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Chapter 2-Inuyasha's Jealousy

"Inuyasha, why do you have to be so jealous all the time? Every single time another guy just as so much as looks at me, you draw the Tetsusaiga and act as if I'm your girlfriend-which I wouldn't be in a million years!" yelled Kagome.

A sharp pain in Inuyasha's chest brought a lump to his throat. As he fought back tears he yelled at Kagome, "Fine! Then you can just go and leave! It's not like I have any feelings for you! All you do is yell 'sit' all the time and if you haven't noticed it's reeked havoc on my back! So just leave! Go back to your own time, Kagome! Go back and LEAVE ME BE!" Inuyasha turned away from Kagome.

She looked at him half startled, half hurt. She didn't know what to do, half of her just wanted to crawl under a rock and die it hurt so bad, the other half wished she would just go home and never see this arrogant jerk ever again. But she needed him, Kagome loved him and she could never leave his side, it would hurt too much for her to do such a thing. After all they've been through, with his ex-girlfriend who was brought back to life and was trying to kill her, demons always chasing after her trying to get possession of the shards of the Shikon jewel. She couldn't hold it in anymore. Tears poured down her face, she cried openly and had no shame of hiding it from Inuyasha, after all, itwas his fault she was crying.

Inuyasha gasped. He turned around. "Kagome…"

"Fine! I will! Inuyasha, I never want to see you again! I will return to my own time and you will never see me again!" Kagome threw the Shikon shards at his feet and turned and ran.

Inuyasha looked at the shards at his feet and tried so hard to hold it in, but he couldn't anymore. Tears started to pour down his face. The pain in his chest hurt so bad he keeled over clutching his chest gasping for air all the while fighting the lump in his throat that threatened to cut off his supply of air. Tears were now streaming down his face. His fist pounded the ground.

"Kagome! NOOOOOOOOO!" Inuyasha yelled after the fleeing figure.

But Kagome didn't stop, she kept running. She ran all the way to the sacred tree, the place where they had first met. She collapsed among the roots and buried her face into her hands and cried for what seemed like hours. A shadow loomed over her. She looked up with a tearstained face, tears still continuing to fall and gasped in surprise.

Inuyasha fell to his knees in front of her.

"Inu…Inuyasha?"

"Kagome," Inuyasha said, his voice cracking with emotion. "Please don't go. I need you Kagome. Do you hear me, I need you!"

By now Inuyasha was crying. He grabbed Kagome and held her tight, trying to get close to her, to feel the warmth radiating from her. He cradled her in his arms and she buried her face into his chest. Inuyasha's body was shivering, Kagome looked up into his face and noticed the tears falling from his eyes and realized he was crying.

"Inuyasha…"

"Kagome, promise me, you'll never leave my side. I don't know what I'd do if I ever lost you. When you ran away from me, I was scared, I was so scared, I thought I'd lost you for good."

"Inuyasha," Kagome whispered. "Are you crying?"

Inuyasha let go of Kagome and stood up quickly, turning his back on her. He wiped away his tears on his sleeve and said meekly, "No."

"Inuyasha."

Inuyasha turned around. He looked into Kagome's eyes and all of a sudden the warm feeling flooded his senses once again. He swept Kagome up in his arms and pressed his lips against hers with such intensity that his cheeks became flushed. He held her tighter in his arms just trying to get closer to her but without prevail. The bushes to his right rustled. Inuyasha threw Kagome away from him and drew out his Tetsusaiga.

"All right, who ever you are, you better come out of there right now before I hack you to pieces with my Tetsusaiga! Huh?"

It was Kikyou! Kikyou stepped out from behind the bush and looked cold heartedly first at Inuyasha, then at Kagome. Her icy stare retraced back to Inuyasha.

"So Inuyasha, this is how you betray me! You swore an oath to protect me, you told me you loved me!" Kikyou drew an arrow and pointed it straight at Kagome's heart.

"Die wretched girl!" With that Kikyou released the arrow.

"Kikyou, no! KAGOME! AAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGG!" Inuyasha let out a roar of anger, frustration and failure.

"AUGHHH!" Kagome choked as the arrow pierced her heart.

"NOOOOOO! KAGOME!" Inuyasha turned on Kikyou. "WIND SCAR!"

The puppet was slain instantly.

"DAMN YOU NARAKU!" Inuyasha yelled.

Inuyasha threw down Tetsusaiga and ran to Kagome's aide.

"Kagome! Kagome, please wake up! Why won't you answer? Kagome!" Inuyasha's vision became blurred and started to darken as he held Kagome tightly in his claws.

Ka…Kagome…please don't leave me…I have to stay awake…I have to protect…Kagome…Inuyasha rested against the sacred tree. But soon he gave way to the darkness.