Chapter 2

"Why are you following me? I thought you said that you didn't care if I die?" Kagome said.

"Feh, shut up you stupid wench, you're the damn shard detector! You still have to look for the jewel shards you broke!" Inuyasha complained.

"At least now I know that you never had any feelings for me." She mumbled.

"What do you mean Kagome? Of course I have feelings for..." He looked curious toward her even though she wasn't looking at him but she interrupted him.

"You only have feelings for yourself and your precious Kikyou, and I know that it's the truth." Her voice was low but very clear.

"Kagome, what makes you so..." He was cut off by her

"Just leave me alone please?" She turned toward him slightly with a very small smile. "I now want some time alone, okay?" Kagome asked nicely

"But Kagome" he got cut off once again by her

"Just go back to the campsite were the others are, I'll be there shortly with some wood." She said as she was walking deeper in the forest while he stood still, dead in his tracks.

Inuyasha just stood there for a few minutes of thinking of what she said, after that thinking for a while; he turned around and was about to go toward the campsite like Kagome told him to. But what Kagome had said to him had annoyed him a little. The fact that she had said that he only cares for himself and Kikyou, she was wrong. He also wanted to prove her wrong, but he wanted to, but didn't know how. He quickly changed directions and went off to follow Kagome. He didn't care what she said, but then again, he was afraid of how many sits he would be given.

"Why does she always think so less of me?" He asked himself while following her trail.

"Why does he always think so less of me?" She asked herself as she was gathering wood for their bonfire.

Just then a huge snake demon came out of the forest trees, staring down at Kagome; its fangs were long and dripping with such powerful venom. Its eyes told that it was hungry and wanted food at the very moment. And its dinner was Kagome, or… so it thought.

"You stupid demon, I'm not in the mood for you." She placed the wood down nice and slowly. The snake chose this moment to attack her. "I hate snakes." She said with a bored tone and brought an arrow to her bow waiting for it to come closer. "Open wide ugly!" The snake opened its mouth widely while it was lunging itself to Kagome. She suddenly shot the snake and it was purified. "Great, that just made my day fun, not!" She said tediously as she grabbed the wood once again.

Inuyasha watched what happened; he was amused a little at her strength. He accidentally stepped on a twig and Kagome froze for only a second but she didn't look back. She continued walking to get a little more wood just in case. Inuyasha went to follow her but when he looked she was gone. He looked around in front of himself but saw nothing.

"Inuyasha, I thought that I told you to go back to the campsite?" She asked as she lowered her weapon from him with a small sigh of a somewhat relief that it was only him. She startled Inuyasha a bit that his eye twitched a little because she was so quiet to where he actually couldn't hear her.

"I… uh… um… I…" He couldn't really say why, he was choking on his pride now

"Just go please? I just want to have some time to think, just this once." She asked him innocent and nicely to where he couldn't really refuse her.

"Fine but Kagome, to let you know" He was having a hard time for some reason, but she walked right past him to grab the wood with a small fake smile.

"Kikyou is not all I think of… there is a lot more to what I think of." He finished what he tried to say.

"But you know your own truth." She looked at him with that sad cold smile that Kikyou now gives him. "You even admitted that you can never get her out of you mind, even as we speak right now most likely." He grew a little tense because he knew what she was remember, that time when she was tied to the tree when he was with her.

He looked at her with concern and for some reason guilt. Has Kagome ever forgotten that night? No, it was doubted, it was one of the very first times she felt hurt by those two.

Inuyasha's ears drooped down in sadness. "So… you want me to go back to the campsite and leave you alone?" He knew the answer but wanted her to talk.

"Yes, I just want some time alone to think."

"But, to think of what though?" He questioned

"It doesn't matter Inuyasha, it really doesn't, okay?" She walked away slowly

"Fine, but just return to the site soon Kagome." He watched he leave out of his eye sight and started to walk back towards the hut. But heard a weird noise and went to go investigate.

"That Inuyasha, he is so hard to understand sometimes." Kagome sighed

"I think I was a little bit harsh of what I said to him, but what could I do? My heart was telling me to go next to him, but mind told me to push him away."

