InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Never Stop Loving You ❯ Endurance ( Chapter 7 )

Never Stop Loving You

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Chapter 7- Endurance

The sun glowed red as it hovered hauntingly over the horizon. The yellow clouds hanging in the sky tried to muffle the red light as it emanated from the celestial orb in the sky, but to no avail.

The red light formed a spotlight over the innocent form splattered in blood and a dark haired woman hunched over it.

The innocent form was definitely a girl… but it was her silver hair and her round face that made it distinct to Kagome who it was dripping in blood…

Suteki…

Her vision shifted from the girl to the woman hunched over her… the woman looked up and it was revealed to Kagome why her baby girl was bleeding…

She was torn. From the left side of her jugular to the right of her inner thigh… she was torn. An observable scar trailed down her body, bits of limp flesh fluttering in the wind. Her eyes bore tears and yet remained lifeless-nothing more than gold without luster.

The wind blew the hair out of the woman's face and Kagome was shocked to see that it was not her…

…It was Sango…

The tears streamed from her eyes. Her light brown eyes were sad and confused….

Her vision once again shifted to view her right hand… in it she held an elegant envelope opener in the shaped like a dagger… and no doubt she found blood… the coppery stench of blood was all over her… she dropped the dagger in sheer disbelief… her heart pounded in her head as she struggled to maintain a steady breathing pattern. She looked up at Sango and her lifeless daughter to find that they had disappeared… there was nothing but a silhouette, formed against the red light before her, incandescent eyes glaring at her…

"How could you…" he said

How could you…

The sun seemed to glare at her as well for soon she was consumed by the red light from it…

Shielding her eyes from its painful rays, she screwed her lids shut... but soon they began to open on their own accord. When her eyes were opened, she was relieved to find that it had all been a dream. The blinds had been drawn open to reveal a golden sun upon the horizon its gentle rays welcoming her to a new day…

Reminding her that she had business to attend to…

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His thoughts were concentrated on the night before. The night that he had decided, he was no longer needed. The night the giggling ceased, leaving him to his own degrading thoughts. And yet he was introduced to a new kind of hope and of love…

**Flashback**

"Good-bye… my… baby girl…" he choked.

He screwed his eyelids together, preparing himself for the pain ahead. Time slowed as his arm swung downward the sliver of glass glinting in the moonlight… reaching closer… and closer to its goal…

But not before being caught by a strong pair of hands…

His head spun around to meet a teary pair of light brown eyes…

"Inu Yasha…" He wished to identify the person before him but his eyes were blurred, allowing him to only see the fuzzy features of the figure standing above him… "What's this all about?"

`Hey… I know that voice…'

"You scared the Children and me this afternoon…"-it was Sango…

"Since when had you come to be suicidal?" she asked biting her quivering lip. She shook his hand clutching the piece of glass as if shaking a toy out of a toddler's hand. And soon his hand gave way. The tension in his palm was released as his grip slipped away, unwrapping his fingers from the sharp sliver of glass. Inu Yasha slumped his shoulders in defeat.

`Sango's gonna hate me for this…'

It was then that he felt a warm pair of arms hug his crouched figure. He heard Sango weeping into his hair, holding him close as a mother would her child.

`So this is what forgiveness is like…'

"Houshi warned me that something was amiss when you didn't answer your cell…" she cried.

"Houshi?" he questioned absentmindedly…

"Yes, Houshi… Miroku Houshi… your business partner" she frowned as she pulled away from him. Her expression quickly changed to distress and she continued, "I wish I had gotten here soon-"

"NO!" Inu Yasha interrupted, earning a warning look from Sango… "No…" he softened, "This is my fault..." It was then that he had collapsed into Sango's lap in reverence.

"I'm… such a…COWARD!" he cried between sobs.

Comfortingly, Sango stroked his head. "Tell me everything Inu Yasha. Is Suteki your daughter?" she started with her first question. One she had been asking herself from her first meeting with Suteki and her mother… but she knew better than to ask until the time was right… and now was as good as any…

So he told her the whole story… of him and Kagome… of his father's death… and the sudden realization that all these years a fatherless child was longing for him.

Sango had trouble letting all this sink in… something was not right… there was a missing piece to this puzzle… According to Inu Yasha he had wrote a note telling Kagome that his father had died and where he'd be if she needed to contact him… but Kagome told her that he had left her one of rejection telling her that he was not ready for a child. Sango contemplated giving him this news, but resolved on letting Kagome do the telling…

A long silence passed before either of the two began to converse.

"So are you coming to the Daycare tomorrow?" Sango asked. Inu Yasha's pupils narrowed in shock…

"How do you expect me to face her again?" he panicked

"She's just a child Inu Yasha…" Sango replied assuringly.

"Yes… MY child", he countered.

"All the more reason for you to see her again…" she persisted.

"Keh" he huffed rolling his eyes as he turned his head from her motherly glare.

"Inu Yasha, listen to me…" Sango persevered, bringing her hands to cup his face and turn it toward her so that they were looking at each other eye-to-eye. "You didn't have a very healthy relationship with your father and you're miserable… Is that what you want for Suteki?"

"No…" he sighed. Sango was right. If there was one thing he wanted, it was that his offspring inherit a better life than he. And his cowarliness was not going to get him anywhere near that goal.

"Then you have to open your eyes and be a man, Inu Yasha" Sango advised releasing his face from her grip earning her a light smile from Inu Yasha. "Once a child comes into the picture, it's not about you anymore! It's about the child and her well-being. It's not about whether YOU can face HER… it's whether SHE can face YOU…"

"Well… can she?" he questioned.

"I think she's even willing to apologize for calling you stupid…"

`That's a good start…' he smirked to himself

***End Flashback**

Inu Yasha perked up to see the sun leaking through his off-white blinds. It was warm, bright and welcoming-encouraging him to start the new day… and move on with his life…

"A good start indeed…"

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