And in the End

Summary: The jewel is complete. It should be a time of celebrating, unfortunately, Kagome's days are numbered. She desperately needs to tell InuYasha three little words, before she goes. Will she be able to?

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Rating: T- teen

Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish, I will never own InuYasha.

Kagome pulled out of the embrace and walked over to the end of the clearing. She placed her hand on the tree that was growing next to her. She didn't want that moment to end, but she knew that they needed to get back to their friends. For god's sake, she had left Sango alone with Miroku!

The teenage girl turned around and faced the hanyou. She smiled sweetly. "Come on, InuYasha. Let's go." She waved her hand at him.

InuYasha smiled and jumped next to her. He grabbed her soft hand and squeezed it gently in his own. The couple walked off, toward the direction where their friends were waiting.

They were very surprised to see their friends, Miroku and Sango, making out. InuYasha's cheeks were turning a bright red, while Kagome was choking on her own tears. Finally, InuYasha made a small "hem" to get the attention of the kissing couple.

"InuYasha, Kagome, you're back so soon?" Miroku replied. His face was turning as red as a red rose, seeing that his hand was still on Sango's butt.

Sango, finally realizing this, slapped Miroku as hard as she could, acrossed his face. "PEVERT!" She screamed, standing up. She thundered down the path toward Lady's Keade's village.

"But Sango," Miroku pleaded, following the exterminator. "You seemed to like it a few minutes ago!"

Kagome let out a long and deep breath. "I believe we came at the wrong time."

InuYasha nodded. "Yep," He said, nodding. "We did."

"And they give us a hard time!" Kagome laughed. "But the look on Sango's face, when she saw us!" Tears of laughter flew down Kagome's face. "Her face was soooo red. I though she was on fire." Kagome fell into a fit of giggles. She fell to the ground rolling around in shear laughter.

InuYasha looked down at the girl and was extremely confused on what to do next. He bent down and helped the laughing and swigging Kagome up to her feet.

"Hmmmm…..Kagome, it really wasn't that funny."

Kagome quickly stopped laughing. She wiped a tear from her eye. "Yah, I know."

"Ok, then," InuYasha said. He picked Kagome up and her on his back. "Let's go then." He said shortly, before jumping off.

Several hours later.

It was night. The group decided to stop at Keade's for the night. In the following days, they would decide what to do now that Naraku was dead and the jewel completed.

Kagome lay in Keade's hut, when she suddenly woke up. She was really confused. She found herself in a cold sweat. "What was that about," She breathed, heavily. She placed a hand over her chest and felt her heart beating at a mile minute.

She looked out the window and saw the full moon. She smiled when she saw InuYasha sleeping peacefully in his favorite tree. "Just a stupid nightmare," Kagome assured herself, as she lay back down and fell into a peaceful sleep, once again.

Kagome's Dream

"InuYasha! Where are you?" Kagome called out.

She looked around at her surroundings. Everything was grey and frigid all around her. The air was wet against her pale skin and it made her shiver. There was nothing growing in this bleak wasteland and Kagome felt alone.

"InuYasha," She cried. She fell to her knees and holding herself with her arms. "Please, where are you?" The air was thick with fog and Kagome could not longer see her hands in front of her face. The air smelled and tasted like death.

But then, a small part of the fog cleared up, creating a small path that lead to the….

"The well," Kagome shouted with glee. "I can go home!" She ran toward. She was about to throw her leg over it and jump into her own time when a tiny gleam caught her eye.

It was the Shikon Jewel.

Kagome bent down next to it and picked it up. She raised an eyebrow as she lifted it up in front of her face to examine it. "How did this get here?"

A single creak went down the jewel, which began to multiply into several more cracks, when it exploded. It disappeared in Kagome's hand. "What!" Kagome yelled. She looked around frantically, searching for any sign of the jewel.

Then she heard the cracking and groaning of wood breaking. Slowly, Kagome turned around and saw the well destroyed. All it was was a pile of old, dead, broken wood.

"NO!" Kagome shouted. "I…..can't……go…..home!" Tears fell down her face.

End

"Kagome!" Someone shouted in her ear. "Are you ok? Wake up!"

Kagome opened her eyes to see a blurry vision of InuYasha standing over her. "What?" She muttered, quietly. She put her hand on her head as she sat up.

InuYasha looked at her, straight in the eyes. "What do you mean, I can't go home?" He questioned.

"Huh?"

"You kept saying that over and over again." InuYasha paused and looked at her again. "It had me worried." He took a deep breath. "I sense that you are not telling me something."

Kagome became anger. She stood up. "That is the most stupid thing I've ever heard!" She spat at him. She stormed out of the hut.

After walking several yards she stopped. "The jewel," She quietly muttered. "It was the only thing that aloud me to stay in this time." She let out a soft scream. "And with it gone."

End of chapter three! Do the usually and review or else I'll die an unhappy death!