Chapter 17: Don't leave.

Kagome was getting dressed in the bathroom at the hotel. She still didn't tell him about her leaving, she figured it could wait till later. Walking out, she smiled at Inuyasha's lazy form on the couch in front of her.

"You ready?"

He turned his eyes to her and smiled.

"Yea, lets go."

He stood and turning off the TV, he opened the door and they left.

"Where are we going Inuyasha?"

"I'm not telling you. You'll just have to wait and see."

The taxi took them to a restaurant first. The next place was like nothing she had ever seen.

"Wow."

They were in what seemed like a old deserted park, complete with a pool and tennis court. Even though it was deserted, it was beautiful. All the trees and wild life, mostly flowers, took over every structure standing.

"How did you find this place?"

Kagome walked farther into the field and turned to him.

"It was a accident actually. I found it back at Christmas, when we came to your house."

"Oh right…back when I hated you."

She smirked at him before turning back to the field and running to the swings.

"Come race me! I bet I can go higher then you!"

Inuyasha smirked and ran to meet her.

"Ok, go!"

Inuyasha watched as Kagome swung, he wasn't really trying to win, he just liked to entertain her.

"Ha-ha I'm wining!"

"Yea I guess you win….I bet I could jump father then you!"

"Oh yea….You first!"

Inuyasha smirked and jumped of the swing landing a few feet away from the swings.

"My turn! Get ready to lose!"

Kagome counted to three and hopped off her seat, but before she could reach the ground, Inuyasha caught her and sat her down right next to the swings.

"I won."

"YOU cheated."

"No I didn't, I just tampered with your landing so I would have a better chance of winning."

Kagome rolled her eyes and walked over to the jungle gym.

"Hey, Inuyasha?"

She turned to him and walked backwards.

"Do you think you could catch me if I jumped off of there?"

She pointed to the top of the jungle gym. It was fairly high, almost two stories.

"I could, but I don't think I would."

"Oh yea."

Kagome climbed all the way to the top and leaned off the side.

"Inuyasha, I trust you!"

"Well you shouldn't!"

"Ready!"

"No."

She turned and leaned back wards. Taking a deep breath she jumped slightly and went free falling toward the ground. She closed her eyes and continued to hold her breath. She landed in a pair of strong arms and finally exhaled. She looked at Inuyasha.

"I kind of thought your weren't gonna catch me for a minute there."

"Don't be stupid."

He sat her down.

"Well that was something I never experienced, and I couldn't have done it with out you. Ah… you're my super hero!"

She laughed before jumping on his back.

"K-Kagome….stop…ah wait or we'll fa-"

Before he could finish they both fell to the ground.

"See….I tried to tell you."

"Oh come on its not that bad. Live a little huh!"

Kagome hopped up and took a few steps back. She stuck out her hand.

"Come on."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and grabbed her hand, she pulled him to his feet. All she wanted was to have a lot of fun with him while she still had the chance.

"What now?"

Just as Inuyasha said that he heard thunder and rain started to fall. First it was only slight rain but it began to slowly pick up and soon was pouring down.

"Oh this is great!"

Kagome looked up and smiled.

"I know right!"

"I was being sarcastic."

Kagome smiled at him, but he was far from smiling. She felt a little bad and walked over to him.

"Inuyasha?"

"What?"

He seemed very irritable, and she could tell he wanted to get out of the rain. She took his hand and pulled him under a tree.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.….I just…..I just wanted to make today fun is all."

She looked down and Inuyasha continued ringing out his hair.

"No need to apologize. But cant we have fun with out being reckless."

"Well….I guess."

'You have no idea what's going on….we have to do things we never did before to make this memorable.'

She looked up at him.

"Inuyasha? Can we do one more thing?"

"Depends on what it is."

Kagome walked backwards, back into the rain. She motioned for him to come over. Hesitantly, he sighed before joining her. Kagome leaned in to his cute little ears.

"Kiss me."

"What, why?"

"I've never been kissed in the rain before, I want you to be my first…..I want you to be my first everything Inuyasha."

Inuyasha looked at her, he was kind of confused, but it didn't matter now. He smiled and did as she had asked. Kagome was glad it was raining because you couldn't see her tears fall. They were going to catch a cab back to the hotel, but Kagome insisted they walk. It wasn't long before they reached the hotel.

