Hey guys! Now all of you now know how fragile Ikuto is! That stupid girl broke his heart! Now do you all understand his perspective a little more?

Question: How many chapters are left in the story?

Answer:…..Why, is it too long?

Chapter 31

Me no own

"Thank you guys" Kagome said sitting on her bed "I think this sleep over was a great idea. Lately I've just been stressed out, and trying to have some fun would do me some good."

"Well" Yuka replied "there was a time where we barely got to see you at all, Kagome. I'm just glad you've been going to school on a regular basis."

"You must be feeling well" Arimi stated.

"So how's your many boyfriends?" Eri asked. "You're going out with Ikuto now, aren't you?"

"I sure wish I had a boyfriend that would send me all of those things" Arimi said.

"Well" Kagome turned her face away from her friends, trying not to think about how much she really missed Ikuto. "Well, I broke up with him." All of her friends gasped and began asking questions, too many questions to answer all at once. Kagome just decided to tell them the truth. She sighed "I still like my ex boyfriend. Ikuto got angry and broke up with me."

"Well he exaggerated" Yuka said "what a jerk. You broke up to be with him, of course you wouldn't get over him that fast."

Kagome put her head down, knowing what she had truly done wrong. "I accidentally said the name of my ex boyfriend while Ikuto and I were kissing."

Everyone grew quiet. Ikuto suddenly wasn't such a jerk anymore. "Well" Arimi said "he'll forgive you, won't he?"

Kagome shrugged her shoulders slightly. "Well, I really care about him, but everything is going haywire. I don't think I could ask him for forgiveness. He deserves to be happy, and I think I just bring confusion." She tried to smile. "I even already got his birthday present. I really wanted to give it to him too."

"Oh Kagome" Eri said. "It'll be alright, as long as you…ahhhh!" Eri pointed to the window and started screaming. "I saw something!"

"You saw something at my window?" Kagome asked surprised. She quickly ran to it and opened it, spotting Inuyasha running away as fast as he could. "Wait!" she yelled. "Wait a moment! Sit!" When nothing happened, she remembered that the rosary had broken when Ikuto was possessed, but Inuyasha still remembered how it felt, for his body held a slight hesitation. Kagome took this opportunity to run out of her room with her friends calling her name. She had no time to stop; she only kept running until she was right at the well and saw Inuyasha, just as he jumped inside. "Wait you jerk!" she jumped in after, and was able to follow him back into the Feudal Era. "Inuyasha!"

He slightly panicked and jumped out of the well without helping her up. "Kagome, go back home!"

"No! You're lucky I can't sit you, or you'd be so sat right now!" Kagome struggled to get up out of the well on her own, but she eventually felt Inuyasha's arm grab hers and help her up. She couldn't help but blush for a little bit, but then she remembered she was angry. "Where were you? Why'd you steal my jewel shards and abandon me?"

Inuyasha's ears began to slump down. "Kagome I can't explain. You've just got to go back home!"

"No, not until you tell me that you couldn't say goodbye to me! Tell me why!" He turned his face from her. "Don't look away when I'm talking to you! This is important! I don't have time to play your stupid and childish games! I know you still care about me, or you wouldn't have come back tonight. How long have you been spying on me?" Inuyasha didn't answer her question. "Inuyasha" she said quietly "why did you leave?"

He finally decided to look at her. The sooner he explained, the sooner she could leave and Sango, Miroku, and Shippo didn't have to know about Kagome's return. "Kagome you don't belong in my world. It's too dangerous here and there's no telling what sort of damage you're doing. You need to leave."

"I've got to fix what I messed up, Inuyasha. The Shikon jewel was shattered because of me! I have a responsibility to put it back together."

"I'll handle it!"

Kagome narrowed her eyes at him, angrily. "Oh really?" She held out her hand. "Give it to me."

"Give you what?"

"My jewel shards. They don't belong in your time either. They were in my body, them being with you makes absolutely no sense."

"Kagome don't get smart with me!"

"Don't pretend like you've made a decision to push me away because of the reasons you're giving me. I don't buy it! You've must have had these thoughts before, because I've had these thoughts before as well, but I've continued coming anyway because I wanted to be with you, and I know that you still wanted to be with me. Inuyasha" she struggled to say the next line. She didn't know quite what to say. "I…well I really care about you…but I did decide that I wanted to try and forget about you." She watched his ears fall even more "I know that I didn't tell you that, so I always wondered why you left. Why did you?"

"Kagome…" he didn't know how to say the next sentence he was planning on saying. The only reason why he considered saying it was because she couldn't say sit. "Kagome, I know that you and Ikuto have something that Kikyou told me that she and I don't have: a chance. I met with Kikyou the day Ikuto got possessed. She said she would only help him if I promised to keep you in your time and I stayed in mine. I knew you wanted Ikuto to live, so I made the deal with her."

