True feelings
By: Manda Coates
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or its characters, they belong respectively to Rumiko Takashi. These words however are my own.
AN: So, this is the end of my little Lemony Inuyasha Fan Fiction. Thought it ought to be wrapped up with some warm and fuzziness. I hope you all enjoyed it!
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The sun rose the next morning in a glories conflagration of pink and yellow, its bright rays spilled down onto the rain soaked earth causing the droplets of water that lingered on plants and trees to glisten in the heat of its touch.
Inuyasha was awake, lying in the arms of his lover watching over her as she slept. His heart had never felt so content as it did in those moments watching Kagome sleep and as she stirred from her slumber he felt compelled to give her a kiss as she smiled "Good morning to you to Inuyasha…" she mumbled while stretching.
Then with a tiny frown Kagome sat upright from under their cozy blanket to stare at the mouth of the cave "What is it Kagome?" the hanyou asked concerned, now sitting up as well, she looked back at him with bright brown eyes "I sense a jewel shard Inuyasha…"
Within moments both were dressed, their clothes had dried completely during the night thanks to the fire and they were now standing before the entrance of the cave.
"Is the shard close?"
"Yes"
"What direction?"
"Over there…past those trees"
Kagome pointed to a clump of trees that stood tall and clustered together. Once Inuyasha had realized where she was pointing to he quickly bounded off with Kagome following close in pursuit. Together they burst through the tightly knit trees expecting to find a demon, but all they saw was a small clearing and an oddly medium sized flat rock.
Together the pair walked towards it, where Inuyasha stopped suddenly staring with disbelief. "Inuyasha what is it? What's wrong?" Kagome asked, but Inuyasha said nothing as he kept his eyes fixated solely on the stone.
Long ago when he was just a child and his Mother was still alive she had told him of a place where she and his Father once spent the night, a cave that was very special to her. Inuyasha remembered his Mother's face blushing as she re-cited the story to him, she had told him that it was a cave in which he was conceived, a place where his parents had scrawled their feelings in stone so that their love would never be forgotten. And though Inuyasha hadn't understood what his Mother had meant all those years ago he certainly did now as he stood over the flat rock staring at it. There etched clearly into the stone were the same words that his Mother told him that his Father had wrote, the words that read:
Love, once found between two people, is unconditional.
It is pure and simple…it is real.
And there beneath the writing was a Jewel Shard, gleaming brightly in the sunlight.
A small smile graced Inuyasha's features as he scooped the tiny fragment up, Kagome came up behind him looking confused before she spotted the words on the stone. "That's beautiful Inuyasha, I wonder who put it there though?" she asked thoughtfully as the hanyou turned to her handing her the shard "My Mother and Father did". But before Kagome could question him about what he meant, Inuyasha told her the same story that his Mother had told him.
"Wow…" Kagome said in awe as she and Inuyasha stared at the stone once again, both realizing that they were in the very same spot that Inu No Taisho and Izayoi, Inuyasha's parents, once stood all those years ago.
"Maybe you should write something on the stone as well Inuyasha?" Kagome said softly "You know to add your own feelings to it…" Inuyasha thought for a long time on what to write before he nodded to Kagome, who stood back as he unsheathed his Tetsaiga. Then with a steady hand he engraved a few words into the rock:
Love knows no boundaries.
It transcends through time…it is engraved in the soul…it is our destiny.
The hanyou then took a step back to admire his work, feeling oddly proud. He had never been a man of many words but he knew these were true, there was no other way to explain how he and Kagome came to meet each other nor the events that led up to now with him standing over the spot where his parents once stood. Kagome, who was beside him, rested her head on his shoulder and intertwined her fingers with his "It's beautiful Inuyasha…" she said quietly, as she leaned up to share an intimate kiss with him.
Then with one final look at the stone, Kagome and Inuyasha turned hand in hand back towards the way in which they came, back to Keade's village and their friends, knowing that in some small way the past few days had changed their lives…forever.