InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sedirea ❯ So Long My Love ( Chapter 6 )

So Long My Love

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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

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There it was again; the scowl on his face whenever he saw her.

 

Kagome sighed; had she done something wrong? She admitted that trying to avoid him openly was not a polite gesture, but she had tried to apologize by buying him a box of ramen with different flavors.

 

Not that she should apologize at all; it was after all his fault to be reborn and to torture her to no ends. Every now and then she still felt a little twinge in her heart whenever she glimpsed at him, and not to mention the jumble of feelings she got calling out all sorts of possible painful murderous attempt she wanted to act upon him whenever his girlfriend called him. Damn him, for affecting her mentally.

 

There was a reason why she did try to be nice to him though. She wanted to meet his friends.

 

Now that she knew for a fact that Miroku was reborn with Inuyasha in this century, she wanted to know if the other friends experienced also the same remarkable phenomenon. Suddenly she had this aching to see Sango and Shippo again and maybe even Koga. She had never had friends again like she had in Sengoku Jidai.

 

So now she braced herself and touched his left shoulder briefly. He jerked in surprise and turned around facing her.

 

“Kin-”

 

“Sou, now we're back to Kin.” He drawled in a dry tone, but there was a hint of disappointment underneath his nonchalant act. Suddenly Kagome felt a deep sense of pride; she believed that only she knew him this deep, to sense any sentiment he tried to hide.

 

“Would you prefer it, if I call you Inuyasha?” She asked him tentatively.

 

“I don't know. I mean it's not like we're good friends or anything.” He replied cruelly.

 

“I see.” Kagome's face hardened. She turned away and started to leave when he called out to her.

 

“What do you want?” He asked her roughly.

 

And then she remembered what she wanted to ask. For the sake of seeing her old friends again, she quickly pushed down her anger.

 

“Your friend, Yutaka, does he have a girlfriend?”

 

Well she certainly knew to ask the right question, Kin grimly thought. “Yes.” He answered her sharply.

 

Kagome frowned at the coldness of his tone when he answered her, and behind it, being the Inuyasha expert, she could also hear a tone of cruel satisfaction.

 

Kin mistook her frown as a sign of displeasure about the recent fact of Yutaka's love life, so he continued viciously. “And she's a great girl too; I think they're about to be engaged seeing how crazy he is about her. I could also tell that she loves him a great deal, so I won't think of coming between them.”

 

“E?” Kagome blinked, and then she began to giggle, and her giggle turn into a full-blown laughter.

 

Kin frowned; how was he going to act cold towards her if she kept pulling scenes like this? Making him want to drag her down to the kitchen floor and ravish her sweet flushed lips, smother her laughter into incomprehensible gasps.

 

“You think I have an interest on him?” She asked him between her laughs. “As if I wasn't groped enough by him.”

 

“That's it.” His anger mounting. “If you know him so well, then why are you asking me about him?”

 

“Inuyasha, I don't know him.” She answered him still laughing.

 

“But you said he had groped you many times before.” He countered angrily.

 

“Well, I didn't know him then. And he groped me sort of out of groping moods I guess. And once is enough, don't you think? It's not like I'd let him touch my backside again.” She continued, feeling a bit guilty for lying about Yutaka like that. “He's also famous among my friends for groping; that's why I know his habit. But what I really want to know is his girlfriend. What's she like?”

 

“Taijiya?” His anger was now gone, there was now a sort of bewilderment in his tone.

 

Kagome wanted to shout in joy, but not wanting to surprise him she controlled her voice and looked up at him with a dazzling smile.

 

To say he was stupefied was an understatement, now he knew why his friend always acted like a wimp whenever his girlfriend smiled at him.

 

She nodded happily. “Her. Tell me more about her.”

 

And he began to tell her without asking why she was curious about Nozomi. “She's okay. I mean she's tough and sharp, too sharp, and she hit really hard.” He winced remembering an unwelcoming sting on his arm. “In every way I think she's a buffy type, you know small, pretty but dangerous. And she has some connection to the yakuza, I think; her way of talking is just too strange, and she likes to punish people a lot.” Kin rolled his eyes. “Well, anyway I think that the fact she is dangerous attracted Yutaka the most; if not, would you stay with a girl who threatens to shoot off your pinkie if you so much as touch- not that I would grope some stranger- but if you know Yutaka then you'd also know that groping is like breathing to him. So I think that must be love.” Kin said the last part wonderingly.

 

“Tell me more.” She asked breathlessly, and the expression on her face was tantalizing him to think of some kind of repayment for the story, like a long kiss or one intense groping. But he quickly shook his head and reprimanded himself for thinking doing things to her when she was being this sweet to him.

 

“Let see; right, would you like me to tell you how they first met?” Kin smirked; girls were always suckers for romantic stories.

 

“Yes, but tell me first why you call her Taijiya.” Kagome asked rather impatiently.

 

Kin lifted his brow; she rejected his offer for a sappy story? Now that was the first. “If I tell you this, promise me you won't think of me as mentally unstable.”

 

“Too late.” Kagome grinned mischievously.

 

Kin blinked; did she just joke with him? Better not ruin the moment. He grinned back at her. “When I was twelve, I had this dream continuously.” He began in a wistful tone. “Night after night I dreamt about the half-demon Inuyasha fighting beside his friends against evil. I would've thought that the fantasy about a world of magic has corrupted my dreams, but one night I dreamt that there was a new moon, and suddenly Inuyasha turned into human. And he looked just like me…” He frowned.

