Disclaimer: …still don't own InuYasha…wish I did though…heh that would be sweet.

Kagome pulled herself out of the well with her heavy backpack behind her. She had been gone five days from the feudal era and was back on the sixth day…and tomorrow would be the day InuYasha came back.

She felt dumb telling everyone what she had played over and over in her head when she had arrived back at camp about six days ago; that when he wasn't here, she felt like apart of her was empty, like she wasn't herself when she was away from him so long. There was no doubt about it; she missed him like hell.

Hell.

Could she really take his word for it? Kikyou could be behind all of this. Tricking him into going to hell with her, trying to kill him so she wouldn't have to live with the guilt that haunted her, that she killed him fifty years ago. What guilt did he have to live with? He wasn't the one that killed Kikyou, that drove her to the point of insanity and pain and pinned him the very tree that the miko was passing by now.

Kagome sighed through all the thoughts in her head. He wasn't the one that stole her soul; he wasn't the one who helped a bandit who later turned into a demon. Keywords: He wasn't the one.

Maybe he was to blame for some of it, maybe and even half of it, or even most of it. But not for the whole thing. If anyone is to blame for all of it, it was Naraku. What Kagome couldn't understand is that whenever she saw Kikyou, it was the same thing that came out of the clay pots mouth.

"InuYasha belongs to me. Not with you or to you. He is mine, and he will go to hell with soon. One way or another. And if I have to kill him or you…I will not hesitate. Your bond with InuYasha could never compare to mine."

But what did that mean? She wanted to kill him, to take him away from the earth, from her…of course her bond would never compare. Kagome would never hurt InuYasha. She had stayed by him for everything, or at least tried until he finally rejected her. Like six days ago. He had done it before but he never had been gone this long and most of the times he gave in to her petty begging but only because he didn't want to hurt her. And the other way around. And Kikyou claimed she felt that way, only her feelings were stronger.

But just a little betrayal, a misunderstanding, and their love was lost. But Kagome listened to him when it seemed he had done something to betray her, and he listened to her. Sango had even said it herself; he had chosen her a long time ago without realizing it.

Kagome stopped under the tree and looked up at the bare bark she had unattached InuYasha too about a yea and a half ago. They had been so quick to judge one another, to blame the other for the problem that was neither of them. And that had caused them to fall apart. They were close and then so far away. But not because they were both dead. They could be not two inches apart and be the farthest away from each other.

That's what held them together. Kagome and InuYasha didn't fight each other, or not physically anyway, if you don't count the SITS! They weren't so quickly to judge.

Kagome sighed, shrugged happily to herself and kept walking towards the village with a single thought.

Or at least after the beginning we didn't.

Kur0: sorry this isn't much but I had to update and then I ran out of ideas and it came out corny and sweet and cute and stuff. But this is just preparation for what us to come. Everything seems so perfect; sure InuYasha isn't back but Kagome has a feeling he would never go back with Ms. Claypot (don't we all!) but things go down hill and six feet under…fast. Ja!