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Chapter 19:

Screaming Out Her Name

"Kagome! Come on in it's time for supper." Jin called. Kagome looked at her sweaty brother and laughed as she panted. "You're good Souta. But I'm better." Souta laughed and got off the ground. "You just wait Kagome! I'll keep practicing and I'll get better than you." Kagome wrapped her arm around her brother and they headed inside for dinner.

Jin looked at the duo and sighed. "You two are sweaty dirty messes!" They laughed. Kagome had on a black sports bra and white karate pants while her brother had on a pair of black karate pants and no shirt. They were covered in scraps, sweat and dirt. "Sorry mom. Just had to remind this little one here that I am the queen of fighting." Kagome smirked. "Little!?" Souta growled.

The two bickered as they headed upstairs to freshen up. Jin shook her head and laughed as she looked out the window to the well house. '3 weeks now and no sign. Has he really kept to his word?'

Kagome stepped out of the shower and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked at her chest. There was only a scar there now. The jewel shards helped speed up the healing process. She sighed and walked into her room and dressed herself in a pair of blue jeans and a creamed colored sweater with red horizontal stripes and a deep V Neck.

She walked out of her room and downstairs. 'Inuyasha, I know you're suppose to come back for me. So where are you? I'm not staying here forever.'

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"Inuyasha..." Shippo groaned.

"No."

"But..."

"No."

"She has to be..."

"GOD DAMNIT! SHE'S NOT COMING BACK!" The group stared at him. Inuyasha had sent Kagome home 3 weeks ago and he was more sure now more than ever it was a good thing. They had been attacked countless times by Naraku's group. Inuyasha couldn't bare the thought of losing Kagome again to him. He always thought about her. He had even gone back to her time a couple times. But she never seemed to be home. 'She has moved on with her life. We need to move on with ours.'

The group was sitting at Kaede's while they tended to their wounds after their most recent fight with Kagura. The group was irritated with Inuyasha. He never seemed to fight the same as he did when Kagome was around.

"I can't believe Kagome has stayed away this long." Sango stated looking into the fire. She missed Kagome, and she wondered what exactly Inuyasha said to keep her away. "Maybe it's what she really wanted." Inuyasha grumbled.

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Kagome sat on the lip on the well looking down it. She sighed and took a sip of her hot chocolate. "Inuyasha....where are you?"

"Why are you still here Kagome?" Kagome turned around and looked at Jin. Jin sat on the lip of the well and looked at her daughter. "Oh I was just thinking. I'll be going to bed soon." Jin smiled and shook her head. "No, I meant, why are you still in this time? You want to be over there, with your friends. You gain so much more of your memory while you're over there. You should go."

Kagome sighed. "Inuyasha hasn't come." Jin shrugged. "No, he hasn't, and if he keeps his word, he never will." Kagome looked up at her. Jin sighed. "Inuyasha isn't coming back Kagome. He wants you here permanently." Kagome's mouth fell open. "Why that son of a...How dare he!" Kagome stood up and handed her mom the cocoa. She walked into a corner and retrieved her bow and arrows. "I'll teach him a thing or two." Jin stood up and kissed her daughter's cheek. "Be careful ok."

Kagome smiled. "Will Do. Thanks mom!" And with that Kagome jump through the well.

Inuyasha sniffed the air and his eyes widened. "Kagome!!!" Shippo cheered. The group gasped and everyone ran to the well.

Kagome climbed out of the well and looked around. The moon and stars were her only light. She started to stomp towards the village but stopped when she heard people running. She was then thrown to the ground my Shippo and Amaya. "KAGOME! We missed you!" Shippo cried and Amaya mewed. Kagome laughed and hugged them. "I missed you too!"

Shippo got off of her and Amaya jumped on her shoulder. She walked over and hugged Sango. "How are you?" Sango asked. Kagome smiled. "Perfect. Just a scar now."

She gave Miroku a quick hug, so she didn't have to hit him. Then she turned to Inuyasha. She was going to chew him a new one.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome. He didn't know what to say. She was so beautiful. Her hair blew freely in the wind. Her ice blue eyes glittered in the moonlight. Her lips looked full and....angry. 'Oh shit snap out of it, she's about to...'

"SIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Thud. Kagome crossed her arms over her chest and waited impatiently for Inuyasha to stand back up. "What the hell!?" He growled.

"You were never going to come back for me were you!? Huh!? Huh!?" Inuyasha grunted uncomfortably as Kagome got up in his face. He looked away. "Don't even try it! Be a man and tell me the truth!"

"Fine! No! I was never coming back for you! You don't belong here Kagome! You're not safe here! I was protecting you! Look at us! We're covered in injuries because of Naraku trying to find you! We're saving you!" Kagome blinked and looked at the group who just stared at her nervously. She hadn't noticed the cuts and bruises all over them. She looked back at Inuyasha. He had a bruised cheek but she couldn't see the other wounds.

