ORIGINAL!

Inuyasha had seen them. The soul stealers. Kikyou's soul stealers. Kagome's was in her time, he knew he was safe when it came to her feeling any pain over this.

'Feh. as if? she always seems to see everything that happens between us! even if she is in her own time!' Inuyasha thought, as he walked through the forest towards where he had seen the despicable demon.

Inuyasha came into a small clearing, and there she was. Kikyou. the women who had caused so much of Kagome's pain. 'No, that was you, you Baka!' Inuyasha thought.

"Inuyasha, I knew you would come. Now is your time to join me in hell. This quest you are on is foolish, you will never succeed" She said, in her steady cooled voice. Inuyasha mentally shuddered at it. She had an extreme aura of mystery about her.

"Kikyou, I..."

Kagome crawled out of the well a day earlier then she had initially planned. 'At least Inuyasha will be happy' Kagome thought as she heaved her big yellow backpack out of the well behind her. She dropped it on the ground with a mumbled "oomph!"

"Huh?" Kagome turned in the direction of a strange, yet unmistakable aura. 'Kikyou! Oh no!' Kagome left her bag where it was and raced toward the dead Miko. 'Please Inuyasha! be alright! You made a promise!'

Kagome didn't stop running till she could see her soul stealers, and hear her speaking, Inuyasha was in the clearing with Kikyou as well.

Kikyou was speaking. "...This quest you are on is foolish. You will never succeed"

"Kikyou, I... Can't go with you" Inuyasha said, his head bowed.

Kikyou didn't seem surprised, she just stepped closer to Inuyasha. Not much closer, just a few steps. "You can't, or you wont?" She said calmly.

Inuyasha looked up into her eye's defiantly. "I won't, you may have died while I lived, but that doesn't mean I owe you my life! I will defeat Naraku for you, Then I will get on with my life. I'm sorry that you are unable to have one, but if you ever felt something for me, you wouldn't want to ruin my happiness, would you?" The words were cruel. Kagome knew he hadn't meant to sound that mean. But maybe that was how he really felt.

"So, you reject me for that copy? That pathetic girl! If you won't go with me because of her, I'll eliminate your dilemma" Kikyou sounded more angry then Kagome had ever heard her. The dead priestess reached behind her and pulled an arrow from her sack. Then aimed it right at Kagome, who had been hiding in a nearby bush.

"Die!" Kikyou screamed, she was about to release the arrow when...

"You can't, or you won't?" She said coldly. She sounded almost scolding.

Inuyasha looked up into her eye's defiantly. "I won't, you may have died while I lived, but that doesn't mean I owe you my life! I will defeat Naraku for you, Then I will get on with my life I'm sorry that you are unable to have one, but if you ever felt something for me, you wouldn't want to ruin my happiness, would you?" Inuyasha almost cringed at the words that came out of his mouth. She hadn't deserved them, but they were true.

"So, you reject me for that copy? That pathetic girl! If you won't go with me because of her, I'll eliminate your dilemma" Inuyasha looked up instantly, more surprised by the rage behind the words then the words themselves.

Kikyou pulled an arrow from her bag and fixed it into her arrow, before aiming it at a nearby bush. Inuyasha registered her earlier words instantly before drawing Tetsusaiga.

Just as Kikyou screamed out "Die!" Inuyasha brought down Tetsusaiga, cutting a large slash, that went from the back of Kikyou's right shoulder, to the back of her left thigh. The bow and arrow hit the ground.

Kagome ran out of the bush, as Inuyasha lent down next to the dieing miko. "I'm sorry" Inuyasha whispered, his fathers sword falling on the ground beside him.

"Don't be." Kikyou seemed to have returned to the miko Inuyasha used to know, in her last moments of the illusion that had been her current existence. "I'm not. Thank you for releasing me Inuyasha, Take care of the girl," Kikyou shuddered as she clung to her artificial life long enough to say her part. "She can give you the happiness and trust I never could have" Then with one shuddering breath, she was gone.

Kagome's soul floated out of Kikyou's body, and slammed into her (Kagome). Knocking her backwards, Inuyasha caught her before she hit the ground.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered weakly, as he held her in his arms.

"Shhhh" He responded.

"I'm sorry" she continued anyways.

"I protected you. I released her. My job is done, don't be sorry" Inuyasha said, he lightly kissed her forehead.

Kagome sighed as she snuggled farther into Inuyasha's chest. She was cursing the fact that her strength was returning.

Finally, she sighed and sat up. She didn't pull totally out of his reach though.

Kagome looked into his eye's and saw it there. That thing that told her he was asking to kiss her. He had asked maybe twice since that night two months ago, when he made the promise. Kagome had refused both times. Reminding him of the trouble it would cause were someone to see. This time, she didn't care.

Kagome crushed her lips to his, then she felt the fire. That fire that had almost been her undoing the last two months. She felt him respond instantly. Pushing back with passion that only hers could match.

Then it was over. What felt like eternity, and yet only seconds at the same time. She pressed close to his chest, as she breathed heavily.

"Any chance about not waiting till we kick Naraku's ass?" Inuyasha whispered, a smile evident in his voice.

"Nope. We could make each other vulnerable. You know that. It won't be long." Kagome snuggled her face farther in his kimono. As he in turn, snuggled his face in her raven hair. Then sighing he let her go, knowing that there day would come. With Kagome waiting at the end of this quest with open arms, He knew it would be more then worth the wait.

Okay, so please, review!I would love you all, if you could tell me how I did with the re-write. Thanx! - Fu Fu