Everything I can't be is everything you should be
Kagome walked slowly down the center street towards her home. Everything seemed to be in slow motion today, her heart in her chest, her attention stuck in the memories she had made over the last two years. Maybe this was my fate all along… She wondered, her eyes down cast as she made her way through the streets.
Before she really knew what was happening, a young girl was screaming. Her eyes shot up into the distance to where a man, dressed in all black, was running down the street towards her. He clutched a woman's purse in his hand.
It didn't take long for her to realize he had stolen the screaming girl's bag, and it took even less time for her to decide she needed to do something about it. She needed to stop him; needed to be the hero she had been every day she had lived in the Feudal Era. She needed to be a miko.
"Hey! You! Stop right there!" She demanded, a stern look plastered over her features.
But the man just smiled, he continued to run and as he charged his way past her, he shouldered her into the hard wall of the building to her left.
Kagome cried out in pain as her shoulder hit the wall, clutching at her arm as she watched the man run off further down the street. Angry tears welled in her eyes as her reality sank in; Kagome had never been the strong one. She had piggybacked on the success of her friends and Inuyasha's brute strength.
Here in the modern world… Kagome was useless.
And that's why I need you here
She made her way slowly up the shrine steps, sighing with ever step she took. This wasn't the life she had imagined for herself, nor was it the one she would have chosen. She wanted to go back to the Feudal Era, she wanted to save people and fight demons and make something of herself other than a High School student. She wanted to be someone again.
She lowered herself onto the roots of the Sacred Tree, rubbing gingerly at her sore shoulder. "I don't know why I ever thought I could have done anything," she sighed in agitation. "I never had any special qualities. You knew that all along. You told me from the very beginning that I was a stupid and useless girl and I refused to believe it. Living in a Feudal Fairytale with you I completely convinced myself that I was stronger than I really am."
"But what can I do here? My spiritual powers mean nothing in the Modern World if there aren't demons. I can't purify a mugger and clearly my brute strength is less than threatening." She hung her head, breathing in the thin air around her. "I need you, Inuyasha." She whispered. "You make me strong."
Everything I can't be is everything you should be
"KAGOME!"
Inuyasha's eyes snapped open at the sound of the kitsune's cry, his eyes searching the room for any sign of danger. He sat still as stone, gripping Tetsusaiga in preparation to attack. "What the hell was that?" Inuyasha huffed.
Shippo looked petrified, his chest rising and falling rapidly as tears began to fall from his cheeks. "I saw Kagome."
"She's in her own time, you didn't see her." Inuyasha sighed, leaning his head back against the wall.
"She was dying." Shippo cried, balling his little fists at his side. "The Meido took her and she couldn't breathe and she was dying and there was nothing I could do to get her back."
Inuyasha stared at the kitsune, his eyes wide as he watched the sorrow filter across the small boys face. "She didn't die, Shippo. I saved her from the Meido. I took her home to her own time and she's living safely with her own family in the modern era."
Shippo did not look placated. "Then why doesn't she come back to us? If she's really alive and really okay then why doesn't she come back? Doesn't she love us anymore?"
"Shut up." Inuyasha huffed. "She can't come back and you know it."
"But doesn't she love you? Doesn't she want to be with you?" Shippo asked through his tears.
"We don't always get what we want, Shippo." He huffed, rising to his feet and exiting the hut into the dark night air.
And that's why I need you here
I don't know how to do this…. Inuyasha thought, brushing his hand through his thick silver hair as he relished in the cold night air. This is your territory, Kagome.
The darkness seemed so terrifying, blanketing him in his loneliness as Shippo's words repeated in his mind. "I know you'd be here if you could," he spoke, leaning against a fence and gazing up at the stars. "But I'm no good at this. Life without battle, life without Naraku… I knew it was going to come someday but I never thought I would have to do it without you. I'm not a good person, Kagome. Not without you. I can't do the family thing, I can't be the villager living an ordinary life. I only know how to run from things that want to kill me and dodge the hateful glares of people who want me dead… I need you. You keep me sane."