AN: Hello everyone! I'm back with another insane chapter to this equally weird story. You'll all be pleased to find out it is exact 10 chapters long the last being an epilogue. I hope you stick with me that long. I've got them all written so check back often. Thank you everyone and enjoy the show!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha. No suing.

Last Thing I Wanted

By Wyltk

And that's how she made her mistake…

Kagome turned around and started to pull her hat back on and that's when she realized Inuyasha was hurrying around the corner. He had seen her hair. And he hadn't even stayed around to say anything about it.

Resisting the urge to call out she picked up her bucket and waited a few minutes to give him time to leave before walking out into the main chamber. She was right. Inuyasha was gone and Shippo was staring at the opening of the cave with a curious look on his face.

She placed the water she had gotten by their cots. She smiled at Shippo slightly and asked him to stay there and tell Sango and Miroku that she had gone out walking. She then moved out of the cave and kept walking until she couldn't see the cave anymore. Sitting down in the snow, she tilted her head up to stare at the stars. And right then she didn't care what happened to her.

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A little while after Kagome left Sango and Miroku came back with fire wood, Kirara at their heals. Shippo ran towards them jumping up and clinging to Sango's kimono.

"Sango!"

"Where's Kagome, Shippo?" she asked looking around noting that Inuyasha wasn't around either.

"She said she would be back later. She wanted to go for a walk."

Sango nodded absently something inside her warning that something was wrong. It wasn't like Kagome to go out for a walk, in this weather especially, without someone. Or course, that was if she didn't have a clear reason to go walking.

It didn't take her long to start a fire and finish the meal for that night, though, Kagome and Inuyasha still didn't appear. Even after everything was put back away and Sango, Shippo, and Kirara were curled under a blanket. Miroku, lying on the other side of the fire, watching as they shivered under the small blanket.

Miroku shook his head and got up laying his own blanket around Sango who had given most of hers up to Kirara and Shippo. He smiled at Sango as she looked up and was walking over to the other side of the fire to freeze all night when her soft voice stopped him.

"You can stay next to us for the night. But you touch me and I kill you." She finished it with a dark look and he smiled lying next to her and bringing the blanket around both of them. He wrapped one arm, respectively, around her waist and once she was sure his hand wasn't moving she fell asleep snuggled against his chest. Miroku soon following his other three companions in slumber.

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The sky was already beginning to lighten when Kagome woke up. She was freezing and she shivered as she picked herself up and quickly made her way back to the cave. She slipped inside and stirred the fire placing on a few more logs.

She slipped into her bed and glanced at the other occupants of the cave. The four who were curled together like a small family. Breathing deeply she wondered if she would ever have anything like that with Inuyasha. Never, he loved Kikyo. Not her.

'It's not fair.' She glared at the wall hot tears trailing down her face, 'I was right. The moment he saw my hair had been cut he left me. I knew he could only stand me because I looked like her. But now that I don't look like her what will happen? Will he not want me around any more, get the real thing instead of the replacement?'

She curled herself in a tight ball and buried her head in the blanket. She sighed as a strange dizziness took over any other thought before slowly receding. Ignoring it for one of the left over spells of the demon she closed her eyes fully.

AN: Ahhh the next chapter *grins* Again I want to ask. Does anyone still want the preview?

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'Kagome would never fight with Inuyasha about Kikyo. She would give the girl straight to him to make him happy. I just hope Inuyasha realizes how unhappy he's making Kagome before it's too late.'

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*grins* and the next chapter "The Real Thing"

Signing out for "Last Thing I Wanted" until next time I'm…

Wyltk!