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Chapter 2: Hate,
Kagome woke slowly, keeping her eyes closed. She had dreamt about something wonderful, and she didn't want to let it go. Then a smile came to her face. She hadn't dreamt it. It had really happened. "Inuyasha?" No reply. She reached over for him, but felt an empty bed beside her. She opened her eyes.
She was back in her own room. How had she gotten back here? Where was Inuyasha? Had she actually dreamt the whole thing?
No. She could see her clothes draped on her chair, and she would never have left them like that. Inuyasha must have brought her back. But why hadn't he woken her up before he left? Why hadn't he stayed? Then she noticed the note.
"'I'm sorry!'" she exclaimed. Now she was annoyed. That stupid half-demon had slept with her and then just dumped her back here in her own time! Without even a lame excuse, just a lamer, useless message. Well, she wasn't going to stand for that! She was going back to knock some sense, or at least decency, into his head. Then she noticed that something was missing. The jewel shards! She couldn't sense them anywhere, and she couldn't get back without them. "That mangy animal!"
What was she supposed to do now? Abandoned by the one she loved, whom she thought had loved her back. She couldn't even go look for him. Her only chance to see him again was if he came back, and that seemed unlikely, given the unceremonious way he had dumped her here. He must not care for her at all.
She wanted to burst out crying. Just as she had thought that she knew he really cared for her, she found out how wrong she was. Nothing could be clearer after the way he had treated her.
A knock came at her door. "Kagome? Is that you?" asked her mother.
"Yes, it's me. I, uh, came back late last night."
"Well, if you plan to go to school today, you'd better hurry." Her mom walked on down the hall.
School. That was what she was left with, now that she was stuck in this time. Struggling to keep from crying from despair, she got ready. She thought about burning Inuyasha's note, but even though she hated what he had done, she still loved him. It was all she had to remind her of him. She tucked it in her bag and went down to breakfast.