Disclaimer: Inuyasha's characters are not of my own. (Obviously)

Woooo…. Well, here's a little oneshot for you guys. It's quick, I know, but it's supposed to be. :D I really hope you like it though, and please review if you can. (:

Where the stars Align

I have never, ever had a single doubt in my mind that I loved that man. He was everything to me and every second that I was with him, I was happy. To this day, my heart belongs to him and has forevermore been lost to me. Everything about him was new, all the things I had never discovered yet laid in his ember eyes, such a strong color that one would be pulled in by mere eye contact.

Now, don't get me wrong. He was not perfect—not in the least bit. He was pushy, arrogant, rude, but… I could tell when I was in danger that he cared, he came to my side like a knight in shining armor.

Our love was not pure though. He had loved another and the pain it caused me was great. I would have gladly parted from this world rather than seeing his lips touch her cold, dead ones in a ghostly harmony. I thought that I'd never hold that man's heart the way she did. Even when her very soul was stolen, and her body was just a reflection, he still ached for her empty touch. He was to her the way that I was to him.

Yet, we all completed each other in a way and I could never bring myself to hate that girl, the one my darling loved so. Perhaps that made me more said, the way that I couldn't hate. Something in me was different and overpowered all my hate towards the world.

Of course, as I think of that cold girl as a reflection, I am one too. I am a reflection of her, what was good in her. Not going to say that she wasn't good, but she was clouded in ways and her emotions tainted the jewel that all would bow to.

This jewel, it started everything, it made me who I am and introduced me to him. Over the years of him claiming that he was around me for the jewel, I knew he was lying. Well, at least a little bit. The precious stone was hidden within MY body, within ME. God—I really never understood the magic, not until I realized how deeply and incurably in love I was. Everything made sense then.

That boy… that man… he had once told me that someday (and he was sure of it) that we would kiss when the stars aligned and he gave me something to fight for. I've always fought for him. Everything that's happened to me, it's been for him and I just know he knows it.

The really silly thing is…

I've never told him that I love him. But I know I will, just give me time and I will come through, I swear it. Perhaps I'm just living in a dream, maybe I always have been. I've always been afraid that someday, I'm going to wake up and see that all of this, this magic is not real.

Somehow I know it won't, but I really should tell him. The way he holds me when I'm scared, the way he screams my name when I have fallen, the tears that secretly build at the corners of his eyes, taunting his composure. It all feeds me like wood to a fire, and keeps my passion burning. And as I say these words I've long held to myself in my head, I think—no, I know I will tell him.

Inuyasha sighed as he looked down at the precious and priceless piece of paper in his hands. He smiled to himself while his eyes held back the salty, stinging water and let one tear fall gently onto the ancient note.

"Inuyasha?" said a concerned yet sweet voice from outside of his current world.

"Yes?" he replied, trying to muffle sounds of sadness in his voice.

"Dinner's ready, please do come in soon," she said cheerfully back and started to walk off.

"Of course, Kikyou, I'll be there in a minute," he said in a hollow way and continued towards a make-shift shelf.

He gently tucked the note away under a very worn-down fragment of green fabric and turned away, smiling a sad smile as he walked away, missing the girl that had died to save him.

"I love you too"

-Asphyxiated Bliss