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'What's she doing!' Lot's of thoughts were racing through Kagome's head.

She didn't know what in the world was going on, she just knew that Kikyou had stolen her shikon no tama and that she was at the moment trying to seduce Inuyasha with it!

Or do something along those lines of seducing Inuyasha! Oh, Kagome was mad now as she watched Kikyou and Inuyasha.

'Inuyasha! What are you doing!' Kagome's mouth hung wide open! She could not believe what was goin' on right in front of her!

"Hello? Inuyasha-?" She said in a small voice. She watched a moment until she could take it no longer.

"HELLO! I'M STILL HERE! YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST WAITED TILL' YOU WERE ALONE FOR THIS!" she screamed at them.

She waited a moment but it seemed neither of them heard her. She didn't know what to do--

'Errr.I shouldn't be here- I shouldn't be seeing this!' Kagome thought panicked. 'But I can't just leave Inuyasha-'

The better voices in her head were telling her te leave but... leave Inuyasha alone with Kikyou?

"That is what he'd want me to do though, right? But what about the shikon-no-tama?" She asked herself. "Oh Kami, what do I do!"

And that was when it hit her, Inuyasha wasn't just ignoring Kagome! Kikyou had him under some sort of spell!

"Come now, Inuyasha. If you can take the jewel then it's yours, and you can make your wish, and then come to hell with me where we will be eternaly together." Kikyou told him, her eyes dancing and her voice, although sweet, had an coldness to it that put even Inuyasha on edge.

He stared at the jewel that was hanging around her neck, and his hand slowly inched towards it as his mind was being made up about what to do with it. He grasped it into his fist and gently tugged on it.

Kikyou's necklace broke and now Inuyasha was holding the jewel securely in his fist. He felt power like no other coursing through his body...He closed his eyes to concentrate on making his wish, and then he heard it.

Someone screaming his name in the distance...he racked his brain trying to recognize the person screaming. Their voice was so familiar, it was so close and yet so far away from him, so close to his memory...

"INU-YASHAAAAA!"

"Huh!" He suddenly came back to reality. Everything hit him full-force. Kagome's familiar sweet scent and all.

"Kagome!" He said shocked. Kikyou's eyes narrowed at him.

Inuyasha turned his head to see that Kagome was all right. She was on her hands and knees on the forest floor, breathing hard and staring up at him. She was trembling.

"Inuyasha...?" Her voice was small and questioning.

He didn't know what to say in this situation. He couldn't find it in himself to say anything to her. All he could do was stare at her apalogetically.

Kikyou looked over at Kagome angrily. Her earlier words to Kagome echoed over in her head again.

"You should leave now Kagome, everything about you does not belong in this place." Kikyou stared seriously at Kagome. "Besides.." she said cockily. "More than ever, you are not needed, being that the jewel is completed and Inuyasha has no more uses for you."

And that was when Inuyasha had shown up.

Kagome's heart painfuly skipped a beat at those words.

She could not take any more of it. Especially when Inuyasha didn't even take up for her. That was when she made up her mind to leave this era, forever.

Kagome stood up to her full height and looked Inuyasha straight in the eyes. They just stared for a moment.

"Inuyasha...I-" Everything was so quiet. "I loved you...but you never noticed."

Kagome turned away from them before he could react, and ran. She ran as hard as she could. She felt her entire body become numb,both physically and mentally, she was going through a state of shock.

Inuyasha, would be eternally with Kikyou.

A woman who hated him.

Did she honestly care what happened to this world now...if she and her family were alive and well in her time, then everything must have worked out in the past, right?

'Besides...Inuyasha will be happier this way, with a woman who knew how to take care of herself instead of always having to be rescued.' She thought bitterly.

'And after all, he loves Kikyou, and true love always makes painful sacrifices, even if it means spending all eternity in hell with someone who hates you and then...well as long as Inuyasha is happy I will...try...to stand by his decision...'

Tears were falling nonstop down Kagome's face. But she kept running. She just wanted to get away, from everything.

Inuyasha hadn't even come after her. So everything really was over... or so she thought it was.