Inuyasha's POV
I sat with my back to the wall and tried to block out everyone around me. I couldn't believe that had just happened, and that surprised me because I had been waiting for it to happen for a long time now. I wanted to get up and break something or a lot of something's, and I would, just as soon as I got over the shock of what had just happened. What was up with Sango anyway? Throughout the whole damn thing she hadn't said one damn word. I would have thought that she would have at least tried to stop Kagome since they were so close.
There was something going on I just didn't care to find out what. If Kagome wanted to leave us all then she could. Of course Shippo didn't seem to think like what and he was blaming everything on me. I hadn't done anything to piss anyone off in awhile, but no one cares about that. Someone's leaving so let's blame Inuyasha! Shippo came up to me and started on me,
"I can't believe you made Kagome leave for good Inuyasha! How could you? What did you do?! It's not fair! I miss Kagome," Shippo wailed at me on and on until I couldn't take it anymore.
I knew that Shippo was hurting so I didn't do anything to him, but it took a lot of work not to do anything about it. I wanted to pound the stupid kit right about now.
"Shippo stop blaming Inuyasha and go calm down," Keade told him sternly.
"But it's his entire fault!" The kit whined.
I glared and got ready to get up. "I think that it would be best if you calm down a little Shippo. Why don't you help one of the villagers," the old woman suggested. I was shocked to see that he actually did as he was told. He sulked off somewhere.
I watched as the annoyed kit walked out of the hut in annoyance. Sure, Keade tells him to shut up and complain to someone who wants to hear it, and the kit listens and goes to rant somewhere else. I toss him as far away from me as he'll fly, and he comes right back. What does everyone else do that I don't?
"I wonder what's wrong with Kagome." Miroku said after it had been silent for awhile
Sango, I noticed, who hadn't said one word once throughout the whole thing, just kept doing what she had been doing since Kagome had come and told everyone that she was leaving. It was annoying the hell out of me because she was acting as if she didn't care. I was so pissed off right now that I wanted to rip Keade's hut to shreds. She wasn't even acting like anything had happened. She was just sitting there. I wondered if I had missed something. Then I shocked myself when I realized that I thought such a thing. What did it matter if I did miss something? It didn't matter.
The monk seemed to be dense. What was wrong Kagome? He asked. What was wrong?! I knew what was wrong.
"She doesn't want to be here anymore monk! What don't you get about that? She said she was never coming back. She said she had had it. What don't you get about that? She's sick of us," I shouted as an answer for his stupid question.
I didn't want to be around anyone at the moment so left the hut. I leapt up into the trees and went off on my own, so I could calm down. I needed the wind blowing in my face, and I needed the silence. It didn't matter why Kagome had left us all. She didn't want to be here any longer and no one could change that. It didn't matter. I didn't care about her anyway.
Miroku's POV
"Inuyasha doesn't seem to be taking this information well," I said as if that was not obvious.
I looked down at Sango who was sitting there working with herbs as she had before, and sighed. Either, Lady Sango was taking this news harder than any of us or she knew something we didn't. There was always a good chance that it was both. I put my staff down and I sat down across from her, away from temptation, and waited to see if she would say anything.
After moments of silence, I realized that she wasn't going to say anything. I reluctantly left and went to go meditate. Maybe the Gods could help me. Inuyasha was wrong one way or the other. Even I could see that Lady Kagome was holding back tears and she had made her announcement that she was no longer happy here. I sat down on the damp grass and just looked out at the sky for awhile and thought about things and when the answer didn't come to me right away I laid down to rest.
Sango's POV
I knew that Kagome had been planning to leave for awhile, but it still shocked me. I still didn't know what was wrong with her, but I did know that something was killing her. It wasn't anything we could see and I couldn't entirely understand it, but I knew that she was very sick. I couldn't understand why Kagome wouldn't say anything and decide to go home and that hurt, but I was sure she had her reasons. I didn't know what to do though. I could tell the others, but I what would Kagome do if she knew that I had told. If she wanted to be on her own and dye this way then telling anyone seemed to be the biggest breach of friendship that I could think of, but what if we could help her? I had already lost so much in my life. Even if I didn't have Kagome around, I still wanted her well.
I knew that if there was one person I could trust it would be Miroku. I may not be able to trust him when we were alone not to grope me, but I could trust that he was someone I could confide in. Miroku wouldn't tell a secret. I finally looked up from the herbs I was working with and put them down. I wasn't sure where Miroku had gone but I knew that it wouldn't take all that long to find him. He was the only one I could talk to about this and I really needed to talk.
I hadn't realized that I had been so tense until it had come time to move. I know that no one understood my reaction to Kagome's news, but I honestly hadn't known what to do. I couldn't be upset because I could understand what she was going through a little, and at the same time I wanted to be mad that she would try and keep something so serious from us. Then again I could tell at the end that she knew that I knew. I could tell from the look in her eyes that the last thing she had wanted me to do was to say anything. It felt wrong to go to Miroku, but if I was saving Kagome's life then it was worth it.
"Miroku," I shouted hoping to find him faster that way.
"Miroku!"
"Miroku!" I repeated a third time, annoyed.
I continued to look for him, but I wasn't getting a response and I wasn't seeing him so I was about to give up the search when I found him lying on a hill by Keade's hut looking innocent and peaceful. It was one of the only times I had seen him look like that and I wanted to watch him sleep, but I knew that there wasn't time to waste so I tried waking Miroku up by poking him with my foot. It wasn't a nice way to get woken up, but at least he couldn't grope me. I wasn't in the mood and I needed to be cool headed if I was going to talk to the monk about this.