Chapter Two

Death

Inuyasha slowly sat down in front of the grave Kagome's mother had made for her. He still couldn't believe it had been one year since she had died. The pain was still fresh. And just before that he had lost Kikyo. What was this world coming to?

Punching the ground, Inuyasha stood and ran back to the well. He had no reason to come back now. He had lost her and shouldn't be showing his face to her family. It wasn't right.

Now, as he walked onto the wet grass of his own time and era, Inuyasha remembered the terrible day.

It had been one year ago, and the battle had been doing just the way they had planned. Naraku was one blow away from death, and when Kagome and himself struck him with their sharing weapons, her arrow and his sword, Naraku went down. But he had enough strength to slash Kagome with large claws, right through her heart. She died instintly.

And now, Inuyasha felt the stiff pain of the knowledge that he could have done something to make sure she hadn't died, but there was no point in it now. She was gone.

Now, as he remembered, Sango had had her first child, Nana, with Miroku. And, that mangy wolf had married Ayame and they were expecting pups soon.

Sighing, he jumped into the branch of his favorite tree and closed his eyes. The world would be a better place if he wasn't in it.