Author's Note- I corrected my spelling errors for this chapter and i'll do the same for chappy 4 soon!!!!!!

Chapter Three: He's Gone, Or is He?

Inuyasha woke up to what seemed like a place of white haze. "Where am I?" he thought. Then he saw a familiar face coming towards him.

"Mother!" Inuyasha was surprised to see her, "What is this place?"

"This is the realm between life, and death. You, Inuyasha, get the chance to choose."

Inuyasha was stunned, "So am I dead or not?"

"Yes you are, yet you have many things left to accomplish, that's why you have this opportunity. You can either choose death, to have not a worry in the world, or perhaps return to life, and finish the things that you want to do, and be with the people you want to be with, like Kagome."

"Kagome doesn't mean much to me, she's just a.... a jewel detector."

"Don't kid yourself, I've seen how much she means to you, and how much you care about her. You know in your heart that you love her."

"She's right", he thought. "I choose to live." Suddenly, everything turned black, and he felt like he was falling through the ground.

Miroku and Sango stood in shock. "I knew he wasn't invincible, but, he's Inuyasha. I never thought that he would," started Miroku.

"Die," Sango completed. "He's reasoned with me, despite his rudeness."

"Yeah, he was a good guy underneath it all," said Miroku. "Think about how hard it is on Kagome and Shippo."

Kagome cried as she held Inuyasha's lifeless body in her arms. "Inuyasha," Shippo said sadly," is gone forever."

"Don't say that Shippo," said Kagome. Then, when Inuyasha hit what felt like rock bottom, he opened his eyes, he was alive!

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed. Shippo smiled through his tears.

"Yeah, I'm here," Inuyasha said. Kagome hugged him tight.

"Oww, Kagome. Kagome, that hurts," he managed to say.

"Sorry," she apologized as she let go.

"He's alive!" Sango said as she walked a little closer. Miroku had a smile on his face.

"How did you come back?" asked Shippo.

"Let's just say there were some important things, and special people that were worth living for," replied Inuyasha as he stood. He closed his eyes tightly as he felt the pain from his wounds were back.

"Take it easy Inuyasha," said Kagome as she helped him walk. " Let's go," she said to the others. The beautiful sunset shown before them.

"Could we stop for a little?" asked Inuyasha.

"Sure," replied Kagome. "Why?"

"Tonight is the New Moon," said Miroku. Inuyasha rested against a tree. The sun went down. He gritted his teeth as he transformed into his human form.

"I know it hurts more," Kagome said. He nodded. They started walking again, and in a few minutes, they arrived in Kaede's village. She was outside, and greeted them.

"What on Earth happened?" she asked as she looked at Inuyasha.

"We came across Naraku," Inuyasha said in his victorious, cheerful tone.

"And he was acting stupid, battling like that, knowing he was weakening by the New Moon!" completed Kagome.

"Feh," Inuyasha said as he folded his arms.

"Inuyasha, your wounds need to be treated," said Kaede.

"Especially now that you're human," Shippo added.

"Yeah yeah," Inuyasha said, "whatever."

"Inuyasha, let me see your injuries," Kaede commanded when they went inside. Inuyasha removed the layers of his clothing, showing his bare chest. His wounds were deep, and all his skin had a reddish tint from Naraku's electric attacks. After she dressed his wounds, Inuyasha asked, "May I go now?"

" You need to rest, Inuyasha," Kaede answered. He rolled his eyes. Kaede struck the back of his arm with the back of her hand. He winced in pain. As he opened his eyes, he saw Kagome standing in front of him, holding Shippo. For a split second, their eyes met. "That should teach him," said Shippo.

"See how weak you are?" Kaede asked. Inuyasha cleared his throat, forced himself up, and walked out the door.

"Inuyasha, get back here!" Kagome called as she dropped Shippo and followed him. Catching up to him wasn't that hard, because he was walking rather slow, but he was determined to get to his favorite tree.

"Inuyasha," she said when she caught up. He didn't answer. Not because of his reduced hearing, but because he didn't want to answer. Inuyasha climbed up the tree, and Kagome followed, but with difficulty. "You need to listen to what Kaede said!" she yelled. "You're human Inuyasha, you may not like it, but get that though your head!"

"So you're saying I'm one of those stupid losers? Huh Kagome?"

"Inuyasha...."

"Those boys, I can't ever seem to get them out of my mind!"

"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked.

"When I was young, I didn't have a care in the world, always happy and kidding around. That was before an old man called me a "half-breed". My life after that was anything but how it used to be. One day, I was supposed to go play with my friends. I was so happy to get out of the house, what little boy wouldn't be? When I met up with them, my eagerness was crushed when a boy said, 'Let's go, he's here.'

'Who, me?' I asked. 'Yeah, my father said he's not human, so he doesn't deserve to play with us!' Then they just left me, all alone. After that day, I used to play with a ball my mother gave me. All of a sudden, they would just come over to me and say things like,' Your mother is stupid. Why would she get with a demon?' and, 'You and your mom should get out of this village.' Then they would slap the ball out of my hands and say,' Go fetch doggy!' 'Oh, do you want a bone?' and pull my ears until they seriously made them feel like they were going to fall off."

"So is that what you thought I was saying you are?" Kagome asked.

"No. I'm not hung up over it. It's just, it's been hard to forget," he said as he looked off into the distance. "Getting close with humans was, and still is hard for me. My relationship with Kikyo was tough. I couldn't trust her for a while."

"And what about me?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha blushed, and turned away. "Okay..." she replied. They both smiled at each other.

"It's getting late," he said. "You need to sleep."

"Yeah, you're right. Where are you sleeping?" she asked.

"I'll stay here." Then she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, he turned even redder.

"Goodnight!" she shouted as she jumped off the tree.

"Goodnight!" He shouted back.

To be continued....

Sneak Peak for Chapter four:

She dug her claws into his arms. " Naraku should of told me that you were so cute!"