InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inu Yasha Themes ❯ Sentinel ( Chapter 7 )

 

Sentinel

 

It was there in the sky, a scent fainter than a wisp of cloud. It was a vision that lingered in shadow, more impossible to see than a shard of dappled light in deep forest. It was a feather-light caress, an intangible echo borne on the wings of the softest breeze.

It was a memory so powerful that it had saturated the very earth on which he walked, footprints engraved not in the mud of the wooded trail he so faithfully travelled, but in the deepest well of his heart. The only proof that his memory had not been a dream, that she had ever existed, was revealed as a solid weight around his neck: the last thread of attachment to a world locked shut.

`If Kagome was in Kikyou's place, and had to give up her life… I'd want her to go to the world beyond the well and live there in peace.'

He'd gotten his wish.

If it seemed as though the retreat of night-time shadows from each dawn's light swept across the mountain ridges the way black hair billowed in the wind, it didn't matter. If it appeared that Goshinboku's leaves, dancing in autumnal eddies, sounded like a softly-whispered voice, he could live with it. If he was forced to travel so far away he couldn't physically honour his tryst, then he simply left behind his soul, an everlasting sentinel that awaited her return to a world she had not been born to and which he did not call home.

After all, he'd gotten his wish.

And, on the day a scent more compelling than even the blossoming heralds of spring washed across the village, he would not question his response.

This world may not have been her home to return to, but her heart was his.

 

 

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