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Chapter Twenty-one: Kagome's Goodbye with a Knife

Inuyasha walked back and forth impatiently as Sango and Miroku attempted to break down the barrier of blue light. "Can't you guys go any faster!" he complained.

"Inuyasha!" Sango was already stressed out from the lack of progress she was making, so Inuyasha attitude wasn't helping her. "If you can think of a faster way, do so! Other wise, shut up!"

"Fine." He responded. He took a few steps back and sat down on the ground, hoping to get an outsiders look at the problem. He closed his eyes and tried to think of all the things they already knew.

Let's see he thought to himself Kikyou wants us to stay out, so she can talk to Kagome. She wants us out, but she wants Kagome in. Suddenly he got an idea. Miroku had grabbed Kagome's arrows when they left the camp to look for her.

Unnoticed by anyone else he grabbed one of her arrows and walked as closely as he was willing to the blue light. "I hope this works." He whispered to himself. He lightly touched Kagome's arrow against the barrier. A smile came across his face when her arrow passed through it easily.

"Hey guys." He called out.

"Not now Inuyasha!" Miroku yelled out.

Inuyasha growled and walked back to Kagome's backpack. "Did you find something that can help?" Shippo asked as Inuyasha shifted through the bag.

"Yeah," he responded, happy that someone was listening to him, "The barrier does not effect Kagome's things. You want to help me."

"Yeah."

Inuyasha and Shippo took some of the ribbons that Kagome had in her bad and tied them to some more of her arrows. When they were finished they had, what looked like, a giant O'. "Climb on." Inuyasha said and Shippo jumped on his shoulder.

He walked back to the barrier and stuck the arrows and ribbon in it so that I created a small door for them to jump through. "You ready to save Kagome?" Inuyasha asked, Shippo gave an exited nod.

"Hey! Miroku! Sango!" Inuyasha yelled out.

"Not now!" was their only response.

"Fine." He mumbled. He took down the little door, partly to make them mad, but mostly to keep them out. He knew that it wouldn't be that hard to help Kagome, so he didn't think it was worth the risk of them getting hurt. Then headed for the door.

"Wait." Sango grabbed Miroku's arm, she noticed that Inuyasha was being really quiet, so she lifted her head up and looked around for him. "Where is Inuyasha and Shippo?"

Miroku looked up too. He caught sight of them just as they entered the castle. "How did they do that!" he yelled out.

"They got in!" Sango stood up and scratched her head, "How?"

"I don't know." Then he slapped his forehead. "That's probably why he kept calling us. Maybe we should have listened."

"I guess."

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Kagome set the cup back down on the table just as she heard the door to the castle slam and Inuyasha's voice calling her name. "He's here for me." Kagome said.

"You can try going to him, but I don't think he'll find you in time."

Kagome's eyes grew wide, "In time for what?" Kikyou just smiled and walked out of the room. "In time for what!" Kagome yelled out again, but Kikyou was already gone.

Inuyasha couldn't decide which hallway to go down, he sniffed the air for Kagome's scent , but couldn't place it. It was mixed to well with Kikyou's. He had never noticed how much they smelled alike. (though he still thought Kagome smelt better.)

"She's up there." Inuyasha turned and found himself face to face with Inuyasha. "You'd better hurry," she said with a wicked smile "the potion I gave her should be working its way through her blood stream by now."

She walked away from Inuyasha with out another word.

"What do you think she meant?" Shippo asked.

"I-I don't know. We'd better hurry." He glanced once more in the direction that Kikyou had disappeared in before running down the hallway and up the stairs.

Kagome could hear footsteps, the kind without shoes, and knew that Inuyasha was getting closer. She started to walk out of the room, but stopped. When she moved she was overcome by a feeling of nausea.

"Inuyasha?" she called out. She started to worry. Her voice was getting weaker and he sight was starting to go black. The last thing she remembered seeing was Inuyasha and Shippo in the doorway, then she blacked out.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha rushed to her side and caught her just as she started to fall to the ground.

"What's wrong with her?" Shippo asked.

"I don't know, maybe we should take her to Kaede."

"You're right." Inuyasha picked Kagome up and started to carry her outside. He was relived to see that the blue light was now gone and he was free to leave the castle without having to jump through any loops.

"Inuyasha!" Sango waved to him. She and Miroku had gotten everything ready, so they could leave. She brought her hand over her mouth when she noticed Kagome. "What's wrong with her?"

"I don't know. We need to get her to Kaede."

"Alright."

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It didn't take them very long to reach Kaede's house, it seemed that when Kagome's health was in question. Inuyasha took her inside the house and placed her on the floor, in the same spot she was in last time something posioned her.

Kaede looked at Kagome. She lifted up one of her eyes lids, listened to her breathing, and numerous other things, but came up empty. "If I didn't know better," she said "I would say that Kagome is merely sleeping."

