Guilt is a curious thing. When you know it's not your fault, you feel guilty. When you know it is your fault….you don't. At least most of the time. InuYasha sat there, stunned by the quickness of it all. He never said goodbye. He never thought, that this would happen to him. He turned around at the scent of another persons tears. He saw her mother standing there….looking lost.

" Mrs. Higurashi….It's not…I didn't."

" I know that….but it doesn't change that she's lying on your floor….dead."

" I don't know…..why it happened….she wasn't right."

He watched as her eyes glazed over. See, avoiding the facts is another curious thing.

" I better get home. Kagome will want some oden."

" Mrs. Higurashi….Kagome's not….."

" Don't be silly…I know she was over at Eri's today……She should be home within the hour. Have a good night InuYasha."

She walked out of the house. InuYasha sat there for a moment….wondering what to do. He got up and called the police.

" Police…..How may I help you today?"

" I need some help. My girlfriend committed suicide…..and I don't know what to do."

" We'll send by an ambulance to get her to a funeral home to be cleaned up. The police will come by to ask you a few questions."

He gave her a few pieces of information, then sat down next to her to wait. They came in, and picked up Kagome. They asked him a few questions then left him to be alone. The silence was devastating. He sat on the couch…..head in his hands. He didn't know what to do so he sat there. He cried for a while then wondered if her mother was okay. He called up Sota.

" Sota?"

" InuYasha? Why is my mother acting weird…..and why isn't Kagome home?"

" Sota…..Kagome's gone….she was shot. Your mother…..well she's pretending Kagome's still here…….as in still alive. It hurts her too much to actually admit it."

" So Kagome's not coming back? She's dead?"

' I'm sorry Sota……She is gone."

InuYasha hung up the phone after that. He couldn't figure how to comfort the kid. Kagome was gone…not much more he could actually say! He waited for hours…waiting for his father to come home. He hated facing this alone. Her mother refused to accept Kagome as dead. Her brother probably would end up hurting himself through the pain….and well her stepdad probably cared only a small bit. Sure the Higurashi-Kakashi's were a nice family, but they hid what happens in the family pretty well. After all richness, comes with the media. No doubt they'd tell the world Kagome went away to a special school for kid's with special abilities. No one wanted to tell the world that Kagome..a rich and beautiful Goddess…not literally in the media but figuratively. Everyone said she was a babe, a goddess, a beautiful angel. No one would want to hear that she killed herself…when in all evident truths…she didn't.

When his dad came in, InuYasha didn't have the strength to say it. It was okay though, his father knew.

" You don't have to say. I know."

" Why? Why her? Why now?"

" There was a reason. There is ALWAYS a reason. I think it's better this way. She would have been killed in the end. I believe that it's better that she's returned to the skies. You know that she would have been returned….she couldn't be mated. It's unlawful for a Goddess to mate with a human alone….but a Hanyou…..well that's a scandal!"

" But she was so….so young..and we could have been….."

" Been what? Casual boyfriend and Girlfriend? You couldn't have slept with her. Her powers would have killed you. She was to remain pure. Till the end of time….until there was nothing left. And if she were to become unpure…she would have died. "

" B-but….I just loved her so much…and when we finally just admitted what everyone could see…..I lost her farther than when I didn't have her!"

" Life sometimes separates us from what we want the most! Your heart will always belong to her….and you KNOW DAMN WELL that hers belongs to you. You have those lockets…that play that creepy tune for each other don't you?"

He gasped as he remembered the lockets. Well hers was a locket…his was a music box. He rushed upstairs and found it sitting on his desk. He opened it up…and listened as the small tune played slowly at him. A small tear began to fall down his cheek. Lovers…that were never to be together again.

" Kagome.………All I want is for you to come back to me."