Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but I should.

Chapter 3

The Other Woman

Inuyasha. Why to you hold her like? You love me remember? I'm the one you love. I'm the one you trust. I'm the one. Why do you hold her Inuyasha, WHEN YOU REALLY LOVE ME!

Inuyasha woke with a start, breathing, " hah hah hah hah...," heavily at the images that had just receded from his mind.

"Inuyasha, what's wrong!?"

"Nothing," he said, " just a bad dream."

"Do you want to talk about it," Kagome asked, "maybe that might help?"

"No," he said, placing a hand on her arm, "just go back to bed. I'm fine." Kagome looked at him with a question in her eyes. Before she could open her mouth to ask it Inuyasha said, " I'm fine I promise. Now go back to sleep!" She did as she was told, not wanting to argue with her new husband a week after the wedding, and went to bed.

Inuyasha stayed awake for a little while, then he let himself drift back sleep. The moment this happened Kikyo's voice rang in his ears. Inuyasha, LOVE ME! Forget about that weakling, she doesn't love you like I do. You don't love her. You CAN'T love her! Leave her Inuyasha; come be with me. She doesn't love you; she doesn't care.

Kikyo's voice had plagued Inuyasha all night. He tossed and turned for hours until finally, just before dawn, he got up and went outside. He looked over the balcony. He and Kagome were in present day Japan. Kagome wanted to Honeymoon in her time because she would be living in the futile era. Inuyasha started to groan because he couldn't move around as freely as he liked there.

He turned and looked at Kagome and thought of all the things that he loved about her. Then he thought about the night he had just had. Why was she in my head. Why she so angry with me? She and I made there peace a long time ago. What is wrong with me? I love Kagome. Just then Kagome woke up. She came and stood next to him, resting her head on his shoulder, and they watched the sunrise. Inuyasha's thoughts of Kikyo began to fade as the blazing sun graced the horizon.

"Inuyasha?"

"Huh?"

"Do you want to go and take a steam bath?"

" Sure Kikyo...I...I mean..."

"You called me Kikyo!" Kagome was infuriated. She knew that Inuyasha was once in love with her but she had refused to believe that he was so consumed by that 'dead clay shell', that he didn't know the difference between her and his wife. Kagome turned and walked to the door. Before she left she said over her shoulder, "Inuyasha, why did I marry you." It was a rhetorical question, but that didn't matter because Kagome was out of the room and wasn't looking back.

"What have I done?"