If You Could Only See

Chapter One

Modern Day Tokyo: Approx. three years after the well sealed.

Kagome stood at the well, staring down into its depths.

'The reason the well won't connect…is probably because of my feelings.'

Every three days, she would come and stand here, hoping something would change.

'When the bone-eaters well disappeared, and I was plunged into that darkness…I was so scared and sad…'

It had been like this, for three years.

'But I didn't know that I had been in that darkness for three days. And that made Mama, Jii-chan, and Souta scared and sad as well. I felt terrible, and I was so happy to return home. And then the well closed.'

She never lost hope. Somehow she managed to stay strong, by hoping for the day when she could return.

'Inuyasha…I've thought about you all the time since then. The reason I went to the Sengoku Jidai. The reason the Shikon no Tama disappeared and the well stopped connecting. What I had to do is done, and now I am forever in my…this…world…

A world without Inuyasha…'

She closed her eyes, gripping the side of the well.

'Inuyasha…

I want to be with you!'

Her eyes opened as she looked once more down into the depths of the well.

And for just a moment, for a split second, she could have sworn she saw the face of the man she had loved and lost.

"Inuyasha!" she breathed.

Without thinking, without hesitation, she hurled her legs over the side of the well. She fell, down, down, down…and her feet made contact with earth.

She looked up.

There were no vines coating the edges of the well. There was no clear blue sky shining above her.

It hadn't worked.

I dry sob escaped her as she sank to her knees once again.

Had she really expected it to work? Why was today any different from the other countless days she had jumped down the well? The well had sealed, and it wasn't ever going to open again. She never belonged in the past, and she was never going back.

Tears fell from her eyes as she sat, heartbroken and empty in the well.

"Sango…" she whispered, "Miroku, Shippou, Kaede, Kirara…Inuyasha!"

Kagome pounded her fists into the dirt, as thought she could make the well open by force.

"Why?" she called out, voice cracking. "Why did it happen this way? Why couldn't I just be with them, with him?"

"Kagome?"

She looked up and saw her mother's concerned face. She watched through blurred eyes as her mother climbed down the ladder on the side of the well. Her mother sat down next to her and wrapped her arms securely around her heartbroken daughter.

"It's not fair, Mama," Kagome whispered. "It…it wasn't supposed to be like this."

"I know dear," her mother answered knowingly. "But the Kamis have a funny way of working everything out. What's meant to be, will be, and I think that you and that boy were meant to be together."

Before, these words would have filled Kagome with a new hope, a hope that would shatter the next time she tried to use the well. But she had those hopes broken too many times, it was time to face the truth.

'I'll never see him again. He'll never smirk at me or beg me for ramen. He'll never piss me off and I'll never sit him. He'll never hold me in his arms, like he did when he found me in that darkness…

He was my hero, and I'll never be with him, ever again.'

First chap, whatcha think? Okay so far? I'm liken it! But I guess that's just me…

Anyways I'd appreciate reviews! Even flames are welcome!

~Lions Heart 獅子の心 (ROAR! ^-^)