When I'm Gone...

Prologue

"Inuyasha... nan desu ka?" Kagome looked at the hanyou suspiciously. "What's wrong?"

Without a word Inuyasha had pulled Kagome away from the group, dragged into the forest, out of ears reach. Now what? Baka, never could talk about things properly, then when he gets up enough courage he-- her thought were seesed when he embraced her.

"Kagome, why have you stuck around for so long? You could be killed here, you know that, and yet, you stay." His words made Kagome wonder. Why did she stay? That's right, because she had promsied him. It had been two and a half years since she made that promise. Though, he had never mentioned it, why now? Is he going to send her back? What if he doesn't want her around anymore? He always did say that she was just a shard detector... what if he wanted to look for the shards on his own? He alway's said that the gang was always slowing them down. She broke away from his embrace.

"Inuyasha. You're acting strangle... this isn't like you... what has gotten into y--"

"I'm leaving." Kagome didn't know what to say. The words like a knife in her back. A lump in her throat she couldn't swallow.

"Leaving? Nan? Why? Where? I don't understand. Inuyasha, what is going on?" She looked at him confused. "Will you come back?"

I can't tell her why, I can't. She wouldn't understand. He looked in the eye. "I don't if I will. And if I'm able to, I don't know when." He pulled her against him, giving her a passionate kiss. She kissed him back. Never wanting to leave his arms, she had always loved Inuyasha, she had always wanted this kiss, but not in a situation like this.

In the end, Inuyasha broke the kiss, leaving Kagome gasping for breath. He caught the scent of tears, her tears. He scolded himself for being the cause of those tears. He left, running, running away from the pain, running away from the feelings that made him hurt so.

We would come back, he had to, for Kagome.