Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha I wouldn't be writing fanfictions for it now, would I?
(It starts with)
One thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
He'd trusted her. He, the fearsome half-demon Inuyasha, had trusted a mere human.
Trusted her? He'd been stupid enough to fall in love with her. He should have known that those were the worst mistakes he could have possibly made. He should have known that the barriers between her kind and his were too strong to break down. He should have known that no matter how hard he tried he could never actually make her return his feelings. His foolish feelings.
But he hadn't known. She'd pretended and he'd been convinced. Now, she'd betrayed him and she would pay! The whole village would pay!
All I know
Why had she believed him? He was a hanyou, half of him was a demon. Evil. Cruel. Greedy. But she'd believed that one half didn't make a whole. She'd believed that his other half, his human half, was more important. She'd believed that his human half had won over and he was actually good, just misunderstood.
She'd been half-right. One half had won, but it was the wrong half.
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
She was a priestess and one with a very important job. Her job was to guard the Shikon No Tama from demons and corrupted humans. She'd done her duty, done it so well. Until he came along. Until he came along and deceived her, duped her, made her fall in love with him. And so, she'd failed to do her duty. Failed to guard the Shikon No Tama.
All because he had betrayed her and for that she would never forgive him. She would make him pay.
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to
Watch you go
He raced towards the village, the blood pounding in his ears. He'd lost control. His anger consumed him. Nothing else held any meaning. Time, space, nothing. Only his rage and his planned method of releasing it. The release that would also be his revenge.
He didn't care if he died when he finished what he intended to do. He just had to finish it, that was all.
I kept everything inside and even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be
Memory of a time when
She reached the village in time to see the destruction he had wrecked upon it. In time to hear him say, "This is only what you deserve," to the terrified villagers. He held the Shikon no Tama in his hand "Just as I deserve the Shikon No Tama."
Despair threatened to pull her down. Tears flooded down her face as she heard him. Had he been sincere even once? Once on the rare, happy occasions they'd spent time together. Had he cared for her even a little? She didn't know. She just had questions, no answers.
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
She pushed it away, pushed it all away. Her despair was replaced with anger.
"Inuyasha," she called out as she shot him. "How dare you!" Her eyes fell on the ground in front of her. The jewel was lying there, the source of all her troubles. She picked it up. "For such a thing…"
She fell before she could complete her sentence. The villagers gathered around. Kaede was among them. She'd lost everything. Now she was losing her life. But before she died, she had one last duty to do.
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the days you fought with me
I'm surprised...
It got so (far)
They'd fought. Oh, how they'd fought! The first time they met she tried to kill him. It was expected of course. Later it had seemed almost impossible that they had come so far. Now he realized that it had been impossible.
She'd shot him and sealed him to the tree. But the pain of the arrow was nothing compared to the dagger twisted in his heart. It was because of both her death and her betrayal. The last thought he had was that stupid as he had been in life, he was being stupider now because even after everything he still loved her.
From far above the one responsible for what was happening watched impassively. The small part of him that was Onigumo twinged at her death but the rest of him cursed the burning Miko. Even in death she had cheated him.
Shrugging his shoulders, he turned and left. He'd already had his revenge.