InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ One Tenth of a Picture ❯ Five Years After the Destruction of the Shikon no Tama ( Chapter 8 )

Kagome? Kikyou? Houjou? Miroku? Even…Naraku? I don't know. 100 word one-shot, complete.

Five Years After the Destruction of the Shikon no Tama

"How is Inuyasha?" he asked.

"Inuyasha is Inuyasha," she laughed. She did not say, He has no useful skills. He can't find decent employment. He's uneducated. He's bored. He's insecure and demanding and jealous. He's ignorant, peevish, and vitriolic. Just like always.

"And how are you?" he said.

She did not say, I've become a termagent, a nag. I accuse him of missing her, wanting her. I've become the bitch he calls me.

And then they merely talked-of old times, of the news, of the world, of nothing at all. Conversation-like cool water on a long, dry day.