InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanging by a moment... ❯ Remembering ( Chapter 49 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Genre(s): Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Rating: A
Warnings: Death
Word Count: 500


* Dedicated to the fabulous fanfiction author psyco_chick32, who passed away this last weekend. Her wonderful works of Inuyasha (and other genre) fanfiction stories can still be found here on MM at this time, as well as over on FF with the name written as psycochick32. Read...and remember...



Kagome was late, as usual. She had promised that she would come home right after school. Huffing to himself in irritation, Inuyasha jumped through the well.

Pausing at the well-house door to make sure the coast was clear, he then quickly raced towards Kagome's bedroom window. Leaping onto the roof, he tried the window and smiled in satisfaction when it opened. Kagome never locked it unless she was mad at him, and there was no reason for her to be angry right now; they hadn't had a fight before she'd left for school that morning.

As he hopped down onto the ledge and quickly stepped inside her room, however, he suddenly wondered if he hadn't been wrong and Kagome was upset with him after all, as he spotted her laying flat out on her bed, face buried in her pillow, the strong scent of her tears permeating the air.

Crap! What the hell did I do?

He had to fix this.

“Kagome?” he voiced softly.

“Oh, Inuyasha!” she said in surprise, launching herself into his arms as she cried even harder.

“Kagome, what's wrong? What happened? Who hurt you?”

Sniffling, and with a shaky breath, Kagome tried to explain, “T-today at s-school I f-found out m-my f-friend...” Pausing there, she buried her face in Inuyasha's shoulder.

Awkwardly, he rubbed her back.

“Kagome? What is it? What happened with your friend?”

Taking a few calming breaths, she closed her eyes and tried again, her voice more stable this time.

“I just found out that my friend Kim died this last weekend. She had been really sick off and on for a long time, but we thought she would be okay, you know? And then she died suddenly. Nobody even got to say goodbye to her. She was fine, and now she's just...gone.”

Shocked, Inuyasha didn't know what to say for a long while, and just held Kagome in silence as she continued to cry on his shoulder. Finally, though, he cleared his throat, and murmured gently, “She's...she's not gone, Kagome. Not if you remember her and what she meant to you. She'll live on forever in your heart.”

Shocked to hear such tender words coming from somebody like Inuyasha, she pulled back enough to look him in the eyes, her own eyes swollen and red from crying.

“I know you probably expected me to say something bitter like people die all the time, but...but I do know how much worse it is...when it's somebody who's important to you.”

“Oh, Inuyasha...”

Shaking his head, his eyes begged for her to let him finish, and so she stayed quiet.

“When somebody who is important to us dies, we just gotta remember everything they taught us, everything we learned from them and all the times they made us feel happy. That you knew her, that you mourn her now, that is her legacy.”

Still crying, but smiling also, Kagome nodded her head in agreement.  

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* We love you Kim!