InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fallen Part Two: For Whom the Bell Tolls ❯ Poem to a Horse ( Chapter 14 )
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By: lil_rei_chan 
::Shakira::
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Drama | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.10.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 960 | Visits: 168 | Status: Completed
::Shakira::
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Drama | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.10.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 960 | Visits: 168 | Status: Completed
Chapter 14: Poem to a Horse
For the next several nights, Kagome would anxiously await sleep, eager and yet apprehensive of seeing Sesshoumaru again. She felt she had to apologize to him. Even though he was the one that struck her, she felt that she had somehow provoked him.She felt that maybe if she hadn't said what she had that he would not have. She felt it was her fault. And yet for these next several nights, he was not there. Those few days turned to weeks and still there was no sign of him. Just when she was about to give up all hope of ever seeing him again he reappeared.
//You're too far to bring you across Too high to see below Just hanging on your daily dose And you never needed anyone But they're rolling papers for your grass How can you give what you don't have?//
It wasn't until over a month later that he appeared to her again, and somehow she thought to herself that he looked tired almost, but she merely shrugged it off as nothing more than her imagination. However, she did notice and was sure that something was most definately off with him. Something was different with him. Something had changed between them. Something was wrong. He was no longer the warm, expressive man that she had come to know in this dream world. He had become the cold, emotionally constipated demon that Kagome knew him as in his life. This greatly confused and hurt Kagome.
//You keep on aiming for the top And quit before you sweat a drop Feed your empty brain with your hydroponic pot You start out playing with yourself You get more fun within your shell Nice to meet you but I gotta go my way //
At each attempt at conversation, she was shot down. Pain lanced through her heart at this and tears threatened to gather, but she valiantly founght them off. This wasn't the demon she knew and loved. It was like his heart had shut down again, leaving behind the cold, calculating statue of marble and ice that he was before.
"Sesshoumaru, will you please talk to me?!" she exclaimed, finally having had enough of his silence as hot tears streamed down her cheeks. As if in slow motion the tears rolled from her eyes, down her porclean cheeks to the ground below her, where they sizzled and scorched the earth like acid. At that, he slowly, almost mechanically turned his head in her direction. He regarded her for a moment before he returned his gaze to the dreamscape before them. The tears came faster as she stared at his profile for a moment before she angrily turned her back on him. She took several deep breaths before she began to walk away.
//I leave again Cuz I've been waiting in vain But you're so in love with yourself If I say my heart is sore
Sounds like a cheap metaphor So I won't repeat it no more //
As she stalked away, Sesshoumaru slowly turned to watch her retreating form, a great pain showing in his gleaming eyes. After she had become nothing but a spec on the horizon of her dream, he whispered two words that his pride would never allow him to say to her face. He never expected them to reach her ears. Since there was nothing there, no other sounds they did reach her as a breath of wind, "I'm sorry." However, she promptly disregarded them as her imagination. Whishful thinking. The dream slowly faded and she was finally gone from his sight. She was out of reach.
~X~
Kagome awoke with silent tears of acid streaming down her face, and eating away at the floor boards beneath her. She looked around the small hut to see that everyone was still asleep. The fire was out. A cool breeze trickled in through the flimsy door covering, beckoning to her. Quietly, almost as if she were in a trance, she rose and made her way out into the late night.
She sighed softly as the breeze lovingly caressed her face, cooling her tears and her sorrow. Gently it swirled around her body, enveloping her in a blanket of serenity. Silently she prayed for answers to her questions, but she knew none would be forth coming. What had caused him to pull a complete 180 like that? Was it something she had done or said? What had happened? She just couldn't figure it out. She could meditate on it for hours, poke and prod him for hours on end, or search the deep recesses of his mind, but she would never get the answers unless he gave them to her. She was so confused.
She reached the God Tree and deftly jumped to one of its' highest branches. There, nestled in the arms of the great tree, she watched the sun rise. There she stayed until her little brother and sister came looking for her. She went with them to eat breakfast and then spent the rest of her time with her friends. The day passed uneventfully, and night was soon upon them once more. With the night came the resolution that she would get some answers out of Sesshoumaru. One way or another she would figure it out, and it wasn't going to be pretty, this much she knew.
