The to kids came running in ready to open the book that they found so long ago. "It feels like forever since we opened it up!" the boy said.

"Yeah it has."

"No more talking lets read!" the boy yelled as the girl began.

"I couldn't believe that woman, what was she thinking telling me that I couldn't grieve anymore? I tried to get to know her but she kept trying to get me to get away from my grieving. I miss Kagome, how could I possibly forget her. But what she did today really set me off…

Inuyasha was still dozing in the tree. He was up there for the whole night and was still asleep at mid afternoon. Everyone was used to it except Kiara who continually would ask if Inuyasha was okay. "Go check on him if you are that worried about him." an annoyed Shippo finally said.

"I think I will." The woman said as she walked out of Kaede's hut and made her way toward Inuyasha's favorite tree.

Inuyasha lay on a branch with his eyes closed. He was taking in the sun that had shown through the branches. He remembered when Kagome would sing out his name when she would come to the tree, she thought she could sneak up on him every time but she didn't understand that he could easily smell her.

Kiara smiled seeing him in the tree, he looked so peaceful, "Inuuuuyaaashaaa." Kiara sung up into the tree.

Inuyasha's ears flicked at her direction as he looked down hopefully only to see Kiara standing there. His face went straight to a frown as he looked away again, "Don't say my name like that." Inuyasha mumbled.

"So you are alive?" The woman asked.

Inuyasha had to look down to make sure it wasn't Kagome, she looked nothing like her and yet her voice was almost similar-it had that childish sound to it. "Come down and eat, that nice lady made some food."

"Her name is Kaede." Inuyasha mumbled.

"Your friends are worried about you. Why don't you come down and talk to us? Be social once in a while."

"You are not one of my friends." Inuyasha said not wanting to talk to her.

"Just come down." The woman whined out.

Inuyasha sighed as he jumped down from the tree. He glared at Kiara before walking past her and started his way to the village.

"Why don't you talk to me?" the woman asked. "Come on just say one thing."

He turned around as he yelled "I don't wish to talk to you. I want you to leave."

"But I am just like you; I have no one to turn to. I have no place to go."

Inuyasha growled as he turned around from her crossing his arms, "For the last time, I am nothing like you. I want nothing to do with you and I never did. We have nothing in common and I wish for you to not be in my life."

"But why not?" she whispered.

Inuyasha looked at her as she started to get tears in her eyes. His greatest weakness was tears, when a person cried he could never leave them alone. "Don't cry." He yelled trying to sound strong. Inside he was breaking apart.

The woman broke out into more tears, "I just thought that I finally met someone like me. Someone who could understand me for me."

"You said you had a mate." He said accusingly.

"Yes but he was full demon he knew very little about being a half demon and kept wanting me to find a way to be like him." she let out more tears. "I tried to run away but I couldn't, no one ever understands me." She yelled out with tears pouring down her face.

Inuyasha knelt down to the crying figure, still making sure not to touch her. "Don't cry, please." He whispered.

"I don't understand, even someone in my own class doesn't want me in their lives. I guess I am a half breed and nothing more."

Inuyasha got nervous, he thought he was the only one who was ever called a half breed "It has nothing to do with you, everyone who comes into my life dies." Inuyasha finally said.

The woman looked up at him, "Is that what this is about? You don't want me around because you think I will die because of you?"

Inuyasha looked away blushing, he didn't mean for that to come out. "It isn't like that." He whispered.

"You do like me that means." The woman sniffled.

"I uh, well" Inuyasha stuttered.

The woman hugged him as he just sat there allowing her too. Kiara smiled when he wasn't looking at her. Kaede had told her that Inuyasha didn't like when woman cried so she decided to use that for her own use. She could tell Inuyasha just needed to have someone that he could talk to.

"Can you not hug me?" he asked as she let go.

"Sorry, I was happy that you don't hate me." The woman whispered while sniffling.

They both sat there in silence looking in different directions before Inuyasha talked, "Sooo, did your mate die or something?" he asked.

"Yeah, he died." She said.

"Hows that?"

"Lets not get into that right now." She said quickly.

Inuyasha looked at her, she was hiding something.

"Now lets get to your friends hut." She said trying to change the subject.

"Yeah, sure." He whispered following the girl.

She didn't seem too disturbed that her mate died, in fact if he didn't know her before he would have never guessed she had a mate. She seemed to skip along as she walked. She wasn't disturbed that she just put on such a big show. They made it into the village to see Shippo playing with a few of the village kids.

