InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Together in Tokyo ❯ Alone ( Chapter 11 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

The walk home felt like a trek across a thousand treacherous miles.

Sesshoumaru’s tales had given her closure, but brought with them a tumult of pain. She felt more alone than she ever had. She felt lost, a delicate petal afloat on a wind scented with blood and death. Yuka, Eri, Ayumi, none of her friends could ever understand the loss she felt. None of them would ever know how she had defied Time to destroy the Shikon no Tama, and how in the end Time had gotten its revenge. Even her own family had failed to completely understand her despair at being shut out from the Sengoku Jidai.

She was the last of the true miko, the last person alive that could remember the Sengoku Jidai. Well, the last human who could remember that time, anyway. The Last, just as Sesshoumaru was.

She stopped dead in front of her apartment building, oblivious to the people scuttling past her still form. In her mind she could see Sesshoumaru standing still as the world around him changed, waiting out the years by himself.

A sad little smile touched the corners of her lips, and suddenly she didn’t feel quite so alone.