InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cross My Heart ❯ His Foolishness ( Chapter 8 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

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Week/Prompt: Week 2 - Forever

Word Count: 400

Rating: PG13 for a bad word

Summary: He's just a fool in love...

Warnings/Author's Note: written for mf_sanctuary on LJ.

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To be human is to be foolish. To try to be human is only to succeed at being a fool.

…The words of his mother, her only admittance of ire against his father's dalliances with a human whore.

Do not scoff at love my son. It has brought low colder hearts than yours. You know nothing, and so you despise me without understanding. Someday you will meet the one who makes you feel foolish, and then you will understand why I make no apology to you or your mother. Love is its own law. Remember that.

…The words of his father, the last ever spoken to his son.

Someday, after I die, will you remember me?

…The words of Rin, the little girl who would make of him a fool.

He knows he should use his claws to strike her dead. Yet he cannot, and each day she lives is another day he fails to put an end to his foolishness. Each day he protects her is another step towards his own destruction.

His mighty father died professing love for a human; he knows better than to expect that he will escape unscathed. If he were wise, he would throw her away and never look back. If he pursued his quest for power as adamantly as he protected her life, perhaps he would possess the strength to answer the question he sees in his mother's eyes.

Have you become like your father?

He doesn't know. He fears; and his fear almost drive him to do what needs done.

Almost.

And yet…

He does not give up his weakness, the taint of her humanity. He sees her smile, hears her laughter, touches her tears, and he seeks to understand. What she is and why she feels and who she might become.

Forever is the furthest thing from his mind as he watches her grow up under his very eyes. Forever holds no sway over his actions as he takes her for his own, regardless of the consequences. Forever is the curse on his lips as he regrets never having told her of his love.

The bitterness of understanding his father's words, of knowing he has become the fool his mother spoke of, is a mere echo to the loss of his love.

Rin.

He will love her forever, and make no apology for his foolishness, because love is its own law.

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