InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cross My Heart ❯ Poison ( Chapter 15 )

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She tells him she loves him and he laughs in her face.

 

You cannot love me, he tells her. She doesn't comprehend that he means it in a literal sense until she steals a bit of his breath.

 

And feels the acid burn in her lungs like fire.

 

Then she understands that his natural poison permeates his very flesh, making it impossible for her to be with him. That mere wisp of air should have killed her, eaten her from the inside out for her audacity.

 

But it doesn't.

 

If she were cautious by nature, she would give up. But she has never played it safe, preferring to push her body to its limits instead.

 

Her experiment amuses him and so he indulges her as she teases him with kisses. Only her fierce determination sees her through the worst of the poisoning as she builds up her immunity.

 

Again and again she returns to him, pleading when he might otherwise deny her for her own good. Surely the next time will be her last, yet she succeeds beyond even her own ludicrous expectations.

 

Finally she invites him to take her in the most intimate of embraces. It is beautiful, everything she ever dreamed of.

 

I love you, she tells him.

 

Yes, he agrees, holding her close as she dies in his arms.

 

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