"You're right Inuyasha, I don't belong here. I'm dead. So I don't belong in this world, or the other. I'm here on borrowed time. Eventually the jewel will have to be completed and I will have to give up mine in doing so. So why, why deny me seeing you. All of you. I may not completely remember everything. But, my heart tells me that I love you all. Let me enjoy whatever time I have left here. When I got hit with that arrow, I thought for sure I was dying, and you know what....it was okay, because I had said goodbye, and I was going to die in your arms. I was happy."

Inuyasha gulped. He didn't know what to say. Her words broke his heart. He sighed and hugged her tightly. "Kagome..."

Kagome shook her head. "Don't talk." She broke the hug shortly thereafter and looked at the group. "So, can I stay?" The group smiled and looked at Inuyasha. He crossed his arms and feh'd. "Not like you'd actually listen to me anyways." Kagome smiled and they all headed back to the village.

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"Ahhh....so the young Kagome has finally returned." Naraku laughed as he looked into Kanna's mirror. Another man looked at the mirror as well. He was pale skinned, very similar to Kanna. He had short, black hair and ice blue eyes. He pointed at Kagome. "Is that her?" His voice sounded cold. Naraku nodded. "Make her remember." The man nodded and closed his eyes.

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Kagome snuggled into a futon with Shippo and Amaya and slowly drifted off to sleep.

"That stupid, inconsiderate, pig-headed jerk! Just who the hell does he think he is!" Kagome growled as she stormed through the woods. Tears were staining her face. "Won't let me go for a walk. Jerk! I am a grown woman!" She screamed to the cloudy sky. She felt rain begin to hit her face as she made it to a clearing. "Great, now he'll be coming for sure to get me. Jerk." She was about to continue on with her walk when she saw someone sitting by a rock crying. "H-Hello? Are you ok?" She walked over and kneeled down and gasped. "Ko-Kohaku!" She stood up and backed away. 'Is this a trap? Shit I don't have my arrows if Naraku is here.' "I remember!" Kohaku cried. Kagome blinked as the shaky teen arose. "I remember what I did!"

"Kohaku, it's ok. I'll take you to Sango. We'll help you." Kohaku looked away and Kagome touched his shoulder. Just then Kohaku whipped around and punched her in the face. She flew back and hit the ground. She groaned and shook her head. "Kohaku no!" She barely dodged his Scythe. Just then she heard laughing. She looked and saw him. "Naraku!"

"Hello there little Kagome. How are you doing?" "Naraku you will pay for this. Inuyasha will be here any minute!" Naraku laughed again. "Foolish girl. Do you honestly think that he's coming for you? After you stormed off he left to see Kikyo." Kagome winced. "Liar." She growled.

"Oh am I? Kanna, show her Inuyasha at this moment." Kagome looked into the mirror and gasped. Her heart broke. Inuyasha was embracing Kikyo. 'He has to be lying...but....'

Kagome backed away. "INUYASHA!!!" She screamed. No answer. She screamed again. "You have a choice, Kill Kohaku or be Killed." Naraku threw a knife by Kagome. She looked up at him. He was to high for her to stab him.

'He wants me to betray Sango. I...I can't kill her little brother!! There has to be another way!'

Kohaku hit Kagome in the shoulder. She let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground she growled as she heard Inuyasha speak. "Kikyo, I love you."

"SHUT UP! INUYASHA SAVE ME PLEASE!!!!" She cried as she tried to run away, but Kohaku jumped in front of her. He was swinging his scythe and he grabbed it and ran at her. Kagome kicked him away but not hard enough. Kohaku grabbed her by the hair to hold her as he cut her across the abdomen.

Kagome's eyes widened. She fell to the ground as he let her go. "Inu....yasha....you...promised...to pro...pro...tect..." Kagome closed her eyes as a couple more tears fell. The last thing she heard was Inuyasha's voice.

'I chose you Kikyo...'

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"Kagome!" Kagome bolted out of bed screaming and backed into a corner. Away from the concerned group. She was panting and crying. She was mumbling incoherently and feeling her stomach with her incredibly shaky hands.

Inuyasha was about to walk over to her but she screamed and backed herself further into the corner. Inuyasha looked at her, 'is she afraid of me?'

"Inuyasha, her eyes." Miroku whispered. Inuyasha nearly choked. They were stormy blue. "Kagome."

She stood up. "Get away from me! How could you!" She screamed so loudly her voice cracked. She continued to sob. Her body could barely support her she was so weak. Inuyasha looked at her in a confused, hurt way.

"I hate you!" She yelled at him. "I HATE YOU!!!!!" She grabbed her arrows and began to run. "Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled and the group ran after him.

'You should've never unpinned him from that tree...'

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