Prologue

"InuYasha, what do you mean?" Kagome cried again. He glanced over his shoulder coldly.

"I mean, " he said, with unguarded hostility, "That Naraku is dead. I don't need you here anymore. Leave, and take that stupid Jewel with you."

"But-"

"But nothing. You don't belong here. You think you're a priestess when you're just a stupid little girl. You can't replace Kikyo, and you know it. So just leave."

"InuYasha, you said you loved me!" Kagome screamed.

"I needed a way to keep you here until we had gotten all the shards collected. Now that it's whole, it's causing more trouble than when it was broken. Kikyo is dead again, demons are coming from around the country. I'm sick of having to protect you, so go, now!"

Kagome turned and ran toward the sacred Bone-Eaters well. It was this well that had brought her to the Feudel era, and to InuYasha. She lifted herself onto the side and looked in. "InuYasha..," she whispered, placing her hand on her stomach. I can't tell him. Not now, not ever. No matter what he told me before, he doesn't want me…or her, she thought. Besides, what would he want with a child?

Kagome wiped the tears from her cheeks. With one last glance back, she leapt into the well and into the future.

She climbed out of the well and found that she wasn't outside anymore. She was in the shrine that was on her family's property.

"Kagome? What are you doing back so soon?" her little brother, Sota, asked. Without answering, she ran past him and to her room. She collapsed on her bed and sobbed. She didn't know what she had expected to happen when they had fixed the jewel, but she hadn't ever, not in her worst nightmare, thought that he would send her away.

A few hours later, Kagome's mom came in and sat next to her. "Kagome, what's wrong? Why didn't you come down for supper?"

"Mom, I need to tell you something. I know that you're going to be mad, but I don't care."

"What is it?"

Kagome took a deep breath and placed her hands on her stomach. She watched as her mom's eye's widened in understanding. "Mom, I'm pregnant. And InuYasha's the father."

InuYasha slumped against the sacred tree where he had first met Kagome and sighed. His heart was shredded from hurting Kagome, but he had to. She was safer in her own time. He had had his taste of heaven, and even though he wanted nothing more than to go after her, it was time to let go.

"InuYasha, you jerk, how could you do that?" someone yelled from the bushes. The little fox demon, Shippo ran out and started punching him. Miroku and his newlywed wife, Sango, followed.

"Do you guys always spy on us?" InuYasha shouted back, picking Shippo up by his tail.

"Don't change the subject, this is about you!" Miroku shouted. "Why did you do that? You always do things like this! She loved you, she risked her life for you! Kagome was way to good for you, but she wanted to stay here and give-up everything, for you!"

"And that's why I told her to leave! If she stayed here she would have gotten hurt. I won't let her do that anymore."

"So, you threw away the only thing that would have made either of you happy?" Sango asked.

"Feh, just shut-up. Go and take this idiot with you," he growled, throwing Shippo at them. "What's done is done. She's gone, end of story."