Always there

It felt like time had frozen. Kagome got up on her feet. Seing Kikyo kiss InuYasha was more then she wanted to. How could he do that?! After all he said! Didn't she mean anything to him...? Every inch of her body wanted to run to the well and leave this world behind. But she knew that the second she did that, Kikyo had won. InuYasha pushed her back.



"What are you doing...?!"



"I thought it was obvious...?"



"You don't listen at all do you? It's to late!"



"Really?" Kikyo asked and pointed at Kagome.



She had turned away from them, but he could still see it...and smell her tears.



"Damn!" He thought.



He knew that nothing, and absolutely nothing he said to Kagome, would make her or himself feel better right now. He didn't know what happened... It didn't mather. All of the things he said to her, was dissapearing in thin air. He walked towards her.



"Kagome..."



She walked away from him and stopped behind Sango.



"I don't want to talk to you right now" she said low.



He went quiet. Then he turned to Kikyo.



"How did you come back? I mean you died, we all saw it!"



"This..." she said and showed him a mark at her chest.



"Before i encountered Naraku, i injected a piece of the shikon no tama into my heart...He must have missed it somehow...Or he knew i would return to life."



Kikyo looked at him and thought back on the day she died.







-------------------*FLASHBACK*-----------------------







Kikyo picked up the little shard and looked at it. This was her last chance. If Naraku killed her, she could return to life and take him out then. But she couldn't let herself die, unless he died first. She felt his presence throughout the forest. It was getting closer. She put the shard against her chest and pushed. The shard dissapeared into her and a drop of blood colored her fingertips red. The wound closed up in a few seconds and she closed her shirt. It was time. Her heart was pounding of the rush. Suddenly she saw a dark shadow float out between the trees. It took form infront of her.



"Naraku" she said full of hate.



"Well well...Kikyo."



She aimed a mikos arrow at him.



"Are you gonna kill me?"



"For what you did to me, death is the only way to payback!" she yelled and the arrow pierced his shoulder.



Naraku laughed. His shoulder re-formed and the arrow fell out on the ground broken.



"Your arrows won't kill me this time.."



He smirked and fired a shadowbolt at her. She dodged, but he fired a new one. It hit her in the chest. When his evil powers touched the area that recently had buried the shard of shikon no tama, her body was electrified, darkened and purified again. The blow was so powerful that she passed out. Before she passed she felt the presence of another miko.



"It must be Kagome..." She thought hazily.



"InuYasha...go away."



She passed out again. After that her only memory was that she felt an enormus pain through her neck, and everything went black.







---------------------*END OF FLASHBACK*---------------------



She took a deep breath and started to fade away. She closed her eyes and before InuYasha could say anything she was gone.



"Kikyo!! Don't be such a chicken! You bitch! Get back here!" He screamed after her.



He turned arouned to Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kirara and Kagome.



"Why is she here...? Doesn't she know that Naraku is dead?" Sango asked.



"Obviously not..." Miroku said.



"What should we do now InuYasha?" Shippou asked.



He looked at Shippou but didn't answer. Sango knew what he wanted.



"Hey guys...why don't we go talk to Kaede and see how she is?"



"But...We can't leave this baka with Kagome...He will make her cry even more.." Shippou said out loud and clear.



Wham! InuYashas fist hit him in the head.



"Oooow!" he cried.



They left them alone. He lifted his arm and turned her around. She was still crying.



"I.."



"Answer me this." she said sad.



"If you can't forget Kikyo, then how can you be with me?"



"I have..."



"I'm not stupid you know. I saw it. She kissed you but you could've stopped it! "



"I don't want her! How many times do i have to tell everyone?! The girl i knew died a long time ago! The only one i want...And the only one i need is...you" InuYasha said and looked her in the eyes.



"InuYasha...i love you, i have never lied to you about that. But If you can't let her go. Then i can't stay with you..."



"What are you saying...?"



"Im saying that maybe we need a break."



"NO!" he pulled her closer to him and kissed her. He put every feeling he had for her into it. Then he let her go. When he stopped, she looked at him and said.



"I need time, and you have to give it to me."



"Kagome, i don't wan..."



Her eyes sparkled when she yelled at him.



"IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT! IT'S WHAT I NEED!"



He backed away. She sure was scary when she was mad. He nodded.



"B..."



She walked away.



"OSUWARI!!"



With a bang he hit the ground.



To Be Continued...