InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Guardian Angel of the Loved ❯ War Meets Peace, Always And Forever ( Chapter 5 )

Guardian Angel of the Loved

Chapter 5: War Meets Peace, Always and Forever

I stared into the fire tiredly, it had been another two weeks and I hadn't seen InuYasha again. The scars along my arms were deeper and greater in amount. War was fading into my life. I was fighting against my outer self. 'The cliff...'I thought,'is the only way out for me, I'm driving myself insane. Maybe I am insane...I can't tell anymore,' I couldn't feel anything anymore. All I could feel was the burning pain in my broken heart. I needed InuYasha but he wouldn't come anymore. My fingers found the small knife and without thinking, blood flowed down my arm. The deed was done now...again. My mind went back to that afternoon beside the cliff and the crashing waves with sharp rocks at the bottom,'The only way...' I thought. My memory skipped and I remembered the jewel shard, how intriguing it was. How unusual for me to think of it. I had clung to it like my life rested on it. 'I'm possessed...the only way out is the cliff...war...' I crept off in the shadowy dawn, the sun was still rising. How calm the surrounding was. I barely made my presence known. 'The world doesn't need my impression...' I thought as I drew in breath heavily. I could barely breathe as I walked up to the cliff's edge. The crashing of the waves broke the morning's silence. The war was calling me the same way the waves seemed to be crashing into the silence. My heart seemed to collapse and a sudden pain came on around my neck, where the jewel shard I had clung to hung. I choked for air as I crept to the edge, tears forming in my eyes. 'This is the war and it's fighting me...but which way do I take, fight or flight?' I looked down the cliff's edge, trying to catch my breath,'Both ways end in death, peace and war have no difference anymore...' I began coughing up blood as I choked, my eyes blurry with tears. The pain was searing into my lungs and heart. I couldn't breathe or see. But I could hear...

...and the voice I heard when I gracefully fell off the cliff was a voice so full of life. It was the single voice I never thought I would hear again. "Kagome! Don't please!" InuYasha called, tears, actual tears, in his eyes. He caught me by the back of my shirt, pulling me into his arms. He was sobbing,'He's crying for me...' I thought. I was sobbing too. I was relieved that he came. "You came for me..." I whispered as he kissed my forehead. "I would never leave you, Kagome..." he whispered into my ear, his tears mixing with mine. Yet, there was something different. My arms wrapped around his form and I gasped softly, "Your wings...what...InuYasha?" I said, not believing. He looked into my eyes and neither of us said a word, we just understood. He was alive! "I told you I would never truly leave you, Kagome, I'm always here for you and now I'm here forever," he said smiling,"Or at least until I die again." I laughed, I actually laughed, it had been so long. The laugh was a relieving sound for the both of us. I laughed and cried out of relief and love. My InuYasha was back! He was alive and back! Then it dawned, as relieved and happy as I was about InuYasha being back, how was it possible?

Sometimes the realest things are the things you can't see.