"Kagome." Silence.
"Kagome." A clawed hand rested on her shoulder. A shiver ran throughout her frail body, and Inuyasha was meet with startled eyes.
"It's cold out here by the lake, let's go back." No reply. She had already turned back to that freezing lake. Just before Inuyasha was about to speak, a gentle voice filled the air.
"I'm waiting for him."
Inuyasha took a shaky breath. "He's not coming." His voice sounded harsh and brittle, pain interlacing throughout.
"Hush. You'll get him mad, he told me to wait here you know. He said that we were going to get mated, and have lots of pups." The voice cracked, and insanity seeped in.
"He said that I have to wait for him right here. That he was never going to leave me, that we belong together. He never goes back on his word; I'm going to stay right here waiting for him. Forever."
Inuyasha resisted the urge to cry, as he stared into those mad eyes, their love and softness gone. All because of him.
Blood and gore staining his white clothing, Sesshoumaru walked forward and handed Kagome the two shards.
"Thank you." The words were rushed, and even though Inuyasha was far away he could smell the scent of fear.
Sesshoumaru gave uninterested glace at the small miko, watching as the shards turned pink. The picture was normal, nothing out of the ordinary. But Inuyasha noticed, he saw the action.
The lingering touch.
On her good days Inuyasha would see that youthful, jubilant miko once again and fall in love so completely that his heart rips itself to pieces when she's gone.
And then he would carefully pick up and sew his tattered heart, piece by piece again, only to have it swell with love at her smile. And repeat.
No one ever found out what had happened to Sesshoumaru.
It pained Inuyasha to think that the demon lord had abandoned Kagome and left to seek his pleasures away from Japan.
It suffocated him to think that every time he cut into Naraku's flesh, he might be chopping off a piece of Sesshoumaru.
So, by day he yelled and fought and hunted, and by night he cradled that lost little miko and let her filled his ears with whispers about their 'happily ever after'.
AN: Same thing as last chapter, found it, posted it, etc.