***LEGAL DISCLAMER*** Has lemon content and should NOT be read by readers who cannot handle sexual situations. I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters in this fanfic. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

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"Come on Kagome, it's been a week! You need to get over it." Sango said. *I can't stand this anymore, all she does is mope and cry. I can't take it when she cries.*

Kagome sighed and looked away from her, but when she noticed that Inuyasha was in that line of vision she quickly turned her head a different direction, *I can't even look at him anymore. It makes me sick to look at him. He destroyed everything.* She could feel the pain renew itself.

Inuyasha looked away from Kagome, she had never been mad this long at him before. *She really did care for him. It's all my fault she's like this."

"Kagome, do you sense any shards? The old man in the village said that there was one near here." Miroku asked.

"Hmm? What?" Kagome picked her head up from her daydream. She looked around her like she was getting her bearings. "It's back there." She said in a bored voice. She was pointing back from the way they came.

"What!? Why didn't you sense them earlier!?" Miroku asked

"Wasn't paying attention."

Inuyasha ran back to where she pointed and there was a bird with a shard in his beak. The bird puffed up his feathers and started to fly away but Inuyasha jumped up in the air and slashed through it with his claws. "Feh, that was simple."

Kagome came up behind him and picked up the shard. It purified in her hands but not it took a lot longer, than usual. *Oh no, her heart is tainted. The jewel shards won't purify as well because she is upset.* He looked at her sadly but Kagome didn't even look at him as she turned around and headed back toward the others. *I need to do something now before this whole Kouga thing affects her anymore.*

Then like an answer to his problem he caught a whiff of Kouga directly up wind. *I'm surprised that he's even near us, then again we are down wind from him so he can't even smell us.* He looked back at Sango, Miroku, and Shippo. Then he looked at Kagome's sad face and he knew what he had to do.

"Inuyasha, come ON!! The shards won't find themselves." cried Shippo

"Actually I think it is time that we went back to Kaede's."

Inuyasha stole another look at Kagome, "Yeah good idea, Sango. But I'll meet up with you guys later."

Kagome got a sour look on her face, *So, Kikyo is around. Fine, let him leave. I won't follow him this time.* "Let's go you guys, if we want to get there by night we have to leave now." The others nodded and started off behind her. Inuyasha watched her as she left and then started running up wind.