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============= Chapter Thirty-One =============

They sat at the edge of the river bank, gazing at the pink cherry blossoms drifting away. The blossoms softly brushing against their faces, as it blew away.

InuYasha glanced at Kagome from the corner of his eyes.

~Ever since that one moment when I thought that I would loose you, but then you came back to me, something in my heart......felt as if a mist was disappearing. It felt as if my heart wanted me to know something....to tell you something......but my mind kept telling me to avoid it......What is it, that my heart is hiding so deeply....every time I look at you.....my heart.....wants to tell you something......~

Kagome glanced up at InuYasha to see him gazing down at her. He slowly turned his gaze away.

~I wish.....I wish that I could tell you.....how I felt. But it won't matter whether I tell or not. You wont return my feelings, so what's the point of telling....and being rejected. Kikyo hates me enough.....I don't want to make her hate me more.....for no reason.......~Kagome thought, as she glanced at InuYasha's hand that were still holding hers.

~ Is this what people do.... when they only care for each other and nothing more. Do they hold hands like this....or kiss.....Why can't love be beautiful, like the cherry blossoms. Long ago I would have thought that cherry blossoms symbolized love. Because I thought love would give joy, as it does when I look at the cherry blossoms drifting to the ground. Instead, love feels like the thorn of a rose pierced into my heart. Or is it just for me.....that love hurts. To others....is it different. Why did this have to happen to me...what did I ever do....to deserve this. To be in love with a person who is not in love with me. To be in true love, that only comes once, and receive nothing but pain back. But I'm not going to be sad any more. A kiss from him, was beyond anything I can imagine. If this is all I'll get. Then....I am content. I have to learn to accept things for as they are......that is life I guess~

InuYasha looked back down at Kagome, and slightly frowned seeing Kagome's sad face.

~If I can't be happy....at least.....i can try and make him happy....~ she thought

Kagome looked up and warmly smiled.

InuYasha smiled back. ~My heart...melts when I see you smile...It shines when I see you happy. It cries when you cry....It hurts when you are hurt. Why is seeing you happy, feel as if that is the only thing I want in this world. It is how I felt then, and I how I feel now. Even before what had happened, my heart....always acted strange when around you....This is what confuses me....it tortures my mind.....I want to find out what it is that I am feeling. And yet there is something that wont let me.....~

"I like it when you smile"

Kagome's heart stopped beating, her mind stopped working. Kagome slowly looked up to see InuYasha looking blankly at the blossoms that drifted away.

"It makes me happy....when you are happy.....I keep thinking...of what my life would have been like.....if you had left me....." InuYasha confessed.

"What....would have......it been like"

"I'm....too scared to even imagine it...it would probably be like living hell"

InuYasha held her hands tighter,

"You wont leave me....will you" he asked in a distant voice.

Kagome looked sadly away. ~ What will happen to me....when you and Kikyo are finally together.....But....You will always be in my heart. I hope... I will always be in yours....as well~

"No...." Kagome quietly answered, ~never will you leave my heart~

"Kagome.....I...." InuYasha frowned, ~What is my heart trying to say.....~

"Never mind" he muttered.

Silence

"I....I....."Kagome tightly shut her eyes. It pained her to keep her feelings to herself. She so dearly wanted to tell him of how she felt....but memories of InuYasha hugging Kikyo kept flashing into her mind.

"Sorry....nothing...."

InuYasha looked down at his hands that were holding hers....he looked down at it as if he never wanted to let go of her hands.....

"Kagome....remember that...I care for you a lot" InuYasha said, ~Caring.....but I feel something more than that....~

~Is caring.....all you'll ever feel for me.....~ Kagome thought, as she looked up and sadly smiled.

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Naraku looked away from Kanna's mirror.

"Well InuYasha.....you will find out....soon enough. How life would be...without her...."

"I tricked you once.....and I'll trick you again...."

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Sango and Miroku interestingly spied on InuYasha and Kagome.

