InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Random Thoughts ❯ Love Letter ( Chapter 8 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Love Letter

It was a cool September day when he invited me over to his house. He said he had to read me a poem. I was his best friend. No one else heard his words. No one else knew what he kept between the cover of his beat up gray notebook. I heard them. I loved them. He would spend long hours in his father's old study writing poetry. His words could weave an amazing tale. I love him for it.

He sat me down and began to read. “When I look in your eyes/I can see my soul's reflection/It startles me/just how much you have changed me/ I am grateful for it.” Small tears formed in my eyes as he told the tale. He sat trembling, but still pushed on to tell me the words that I wanted so badly to hear. I listened intently. His lips smirked a little each time he breathed. His heart pounded loud enough for me to hear. I loved every minute of it. He had put aside his lecherous ways and devoted his heart to one person.

“For the taste of one kiss/for the hope of one laugh/ I would travel to the depths of the earth/ because I love you.” He finished. I jumped, tears begging to fall from my eyes. I hugged him tightly and soaked it all in. My best friend, the man I love more than anything read me the words I had been dying to hear all my life.

“Oh Miroku, I'm sure she'll love it,” I said. Of course the words I had been dying to hear were the words that belonged to another. To her, who had entered his life after me, but stolen his heart all the same. To her, the girl of his dreams, he wrote the words that I so longed to hear from his mouth.

“Thank you Sango,” he smiled into my hair. I loved it, but I let him go. I would always love him, he just wouldn't know.