She looked at me with such sadness. At the time I didn't understand. I'm so stupid. I understand all too well now. She knew. She knew what would happen to her when Kikyo tried to take me to hell. She knew it was impossible for me to pass through the portal. After all I wasn't dead. But a part of her was. The part that was still in Kikyo. And where one part goes the other must follow. Its all my fault. I should have figured it out. She should have told me. Why? Why didn't she? Did she really think I wouldn't care if she was gone? I should have listened when Miroku tried to explain to me about reincarnation. I tried to go through the well. I had to tell her family why she would never be coming home. But it wouldn't let me through. Kagome was the tie that connected it from this time to hers. Now with her gone that tie is broken. I should be the one in hell not her. She doesn't deserve it. Now I'm haunted by the image of her sad eyes as she watched me go to Kikyo. Her whispered goodbye on the wind. Now she is down there alone. I can't let her stay that way. I promised I would always protect her. I've already failed her once. I won't let it happen again. Kagome wait for me. I'm coming.
The next day a body was found that once belonged to the greatest warrior to ever walk the earth. You couldn't tell just by looking at it that it had once done the unthinkable. A simple Hanyou had triumphed over the strongest evil to ever be born. The once flowing silver mane was now caked in red. The muscles of steel were now atrophied from not eating. The twin ears that once marked him as a disgrace would never twitch whenever a sound whispered to him. He was born an abomination. He died an honored hero. His friends could only hope he found what he was searching for in the afterlife. Two souls as intertwined as those two could never be separated for long. A shrine was built to honor the love that crossed time. Many generations passed in that very shrine. 500 years is a long time to remember though. After awhile the reason behind the shrine faded. Scrolls deteriorate until names and details are no longer known. Only a simple carving on a wall hidden in a cellar remains to pass onto a family. To be discovered years after hope had died in the shrine. Years too late to offer any comfort. All it can offer now is an affirmation of a fate that was always suspected but never fully acknowledged.
Higurashi Kagome
Born: 1985
Died:1342
Followed in death by Inuyasha
Born: unknown
Died:1342
He vowed to always be there for her.
He kept his promise even in death.
May they find peace together.