"Inuyasha!" he yelled running over to him.

"Hey Shippo." Inuyasha said as the small child clung to his shoulder.

Kiara walked inside avoiding talking to Shippo, "What is up with her? I really don't trust her." Shippo whispered.

"Yeah, she is hiding something. Just keep a good eye on her." Inuyasha whispered as the two went into the hut where she was already eating the food Kaede had prepared.

"What's with this bag over here?" Kiara asked as she picked up the yellow bag

"Don't handle that roughly." Inuyasha yelled.

"Why not?" she asked looking at him puzzled.

"It's Shippos." Inuyasha yelled.

"I see, this is that woman's that you are grieving over isn't it?"

"Leave it alone." Inuyasha growled out.

"Yeah leave it alone." Shippo yelled to, it was his.

"But you are grieving over this woman are you not? Then by getting rid of everything she had then you can stop grieving." Kiara said.

"Don't you dare do anything to that bag. It was given to Shippo. That bag means a lot to him." Inuyasha yelled out ready to kill the girl.

"Please leave the bag alone." Kaede finally spoke up. "If ye have any sense of grief than you will leave the bag alone."

"Fine." The woman plopped it down. "I don't see why you are keeping such a dirty thing." She whispered as they ate in an awkward silence. Inuyasha glared at Kiara, Shippo sat next to the bag, Kaede watched Inuyasha hoping he wasn't going to kill Kiara and Kiara sat there looking oblivious to it all. Kaede wished that Kiara and Inuyasha could get along, while she knew Kiara was no Kagome she had a feeling that the two could really get to know each other if they gave each person the chance.

That night everyone went to bed including Inuyasha who slept close to the bag. He couldn't allow Kiara to take something so precious. Kiara opened her eyes listening to make sure everyone had a slow breath to make sure everyone is asleep. She walked over to the bag as she slowly lifted it up. When Inuyasha twitched she stopped moving until he seemed to go back into his slumber. She then took the chance to pick the bag right up and silently made her way out of the hut. She whispered as she walked into the woods, "Sorry but you have to learn to let go."

Inuyasha awoke in the morning to see the bag gone. He quickly looked in the corner Kiara had slept in to see it vacant at the moment. "Where is that wench?" he yelled making the others awake.

"Who?" Shippo asked rubbing his eyes.

"Kiara." Inuyasha yelled as he ran out toward her smell. He would kill her if she destroyed it.

He found her sitting at a pond edge looking out, "I was wondering how long you would sleep." She whispered not looking at him.

"Where is it?"

"Where is what?" she asked.

"Don't play stupid, where is the bag?"

"OH, that, well you see way out in the middle of this pond? It is tied to a rock and has sunk. It is now food for the fishes."

"Why you." Inuyasha growled about to jump in.

"I should warn you that there is a demon that infests this water." She said making him stop.

"What?"

"Yeah, and he doesn't care much for half demons."

"I don't care." Inuyasha said diving in to get the bag.

Kiara smirked as she then saw Inuyasha get thrown out of the water as a water ogre came out of the water. "You half demon…what do you want coming here?"

"I want the bag at the bottom." He yelled.

"It is mine now."

Inuyasha wasn't having any of this, he quickly unsheathed his tetsuiga using the windscar in one swipe to kill the demon. "What was yours again?" Inuyasha asked smirking at his easy defeat.

The woman looked amazed, "How did you do that?" she asked as he jumped into the water.

Inuyasha easily swam to the bottom grabbing the bright yellow bag that was now water logged. He came back up to the surface and swam to the shore not looking at Kiara but at Kaede and Shippo where were coming in the direction.

"I am not talking to you anymore." Inuyasha yelled as he walked off.

"Yeah." Shippo chimed in.

"Wait, I did this to help you." Kiara said.

Inuyasha and Shippo walked off ignoring her as Kaede stayed back.

"You have to believe me; I was trying to help them." Kiara told Kaede.

Kaede put her head down before looking up to Kiara, "Ye went to far this time. I don't understand the things that go through Inuyasha's head but when he grieves he tends to grieves for a long period of time. Ye should have been a lot more sympathetic about this."

"You say this as if you had seen him act this way before." Kiara whispered.

"I have, he was with my older sister until she died. He grieved for so long…that is when Kagome came around. She was such a nice child."

"What did she do about him grieving over his first love?"

