InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ One Tenth of a Picture ❯ Culpable ( Chapter 4 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

By: Bachan

Another 100-word one-shot.

Culpable

For weeks, he had wrestled with his fear of betrayal, with the weakness of his own wounded heart.

Ironically, even as she sought his death she freed him to open his heart and love again.

"Go back into Kagome," he told her.

"When I die, you die!" she said. And she attacked.

Horrified, he watched her fall.

He didn't know the formula (32 feet per second per second), but understood he couldn't overtake her and break her fall.

He couldn't save her. Anybody could see that.

( …But part of his mind had whispered: "There's a problem that just solved itself…." )