(A/N: Ok, ok!! ^.^; Some of you were kinda scary with the last chapter! I promise all of you that it will all make sense later on in the story!! I'm sorry I had to do it!!! I don't like the fact he kissed her back either!! Please forgive me!!! there was a reason for it though!! I swear!! v.v* Please don't hurt me!! [j/k] ~_^ Thanx for the reviews and please keep reading my story, don't let Kikyou get you down.)

*= past/ memorie
~= present
#= to be continued

Disclaimer: Why am I still writing these? You guys already know I don't own Inuyasha.

A Single Red Rose


She wasn't back.

He had been pacing around the room. She had been gone for a few hours at least. She left just
a few minute's after sunrise. It was nearly noon now. He couldn't smell her.

"Feh, The stupid wench must'ive went home without telling me." He said to himself with an angry,
and yet hurt, expression on his face. He was worried that she had seen him kiss Kikyou. He didn't
know why he kissed her...It just seemed like the right thing to do.

he halted his steps as he caught a wiff of something in the air. It smelled of lavender and jasmine.

"Kagome..." he whispered as he sprinted quickly in the direction of her scent.

Halfway to the Goshimboku he smelled Kikyou. The smell of earth and bone's was a dead (get it^.^)
give away to who it was.

"INUYASHA!!!" He heard Kikyou scream his name. It hurt his ears and he flinched but kept running
in the direction of the two. When Kagome and Kikyou were both in sight he was in shock of the
scene before him.

Kikyou was laying on the ground, defensless with an enchanted arrow in her side. Kagome had her
bow, within arms reach, at her feet.

"Inuyasha!" Kikyou whimpered reaching out for him. "She shot me! I came here to talk to her, and
when I told her I loved you ... she pulled her bow from no where and shot me."

Inuyasha shot a questioning look at Kagome, who looked just as shocked as he did. She started to
shake her head vigorously from side to side.

"Inuyasha, I swear!! I didn't!! Please!!" she looked almost panicked as she answered his look

He looked back down at Kikyou's pleading face.

He didn't know what to do, so he did the first thing, the only thing, that came into his mind.

Save Kikyou...

He scooped her up into his arm's. His right arm underneath her knees. His left arm under the
hollow of her back.

"But... wait! what about her?!" she said quickly. But he did not seem to hear her.

He began soaring through the tree's. Bounding, leaping almost, flying.

His last jump was from a high tree branch from the canopy of the forest, right in front of Kaede's
hut. He ran inside and spotted Kaede in the corner of the hut, grounding small herb's while waiting
for Sango to return with the requested.

She looked up at the sound of shocked gasp's from both Shippou and Miroku.

"How could you bring her here!!!" Shippou yelled as loud as his small lungs would allow. "Kagome's
gonna cry if she comes back and finds HER here!!!" he said pointing at the unwelcomed dead Miko.

Inuyasha growled at the young kitsune and said in a deathly silent tone,"I'm here because Kagome
did this." He bared his fang's breefly as he ended the sentence. The young kitsune shivered under
the Hanyou's piercing gaze, but stood his ground.

Inuyasha then looked at the un-dead miko's younger sister and said in a voice dripping with venom
and sorrow, "Heal her."

"Ye know that thoust may not heal the un-living." she said in a normal tone, not taking her eye's from
Kikyou.

Inuyasha stood there, giving her one of his most threatening stares. Kaede calmly stared un-
blinkingly at her sister.

Shippou's ear's perked when he smelled the farmiliar scent and his head whipped toward's the door
as he waited for Kagome's intrance. She came running into the hut panting for breath with her bow in
hand. Shippou wanted to hop up to Kagome and latch onto her arm but the look Inuyasha had on his
face told him that that wasn't a good idea. Kagome couldn't see his face.

"Inuyasha! I swear she's-"

"Would I lie to you Inuyasha?" Kikyou cut in before Kagome could finish what she was trying to say.
She looked into his eye's.

They stared at each other for a moment before he slowly, almost cautiously said, "No..."

He then turned toward's Kagome. He felt a rage growing inside of him. He didn't know where it was
coming from.

It scared him.

'Why do I feel this way toward's Kagome?' He silently questioned. 'She did hurt Kikyou, but...'

"Why did you hurt Kikyou?!" He said in a cold voice.

"But, I didn't-"

"Kagome!!!! DON'T LIE TO ME!!!!!!" He yelled.

Kagome almost looked enreged by this. "OHOHO!! I see how it is!!! You can run around with that
little tramp and-"

He didn't know what overcame him.

He didn't know why this hate was building inside of him. But it all came out of him and knocked him
into cold reality with that one, swift movement.

He was looking at his hand. He had hit her so hard he was surprised she could stand right now. It
had hurt his hand, the hand he was looking at.

He looked back up at Kagome when he distinctly smelled blood... Kagome's blood.

Her beautiful, flawless, pale skin was being disrupted with the horrible red liquid.

'I made her cry... I made Kagome cry...' were the only word's that he could think of at the the moment.
All he wanted to do at the moment was to make her stop crying. But he wanted to cry as well.

He took a step toward's her, and she ran. He knew he could catch her, but he stood... still in shock.

"Kagome...." He whispered.

He didn't notice that Sango had come back with Kirara, or that the Kitsune was pounding on his leg.
He didn't even notice that any of them had left...

All he knew was that Kagome... his Kagome.. who he just struck...

Was gone...


























(A/N: WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ?~? Sad chapter!!! That
chapter was sssssooooooo sad... Poor Inu!!! I promise guy's!!!! IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE LATER!!!!
Just plz KEEP READING AND REVIEWING!!!!!!!)