The Daedalus Design

by lyrainthedark

Sequel to The Icarus Factor. Three years later, Naraku and Kagome have taken steps toward bliss - but there is a price to be paid for returning to a future where the fires of industry burn, returning with a great and growing power...and the shikon no tama, burning in her blood...and the past, and its sins, still heavy on his soul... NOW COMPLETE.

25. Reunion

- Drabble Collection: The Daedalus Design -

XXV.

Reunion

Two intense, red eyes stare at Inuyasha. He is uncomfortable beneath their stare; he wants to get away from this place, with its portents of memory and despair, its impossible combinations of love and hate and silence. He wants to get away from the urge that is building in him to run to the door and call out to her – to banish the quavering of his old, aching voice and once more shout in the voice she would remember – Kagome. Kagome!

"Inuyasha!"

He has not made a sound, but she is answering him – her voice has not changed.

Despite the pain he knows is coming, he basks in the sound and the moment; a single moment in which his heart is whole.