InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bits From The Big Yellow Bag ❯ Everything In Their Power ( Chapter 3 )

Everything In Their Power

InuYasha brought his shoulders back, gazing anxiously at the shrine steps. He could smell her… she wasn't far.

 

It'd taken months to get to this day. The three years he'd lived near the village, visiting and protecting it, meant nothing when rumor got around that the hanyou had asked the young miko to marry him.

 

A hanyou. Marrying a miko. And expecting to live near the village!

 

He'd shouldered burdens far greater than overcoming the hostility… and it was all for, and because of, that beautiful girl from the future.

 

Kagome.

 

Wearing the beautiful kimono Sango had stitched as a gift, Kagome cleared the shrine steps.

 

He'd gathered firewood, hunted and helped plant rice. He'd fought off bandits and youkai. He'd curbed his language in public, refused to rise to Shippou's goading outside Kaede's hut. And he'd built Kagome a beautiful, huge hut of their own; building a spare room for tending the sick had gone a long way toward making sure the villagers knew Kagome would continue to see to their needs.

 

InuYasha could have made excuses: he hadn't been raised in proper society. He'd fought for everything he had. He'd already done so much for the village… Instead, he braced himself and worked harder to be treated like an equal.

 

Now, he had a home, a family. With Kagome by his side, he was ready to face the future… and do everything in his power to honor the young woman who'd overcome time itself to be with him.

 

 

A/N:

First posted to LiveJournal on February 27, 2009

Word Count: 250

Prompt: “Excuses”