A/N: I know the first chapter was short... but I'll make this one longer...so yeah! Oh and this chapter is going to go by people's point of view, and normal POV too.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Inuyasha.
'Miroku or Inuyasha thinking'
'Inuyasha's demon side'
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Kagome's POV
I could hear Hiroki's voice, and some other person's, who was familiar. I opened my eyes to find that I was back at home, or what I'd been calling home for the past year. I tried to sit up, but strong hands gently pushed me back. I thought the person was Hiroki so I pushed his hands away, but the person's hands were rough and calloused, just like-
"Inuyasha?" I whispered in a hoarse voice.
"Yeah Kagome, I'm here," I heard him reply in a gentle voice.
"What, what happened?" I asked, but a sea of memories came crashing down on me. I remembered Hiroki picking me up, sensing a jewel shard, purifying a centipede, and seeing Inuyasha.
Inuyasha was the first of the group to leave, a year ago, and with him he took my heart. I had only just gotten it back to give to another, and he comes back. Talk about lousy timing. Though some part of me was joyful to see him another part was hurt and confused. Why now, after a year of not seeing him, and almost forgetting him and the pained memories that come with him, he comes back, and I can't tell whether I want to slap him or hug him.
"You passed out," Hiroki's voice snapped me back to reality.
"Oh, right," I replied quietly, looking down at my hands in my lap.
"How have you been?" I heard Inuyasha ask quietly.
"Alright, you?"
"Fine." He replied and paused for a second, "Why didn't you go home?"
"I couldn't."
"Why not?"
"The well wouldn't let me through."
There was a pregnant bubble of silence and then he said, "Sorry."
I stared into his amber eyes, seeing a mixture of concern, regret, and pain in their depths.
"For what?" I asked my voice trembling.
"For leaving."
Our eyes stayed locked for a minute but I broke the contact, and stared at Hiroki instead. He kneeled down beside me, and put his arm around my waist, pulling me into a hug. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and breathed in his scent. I hear what sounded like a small growl of protest come from Inuyasha. This hug wasn't completely unnecessary; it was to calm me down, and it certainly did work. Hiroki has always been able to tell what my emotions are, and knew exactly how to deal with them, while Inuyasha just ignored them.
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Somewhere else
Normal POV
A monk was walking through a forest, searching for a demon the nearby village hired him to kill. He had deep blue eyes, black hair pulled into a small pony tail, and a charming face. His robes were purple, he carried a gold staff, and he had a rosary covering his right hand where an endless void was placed.
He bent down to check the tracks the demon made when he heard a mew. It was familiar to him and he looked up to see a two tailed fire cat.
"Kirara?" he asked raising a brow.
She mewed and turned around to walk into the trees. The monk followed her into a clearing with a fire set in the middle. He watched her sit in front of the fire and mew at him again.
"Takashi! That's freezing," He heard an all too familiar voice shout from behind some trees.
"It's not that cold Sango," a masculine voice replied.
"Yes it is!"
The monk followed the voices to a small river. There he saw the woman he left a year ago, being hugged by a man he had never seen before, in the middle of the river. The sight was infuriating.
"Am I interrupting something Sango?" The monk asked, making his presence known.
"Miroku? Is that you?" she asked in a shaky voice.
"Long time no see." He replied.
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Miroku's POV
Who the hell is this man and why is he holding Sango like that? No, even better, why is she letting him hold her like that? She didn't even let me hold her like that.
I tried to keep my face calm as these thoughts and many others crossed my mind. This sight, as much as I hate to say it, hurts, and I find myself wanting to inflict pain upon that man who holds the woman who captivated my heart long ago, in his arms, not mine.
"Yeah long time no see," I heard Sango reply quietly, a hint of regret in her voice.
"How have you been?" I asked when what I really want to know is who the hell was that man.
"Good, you?"
"Okay," a lie, a complete fucking lie.
I saw the man let go of her, smart move on his part. He started walking out of the river, pulling Sango by the hand to follow him. She complied and emerged from the water, soaked to the bone. I could see her shivering, and I have to fight off the desire to encase her small frame with my own. Her arms came up to wrap around herself, in a futile attempt to keep warm. The man noticed this and wasted no time in hugging her again.
