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Inuyasha found Kagome at the very edge of the village, watching the sun go down. She was sitting, with her knees pulled up to her chest, and her eyes unmoving from the sight before her. For a minute, all he did was stare at her, then found the courage to talk to her, and sat beside her. He felt her stiffen, which kept him quiet a little while longer, but her knew he couldn't put this off. If he didn't talk to her now, she might leave him again before he'd get another chance.

"We need to talk." He said gruffly. His defenses were up, and he couldn't help but sound as if he were.

"I don't know what about." She was avoiding him, looking away from him now.

"I could think of a few things." He snapped at her. "Why you ditched me for starters."

"I don't want to talk to you Inuyasha, what is it going to take to get that through your thick head?" Kagome was like he had never seen her before. She was… cold. He didn't like this new side of her, he was sure she didn't really like it either.

"I don't really care right now. I want to know why you left Kagome." He was still snappy, but he was trying to not be as much, he could see this was hard on her for some reason. The easier he made it the more likely he was to get his answers.

"You really don't know?" She asked harshly, as she actually turned and looked at him.

"That's why I asked Wench." He couldn't help throwing that in, he had called her that so many times, that using her name was strange to him.

Unfortunately, the name seemed to infuriate her now just as much as it did a few years ago. "Your such a block-head. THINK Inuyasha, what else happened the night we were together, huh?"

He stared at her as he thought back to that night. He had been in a bad mood, thinking about her leaving when the jewel was complete, so he went to the lake to try to calm himself down. Then she had come, and he ended up kissing her, among other thins. After that he… had gone to see Kikyo. THAT was it?!

"I can see from the look on your face you remember now." She said bitterly.

"You… IDIOT!" He yelled at her. "You left because you saw me with her, but I bet you have no idea what happened when I saw her!"

"No, I don't Inuyasha." She stared at him coldly. "I got there when you were hugging, and left before you would see me, I didn't need to see what else you were going to do with her."

"I was saying goodbye!" He yelled. "I told her I couldn't go to hell with her anymore, because I wanted to stay with you! She wanted one more hug Kagome, and I figured I owed her that much, but that was all that happened."" He could hardly believe this, the last three years had all happened because Kagome had seen him giving Kikyo a final farewell. "I haven't seen her since that night."

Kagome stared at him wordlessly, she couldn't have been more still if she tried. And she stayed that way too, for what seemed to be an eternity to him, and she finally spoke. "If your lying to me about this-"

"I'm not lying to you, you know I think that kind of crap is pointless." He waited again, to see just what she was going to do with the information she had received.

"I don't… know what to say Inuyasha." She looked down. "I really don't, finding that out is just too much right now." She paused, and then looked at him, tears in her eyes that seemed to refuse to fall. "I only wish I had known three years ago."

"You would have if you had ASKED me." He grated out. "I can't believe the last three years was all because I said goodbye to her. Kagome, I have to know, after that night, if you hadn't seen that… And once the jewel was complete again, would you have left?"

He was asking if she would have gone home after their task was done, even after they had spent that night together. She Had been thinking of leaving before that had happened, but when he had laid her down, she had decided that she wouldn't. She wanted to stay. "Not if you didn't want me to." She answered him truthfully.

Inuyasha stared at her, and though he didn't seem enthused by her answer, he seemed pleased by it. Were things really coming together for her? After three years of decimated hope, this was too strange for her. "Inuyasha, I did come back here for a reason, and I want to complete my task, alone."

The pleased look Inuyasha had gotten disappeared at that. "Why the hell would you want to do it alone, are you nuts? You'd get yourself killed, and what is it you came back to do anyway?"

"I don't think I can tell you that just yet Inuyasha. It's something I have to do though, and once I'm done, I'll come back here."

"No way wench," he nearly snarled, "you aren't going alone, you wouldn't last three days by yourself, and I bet after three years of living in your time your even less likely to be able to take care of yourself! I'm going with you!"

"No Inuyasha, I don't want you to-"

"If your going to be a stubborn ass about it, you don't have to tell me, I'll just make sure you don't get attacked while your out there." Inuyasha refused to drop the matter, but Kagome supposed she should see it as a good thing. He did want to protect her after all.

"Alright Inuyasha, you can come. BUT, only if you don't know what we're doing, at least until I decide I'm ready to tell you." She could see he didn't like it, but it only made him more endearing that he was still willing to go along with it.

"Fine. But I will find out." He said stubbornly.

They then spent the next half hour looking at the stars that had appeared while they had talked. They both knew they had much more they needed to talk about, but, it could wait. For now at least, because neither truly felt ready to talk about everything, about what they felt, and what would happen next. Yes, they would wait, and once they were ready, they would truly talk things over.

Miroku couldn't help but let his thoughts dwell on Kagome. So much had transpired in her life since she had left the Era, and gone back home. She had had a child with Inuyasha, and Miroku knew that it must have been difficult to try to raise a child of Inuyasha by herself. Surely she would have come back to Inuyasha when she realized she was with child, or she would have if her fight with Inuyasha wasn't too serious, and not all the Hanyou's fault.

So apparently, Inuyasha had transgression Kagome greatly…

This though, is not what Miroku had come to believe when he had seen the state Inuyasha had been in when Kagome had left. And the condition the Hanyou had been in ever since.

Miroku simply didn't know what to think, for both parties seemed to have been wronged entirely by the other person. He was perplexed as to what possibly could have happened. Damnit, this was getting to be as confusing as the events of Inuyasha and Kikyo's failed relationship!

"Miroku…" It was Sango, and her voice was pained. Miroku looked, and saw her grasping at her stomach. Comprehension dawned his face.

"I will retrieve Kaede." She nodded, and winced as he hurriedly stood, and ran to find Kaede.

I know this is probably a bit of a cliffy, but it isn't as bad as the others!!! Be sure to let me know what you think of this chapter, and Kikyo's earlier appearance!