InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fall to Pieces ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Cry LaVey 
InuYasha finally finds his way to Kagome, but he's been waiting for 500 years and he needs to use the last of his wits, sanity, and the last minutes of his life to convince her to go back and save them.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Psychological / Romance | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 07.29.2006 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.3K | Visits: 550 | Status: Work In Progress
InuYasha finally finds his way to Kagome, but he's been waiting for 500 years and he needs to use the last of his wits, sanity, and the last minutes of his life to convince her to go back and save them.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Psychological / Romance | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 07.29.2006 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.3K | Visits: 550 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter Two
...500 years later...
All the years I've tried, with more to go
Will the memories die?
I'm waiting
Will I find you? Can I find you?
We're falling down
I'm falling
He blinked several times, just to make sure. But he should have known before hand that even after all this time, there was no mistaking that face.
He felt as though the breath had been slammed from his body. It was unbelievable. The ground seemed to shake beneath his feet. He knew he should close his mouth, but he couldn't seem to make it to that point yet. He couldn't even breathe. Was he dreaming? Hallucinating? He had sure done enough of both over the centuries. It was certainly possible. But he knew he wasn't when she stopped to wave to someone. They saw her too.
"Kagome..." he whispered, stumbling towards her. She kept walking, having long since passed him by now.
"Kagome!" he yelled as he started running after her, so desperate to catch her, just as he had in his dreams. Except this time was real. It had to be! After all his centuries of torment, the end had to be at hand. He ran as fast as he could, using his supernatural speed to reach her, heedless of the mortal witnesses.
"Kagome!" he cried out again, a desperate cry straight from his tormented heart. He couldn't let her get away. Any minute now she would disappear again, just as in his dreams. He had to reach her before she was lost to him.
But finally, after all his attempts to reach her, after all he had endured, the torture of the endless nightmares, living with the brutal knowledge of what had happened to her after she had left him, he finally saw her turn around at the sound of his voice calling her. She had finally heard him.
"InuYasha!" she cried out recognizing his human form bounding toward her. How could this be? She had sealed the well months ago. She thought never to see him again. But here he was, running to her as fast as he could, crying out to her as though he was in hell and she was the only one who could save him. She was stunned as he pulled her to him.
"Kagome, my love," he breathed. "I am so sorry," he said over and over again, holding on to her with all his strength, unable to let her go even for a second, afraid if he did she would disappear again. "Please, please, forgive me."
"Oh, InuYasha, how did you get here?" she asked, starting to cry. "I sealed the well. I vowed never to see you again. How are you here?"
"Just come with me." He scooped her up into his arms and took off running. She didn't notice where he was taking her. She didn't even care. She just clung to him, willing to go with him whereever he wanted. When she looked around, several minutes later, she realized that they were by the well.
"Kagome, you need to know I am not the InuYasha you knew. That InuYasha is still waiting for you to return to him."
Surely she was going mad. She leaned back and looked him in the eyes. Apparently he had been using some spell to look human, because here he was, the old InuYasha. In his eyes he looked tired beyond belief.
"You do not want me. You told me so yourself that you did not love me."
"I lied!" he said fiercely, shocking her into speechlessness. "I am so sorry Kagome. I lied. I tried to come after you, I tried to take it back, to tell you that I love you more than life, but you had already sealed the well. I don't know how long I waited by that well, calling out to you, waiting for you to return to me. It was so long before I moved away from this spot. But even now, I have not moved far away. Kagome, I have been waiting here for five hundred years to right this wrong. You need to go back. I am still waiting for you."
"But you are here now," she whispered.
"Kagome, I am deranged now. I have been in hell all this time. Even now it is so hard for me to believe that you are here with me. I will die soon. I know this. I... I came back through the well at one point. I never stopped trying. But this was decades after you had left. You-" he choked. "You were already dead. As was I. I found out how. We were buried side by side. I found out everything. You had died in an insane asylum, old and alone. And I, not realizing I could find you, had felt your death. I died not long after. I found your grave after enough time, and I died right next to you.
"Kagome, you must listen to me. I have come here to re-write history. I have come here to save us. You must understand. Go back and give us a chance."
"But InuYasha, how can I? You broke my heart. You hurt me. How can I bear to go back?"
"Just trust me. Whatever happens, I know that I love you, I always have. Any fate is better than the one written out for us."
"But what will happen to you?"
"Everything will change. Even I don't know where I will end up, but it is better than where we both are now. I am barely holding on to my sanity. But I have endured all these centuries just to warn you. You must go. I promise, you will regret it if you don't."
Kagome turned as he set her on the ground and faced the well. After a minute of silence she walked to it and looked into it's depths. Her eyes filled with tears, her agony at its peak. The tears fell from her eyes and landed in the well. Suddenly the bottom of the well took on the image of a mirror, except she couldn't see herself. Instead she saw InuYasha, could hear him calling out her name. Begging her to come back. The sound tore at her heart, and she cried out in anguish. Then the image disappeared. She turned to see the other InuYasha next to her.
"Take the spell off and go through the well. You can still save him. There is no hope for me now, but there is still hope for us if you go back to him."
She nodded silently. She jumped into his arms and hugged him. "I am so sorry for all you have suffered," she whispered.
"I am the one who needs forgiveness," he replied, his voice strained with emotion. "If I had not been such a fool... But it is not too late. Go."
