A small girl walked down the sidewalk, dressed all in black. She kicked a rock in her way as she pulled a cigarette out from behind her ear. She sighed as she tucked it under her lip and searched for a lighter. Kagome looked up and saw the shrine stairs aproaching fast. She put the cigarette back behind her ear for later as she gloomily trudged up the lenghty stairs to her home.

'Yeah, some home,' she snorted.

I'll be comming home just to be alone

When she reached her door she just kicked it open, not expecting anyone there. She climbed yet another set of stairs to her room and opened the door gently. She sighed as she walked in, thought for a moment, turned around and kicked the door closed, taking out all her days anger. She walked over to her window opening it slightly as she pulled the cigarette back out, taking a moment to light it before taking a long drag. She was used to the loneliness, her mom was never home anymore, neither was Souta... Nobody wanted to be around her anymore...not since it happened, not since she changed.

I know you're not there and

I know that you don't care

She sighed as she blinked back the tears forming in her eyes as she thought of the accident, the one that changed her life. The day she died inside, the day her other half perished, the day she lost her love. She wiped her eyes, accidentaly smearing her black eyeliner in the process. She stared out her window, taking another long drag off her cigarette. She sighed once more, hanging her head and letting her heart fall farther into the darkness of her being. She had no reason to live. The only thing standing between her and suicide, was Shippou.

'Ah, Shippou,' she thought, 'the only survivor of the incident.'

A small smile momentarily graced her lips at the thought of the little furball, soon, she would be bringing him to her time.Soon, the well would be sealed forever and her memories would be all that is left of her past.

I can hardly wait to leave this place

The only reason she stayed in the godforsaken hellhole was because she had no where else to go. The few friends she kept over the years since highschool were dead...all except Shippou. And he was still in Fuedal Japan. She took the final drag off her cigarrette and flicked it out the window. She exhaled sharply before slowly rising to her feet. She gently smoothed out her smudged eyeliner, not even bothering to check a mirrior. She opened the window the rest of the way, and jumped to the tree...the tree she had been so accoustumed to seeing Inuyasha in. He would just sit there and watch her. She could feel his prescence. The day away from him were hard on her, she didn't sleep as easily without him near. And now...now she didn't really sleep at all. She sat in the branches for a moment, looking back into her own room. Her room...once cheery, pink, bright and full of color...was now dark, black and ominous. She smirked at the changes in her life...the drastic changes...the changes because of him.

"I wonder what he'd say...if he could see me now," Kagome said aloud as thoughts of Inuyasha raced through her mind. She quickly wiped away a tear and climbed down the tree.

On her way to the well house she sidetracked to the Goshinboku. She kicked on of the red flags surrounding it. Kagome dopped to her knees beside the tree and gently fingered the chains laying across the base. In the last few months, the Goshinboku had started to die...from the inside.

'Just like me,' she thought.

They wanted to cut it down...but she wouldn't let them. She chained herself to that tree for three days out of love for the man whom practically lived in this tree for the past 55 years. In the end, they decided to let it fall on its own. What damage would it do...hit an old, sealed well? The well would probably rot away and fall apart without the miko magic keeping it open...just like Goshinboku. Since Inuyasha had died, the tree that survived centuries had slowly began to rot away...it just didn't seem to want to live without Inuyasha.

'Just like me,' she thought again.

Without Inuyasha, Kagome seemed to die inside. A peice of her heart and very soul were lost and nothing could replace the empty blackness filling her entire being. The only thing that kept her heart beating day to day, the only thing that gave her the will to keep breathing...had ceased to exsist any longer.

"Nothing can reaplce him...never, I won't let it happen," she vowed in front of the Goshinboku.

No matte how hard I try

You're never satisfied,

This is not my home

I think I'm better off alone

A/N: This is only chapter one...but I don't like it as much as my other current projects...if you guys like it and want me to keep going...let me know. If so much as 1 person wants it to continue I will finnish. Thanks for your time.

Leigha