He just stared at her. She was crying for him as if the tears could bring him back. He hadn't meant to hurt her by dying; he had

meant to protect her. If he hadn't pushed her out of the way she would be dead and he would be alive. The sight of her crying

made his heart break. He wanted to be there to protect her, to make it all right again. He recalled the countless times he had

told her she was just a tool to find the jewel shards and that she was an annoying pest. Now he realized that she had heard

those words and still stuck by her. Now he was dead and she was hurting worse than if she had been in physical pain. How

could he have let this happen? She meant everything to him and now he saw that he meant everything to her. She was

screaming his name as though if she screamed it loud enough he would be alive again.

The others were trying to pry her away from his dead body, but she wouldn't budge. She just screamed louder and cried

harder. He wished he could just reach out and touch her. Tell her that he wasn't dead after all. That he would be there for her if

she needed him until the day he died. Only now he couldn't. He could only watch as a ghost as her pain grew with each passing
moment.

Why had she tried to protect him. If she had just stayed back then none of this would have happened. Hey! He had to not

blame her. It wasn't her fault he was dead. If she had known that trying to protect him would have him would have ended up

killing him then she would have stayed back. He could now see clearly that she loved him, that above all other things she

treasured their bond as friends and if he were still alive maybe more.

If only he hadn't been so selfish, always going after Kikyo and never considering her feelings in all of this. He didn't really blame

his killer either. She had not been in her right mind when she killed him. Sango had been possessed by Naraku's new

incarnation and had thrown her boomerang without knowledge of it and hit him as he pushed Kagome out of the way.

He saw Sango standing at the exact spot in which she had released her weapon. She stood there frozen; her eyes were wide

with fear. He knew that she was shocked at what had happened and terrified at the fact that she had murdered one of her

friends. He knew that even though she wasn't crying she was still in considerable emotional pain. She fell to her knees and said

she was so sorry. She had a hard time comprehending that I was dead.

She turned her head to look at Kagome who was silent now as she sat there, tears flowing as a constant down her face, and

she was frozen; staring at my dead body. I could tell, just from the look on her face that she was dead on the inside. This had

destroyed her completely and I could see that she would never recover.

The Kagome that I knew was gone replaced by an empty shell. She would never be the same again and I knew her family in

her time could never accept that. They would send her to those special doctors in her time, but I could already see that it was

no use, she would never be anyone ever again. She would never be Kagome again.

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The gang stared at Inuyasha. He sat frozen, his eyes glazed over and he kept repeating the same words over and over. "Why

did I die. Now Kagome will suffer forever without me."

The gang looked from Inuyasha to Kagome who lay dead on the ground from being hit with a Wind Scar attack from

Inuyasha's sword after it reflected out of Kanna's mirror.

Inuyasha had crumbled to the ground. The shock of his attack killing the woman he secretly loved had thrown him into a

catatonic state from which they sadly knew he would never recover from.

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