Kagome awoke to voices in her ear. She opened her eyes to see Sakura looming over her. Squealing, she sat up. Looking around she noticed Sesshomaru standing in the doorway, blood no longer clinging to his haori or skin.

Suddenly, a flashback of what had happened in the previous village came into her mind and she shut her eyes. Fighting off the way of nausea that accompanied the memory she softly opened her eyes again.

"I would like to talk to him," she said quietly to the old couple, "if you two don't mind?"

Sakura nodded, and both her and Tamiya exited the hut.

Kagome glared at Sesshomaru. The sexual harrassment wasn't the only thing that she remembered.

"Why didn't you mark me?" she asked him. His eyes never changed, nor did any hint of an expression pass his features.

"I have no need to explain myself to you." Kagome glared at him, his comment fueling the rage she felt...

"I'm done with this Sesshomaru, how can you be so emotionless all the time? After what happened to me especially. You sometimes act like you care but then turn around and do this. I care for you yes, but i can't do this with you anymore."

Sesshomaru felt the words sink into his brain and grasped what she had meant by them. They were her goodbye.

It didn't sit well with him.

"You will go nowhere, you'll remain here."

"You can't tell me what to do!" she screamed throwing the covers up and hopping onto the cold floor. She shivered and whipped her head back up to meet his eyes. He growled and was suddenly in front of her. She shrieked and involuntarily took a step back. He grabbed her arm hauled her up against him. Leaning down his mouth brushed against her ear, "you will stay here," he whispered huskily to her. Kagome shivered and felt heat run through her body.

He turned his back on her. Taking a few steps forward he ran his fingers through his silver hair and stopped. "I heard news of Naraku's whereabouts, i will be gone for awhile."

"W-What if i want to go home?" she asked him. He turned his head slightly, "It is to dangerous, i don't have the time to consistently save you."

Kagome rolled her eyes and plopped back down.

"You will work on your healing powers while you're here. Sakura is a priestess, be it not very powerful, but she can help you control your powers."

A pregnant pause fell over the hut. Sesshomaru broke it. "I will come for you later."

"Whatever," Kagome mumbled. "Just stay gone forever! You inconsiderate prick!" She gripped one of the cups that was placed beside her and threw it at his retreating figure.

He didn't even turn around.

One month later:

Kagome had been working with Sakura all day. Her healing powers were stronger now, she could feel them pump through her body.

She stared into the lake and looked upon her reflection. She didn't look different but..she felt different. She felt empty. Kagome missed her friends, she missed Shippo, she missed...Inuyasha. So much. Everyday.

She had to let him go though. It was physically making her ill. Every now and then she felt nausea in the pit of her stomach. It was more often now however. She knew it was her depression, she had felt this way before. She felt so abandoned, so deserted. The man she had loved, died, all because of her. The man that had abducted her, abused her, and she felt sometimes..cared for her.

He was gone. She hadn't seen him in a month. There was no doubt in her mind he had plopped her here and was never coming back.

She didn't mind being here though. Her and her new 'guardians' were very close now. There was nothing she couldn't tell Sakura, and she enjoyed that.

Suddenly, a pang hit her lower stomach, she clutched at the spot and remembered that her period would be descending upon her soon. She hadn't had one in a month, a lot of depression and stress was throwing her body out of wack. She had cramps every now and then and mood swings that were questionable.

Sighing, she stood up and smoothed out the ruffles in her blue kimono. Sakura threw a fit over her wardrobe, she insisted she not walk around in tattered clothes, so instead she got her not so cheap kimonos. Only two. One blue with a pink jasmine painted at her hip that wrapped around her buttock and one a light red with small white flowers that adorned her sleeves.

Kagome started towards the hut when a pang went through her stomach again, but this time sharper. She stopped and gripped her middle. Tears flooded her eyes as she dropped to her knees and panic rose within her. That was a huge cramp. Her period would be horrible this month.


Yes, this is a short chapter, but i just got back into writing the story again and was stuck.

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