"But she passed out right in front of me." Inuyasha said.

"Yeah. And what about what Kikyou said." Shippo added.

"What did Kikyou say?" Kaede asked.

"She said," Inuyasha answered for Shippo, "That the potion should be working its way through her blood stream."

Kaede closed her eyes and thought about it for a few seconds, "Well, it looks like nothing is wrong with her, we should all just wait until morning."

"What to we do until then?" Inuyasha didn't like the idea of doing nothing to help her.

"Inuyasha, I know you're worried, but there is nothing we can do."

Inuyasha growled. "Why don't we go outside." Sango suggested. "Maybe some sunlight will take your mind off of things."

"Doubt it." He mumbled, but allowed Sango and Miroku to drag him outside. He did attempt, only to himself, that the warm air did feel good. He picked a spot not to far form Kaede's house and sat down to watch Shippo play with Sango and Miroku.

After a while his mind did stop thinking and worrying about Kagome. He closed his eyes and allowed him mind to wander around, thinking about meaningless things. He was hardly aware of what was going on around him, till he heard Shippo scream.

"Kagome Kagome, you're alright!"

Inuyasha's eyes shot open and he saw Kagome standing next to him. "Kagome, are you alright?" He stood up and grabbed her hand.

Kagome turned her head and gave Inuyasha the meanest look she possibly could the pulled her hand away from him. "Don't touch me." She said faintly then walked over to Shippo.

"Shippo!" she called out happily

Inuyasha just stared at Kagome, wondering why she had just acted like that. "Kagome?"

Kagome put her hands on her hips and turned to face Inuyasha, "What." She said sharply.

"What's wrong with you?"

"What! You actually care about how I feel now." Inuyasha was a little worried about the way Kagome was looking at him. Whenever her eyes were on him they seemed icy.

"Kagome," Sango put her hand on her shoulder, "Are you sure you're ok?"

Kagome responded to Sango in her normal sweet way. "I'm fine, really. I'm just surprised that pig actually cares." She shot Inuyasha one more cold look before picking up Shippo. "Kaede wanted me to get some fire wood, you want to come with?"

"Sure." Shippo was happy that Kagome was all right, though he was a little baffled about why she was being so mean to Inuyasha.

Sango turned to Inuyasha once Shippo and Kagome were gone. "Are you sure you didn't do anything to make her mad."

"Yes. I'm sure. She wasn't mad at me last night when we were talking."

"Maybe you said something that made her mad, and you just didn't realize it at the time." Miroku suggested.

"No." Inuyasha said "All we talked about was how Kouga reminder her of me."

"I've never thought about that before." Sango said.

"Yeah, now that I think about it Inuyasha and Kouga are a lot alike."

"No we're not!" Inuyasha growled at Miroku for even suggesting that.

"Well if you thing about it" Sango sat down next to Inuyasha, "You two do have a lot in common. You're both really stubborn. You both like to start fights. Plus you're both in love with Kagome."

"He doesn't really love her." Inuyasha mumbled.

Sango and Miroku didn't really know how to respond to that. They had always thought Kouga was just infatuated with Kagome, but they can never tell what is really in someone's heart.

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Kagome and Shippo walked back to Kaede's hands with their arms full of firewood. They were talking to each other and laughing. Inuyasha thought that she was in a better mood, so he called out her name.

Kagome just ignored him as she walked with Shippo into the house. "What the hell was that about?" he asked himself.

He got up and went into the house too. Kagome set the wood in a pile at one end of the room and turned around. She frowned when she saw that Inuyasha had taken the seat that she wanted, but ended up sitting across form him.

"I almost have dinner ready." Kaede said.

Sango and Miroku came into the house just as Kaede was serving the food. "I thought I smelt something good."

"Thank you Miroku." Kaede said.

"It's nice to see that some men still have manners." Kagome added. Even though she wasn't looking at him, everyone could tell that she was referring to Inuyasha.

"Kagome. What is wrong with you?" Inuyasha finally yelled. "Why the hell are you acting so mean?"

"Acting mean! You haven't been an angle yourself mister!"

"Kagome! Just tell me what I've done wrong so I can say sorry already!"

Kagome let out a harsh cold laugh. "As if a simple apology would make up for all the shirt I've put up with this past year."

Everyone stayed silent. They had never heard Kagome talk like that before.

"I'm sorry Kaede," Kagome pushed her plate away. "Your cooking is really good, but I lost my appetite. I'm going for a walk." She stood up and walked out the door without another word.

"What was that about?" Miroku asked. Nobody else spoke for a while; they had no idea why Kagome was so mad at Inuyasha.

Kagome walked out of the house as quickly as she could. Her hands were so tightly in a fist that her nails actually cut into her skin. She hated Inuyasha so much; she needed to get as far away from him as possible.

