Hello everyone, this is chapter 17B, do NOT just think it is a continuation of the last chapter because it is not. It is a different ending. I am hoping that this way of posting 2 endings will not confuse anyone to much. Well anyway enjoy!


Giving up or Moving on?

Chapter 17B She's Gone

Inuyasha stayed there holding Kagome's dead body for as long as he could. He did not want to let go of it but knew he was going to have to eventually. Until then he was going to hold her as tight as he could, almost as if he could get her to come back to life with the tears running down his face.

The doctor gave him a few minutes before having him get up and leave the room so that he could clean up the body and make her as beautiful as she was before. Inuyasha sat in the waiting room with Sango and Miroku. All of them were crying but Inuyasha was crying the hardest. She came to him when she needed his help. She counted on him to keep her safe… but he failed. He learned to love her and she was gone before he was able to tell her.

"Do you think we should call Sesshomaru?" Miroku asked quietly. Inuyasha looked at him for a minute before nodding slightly. "Ok I will do it," Miroku said while he stood up to go to the phone. A few minutes later he came back and told them that Sesshomaru was on the way. He would know what to do with the arrangements for the funeral and stuff like that.

When Sesshomaru walked in the door he looked as if he was close to teas of his own but he refused to let them fall. Inuyasha looked up at his brother, tears rolling down his face. Sesshomaru came over to Inuyasha and tried to comfort him as best he could without having to burst out in tears himself. When the doctor came into the waiting room Sesshomaru got up to talk with him about arranging for the body to be moved from the hospital so that it could be buried.

Before they left everyone was allowed to see Kagome one more time. They went in the room where she was being kept but did not stay very long because of how sad it made everyone. On the way home Sesshomaru dropped off Sango and Miroku at home before going home himself with Inuyasha.

When they got home Inuyasha just went up to his room and went to his bed, crying his eyes out again. Sesshomaru went up a few minutes later to try and comfort his brother, but could not do much so he left him there to try and work through it on his own. Inuyasha could not get the thoughts out of his mind about Kagome. He thought about her, and he thought that he would not be able to live without her. He knew it would never be the same, and he knew that he would not be able to be happy like he was when she was near. He knew he was not going to be able to just forget her… and he didn't want to forget about her anyway. Inuyasha stayed like that all night, he stayed like that until he cried himself to sleep and dreamed about being able to see Kagome just one more time…

3 days later Inuyasha was standing next to an empty grave, waiting for Kagome to be lowered into the ground. Miroku walked up next to him and put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. Since Kagome's death Inuyasha had been a wreck! He was letting himself just go, he was not eating, not going outside anywhere, hell, he had only taken one shower and that was because he didn't want to smell bad at the funeral.

They waited for a while before going back into the main building where Kagome's body was sitting for people to come and view. Inuyasha had refused to go in the room with the body, he didn't want to see her again before she was buried, he knew he would just start the crying all over again and right now his eyes felt like they would just fall out with his tears. Miroku and Sango were working on how to get him to go see her one more time before she is in the ground. If he doesn't they knew he would regret it later.

"Come on Inuyasha you have to go see her one more time. If you don't go I know you will regret it later." Sango said to him in a calm voice, although her insides were about as bad as Inuyasha looked on the outside.

Sesshomaru walked into the room while Sango was pleading with Inuyasha to go in and went over to them, "Inuyasha I would suggest you go in there, not only to see her but… her father managed to arrive."

Inuyasha looked at him in shock, why would her father care, he didn't seem to care before. Without another word Inuyasha walked into the other room and saw a man standing in front of the coffin that was holding Kagome. He walked over to him and could smell that it was Kagome's dad they smelled very similar to one another. When he got up to the man the man turned around. He looked sad but nowhere near as sad as Inuyasha was.

"Are you Inuyasha?" Inuyasha was asked by the man and he just nodded. "I want to thank you for what you did. You made her happy in the end, that was good of you."

Inuyasha was shocked he always thought that Kagome's father had hated her. "I thought you didn't give a shit about her. She had enough bruises when she got here for anyone to see that."

The man looked like he was going to be sick, "Yes I know, I was always so angry and I would drink so I wouldn't be angry. It started when her mom left… well that's when it got a lot worse. When she left it knocked some cense into my head… I noticed how much I cared about my daughter."

Inuyasha just nodded and held out his hand, Kagome's father shook it and the two of them stood there and let the tears fall. Inuyasha was hurt far more then her father was, but at least he not knew that Kagome was not totally hated by her family and that helped him a lot.

Later that night Kagome was lowered into the ground and everyone said their final goodbyes. Everyone was crying but Inuyasha had stopped. He looked as if he was deep in thought and everyone was just happy that he had stopped balling so they left him alone. He stood next to the grave long after everyone else went in to eat. He could see the coffin still, it was not covered yet but it was in the ground. That is where he made him final promise to his love, "Kagome I promise I will be with you again… soon," before turning around and heading home for the night.


Sorry it took so long I had to go to a work thing for the week and it was a lot of work so I kind of didn't feel like writing much after it…. As you can see I am doing number 3 and I will do my best to update fast!