Disclaimer: I used to own a dog, but she was black and she definitely wasn't named Inuyasha.
He hates his life sometimes.
When loving caresses are greeted with slaps and cries against perversity, when the pain races up his arm and throughout his veins and the thought that he finally might have gone too far races through his mind…
She hates her life sometimes.
When she enters battle facing down a freckle-faced boy with dead eyes, when she's filled with the desire to just go home but knows that home is just a place with broken walls and uncomforting graves…
He hates his life sometimes.
When he realizes that he's inexorably caught between two promises, when he goes through village after village and is the only one of his group to hear the painful words directed at him…
She hates her life sometimes.
When lie builds upon lie to keep the most important thing she's ever done a secret, when the stress and frustration of leading two lives boils over and makes her wonder for just a second if it's worth it…
He hates his life sometimes.
When he sees other little boys playing and growing at their fathers' sides, when there's nothing he can do to help those who have taken him in except to stay out of the way because he's too small…
They all hate their lives sometimes, but each one realizes that the problems they have alone are best dealt with together.