The sun was bright, and the breeze was comfortable. Kagome was sprawled across the grass under her favorite tree, and was lonely. Sesshoumaru had been forced by his dad to go to the college he had been accepted to, and refused to pay for her to go. Sessh had begged, but in the end he had been left with no choice. So, now here she was avoiding her parents as much as possible. With him gone, she had no one watching out for her. All she had now was herself, and she was falling deeper and deeper into depression. Sesshoumaru had said that he could easily bypass most of his classes because of his age and knowledge, she just hoped he could do it quickly. She hadn't been without him since she was seven, and she wasn't handling his absence well. She had reverted back into cutting, heavily. She stayed outside no matter the weather, and if her father was looking for her than she would hide in the woods. He had found her a time or two and he had made her suffer for hiding, but she kept hiding. She had promised Sessh she would live until he got back, but she didn't know how long that was going to be.

He had already been gone for a year, it was coming up on her nineteenth birthday and she hadn't heard from him in several days. He had told her that he had already knocked off two years of his schooling, but that still meant he would be there for another year. She honestly didn't know if she could do it. Every day it got harder, and every day she wanted to plunge the blade deeper into her arm. But she didn't, barely. She just kept reminding herself that he had never broken a promise, and he promised her that he would come back for her. Though she didn't have any illusions, she knew that he could easily see what life was like away from her and everything. He could find a woman that he could fall in love with, and then she would be forgotten. She knew it would come one day, but she just wasn't ready for it anytime soon.

Ok guys, I only have the epilogue for this to do now and it's going to be a long chapter so I may not get it posted until Friday. Now, for those that haven't read "To Be Free" now would be the time go and read it, because the final chapter will be after that story. It's a one shot so it won't take long to read. For those that have, I've made some changes so things flow smoothly. Hope everyone enjoyed this, and I will see everyone on Friday ;)