~~~~Finding the Light~~~~

****Diclaimer**** La La La, of course I don't own Inuyasha because if I did, and you know my writting style, you all would have me drug into the street and shot. Thus I leave the crew of Inuyasha to their original creators.

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The next morning Inuyasha had to leave for his own time, although he didn't want to, he knew that he still had to protect his time. Inuyasha put off his trip as long as possible, he felt obligated to eat breakfast to show how greatful he was for the hospitality Kagome's family gave him. Then Inuyasha decided it was time for him and Kagome to tell her family of their promise to each other.

"Well mom? Do you approve?" Kagome gulped out after she had told her mother what she had promised Inuyasha.

"Oh, my baby girl has grown up so much! Of course I approve. Just promise me Inuyasha that you'll take care of yourself so that you can one day return to Kagome when you have made your time safe for all who lives there." Kagome's mother said firmly yet softly at the same time. Inuyasha nodded as he looked Kagome's mother right in the eye.

"I promise, I will one day return. I just hope it'll be sooner than later, but I promise I won't get myself killed, I want to stay with Kagome for the rest of my life, but before I can do so, I still need to take care of Sesshomaru." At the mention of his half-brother's name, Inuyasha let out a low growl and pinned his ears flat against his head.

"It's ok Inuyasha, I'll be waiting, you go take care of what you need to and hurry back to me." Kagome said softly as she rubbed the hanyou's ears making him almost pur.

Inuyasha was preparing to leave for the bone-eater's well when he felt something grasp him around his waist, Inuyasha looked down blinking with surprise. "Sota? What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm just so happy! Not only are you my hero, but you are also my brother now too!" Sota cried with happiness.

"Well, I guess you can say I'm your brother now.....I'm glad too." Inuyasha's eyes went from surprised to soft as he looked at the young boy.

Inuyasha looked down the well, then looked back at his new family, his love, Kagome, waved at him. It was clear to the hanyou that she was sad to see him leave, not knowing how long he'll be gone, and he honestly had to wonder to himself if he would even be returning to her, but he decided not to think of such thoughts. Inuyasha would defeat his evil half brother and return to Kagome and start a family of his own.

~~~several weeks later (about a month and a half later to be exact)~~~

"Inuyasha! You finaly did it!!!" Cried an exhausted Miroku. "You defeated Sesshomaru! Finally! Our lands will be left in peace!"

"Yes Inuyasha, because of you, we can finaly move forward with our lives." Sango replied with a spark of relief and happiness in her eyes as she leaned her head on Miroku's shoulder.

Inuyasha smiled at the two love-birds, he knew that after all they have been through together it wouldn't be long before those two finaly confessed their love for each other. He then remembered that he could finaly return to Kagome! He smiled even harder, he missed that damn girl so much! But just as he thought about turning tail and running for the well, Shippo had to point out the obvious. "Inuyasha, you should go see Kaede, you're hurt pretty bad." The kitsune said as he noticed that the hanyou was using his sword as main support due to a badly mangled leg and a large gash across his chest from were Sesshomaru had slashed him with his claws in a final attempt at killing his brother before dying himself.

"I suppose you're right. I can't return to Kagome looking like this. Her mother would kill me!" Inuyasha sighed. He waited this long, what would another few hours hurt? He would get himself bandaged up and rested and then return to Kagome.

After being fussed over for several hours, Inuyasha finaly had enough, he thanked all his friends for all their help and support and made his way towards the well were he would rejoin his mate. Inuyasha looked back at his friends and before jumping through the well, he added "Don't think you're getting rid of me this easily! I'll be back to visit!" and with that Inuyasha jumped into the well and drifted through time to emerge in Kagome's time.

Inuyasha thought that he'd surprise Kagome and decided to hide behind a tree near her house, he would have jumped up into it's branches, but his leg was still in no state to be straining it like that. He'd wait unil she emerged from her home and then sneakily come up behind her and wrap his arms around her. This set in his mind, he waited with a large smile across his face.

