I can hardly believe how many reviews I've got already! I just had to update again for you guys after all those wonderful reviews! By consequence, the chapter is a bit on the short side, but it was the best I could do in a single day's time.

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Okay, that's it, now, on to chapter two!

Kagome woke just as the sun was rising, she groaned as she turned, and then realized she felt cold. She opened her eyes, and saw that she was alone. Where had Inuyasha gone? She wouldn't have thought he would leave her in the night as she slept.

She got up slowly, sorely. She felt like she could hardly move, but she gathered her clothes and dressed as quickly as she could so she could set off and find Inuyasha. She looked through the woods, trying to see or hear anything that would lead her to Inuyasha. After a while, she got lucky, and caught sight of his red haori.

She looked past some bushes, seeing Inuyasha, and.... Kikyo?! What was he doing with her? !

Kagome could see Inuyasha and Kikyo in the clearing, and it looked like they were hugging, just as intimently as they had all of the other times Kagome had seen them embrace one another.

"Kikyo..."

"Hush, Inuyasha, just embrace me..."

And he did. Inuyasha hugged her more closely, and seemed to enjoy doing so.

Kagome felt her chest tighten painfully. Even after all that had happened between her and Inuyasha just the night before, Kikyo was still the one who ended up in his arms. She wanted to scream, she wanted to cry, she wanted to just... disappear!

She couldn't get herself to do the first two, but the last one she could make happen, but the third could become a possibility Kagome wouldn't be able to stand being around him after this, and she wouldn't have to. She quickly, and quietly, left, going back to the campsite.

She would try to act as though nothing had happened, because apparently nothing had, not in Inuyasha's eyes. Kagome could feel her eyes tear as she now ran back to the campsite. No! She couldn't let anyone see her in tears, they would want to know why she was crying. She couldn't tell them...

Kagome didn't think she could face them, it would be too hard. But seeing everyone else would have to be better than facing Inuyasha. And at least when everyone else was around, Inuyasha wasn't likely to mention what had happened between them.

She was most grateful for the fact that there were close to the bone eaters well, and she could make her escape.

Only this time, she wasn't going back to cool off for a few days. This time, she didn't plan on coming back, she didn't need to. Everyone else didn't need her anymore. They knew where Naraku's castle was, and since Naraku had the rest of the jewel shards. And it wasn't as though she would do much good in the fight either, any arrows she shot at Naraku, he would simply catch.

She would have to take a jewel shard with her, so she could travel through the well, but everyone would just have to deal with it. And... she would have to take Inuyasha's rosary. Kaede had pointed out that the rosary had created a link between them, and it was reason Inuyasha was able to pass through the well.

Kagome wasn't about to have him come chasing after her again. She wouldn't be able to handle it, if he were to show up in her time.

So her plan was set. She was going to find a way to get the rosary, and then she would go down the well, one last time.

Inuyasha walked back toward the lake, where he left Kagome earlier that morning. He could hardly wait to be with her again, to touch and smell her. It had almost seemed like a dream, when she had returned his kiss, when she had let him love her.

Hopefully she hadn't woken yet, he wanted to wake her himself.

Last night, he had overcome his greatest fear. He was no longer afraid that Kagome would leave him after their fight. She had actually told him, told him that she loved him. She had uttered the words as he had been showing her just how much he loved her.

For the first time in his life, he couldn't help but smile. He knew now that he held Kagome's heart, and he never planned on letting go.

When Inuyasha reached the place he had left Kagome, he was surprised to find she was no longer the. His first instict was to worry, but after looking, and sniffing, around, he could tell there had been no struggle here, no demons, so Kagome must have left on her own once she saw he was gone.

So he started walking back toward camp, the only place she was likely to have gone. It didn't take him long, the camp wasn't far from the lake. He'd been right, Kagome was already there, and everyone had already packed their things and were ready to go.

Everyone was really quiet, they all just... started walking. But, it was strange, Kagome was behind everyone, way back from the group. She seemed to be sulking, but... Why? Hadn't she been happy with what had happened last night?

Before Inuyasha could do anything, Sango had hung back, so that she was walking with Kagome. Damnit, why'd she have to go and do that? Now he would have to wait to see just what was going on with Kagome.

Was she already regretting what they'd done?

He wasn't sure he would be able to handle it, if that were the case. He could already feel his once loose and relaxed self became tense all over, his fingers clenched and he nearly snarled. It would be so typical, so befitting to everything else that had happened in his life.

First, loosing his parents, then Kikyo, and now, he may loose Kagome as well. Inuyasha wasn't sure he would survive that. He'd gone through too many hardships to loose someone after only having just gotten them. He had just gotten Kagome, the way he had wanted to have her, and he wasn't prepared to give her up.

He would do anything to keep her safe. He always had been, even before he had realized how much he loved her. Now that he knew, he was more than willing to die for her safety. He could only wonder why she was suddenly so distraught.

Not that it did him much good to wonder right now, about losing her. He would talk to her, as soon as they would be alone again.

They walked for hours, and then where near Kaede's village, near the bone eater's well. Kagome felt an immense relief, she would be able to get away soon, but... how was she to get the rosary from Inuyasha? And would she be able to do it without his noticing?

That was the real question. If he knew what she was doing, he would stop her. Not because of her, not exactly. But because she was his shard detector. That was something she should have let sink in long ago.

Once they got into the village, all of the normal things happened. Miroku went off to find some village girls who might want their palms read, and Sango and Shippo were making sure he didn't do anything too stupid. All that left was Kagome and Inuyasha. She didn't give him a chance to start talking, she immediately started walking to the well, knowing he was likely to follow.

And follow he did. He was just behind her the whole way there. He was quiet, much too quiet. Normally if he thought something was wrong, he wouldn't hesitate to yell at her to tell him what it was.

Once she reached the well, she turned and faced him, and as forced as it was, she managed to give him a smile.

"I need some time back home, just in case. I want to see them again, before our fight with Naraku. I have to let them know what's going on, so they won't go crazy when I end up not going back." She had done it, come up with an excuse for going back home, now all she had to do was hope that he bought it.

He seemed surprised at first, but then seemed to relax before her, and he nodded. Apparently he even understood something like that. That when she hugged him, wrapped her arms around his neck. That was when she very carefully untied his rosary.

She kissed him, she needed to have that one last kiss. But it was quick, fleeting. She couldn't stand for it to lead to more, so she tore away from him, and jumped into the well, before he could notice what she had in her hand.

Inuyasha walked back to the village, much better off than he had been before. If Kagome had been about to end things with him, there was no way she would have kissed him just then. Now all he had to do was wait for her to come back after visiting with her family.

He got back to the village soon enough, and found everyone else near Kaede's hut.

"Hey Inuyasha..." Shippo said warily. The Kit had noticed Inuyasha's bad mood earlier, and had apparently decided not to test the Hanyou without Kagome there to sit him if he did anything.

"What Runt?" Inuyasha asked, not caring all that much, but decided to listen to the Kit for once.

"You look different, like there's something missing..."

"You know..." Miroku said slowly, "he's right, there is something different about you."

Inuyasha looked down at himself, unable to figure out what the hell they were talking about, then... he noticed it.

His rosary was gone.

But, that meant... that meant he couldn't use the well.

That meant he couldn't go get Kagome.

It meant that the only way Kagome could possibly get back, was when she wanted to.

Inuyasha froze, in realization. That hug, it had been goodbye, a real goodbye.

Kagome was gone.

She had left him.

And now, he was alone once again.

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