Hurting Love

By: Silent Tears

note ...i dont own ne of the inuyasha characters...heres ch.3

RECAP

I started singing, while crying. But I soon gave up. "Why...why did you have to come back, Inuyasha..." I said.

"Because if I didn't you would never know the truth..." I turned around to see Inuyasha.

NOW

Chapter Three-The Truth, Plus a Trip to the Mall

"The truth..." I looked up at him through the rain.

"Yes, the truth...about why I left you two years ago." he said and walked over to me. "I didn't want to leave you...you got to believe me. If...I...If I didn't leave you, you would have gotten hurt. I would have died if I ever saw you get hurt...Kikyou said if we didn't break up I would never see you again. So...I left. Last year I finally defeated Naraku." I trembled at thought of Naraku. "I left Kikyou...from what I heard...she was killed." I looked up at him, tears still in my eyes.

"You...you left to protect me? How could you be so stupid?! I'm a miko, Yasha! I can protect myself!" I ran up to him and hugged him. I was afraid of letting go. "I love you so much...I don't want you to leave me again...please..." I cried into his chest.

"I promise you...I will never leave you. I love you. I'm sorry for saying those things that I said two years ago. It hurt for me to say them...to top it off...it hurt for me to look at you, seeing you sad and crying. I just wanted to take back all those words and hold you in my arms." he said. We stood there like that for a while. "We better get back..." he said. I let go of him and nodded. We walked back and didn't see each other the rest of the day.

After School

"Hey, Kag!" yelled Sango. I turned to look at her. "Did Inuyasha tell you?"

I nodded. "But that still doesn't mean he's off the hook..." I said with a sly smile. Sango laughed.

"Oh! Invite him to the mall with us..." she suggested. I thought about it for a moment before I nodded.

"Okay..." I smiled. "Maybe..I can get him to get Miroku to come for you to..." I laughed as I saw her blush at least four times of red. I saw Inuyasha and Miroku heading our way.

"Hey..." Inuyasha said to me.

"Hi...umm...I was wondering if you and Miroku weren't busy...do y'all want to come with me and Sango to the mall?" I asked nervously. It's like when we were younger...I smiled at the thought.

"Yeah..." he said. We all headed to Sango's car. We arrived at the mall. We headed straight to Hot Topic.

"Um...What are we doing here?" asked Miroku.

"We are getting clothes for Friday night. I mean, come on! It's already Wednesday!" Sango said.

"What do you mean "we"?" Inuyasha asked.

I shook my head. "You both are so dumb...Me and Sango are getting clothes because...I am the singer and lead gutiarist...while, dear Sango here, is bass gutiar." I said. We both found an outfit we wanted. We decided to spilt up and walk around the mall for a few hours. Miroku and Sango went off by themselves, leaving me with Inuyasha.

"So...have you decided what song you were going to sing this Friday?" he said trying to make conversation.

"Yeah...I'm going to sing this song called "I'm Over It" and maybe...one called "Evidence"." I said. I saw him nod in approvement.

"So..." he started but didn't finish because a boy my age with brown hair named Hojo came up to me.

"Hey, Kagome! I didn't see you during lunch...where were you?" he asked blushing. I smiled kindly at him.

"I was at the park...I'm sorry, Hojo." I said.

"She was with me!" Inuyasha said angerily. Hojo got scared and said, "Oh...Okay...I'll just see you in school tomorrow. Oh, don't forget you work tomorrow night! Bye!" and ran off.

"You work?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yes, I work. And do you have to be so mean to Hojo! He was just trying to be nice!" I said, stomping off.

"Kagome! Kagome!" he yelled running after me. He stepped infront of me and made me look at him. "I'm sorry...It's just...feh...he doesn't need to be so nice." I looked at him questionally. "What I mean is...please don't be angry with me...I don't want you to be mad at me...I've lost you once and I'm not going to let that happen again." he said and kissed me lightly on the lips. "Please..."

I looked at him surprised. It's been forever since I have kissed him... I thought. "Fine...Just don't let it happen again...Okay?"

"Okay." he smiled. "So about this job. What do you do?"

"I'm a waitress at T-Night." I said.

"Really? Maybe tomorrow I'll go visit you..." he said as I rolled my eyes. I saw Sango and Miroku coming over holding hands. We gave them weird looks but didn't say anything. Sango...you have some explaining to do...I thought smiling. We walked out of the mall and dropped off Miroku and Inuyasha off at Inuyasha's house. I called my mom to see if it was okay to stay the night with Sango and she said yes. We walked into the house and went straight upstairs after saying hi to her parents. After we took our showers and got into our night clothes we decided to watch a scary movie. So we put on The Exorism of Emily Rose. When the movie was finished, I decided to bring up her and Miroku holding hands.

"So...About earlier..." I started.

She started blushing, "What about earlier?"

"Why were you and Miroku holding hands?" I said with a sly smile.

"I don't know what you are talking about..." she said.

"Yes you do! Now Sango you better tell me. You're my best friend...it hurts that you don't trust me..." I said faking being sad.

"Okay! Okay! I'll tell you, quit being sad! Me and Miroku are together. He asked to go out with me when me and him were alone, and I told him yes." she said. I smiled and gave her a hug.

"Thanks for telling me. Now let's get to bed." I said and we turned off the lights and headed to bed. At least one of us is really happy...with that last thought I went to sleep.

ok this chapter might not have been as umm how do i say upbeat with the rest but i gave it a try...plz review