"Want a towel?"

She only nodded and caught the towel that was tossed to her. It was getting dark and she would have to leave tonight. Her heart began beating faster, how was she going to tell him? Should she say something now? She figured he would be mad so she should get her last kiss now and then tell him.

"Inuyasha."

Once he turned, Kagome kissed him. She never wanted to let him go, she felt so helpless. Knowing that what was best for her was being away from Inuyasha killed her. She pulled away and looked down.

"What's wrong Kagome?"

"I cant.…"

He tilted her head up.

"What?"

She felt her body shake and kissed him again, before turning away from him.

"Inuyasha, there's something you have to know….it's the reason I wanted to come here."

"Ok, so what is it?"

"Well, its complicated….please forgive me."

Inuyasha laughed.

"You still haven't even forgiven me, remember?"

She nodded and turned to him.

"I forgive you Inuyasha, for everything, and I love you."

Inuyasha frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"Well you see, lately I've been thinking of my dad a lot and my mom thought it was because of the house…like it reminds me of him. She thinks…that I should……leave."

"You mean like move out?"

Kagome shook her head.

"No more like a trip."

"Oh cool, you could just come to my house."

Kagome looked down and fought her tears.

"No….she wants me to live with my Aunt Kaede for a while."

"Where does she live?"

"I-In California…"

Inuyasha took a step back.

"That's in America…..right?"

Kagome closed her mouth to hold back the cries that tried to escape, and nodded.

"How long…?"

She shrugged.

"I'm coming with you."

She shook her head, Inuyasha stepped back some more.

"You cant leave, I wont let you!"

"I-Its not up to you."

She rose her head slightly.

"When are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow."

"What the hell!? How long have you known!?"

"Since yesterday. I wanted to tell you but-"

"Stop."

She looked up at him.

"So you knew, and you choose now, the night before you leave, to tell me?"

Before she could answer Inuyasha slammed his fist on the dresser.

"I forbid you to leave."

"What? You cant tell me what to do!"

"Your not leaving and that's final!"

Kagome shook her head and grabbed her bag before heading for the door. Inuyasha grabbed her arm.

"Let go."

"Know this…..If you leave now Kagome, I wont wait for you."

Kagome turned to him and put her hand on his face.

"I'm sorry, this is what's best for me Inuyasha, and I have to put myself first. If you don't want to wait for me thats fine. I understand. Goodbye."

She turned and opened the door.

"Kagome….I love you."

She closed the door and ran for the bus stop. She sat on the bench in the rain and curled up with her head on her knees. She held the tears back still. The bus stopped in front of her and she walked on slowly. Ignoring the weird stares she got, she sat down. It was only a couple of short minutes before she got home, but it felt like hours. Walking in the door, her mother ran up to her.

"Kagome! Where have you been?….Your soaked."

"Mom…"

She looked up at her mother, hugged her and let her tears fall.

"Kagome, what on earth?"

"I just want to go….please mom."

"In the morning. I called Sango and let her know."

"Thank you."

Her mother walked her up to her room.

"Change out of these wet clothes and get to bed, your flight is tomorrow."

Kagome nodded, her face was wet but blank as she changed and laid in her bed.

'What's best for me….that's what I must do. No matter how much it hurts.'

She repeated it over and over in her head, almost as if to convince herself, she soon fell asleep.

"Kagome, wake up. Its time to go."

Kagome opened her eyes and sat up. The time flew by and she was at the airport saying good bye to her friends.

"Bye, Sango. Keep Miroku out of trouble, ok?"

Sango smiled and hugged her friend.

"And Miroku, you take care of Sango for me."

Miroku nodded and hugged her as well.

"Ayame, Koga. I'm gonna miss you two."

She smiled and hugged then at the same time. Kagome went to hug her brother, Miroku leaned over to Sango.

"Where the hell is Inuyasha?"

"I'll call him."

Sango flipped open her phone and dialed his number.

"What?"

"Inuyasha! Where the hell are you!?"

"Why do you care?"

"What! I-…..ok look, I'm at the airport, which is where you should be."

"Why would I be there?"

