InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For The Love of An Enemy ❯ A Time of Pain, A Flicker of Hope ( Chapter 1 )

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A Time of Pain, A Flicker of Hope

The night was dark and overwhelming as the cold wind blew harshly across the land. The moon was hiding, refusing to light the world below. It was a night meant for heartache and pain, a night to mourn and grieve when the blackness could hide your secret anguish.

Looking over her shoulder to make sure no one had followed her, Kagome sat at the edge of a pond, staring at her reflection desperately searching for the girl she once was. The image looking back at her was frightening, sadness etched into every line of her face, shadows haunting her eyes and dulling their brightness. Kagome did not recognize the disheartened woman before her and felt a flare of anger for a brief moment at the man who had broken her spirit and put out her fire.

Inu Yasha. The one name pulled so many emotions out of her: loneliness, despair, hatred, joy, friendship, tenderness and love. As these conflicting feeling coursed through her grief stricken body, Kagome recalled the event that had finally shattered the heart that had been breaking for two years.

Flashback

Flashes of white swirled around the couple, flashes Kagome knew to be the soul stealers of her incarnate, Kikyou. Inu Yasha stood in front of her, so close it appeared the two were in an intimate embrace. And although they did not touch Kagome could feel the passion surrounding them.

"I love you Kikyou, I always have and always will" Inu Yasha said to Kikyou as he grabbed her hand and placed it over his heart. "Kagome means nothing to me, she was only a reminder of the woman I loved, a woman who was stolen from, and a woman whose death I mourned and love I yearn for everyday." He ended on whisper, using his other arm to bring her into his embrace.

"You know that I hate you Inu Yasha" Kikyou replied looking into the eyes of the hanyou she once loved "That is the curse of my rebirth, the curse of this dead shell that was awakened to destroy you. I will take you to hell with me so that we may be together forever, in our hate and love."

"It doesn't matter" Inu Yasha replied urgently "Take me with you so that me may share the same pain, the same torment, to be with you forever is my wish, and my fate." And with those words the ground beneath them began to shudder as it opened up.

From a distance a horrified Kagome watched as the couple, now involved in a passionate kiss, began to slowly sink into the depths of the Earth, or more accurately, the depths of hell. Frozen in place, Kagome's heart cried out for the man she loved as he disappeared into blackness, but her mind refused to let her rush to pull him out knowing that it was useless, Inu Yasha wanted to be with Kikyou, he was destined to. Kagome closed her eyes, refusing to watch the couple any longer. When the Earth stopped moving under her feet, she reluctantly opened her eyes to emptiness, the ground was whole and Inu Yasha was gone, forever.

End of flashback

Feeling her heart break again as she recalled the memory, Kagome looked up at the sky, beckoning its infinite wisdom to explain to her why she should be the one to be in pain, why she should be left alive when all that mattered to her had died, with another in his arms.

As she silently asked the questions she knew would never be answered, a brilliant streak of white marred the perfect blackness of the sky. How ironic, Kagome thought to herself. A shooting star, a sign of hope, appears before me on a night when I have none.

Not one to ignore tradition, Kagome made a wish upon the shooting star. She wished for the one thing that would erase the memory of one tragic night. With the courage and bravery of the woman who had started this journey two years before, Kagome wished for the one thing she believed she would never find again, she wished for love.