Chapter One: Call all your friends and tell them I'm never coming back
She was spiraling, falling, catapulting through the darkness. It seemed like time itself had stopped, or at least slowed to such a pace that she could see each droplet of rain as it fell around her, each piece of long silver hair as it was blown in the wind. He was whirling towards her now, recognizing the agonizing scream of her greatest friend as the Demon Slayer tried to reach for her. But they were all too far away and no one could save her now.
When people talked about the end they always made statements about white lights and your life flashing before your eyes… But as Kagome Higurashi fell, all she could see was him. His warm amber eyes bore into her soul, filled with dread and fear and a raw terror she had never seen upon his face. There would be no way for him to cross the cavern in time to catch her. She was falling too fast, too far and from too high a height. As her slow motion fall continued, she came to terms with the fate that presented to her… Kagome was falling to her death.
His roar echoed in the silence and surprisingly it filled her heart with an elated sense of love. Even in these final seconds that seemed to pass like years. Even as the unforgiving rocks grew closer and closer, Kagome could only hear his frantic cries. She could only interpret them as shows of how deep his love for her really was. He would mourn her loss, but his pain was a symbol of how greatly they had loved each other despite the bickering and the fights.
Kagome Higurashi loved Inuyasha with a ferocity she had never felt before. As death approached her she felt no regret, no pain, no suffering. Just the fierce love that had burrowed into her heart the moment she had freed him from the Sacred Tree. They ran in circles around each other, as star-crossed lovers. No matter how many times she was reborn, he was destined to watch her fall. That was the only part of her immanent death that bothered her at all; Inuyasha was tortured to watch the spirit of Kikyo die over and over again. He would love so greatly and lose so much. If they were lucky, her spirit would find its way back to him again.
"I love you." She breathed, her eyes filling with tears, refusing to rip her gaze away from his… As her body collided with the unforgiving earth with a sickening crack.
Inuyasha
Sango's screaming echoed deep within his chest. The demon slayers scream ripped to his core, slicing at any sense of bravery he had held so tightly to. Time seemed to slow around him as his body turned, his eyes scanning the deep purple sky that had been stained by the setting sun. There, too far above the ground, catapulted the body of the raven haired girl who held his whole world in the palm of her hand.
It didn't take long for him to understand what had happened; a particularly strong demon had knocked her from Kirara's back and there was no one even remotely close to her. No one would be able to save her from the unforgiving ground she was spiraling towards. But he would be damned if he didn't try.
His feet ached, pounding against the cold ground as he sprinted faster than he had ever run before. He was not going to let her die. He had promised her mother that he would keep her safe and that he would not let anything happen to the girl who had given him back the life he had lost fifty years before. His very existence rested in her heart and he knew he would be nothing without her. He wasn't sure when the tears had started pouring down his face or when his heart had finally accepted that he wouldn't make it in time… but he knew that everything he had once been disappeared the moment her declaration of love fell from her lips.
The sickening crack of her bones would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Author's Notes: So I know this is really short but this is just a short introduction chapter. The rest of the chapters are going to be much longer. Let me know if you've enjoyed this and I'll keep updating.
As always; all my love.
Kaas