How can I go on?

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha

Plop.

Plop.

Plop.

The slow drizzle of rain was her only companion in the clearing by the tree, near the freshly turned dirt of a grave. The dark sky was a mirror of her mood, cold, numb and despairing.

The frozen droplets conceled her tears well as the ran down her cheeks. Cheeks of hard plastered marble. Her eyes were emotionless. Her mind saw no reason for joy, happiness or pleasure. Not when he was gone, buried under her feet. His corpse was most likely worm food by now.

She didn't know how long she had stood there, a frozen statue. He wasn't here anymore, why would she, should she move? The world held no purpose anymore not without him here. Slowly she moved her fixated eyes from the soggy brown soul to the forest where another had come to join here.

Kikyo, the woman she had envyed, dispised, question for so long. Framed by her sould chasers and the trees, the dead woman looked like some strange mystical spirit. Her eyes held the same sadness as her counterpart, who stood a few feet away.

The dead priestess spoke, her voice hollow and weak, like the rest of her. "Kagome" her counterpart loked at her and Kikyo shivered. Their was a longing, an emptiness in Kagome's eyes that seemed almost unbareable.

"Yes?"

If Kikyo hadn't been looking directly at her, she never would have known that Kagome spoke, her voice was so quiet. So very like her eyes.

"I am fading from this world now. My original goal has been completed. Soon I must vanish and continue on to the next world." If Kagome heard or cared she gave no inclination, so Kikyo continued.

"I am not here long. But I have one request to say before I go." Again no reaction. Kikyo sighed. In a matter of minutes she would be gone, like a whisp of smoke.

"I loved him, as you love him. So you are the only one I can ask this of. Find him. Find the one who fired the arrow and killed InuYasha!"

"Find him. Find the one who fired the arrow and killed InuYasha!" The final words of Kikyo echoed around the clearing.

Find him? Quest? Look for something? Without InuYasha? Kagome's eyes narrowed.

"Why?" she wishpered. "Why do anything after he's gone?"

Flashes of the past two years ran over and over again like a reoccurring nightmare. Slowly she understood. The one arrow was fired at her! InuYasha … had protected her. Someone tried to kill her but … they missed and InuYasha had payed the price.

Kagome sank to her knees. He had died for her.

Kagome set her jaw through tears were still falling freely. Someone had to pay for their mistake and hers. She would make them pay.

"Damn you!" she screamed. A nest of birds took off in flight. "I will find you, who ever you are. I will kill you!" she promised the murdered and slowly emotions returned to Kagome. Determination, rage and hate.

"I will kill you!"