When Kagome came out of her front door, Inuyasha's breath was caught in his chest, he had waited so long and she was still just as beautiful as ever before. When Inuyasha started creeping up behind her, he froze when he noticed another human come out the door behind her. Inuyasha watched in disbelief as the man shook the hand of Kagome's mother and the hanyou became even more distressed when Kagome turned around and hugged the man! "Thank you so much! I can't tell you how happy I am!" Kagome bubbled out. Inuyasha growled deep in his chest as he watched the man in the white coat drive off in one of those 'auto mobiles' that Kagome had explained to Inuyasha about.

When the car was out of sight and Kagome's mother went inside the house, Inuyasha approached Kagome. "I see you've already forgotten me." Inuyasha said in a deep and growling voice. Kagome whirled around to see Inuyasha leaning up against her house looking at her with fire in his eyes.

"What?" Kagome said in shock.

"You know what I'm talking about. I'm sorry that I've been away for so long, but these things take time. I suppose you'd like to know 'my love' that my brother is dead and I'm finaly free to live my life the way I want to." Kagome flinched when Inuyasha said 'my love' as though it was poison on his lips. She didn't understand why he was acting this way.

"Inuyasha, you know that you're my first real love! I would never forget you. What is wrong with you? Why are you acting this way?" Kagome almost cried out.

"I come back after days of battling with my brother to find you in another man's arms and you ask ME what's wrong? I should have known you wouldn't ever be able to love a hanyou, I was stupid for ever thinking that you could!" Inuyasha spat out.

"WHAT? You see me hugging some one and you automatically assume that I'm in LOVE with him? Inuyasha, I do believe you're jealous!" Kagome said. With that accusasion Inuyasha's breath caught in his throat, so what if he was a little jealous, he had a right to be!

"Yea, well, I don't care anymore. I'm sick of women, all you do is cause me nothing but pain and grief!" Inuyasha cried out.

"Well, if that's the way you feel, fine, leave and don't come back! I'll find a good man to be by my side!" At this Inuyasha really felt his already torn heart drop to the ground. "I think you should go home Inuyasha, return to were YOU belong!" With that Inuyasha felt the words crash down on him as she stepped all over his heart. She really didn't love him.

"I see, that last night we were together, you only agreed to be my mate out of pitty for me, you believed that I would be killed by my brother, thinking you were saving me from rejection! Well, I've got news for you, I lived and I now see your true intentions! You never intended to be with me forever and to think I actually survived for your sake! WELL FINE THEN!" Inuyasha cried out. The hanyou glared Kagome right in the eye and couldn't move, partly from being so angry and in shock of this situation going sour and the fact that his injuries were finaly catching up with him.

"Fine leave! SHEW!" Kagome screamed as she picked up some dirt and threw it at Inuyasha as if he were an unwanted stray dog. With that Inuyasha turned around a ran the best he could towards the well. When Inuyasha reached the well, he was panting heavily and his ribs were killing him from his un-healed injuries. He leaned up against the well for a moment while catching his breath when he felt something hard hit him in the chest making him drop to the ground in utter pain. He looked up and saw Kagome glaring down at him from the top of the stairs that led down to the well.

"What are you waiting for? Leave already or do I need to get a rolled up news paper?" Kagome cried out. Inuyasha couldn't say a word, he looked down and saw a rather large rock sitting in his lap. It dawned on him that she had actually thrown a rock at him. He shakely got his legs under him and leaned back against the well, the blood starting to flow anew from his chest wound. He stared at Kagome for a moment and suddenly felt his world go blurry as he started to pass out and fell backwards over the edge of the well. With one last attempt at redemption, he weakly held a clawed hand out to Kagome and choked out the last words Kagome would ever hear from him, "I'm sorry....for falling in love with you." With that the hanyou passed out and fell into the well to his own time leaving a verry stunned Kagome alone and crying.

"Wha-What just happend?" Kagome cried out then going over todays events in her head, she realized she majorly over reacted and didn't even explain to her love why that man was there, but she knew now it was too late and it would be a long while before she could safely pass thru the well again.

--------------------------Ok, ok, I know, it's a lot of emotion to be thrown into one short chapter, but I wanted the reader to feel as though this WAS happening quickly and as irrationaly is it actualy was. Please let me know what you think! I'm on a mad writting role. Didn't think I would be done with this chapter so soon! Keep an eye out for chapter three! -SunStreak PS. I'm still not sure if I want this story to go angty in the end or not, so don't give your hopes up! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!