"But…" instead of Kagome being angry, she was utterly confused. "But why keep the deal? I'm the one who got the demon out; Kikyou had nothing to do with it. She might have helped but-"

"Kagome, Kikyou was supposed to help, that was the deal. It's also a promise that I had to keep. Besides Kagome, Ikuto really got hurt the other day. I don't know if we should continue going on how we've been going on. I think it's too dangerous."

"Let me worry about what's dangerous. I'll concentrate on surviving, and you concentrate on Naraku. It's my fault he's so strong because he's practically got all of the jewel shards."

"Yeah you're right but-"

"Inuyasha, I tried to forget about you, but I couldn't. Being with you is the only thing that truly makes me happy. Do you understand, Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha's ears rose up again, as he thought of what he should do. 'Should I really betray Kikyou by letting Kagome stay?' "Kagome, how many times have you almost died? I can handle collecting the jewel shards. Don't worry about it."

"But I have to Inuyasha. It's my responsibility. I have to deal with it! You're not keeping me out of this, not any longer! I have a responsibility to you and Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and even Kirara. They've all fought so hard for something that was my mistake. I'm not going to let everything get out of hand. I bet you've gotten no where without me." Inuyasha kind of pouted, so she knew she was right. "See, see there! I knew it. You need my help, and I'm going to correct the mistakes I've made."

"Kagome…" Inuyasha was trying to resist her, but he wanted her so badly "what about Ikuto?"

"What?" 'He's actually asking me? He's concerned? What did Kikyou say to him? Inuyasha is not a considerate person; especially for someone he has declared his enemy. Does he really care about him, or is he just trying to still push me away?' "We tried, it failed." She blushed. "I still wanted you."

Inuyasha couldn't push her away anymore. "Kagome…I promise I'll protect you, but once we get the jewel shards, then I think I'll want you to stay home, but I swear I won't abandon you." He took the bottle of jewel shards that was around his neck and placed it in Kagome's hands. "Once the jewel shards are found-"

"I know, I heard you." She smiled. "We've got to stop Naraku too."

"I don't want Ikuto coming to this time though. There's no point in him messing up anything."

"Yeah, I don't think he's coming back. His brother wouldn't let him, no way." There was an awkward silence between the two of them. Kagome was relieved and yet somehow saddened by all that had happened between her and Ikuto and how it ended. She still wanted to give him that gift that she had gotten for him. "Inuyasha, I'm glad."

"Yeah, me too."

She slowly began to smile. 'So now I'm back to the beginning. Things are really getting really confusing, but why do I still fell lonely, if this is what I really want?' "Oh my gosh! I left all my friends at my house!" She held the bottle of jewel shards tightly and jumped down the well without actually saying goodbye.

"It's about time!" Shippo yelled from behind a bush. Miroku and Sango covered his mouth and shushed him, but the angry Inuyasha had already heard the peepers' voices.

"What have a told you about spying on me?"

"Wait just a moment" Miroku yelled. "We just wanted to make sure you were alright!"

"Run!" Sango yelled. After that, the three peepers along with Kirara were running from the clutches of Inuyasha. Shippo told himself though that even if he was caught and beaten by Inuyasha, at least Kagome would be back!

"And who was the mystery man?" Yuka asked when Kagome came back in her room. "Well, who is he?"

"Oh" Kagome said "it's not really important!" They all glared at her suspiciously. "Well, it was my ex boyfriend! We're kind of…thinking about getting back together."

"He comes through your window?" Eri asked a little crept out.

"Sometimes."

"How romantic!" Arimi said.

'This guy sounds like a stocker' Yuka thought.

'I think she should give Hojo another thought' Eri told herself in her mind.

"Ready?" Inuyasha came to her the next day, through her window. She was just placing a few books in her book bag. "Yeah. Hopefully we'll just be a few days. I've got a test Tuesday, and it's really important."

"Come on Kagome, get your act together! We've got jewel shards to find!"

"Hey," she increased her volume to match his "a few days ago you didn't even want me around! Now you're being the same old selfish Inuyasha once again, only thinking of how he can yell at me! I swear I'll have another rosary made, just for you!"

"You wouldn't dare!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Inuyasha?" Souta walked into Kagome's room and was ecstatic once he saw his hero. He had missed Inuyasha and never could get used to the idea of Ikuto hanging around. Inuyasha was just so cool and Ikuto was just so…ordinary compared to Inuyasha. "Alright, you're back! Where have you been?"

"Around." He picked up Kagome's bag. "Let's go, Kagome."

"Yeah" she said. "Hey," she said a little awkwardly "I really would like to be back here by Monday."

"You said Tuesday before! Why are you changing your mind?"

"Well…" she frowned "well my friend is having a birthday and I wanted to give them something. I know it's something that they'd really love and I wanted to make them happy."

"Happy with what?

