Hey guys. Umm here's a little one shot that just suddenly popped into my head. I really like it and I'm surprised that it was this long. Five pages is long for one chapter for me, be happy. But anyway it sorta follows a song, Blurry by Puddle of Mud, but it's not a songfic. The song was just my inspiration. I think the last line is the only line I took directly from the song. But anyway enjoy.
Ohh and I'll start working on the next chapter for Unending Dream as soon as this is posted, for all of you who read that story. It should be up in a day or so.
On with the story.
Disclaimer: Nope don't own Inuyasha or the song Burry. (Which I didn't really use but I'm saying that just incase.)
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A beam of sunlight filtered through the trees and stroked his face softly waking him. His tired eyes opened slowly and he blinked a few times to rid the haze that covered his eyes. He lifted a clawed hand to his neck and gently gripped a jewel that lay there. Closing his eyes again he just held it.
One month.
His eyes suddenly snapped opened and he violently ripped the jewel from his neck. He clenched his hand around the jewel tightly and brought his arm back to throw it far. He flung his arm forward but stopped halfway changing his mind.
He took a deep breath and relaxed his muscles. He held the jewel loosely in between his claws. The clear pink tinted jewel shinned brightly in the dappled sunlight that fell through the trees leaves.
One month ago you were here.
He leaned forward and his long white hair fell over his shoulder and into his lap. He hung his head low as he remembered the dream he had just had of her.
One of his haunting dreams of her.
All his dreams were the same. They just tortured him.
In these dreams he could see her silky hair blowing in the breeze, but he could never smell it. He could touch her soft skin all he wanted, but he couldn't feel it. And he could stare into her dark blue eyes, but they wouldn't shine.
In the past he hadn't minded those dreams to much. Because he would be able to wake up from them and fulfill those desires, to some extent. He could smell her scent in the breeze, feel the warmth of her hand when she decide to hold his, and see the shine in her eyes when she laughed. And he would soon forgot those lingering dreams.
But she wasn't here anymore. She left him a month ago. To go back to her own time. And he didn't stop her.
And he killed inside now.
The rest of the group, Sango, Miroku and little Shippo all wished for her return. And he did too.
Since she left everything changed. He no longer sat with their friends for dinner. He hadn't even seen them in a week. They were all so empty without her, him included, that he couldn't stand to be near them.
He was so pre-occupied now, thinking about her and how she wasn't there anymore. He couldn't even live now.
I am lost without you.
He should of stopped her when she said she would leave and never return. He should of said something, anything. But he didn't. He watched as she hugged her friends a heartfelt goodbye. He let her place the jewel in his hand and take the prayer beads from his neck. And he barely hugged her back when she hugged him goodbye.
And then he watched as she jumped into the well crying.
Sango, Miroku and Shippo left shortly after that. But he didn't, he stayed there for the longest time feeling numb. He remembered it had started to rain and still he didn't move. He didn't move because he had the nastiest feeling that he had just made the worst mistake of his life.
And he had.
He realized now why he felt that way. Why her leaving had such and effect on him. His whole world had surrounded her. She had given him a reason to live again. And now without their quest, Naraku, or even Kikyo he needed her more than anything.
He had fallen.
And without her he couldn't stand back up. So he just crawled along now. Barely living.
Everything's so messed up.
He stood up on the branch and his hair blew in the slight breeze. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He jumped off. He ran along through the woods till he reached clearing with an old well.
He stopped at the edge of the clearing and his gaze fell upon the old dry well. He slowly walked toward the well and dropped to his knees next to it. He gazed down into the dark well at the calm dirt that lay at the bottom.
Right now there was five hundred years between them. Five hundred years of war, famine, and technology. But that wasn't really that far away.
At least it wasn't in the past.
He often wondered what she was doing. He pictured her happy, playing with her brother, talking to her mom, or doing her 'homework' for that 'school' thing never understood.
And he wondered if she was thinking about him right now.
Nobody told him it would be like this.
If only someone would of told me what you thought. Told me what to say to make you stay. If only…
As he thought about her more and more his stomach gave a painful lurch. He placed his hand softly over his heart but kept his eyes on the bottom of the well.
Is this what it feels like…to have a broken heart?
The pain he felt. It was because of her. Her absence. And she could take it away.
