AN: once again my update is late… but im really sorry coz school is so evil! And I don't get time to do it. Plus I had camp last week so that killed my time in writing it. To top it off I lost the disc with all my half completed chapters which meant I had to remember what I wrote in it plus I think my comp is freaking corrupted!!!!! also I would like to say that for the next 3 weeks im am in study mode coz I have my exams that practically sums up my report so wish me luck =D I hate doing this but do u ppl think u can get me up to 40? Plz?
Inuyasha and Kagome's moments have to come later….coz I realized dat if I let u know what they talked about…well I can't not just yet.

I'm sorry niasdreams that I didn't make it for your b-day. I hope you got lots of pressies and had heaps of fun! A belated Happy Birthday!!

~*To love is to be able to let go*~

Chapter 3

The eeriness of the atmosphere in the room would send any normal human running but then again she had never been born a normal human. Kikyo smirked to herself as she continued to walk down the corridor. Had Inuyasha not leave and his 'friends' didn't go after him, she would definitely have a hard time trying to sneak out in the middle of the night like this. She stopped facing a dead end.

"Naraku" One word was said and the house itself started glowing in a faint dark red. The wall that was supposedly there in front of her indicating that it's a dead end disappeared to reveal Naraku sitting there with a sinister grin on his face.

"Kikyo, how's the plan going?"

"As what we expected. Their group is breaking apart. My copy is no longer among us and her 'friends' are mad at Inuyasha because of this. Inuyasha himself is falling apart bit by bit and soon he will be in hell. The humans which he travels with will be easy pickings once they lost their most 'powerful' protector, a pathetic hanyou. Keep in mind Naraku if you fatally injure Inuyasha before I do I will kill you before you get the full Shikon no tama in your hands." Kikyo replied calmly as if she was commenting on the weather. Naraku smirked and beckoned his offspring Kanna and her mirror revealing Kikyo's attempts in getting Inuyasha's attention.

"Does it matter if I kill him now or later? In the end you will ATTEMPT to kill me either way it seems to me that not all your 'acting' is an act. It seems like you show signs of actually loving him."

"You DARE spy on me! It's my acting that made Inuyasha fall for me in the first place. Its going to be my acting that he will once again feel betrayed by me again when I kill him with my own hands! I am a MIKO! As I if will fall for a lowly dirty hanyou! Just the same applies for you. I will not fall in love with you like you did with me. My talk with you is over. Just keep your end of the deal in watching Inuyasha's every move and I'll keep my part of the deal!" Kikyo said before she stormed out of Naraku's castle.

"Kikyo, you are sadly mistaken if you think that I won't do anything because I 'love' you… kukuku Onigumo has long gone from this Naraku kukuku… pathetic hanyou indeed" Naraku got up and moved himself back into the shadows of the night.

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Emptiness.

A void of darkness has once again taken over his heart. Only this time there was no light to shine away the darkness. Hi slight has left him… gone… all because of him. If it wasn't him then Kikyo wouldn't come. If Kikyo didn't' come she couldn't have threatened Kagome's life which in turn he wouldn't have to force her to leave. If only Kikyo didn't come back to life. 'Kagome… forgive me… please come back to me' Inuyasha thought as a stray tear fell down his face.

"Kagome…" he whispered to the starless night. Inuyasha stared into the sky, deep in thoughts as he was recalling all the memories he had with Kagome. So deep in thoughts that he didn't notice the rustling of the bushes underneath his position on the tree.

"Okay, it looks like there is a turn of events here… he must really be disturbed to not notice us down here." Miroku said to Sango and Shippo. Earlier that day, they had asked Inuyasha about the whole Kikyo affair that he was having and their only reply was silence and ever since then Inuyasha had purposely avoided them. Of course this only motivates the three of them to constantly spy on him. However they did not expect to see Inuyasha on a tree crying over the lost of Kagome's company.

"Houshi-sama does this mean that Inuyasha was forced to do what he did to Kagome-chan? If he didn't like her he without doubt would never cry for her." Sago pointed out. Shippo remained staring wordlessly up at Inuyasha who was staring off into the dark night. Shippo sniffed. He sniffed again as his nose is telling him that Kagome is back and nearby. Before he could inform the others and before Miroku even replied to Sango, Inuyasha had rushed off in a blur of read and white towards the direction of the well. Recovering from the shock, Miroku turned to Sango.

"I believe that you may be right Sango-sama. Seeing that this is Inuyasha we are talking about here, he will never tell us what is going on as proven today when he avoided us. I never thought that Inuyasha would want to see Kagome so soon…" Miroku replied look intently at the direction where the well is and trying to see if Inuyasha is there too.

Inuyasha ran as fast as he could towards the lovely scent. The moment he got whiff at that scent he had been debating whether or not to go and see her. He settled for hiding in one place where she wouldn't be able to sense him yet he would be able to see her with his demon eyes. Jumping up to hid in the branches of the tree, Inuyasha watched with anticipation waiting for Kagome to climb up. Echoes of muttering could be heard coming from the well, Inuyasha watched with interest as the inside of the well had a faint glow coming out.

