Remember the Moonlight

By Entei Artist

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Note: This is written in Kikyo's point of view.

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Blanketing the land in a radiant glow, the moon bathed our figures peacefully. I leaned closer to him, admiring how the light outlined his rugged face, how it shined upon his soft skin.

"InuYasha… you are sure you want to become human?" I asked softly, taking his hand into mine, marveling how they fit together as well as a jigsaw puzzle.

"Yes, to be with you," was his confident reply.

I nodded in understanding and told him it was time for me to get back, and in that moonlight I walked back to my shrine, where I imagined the rest of my life with InuYasha. But nothing went as planned.

It had been a long time since that memory resurfaced itself in my mind. I laugh at how much everything had changed – at how we were so happy back then and how now he is happy and I am miserable. I am miserable with myself, often wondering how inhuman InuYasha finds this clay body that I am trapped in. I am the dead walking among the living. I am alone.

Many times I camp across a river from theirs, and often I hear his rough comments and the gentle laughter of his friends and the peaceful crackling of their fire. I feel as though I don't belong, as if there is nothing to live for now that InuYasha is satisfied with my reincarnation. I sometimes fall asleep by the gentle waves of the river and imagine InuYasha is sitting next to my instead of that girl.

Perhaps, I think, perhaps one day he will realize how much he loves her and settle down with her, and their children would have his dog characteristics and her soft brown eyes and raven hair. They would live the life that had been destined for him and me, and I would be nothing more than a mere memory, an annoyance to her when he visits my grave to comfort me in my loss.

I, however, would always remember him – his gentle smiles, his rich laughter, his soul. I would smile sadly from the afterlife and wonder what would have happened if we had trusted each other more, and sometimes I would recall how the moonlight had brought us together for one night, one last time until we parted for eternity.

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The End

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