InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sketches ❯ Star Cross'd ( Chapter 10 )

This piece was awarded third place for ebony_silk's weekly challenge of “star.”

Title: Star-cross'd
Author: Minerva
Word Count: 219
Genre: Drama
Universe: Canon
Summary: Sesshoumaru gets a literature lesson . . .

Star Cross'd

 

“Star-cross'd lovers?”  He questioned in the quiet of the night.  “The deaths of two people are considered a romantic notion where you are from?”

 

“You were the one who was curious about my homework, remember?” she chuckled. “Yet it isn't how they died that I find romantic, but how they lived.  Romeo and Juliet believed in their love strongly enough to stand against all of those who opposed them,” she replied after putting her textbook away and stoking the campfire.

 

“They came from two warring families who were more inclined to kill them rather than try and accept their love.” Kagome paused for a moment, “And in the end, that hatred led to death.”

 

“They would not have died if they had been stronger.” Sesshoumaru said, looking up to the sky.

 

Kagome stopped and stared into the fire. “Your father was incredibly strong; yet he still died for love,” she said in a quiet voice.

 

“That was different,” he said after a long pause.

 

“Was it?” she asked.  “Tell me, how many times did you try to kill Izayoi in the same way you tried to kill me?”

 

He sighed softly. “Twice,” he said. “I nearly succeeded the first time.  After that my father commissioned the Tessaiga.”

 

“Maybe their stories are not so different after all.” she said.

 

"Perhaps."