Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha sadly but I am a stead fast watcher of the anime.

Kagome climbed off Inuyasha's back. They were out of the well. Now he could leave her alone.

They headed in the direction of Kaede's hut. Kagome stood a few feet away from Inuyasha trying to collect her thoughts. She walked into Kaede's hut a few minutes later and Shippo sat there warming himself up. (AN: I am making it winter).

"Hey Kagome!" Everyone is out at the moment. Sango went to her old slayer's village with Kohaku. Miroku went to see his old mentor now that the wind tunnel is gone. I had nowhere to go so I stayed. Kagura is exploring now that she is free. Kaede is gathering herbs."

"Thanks Shippo

Inuyasha was still in shock. Kagome loved him. He must look like a fool. He hadn't said something and she was probably pissed.

"What is wrong with Kagome?"

"I think she is mad at me."

"Well, I wonder why?"

Inuyasha unthinkingly hit Shippo on the head. Shippo screamed and ran out of the hut screaming.

"Kagome! Kagome! Inuyasha is being mean."

Kagome looked up from picking herbs. She hugged Shippo and then slapped Inuyasha across the face and said, "Leave Shippo alone."

Then she turned away, going back to the herbs.

Inuyasha was in shock. Normally she would have said 'sit' and that would have been it. Shippo all of a sudden started to stare at his neck.

"What?"

"The necklace!"

"What about it?"

As he said this he put a hand to his neck and was shocked.

"It's gone!" they both said.

Kagome was nearly in tears. She didn't want them to know this. She silently got up before she spoke, "I have to go. I don't know if I will ever be back."

After saying this she ran toward Kaede's hut and put the finished Shikon Jewel under a loose board under the floor. It was finished she didn't have to worry. She ran her hand across her wet face, removing the tears that had strayed from her eyes.

Then she picked up the bow and arrows and ran toward the well. She hated the fact that they were Kikyo's but she would keep them as a souvenir of the past. She finally made it to the well and jumped back through. She would get over Inuyasha eventually. He was only her first love. Maybe she would come to love Hojo as much as she had Inuyasha. Tears came to her eyes at the mere thought. She didn't want to stay with Inuyasha anymore because he did not love her. She needed to get away.

She made it to her room before she started balling. She had tried to stay but she just couldn't. She didn't want to stay around him. He knew she loved him. She couldn't stick around

Inuyasha and the others walked toward Kaede's hut. They wanted to know where Kagome had run off. When they got there, she was gone. Inuyasha immediately headed toward the door wanting to go after her, but Kaede stopped him.

"If she has left once again it is probably because she wants to be left alone. Leave her a while. Maybe she will come back to you."

"I don't think she will come back on her own. She said she loved me but in not so many words. She said she didn't want to come back with me because she was in love with someone and when I ask who it was I accused her of being in love with that wolf, Koga, then Miroku and that human in her time, Hojo. She called me an idiot and said it was me she was in love with."

"Poor child!"

"What do you mean poor child? You should be feeling sorry for me who realized I was in love with her and didn't get to tell her so."

"I feel bad for Kagome. To tell someone you love them and for them to reject you."

"But I didn't reject her!"

"You didn't say anything to her. That is rejection."

"But I do love her and I didn't get a chance to tell her."

"Well she still didn't hear you. You had to say the words first. Hopefully she will get over you and fall for someone else in her own time."

"But I don't want her to. I want her to stay in love with me."

"Now, Inuyasha, you are just being selfish. Let her go. She needs to meet someone in her time. She doesn't belong in this time. You know that in your heart."

"I may be selfish but she is the girl I am in love with."

"It wasn't so long ago that you were in love with my sister, Kikyo. Leave her be."

"I can't just leave her be."

"Yes you can and you will."

Kagome got up the next morning and stretched. School was starting and she could finally stay in it for good.

She went downstairs and saw her mother at the stove making an omelette and said, "Mom, may I have one?"

Kagome's mom looked at her surprised and said, "I thought you were in the feudal era."

"Well I'm back for good. I don't want to go back. No one can make me."

"Alright, you need to leave for school soon."

" I know. I just have to do a few things before I go. Can you take me to school this morning?"

"Alright but you need to hurry and get ready."

Kagome went upstairs and changed into her school uniform. It was then that she noticed the grass stain from picking herbs yesterday. She couldn't change because all of her other uniforms were just as dirty and she couldn't put them on.

She ran downstairs distraught.

"Mom, my uniform is dirty. Can you please do my laundry today so that I have a clean uniform for tomorrow?"

"Yes Kagome. What is that on your skirt?"

"It is a grass stain from picking herbs. I was helping Kaede yesterday before I came home."

"who is Kaede again?"

"I'm the reincarnation of her sister, Kikyo, the dead priestess."

"Oh yes. Well here is your omelet. Hurry up and eat it so I can take you to school."

"yes ma'am."

Kagome finished her omelet and ran upstairs to brush her teeth, comb her hair and grab her backpack.

When she was done, she went back down the stairs.

"Can we go now?"

"Alright."

Inuyasha was sitting in the same position as he had all of yesterday after Kagome was found gone.

Just then Miroku, walked into the hut and noticing Inuyasha he said, "Inuyasha, I didn't know you got back. Where is Kagome?"

"She is not here. She is in her own time. She went back yesterday."

"When will she be back?"

"I don't know. She was mad at me and we didn't speak before she left."

"Why was she mad at you now?"

"It is not any of your business. And anyway, she is not always mad at me."

"Did she see you with Kikyo again and get jealous?"

"No. We killed Kikyo. Kikyo is officially dead. The rest of her soul went back into Kagome and she turned to dust."

"Oh well, you must have done something!"

"For the last time I didn't do anything! She told me she loved me. I didn't get a chance to say anything in return before she left!"

"Well you don't love her anyway. What would you say?"

"I do love her! I wanted to tell her I was just in shock."

"Like that is any reason not to reply! I have told plenty of women I love them only to get my heart 'broken' every time because they don't love me. (AN if any of you have read the manga or seen the anime Fruits Basket you will notice that Miroku is actually acting more like Ayame there then he is himself. I'm sorry but that is just how I see Miroku responding to such a statement from Inuyasha.)"

Miroku wiped a fake tear away at this point.

For those of you who think I'm being a little repetitive, I know I am I just wanted Kagome to stay for a few days in her time and realize she really couldn't live without Inuyasha even if she wanted to. E-mail me and tell me if you want me to make Kagome go back on her own or if Inuyasha will come back and profess his undying love for her and make her come back. Personally I like the first choice because then it gives me more choice but I must follow the word of the readers.

The next chapter Kagome will go back to the feudal era so please give me a response.