Disclaimer: don't own Inu Yasha..

Warning: corny? a little? maybe?

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"Foolishness?" Kouga asked. His voice showed a bit of confusion.

"It's.. nothing."

"It can't be nothing.. i mean.. if it's nothing.. you wouldn't.. have this gloomy face..." he started, as he gently picked up Kagome's elegant face with his hand. Her deep brown eyes met his dusty teal ones. "Replacing your beautiful one...." he trailed off.

"Kouga... kun."

"What i said before... when i told... you, that i love you.. it wasn't.. a play.. it was real. I have fallen for you... Kagome, never forget that you are my woman.... my only one."

He lowered his arms to her waist and quickly yet gently pulled her towards him. It shocked Kagome, that Kouga, seemed actually sincere about her feelings. And.. that he was actually... comforting her. Somehow, she felt strange.. like.. this mood.. that couldn't be described was surrounding this moment. Slowly, a colourless fog began to wrap around her legs, and slowly rising to cover her body. When the mist nearly concealed the young woman's figure, a small cry pleaded aloud, "Inu Yasha."

Consumed in a mysterious blank void, Kagome found herself floating.. in emptiness. It was like a dream.. although she couldn't distinctly tell if it was completely lucid. Everything around her was, blank.. pure nothing, like staring across an ocean filled with nothing but the colour white. "Where am I?" she asked herself. The voice seemed to echo across the world of blankness. Each word was like a boomerang as it began to leave her mouth, however returning moments later with a subtle impact then it originally sounded.

One by one Kagome yelled out, "Inu Yasha!" "Sango-chan!!" "Miroku!!!" "Shippo!!" "Kiara!!"

Each name trailed off consecutively, first as a shrill but then ending with whispers. Countering the shouts, a voice seemed to respond back, mimicking the initial calling. The girl sighed and wondered when she would go back again, where--

The thought of returning had made her realize of.. her.. Kikyo. I can't go back.. not when, they're still together.

I just can't.

Suddenly a glimmer of brightness came before her. The light burned her eyes for a bit, when her vision was restored she saw nothing.

Kagome!

The girl turned around. Staring back at her, was a pair of yellow demon eyes.

"Inu.. Yasha."

I'm sorry Kagome...

The dog demon began to slowly back away, fading within each second. Reaching desperately, trying to grasp him Kagome cried, "Inu Yasha!!"

Her voice trailed off as the remains of the hanyou's red cloak disappeared.

Retreating her hand, Kagome looked out into the far distance where Inu Yasha just was. "Do you love him?"

A voice asked, "Do you love the half-youkai called, Inu Yasha?"

"Who are you?" She asked.

"Do you?"

".... yes.. but..."

"KAGOME!!"

"nani?.. oh Kouga-kun."

She awoke staring into his eyes. "I thought I lost you... what happened?"

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"Is that really what you want? I still sense...resistance... is something holding you back? or someone?." Kikyo abruptly asked.

"No. I want to be with you, and only you." Inu Yasha firmly replied. "I will keep the promise i made with myself. That I shall die with you, as you have done in the past for me."

"Let me ask you a question, Inu Yasha. If I never came back to life in this form... would you have told Kagome that you loved her?."

The demon froze, "My feelings for Kagome are no more then friendship."

"I'm worried.. she's changed you in levels that I could never."

"it's true, Kagome has changed me. And I am grateful of that change, but believe me Kikyo, Kagome and I are just good friends.

"Just good friends and nothing more..."

Inu Yasha faced out into the open, where he found no one to be there. "Eh? Kagome?.. Where is everyone?"

Kikyo giggled slightly, "They left. Haven't you noticed?"

"Not really...." he replied, still stunned that his friends would leave him like this. He turned back his focus on Kikyo. "When do.. have to go?"

"Soon.. Inu Yasha... very soon.. but before you think about leaving I want you to tell me the utmost truth, that you do not love Kagome.. not even a little bit."

Looking in her eyes, he said, "I do not love Kagome."

"That's a lie."

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"Mm.. houshi.. sama " Sango softly moaned. The kiss continued and did not look like it was going to end anytime soon.

"Sango.. please call me Miroku.."

"But..."

"Please..." he insisted.

"Alright.. Miroku."

Their osculation had lasted for a while now, but never had it once lost it's passion. The motion that their lips moved was synchronized at all times. It was almost like a dance, except with lips instead of legs. Always moving in union, and together always wanting more from the dance.

Gradually, they broke apart, both gasping for air. "I don't think I'll ever forget that kiss," Miroku broadly grinned. "Not only because it was a kiss, but because I was lucky enough.. to be able to share it with you."

Sango felt a sudden warmth hugging her cheeks in tins of red. 'I guess Miroku can say the right things sometimes. I just hope that nothing spoils this mom-'

Too late.

That familiar caress had arrived.... That irritating feeling.. that.. Miroku!!!

*SMACK!*

"Miroku!! Don't you use your hands for anything else but that?"

"Well, yes.." he answered as he rubbed the red spot that was marked on his cheek.

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"What do you mean, 'it's a lie?' It isn't! Please Kikyo, trust in me. Just this once. Believe that you are the only one."

"If I showed you were Kagome was and who she was with, at this instance, promise me that I won't see a reaction on your face."

"Alright." he vowed. 'What could give me a reaction? Nothing else matters right now.. there can't be anything. Not even.."

The soul snatchers began to circle around each other, and the space that was enclosed in the middle started to develop images, of 2 people. First it was blurry and 2 figures seemed more like a pair of blob, randomly mixed, but as soon as the splotches became clear Inu Yasha knew that Kikyo's request would be hard to fulfill.

He gritted his teeth as he saw Kouga's arms around Kagome. Her eyes lacking of the joyfulness that he once knew. "Kagome. I'll never let that dog touch you again, you deserve much more then a sleaze bag."

Inu Yasha tightened his fist until his knuckles turned white, then he released giving back the colour in his hand. Dropping his head, he whispered, "I'm sorry.. Kagome."

Kikyo walked towards Inu Yasha, making him turn to face her. "Inu Yasha, you've proved me wrong. Come with me... together we can live.. in hell."

The earth below then began to rumble as a crack appeared underneath their feet. It seemed the beautiful scenery that was once behind then was now shattered in destruction. The grass had been upturned from it's shade of green to a plaid of russet. Trees that surrounded them were now fallen, broken branches, torn up leaves. Hell was starting....... now.

Too busy to look at the invisible screen, they never noticed Kagome.

"Gomen.. Kouga.. but I'm in love with that sleaze bag. And I have to see him... right now."

And then she ran back.

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