"Wow.....he is a really good two timer" Miroku muttered, "now I really envy him"

Sango stared at the two, with envy glittering in her eyes. ~Is that.....what they call.....love. Seeing this.....makes it seem too great for me to have. This...love.....do I deserve it......~ Sango tightly shut her eyes, ~What I would give......to be in love.....~ Sango glanced over at Miroku, ~I always get confused of whether I love Miroku or not. But Kagome knows for sure. I envy her, to be in love with someone.....I wish I knew this feelings. And I wish it would not be Miroku for the one I love....~

Miroku caught Sango staring at him, but she quickly looked away. Sango turned her gaze back at him, to see him still staring at her. Sango's face went all red as she looked away.

"Sango...."Miroku said, but cut off his sentence and looked away. ~ I don't know whether I should tell her how I feel about her. That she's special to me? But....will she believe me......~

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Darkness slowly started to take over the morning sky as time passed.

InuYasha saw a figure moving within the darkness outside. InuYasha frowned, as he got his Tetsusaiga and walked calmly out the door not to frighten anyone.

~I sense Naraku's presence somewhere.....~

Kagome looked up at the starry night sky, as puffs of air came out of her mouth each time she let out her breath. ~The nights are getting really cold. I wonder where InuYasha can be.....~ Kagome thought, coming back from the rivers with Sango and Shippo. She had asked Miroku where InuYasha had gone, but all he knew was that he had left the hut thirty minuets or so ago. She had been with Sango and Shippo all day, except the time with InuYasha in the morning.

Kagome sighed, searching around, unable to hide her curiosity. She rubbed her arms from the coldness of the weather.

~I should go back home in a few more days to get a change of clothing. Something warmer~ Kagome thought as she walked through the dark woods.

She stopped by the well, seeing InuYasha standing there. Kagome walked towards him, but something within her sensed.....a strange aurora.

"InuYasha?" Kagome quietly called as she got closer to him. He turned around to her, his eyes icily glaring at her.

"Get out of this time....don't return..."

"Inu.....yasha......But....WHY?!" Kagome cried weakly, unable to believe what she had just heard.

"I'm sorry Kagome....but I just met Kikyo. If you stay.....she'll leave me. Kagome! I told you already, I have chosen Kikyo. I'm really sorry"

Kagome tearfully stared at InuYasha, ~What is going on......he is acting so different from today....he's not acting like himself~

"Kikyo thinks that I'm in love with you...even you know that I'm not. Kagome, please, return back to your world" InuYasha coldly asked.

~I might have expected him to ask more warmly.....he would have done that.....InuYasha.....you have changed within a few hours~ Kagome thought.

"Is that it?! You just kick me out of your world, just like that?! Just to please yourself and Kikyo?! "Kagome cried in betrayal.

"......Yes.....just like that" he said, stepping closer to Kagome, as she backed up against the wall.

"So...this is our last good-bye" InuYasha muttered as he pushed Kagome as she gave a cry and fell down the well.

~His eyes....were so cold.....this is the last look InuYasha gave me....why did he....do that.....~ Kagome painfully thought as she disappeared into the darkness of the well.

Inuyasha stretched out his hand as a blue flash of light came from his hands.

"This will seal the well for a while.....but even my powers aren't strong enough to seal it forever.....In a day or two....or longer, my barrier over this well will break" Naraku muttered as he flashed back into his true form.

"Humans that are in love are so gulable....." he muttered, as a human form appeared at Naraku's feet.

He looked down, "puppets come so handy at times..." Naraku muttered as he looked down at the puppet that looked like Kagome.

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InuYasha searched though the forest,

"ERG, I keep losing his scent. He must have used his powers to lessen his evil aurora. But why the hell is he here?" InuYasha asked himself.

"Where the hell are you Naraku you....." InuYasha stopped talking when he caught the scent of Kagome.

InuYasha desperatley ran after the scent. His heart beating fast, ~Where the hell would she be wondering at this time of night?!~

InuYasha halted when he saw a figure standing right in front of the well, the thick fog blurying the figure a bit.

"Kagome!" InuYasha muttered in annoyance and relief that she was alright. But his heart started to skip beats as he got closer to see that the figure was not Kagome....

"Who...who are you?! Where's Kagome?!" InuYasha asked angrily running up to the figure. InuYasha's heart froze seeing Naraku's baboon puppet.

"Is this what you have been searching for?" Naraku asked, pulling away his fur cloak revealing Kagome unconsciously held in Naraku's arm.

