Always there

"What?! NO!" InuYasha said in panic.



"There must be something we can do!"



Kaede looked at him and shook her head.



"We can only wait, as i said. I just wish i knew why...Why Kikyo keep this up, even though she knows that the two of you have no future together..."



He looked at her.



"She still lives by my promise..." he said sad.



"But InuYasha, Kikyo has died and lived two or three times since then, you are not obligated to keep it. Besides you belong with Kagome, don't you know that?"



He nodded.



"Yes, i just wished she would wake up..."



Kaede gave him a warming look.



"Be patient, she hasn't given up before."



With those words she went outside. InuYasha looked at Kagome.



"If only you would come back to me.." he mumbled and held her hand.







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LATER

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He didn't know how much time that had passed but it was dark when he finally woke up again. He sleepy rubbed his eyes.



"Inu...Yasha..."



He looked up. Kagome was awake!



"Kagome! Are you okay?"



"I've been better..."she mumbled.



"Kaede!!!" InuYasha yelled.



The old woman entered through the door.



"Yes? Oh! Kagome you're awake! For a while there we thought that we lost you!"



Kagome just smiled.Her shoulder was burning with pain.



"Kagomeee!!!" Shippou ran through the door closely followed by Miroku and Sango.



"Thank god, you're okay!" Sango said happily.



"You had us worried Kagome-sama!"



"She still needs to rest, Since she isn't fully recovered yet. I Think it's better we leave them alone..."



They went outside again. Leaving InuYasha and Kagome alone.



"Kagome..." InuYasha mumbled and caressed her cheek.



She remembered Kikyo...The arrow. But she knew that what she most of all had to do was letting him go. When she felt the sweet touch of his fingertips touching her she turned away.



"InuYasha...i'm...I've got a..."



"What?" he asked.



The tears gathered up in her eyes.



"I...i don't think that we should be together anymore..."



He felt how he paniced. No! Why?! He didn't want to leave her!



"No..!"



"We have to..."



The tears started to run freely down her cheeks.



"We have to? Is that your excuse...?"



She didn't answer.



"Because..."



"Save me the trouble Kagome...Fine, it's over i get it. You...wench!! What did you do, did you play with me all this time?"



"NO!Listen to me! I..." she said.



"Kikyo was right, the only thing you are is a copy of her! Useless and completely uncapable of love!! Just leave..."



Kagome felt how she broke apart from the inside. She had never in her life felt more brokenhearted than she did now.

He turned his back on her.



"You never meant anything to me, all you were was a good piece of entertainement!"



With those words he jumped out the door leaving here completely crushed. She started to cry even more than before. Sango entered the door.



"InuYasha looked mad, are you...Kagome! What happened?!"



She fell down and took her hands.



"We...we...broke up...I...i..." she cried on Sangos shoulder.



"I'm sorry..."



Kagome didn't answer. Tomorrow she would go home. InuYasha knew that Kikyo had the last shard in her body, and if they took it out she would die. Therefor he could never take it. And as long as he couldn't let her go they couldn't be together. Besides he didn't need her anyway. But if he just had listened to what she had to say...







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THE FOLLOWING MORNING.

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Kagome quietly packed her stuff down in her bag. She looked at Shippou and the others and felt how her tears surfaced again. No. This was not the time to cry. She wrote a letter and put it by Sango.



"Please forgive me..." she mumbled as she left the little house and walked against the well.



She climbed over the well with her legs and sat there for a few minutes. Then she started to cry.



"I guess i really just am the second best for him...He will always love Kikyo more..."



The tears ran from her cheeks and as she jumped down the well they sparkled like diamonds in the air.



InuYasha didn't move from the tree he sat in. Is that what she believed? SECOND best? Then fine, leave, she should know better by now! But he couldn't hold his tears back, and as they started to fall he hit his hand in the tree trunk and let out a scream that echoed throughout the forest.







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PRESENT TIME

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Kagome climbed out of the well. Outside the house she heard voices. It was her mom, Souta and Jii-chan. Souta saw her.



"Onee-chan!!" he yelled and ran to her smiling and gave her a hug.



"Souta" she smiled.



Then she hugged jii-chan and her mom.



"Kagome are you hungry?"



"Not really, do you guys want some help?"



"No...You look tired go get some rest" Jii-chan said.



"Okay" she answered.



She walked up to her room and threw herself at the bed. Then she felt something in her pocket. She picked it out.



"Oh no...."



In her hand she held the shikon shards. She had to go back and give them to Kaede. But not now. She didn't want to see InuYasha. He was probably with Kikyo right now. Thinking about going to hell...











To be Continued...





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