He kissed on the cheek before stepping away from her. She faced the well, and her future, knowing in her heart that this future would have hope, where the other would not. Motioning her hand over the well, she undid the spell. InuYasha lifted her to stand on its edge and stood back. She looked back at him, and they both looked each other straight in the eyes. With out another word she jumped into the well.
...500 years later...
All the years I've tried, with more to go
Will the memories die?
I'm waiting
Will I find you? Can I find you?
We're falling down
I'm falling
He blinked several times, just to make sure. But he should have known before hand that even after all this time, there was no mistaking that face.
He felt as though the breath had been slammed from his body. It was unbelievable. The ground seemed to shake beneath his feet. He knew he should close his mouth, but he couldn't seem to make it to that point yet. He couldn't even breathe. Was he dreaming? Hallucinating? He had sure done enough of both over the centuries. It was certainly possible. But he knew he wasn't when she stopped to wave to someone. They saw her too.
"Kagome..." he whispered, stumbling towards her. She kept walking, having long since passed him by now.
"Kagome!" he yelled as he started running after her, so desperate to catch her, just as he had in his dreams. Except this time was real. It had to be! After all his centuries of torment, the end had to be at hand. He ran as fast as he could, using his supernatural speed to reach her, heedless of the mortal witnesses.
"Kagome!" he cried out again, a desperate cry straight from his tormented heart. He couldn't let her get away. Any minute now she would disappear again, just as in his dreams. He had to reach her before she was lost to him.
But finally, after all his attempts to reach her, after all he had endured, the torture of the endless nightmares, living with the brutal knowledge of what had happened to her after she had left him, he finally saw her turn around at the sound of his voice calling her. She had finally heard him.
"InuYasha!" she cried out recognizing his human form bounding toward her. How could this be? She had sealed the well months ago. She thought never to see him again. But here he was, running to her as fast as he could, crying out to her as though he was in hell and she was the only one who could save him. She was stunned as he pulled her to him.
"Kagome, my love," he breathed. "I am so sorry," he said over and over again, holding on to her with all his strength, unable to let her go even for a second, afraid if he did she would disappear again. "Please, please, forgive me."
"Oh, InuYasha, how did you get here?" she asked, starting to cry. "I sealed the well. I vowed never to see you again. How are you here?"
"Just come with me." He scooped her up into his arms and took off running. She didn't notice where he was taking her. She didn't even care. She just clung to him, willing to go with him whereever he wanted. When she looked around, several minutes later, she realized that they were by the well.
"Kagome, you need to know I am not the InuYasha you knew. That InuYasha is still waiting for you to return to him."
Surely she was going mad. She leaned back and looked him in the eyes. Apparently he had been using some spell to look human, because here he was, the old InuYasha. In his eyes he looked tired beyond belief.
"You do not want me. You told me so yourself that you did not love me."
"I lied!" he said fiercely, shocking her into speechlessness. "I am so sorry Kagome. I lied. I tried to come after you, I tried to take it back, to tell you that I love you more than life, but you had already sealed the well. I don't know how long I waited by that well, calling out to you, waiting for you to return to me. It was so long before I moved away from this spot. But even now, I have not moved far away. Kagome, I have been waiting here for five hundred years to right this wrong. You need to go back. I am still waiting for you."
"But you are here now," she whispered.
"Kagome, I am deranged now. I have been in hell all this time. Even now it is so hard for me to believe that you are here with me. I will die soon. I know this. I... I came back through the well at one point. I never stopped trying. But this was decades after you had left. You-" he choked. "You were already dead. As was I. I found out how. We were buried side by side. I found out everything. You had died in an insane asylum, old and alone. And I, not realizing I could find you, had felt your death. I died not long after. I found your grave after enough time, and I died right next to you.
"Kagome, you must listen to me. I have come here to re-write history. I have come here to save us. You must understand. Go back and give us a chance."
"But InuYasha, how can I? You broke my heart. You hurt me. How can I bear to go back?"
"Just trust me. Whatever happens, I know that I love you, I always have. Any fate is better than the one written out for us."
"But what will happen to you?"
"Everything will change. Even I don't know where I will end up, but it is better than where we both are now. I am barely holding on to my sanity. But I have endured all these centuries just to warn you. You must go. I promise, you will regret it if you don't."
Kagome turned as he set her on the ground and faced the well. After a minute of silence she walked to it and looked into it's depths. Her eyes filled with tears, her agony at its peak. The tears fell from her eyes and landed in the well. Suddenly the bottom of the well took on the image of a mirror, except she couldn't see herself. Instead she saw InuYasha, could hear him calling out her name. Begging her to come back. The sound tore at her heart, and she cried out in anguish. Then the image disappeared. She turned to see the other InuYasha next to her.
"Take the spell off and go through the well. You can still save him. There is no hope for me now, but there is still hope for us if you go back to him."
She nodded silently. She jumped into his arms and hugged him. "I am so sorry for all you have suffered," she whispered.
"I am the one who needs forgiveness," he replied, his voice strained with emotion. "If I had not been such a fool... But it is not too late. Go."
He kissed on the cheek before stepping away from her. She faced the well, and her future, knowing in her heart that this future would have hope, where the other would not. Motioning her hand over the well, she undid the spell. InuYasha lifted her to stand on its edge and stood back. She looked back at him, and they both looked each other straight in the eyes. With out another word she jumped into the well.