'Why? Why, why, why!' She screamed in her head as another rock sank to the bottom of the lake in front of the raven haired priestess. She wiped away some stray tears and looked at the ripples she caused. Inuyasha had run off to see Kikyo, again.
'Why does he always choose her over me?' She tossed in another rock before picking up another one and tossing it in the air catching it once more from her seat on the lake shore. "It's been three years! You think he would have at least made up his damn mind by now already!" She sent the onyx colored stone hurtling through the air to land on the lakes' crystal surface breaking its' silence. She grasped another stone in her hand and looked down at it sadly. This was not how it was meant to be. She was supposed to be mated to the hanyou, get rid of the evil Naraku that threatened both her world and his, Purify the jewel have some kids and live happily ever after! Now it seems even defeating the evil half demon might not come true.
She chucked the rock and scowled when it didn't go too far. 'Why am I so useless?' She thought sadly. 'Why am I so weak? Powerless? Why am I always sad? How come the one I love doesn't love me back? Is it that hard to find someone who loves you? Why can nothing make me happy? How come I can help my friends with their problems but they can't help me with mine? Why do I always have to force a smile to the ones I love?' She looked down at the large stone and tossed it angrily. She's been asking herself these questions and many more for the past two years. Now at almost eighteen she's starting to wonder why she never found the answer. It was simple really. Only one word. Inuyasha.
She sighed and searched the lake bed for a certain stone. A small stone with a single line circling around it, a wishing stone her friends call them. Supposedly if you find one, make a wish then kiss it, your wish will come true. The only question is when. She smiled softly when she noticed a pale orange rock among the others. This rock was special, along its surface a fine white line was made out in the light of the full moon above. She walked over slowly placing her bow on her shoulders as she bent to pick it up. She looked down at her small source of hope then up at the glowing moon. "I wish…" She closed her eyes tightly before opening them again. "I wish to find someone who loves me who I can love in return. Who treats me right, and can make me happy. Who makes me feel pretty and good about myself and all the things a good man should have and act towards the one he loves." She pressed her lips to the cool surface of the stone before lifting her hand and dropping it into the water below it.
"Miko…Kagome." A strained baritone voice softly reached her ears and she turned around quickly gasping in surprise. Behind her stood a shaky Sesshomaru, covered in blood and healing bruises. None of his small band was beside him and blood fell down his arms. "Help her. Help Rin." His eyes rolled into the back of his head and he slumped forward as Kagome raced to catch him.
"Miroku, Sango! I need some help here." Kagome shouted to her friends who were still in camp a little ways a way.
"Momma is everything alright I smelled… is that Sesshomaru?" Shippo stopped a few feet away in shock of the unconscious Daiyoukai who still held a bleeding Rin to his chest.
"Shippo take Rin to camp as fast as you can and send Miroku and Sango back. He doesn't look it, but he's heavy." Shippo nodded and scooped Rin from the demons arms racing back to camp calling for the monk and demon slayer who traveled with them.
"It's alright Sesshomaru. Everything will be ok. Rin will be just fine; you will be fine, and I, I will be fine too." She tossed one of his now free arms over her shoulders wrapping her arm around his narrow waist and started heading back to camp where the figures of her two friends were racing to her from.
