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Just a Note: This fic is coming to an end and I don't know how it should end. Sequel?

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The Chapter numbers are wrong, just a note.

Chapter 12

Splashes of rain fell from the sky, seeping into everything it touched. Thunder roared for miles as the rain fell harder. The feeling of the cold water on bare skin, the touch of each droplet as it trails down the body. Holding up the weight of clothes drenched with water.

Inu Yasha flattened his ears against his head to prevent the water from entering. Standing perfectly still, he looked down at Kagome trying to meet her eyes. Every time he moved closer, she moved farther. Every time he raised his hand to touch her, she scrambled away from him. Something had happened to her, she no longer accepted him like she did. Her smile had disappeared from her bright face.

Kagome stood in front of Inu Yasha, covering her face with her hands. Her skin has turned a pale white from the cold. Every second, Kagome screamed at herself to move; run back to the well and disappear forever. Yet, every second later she found herself in the same position. Standing before him, soaked to the bone.

A deadly silence passed between them. No one talked.

"Kagome," Inu Yasha said, breaking the silence, "how did you get back...?"

"I...I..." Kagome replied, breathless. Suddenly she fell silent again.

"Talk to me Kagome. What did Kikyou do to you?" Inu Yasha demanded.

"Nothing, she didn't do anything."

"Then why were you falling from that tree?" Inu Yasha asked angrily, pointing at a random large trunk closest to him, keeping his eyes on her.

"Kirara took me up, and I lost my balance. I fell..." She replied gently.

"Can you at least look at me...when I talk at you?" He asked simply, moving forward slightly.

Kagome felt herself freeze. She dared not look up at him. Feeling the tears surge out of her eyes and fall gently down her face, Kagome covered her face and tried to walk away.

Slowly, bit by bit, Kagome distanced herself from Inu Yasha. The more the distance there was between them, the more control she would have over herself. Step by step, Kagome walked away from Inu Yasha. Never again would she have to face his emotions for Kikyou; all that time they had spent together, he never let Kikyou out of his mind; never again would she have to look back at what she had lost.

Inu Yasha stood behind Kagome, staring at her back as she walked away from him. Those days that they had passed together drifted back into his mind. When everyone he was ever close to flinched at his touch, at his presence; Kagome was different. She was the first to hold his hand, to smile at him. Kagome opened up her heart to him, her world. Yet, even when he was with her...Kikyou always crossed his mind.

Inu Yasha was never able to fully get over Naraku playing with both his and Kikyou's lives fifty years ago. He had always wondered how his life would have been if he had lived with Kikyou, and every time he'd feel something was missing. Inu Yasha's emotions were always a see-saw, between Kagome and Kikyou. However, since Kagome had left...something had changed inside of him. Something he'd never felt, and couldn't explain – not even to himself.

Every moment he and Kagome spent together meant something to him, more than he thought. As the days passed, he had gotten to know Kagome better than he knew himself. She had accepted him in every way, whoever he was made no difference to him. Every mistake he made, she forgave him. Every time he met with Kikyou behind her back, she understood his reasons. Every curse he muttered at her, she stayed beside him. Through everything he'd done, she always stood beside him.

Growing up, Inu Yasha was shunned for being a hanyou. Humans pushed him away for being half demon and demons refused to even look his way. His mother always cried for him, for him being who he was.

A half-breed.

Kikyou wanted to help him; she wanted him to be happy. She was willing to risk everything for the sake of his happiness...yet every time they were together; Inu Yasha saw the doubt in her eyes. Her eagerness to be with him was always second to her uncertainty of the two of them being together.

She was a priestess...he was a demon. They were never meant to meet.

However, the days passed and slowly the doubt disappeared – yet it always reared its head at them. Hidden deep down, it stayed. It wasn't only Kikyou who had doubts, Inu Yasha felt it too. Her touch was cold to his skin, like fresh snow in the winter. Time passed between them, and their feelings grew. One day Kikyou suggested using the Shikon no Tama for Inu Yasha to be human, so that she could be free, and they could be together.

