My Heart by Celeste

One

Kagome stood outside in the rain as the sun came up over the eastern skies. An orange glow began to rise on the small hill she was standing on. As the light crept closer to where her skirt brushed the ground under her bare feet she stirred at the new warmth slowly rising and the wind began to die. A cold chill suddenly crept over her, she looked behind her, not turning her body to face the oncoming and unexpected guest.

Inuyasha came closer, anger in his eyes. She left in the middle of the night and for the last few hours has been up on the hilltop watching the skies. Inuyasha was not angry because she left that night, but because she refused to leave this morning. Perhaps she was still upset about what he had said the night before.

She remembered it so clearly; she wished it were a dream or maybe a nightmare. The night was cold and dark and the sun had already set over the west. Inuyasha was in a rage that they were not getting any jewel shards from the latest attackers and that they were supposed to be getting shards.

"Well, Inuyasha we should be there in a few days." Kagome said hopefully. Inuyasha was unmoved.

"Shut up, Kagome! You said we were going to be there in a few days three times already. How far are we?" Inuyasha demanded.

"Not to long. I think they're moving, that's all." Kagome thought that Inuyasha would yell at her for not telling him sooner, but she wasn't prepared for what he said next. "Kagome,"

"You are supposed to find the jewels and lead us there," Inuyasha spat as he started to stand up, "You're no good to us if you don't help us find the jewel, it's your fault it broke in the first place. You might as well go home, you shouldn't risk our necks in order to feel important!"

Kagome was hurt and hurt badly. She fought tears that were threatening to spill like a waterfall over her face. 'Is that all I am to him,' she thought, 'A jewel shard detector and a liability. No...' Kagome stood; a single tear ran from her cheek. She didn't even have the words to 'sit' him as he thought she was going to do. All she thought she could handle was being alone, all alone.

And there she stood.

The middle of the dark forest of forever was more inviting than him. She thought about going home, then a strange thought came, she would make Inuyasha like her or at least make him see that there was someone who wouldn't think of her as a burden or just some human girl looking for attention. Who she could go to, she didn't know.

She started walking, in some obscure direction. The forest to the west of where she stood on the hill was indeed were she was headed. Kagome didn't talk to Inuyasha not trusting her voice. She quickly glanced at him before going it to the woods. Miroku laid a hand on Inuyasha's tense shoulder warning him not to follow.