"That was the peculiar part, she seemed to try and ignore it. She seemed as though she was understanding."

"Or she was just a child who did want people knowing that she loved a man." Kiara whispered while chuckling.

"It could be but either way Inuyasha loved both girls equally." Kaede said walking back toward her home.

The old woman was right, if he wanted to grieve than she had to let him grieve although he did seem to be taking too far, there was only one thing she could do. As much as she hated to admit it, she had to apologize to him…

I still can't believe that she would go through so much trouble to ruin my life. I hope she never comes back and if she does I will have to make her leave. Telling someone not to mourn over someone is one thing but when you destroy something that the person has that's another. Here comes that wench now…

"Hey" Kiara whispered. Everyone was asleep but Inuyasha.

"What do you want?" he asked putting his book down.

"I wanted to apologize about earlier. I had no right to take something that meant so much to you guys."

"Damn right you didn't" Inuyasha said louder now.

Kiara put her head back at that, "I promise not to do anything like that again if you can forgive me." She said.

"Fine." Inuyasha said, he may have been ticked at her but she did apologize.

They stayed in silence for a few minutes before Kiara noticed the notebook that Inuyasha was writing in earlier at his side. "So what's that?" Kiara asked. Sitting next to Inuyasha.

"It is a journal." Inuyasha said slowly picking it up.

"What do you write in it?"

"About my day mostly. I started it when…she died."

"Can I read it?" Kiara asked hopefully.

"I would rather not."

"I see." Kiara said looking away from him. "can you just show me a bit from it?" she asked. "Just a small bit."

Inuyasha glared at her before opening it up. "This was the first passage." He said showing her the notes.

"May I?" Kiara asked picking up the book. Inuyasha started to take it away when Kiara spoke up, "I promise, I will only read this part." Kiara whispered.

Inuyasha nodded as she started to read through his first passage about Naraku and all his friends. He started to get fidgety as she kept reading it.

"That was beautiful. I can tell you miss your friends." She whispered handing it back to Inuyasha.

"Yeah, I do miss them."

"Do you have anything else to remember them by?" Kiara asked just trying to make any light conversation.

"Yeah, I have a few pictures."

"Pictures?"

"Yep, they are still images." Inuyasha said pulling a few out of his Kimono.

"Wow, these are so different." Kiara said looking through them.

"Yeah."

"Who are these people?" she asked stopping at the group.

Inuyasha looked down saying each persons name as he pointed to that person, "That's Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede which you know, Kirara, and…" Inuyasha stopped talking.

"Go ahead say her name." Kiara whispered.

"Kagome." He finally whispered out.

Kiara smiled, "Can you tell me about each of your friends?"

"Sure." Inuyasha was unsure what to do as he spent the rest of the night telling her how he met each friend, each friends quirks and everything he could think of. He didn't know why he all of a sudden forgave her but she seemed sorry so he had to do it.

Kaede and Shippo lay on the other side of the room. Shippo was sound asleep but Kaede had peeked one eye open as she smiled at the two. She was surprised at how easy Inuyasha was at forgiving when given the chance. He loved telling people about his friends as he rambled through the night about each person. His smile that was now a rare occasion seemed bigger than ever as he was lost in his memories…

I scratch what I said earlier about Kiara. She apologized and we got to talking that whole night. She isn't as bad as I thought she was. I was so lost in my memories I didn't even see the sun come up! I miss my friends so much but maybe Kagome's letter was right, maybe I will find someone soon…or maybe I already have."

"I am so glad they made up!" the girl said smiling as she closed the book.

"Do you think they should trust her though? She seems pretty sketchy." The young boy said.

"Yeah, well anyone you first meet can seem sketchy." The girl said, "I guess we will just have to find out later."

"Yeah, lets get to bed, I am beat."

"Me too." The girl said as they placed the journal down on the desk.

Sorry it took me so long to put it out. I was going to do it before thanksgiving then…things came up, then I was going to put it out before finals but I got caught in that power outage thing that part of New England got...I was out of power for five days studying the old fashion way with candles and books and no computer (that stunk saying that I had papers due, then I had a friend come up for the week during my winter break. Needless to say I am really busy. Anyways here you are!!!

Please review and tell me what you thought about this chapter! Tell me if the way I have it is confusing at all cuz I would rather not confuse anyone. Do you find my style for this confusing or is it just different? Please let me know and like I said please review!!!