InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Little Bits ❯ Heart Healed ( Chapter 7 )

Heart Healed

The setting sun and the rising moon illuminated his pale hair as the wind blew it straight out behind him. Eyes half-closed, soaking in the autumnal wind's olfactory concert, Inuyasha idly scratched a patch of dried mud that had escaped his cleanup after a day of helping to chink the village's rebuilt huts.  He sighed. It was--pleasant--to be accepted, not just tolerated, by the villagers. More than he would've thought, once upon a time. It felt oddly good, to look at the houshi's new home, and know that he had helped build it, that his strength had created something, instead of destroyed.

Still...

If only the houshi--and everyone else--would quit worrying about him.

Yes, he missed Kagome. Every moment, every day.

But his heart was whole, and with that, he was content. When he had found his way to Kagome from within the Shikon No Tama, when he had met her tear-worn eyes and heard her words, somehow, that last scar, that last fear, that chink in his heart, had healed. And when the well had pulled him back to his own time, leaving her wrapped in the arms of her mother, he had felt no need to rant, to rage, to jump mindlessly over and over in a fruitless effort to get the well to work.

He had saved the woman he loved from a fate worse than death.

She was safe with those who loved and needed her.

It was enough.