Kagome's head shot up when she heard a knock at her door. "Mom wants you to come down for dinner!" Souta shouted from outside her room. She took a moment to collect herself before she answered back. "Ok, just give me a moment." Kagome said yawning. She waited until the footsteps of her little brother were gone before she moved from her desk. Kagome stood up and stretched out her arms in the air while she glanced toward her window. "Great I must have fallen asleep." She walked to her window and stared out into the blackness of the night. She sat there for awhile looking up at the stars until she heard her mother shout her name from down stairs. "Coming!" Kagome replied as she walked out of her room. She sat down at the table alongside her family. She stared at her bowl of steaming rice and thought about the stars. Something about tonight was different. It took her another minute to realize just what was so strange about tonight.

"The New Moon!!" She yelled as she sat up from her seat.

"Kagome, just what are you talking about?" Asked her confused Grandfather. Kagome just ignored the question and ran outside. She ran towards the well, her speed increasing with every step as more thoughts of concern filled her head. She ran past the Sacred Tree and past the huge set of shrine stairs. Kagome could see the little well house only a few feet away from her. She used her strength to swiftly slide open the door. She darted down the steps and was about to jump in, when she stopped. Kagome gazed down into the dark void of the well. "What am I doing?" she was so filled with concern about Inuyasha that she forgot all about the worries she had for herself and what would happen if she went near him again. She was lucky enough to get away with her life last time, but what about the next time she encountered him? Taking her knee off the lip of the well, she turned around to go back to the house.

"What was I thinking? Inuyasha will be fine on his own, I mean it's not like he needs a weak human like me to help him. He obviously has enough power to do it on his own." She said with a hint of spite in her voice as she remembered when Inuyasha had attacked her. Before returning to the house, Kagome stopped to look up at the sacred tree, their tree. "Compared to his usual strength, he's so weak when he's human. I guess it would be normal for me to worry." Kagome walked up to the front of the tree to the spot where she had first seen Inuyasha. There was still a scar from where Inuyasha had laid under Kikyo's spell for 50 years. Resting her hand on it gently, Kagome thought about her friends. "I hope they're ok. I can't help but wonder if Inuyasha tried to attack them too…" Kagome sat down with her back up against the Tree's large trunk and decided to think a little more on the subject. "I told Koga to meet me in three days…that's tomorrow…"

Before, when Koga had let Kagome sleep next the well she wasn't really sleeping. She was actually thinking of what she was going to do now that there was no way she could return to Inuyasha. She had considered going back home permanently, but remembered her duty to recover all the pieces of the Sacred Jewel. Sure, Kikyo could do it but she was the one who broke it and she was the one who promised to make it whole again. It wasn't just the jewel that kept her from going home to her own era for good, it was her friends too. There was no way she could leave Sango, Miroku and Shippo, at least not without saying goodbye first. Kagome felt pretty sure that Inuyasha wouldn't attack them, only because the drive for blood that was held in his eyes was for her blood only, so she thought that they would be relatively safe. She finally came to a decision. She would travel with Koga and his group and finish collecting the shards and once the Jewel was whole again she would return home. It was the only way she could full fill her duty and get to say a proper goodbye to her friends. That is why she told Koga to come back and meet her in three days.

Her main concern right now however was how to get back to meet Koga without Inuyasha noticing. She knew that if he was at the village then he would easily pick up her scent when she came out of the well. Kagome learned from experience of how powerful Inuyasha's senses were. That's when an idea came to her mind. She got up and rushed into the house. Shutting the door behind her she looked upon her family sitting calmly at the dinner table.

"I leave tonight."

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"When is this moonless night going to end?" Inuyasha said tapping his fingers anxiously on his knee.

"Do you have to be so impatient all the time?" Miroku asked slightly annoyed with the way Inuyasha was acting. All Inuyasha did was turn away and give Miroku another 'feh'. He'd been getting a lot of those lately. Sighing, Miroku looked around the room. He glanced at Shippo who was curled up next to Sango and at Kirara who was snuggled up beside them. Kaede had decided that she would spend the night with a sick women and her three children that she told him she had been treating for the past couple days. Miroku was the only one awake other than Inuyasha.

"Why don't you get some rest Inuyasha? I know that you're tired."

"No chance." He replied not even turning his head to talk to him.

"Why? Even you need to sleep." Said the monk trying to reason with him.

"I already told you earlier, I'm not sleeping until I make sure Kagome is ok." At that comment, Miroku noticed that his eyes got a bit more intense and serious than before. He knew Inuyasha was thinking about Kagome again. In the past couple days it was rare when you didn't find him thinking about her.