~X~
Well, what did you think?... hope you liked it.
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For the next several nights, Kagome would anxiously await sleep, eager and yet apprehensive of seeing Sesshoumaru again. She felt she had to apologize to him. Even though he was the one that struck her, she felt that she had somehow provoked him.She felt that maybe if she hadn't said what she had that he would not have. She felt it was her fault. And yet for these next several nights, he was not there. Those few days turned to weeks and still there was no sign of him. Just when she was about to give up all hope of ever seeing him again he reappeared.
//You're too far to bring you across Too high to see below Just hanging on your daily dose And you never needed anyone But they're rolling papers for your grass How can you give what you don't have?//
It wasn't until over a month later that he appeared to her again, and somehow she thought to herself that he looked tired almost, but she merely shrugged it off as nothing more than her imagination. However, she did notice and was sure that something was most definately off with him. Something was different with him. Something had changed between them. Something was wrong. He was no longer the warm, expressive man that she had come to know in this dream world. He had become the cold, emotionally constipated demon that Kagome knew him as in his life. This greatly confused and hurt Kagome.
//You keep on aiming for the top And quit before you sweat a drop Feed your empty brain with your hydroponic pot You start out playing with yourself You get more fun within your shell Nice to meet you but I gotta go my way //
At each attempt at conversation, she was shot down. Pain lanced through her heart at this and tears threatened to gather, but she valiantly founght them off. This wasn't the demon she knew and loved. It was like his heart had shut down again, leaving behind the cold, calculating statue of marble and ice that he was before.
"Sesshoumaru, will you please talk to me?!" she exclaimed, finally having had enough of his silence as hot tears streamed down her cheeks. As if in slow motion the tears rolled from her eyes, down her porclean cheeks to the ground below her, where they sizzled and scorched the earth like acid. At that, he slowly, almost mechanically turned his head in her direction. He regarded her for a moment before he returned his gaze to the dreamscape before them. The tears came faster as she stared at his profile for a moment before she angrily turned her back on him. She took several deep breaths before she began to walk away.
//I leave again Cuz I've been waiting in vain But you're so in love with yourself If I say my heart is sore
Sounds like a cheap metaphor So I won't repeat it no more //
As she stalked away, Sesshoumaru slowly turned to watch her retreating form, a great pain showing in his gleaming eyes. After she had become nothing but a spec on the horizon of her dream, he whispered two words that his pride would never allow him to say to her face. He never expected them to reach her ears. Since there was nothing there, no other sounds they did reach her as a breath of wind, "I'm sorry." However, she promptly disregarded them as her imagination. Whishful thinking. The dream slowly faded and she was finally gone from his sight. She was out of reach.
~X~
Kagome awoke with silent tears of acid streaming down her face, and eating away at the floor boards beneath her. She looked around the small hut to see that everyone was still asleep. The fire was out. A cool breeze trickled in through the flimsy door covering, beckoning to her. Quietly, almost as if she were in a trance, she rose and made her way out into the late night.
She sighed softly as the breeze lovingly caressed her face, cooling her tears and her sorrow. Gently it swirled around her body, enveloping her in a blanket of serenity. Silently she prayed for answers to her questions, but she knew none would be forth coming. What had caused him to pull a complete 180 like that? Was it something she had done or said? What had happened? She just couldn't figure it out. She could meditate on it for hours, poke and prod him for hours on end, or search the deep recesses of his mind, but she would never get the answers unless he gave them to her. She was so confused.
She reached the God Tree and deftly jumped to one of its' highest branches. There, nestled in the arms of the great tree, she watched the sun rise. There she stayed until her little brother and sister came looking for her. She went with them to eat breakfast and then spent the rest of her time with her friends. The day passed uneventfully, and night was soon upon them once more. With the night came the resolution that she would get some answers out of Sesshoumaru. One way or another she would figure it out, and it wasn't going to be pretty, this much she knew.
~X~
Well, what did you think?... hope you liked it.
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