Title Finding Hope
Author landofthekwt
Rating PG-13
Prompt W-10 (ib4y)
Word Count 250
Genre Hurt/comfort
Warning character death
Summary Inuyasha and Shiori go off together after their human mates die
Sakura took one final look around the old hut. It seemed empty without her mother or father.
She was disturbed from her reverie by knock on the door. Opening the door she saw a man with white hair and violet eyes dressed in the uniform of a taijiya.
"Where is my mother?"
"I beg your pardon."
"Where is my mother? This is the house of Inuyasha?"
"This was Inuyasha's house. He is not here. I am Sakura his daughter. Can I help you?"
"Mother left a note saying that she was off to see Japan with Inuyasha. She is too old to be traipsing all over Japan."
"And you are?"
"I am Mutusuhito, son of Kohaku and Shiori My father is not even a moth dead and she runs off with this dog to parts unknown leaving the family in shock."
"He left us too. I understand what he went through. My mother slowly aged before my eyes while he and I stayed young."
Musushito nodded. Kohaku had faded badly. At the end he knew none of them, yet he had lingered half alive, half dead for a year.
"Did he say why he went away with my mother?"
" He said that he lost hope when he watched Kagome die. Shiori shared those same feelings when she lost Kohaku. He said that Shiori gave him hope again and a reason to go on living": .
