--What's In a Name?--
Normally, during sex was when Kagome felt the safest in him- when she felt that he wanted her, and only her, forever. Until it happened. One whispered word in a moment of passion-
"...Kikyo, I love you so much..."
It was strange, it really was, that years of trust and love could be shattered so fully with a few tiny words.
"Inuyasha... what did you say?"
The realization of what he had just uttered and the weight of his words had slammed into the two of them like a brick. Inuyasha had just done what he always did- ran. And Kagome was left behind, speechless, to do nothing but wait. Wait and wonder.
She wasn't crying- she had already used her share of tears for a lifetime.
For many lifetimes.