He stood and glanced around the clearing.
I'm going to get you back.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes tightly as he jumped over the edge of the well. He waited for the tingling sensation of passing through time, the weightlessness feeling his stomach would get. And he didn't wait long.
His feet hit solid ground and he stumbled forward a bit surprised. He hadn't felt any of those sensations. He looked up hoping to see the inside of a hut only to be disappointed by a bright clear blue sky.
Why? Why didn't it work? I need to see you.
He fell backward sitting hard on the ground. His eyes became cold as they glared at the stone wall in front of him.
"Dammit!" He yell as he slammed his fist hard against the stone next to him. He needed to see her. He needed to have her in his life again. He couldn't live with the pain.
I know now. Dammit I know. …I love you.
He laid backward and stared up at the sky.
She could have been his mate. His lover. If only she would of stayed. He would of protected her like he use to. Saved her from everything that was ugly and obscene. All those demons, humans, and stares. He could of protected her from them, like he use to.
He tightened his fists in anger and closed his eyes tightly.
The jewel.
He lifted his head and looked at his right hand. The jewel lay there, complete and whole, ready for his wish.
My wish.
He could wish for her. Wish to see her again. Wish to be with her at this very moment.
Overjoyed he sat up quickly and held the jewel in both hands. He just needed to make a wish and he could see her again.
He stared at the jewel for a long time. Should he. The jewel had never been used for a noble cause before. Could it even?
He hesitated. He would just have to hope. Hope that if he spoke careful enough his wish would be granted and he could see Kagome. He had nothing to lose.
He took a deep breath and spoke his wish carefully and clearly.
"I wish, I wish that the well would allow me,… and Kagome, to travel back and forth between Kagome's time and my own like it use too. So we can be together."
He waited. Moments that felt endless went by and nothing happened. And just when he was about to give up hope the jewel started to glow brightly.
A bright light pink light filled the entire well and his body and he started to sink. He looked down to see his body slowly sinking into the ground and a huge smile sprung to his face.
It was working.
Soon the feelings of tingling and weightlessness enveloped his body as he traveled through time. A few seconds later he came up from the ground at the bottom of the well and the tingling left. He immediately looked up and was relieved to find the wooded structure of the well house above him.
He sighed in relief.
He glanced down at the jewel that was still radiating a soft glow in his hand. He watched as the jewel broke apart into tiny specks of light and lifted away from his hand. The wish had been granted.
He froze when he heard the scraping noise of the well house's door being open. He heard a few steeps on the wooden staircase but they stopped short of the well. The scent he had memorized, her sweet scent, came wafting down toward him and wrapping itself around him. He took a deep breath.
She was standing up there, on the stairs. He knew it.
"I must be going crazy. There's no jewel in here. It's still the same." He heard her speak quietly to herself. The smell of tears soon followed afterward and he heard her sit down on the step.
He stood slowly, afraid to show himself to the crying girl. He listened to her quite sobs and he began to gain confidence. He wanted to stop her tears.
He could end her tears and she could end his pain. They needed each other.
He jumped up from the bottom of the well and landed noiselessly in the dirt at the bottom of the stairs. There she was, sitting on the stairs with her head in in her lap crying slightly. He leaned forward to move closer but froze when light filled the well house.
Bright pink dots of light started to fall delicately around them. When they touched either of their bodies they would glow a soft shade of pink where the light had landed.
He heard her stop crying and she looked up slowly. At first she didn't even see him, concentrating completely on the falling light but as she looked around for the source of the glow her eyes fell on him and she gasped.
She stood quickly and her tearful blue eyes locked his own. He noticed the prayer beads, the ones that use to send him to the ground, hung around her neck. She slowly brought one hand to the beads and she gripped them tightly.
It was a surreal scene. The small specks of light falling on both of them cast a radiant light on them both.
He watched as a single tear slowly fell from her eye and followed the track down her cheek that the others had taken before. He whispered her name softly, afraid any loud noise would break this moment.
"Kagome."
"Inuyasha."
Take all it away. This pain you gave to me.
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A/N: pssst. Hey guys, if I get enough reviews saying so. And I have time I might make this like one-shot into a not so one shot. Hehe. Just because I really like this story. And you guys. ^-^