InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shades of Gray ❯ Reasoning ( Chapter 1 )

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Shades of Gray

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Chapter 1: Reasoning

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

A girl sighed as she leapt into a well. If one had walked in and looked down to ask if she needed assistance, one would have seen nothing. For this girl was Kagome Higurashi. And the well was one of times long ago.

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Kagome sighed once again as she felt the familiar blue space surround her. The other day she had come back to Kaede's hut, to find Miroku and Shippo with their heads down. Sango just looked at her with pity in her eyes. It didn't take her long to figure out that InuYasha had visited Kikyo again. She merely sighed and had joined her best friend infront of the fire.

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The animals outside ran around the hut and in the forest surrounding them as the dark veil of night had encompassed them. She remembered sitting there, and falling asleep in the early hours of the morning, intending to wait up for the hanyou to return. But somewhere along the way she had fallen asleep, tear tracks down her pale and fragile skin.

The hanyou had returned shortly after, as the sun's rays crept into the hut, awakening the inhabitants to a hopefully cheerful morning. Wishful thinking. Kagome had been partially awake and saw the shame-faced hanyou enter the hut. He had glanced at her and lowered his head so his silken bangs covered his eyes. Her heart had swelled, filled with both pain and pleasure; pain from the reason, pleasure from seeing his face. He had avoided looking her in the eyes for the remainder of the day.

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She landed on the ground and shook her head sadly. Such a fool. Naïve, she knew, she had heard it all mainly from her own conscience reasoning with her. A single tear escaped her as she let her guards down. Only to quickly shove them back in place.

'No more tears',she told herself firmly, as she all but shoved the water off her face. It would do no good now. She had come to a new level of reasoning with the fact that she would never have his heart to call her own. Her wishes and thoughts; dreams even, to shameful waste.

A small laugh escaped her lips as her hands came to view at the top of the well. Ironic it was. She had told herself all along not to fall in love, not to get involved. Big help it did now. How can one simply turn on and off their emotions? It just couldn't be done.

'No use wasting tears', she thought sadly, as she put on a brave face and set off for the hut. She went over in her mind, her plan for confronting InuYasha.

No, there would be no "dramatic, movie-like ending" as she had so hoped to use. She was too weak. She needed to see him again, she couldn't deny. It was bittersweet.

She would move on and interact with him and everyone around her with her usual, sweet charisma and everything would move on as normally as possible!..wouldn't it? She hoped.

And so as the girl tredged on through the woods, new plans formed in her mind. New plans of tact. New plans of the future.

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