Kagome used he new found powers to levitate herself up from the bottom of the well. With the amount of baggage that she has, there was no way that she would be able to climb with all that on her back that's if she could get them on her back. So why not make her life easier by using her powers. She was up and out of the well in no time. Placing her belongings on the ground she then continued to levitate herself up to until she was 100 metres above the well. She scanned the area around trying to find the best place for her to settle down and built a house and all. She had hoped that it was between the village and the well so it wouldn't be such a hassle for her to go back and forth in time but it seems that there wasn't a place around here that was fitting.

 'Hmm….where do I live now? It doesn't seem to be any good spots around here…wait is that a hot spring I see?! Oh my god! It is! And it's near the lake as well! Well close enough to the lake. Yes! I'm going to live with my personal hot spring' Kagome thought happily. Now that she had found the place to live she began to descend down slowly to the ground trying to memorize the place she just saw. She landed softly on the ground. There was no way that she would be able to levitate all her luggage to that place. Levitation may be easy but for a long period of time it gets really tiring and plus she's still regarded as a rookie by Midoriko anyway. She sighed in defeat. There was no way but to do it, she needed its strength.

I pray to the twelve Gods,

Who protect me,

Show yourself before me,

Come forth

Genbu

            A humanoid Genbu appeared in a flash of light. Inuyasha stared shocked at the amount of power that Kagome just displayed and the fact that she summon one of the four animal gods. In his stare of shock he didn't notice Genbu approaching him with deadly grace and speed nor did he notice Kagome's scream before it was too late as Genbu was already in front of him with a hand strangling his neck.

"Genbu stop it!" Kagome screamed terrified for Inuyasha's life. Genbu had appeared before her in a fighting stance ready to take down the person threatening his mistress. For seconds he stood there confused seeing that there was no one there which means there was no enemy that is until he sensed a youkai aura near his mistress. He rushed off to that direction within seconds to kill all those that dare to threaten Mistress Kagome.

Genbu dropped him at Kagome's command. Inuyasha felling to the ground gasping for air which was deprived from him for long then he ever want it to be. Of all the ways to be found out by Kagome, it had to be this. He had thought that he was a safe distance away from Kagome. Obviously not safe enough for her guardian god.

"Inuyasha are you alright?" Kagome asked as she approached him hesitantly at first as if she wasn't sure whether or not that she should be around him at all. Slightly hurt by her actions, Inuyasha quickly got up and composed himself back to his normal 'I don't care' look.

"Feh! I'm fine bitch!" upon hearing this Genbu once again made a move to kill Inuyasha only this time he was held back by Kagome. Inuyasha was there standing in a fighting stance alert not wanting to be caught of guard twice.

"Genbu its okay you're not here to fight anyone." Kagome stated.

"Then why am I summon Mistress Kagome?" Genbu asked genuinely confused as to what is happening.

"Ah…well you see… I summoned you because I wanted you to help me with carrying my luggage I mean you're specialty is strength so I thought I would summon you to help me out a bit." Kagome replied sheepishly. Both Inuyasha and Genbu sweat- dropped at the answer. Summoning a god just to carry her over weighted luggage, Inuyasha snorted at the thought.

"Mistress I would love to help but if next time you need my service for anything other then fighting please just call my name out the same way as you summon me. That way I would know that it's not a battle that I'm going to face. This also applies for my other friends as well." Genbu said recovering from Kagome's reply.

"Sorry, I didn't know… hey Mi-chan why didn't you tell me?" Kagome asked tapping the incomplete Shikon no tama around her neck.

"Hehehe… I forgot…" a tiny voice whispering back in fright from the crystal.

"Midoriko…" Kagome said threatening.

"Feh, all this nonsense for nothing." Inuyasha said turning around trying to make a quick exit so that Kagome wouldn't have time to question him. Because if she does he knows full well what he would do.

"Wait Inuyasha, I have always wanted to ask you this…."

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'Kukuku interesting…Inuyasha and Kagome are communicating….' Naraku thought while observing the two in Kanna's mirror. 'Since Kikyo is so up herself nowadays I won't inform her and see how interesting things will get.'

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"Genbu please put it down here." Kagome said pointing to the place where she wanted her stuff placed. There land which she chose was quite spacious even before she had to cut down some trees to make her house. She got out her tent and set it up for the night. Genbu return back into the realm of the gods seeing that there was nothing left for him to do Genbu return back into the realm of the gods.

Kagome walked around her camp site setting up a barrier before actually going to her tent to sleep. Thinking back at what Inuyasha had told her she couldn't help the wave of sadness washed over her.

"Maybe it is for the best Inuyasha but it doesn't mean that I have to like it… Mi-chan can I ask you about something?" Kagome asked while tapping on the crystal waking Midoriko up from her sleep. She asked her question while Midoriko was grumbling about beauty sleep and not an information booth.

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