Disclaimer: All rights for Inuyasha are reserved by the brilliant and wonderful Rumiko Takahashi.

Genre: Tragedy, Angst
Rating: T for mild language and Angst
Warnings: This take place at the end of the Manga in Canon Verse, and as such could be viewed as a spoiler. Predeed as you will.
Summary: She wouldn't let fate win

This chapters featured star is Kagome

Wishers Can't be Choosers

All she'd ever been was "normal". For fifteen years it's how she'd existed. For those fifteen years she'd secretly lamented being "normal". It was boring, mundane, and monotonous. She'd wanted excitement, and adventure- Anything to brighten up her dull grey life.

As Kagome sat huddled in the dark, never had she wished more acutely to go back to those old days. Laughing with her friends while eating burgers a Wacdonalds; where her biggest concern was an upcoming math test or whether or not she'd ever get a boyfriend, rather than whether or not she'd live another day.

She felt broken, and so very tired. Tears streaked down her flushed cheeks and her nose wouldn't stop running. Her eyes as well as her heart both were raw and achy. All around her they jeered, laughing in mockery of her torment; Demons of every size and shape imaginable. In fact some where so imaginative, they belied the human ability to describe with any other word than fearsome.

She was terrified.

Never had she felt more alone.

Inuyasha! She mentally screamed his name like a mantra against the burgeoning abyss, trying to keep her depression at bay. No, it wasn't working, but she had to try.

More tears fell silent in her sorrow; tragic in their beauty. She was too afraid to voice her pain. Too afraid it'd bring them closer, and so her thoughts crowded against one another all focused on the one she wanted the most.

Where was he? He was always there to protect her. Yet her silver eared knight was nowhere to be found. In this vast stretching darkness, she was left alone with her own personal demons.

Images of him immerged from her memory, teasing her with their warmth, tormenting her with their light. His smile…his laugh…hell even his stubborn temper. Thinking of him made her heart ache with longing. How she wanted to be back in his presence…but she had to resist.

The Jewel wanted a wish.

Don't you see? It was the jewel at fault. It was testing her will, attempting to break the cracks in her soul wide open. But she wouldn't let these monsters take her. She'd be damned if she let them have there way. She wasn't going to lose.

Tucking herself more tightly, the Miko forgotten by time hugged her scabbed knees and fought to remain sane.

You wanted this.

She hadn't thought it'd be like this! She'd only wanted a little spice! Wanted someone to love her and be hers forever.

You prayed for this!

NO! This wasn't what she'd wanted! She'd never hoped for something like this!

Sobbing softly alone in the dark with her demons to haunt her, Kagome valiantly fought not to let the jewel consume her, waiting desperately to be saved, though she knew she had to save herself.

In her misery she had only one consolation:

Her wish had never been for this.

FIN

So this is going to be a collection of storys that I've written for various reasonings. It'll be a collection of drabbles and/or oneshots centered around the Inuyasha cast.

For documention sake this was origionally posted and written for the live journal community 100_Fairytails, on Febuary 10th 2012. The prompt being: The girl who is spinning the thread of fate. There was no word limit so this story stands at 487 words. When I read this prompt, all I could think of was Kagome, and thus here we are!

Hope you enjoyed!

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