"Inuyasha, you're the only thing in the world that can keep Kagome here."

"She made up her mind…."

"Fine, you don't have to try and stop her, but the least you could do is come see her off."

"No cause if I-"

"She wants you here, baka! If there was one person she wanted to see before leaving, I know it would be you."

"Like I said , she made up her mind…if I came, I'd want to stop her and that's not what she wants, so I cant be there."

"Inuyasha…."

"I have to go."

With that, Inuyasha hung up and Sango closed her phone before turning to Kagome. Kagome could see the sadness in Sango's eyes.

"Don't be sad, I'll call you everyday."

She hugged her and turned to head for the gate.

"Bye!"

She waved one last time and walked into the gate to her plane. Sango let a tear fall as she waved to her friend.

"Sango?"

"I'm ok."

She rose her head and smiled. Kagome sat down on the plane and sighed as she looked out the window.

"We will be taking off momentarily."

She closed her eyes, but opened them when she heard someone yelling.

"I am sorry sir but if you don't have a ticket, you can not enter the plane!"

"Let go!"

"Call security! Now hurry!"

Kagome sat up she knew that voice. From around the corner she saw Inuyasha. She walked into the walk way and he looked over at her.

"Kagome!"

He pushed past the flight attendant and ran up to her.

"Inuyasha? Why are you here?"

"I-I'm not sure…I guess I just needed to make sure this was what you wanted to do."

"It is."

Inuyasha nodded.

"Ok, well….I guess I gave it a shot huh?"

He turned to leave.

"Inuyasha!"

He turned and Kagome hugged him, she looked up at his face and smiled.

"I didn't say this before, but I love y-"

"Don't say that."

"But why?"

"If you say that, I wont let you leave."

His kissed her forehead, she tried to kiss him but he stopped her.

"Like I said Kagome, I wouldn't be able to let you leave."

He was about to let her go but he was pulled away by a security guard.

"Bye Kagome….send me a post card!"

With that she watched as they pulled him off the plane.

"Bye…"

It was only a faint whisper but it had the other passengers watching them.

"Miss, I'm gonna have to ask you to take your seat, we will be taking off soon."

Kagome nodded and sat down. Memories flashed through her head, she couldn't help but feel that they were all past and she would never see his face, kiss his lips, feel his touch, any of it, never again. She was panicking as she watched the plane began to move. She stood.

"No…..Stop!"

She ran down the aisle and a flight attendant stopped her.

"Miss you have to sit down."

"No, I have to get off!"

"I'm sorry but the plane cannot be stopped."

'Inuyasha…'

Inuyasha walked out of the gate and Miroku ran up to him.

"How'd it go?"

"She's not right here now is she."

Miroku sighed and shook his head to Sango.

"I tried."

They all headed to Miroku's apartment.

"I have to go to the hotel, I mean if she's not here then I don't have a reason to stay."

They nodded and Inuyasha left.

"I cant believe she's gone."

Sango sighed. There was a knock at the door. Sango opened it.

"What the?"

Inuyasha grabbed his bag and headed for the train station. He figured he'd got to a different airport then Kagome. He sat at the train station and waited. When the train pulled up he walked on and sat down. Sitting down she looked out the window, he saw something he couldn't believe was really there.

"K-Kagome?"

He stood and ran to the train doors and got off.

"Kagome, what?…how?… why?"

She smiled at him.

"I couldn't do it, I thought I might never see you again…so I had to get off."

He stared at her for a while before grabbing her writs and pulling her into his arms.

"I was sure you were gone….long gone."

"I'm here, only because I love you Inuyasha."

He looked down at her and she smiled.

"Can I kiss you now?"

Inuyasha smirked and kissed her.

A/N: Well there, she didn't leave….not yet anyway…lol jk.

Kitkatka101: Omg yes I did heard about that, that's so messed up. And you said you forbid her from leaving so did Inuyasha…..lol

Ok so there you go, I was going to make her leave but hey I just couldn't..lol

I'm sorry to say this but this story will only have a few more chapters, it might reach the 20's but its not a guarantee. There might be a sequel, if enough people want it. What do you say, a totally new story or a second piece to this?

Thanks, TTFN ^.~* (Its winking….lol)