"It's a surprise." She tried to change the subject. "Well, let's hurry up! We've got two days!"

"Two days? What could we possibly get done in two days? You've got to do more than that, Kagome! Stop being such a brat!"

"I'm not a brat, you're a brat!"

Souta sighed as the two of them started arguing again. "Man, it looks like everything is back to normal between the two of them."

"So what do you want for your birthday?" Rina asked Ikuto while jumping on his bed. "What do you want?"

"Why?" he turned the page of his novel. He had never read The Great Gatsby before. The more he read it though, the more he decided that he didn't like it, especially since he was almost done with the book. He sympathized for the main character Gatsby who had just wanted to make his dream come true by being with the woman that he loved. He was foolish for thinking that he could relive the past though, and he let his dream blind him until it utterly ruined him in the end. "Why do you want to know what I want?"

"Because your birthday is in two days! I wanna know so I can get you something!"

"So, you don't have any money. You can't get anything."

"I can get some from my daddy."

"Then he'll be actually buying it, won't he?"

She stopped jumping once she realized his words to be true. "I was just trying to help you! You don't have to be so mean to me!" She gave one more final jump and landed on her butt. "Can I see your book?" Even though he knew she wouldn't understand, he gave it to her, knowing that she wouldn't silence herself until he had given it to her. "I can't understand it."

"That's because it's in English. Of course you can't understand it."

"Then why do you get books in English?"

"First of all, it's my mother's. I have very few of her items, but those that I do have, I cherish. Second of all, I can speak, write, and read English fluently. Third of all, when I move to the U.S. then I'll be reading nothing but English."

"Why?" she asked sadly. "You're leaving me? Why are you leaving me?"

"Because I'm an American. You would be in America if your father wouldn't have died." The mention of her dead father upset her. She jumped off her bed and ran out of Ikuto's room to her own. "Rina!" He sighed heavily and placed his book down, just as he finished it. He immediately went to Rina who was crying in her closet. "Rina?"

"Go away!"

"Rina?"

"Go away!"

Of course he didn't listen. He knelt down beside her and grabbed her. She screamed, but he held her in his arms. "Rina, stop being a baby! Tell me what's bothering you." She started screaming for Suno to save her, but they both knew he wasn't home. "Hey kid, stop it and just tell me what's the matter!" He dropped her on her bed and waited for her to speak. Rina wiped her tears away and looked away from Ikuto. "Oh, okay Rina! You're gonna be a baby? Fine then, I'll leave you alone." He slowly began walking away from Rina and right before he left out, Rina began to speak.

"My dad, my real dad died. I never knew him" she said quietly. "I love my new daddy. I love him like he was my real daddy. Sometimes I wonder about my real daddy, but then I always tell myself that Suno's my father, and I decided that I love him more." She began to sob. She felt so guilty. "Ikuto, is it wrong for me to love him more, when he's not my real daddy?"

Ikuto felt bad for making her upset. 'I can see why Sarah was worried. If they had a child, then they'd be able to say that Suno was always their father, and Rina couldn't. I suppose Suno never got close to my mother for that reason. I guess all kids in their situation feel a little misplaced.' "Rina, Suno is your real father." He sat down on the bed with her. "Rina, you never knew your real father, there's nothing wrong with caring about Suno more. You actually have a relationship with him. He'll always be your real father, Rina."

She gave Ikuto a quick hug, which made him a little embarrassed. "Thank you Ikuto!" Suddenly everything was alright again. She was happy only with a few words.

"Hey, just promise me you won't cry for a while, and that can be your present to me."

"How bout I get you and Kagome back together?"

Ikuto frowned. "Uh…I don't know about me and Kagome. I'm not sure that we can be together. It's a little…complicated."

"Why, because of the man with the dog ears?"

"How'd you know about that?"

She shrugged her shoulders. "Daddy said you're hopeless, and I believed him. I figured it out in a few moments." She smiled. "Kagome's really pretty! You should try it again, Ikuto."

He looked away. "Just stay out of my business, will ya? Kagome doesn't even like me. She's probably with that stupid mutt right now anyway."

"Kagome!" Shippo yelled jumping into her arms. "Yeah! I'm so glad you're finally back! I missed you! We haven't done a thing without you! I'm so glad!"

Miroku had mixed feelings, but if she was happy, then it pleased him. "It's nice to see you back again, Kagome."

"Yes" Sango said with a smile. "We've missed you." She looked in the direction of Inuyasha "We all have missed you deeply, Kagome."

"I've missed you guys too" Kagome said. 'But I've really missed Inuyasha. Maybe being with him will fill the gap I feel. I still feel like something's missing. It can't be Ikuto, not since I just broke up with him. I couldn't ask for his forgiveness, not after what I just did to him.' "What do you say we look for the Shikon Jewel?"

"It's about time" Inuyasha said.

To Be Continued…

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