Unbreak My Heart

Chapter One – Pain

Pain.

That one word had so many different meanings and Kagome was experiencing them all at one time. Her heart was broken. She felt incomplete. She felt empty. Already three months had passed since she was torn from Inuyasha in a way no one wanted to be torn from someone they loved. Especially since that someone lived five hundred years in the past.

More tears washed over the girl as she thought about it. Her entire body rocked with sobs as she sat upon her bed, hands clutching at the blankets beneath her. The blankets. Inuyasha had slept on this very bed once before. He had looked so peaceful, so content as his light snores filled the room. Kagome had watched him for some time that night when she was supposed to be studying for a big test the next day.

She felt more of the hot salty liquid fall down her cheeks again and looked up at the ceiling. Her red eyes stung from the lack of sleep yet she couldn't force herself to fall into even a light slumber because dreams of the inuhanyou she loved so much would flood into her mind. She didn't want that. She didn't want to be reminded of something she could no longer have. But looking around, there were constant reminders everywhere. Even the trash can was a reminder.

Looking at the small pink bin, Kagome let out a rather bitter laugh as she remembered the events that happened that night.

Kagome sat in her bedroom studying when the door suddenly flew opened and in stepped Inuyasha completely naked covered with bubbles with Tetsusaiga in hand. Souta, Kagome's little brother, walked in after him equally naked with his own set of bubbles covering certain spots and pulled at his hand. Kagome looked up and fell out of her chair at the sight. Without even thinking, she picked up the trash can – the closest object to her – and threw it at the unsuspecting hanyou. It clunked him over the head and fell at his feet.

"Get out!" Kagome yelled as she stared. She hadn't meant to but she couldn't bring herself to look away for some odd reason.

Souta managed to get Inuyasha out of his sister's room and back to the bathroom.

Kagome sunk to the floor. "I forgot everything I just learned."

Kagome let another bitter laugh escape her. It was hilarious that day, now it just made her want to cry every time she thought about it; about him.

Curling up in a ball again, Kagome looked out the window at the Goshinboku tree. A ping of regret filled her heart. If it wasn't for that stupid demon dragging her back into the Sengoku Jidai, she wouldn't be in this situation. She wouldn't be hurting like she was now. She wouldn't even know that Inuyasha existed. She would be a normal girl living a normal life with her family at the shrine. Not some damn jewel shard hunter or the Shikon Miko as she was called by the accursed jewel. She wouldn't have known about anything that happened back then. She wouldn't have woken up Inuyasha. She wouldn't have met Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Kirara. She wouldn't have come so close to death so many times.

"What am I saying," she mused aloud to herself. "If it wasn't for that day, I wouldn't have made so many amazing friends that care about me. Yeah sure I missed so much school and fell behind a lot but I loved being with them. I loved sleeping under the stars, especially since I knew Inuyasha was right there watching over me. I loved the joy of finding yet another jewel shard and keeping it out of evils hands even though that's where it ended up anyway. I also loved when Inuyasha would carry me on his back as we traveled. But those are all experiences of the past…"

She stopped for a moment and thought about what she said.

"Heh, the past," she spoke aloud. "That's what that was, and that's where it will stay."

Again, tears fell down her cheeks at the realization that she would no longer be with Inuyasha in the Sengoku Jidai and that it would only be a memory. A memory she would cherish until the end of time. Until she would meet him once again in the heavens above when her time came. That was the only assurance that she held reminding her that she would someday see him again.

A loud sob escaped her lips as she flopped back on the bed covering her eyes with her hands.

"I'll only see him again when I die," Kagome whispered. "Just peachy."

Reaching over to the small radio that sat on the nightstand by her bed, Kagome turned on her favourite station and listened to the soft music that was playing.

:: You love me, you complete me, you hold my heart in your hands. ::

:: And it's okay 'cause I trust that you'll be the best man that you can. ::

Kagome felt more tears wash down her cheeks as the singer continued to sing as the song came to a close. That's how she felt about Inuyasha but now she would never be able to tell him that.

"That was Keyshia Cole with 'You Complete Me' tonight on smooth jams," the announcer said through the speakers. "If anyone is out there really listening you shouldn't be. You should all be asleep. But anyway, this next jam is a favorite still today; Ms. Toni Braxton with 'Unbreak My Heart' from her 1996 album 'Secrets'. This is for the lovers."

The smooth beat to the song began and Kagome felt the water works crank up a notch.

:: Don't leave me in all this pain ::
:: Don't leave me out in the rain ::
:: Come back and bring back my smile ::
:: Come and take these tears away ::
:: I need your arms to hold me now ::
:: The nights are so unkind ::
:: Bring back those nights when I held you beside me ::

Painful memories flashed back to Kagome. All the time she spent with Inuyasha. Their talks, their arguments, their first kiss, how he continuously saved her; it all hit her at once causing more and more tears to fall. She rocked herself back and forth, hugging her knees to her chest. It wasn't fair.

:: Take back that sad word good-bye ::
:: Bring back the joy to my life ::
:: Don't leave me here with these tears ::
:: Come and kiss this pain away ::
:: I can't forget the day you left ::
:: Time is so unkind ::
:: And life is so cruel without you here beside me ::

Kagome completely agreed. She didn't want to be alone. It hurt too much to be away from him. Sure they had their arguments and it took them over a year to actually be able to confess that they loved each other. But it wasn't fair that she was taken from him like that.

:: Un-break my heart ::
:: Say you'll love me again ::
:: Undo this hurt you caused ::
:: When you walked out the door ::
:: And walked out of my life ::
:: Un-cry these tears ::
:: I cried so many nights ::
:: Un-break my heart ::
:: My heart ::

By the time the song finished, Kagome had fallen asleep; tears still streaming down her cheeks. It wasn't a restful night's sleep either for the young miko. Just like all the other nights for the last three months.

That's chapter one. This is a four part story. So please, review and let me know how you like it. And for those reading my other works, I promise I'm working on them as we speak. 'Stronger' is about halfway done and 'Prophecy' is in the process of being started.