Hi ^_~ all right this is my first fic so please be nice! I do not own Inu yasha but I wish it did! I will update as much as I can but that's not a guaranty-_- I hope you like my fic
Prologue: Always doesn't last forever

The miko Kagome watched helplessly as her friend's battled the evil hanyou Naraku. Looking back in sorrow at what was left of the Bone Eaters well a silent tear fell down Kagome's face. It was her fault, she wasn't strong enough to protect the jewel from Naraku's sadistic clutches, and she wasn't strong enough to protect her family.

~Flashback~

"Inu Yasha, Oswari!!!!" a loud thud broke the silence in Inu Yasha's Forest as a young teenage girl wearing strange clothes headed towards an old well.

'That insensitive jerk! Doesn't he know I can't spend my whole life running around playing shard detector all the time, I have test to take, a life to live, and family to spend time with!' Kagome thought as she jumped into the vine covered well.

Looking up Kagome saw the familiar roof of the well house. 'Home sweet home.' "Hey minna, I'm ho.m.. e?"

A look of pure shock and sorrow entered her eyes as she stared at her used to be home that was now just a pile of ruble. Streams of tears ran down Kagome's cheeks as she raced toward the house yelling for her family. Suddenly she saw them, her family's charred and mangled forms brought her down to her knees as she shifted her hands through their ashes.

"No.NO! OKASAN, SOUTA, GRANDPA!...why?" collapsing on the ground Kagome beat her fist over and over on the hard ground repeating why over and over again.

~EndFlashback~

"Move it Sesshoumaru your in the way!" yelled Inu Yasha as he swung the Tetsuseiga cutting of a incoming tentacle. In response Sesshoumaru gave him a growl of displeasure.

"Kukuku, isn't it funny how you two can still argue even in the mitts of battle?" purred Naraku as he shoot miasma at them.

"DIE NARAKU!" Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru yelled as they charged toward their greatest enemy.

"Not before you two die first!"

Suddenly the whole field was covered in the surge of power being sent forth from Sesshoumaru, Inu Yasha, and Naraku. Quickly covering her body over the form of the quivering Shippou Kagome felt an emense burning sensation on her back. 'Are we going to die? Oh Kami no, Shippou.' Thoughts were jumbled up in Kagome's head, her families smiling faces, her friends warm talk, if this was the end she would face it head on. Finally the young miko fell into uncontious leaving the world behind her.

"What a weak fool." Lifting her head up at the sound of a voice Kagome knowticed that she was in Keade's hut with everyone crowded around her, "W- what happened?"

The people around her each wore different expressions at this question but she only saw one face, Inu Yasha's.

"We beat Naraku, of course wench!" Inu Yasha smirked as he reached inside his hayori and pulled out the complete shikon no tama.

Happiness shown inside Kagome's eyes as she put on a smile taking the shikon no tama, "Tell me what happened after I passed out. What was that big light?"

"Well you see Lady Kagome," Miroku solemnly spoke cutting off whatever inu yasha was about to say, "after the two brothers recklessly charged at Naraku he shot something from behind the two brothers of course they weren't fast enough to block it so it came charging out towards them. Then at the last minute a bright light blasted out of the forest and stopped the incoming attack. Before any of us were over the shock of what happened we heard Naraku's screams, and when we turned around there he was dead." Pausing for some breath Miroku looked around at his audience before continuing. "We thought it was you at first, the long wavy black hair flowing in the wind, the flaming blue aura, but then she turned around showing us her dull lifeless eyes. Naraku was destroyed by Kikyou."

~OneYearLater~

'The people who fight for love and justice might never find love and justice themselves.'

It was a saying she once heard when she was in the future, her past. Back then she never would have thought such a horrible saying would be true, now as she waited it this tree she knew she would never think such.

After the decisive battle with Naraku the group consisting of Sango, Miroku, Inu Yasha, Kirara, Kagome, and Shippou each went their separate ways. The days after the battle were very joyous for the group of shard hunters; Miroku had finally got up the courage and asked Sango to marry him. She happily agreed. Giving a slight chuckle Kagome remembered Sango and Miroku's wedding. During the entire wedding the lecherous monk couldn't keep his hands off any of the women invited. When the exterminator asked him about it (more likely beat it out of him, lol) he said 'My dear Sango I promised you I'd give up being a lecher once we were married so I decided I might as well let my self go.' Two days later they left.

After the newly weds had left, Inu Yasha Shippou and her had become close like a family would. In the morning she would wake up to the sleeping face of her newly adopted kit and give him butterfly kisses to wake him up. Day by day Inu yasha and her would become closer and closer. Never once did he even mention the shikon no tama and for that she was thankful. Before anymore thoughts could enter her mind a chilling voice drifted about the air around her, 'mine, mine. Soon the sacred jewel will be mine.'

Shivers went up Kagome's spine as the voice silently faded into the forest 'Who ever that was, were they talking about the shikon no tama?' Uncontionly she hugged the chain around her neck only to fine it gone. "Oh no!" Kagome cried as she raced towards the village she called home.

"Inu Yasha, Inu Yasha!" by the time she was in the hut the miko broke out into hysteria.

Quickly getting over their surprise Shippou and Inu Yasha raced over to the young women try to get her to calm down. "Okasan what is it?" asked the worried kit, he'd never seen his mother in such a fright and he didn't like it.

"I-it's the shikon no tama." She replied finally calming down to some extent.

"What about it Kagome?" Inu Yasha questioned relaxing against the far side of the wall watching her intently.

"I said the shikon no tama is gone!" she yelled as he gave her a bored look. "This morning while I was out it just disappeared!"

"Stop whining Kagome the shikon jewel has disappeared because I made my wish."

Both Kagome and Shippou looked at the hanyou as if he had grown another head. Starring at the cool look the hanyou gave her made her temper boil, "YOU WHAT! How could you, and with out telling me. Inu Yasha I trusted you."

Shippou and Inu Yasha both flinched at the sound of her voice. "Calm down wench you gave the wish to me, remember?"

Giving a sigh she moved over to sit by the man she loved with her adoptive kitsune in her arms, "What wish could be so important that you couldn't just ask me for?"

".I-I wished for us to live happily." Inu Yasha lied his eyes hidden beneath his bangs.

Standing up Kagome turned her back to him. 'He's lying.' She thought with sorrow. Squeezing Shippou tightly to her chest Kagome turned her head to look at Inu yasha, "You go ahead and keep telling your self that, I'm sure sooner or later you'll start to believe it. But Inu Yasha no matter how much you say or believe it I will not." Turning from Inu Yasha she left the hut leaving a gaping hanyou yelling her name. Never once did she turn back.