Running: It was the only thing Inuyasha could use for a defence so long ago. Before his claws and fangs were as sharp as they were now it was the only thing he really had. Running was the thing he used against humans and demons alike as they chased him. The demons with ravenous looks in their eyes and the humans with hatred, they both wanted to kill him.
Why did they want to kill him? It was a question he used to ask himself daily before he was old enough to understand a thing like prejudice. Now that he was older, everything was perfectly clear. The reason they wanted to kill him was because of his heritage; or as they called him, "a filthy half-breed".
Who would ever love a "filthy half-breed"? Another question he couldn't help but ask himself... Until he had met Kagome; a girl who would always love him for who he was without ever wanting to change a single thing about him. Why she felt this way he would never understand... but for now he was too happy to do anything but bask in her kindness and thank God to bless him like he did.
He never thought anyone could love him since Kikyo, for even she wished for him to change himself into something that he was not: A human.
"Kagome..." He whispered into the dead of night. "I love you."
"And I you Inuyasha," Kagome whispered from her spying post. With that said she left to go back to sleep with dreams of Inuyasha in her mind.