InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ One Tenth of a Picture ❯ Regret ( Chapter 2 )

A 100-word one-shot. I've used this idea before (in the infamous Tenseiga Question round robin on the ecchi list--but the version here isn't a hentai).

Regret

That morning, as she sometimes did, she walked into the forest, just to look.

He was still there, of course, as he would always be, forever and ever. His face--that scornful, mocking face she remembered from her childhood--was gentle in repose as it had never been in life, the insolent eyes shut for eternity. He seemed asleep, although she knew this sleep would never end.

Shaking her head sadly, she again resisted the temptation to pull out the arrow.

She turned back to the village, just a moment too soon to hear the girl climb from the well.