InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cross My Heart ❯ A Worthwhile Gamble ( Chapter 14 )

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Rating: G

 

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She was a child when he left and a woman when he returned.

 

Gone was the naïve audacity of her childhood. Gone was the selfless worship she'd always given him. Gone was the effortless way in which she could assume a position by his side and consider it rightfully hers.

 

She yearned desperately for those carefree times. She had been content with so little because she took for granted everything she questioned as an adult.

 

Why?

 

Why did he resurrect her? Why did he let her follow him? Why did he always protect her?

 

Why...did he leave her behind?

 

She wasn't sure anymore. She used to know. She never needed affirmation to trust, to believe. She never doubted in forever's promise.

 

He had come for her answer.

 

In her youth she had found his eternal nature comforting. As a woman she wished she could see even the slightest change in him, a change that she had wrought. Something she could place her trust in; something that would ease her fears.

 

Yet in the end it didn't matter.

 

In the village she had a secure home, familiar faces, and a purpose. She was needed. It would have been enough except....

 

He was vital to her happiness.

 

She was willing to throw it all away to follow him. She knew the chances of earning his love were slim, yet she would gamble that her love would reach him in her short life span.

 

And she would play to win, whatever the cost.

 

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