SHE KEPT RUNNING.

She had to find him…she had to. She wouldn't stop until she did. She didn't know how long it would take to find him, but she didn't care. It had even started to rain, but she wouldn't give up. She couldn't... not after what she did.

Flashback

Kagome and the gang had been fighting another one of Naraku's puppets, when she noticed Tetsusaiga had been knocked out of InuYasha's hands. She yelled for him to retrieve it, but he was too far away from her and the sword. He kept fighting with his hands…slicing one tentacle, then two, etc. She though he might be ok without it, until one of the tentacles attacked him from behind. It went straight through his shoulder and lifted him off of the ground. She could hear his screams from where she stood, bow in hand. She shot an arrow at the tentacle, dead on, and purified it, releasing him. She tried to make her way toward him, but the puppet kept shooting more and more tentacles at her.

She couldn't escape.

It was then that she noticed something wrong about InuYasha. He was hunched over, and she could hear a low growling sound coming from him. 'His demon blood is taking over!' she thought, her eyes showing the amount of fear she felt. She looked over to Sango and Miroku; they had noticed it as well. "Kagome! We have to do something before it's too late!" Sango called to her, but she couldn't hear her. She watched as InuYasha destroyed the puppet, leaving a little wooden doll in its wake. He started walking towards her, his now blood red eyes never leaving his target. Sango and Miroku gathered around her, as she tried using the 'sit' technique. However, the most she achieved was for him to stop walking, and just stare at her. "InuYasha! It's me! Kagome! Don't you recognize me?" She cried. He just kept staring at her, growling …and smirking.

He was about to attack, but Kagome beat him to it. She ran towards him while Sango and Miroku shouted various forms of 'no' after her. When she reached him he was still too shocked to do anything. He stood stock still while Kagome paused in front of him, then did the only thing that she could think of. She kissed him.

He slowly transformed back into his hanyou form; the stripes on his cheeks disappeared and his eyes slowly melted back into the golden orbs they knew. He wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned into the kiss, adding more pressure and passion.

Sango and Miroku watched shocked as Kagome and InuYasha continued kissing long after his demon blood lost its control over him. They heard a faint noise from their far right and turned to see one of the last people that they needed to witness Kagome and InuYasha's 'exchange' of passion…

KOGA.