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: Teen

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

Kagome fell on her knees. An eerie shadow came over the distraught girl's face. The night sounds were being overpowered by Kagome's constant sobs. Tears were rolling over her face in a steady stream. They were two rivers flowing from her sadness. Her brown eyes were starting to turn red and her cheeks became red and puffy.

She fell to her side and curled up into a ball, hoping everything in this world would just disappear. She wanted to fade. Fade into the night time scenery. Away from everything. She didn't want to feel pain, which was now becoming a constant emotion in her life.

'I don't want to leave him,' her mind screamed. Kagome sat up. She pushed away tears that were slowly making their way down her face. She let out deep breath. She tried to calm herself, but nothing was working.

"This is all a dream." She kept saying to herself. "This is not real. It can't be and it won't be." No matter how much she told herself, this problem was never going to go away. This will keep happening until…….. Kagome shuddered at the very thought.

Kagome began to finger the chain that once held the scared jewel shards. It was weird somehow. It not being there. It was a constant task that had to be done. A constant pain in their necks. The completion of the jewel was always taking up their time, but with it finished. It seemed weird. Kagome had forgotten how her life was before the jewel and InuYasha.

Would she have to go back to a life like that, again? Back to a life as an ordinary ninth grader, dealing with mundane things. She had grown accustomed to the way her life was now. There was always something new to see ot do.There was no way that she could go back to a life like that. But, then. Her life was easier. There were no threats of demons coming after them, craving the taste of their blood. She didn't need her grandfather telling lies about various diseases that she had come under. She had more time to do her homework, even if that was a con in itself, but she had better grades.

But if she went back. Kagome didn't even want to think about that. "I would never see them again." Kagome sobbed quietly. She would lose her best friend, Sango. She would never see Shippo grow up. And Miroku……..well. The worst though struck her mind. "I would never be with InuYasha."

"Why did we even use the jewel," Kagome whispered, thinking back to the day before. That faithful day were Naraku was ultimately defeated. She pondered. "What had happened that day?" InuYasha destroyed Naraku single handedly. Then, she completed the jewel. "Then he made a wish."

Kagome's eyes widen. He made the wish on the jewel that made it disappear. Suddenly, her heart was not full of sadness, but of rage. Her eyes narrowed. She bit her bottom lip to keep from screaming. Kagome's hands turned into fist and she slammed them into the ground as an outlet of rage.It did nothing to help the fact that InuYasha was the reason this was happening to her.

"That bastard!" She shouted. The words rang out through the forest around her. "He did this to me! InuYasha wished Kikyo away and that got rid of the jewel."

After a few minutes of fury and rage, Kagome lighten up. She shook her head. "It's not his fault." She murmured. "How could I ever think that?" Kagome questioned herself. She stood up and began walking through the forest again.

Somehow, the Feudal era calmed her. It was peaceful. It didn't have the hustle and bustle of modern day Tokyo. Though they were under constant threat of wars and famine, they didn't have pollution. The air was cleaner and brisker. It always felt like a cool blanket came upon her when Kagome travel from her time to the Feudal. They were so many differences between the two eras. Kagome never realized how much she had grown to love it there. She would deeply miss this place.

Kagome had come on top of hill that over looked the village. Dawn was fast approaching. Kagome hadn't realized how late she had been out. She smiled as the sun began to rise over the ridge ahead. The sky was filled of red fire with accents of yellows and burgundies. A cool breeze swept over the landscape and over Kagome. The morning dew was beginning form on the leaves. She smiled, "Now this is heaven."

Kagome sighed and stretched her arms up toward the sky. It seemed it would be a day that would have best spent in bed sleeping. She began to walk down the hill toward the village and the others, when something caught her eye. She could see the Scared Tree.

It was completely the same. There was nothing different about it, but its simplicity and peacefulness caught her eye. She stood at the foot of the tree looking up. The branches twisted and turned above her and were covered in lust green leaves. They formed a thick canopy that cast a dark shadow over her. She placed her hand where InuYasha was once bound too. She smiled.

"This is where we met. This place kept us together no matter what. It's our connection through out time." Kagome laughed to herself. "That really sounded lame."

"KAGOME!"

Kagome sighed at hearing her name being shouted through out Japan.

"Where the hell are you?"

"InuYasha…." Kagome said through clenched teeth. "That idiot. Is he trying to wake everyone up?"

InuYasha came bounding through the foliage. He stopped and smiled. "Oh, there you are, Kagome." He walked up to her. "I was getting worried."

Kagome rolled her eyes. "You are always worried about me! Don't you think I can take care of myself?"

InuYasha was taken back. He meant well. He was trying to be nice to Kagome for a change and here she was chewing his ear off.

"Well, excuse me for trying to be the nice guy!" InuYasha retorted back.

"Ha! You nice, I like to see that!"

Kagome started to walk away from him and toward the village. They needed to get with Miroku and Sango to make their decision. "What's going to happen to us?" Kagome wondered out loud.

"I don't know." InuYasha replied. He had jumped next to her and she hadn't realized that he was standing.

Kagome took one hard look at him. She smirked. 'He ain't that bad lookin'' She thought. Her eyes darted from his beautiful silver hair, to his light blue ears that she come to adore, to his amber eyes that she could get lost in. She stretched her fingers towatd his cheek. It was soft. Kagome never realized how smooth his skin was.

After gazing at his gorgeous features, Kagome notice the rosary. That necklace he got from when they first met. She placed her finger on it and slid it up and down. InuYasha stared blankly at her.

"It been awhile hasn't it?" Kagome said, with a small hint of sadness in her voice.

InuYasha's ear twitched in confusion. "What's been awhile?"

"Since Keade put this curse on you."

"Oh yah. To tell you the truth I forgot all about that."

"Oh, really?" A gleam of evil sparked in Kagome's eyes. "SIT BOY!"

The rosary glowed blue as it pulled InuYasha down into the ground. A small voice rose from the crater that was cause by the impact. "Kagome…….what…..was……that……for…" Slowly, InuYasha managed to climb his way out.

Kagome peered into the hole. "Do you remember now?"

He stood up, glaring at Kagome. Before he started to yell at her, the unthinkable happened. Kagome walked up and took the necklace off.

InuYasha stared blankly at her. For once the hanyou was short for words"Why?" He finally managed to say.

Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know?" Then she turned around and head up to the village, leaving a very confused hanyou behind her.

Ok, well that's the end of chapter four. I think it's...ok. I know it's not my best or maybe it is. I don't. What matters is what you think! So please review! THANX!

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