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Chapter 2 – Reunion

Disclaimer - I do not own Inuyasha or any other character relating to it.

After passing through the well almost a full week ago, Kagome still hadn't seen Inuyasha. She tried going back the day after her final exam, but the end result was a badly sprained ankle and a lot of bruises. She even tried getting on with her life, but something always came around to make her heart ache for the Feudal Era and everyone left there.

Mrs. Higurashi, her mother, has noticed Kagome's depressed state and has begun to worry about the future of her daughter. She walked into Kagome's room to see Kagome sitting on her bed with her knees draw up under her chin as best as she could, resting her head on her knees crying to herself.

"Kagome dear, would you like me to draw a nice hot bath for you?"

"Oh mom! I don't know what to do anymore" sobbed Kagome as she slowly lifted her eyes to look at her mother. "I miss everyone one from the Feudal Era, but I have no way to get back. Inuyasha won't come for me anymore. He hates me, mom."

Mrs. Higurashi just gave her daughter a sympathetic smile and reached out and took Kagome's right hand in to her own. "Now you know that's not true Kagome. Inuyasha cares for you a great deal. I can see it in him every time he comes here to take you with him the Feudal Era. You're his best friend Kagome and he cherishes that."

The only response Kagome could give was quiet sob.

Feudal Era

For the past week Inuyasha has been sitting in the Goshinbuko Tree sulking by himself. 'Good job you stupid baka! You pushed Kagome away for good."

'I didn't mean to. She just gets me so angry some times. Hasn't she realized that I don't like it when she goes home and leaves me alone?'

'Of course not stupid because you haven't told her. How dumb do you have to be?'

'Keh! Since when do I have to explain myself to her?'

'Since you love her baka!'

'Who are you anyways and why the fuck am I talking to you?'

'I'm you stupid! I'm that thing called your conscious. That little voice in your head that you're suppose to listen to, but you have been ignoring me for years!'

'Keh! Just leave me alone!'

"Inuyasha you big meanie!" yelled the young kitsune Shippou from the base of the tree. "Go through the well and bring back my Kagome!"

"Get lost you runt! If you want Kagome back, go and get her yourself" retorted Inuyasha.

"You dummy! You're the only one who can pass through the well!" yelled the very disgruntle kitsune.

"Just leave me alone. She'll come back. She always does" replied in Inuyasha in a smug tone of voice.

"She would have returned already if she had the Shikon Jewel you baka! She's stuck there until you go and get her!"

'Shit! I forgot she left the jewel behind. Baka, baka, baka!'

'So just go and get her then stupid!'

With that final thought in his head, Inuyasha ran off towards the well.

Present

"Mom! I'm going to the mall with Eri, Yuki, and Ayumi! I'll be back in time for dinner!" Without waiting for a reply, Kagome walked out the door into the yard. In reality, she was just going for a walk in the park, as hard as that maybe with a sprained ankle. She had to clear her head. Nothing made sense anymore and she was tired of it all. This is what she wanted right? For everything to go back to normal?

'Don't be stupid! Of course this is what you want Kagome.'

So why was it that when ever she tried to think of happy memories, they were always of Inuyasha? No matter how hard she tried his face always appeared in her mind or she swears she could hear his voice on the wind.

'Stupid baka! This is all his fault, but why aren't I mad at him? Why can't I ever stay mad at him?'

Before Kagome realized it she had reached the park and found a bench to sit on. She thought of Inuyasha again and the times he saved her without thinking of his own safety. "But I was just his shard detector and nothing else. He loves Kikyo and not me." With those words said Kagome began to cry.

Shrine

Back at the shrine, Inuyasha had just come through the well.

'She not here. Her scent's old' Inuyasha stuck his nose in the air and immediately picked up on Kagome's scent.

In a matter of minutes, Inuyasha came upon the park and a lone figure sitting on a park bench talking to no in particular, but herself.

"But I was just his shard detector and nothing else. He loves Kikyo and not me."

Inuyasha couldn't believe what he heard. 'She wants me to love her? Fuck! I really screwed up this time.' Inuyasha silently approached Kagome for fear that she would sit him for all eternity if she found out he had heard her.

"Kagome…"

"Inu…Inuyasha? Wh…What a…are you do…doing h…here?" asked Kagome between hiccupping sobs.

"I'm sorry Kagome" was the only Inuyasha knew to say as he stopped a few feet away from the park bench. "I didn't mean what I said last time. You gotta believe me."

Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing. Inuyasha had just apologized to her. She stood up as best as she could and limped over to where Inuyasha stood.

Inuyasha's eyes went wide when he saw Kagome walking and somehow knew he was to blame for it all. "What happened Kagome? Why can't you walk right?"

"I tried going back one day, but the well wouldn't let me pass. I hit the bottom pretty hard and sprained my ankle" she replied sheepishly. "But it's okay because you came for me and we can go back now, right?" asked Kagome in a caution tone as to not get her hopes up.

"Yeah I guess if that's what you want."

"I have just one question to ask."

"Yeah what?"

"Did you go to see Kikyo while I was here? Is that why it took you so long to come and get me?"

Kagome's question hit him hard. He couldn't understand this woman at the best of time and now he was utterly confused. "No, but why do u wanna know?"

Kagome just shook head, but a small smile began to form at the corners of her mouth and began to limp off towards to shrine. "No real reason. You coming dog-boy?"

"Keh. Like you could stop me."