To Be Content
by Harpula

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Disclaimer: Inuyasha does not belong to me, yadi yadi yada. Let's just cut straight to the story.

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She knew she was dying.

She felt a moment of blissful blankness as her subconscious collected her memory. Instantly she was hit by a wave of pain and remembered that she had just been run through by a car.

Amusing, really.

To think that she used to battle super-powerful demons in the feudal era and was the infamous keeper of the Jewel of Four Souls.

And now she just laid there, struck down by a common automobile, slowly slipping away.

Faintly she noticed the flashing red and white of an ambulance and the sound of someone screaming, strangely familiar.

She knew that death had a firm grip on her, and she could not summon any energy to fight it.

Most importantly, she did not want to fight anymore. With the well having sealed itself two years ago and the boy whom she held so dearly to heart was lost in the realm of hell.

On the outside, she was still the cheerful, naïve girl that her family and friends had known and loved, but, on the inside, she had changed.

A darkness had been feasting on her heart, sucking at it, and eating away her soul day by day when the figure of silver and red was no longer there. During the first year, she had hoped. Hoped that he would magically appear and tell her that this was all but a mere nightmare.

Ah, yes. Such a wonderful thing hope is.

And eventually, like all others, she lost it.

Now, she allowed the whiteness overwhelm her and felt a strange sense of peace as she dreamt.

She dreamt a world of grey; everything peaceful, nothing in motion. Then, a pair of golden eyes pierced through it and its owner called out her name.

She smiled and approached the boy with the ears she would love so much to touch with graceful swiftness and fell into his warm embrace, realizing her two years of suffering had been put to an end.

Deep inside, she knew that this was only a delusion, but she no longer cared.

She was content.

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Author's Note: My first fanfic, written during one of my weirdest moods.