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Chapter 1

"Sit!" Kagome yelled and stormed off.

As Inuyasha struggled to get to his feet, he watched Kagome walk away. He wanted to call her back, but what would he say?

Kagome made her way to the well and jumped inside. As soon as she exited the well, she ran up to her room. After shutting the door, she ran to her bed and buried her face into her pillow. "Why does he hate me?" she thought. As sorrow absorbed her, she thought of Kikyo, and how Inuyasha had loved her. "I can never be Kikyo, he will never love me," she thought sadly. At that instant, she bolted upright in her bed and whispered, "Do I love Inuyasha? No, he's just a friend, that's all," she reassured herself. But Kagome could not rid herself of the ache in her heart when she thought of Inuyasha and Kikyo. Kagome then laid her head down on the pillow and cried herself to sleep.

When Inuyasha finally arose from the ground he made his way to the well. It was too late, Kagome had already crossed back to her own time. Inuyasha sat on the edge of the well and spoke to himself, "This happens so often. Me and Kagome fight, then she goes to the well. She always comes back." Suddenly, Inuyasha felt his heart wrench, "what happens if she decides not to come back?" Inuyasha thought. "No, she'll come back, she always does. But why do I care if she comes back or not. It's not like I can't live without her, it's not like I love her." But as Inuyasha spoke those words, he couldn't help but realize how sad the thought of losing Kagome forever had made him feel. "Do I love Kagome?" he whispered aloud. "No, then what about Kikyo? I can't love them both. Kagome is just a friend."

Inuyasha decided to wait for Kagome and sat down next to the well. As he waited, he fell asleep. He awoke to a sound coming from the well, and his heart lifted, "Kagome's back!" he thought, surprised at how happy this had made him. Kagome climbed out of the well and looked at Inuyasha.

"Hi," Inuyasha said and looked away.

"Hi, is that all you can say!" Kagome yelled.

"What do you want me to say?" he said.

"How about, 'I'm sorry, Kagome.'" Kagome, knowing Inuyasha's stubborn nature was expecting him to shout back, but instead, Inuyasha replied with an inaudible response. "What was that?" asked Kagome.

"I said, 'I'm sorry, Kagome.'"

"Y-you did?" said Kagome with surprise, then changing her tone she added, "Yeah, well, you should be." Kagome couldn't believe it. She had never heard Inuyasha say that he was sorry. "Maybe he does like me," she thought. "No. No, he loves Kikyo." Then aloud she said, "You only said sorry so that I wouldn't say si- say the s-word."

"Yeah, so what if I did!" yelled Inuyasha.

With that, Kagome turned toward the well and was about to jump in when Inuyasha grabbed her arm. "Let me go, Inuyasha," but he would not let her go. "What if she didn't come back this time?" he thought.

Inuyasha turned Kagome to face him and looked into her eyes. "Kagome, I really am sorry."

"Yeah, sure!" said Kagome, as she turned to go into the well.

"No, Kagome. When you went back earlier, I was thinking. I thought about how upset I would be if I never saw you again. Please, don't go." The tone in Inuyasha's voice was so sincere that Kagome turned to look at him. She saw a bit of blush creeping into Inuyasha's cheeks.

"Do you really mean that, Inuyasha?"

"Yeah, how else would we be able to find the rest of the jewel shards?"

"Is that all you care about," Kagome yelled turning towards the well for a third time.

"No…" said Inuyasha.

She turned around and said, "Then what do you care about other than yourself and the jewel?"

"I-I care about y-" but at that instant Miroku, Sango, and Shippo came over cutting Inuyasha off. It was then that Inuyasha realized he had never released Kagome's arm, and as he began to blush, he let go of it.

"Hey, Kagome's back!" said Shippo.

"Is this a bad time?" added Miroku.

"No, no, it's not," stammered Kagome. In her head, Kagome was wondering what Inuyasha could have wanted to say. "Was he going to say that he cared about me? No, Inuyasha doesn't feel that way about me. I'm just a tool to help him get the jewel shards. But what about what he said about never seeing me again?"

"We better go," said Inuyasha, cutting off the rest of Kagome's thoughts. So the group head off together.

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This is the first chapter to this story, I really hope you like it. I have it posted somewhere else as well, so please don't think I copied. I hope that's alright, I didn't see anything about it against the rules. If it is (I mean taking one of your stories and posting it in two places) could someone please tell me? Thanks! twofang