"I'll be taking back my possession" Naraku muttered, "I believe she came out looking for you......and I guess I found her before she found you"

"NARAKU!" InuYasha yelled bitterly, "let her go! She is not the person you want!"

"Are you sure about that?" Naraku asked as dark clouds formed around him, "If you want her back....bring all the Shikon jewel you have and in the early morning you'll see one of my bee's. Follow it, and it shall lead you to me.....where we can discuss what to do with you Kagome a little longer......But you can surely count the possibility of never seeing her again" Naraku said as his figure started to fade away into the clouds.

InuYasha ran towards the clouds, he reached out his hands to grab for Kagome, but his hands touched nothing but air. InuYasha clutched his hands tightly into a fist, he fell onto his knees.

Great hatred and sorrow was all that was written on his face. InuYasha's claw dug into his palm, as blood dripped down onto the ground.

"He's gotten her....again.....will.....I get her back....this time..."

**************************** Sango, Kilala, Miroku and Shippo looked up to see InuYasha enter, as he then slumped against the wall. His face shadowed by gloom, as he slid down the wall and collapsed onto the ground.

They all ran over to InuYasha.

"What's wrong? Where's Kagome?!" they all asked in unison.

"Again.....I was....too late....she's gone.....again. It's all my fault" he said in a whisper.

Everyone went silent.

"What....do you....mean" Sango asked in a shaking voice.

InuYasha tightly shut his eyes, "Naraku.....got her. And it's all my fault...I came too late" InuYasha said sadly.

Miroku clutched InuYasha by his Haori and shook him, "Stop torturing yourself in saying that it was your fault! You couldn't have done anything about it! Neither could have I or Sango! It's not your fault, how the hell would it be your fault?! Don't worry InuYasha, we'll gether back!"

InuYasha pushed him away, "this is a fight only between me and Naraku. Give me all the Shikon jewels you have" InuYasha said.

"Wha- why do you need it for?" Miroku asked, his voice seeming a little nervous.

"Just hand it over..."

Miroku coughed, "um...what if it was in the possession of a certain some one....like....Kagome?"

"WHAT?!" InuYasha yelled.

"AHAHAHA! Well.....she said she's need one to use to get back and forth from her time. I didn't have a place to put the remaining Shikon jewel fragment so I just gave her the whole thing for her to keep for a little while until I found a place to put it"

InuYasha stood and grabbed Miroku by the collar of his robe, anger flaring in his eyes. But it quickly died down, turning back into its sorrowful look, as he let go of Miroku and fell back.

They all looked down at InuYasha for a while, but left him too give him some privacy, and to sulk for Kagome, leaving him sitting sadly alone on the floor.....

~And the last word I said to her...was that I cared for her a lot.....but somehow....it doesn't seem to express what I really feel for her....So, that was the last thing I said to her.....that I cared for her.....it seems so dull compared to the feeling I have burning in my heart....~

~Will it be the last time.......that I ever see her again. The last time I ever see her smile......the last time I ever make her cry for a joke......the last time I see her getting angry at me.....the last time.....to have someone cry over me......the last time to see the person.....I care for so much. Will she now only be reachable in my dreams....~ InuYasha stared down at the ground.

~I wonder.....what suffering Kagome must be going through~ pain ripped through his heart when he thought of Kagome getting tortured.

~What I would give....to have Kagome back safely, without being hurt. I would gladly have taken her place.....Kagome...you said you wouldn't leave me. So please don't. I won't let you suffer...I wont be able to bear it if you do. Just don't leave me. What is my life without you.....~

**~~ Let me guess....not fluffy enough? COME ON! If I make it more fluffy, den it wouldn't really be dat InuYasha. But anyway, give me some ideas of fluff ppl. Hmmm...so....Kagome wasn't captured, but is stuck in her time thinking InuYasha was the one who forced her back, What will happen.....next? READ AND REVIEW TO FIND OUT. MWAUHAHAHAHA. Kk, I'm high right now, buh bie! OMG, I know wut happens in the end of the whole Inuyasha series! N it's TRUE! Not a lie. I know it all. If I get .....a satisfiying number of reviews. I'll tell. I swear, I'm not lying! This guy watched it all from Japan. But, I'll tell ya what.....InuYasha choses Kagome at the end ^^ KK, jus review as you guys usually do. In my next chappy I'll tell ya wut happens ~~**