InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Ashes ❯ Ashes ( One-Shot )

Her memory implodes, flashes of sharp metal and chain, stirring up the ashes if her regrets. She can taste charcoal on her tongue; it grits in her teeth as she chews it over, flavorless, but still somehow bitter.

 

She should have…could have…

 

Knows that she couldn't.

 

Ashes to ashes (if only it were so simple), ashes, ashes everywhere.

 

Will she fall down again?

 

Will he?

 

When?

 

As long as there is a glint of hope between the places where angel's wings should now, by all rights, lie, she knows the answer.

 

She cannot return him to the ashes (or can she?), and the dust has yet to settle on the ruins of her grief.