InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I Can Too ❯ I Can Too ( Chapter 1 )
The tears dripped down her cheeks, as she stood paralyzed at the edge of a crater, where her true love once stood.
i edited the story so it has more detail, and special thanks to Kuramafan58 for reviewing ^_^
this is my first story, and although i edited it i would still like it if people reviewed. my goal is to become a better writer, and one of the ways i see to do so is getting feedback from you guys. =^_^=
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: One Shot | Uploaded On: 11.14.2004 | Updated On: 11.20.2004 | Pages: 1 | Words: 800 | Visits: 558 | Status: Completed
I Can Too
By Paige
The tears dripped down her cheeks, as she stood paralyzed at the edge of a crater, where her true love once stood.
~*~
"NO! Please, you can't go!" The young girl sobbed, stretching her arms out in a desperate attempt to catch her beloved before he disappeared into eternal damnation.
The boy looked at the woman who had excepted him for who he was and never expected him to be anything different, and now with a screaming heart he whispered, "My heart is yours… but my life is hers." Turning his head to face the mold of his past love, whom he had promised his life in order to make up for hers, he forced a small smile to caress his beautiful face.
The wind kicked up, and light swirled about the two misguided lovers. The sobbing and broken young girl watched as a demon and a priestess descended into the bowls of the earth, eternally bound to one another just as they had once dreamed.
~*~
The girl starred at the massive whole for what seemed like hours, not fully able to understand, let alone except, what had occurred only minutes before. She leaned her head to the side slightly, her eyes never leaving the spot where He had left her. Taking a deep breath of fresh air, she slowly began to make her way back to the village.
She couldn't feel anything, not the light breeze that gently brushed her hair out of her eyes or the wet mist that began to descend upon the vast forest. And as she walked, entirely mechanically, back to the village, all she could hear was her heart, each beat coming slower then the last.
Once at the village, her friends greeted her just as they always did. She hugged each of them, her heart cracking, and her legs beginning to go numb. Her heart pushed at her chest in an agonized attempt to rip from its binds knowing it would only fall to the ground and die. After the hugs had ended, she turned on her heal, at first walking but found it all to slow and thus broke into a run. She went faster and faster not wanting to hear her friends' cries or His voice echoing in her head.
"Wait!" A male voice called from behind. The girl stopped inches from the well, she didn't want to wait for them, she didn't want to explain, and yet her feet didn't move. She still stood there as her friends appeared from the foliage.
"What..'s……wrong?" The young priest panted.
"Yeah mommy, you're eyes are all puffy and red." The young fox demon announced worriedly.
The girl could feel the tears screaming for release, but she would not allow herself to cry. The girl stood, struggling against her fervent emotions, trying to keep from screaming out all her tortured feelings, and attempting to keep from falling to her knees in despair.
"We know when something is troubling you." The demon exterminator said softly.
The monk walked up to the distraught girl, took her hands in his and asked gently, "What happened?"
The priestess shut her eyes and in a barely audible whisper said, "He's left to join the dead."
The priest was stunned to say the least. He had always believed that the hanyou would choose to live and love in the present. He had seen first hand the looks of utter devotion directed toward the living priestess! He simply could not understand, but by the look on the sad girl's face, he knew she did only too well. "What happens now?" He whispered while giving her hands a tight squeeze of reassurance.
The girl pulled away from the priest, and brought out the now completed Shikon No Tama. "I will always remember the love and friendship that you all showered on me. And I will no doubt think of you all constantly," the tears now fell freely from her eyes, her friends watching hopelessly. She grasped the jewel tightly in her hands and closed her eyes. It began as a small glow and grew within seconds to a point where it not only engulfed the jewel but its master as well. And as she began to fade away the question that once seemed impossible to answer drifted to her ears.
With pleading hope she answered, "Every one of you has a tragic story to tell and all of you have somehow pulled through, and hopefully...I can too." And with those final words, she disappeared in a whirling twister of light.