Disclaimer: I still don't own Barenaked Ladies or Inu Yasha. Damn.

And it's not because I'll be missing you

That makes me fall apart

It's just that I didn't mean to

Break Your Heart...

"Break Your Heart"-Barenaked Ladies

Kagome looked up at him with shock coursing through her body. "What?" she asked.

He looked down at her and repeated, "This can't go on." He was looking her straight in the eyes, and he had grabbed her lightly by the shoulders for emphasis. The young woman's breath caught in her throat as it suddenly became apparent as to what he meant.

"WHY? WHY CAN'T IT, INU YASHA?!" she shrieked and pounded at him with her hands clenched in fists. She knew that physically she wasn't causing any pain, but she wished she could. She wanted him to feel what he was doing to her. He didn't step away from her so she continued beating him for a few more moments before a trapped sob exploded from her chest and she found herself leaning on him asking repeatedly, "Why not?"

The half demon sighed before answering. "Kagome, it's been ten years since you left. For three years I sat by the well every day praying you would come back. You never did and eventually I realized that you never would. I went on a rampage when I figured it out. But once all the steam was gone, I calmed down and decided that I had to move on. I couldn't dwell on you forever..."

Kagome glared up at him through her wet lashes and interrupted with an age-old argument, "You did for Kikyou."

"And you're not Kikyou."

She stepped away from him like she had been slapped. All those arguments of her telling him she wasn't the dead miko had exploded in her face and she was suddenly suspicious. "You still love her?"

He shook his head, "No."

"Then why can't we go back to how we were?" she pleaded.

"Kagome, I wish we could, but we can't."

Again she found herself asking, "Why not?"

There was a long pause before he answered while he carefully considered how to answer her. He decided on a clichéd answer. "To be honest with you, and I know I wasn't always, I still love you Kagome, but I'm not in love with you. And deep down, I know we can never go back to how we were. We can't go and live in the past while everything else moves forward."

He's right, Kagome realized. The two of them never could go back to those days. "We don't have to go back to how we used to be...we could be something new."

"I don't think I could fall in love with you all over again, Kagome," he paused before adding, "I didn't mean to hurt you."

There was a tension filled pause between them. A rage was building inside of her and without warning it had taken the shape of words and was spilling from her mouth, "You arrogant man. You did more than just hurt me, Inu Yasha, you broke my heart What do you want me to do now? Do you want me to curl up and die because of you? Do you want me to try to make you love me again as much as I love you? How could you be so low? You are an arrogant man, Inu Yasha. What the hell do you think I am?"

He tried to say something, anything, but she wouldn't let him.

"I'll be fine," Again he tried to speak but she cut him off with, " Just stop wasting my time." Tears had slowly slid down her eyes, but she hadn't realized it.

Silently he reached forward and brushed them gently from her face. Another sob leapt from her chest and she wrapped her arms around him. "Is this how it felt when I took off?" He didn't answer her, but he began to stroke her hair soothingly, if not romantically.

Together they stood like that for a time, neither one sure of how long they stayed like that.

Finally she stepped back from him and wiped the rest of the moisture from her eyes and face. "I'm so sorry that I ever broke your heart, Inu Yasha," she told him. He didn't respond, but the corner of his mouth turned up in an imitation of a smirk. Kagome stepped up to him again and lightly kissed him on the cheek. "I promise to visit again and sooner this time. I'm going to go say goodbye to Miroku and Sango."

She began the walk back to the village and Inu Yasha watched her go wondering if things would change between them again.

End

A/N: Love it, hate it, just please review it. I really want to know what you guys thought of this. I told you it wouldn't end like other fics of its type. Um...I really don't have anything else to