"Inuyasha," Miroku started. "I know that this is the first time since you've met Kagome that she hasn't been here on the moonless night…" Inuyasha's ears dropped a little and he turned his body more toward Miroku but kept his eyes planted to the floor. "I guess what I'm trying to say is that; I can tell that you feel more at peace when she's here."

There was a silence for a few moments as Miroku stared with sympathy toward his friend. Whatever had happened had affected Inuyasha deeply. Inuyasha then took a deep breath and began to speak. His voice was quiet and sad as he spoke.

"I just thought that maybe because it was the night of the new moon, she would come back. She always got so worried about me on these nights… I guess I just hoped…I don't know…that maybe because she worried so much, she couldn't help but come back to check on me…" Miroku had never seen Inuyasha like this. He seemed so sad, so guilt-ridden. Inuyasha stopped and focused on his thoughts for a moment before continuing.

"You should've seen her face. She looked so terrified when I came up to her. It was like she was afraid of me. I don't think I've ever seen her that scared before…"

Once again the room filled with silence. Miroku had no idea what to say to him. In this situation what could you say?

"I guess whatever I did messed things up pretty bad this time, huh?" Inuyasha said giving a fake smirk to try and relieve the room of the thick tension that had taken over its once calm demeanor.

"Inuyasha…" was all that Miroku could choke out. He could feel the emotion that was radiating off his friend. Realizing that he had just given away to much Inuyasha immediately tried to change the subject.

"Just…just forget I said any of that ok…" Inuyasha said trying to close himself off again. Noticing this, Miroku knew he had to stop him.

"No I can't Inuyasha," Inuyasha lifted his head up to look at him. "You can't just keep doing that. It's not good to keep your emotions bottle up like that. You have to let them out." Miroku said slightly raising his voice. Inuyasha got a little ticked off at Miroku's statement. He would deal with his feelings any way he wanted and there was no way he was going to let someone tell him how to do it.

"And how do you want me to do that? I'm not like you; I just can't calmly talk about them."

"You don't have to; you just can't keep holding it up inside you. Every person had limit Inuyasha."

"Well maybe you can explain to me a solution; because this is the only way I know how to deal with my problems. Unlike you, I didn't have family or friends to talk to about stuff like this when I was younger; I was alone so keeping my emotions bottled up was the only way I knew how to deal with them, it was the only way I could survive." Miroku could see that he somehow offended Inuyasha so he tried to explain and apologize, but before he could he was cut off.

"You see when you're out there, the ONLY way to survive is to always be alert and never show any sign of weakness. Once you let your emotions show, you're dead." His voice got so loud and angry that it woke Sango.

"Inuyasha I-" Miroku tried once again to say.

"Oh and another thing, don't try to understand how I'm feeling, cause there is no way that you could understand what it's like knowing that you're the worst nightmare of the one person you truly love." With that said Inuyasha stormed out of the hut. Miroku glanced back at a worried Sango. Miroku sat down defeated.

"I was just trying to help…" he said to Sango. She knelt down next to him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Inuyasha will see that in time, he's just upset over Kagome right now." Her words washed away the blanket of guilt that had fallen on his shoulders. He was thankful to her for that.

"I guess your right…

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Inuyasha walked hastily towards the tree. He stopped and stared at for a long time, thinking only about his anger. Getting fed up with his frustration, he punched the tree trunk. Then he did again, and again. He kept hitting it over and over until his entire fist was covered in blood.

"Damn." He said giving the tree one last, hard punch.

His chest was moving rapidly up and down, trying to recuperate itself from the loss of breath. Feeling somewhat tired, he leaned forward and put his forehead on the trunk to rest. Inuyasha stared at the ground, his expression changing from anger to sadness once again. He let his arms fall to his sides as he watched the blood slowly drip off his hand and land on the ground below him. "Kagome…" Inuyasha whispered as he looked up at the sacred tree, remembering the first time he saw her. Through the trees he saw what looked to be a shooting star. Remembering what Kagome said, he decided that he would make a wish. "Whatever I did, just please let her come back to me…" with that said he walked solemnly back to the hut alone.

But what he didn't notice was the figure that was sitting in the tree branches above, listening to everything he had said. The person jumped swiftly off the branches to report to its master.

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"I don't understand why do you have to leave tonight?" her mother asked slightly confused. By now Kagome had told her about meeting Koga.

"Because mom, Inuyasha won't be able to pick up my scent in his human form, this is the only time I can go and get away from him." She replied shoving more things into her bag.

