And in the End

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

Author's comment: Hey everyone. This is the last chapter! I hope you all enjoyed reading it. I had fun writing it. This is the first story that I ever finished!

Rating: Teen

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

InuYasha stared at Kagome with his mouth slightly open. He raised a questioning eyebrow. "Tell me what?" He repeated.

Kagome gulped and was taken a back with his presence. 'Should I tell him?' She thought desperately to herself. She didn't want to, it was the last thing that she ever wanted to do.

"InuYasha…" She finally managed to say. She paused and tried to think of what to say next. She had to choose her words carefully. "I….." 'What do I say!' She shook her head and cleared all thoughts from her mind.

"Kagome." InuYasha said, reaching out to put his hand on her arm. "You can tell me anything."

Kagome bit her bottom lip. 'No I can't!' Her mind screamed.

InuYasha could see the fear growing in her brown eyes. He was now concerned. "Kagome please." He started to plead with her. He wanted to know soooo badly what was destroying her from the inside. "I want to help you." He wrapped his arms around her.

"InuYasha." Kagome breathed. She put her hands in front of her and pushed InuYasha away from her. She stepped back and looked at the hurt hanyou. "I'm sorry, but I can't" She turned around and ran into the darkness of the forest. She left InuYasha standing there with his hands still open.

'How many times have I run from him?' She thought. 'Too many.' She stopped. "I have too." Kagome whispered to herself. "I have to tell him." She nodded to herself and turned around and waited for InuYasha to come after her. 'He's so predictable.'

Sure enough, InuYasha came bounding through the foliage. He stopped a few feet in front of Kagome. He let out a sigh of anger. "Why do keep running away from me?"

Kagome didn't answer her him. She grabbed his hand and led through the forest.

InuYasha stared at the back of her head as she led him. So many thoughts ran through his mind. 'What is wrong with her. Is she showing me something. Why can't she tell me?' "I wish she would." He said, in a whisper.

Finally, what seemed to be the longest ten minutes of his life, Kagome stopped and InuYasha stopped behind her. He saw that they were in the clearing that they had first met in. They stood under they shade of the sacred tree.

The scent of salt and water filled his nose. He looked up and saw that Kagome was crying. He wiped a tear that was rolling down her cheek. "Please don't cry."

"InuYasha." Kagome said in between sobs. "I can't be with you."

"What?" InuYasha took her hands in both his own and kissed the top of them. "Kagome, we can. Kikyo is not here anymore, remember?"

Kagome shook her head. "No, InuYasha. We can't. I can't come to the Feudal era anymore."

"What?"

"With the jewel gone, I can't time travel anymore." She let out anymore sharp sob. "I've been falling in to……..um……..phases, I guess you could call them. I don't know what to call them."

" 'Phases' What happens in these 'phases'?" He was so shocked to hear this. He couldn't be with her anymore.

"It got worse with each time. First I heard my time, like people talking and cars driving by. I couldn't talk in those times, so I had blank stares on my face, I guess."

Kagome stopped for a moment and looked at InuYasha's face. It was filled with sadness and it broke her heart to see it.

"Continue." InuYasha said, breaking the several moments of silence.

"Then I started seeing my time. Then, this last time, I was actually there. Like my mother saw me and started to talk to me." More tears started falling down. "I think, no, I know that the next time, I will be stuck there and I can never see you again." Kagome put her face in her hands and wept.

He just stood there. 'What am I suppose to say?' It was breaking his heart to see her like this. "Kagome, I…." There was nothing he could say. He let out a sigh and hugged her.

InuYasha put one hand on her lower back and his other hand on the back of her head. He pulled Kagome closer to his body. "I'm right here. I will never leave you."

Kagome put her hands down and wrapped them around his shoulders. She never wanted to leave this moment.

"Kagome," InuYasha whispered in her ear. "I love you."

She bit her lip and began to mutter, "I love you, too." but everything around her began to fade. She couldn't speak and InuYasha could not hear her. 'Oh no!' She cried.

Kagome pushed InuYasha away from her. She looked him directly in the eye and began mouthing I love you, over and over again.

It took only InuYasha a few seconds to realize that she was fading away from him. Kagome actually started to disappear. "No!" He cried, reaching out to her. "Please, fight it Kagome! Don't leave me!"

Kagome shook her head. "I can't hear you, InuYasha." She mourned sorrowfully. She stretched her fading hand toward InuYasha's and grabbed tightly. "I'm glad I met you. I will never forget you."

InuYasha stared at her hand and pulled her toward him. He collided his lips with her own. The hanyou wrapped his arms around the miko's fading body and he closed his amber eyes. He held her for a few minutes, until, he couldn't feel her anymore.

"No!" Tears seeped through the cracks of his eyes and ran down his cheeks. InuYasha did not want to open them, for he knew what he would see. Nothing. Kagome wasn't there anymore. "I will never see her again." He finally opened his eyes.

A breeze swept through the clearing. It was so quiet. It was a silence that scared InuYasha. He was once alone. The love of his life was gone. He took a deep breath through his nose. The scent of Kagome still lingered.

"Kagome." Kagome's mother said, with her usual happy smile. "Your back so soon? How long will you back this time?"

Kagome stared at her mother with tears still streaming down her face. "Oh, mom."

"Kagome, what's wrong?"

"I can't see him again."

"What?"

"Please mom, I need to be alone."

"Alright, dear. I'll be here if you need me." She turned around and walked into the house.

Kagome nodded at her mother as she disappeared into the house. Then she looked up at the sacred tree she stood in front of. It was only a few moments ago that she was with him.

She walked over the small fence that surrounded it and she placed her hand on it.

"This is where we met."

In the Feudal era, InuYasha had placed his hand on the tree, also. He smiled, he could feel her presence.

Kagome smiled slightly, also, but it soon faded away."And in the end, this is where we part."

The End!

Well, its finished. Yah. So. I have nothing else to say, except read my other story, Killed by a Brother. So bye for now!

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