The nights that Inu Yasha passed, thinking about this. His new life would start, with Kikyou, as a human. He agreed to her idea whole heartedly to her idea, if they could be together.

He did love her didn't he? He was willing to give up everything for her...wasn't he?

Maybe it was because he was blinded by his affections that he acted so foolishly. Sure, Kikyou loved him but she never cared for him. She was the priestess that was destined to guard the Jewel of Four souls, and if he had taken it to become to be human –then she would be free.

Free from the burden of the world she carries on her shoulders.

Did Kikyou chose Inu Yasha to benefit herself or did she choose him for some other reason? She was the one to approach him first – she sought him out. And he fell for her; head over heals.

Everything she did lead to everything that's happening now. Inu Yasha's feeling for Kagome, his emotions towards Kikyou. Everything she means to him. Sure Kagome was Kikyou's reincarnation but to Inu Yasha, she was something different. She was never the woman he lost fifty years ago...she was someone else. She was Kagome. The one and only Kagome that saw him as himself, as Inu Yasha. The Kagome he found fifty years later.

"Ahh!" Kagome screamed in front of him, snapping him out of his daze.

She has slipped and fell in the mud.

Inu Yasha walked over to her slowly, and bent down on one knee. Kagome kept her head down low, avoiding his stares. He opened his mouth to say something to her but felt it was useless. So many things he had kept inside...wishing he could say it to her, yell it over the mountains yet he always found himself absolutely and positively dumbfounded when he looked at her.

Slowly, he reached for the insides of his fire robe. He slowly unties his belt and slips the robe off his shoulders and let it fall loosely on the ground beside his feet. He grabbed his belt and tied it together again.

Kagome felt herself blush as she caught a glimpse of Inu Yasha occasionally when she knew he wasn't looking. He kneeled before her with only his shirt and robe in his hands. The rain had began to soak through his white shirt, and stuck to his skin. The shirt curved to his figure and magnified his nicely toned body and heavy muscles. Kagome kept her face hidden from him, afraid to look.

Inu Yasha reached down and grasped Kagome around the arms. Slowly he got up, lifting her with him. Looking down at her, Inu Yasha lifted his robes and gently lifted them over her head. He pulled them down slightly so that they covered her head and upper body. Wrapping them around her, Kagome finally looked up at him and met his eyes for the first time.

A deep sadness peered back at her. A look Kagome knew she'd never be able to escape let alone forget. The wall she had spent so long building around her, keeping her emotions safe, came tumbling down all around.

Inu Yasha's whole body shock as he looked down at Kagome. She had finally looked at him and he noticed the deep cut in her cheek. Her face shone in the rain at him, light glimmering off every inch of her skin. Picking up his hand, he reached up and touched the edge of her face.

Kagome flinched at his cold hands and tried to run, but found herself lost.

He ran his fingers along her cheek bones and moved its way down to her scar. Touching the dried blood, Inu Yasha felt pain in his heart for the first time. Kikyou had done this to Kagome. The things she said to him, fresh in his memory. Her offering the Shikon no Tama to him willingly, her confession to him.

Fifty years ago, he took the jewel. Now, everything was different. The picture grew and encompassed itself around Kagome in every direction. However, whenever Kikyou was mentioned – Kagome disappeared.

Darkness surrounded Inu Yasha, and Kikyou was his candle.

Looking up he felt the rain drops on his face.

He had made his decision.

Alright. As I have already said, this fic is slowly coming to an end. I'm planning another 5-6 chapters maximum. And well I need an ending.

Kikyou and Inu Yasha?

Kagome and Inu Yasha?

Kagome and Hojo?

Or...and this is the simplest but lousiest choice, kill off every character and end it there.

Or lucky numero cinco?

Review and inform.

Oh yes...I don't know if the ending of this fic is to my liking. I'm gonna change it but..I dunno.