"Grrr." Inuyasha growled. "She'll never understand!" Suddenly, he stopped. Kagome was right ahead of him. She had stopped running and she was looking at Inuyasha. Slowly, he advanced towards her.

"Hey you. What's up?" He asked trying to sound cheerful. Kagome just stood there, eyes wide, unable to absorb the scene she just saw. Before Inuyasha could say anything else, she flounced away and disappeared into the woods.

"Hey! Hey! Wait up! What do you think you're doing running off like that? Don't you know that these woods are dangerous?!" He breathed heavily as he flew from region to region searching desperately for his dearest. "Curse you." he sighed.

"I've got to get away from that dog-demon! He's not the one for me, and I'm getting tied up in the wrong path! I've got to go back home! To Sota and Mom and Grampa and everyone! I can't stay here! I'm unwanted here!" She started running back towards the well.

"Eh?" Inuyasha stated in confusion. "Where's her scent?" His eyes flickered in the darkness as he cracked his knuckles. "Kagome, don't run away from me. I thought you loved me, and I love you too." Just then, Kikyo stood before him.

"What are you searching for, Inuyasha?" she asked. She smiled and then and there, Inuyasha's heart melted. 'Kikyo.' he thought dreamily.

"I have no time, Kikyo." he brushed her aside but she stood firm. "I've got to find Kagome! She might be in danger and I can't let anything happen to her!"

"Sweet, aren't you?" Inuyasha lost track of Kagome's scent. "Where could she have gone?" It never occurred to him that she would have wanted to go back home. He scoured the forests all around the village, asked the villagers if they had seen her, and even went to his brother Sesshou-maru for help. They had all turned him down.

"The well! How could I be so stupid?!" He smacked himself on the head for being so absentminded. His love for Kagome had blinded him of all possibilities. "And now - I will go to the well!" He flew there as fast as he could, and just as he got there, he saw the well sinking into the soil, which was boiling and taking in the well.

"No!!!!!" He dove towards the sinking well and his head hit hard soil. He clawed the soil but there was no sign of the well.

"Kagome!!!!!!!" his broken heart let out a wail that shook the whole village. Kaede journeyed to the "well" and found Inuyasha macho-sobbing into the earth.

"There's nothing you can do now. She's gone. I'm afraid the Shikon jewel will never be restored until Kagome has found another way to come back to the past. But for now, let's go back to the village. I fixed some pork and tofu soup."

To be continued.