Chapter 3

Disclaimer: Hah! Today is opposite day. I do own Inuyasha.

A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I was in a J.R.O.T.C drill team competition. My school got 1st place overall. I've finally had time to update my story. Yeah!!!!! I can't remember who asked, but yes I'm a girl. For those of you who were hoping for an Inuyasha/Kagome fanfic, sorry. It will start out that way. I will partner Kagome up with someone else because I feel bad for this other character because he'll never have a chance. you can have any kind of cookie ya like.

Inuyasha sat in the spring relaxing, demons had seemed scarce for the past two months and he and the gang had time to just hang around.

Inuyasha didn't like it one bit though, if the demons were scarce here, that means they were somewhere else, and most likely joining forces, plotting, conspiring. He took this time to train; he only took time to unwind when Kagome was around.

He closed his eyes and thought back to that night that he told her he loved her.

Inuyasha had finally escaped from Sango, Miroku, Myouga, and the hardest to get away from Shippo so that he could be alone with Kagome. He had taken her to a large waterfall at sunset. The wind was light, but it blew her hair across her cheek anyway. Her eyes lit up and her smile made Inuyasha melt.

He inched closer to Kagome. His heart was pounding so hard, Inuyasha was sure it would burst out of his chest at any moment; he could hardly believe that Kagome didn't hear it.

It would be dark soon, and tonight was new moon. He wanted to do it now; something in the wind told him that if he didn't tell her now, he'd never tell her.

"I should have told you before…" he started to get her attention.

She turned towards him at first in alarm, she was afraid something was wrong.

"I loved you from the moment we met."

Kagome was about to laugh; Shippo or Miroku must have put Inuyasha up to this. Inuyasha must have something to gain.

Kagome studied Inuyasha's face closely and saw that Inuyasha was being sincere. For a moment it scared her, then she looked up into his now velvet eyes.

They had spent that evening watching the stars (A/N: corny? I know, but admit it, it's sweet).

Then a smell reached his nose that confused him. It was a smell halfway between Kagome and Kikyo. Come to think of it, it smelt a lot like Kikyo did when she was alive, but not quite.

Inuyasha quickly got dress and went to investigate. At first the scent seemed to be coming from everywhere, but he almost immediately found where the scent was the strongest.

The area seemed to change into a misty garden. It started out as a maze. At the center was a young woman who Inuyasha couldn't recognize at first. Her hair covered her face and she was wore clothes similar of women at that time but the material and design was different. Inuyasha felt drawn to her.

The woman stood up a brushed her hair away from her face. In that instant, Inuyasha felt as if someone had knocked the wind out of him. It was one of the most beautiful women he had ever laid eyes on. She was silent as she closed in the 5 feet distance between them.

Inuyasha was too tongue-tied to speak. The woman caressed Inuyasha's cheek and drank in his scent, "Inuyasha." She whispered.

"Kikyo, how? How do you have a soul?" Inuyasha managed to ask after he recovered from his moment of weakness.

"I will tell you everything in time, but I want to tell you how sorry for the way I treated you." Kikyo looked towards a row of roses, "You should try losing your soul, it does things to you."

"I uh…" Inuyasha was at a lost for words. He was uncomfortable with the situation. He would rather be fighting than dealing with emotions. He sighed silently to himself, emotions were too messy and complicated to deal with on a regular bases.

"So your with Kagome now. Hopefully she isn't dumb enough to believe that you would betray her." Kikyo turned to look at Inuyasha with affectionate and yearning eyes, " Do you ever wonder what would have happened if we hadn't have been dumb enough to believe that we had betrayed each other?"

"Kikyo…" Inuyasha was at a lost for words. In truth he had spent 50 years tied to a tree hating her, and when Kagome came along she was his prime focus. There were times though, that he did think of Kikyo, usually after he had just seen her.

Kikyo had seen a woman peer from behind a bush along with a blue speck.

"Inuyasha I think you should go now." Kikyo said quietly.

"Kikyo…" Inuyasha started. He wanted to do something for her; he wanted to rid her of her pain, but he couldn't think of anything.

"She will be looking for you…Kagome. You should go to her now." Kikyo looked up at Inuyasha. Inuyasha was surprised to find her crying. He studied her face pleading silently for something to prove her tears was false, but there was nothing, just tears and woe.

He walked out silently as he had come.

After he was a distance away Nepthys came out of her hiding spot with Isis, "That was close."

"You work for Hathor, I've seen your picture on vases."

"Yes, I am her daughter. Your good I'll give you that, but you nearly blew it." Nepthys responded.

"What do you mean?" Kikyo asked. She had finally stopped crying.

"You were about to force him to choose between you and Kagome. How many time are you willing to use that before you get a clue, He will always say that his work with Kagome is not completed yet. You sending him away was a nice touch though." Nepthys replied.

"Why?" Kikyo asked.

"If it was difficult to choose between you and Kagome before, it's got to be ten times harder now, your human again remember. You sent him away to find his happiness with Kagome, which shows that you have 'evolved.' He still wants to find out how you obtained a soul, and the fact that you refused him will mess with his mind. It will drive him back here, trust me." Nepthys went on to say.

Kikyo looked out to the exit, where Inuyasha was only about an hour or two ago, "I hope so."

A/n: Did you like it? Did ya? Did ya? Did ya? I know I'm turning this chapter was fluffy, but I'm a romantic at heart. *Holds out cookies in front of readers noses*. I can't eat all these by myself; I'll share with anyone willing to review.