Inuyasha fell to the ground, the stinging pain from his leg causing him to slowly slip out of consciousness. Seeing only blurred shapes, he cried out "Kagome, Kagome!" at the descending girl, until he fell into complete darkness. When he woke up, he found himself in a mere wooden shack, Shippoo and Kirara sleeping by his side. Standing up, he gasped once he had put weight on his right leg; the pain caused him to collapse once more. The arrow was gone, as he examined the deep hole in his leg. He tried to get up again, using the wooden wall to support himself.

'I have to find her. I must', he kept saying to himself, his mind encouraging him more every time his rear hit the cold floor.

Cursing to himself, his eyes widened as he saw two sets of eyes staring at him. His eyes softened, as he picked up the kit, as Kirara went back to sleep.

"Does your leg hurt?"

"Yeah. But it's nothing. I'm going to go find Kagome, Shippoo, and I am bringing her back with me. If she will. If she forgive me", he said, as Shippoo jumped out of his hands.

"I'm sure she will, Inuyasha. I am so glad she is back", he said, lying next to Kirara, who was currently in her kitten form.

Letting out a yawn, the kit fell back asleep. Inuyasha looked out of the window at the full moon.

'Tonight will be the moonless night. Dammit. I can't find her as a human', he thought, trying to stand up once more.

Sango entered the hut, holding a few bandages in her hand.

"Inuyasha, sit down at once!", she whispered loudly, as to not awake the two.

Inuyasha's ears twitched on his head, as he turned his attention to Sango, leaning against the wall. He flattened his ears, drawing in heavy breaths, as he started straight into her dark brows eyes.

"Did you just tell me to sit?", he asked, his mind flooding with memories of the girl once more.

Realizing her mistake, Sango raised her hand to her mouth, a slight blush creeping across her face, "I-I'm sorry, In-Inuyasha. I didn't mean to, I just –"

She stopped talking as Inuyasha lifted his hand, sliding down the wall onto the floor. He held his head down as the taijya slowly walked over to him, and started bandaging his leg. He didn't once look at him, keeping his attention to his hakama. Once she was done, and had left, he sighed deeply. Feeling more confident now, he stood up with ease – being a hanyou wasn't that bad, after all. He walked silently, as he crept outside. Taking special care not to be noticed by the houshi and the taijya who were talking by the campfire, he swiftly leaped into the highest tree near the camp, in two jumps.

Sitting down, he quickly stood up again, clawing the tree bark, as it fell to the ground. Inuyasha ran to the end of the branch, jumping to the ground, slicing whatever he could find; trees, rocks, anything.

'Why the hell is she here? Why? Doesn't she understand that she hurt me too?', he thought, as he felt a sudden pain in his heart. 'No, she left because she had to, and I know why she did. It was my fault.'

His ears twitched, sniffing the air. Glancing around himself, he thought…did he recognize this fragrance? Was it her? Was it Kagome? He wasn't going to err on the side of caution, as he broke into a run. She was far away – but he was going to make it there, for sure.

As her scent kept getting stronger, many thoughts went through his head – what was he going to say? How would she react? Snapping out of his thoughts, he heard her beautiful voice. Stopping a few hundred meters from her, he positioned himself in a tree, his eyes struggling to hear what she said from this distance.

Usually, he wouldn't cower in a tree like this. It was the inu yokai he was afraid would smell her. The miko had obviously told it about him – otherwise, it wouldn't hate him that much. He had seen these creatures before; once tamed, these small inu yokai would become loyal to the first creature they could trust: human, hanyou or yokai. They usually had element powers, and this one seemed to hold the powers of ice. He had seen these yokai with only a few, since they required a lot to trust.

"No, Raiden. Sit, boy."

'Fuck'.

He closed his eyes, prepared for the blow – until he realized, that as the girl had left him, she had taken the Beads of Subjugation as well. He flattened his ears. The necklace had been his only material connection to her. After she left, and took the beads with her, he had nothing that kept any bond to her.

Gathering up his courage, he started running towards her voice. What ever would happen, should happen. What shall be, should be.

Arriving in small clearing, he saw the girl sit on a rock a fair distance from him, the inu yokai in her lap. He growled slightly at this – too loudly, as the miko looked up at him, grabbing her bow and arrows as Raiden jumped from her lap, and transformed.

"What the hell do you want?", she shouted, her sight focusing on his leg. She felt an odd pain in her heart, as she saw the blood stained bandages around the wound.

"Kagome, I -"

"I don't want to hear your lies! Why should I believe you? Every time I have been around you, I have gotten nothing but grief. Whenever you went to her behind my back, without even bothering to mumble a 'Sorry' before you left. Do you know how much that hurt, hanyou? Do you know how much I loved you? I guess the one night we were together your clay miko must've been having an off night, or something", she said, slightly laughing to herself at her last line.

Inuyasha took a few steps back, shocked by her words.

"Go!", she said, firing her arrow, closing her eyes as soon as she did so.

The hanyou narrowly missed it, panting loudly. He looked at Kagome, who gasped loudly, as a shadow covered him. Turning around, he felt shooting pain in his stomach and chest, as the darkness was engulfing him, once more. Seeing Kagome run towards him, firing an arrow, he fell into the darkness.