyone was watching them, but mostly, crazy about the girl he was holding.

Kagome pushed him away slowly, her face bright red.

"Uh...hi." she whispered.

Ok, so that was my triumphant return. R&R please...and don't be afraid to be harsh.