Chapter 1: Slipped Away: Prologue

This chapter as well as others will be used with songs. (Mostly Avril Lavigne.) Enjoy!!

A/N: Ok, lil stars do not work on this site (grr) so I am fixing it. Now, instead of stars it will be in Italic!! K? K!

This chapter's song is Slipped Away by Avril Lavigne.

I miss you, miss you so bad
I don't forget you; oh it's so sad
I hope you can hear me. I remember it clearly

-Flashback-

The sound of one word, that broke Kagome Higurashi's heart every time it was spoken, hung in the air. Inuyasha was the one who kept saying it.

"KIKYOU!" he shouted, tears streaming down his cheeks and onto her, cold lifeless hand. She looked up into his amber tear filled orbs, and let one teardrop fall.

"I-Inuyasha. I-I forgive...y-you." She whispered, as her empty, brown eyes started to close. "KIKYOU, NO! DON'T LEAVE ME AGAIN!" he screamed, shaking her lifeless form, and then bringing it close to his chest, holding it tightly, blood soaking his clothes.

Kagome and the others watched from the distance. Clutching her heart, Kagome right then and there knew that as he held the once again completely deceased Miko, that his hold on her was nothing more or less then him squeezing her own heart in his bloody and clawed hand.

Kagome's heart shattered to pieces that day.

The day you slipped away, Was the day I found it won't be the same

-End Flashback-

Naraku had finally ended Kikyou's life again. This time he acted through Kagura, as his usual cowardly self did. But this time it was extremely different. A look of sorrow and apology rested in Kagura's crimson eyes. Before she sent Dance of Blades to end Kikyou's eternal life, she had said she was sorry.

I had my wake up. Won't you wake up
I keep asking why. And I can't take it
It wasn't fake, It happened, you passed by

Kagura knew how much the confused and stubborn hanyou loved the dead Miko, and secretly wished she could have made Naraku eat his words and make him choke on them. She wasn't evil. She wanted to be free. Free. And not trapped by Naraku and his everlasting death grip on her softened heart

Now Inuyasha was forever broken hearted.

Kagome had watched Kikyou die in Inuyasha's arms, and silently wished it were her dying, instead. She wanted Inuyasha to return the same feelings, and caring gestures he did Kikyou, upon her.

But it would never happen, at least not for a very, very long time, even if he did get over his dead Miko. The rest of the group tried to get him out of his depression. It was very hard...

Now you're gone, now you're gone. There you go; there you go.
Somewhere I can't bring you back. Now you're gone, now you're gone.
There you go; there you go somewhere you're not coming back

-Inuyasha POV-

Sitting up in a tree, I realized how much everyone cared for me. They were endlessly trying to cheer me up. Even Kagome was trying hard. I knew when Kikyou had died in my arms that she was never to speak to me the same again. I had stubbornly ignored her and didn't respond when I ran off to Kikyou's cry for help. And then she watched her die...

'Kikyou'... I thought to myself, as I aloud myself to cry for the thousandth time that day. I had never cried for anyone else but my mother. Not even Kagome.

Why when I think of Kikyou, my thoughts always bring me to Kagome, the human that travels with me on her own free will?

I sighed, my thoughts transferring back to my love. My Kikyou...

I know when she died again, my heart stopped beating. It was broken.

An inner battle I have been fighting since I was released from Kikyou's spell is finally over, but I can't be with Kagome. I have to figure out if I love her or not, first...Do I?

"Oh Kikyou, why did you leave? Naraku, I swear. I swear that one day I will kill you and avenge Kikyou's death. Then I will bring you back to life and kill you again, for the second time you killed my love and made my life a living hell!" he growled, his eyes full of anger and hate, for that loathsome half demon Naraku...

Kikyou...Oh Kikyou...'No! Stop! That's it. No more weakness. No more moping around like a pathetic human. I'm going to act like myself...'

The day you slipped away. Was the day I found it won't be the same, noo...
The say you slipped away. Was the day that I found it won't be the same oooh...

Regular POV

But even when Inuyasha promised himself this, he knew that he would never be the same. Inside he would be forever torn up, and that heartbreak would surely eat up what remained of his soul...

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Inside the hut, an odd silence traveled through out the air. Kagome refused to talk to Inuyasha, and Sango was just as pissed.

After all the times trying to get it into the stupid hanyou's head, that she was bound to die again, and that she was already dead to begin with, she finally croaked for real. Forever...

It had been only two days since the 'tragic event' that Inuyasha would call it, happened. And strangely he was back to his grumpy old self. Except...his grumpy old self was different.

"WHY IS IT SO QUIET? SOMEONE OPEN THEIR BIG FAT MOUTHS AND TALK, DAMNIT!" Inuyasha yelled, slamming his empty Ramen bowl on the floor in front of him.

He was definitely not the same...

Nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah
I miss you