InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Dark Side of the Sun ❯ Intermission Six ( Chapter 13 )

The dragonet slowed down then came to a halt, and NatsuMaru helped him to the ground. Inuyasha took a few deep breaths. He still felt a little shaky, but, otherwise, he was physically all right. It was the wound to his heart and his soul that would take longer to heal.

 

“Are you all right, my Lord?”

 

“I'm fine, NatsuMaru,” he murmured. “I'm just wishing I hadn't been right, y'know?”

 

“I know,” NatsuMaru replied, wrapping his arms around the hanyou's lithe waist. “But everything has happened, as you predicted. Your brother is free and will soon be inheriting the Eastern Lands. No one can ask for more than that.”

 

“Yeah,” Inuyasha sighed. “Can't ask for any more than that.”

 

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InuTaisho kept his gaze steeled as the humans entered the clearing, his son at his side. The time had come for his final confrontation with the human princess he thought he could have loved.

 

`It's all over now,' he thought, his claws flexing. `I swear it.'