"Thank you Takashi," I heard her murmur as she leaned into his embrace.
Now, I really wanted to hurt him, maybe if I could get Sango out of the way I could suck him up with my wind tunnel. Images of Takashi's body being drawn into my wind tunnel flipped through my head, and it looked very tempting. I watched him peck Sango on the cheek, and my want to kill him heightened. Sango had the decency to blush at this action, making me calm down a bit.
She cleared her throat, "So Miroku, how did you find us?" she asked nervously.
"Kirara." I replied shortly.
She nodded and turned around to whisper something in Takashi's ear, he nodded and left, but not with out giving Sango a chaste kiss. She watched him leave then gave me her attention.
"It's good to see you," she said stepping closer to me.
"You too," I replied.
"I'm sorry," she said after a moment of silence.
"For what?" I asked even though I already knew what she was sorry for.
"For you having to see that."
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Inuyasha's POV
One year, one whole fucking year I haven't been in contact with the group, and now I regret it. I starred at Kagome hugging that dog-demon, named Hiroki or something like that, and I couldn't stand it. I stood up from the place I had been kneeling at and turned to walk out of the hut. I turned around to look at the house, well more like mansion, and thought that there was no way I could give Kagome this. The night was cold but didn't bother me. I started walking down the stairs that led up to the house until I heard someone running behind me. I turned around only to have Kagome tackle me with a hug.
"I missed you," I heard her whisper while sobbing.
I returned the hug and buried my face into her hair. The scent of vanilla and rain that I had missed since I had left ensnared my senses, but I noticed a slight change, the scent of that dog was on her too. I sniffed again and was relieved when I was able to tell that she was still innocent.
'Mating season is coming soon we should take her.'
'I won't allow you to.'
'Like you could stop me, especially when you want it too.'
'I can and I will stop you.'
'I always get what I want, remember that.'
My demon side battled with my conscience as Kagome pulled away from the hug. She gave me a watery smile, and I gave her a weak smile. I noticed for the first time that she wasn't wearing her normal strange clothes, but something else, like a shirt with no sleeves (tank top), and tight blue pants (jeans). She must've brought them over before the well closed. Wait if she couldn't get through the well, maybe I still could.
"Hey, Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"Do you wanna try going home again?" I asked.
She nodded in reply and I knelt down so she could get on my back. I felt her weight on my back, just like old times, and took off. I jumped from tree to tree and heard Kagome start laughing from her place on my back. For a minute I imagined Miroku and Sango riding by us on Kirara, with Shippou, but then I remembered that that all ended a year ago.
We were passing through a dense part of the forest until we reached a clearing. There was a man sitting by a fire and he looked up. He stood up and grabbed a sword.
"Sango there's a demon, and he has a girl!" he shouted. I heard Kagome gasp, and her grip tightened on my shoulders.
Sango came running out of the trees with Miroku following. They stopped at the sight of us, and smiled. All we needed was Shippou, and then the group would be back together.
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Shippou's POV
Not a day had gone by when I didn't think about my family. There was Kagome, my mother, Inuyasha, my father, Kaede, my grandmother, and then there was Miroku and Sango, my aunt and uncle. A year had passed and still they were gone, off on another adventure, separated. It took two years to complete the jewel. When Naraku gained possession of it, and we thought all hope was lost, it was Kagome who saved us all from an impending doom, but in dong so we were all faced with another problem, separation.
Inuyasha left first, the idiot should have known that without him the group would fall apart. The second was Kagome, at first she tried going back to her era, but the well would not let her through, so she ran. The third was Miroku, he and Sango stayed in the village with Kaede for a while, and I thought that they were going to stay together, but Miroku still needed to kill Naraku, so he left. Then last was Sango and Kirara, Sango was alone despite the company of myself and Kirara, after Miroku left she broke apart, so she too left.
That just left me; I stayed in the village and helped Kaede for the whole time. She watched me grow up. I was far from the little kit that I was a year prior. I was eleven, a lot taller and wiser. I became the village protector after they all left, so I had to get stronger also, even though there weren't a lot of demons that attacked the village anymore. All the demons heard about the jewel shattering again and left to find them, but every now and then a demon got a shard and attacked our village. I took down each of them and ended up getting seven shards.
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