"Kagome, whatever fight you two had, I'm sure that it wasn't bad enough to separate yourself from him. I mean you love him after all, don't you think that it is going to be hard for you to be away from him, even if you're fighting?" her mother said trying to reason with her daughter.

"I know that mom, but right now there is no way I can be near him. This situation may not last forever, but it will do for now, at least until I figure things out." Snapping the clasp together, Kagome lifted the bag onto her shoulders. Her mother walked her to the well house where she said her goodbyes.

"Bye mom." Kagome said giving her mother a hug. "Goodbye Kagome." Mrs. Higurashi replied. Kagome gave her mother one last smile and short wave before she jumped into the well, going back in time five hundred years to the feudal era. "I hope this works; I only have two hours till sun rise…" Kagome thought as she drifted from her era to Inuyasha's. Kagome got out of the well and began to run to the sacred tree. Once she was there she set down her bag and got in a nice comfortable potion to wait for Koga. An hour or so had passed, and by then she was half asleep with her head resting on her knees that were currently brought up to her stomach. Koga came up beside her and lightly tapped her on the shoulder. The moment his hand came upon her she shot up.

"I didn't mean to scare you." Koga said apologizing. Kagome took a moment to catch her breath as she brushed off her skirt.

"No biggy, you just surprised me was all." She replied picking up her things.

"So why'd you want me to meet you here?"

"Koga," she said taking a few steps closer to him. "I have a favor to ask of you. Do you think that it would be alright if I traveled with you guys for awhile? I have to fulfill my duty to make the Sacred Jewel whole again, so I thought maybe we can collect the shards together. I promise I won't get in the way and I will do my best to-" Koga stopped her.

"Of course you can hang with us, it will be our pleasure." He said with a smile. Kagome gave him a quick hug then released him, getting a small pout from Koga. She tightened the straps on her bag a little and adjusted it so that it was more comfortable on her back.

"So how we traveling?" she asked. At first Koga was slightly confused but soon understood after thinking about his speed. "

"Well I guess it's up to you, we could walk if you want, or…" he said giving her motion to sit on his back. At first Kagome was skeptical about it, but when she glanced at her watch and realized sunrise would come in about 45 minutes, she quickly leaped on his back.

"Whatever way is the fastest." Kagome answered as she settled her body on to his back.

"Hold on!" Koga said with a cocky smirk as he and Kagome took off in a tornado of dust. Ginta and Hakkaku slowly followed behind them.

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Inuyasha's black hair began to fade to silver and his claws and fangs began to grow back to their normal size. His doggy ears formed on his head as his whole body went through the transformation.

At last it was day break and Inuyasha's powers had returned.

"Let's go!" He shouted with new found excitement and energy. Inuyasha raced in front of the group, so excited about reaching Kagome. The past couple of days had been torture without her around and he was finally going to be able to ease his thoughts of worry once he saw that she was ok. He hoped that she had gotten over what ever had happened between them, but right now that didn't even matter. All he kept thinking about was being able to see her. Inuyasha knew exactly what he was going to do, he was going to run up to her, wrap his arms around her waist and catch her lips in a kiss. She had been the only thing on his mind for the past 3 days.

Then he picked up a scent, a scent that he knew backwards and forwards. It was her scent. Inuyasha got exited as he ran quicker, hoping that he would find her soon. But then as he got close to the Sacred Tree, he picked up another scent; a scent that he wasn't to pleased with. "Koga…" Inuyasha muttered under his breath as he slowed his pace down to a stop. He sniffed the air more carefully and realized that Kagome's scent and Koga's scent were together, going in the same direction. Once he realized this, his heart dropped. "She went with him?" he thought to himself. "But why would she do that, was it because of me?" His thoughts of confusion were interrupted as his friends caught up. Miroku, Sango and Shippo all starred at Inuyasha in wonder. He had this really confused, sad expression on his face, almost like he was disappointed in something. Sango was the one to ask him what was wrong.

"What is it Inuyasha?" Inuyasha kept quiet for a moment before turning around and walking past them.

"She left with Koga." Was all he said before he bounded off by himself somewhere to think. Miroku and Sango just looked at each other, then back at the place they had seen Inuyasha run towards.


A/N: yay i got the next one up pretty wuick dont ya think? im proud of myself :) anyways i know that the ending was kinda sucky but i just wanted to put it up so bad i kinda rushed throught it. anyways some of you might be wondering if this is going to turn out to be a KogaxKagome fic. dont worry its not, but there might be some minor kogaxkags in the next few chapters. onto other things, the symptoms from the fear demon are going to get alot stronger soon, but im not exactly sure when. so watch out for that. anyways i hope you liked this one, cant wait to read your review!!!