Lyrics and title comes from the song Blow Away by A Fine Frenzy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
Blow Away
Prologue: with a heart full of mess and lore
It blows into smoke
The time we waste
Swallowed into space
It's the time it takes to blow
It's the ride we take
The many winged escape
It's the bough we break to blow
It's the times we say
That no one's gonna take your place
It's a mistake to blow awayWe blow away
They grew up across the street from one another.
Kagome could vaguely remember them playing together as children—riding bikes around the cul-de-sac, drawing in chalk on the sidewalk, playing tag under the sun. It wasn't just them alone; there was often other children from around the neighborhood as well.
It wasn't until they turned ten years old that she really noticed Inuyasha. Her father had just died in a car accident, so she and her brother were left with only their mother, possibly the sweetest woman who had ever lived, and their grandfather. Kagome had thought of Inuyasha as she stood in the family parlor, dressed head-to-toe in black as she mechanically thanked dozens of people she didn't know for coming to the wake and bringing casseroles with them. She thought of him because she remembered that the little boy across the street had also lost his daddy not too many years earlier. Without a second thought and without a word to her mother, Kagome left her house, walked down her driveway, crossed the street, walked up the driveway across from hers, and knocked on the front door.
It was answered by the most beautiful woman she had ever seen—tall and elegant with silky, black hair so long that it never seemed to end. The woman had kind eyes and a gentle smile. As soon as Kagome saw this sympathetic face, she burst into tears. Izayoi crouched down and took the little girl into her arms. Soon, they were joined by Inuyasha, who hovered uncertainly at his mother's elbow.
"It gets better," he promised solemnly, studying the sobbing little girl with understanding eyes. "As long as you have your mom, it gets better."
For the next four years, the two children were inseparable. They built a tree house together, camped in their backyards under the stars, and walked into one another's homes without knocking as though they belonged there. Their mothers looked on with knowing smiles, pleased with how their children grew from cute to blossoming to adolescent attractiveness. Even as they went through school and gathered new friends around them, the two stayed best friends. Kagome became sweet and compassionate while Inuyasha became arrogant and impulsive, but their personalities complemented each other. Kagome would placate Inuyasha who would in turn push her to be more outgoing. Inuyasha gave her their first kiss, and Kagome swore to stay by his side no matter what.
But then Izayoi died.
Inuyasha was sent to live with his much older half-brother, a man who lived an entire city away. At first, he and Kagome kept in contact, writing to each other every week, then every month, then twice a year, and then, finally, never. Kagome grew into a beautiful young woman with caring blue-gray eyes much like her late father's and untamable black hair that she pulled back in a ponytail every morning rather than forcing it into something stylish. Inuyasha grew into a ruggedly handsome man, tall with broad shoulders and capable hands, physically striking because of his remarkable coloring that he shared with his half-brother and father—warm, amber-brown eyes and hair so blond that it was practically white.
Kagome went into pre-med and became a promising young intern at Tokyo's largest hospital, hoping to become a pediatrician one day.
Inuyasha went into law enforcement, following in his father's footsteps.
When he was twenty-six years old, Inuyasha responded to a report of domestic violence. A man in a rundown apartment was going through meth withdrawal and had been drinking heavily. When Inuyasha, outraged, stepped into the brawl after the man backhanded his girlfriend, the addict—already on edge—shot Inuyasha in the shoulder with a pistol he had been hiding under his shirt. After Inuyasha's partner, a senior officer named Byakuya, tackled and arrested the man, Inuyasha was taken to the nearest hospital. Kagome happened to be working one of her mandatory emergency room shifts that night, a requirement that she had to complete during her residency at the hospital.
It was, as onlookers could attest to, love at first (re)sight.
Seven months later, as Inuyasha completed his physical therapy to rehabilitate his shoulder and Kagome continued with her residency, the two were married in a very small ceremony at the courthouse downtown.
This is not the story.
This is only the beginning.