Hello! First of all, I have no freaking clue where this is going. I thought I'd try my luck with idea that popped into my head… That said, please read and enjoy. This will probably be angst filled but rest assured, for every pang and pain I promise a moment of pink fluff. I'm staying true to the manga on this, so Kagome's eyes are blue-gray, and Sango's are either green or gray (or brown but seriously, no one has any evidence of this crap!). (I have to check resources on that, bear with me please)

Why are you still reading this? Get onto the fic for God sakes. -.-'

PROLOGUE

"I was a silly girl."

The words get caught in my throat, and they end up coming out hoarse, scratchy. I'm sure he heard me though, after all, he is a demon.

Amber meets blue-gray, and I see he's trying to figure out if this is a joke. I see the confusion in his eyes, the wheels of his mind turning, and I picture his train of thought in my head, 'Kagome never jokes like this though... she must be serious?'

I almost smile bitterly, (I love it when he acts so cutely aloof) but I catch myself in time.

"I don't understand", He says slowly

I sigh, and try very hard to swallow the lump that has found its way into my throat. It's not working, so I do the only thing I've been able to master perfectly in the two years since I began coming down the well, and that's a dazzling smile. Fake? Yes, but no one can tell but me.

This is just another play I've been forced into by my loyal friends as the lead part. This is another role I have to play perfectly, make the audience roar, make a few tears come to Mama's eyes.

I let out a giggle.

"Inuyasha, you didn't think I planned on staying here in the Feudal Era, did you?"

His face is still dumbfounded.

I roll my eyes, and grab his hand, patting it.

"You and Kikyo have a lot of catching up to do! The last thing you need is me hanging around!"

Ah yes, Kikyo. My other counterpart, the other me whom I am supposed to be the reincarnation of.

She's alive, and glowing, and it's my entire fault.

When the jewel was completed, everything happened quickly. I had it in my hand, Inuyasha was fighting Naraku with Sango and Miroku at his side, and before I knew it, Naraku was at eye level with me. I must have been hit, or blacked out, because I had a vision.

I was Kikyo. Inuyasha had told me that he would become human, so we could live out the rest of our lives together. I couldn't believe he loved me. Me, a cursed, plain, girl. He understood my pain, I understood his, but together we would have no more. I even saw our future children clearly, two girls, and a little boy who acted just like his father. I was giddy with happiness, knowing that soon, that could become a reality.

I let the walls I had so carefully built around myself, crumble. Inuyasha loved me. Inuyasha needed me. Inuyasha would never betray me.

He did.

He did and I felt her pain at the moment of her death. I felt the confusion, the pure agony of losing something so dear, something that she never even got to experience. I felt her love for him turn into confusion, then anger, then a hollow sadness as she realized that indeed, he had betrayed her.

I felt her eternal pain as she passed into the afterlife, then I awoke.

My head hurt badly, and not ten feet in front of me, Inuyasha was still battling with Naraku.

I looked around, and noticed that both Sango and Miroku were out cold. Shippo was shaking them, Kirara at his side.

I remembered how it felt to be Kikyo, and I made that unselfish wish.

I wished upon the Shikon for her to live again. I wished for her to find the happiness that her heart had so wanted, had so deserved. For her make Inuyasha happy, for them to be happy together. I wished with every fiber of my being.

It came true. That is why I stand here at the well, with Inuyasha in front of me, trying to explain to him why I must go home. Why I must never return. Why I must hide my broken heart and never speak of this again to any being, or risk losing my sanity.

Inuyasha, my love, I do this for you. Oh, Kami, make this a bad dream. Let me wake up please. I'm not sure how much longer my heart can take this.

Suddenly my head swims, my eyes are filling with tears and I'm trying so hard to resist the urge to throw up.

I have to finish this. Now.I have to gather up my courage, say goodbye, and jump down the well for the last time. I have to let …

What the hell?!?

"I don't know what kind of crap you're trying to pull Kagome, but I'm not in the mood to put up with it right now."

He has me thrown over his shoulder, and he's running back to the village.

I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or osuwari him.