'I'm so confused, I know that Inuyasha loves Kikyou, he proved that to me when they embraced each other while Kikyou's soul stealers tied me to the tree so she could take him to hell. Why didn't I let her? She loves him more then I do, and she deserves to be with him a lot more than I deserve to. This all hurts my head. What is my purpose to even being in this era? Oh wait… my purpose… is' she looked at the sky with the stars being so bright. "Inuyasha." She barely whispered to herself. She was gone for at least a half-hour and thought to go back since that's what Inuyasha wanted.

When she arrived, Shippo jumped onto her shoulder. She looked at Sango and Miroku just sitting there, and Kirara by Sango's side… but. "Where's Inuyasha?" she asked aloud.

"He went after you about 2 minutes after you left Kagome." Sango explained.

"Yeah, I know that, but I told him to come here so I could do some thinking though." She said with a sigh.

"Don't worry Kagome, Inuyasha will be back soon because it's about time to eat." Miroku assured her.

She did a quick nod. "I hope so." She started to wonder if it was her fault that he wasn't back.

She was pulled out of her thoughts when a little kit was waving his hand to get her attention.

"Kagome, can we eat now? I'm starting to get a little hungry now." Shippo complained as his stomach started to growl.

"Of course Shippo, I'm sorry, let's start making dinner now." She said pleasingly to him as he was happy to hear it.

Kagome was making dinner quietly, not really making much noise. Shippo was playing with Kirara playing some sort tag game. Miroku and Sango were trying to talk to Kagome but she wasn't paying attention.

"Kagome are you alright?" Sango asked

"" Kagome didn't respond.

"Kagome?" Sango said again

"" There was still no response from her.

"Hello? Sango to Kagome, come in Kagome!" Sango was losing her patients

"Sango I think I know away to get her attention." Miroku said in his perverted tone walking behind Kagome about to grope her.

"Fine, but it's the only freebee because I'm getting scared and worried." Sango replied unsure about the decision.

Miroku grinned at Sango then his hand was going close to Kagome's butt. When he was massaging her butt he thought he was going to get smacked.

"Miroku, stop groping me I'm okay." She said in a dead tone.

"Sorry Kagome." He easily said to her, but she acted like nothing happened.

"Here your food is ready." She gave Miroku and Sango a bowl of delicious stew that Kaede taught her to make.

"Kirara, Shippo, your food is done!" She shouted to them and the came running over.

"Oh boy, stew!" Shippo said happily as he started to dig in right next to Kagome, and Kirara was next to Sango having her own share of stew Kagome gave her. Everyone liked the stew. Even Inuyasha did though he still always preferred his ramen soup.

Kagome didn't eat, she didn't feel like it. She just wondered where Inuyasha was.

Inuyasha was still following the noise. He soon walked onto an old wooden bridge and the noise suddenly stopped. He was confused about the noise stopping and he leaned against the bridge side. He saw his reflection for the moment and the saw the reflection of him hugging Kagome. He smiled toward it, but the Kagome in the reflection turned into Kikyou, his face and body stiffened when the reflection turned out to be that exact memory when Kikyou almost took him into hell but Kagome saved him, but she felt hurt, and she wasn't to blame.

Inuyasha closed his eyes for a minute and heard laughter from the water. He opened his eyes and looked at the water again. It was a memory, but it was different. The memory is a little boy he knew so long ago.

"That's… me" He said silently to himself.

Sudden, the old wooden bridge couldn't bare the wait of Inuyasha anymore and it broke, forcing Inuyasha to fall into the lake. For some reason the water was pulling at him, he couldn't understand why.

'What's happening, it's like I'm being sucked into the water as I squirm for air. Wait, I can breathe? What's going on? Why did the water show me as a little kid again? Hey, what's that? Is it light? I must reach for it'

Inuyasha was soon to be out cold, but what had exactly happened to him? Was he okay? Or… did something happen? It was something that he just couldn't figure out. Not right at that moment least.

'I think... I'll take… a nap right now, the others won't worry.' He thought before he was into his deep sleep.