It only took her a few moments to get lost in the woods near Kaede's house, but for some reason she didn't care. As long as I'm not anywhere near Inuyasha I'm fine she told herself.

"Kagome."

She turned sharply when she heard someone call her name. Inside she hoped and prayed that it was Inuyasha and was relived to see that it was Kouga. "What are you doing here? Shippo told me that you and Inuyasha had a fight and you ran off."

Kouga smiled, he was glad that the potion had worked, now all he had to do was play his cards right. "Well, we did get in a fight."

"What was it about?"

"Inuyasha was... say a bunch of mean thing behind you back."

"I'm not surprised."

"You look upset, is something wrong?"

Kagome sat down on the ground, "No. I just needed to get away from Inuyasha."

Kouga saw this as his chance. "Kagome, I still love you. You could always stay we me."

"You?"

"Yes, you could be my mate. You will never have to see Inuyasha again."

Kagome looked off into the distance and thought about it. The idea of being taken away from Inuyasha seemed wonderful, but she didn't want to simply walk out on Shippo, Miroku, and Sango.

"I don't know Kouga, I'd have to think about it." She stood up.

"Kagome! What's he doing here!" Inuyasha walked over to Kagome, his eyes on Kouga.

"Kouga wants me to be his mate." Kagome responded.

Inuyasha looked sharply at Kouga; "I can answer for her, NO!"

"You can not answer for me!" Kagome yelled, she placed her hand on her forehead as a headache started, "This is why I have such a hard time being around you."

"If you hate being around me so much, why do you fall asleep in my arms every night?"

"What are you talking — no. Inuyasha I don't like it when you make up stories about me." She turned away from him and faced Kouga. "Fine, let me get my things, then I'll go with you."

"What!" Inuyasha couldn't believe his ears.

Kagome ignored him and walked in the direction Inuyasha came from (assuming it was the way to Kaede's house). When she reached it Shippo ran up and jumped on her shoulder. "Kagome, you want to play a game?"

"Not now. I need to get ready."

"Ready for what?" Sango asked.

Kagome hadn't noticed Miroku and Sango standing a short distance away from her. "I'm gonna stay with Kouga." She mumbled, setting Shippo down.

"What! No!" Sango yelled out. "Kagome, you are my best friend in the whole world, but how can you do that to Inuyasha!"

"Sango, Inuyasha is the reason I'm leaving." Kagome said, then walked into the house to get her bag.

Inuyasha ran to Kaede's house and saw Sango, Miroku, and Shippo sitting in front of it. The looked a little baffled. "Where's Kagome?" He asked.

"Inside." Shippo said.

"Inuyasha what is going on?" Miroku asked, but Inuyasha just ignored him and headed inside the house.

When he got in there, Kagome was just finishing packing the last of her things. "Kagome, why are you going off with Kouga?" he asked in a calm tone that even surprised him.

"Because, he asked me to be his mate."

"But Kagome. You and I -"

"You and I, what. You've been nothing but cruel to me."

"I thought I was being nice. Nicer then I've been to anyone."

"If that's what you call nice, I'd hate to be on your bad side." She stood up and tried to walk out the door, but Inuyasha blocked it.

"Let me go!" she yelled out.

"No Kagome, I can't."

"Sit."

Inuyasha slammed into the ground and Kagome stepped on his back while walking out. She was a short distance away from the house when he grabbed her arm. "Kagome, don't go."

"Inuyasha! Let go!"

"No!" he yelled, "I don't care how many sits' you give me. I'm not gonna let you go."

Kagome used her free hand to grab the knife that Miroku had given her and held it up to his neck. "Inuyasha, let go." Deep down she knew that she wouldn't hurt Inuyasha, but right now she was extremely mad.

"Maybe it was a bad idea, giving her that." Miroku whispered to Sango.

Inuyasha looked into Kagome's eyes, but eventually let go of her. "Kagome," he said in more of a whisper "please don't go."

"Inuyasha, you can't change my mind." She said.

Inuyasha bit his lip as she walked away.

Kagome didn't know why she felt guilty as she walked away from Inuyasha. She hated him, so it came as a complete surprised when she imagined giving him a goodbye kiss. What the hell is wrong with me? she asked herself.

After Inuyasha was out of her site, she called out for Kouga. He jumped down from a tree and landed softly behind her. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah."

"Are you sure you'll be able to leave Inuyasha behind."

"I would like nothing more."

Kouga smiled. Kagome was finally going to be his mate. "Get on, I'll take you to my cave."

Kagome climbed onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck. Even though she was happy to finally be getting away form Inuyasha, she couldn't help but feel like something was a little off. The feeling stayed with her for the rest of the day, but she didn't know what it was that caused it.

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