 

Kagome smiled; she knew why he was upset. He wished to have his other form, Inuyasha the hanyou.

 

“Anyway, I dreamt of friends, or I'd like to think them as my friends. We fought together you see, but I couldn't understand against what. But as the characters came up, one always appeared more fantastic than another; there were the fighting monk and the demon exterminator with fighting techniques that were just beyond your wildest dreams. Enemies were such that none had ever documented in history before. We fought against monsters, wind blades, soul stealing mirror, miasma, and tentacles. And no, this is not a hentai dream.” He grinned.

 

Kagome smacked his arm. “The monk and the taijiya were in your dreams, right? Do you remem-”

 

“Right, about the monk and the taijiya. When I was twelve, it was for me just fantastic dreams and awesome fights; the thoughts of reincarnation or being reincarnated didn't really matter until I met my friends, Yutaka and Nozomi.” There was a sad note in his tone of voice. “I guess I never realized how lonely I was with my own dreams, and when I met the reincarnated monk and the taijiya, I realized that to remember the past on your own was yet lonelier.” He smiled dryly. “No matter how fantastic the memory was.”

 

“They might not believe me when I told them who they were, and I think they just try to humor me by letting me calling them nicknames of their past profession. But I knew that my dreams weren't merely dreams when I came to realize that both of my friends fell in love with each other, just like they had been before.”

 

He shook his head in amazement. “But when you think of it, can you imagine that? A reincarnated constellation, it was as if life has a meaning. And that we are born in my time; it's too unbelievable.”

 

Kagome wanted to scream at him that he was born in her time, invading her peace with the everyday-life. But she decided to take both his hands in hers instead to bring his focus back to her. “Do you remember someone other than them, a girl or a shrine priestess?”

 

“Huh?” He couldn't help it if he didn't understand a word she said, not with her holding his hands like that. A blush rose on both his cheeks to his predicament.

 

“Do you remember if you had a love interest back then?”

 

His blush deepened. “No.”

 

Kagome dropped his hands lifelessly. “I see.” She looked down and hid her disappointment in a quiet laugh for a moment. She tried to convince herself that it didn't matter he had forgotten about her, at least he had forgotten Kikyo too. But it wasn't enough, she realized.

 

“Life doesn't evolve around you. To remember your past is a mistake, a cruel mistake on your part.” She said quietly holding back the raging flood in her inside.

 

 

~*~*~flashbacks~*~*~

 

Why she had to gather the shards, she grumbled. Now that Naraku was gone she was still tied down to her duty in this damnable era. She gave anything to end her mission and to have a day of her own.

 

“The last shard.” Said he with no expression on his face.

 

And her heart dropped.

 

~*~*~

 

That night after he presented her the last shard, she followed him into the dark forest. She knew it was useless; there was nothing she could do to change the situation. He would never back on his promise. He wasn't the type. And she loved him for it. His fate was done; the path of hell was as clear as his feelings towards the shrine priestess. But where did that leave her?

 

He stopped on the way.

 

“Inuyasha, is this it?” Kagome asked him in apprehension.

 

He was silent.

 

“Do I really have to go home?” She again asked him in the verge of crying.

 

He nodded with his back towards her.

 

And something was not whole in her; a part of her began to die, dimly yet surely. She moved back a step and started to turn away when his hand caught her arm. His eyes were moist and he covered his sniff with his arm. The posture was so heartbreakingly boyish that she had to let it go, she had to cry for his pain also.

 

In the midst of her breakdown he swept her in his arms and carried her away far from the forest.

 

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“I don't- want to- go.” She stuttered out her plea between her sobs. “I don't- want to leave- you.” He tightened his hold on her and choked a sob.

 

“And I don't want you- to leave me.” She pleaded.

 

He kissed her, hard and frantically.

 

Whenever Kagome was asked in the future if she remembered what her first real kiss felt like, she would always tell them that it reminded her of the sea.

 

“I love you.” She trembled against his lips.

 

Waves of emotions assaulted both their souls, making the blood in their veins rode harder and faster, and Kagome never knew how much she loved him until the moment she touched him. Never did she want to let him go, because his kiss was too vulnerable; once in the midst of it he wrenched away from her and looked away guiltily, and she thought that that was it, the final goodbye kiss, but then he pulled her roughly against him and kissed her again, making her believe that it would never end.

 

It almost seemed as if they didn't have to say goodbye after all.

 

They kissed under the pale moon of the wintry night until the break of dawn. She pulled away softly, yawned, and looked at him with so much love in her eyes that he was sure that one touch of that feeling would forever feed his desire for her.

 

Sweet Kagome was finally asleep in his arms. He slowly disentangled himself from her and carried her to the Bone eater's well. He was a leap away from the future, and with confident steps he crossed the distance of the centuries and arrived at Kagome's time and home.

 

But his arms were treacherous against his will; they refused to let her go. And he had to toughen up his cracking voice when he tried to mumble goodbye against her lips. As if sensing his cruel deception, a tear slid down from the corner of Kagome's closed eye.

 

She woke up in her bed that day, left with a feeling of doubt if they had ever shared this one perfidious, cruel, but such sweet kiss. And the boy Inuyasha, whom she had promised never to leave, left, taking with him the subduing beads, the jewel of the four souls, his warmth, his scent and her heart.

 

In the end she was left with nothing to mend. Everything of her he had taken away, down to the deepest and darkest nightmare of damnation.

 

~*~*~end of flashbacks~*~*~

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*end of chapter*

 

 

 

 

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