InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Can't Change the Inevitable ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

Can't Change the Inevitable

 

By: Keruseyu

 

Disclaimer: The great story Inuyasha isn't mine, but this idea is!

 

Prologue

 

“Kagome, get your ass back here, now!” A red-robed figure stormed as he jumped from tree to tree, never taking his eyes off the object of his anger.

 

Completely ignoring the vulgar voice behind her, Kagome continued stomping on through Inuyasha's Forest to the Bone Eater's Well, rushing to hurry on to her home before Inuyasha stopped her; before she broke her vow to never allow herself to cry in front of him again; before she changed her mind; before she forgave him for everything he had done earlier.

 

“Kagome, did you hear me? Oi wench, I'm talking to you!” Inuyasha shouted as he jumped in front of the raven-haired girl, crossing his arms in a dominating way, blocking her way of escape.

 

“You know, Inuyasha, I can hear you just fine without you shouting your head off,” Kagome said with an unusual calm. Her voice wavered slightly, almost breaking like she was trying to no cry, but with the venom with which she talked to him, Inuyasha stupidly ignored her warning and scoffed.

 

“I'll shout as much as I damn well please! Back on the subject though, you need to turn around and go back to camp before I--!” He stopped as he pointed in the opposite direction to...no one, since Kagome had walked right on passed him while he was talking.

 

“Before you what, Inuyasha?” Kagome interjected as she glanced behind her, narrowing her stormy eyes. Inuyasha glared murderously at her. She just ignored him and turned around, walking, almost to the clearing that held the mystical time-transcending well.

 

“Grr… Kagome, STOP!” Inuyasha raged as he moved behind Kagome and was about to turn her around when she turned herself around, completely fed up and downright pissed.

 

“Don't you dare touch me, Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed, poking his shoulder and forcing him back. "I'm so sick of this! All you do is shout at me, telling me how worthless I am, how you loath my presence and company when I try to be compassionate towards you when you're down, and I'd be better off home, where you seem to think I belong! Well, Mr. I'm-Too-Good-For-Friends-Because-I-Can't-Get-Over-My-Big-Fat-Stupid-Head-An d-Ego, whether you like it or not, I'm a part of this world too, and the way my grandfather talks, am part of Japanese history as well! I'm so tired of trying to be your friend, when obviously you couldn't care less if I'd go off and get eaten by a demon! As a matter of fact, I'm sure you'd be the happiest boy in the world if that happened! Ohhh, you're such a jerk, Inuyasha! Just leave me alone! I mean, seriously, how can you expect me to be submissive after everything you just said and did to me, huh?!”

 

She pushed him again, this time actually making him stumble back in shock. Then, feeling herself crack, she sobbed, “You don't know what it's like, to be unloved, unwanted and unneeded by people you love, who you care about, and who you don't have a choice to be with, and the last thing I needed right now is for the one person that I thought would understand telling me that! Do you know how much you hurt my today, or even care?! Unless you need me to do something for you, you're a complete and total asshole to not only me, but to everyone else who've tried and failed to befriend you! Inuyasha,” Kagome gasped out, “if you can honestly and completely tell me you're sorry, that I am needed and wanted here, then please, please, tell me now, for if you don't, I'm going home, and I don't know if I'll come back!” And with that, Kagome, exhausted for draining her emotions into one great big outburst, sank to the Forest's floor, quivering with her sobs, embracing herself with her eyes squeezed shut tight.

 

A totally hurt Inuyasha looked down at her and felt his heart lurch painfully in his chest, making him realize just how important Kagome was to him, to everyone. He couldn't breath, for everything, everything Kagome had said was the truth, and he knew it, though only about the way he acted, not how he truly felt.

 

Kagome, Kagome, I do care about you! I do want you to be my friend, and so much more! I do know what it's like to be unloved, unwanted and unneeded! I do care how much I hurt you Kagome, and I'm sorry, so damned ashamed and sorry! I'm sorry, and I don't loath your company, I embrace it, love it, need it! I don't think you belong at home, because I want you here with me, always and forever, by my side and no one else's! I definitely don't want you to die, because if you ever did, I would too, for I love you Kagome, completely and hopelessly, am totally in love with you!

 

Inuyasha suddenly felt the very unfamiliar prick of tears as he once again glanced down at her, watching as she quieted her sobs and tried to control her trembling. Kagome was silent now, and still waiting for an answer from him, and he gasped, realizing he was, in fact, in love. Inuyasha opened his mouth, to say everything he had just thought, to say what needed to be said, but no sound came out, only another gasping noise, followed by another pregnant pause.

 

Why can't I say it? It has to be said, especially if there's any chance at all I'm going to have a chance with her! Talk damn it, talk!

 

But he couldn't, for he was too ashamed at everything that had transpired between the two earlier that day. He hadn't meant to do and say that, but he had, and there was nothing to do but to say he was sorry, but that was proving to be the most difficult thing for him to do at the moment.

 

Taking his prolonged silence as his answer, Kagome shakily rose to her feet from her position on the floor, never taking her strikingly beautiful blue eyes-that were usually so lively and were now dead looking-from the floor. Not even bothering to wipe away the fugitive tears from her eyes, she uttered three inaudible words that only someone with excellent hearing, say, like a hanyou or demon perhaps, could hear.

 

Before Inuyasha could even try to respond to her words, she turned and ran, ran as hard and as fast as was humanly possible.

 

Can't breath… can't see… Inuyasha, it hurts! Kagome thought as she stumbled a few times, but never lost her balance, and kept going, running, running. She closed her eyes, as the overflow of her tears were making it impossible for her to see, and put her head down, breathing heavily now, not even aware she was running blindly through a forest.

 

Her heart had been shattered and spat on millions of times when Inuyasha had said nothing. Her whole being was suffering, when all he had to do was say two very simple, very easy, and very needed words that her ears and heart had needed to hear, but now, it was too late, too late. She felt as though she was a lifeless doll, made of dirt and clay, graveyard soil and bones.

 

I now know how you feel, Kikyo. Please, don't resent me, Kagome prayed, for loving him so, for I'm suffering the same betrayal and hurt you have! These were Kagome's last thoughts in the Feudal Era as she finally, after what seems like years, reached the Well, and without a second thought…jumped in.