Thank You For All I've Lost
Mini-Chapter 3A: Fragments
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Thank you for being just what you are...
And no more,
For not exposing, but nursing my unhealed scar...
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"I know..."
Inu whispered to himself. He approached a wooden door covered in little scratches and divets that seemed familiar. He
grasped the knob with his hand, turned and walked through the now open doorway.



"It's so funny," he thought, "it's so familiar, so ordinary to do this. Like it's an everyday routine, but I don't
remember....like I've posessed some other poor guy..."
He felt like a soul fragmented...
He stepped in to find an oddly shaped avacado colored ceramic bowl attached to the floor, and a giant vat that
appeared to be made of the same shiny green clay as the pot.


"A shower and toilet..." his mind decided after a moment.


Inu let go of his senses and thoughts, and retreated into the deep and mysterious recesses of his head, leaving
the body's instincts on "autopilot", if you will.
He removed the red robe that had mysteriously appeared on his body sometime between him waking up and the current
moment. He didn't remember putting it on. He then moved on to the white short sleeved thing he faintly remembered as
"a t-shirt, made of cotton", pulling it over his head effortlessly, despite the fact that he barely had the faintest notion
as to what it was. He stepped out of the black garments (or was it only one? he wasn't sure...) that covered his legs.
Like a pair of leggings or pants, almost. But shorter, and looser than leggings. His mind searched for the word of these
garments until coming across one that sounded almost right...:
"...boxers...fyeh..."
and he took his hand, reached into the shower and jerked the knob, and stepping in immediately, not testing the
temperature of the water. He remembered he should, he understood what'd happen if he didn't. But he didn't care.




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The water rushed out of the showerhead like so many little raindrops, and yet not like raindrops at all. They were
so much faster, and uglier. They didn't give life, these raindrops had no purpose. Yet down they rushed in a dizzying
torrent, hitting the slope of his shoulders and his body and becoming part of a giant watery whole. Stinging and reminding,
worthless. These little drops of water were at his beck and call. Fools.
Still, he had no clue what was going on, and he believed he deserved an explaination. Where was he? Who is this
mysterious girl? Where is Kikyo? Is she okay? Is she worried? Why was he here?
"...Ki..." he said lowering his head and closing his eyes. "Kikyo..."
Who knows how long he'd been here. Who knows where here is and if he can ever get back. What if Kikyo was hurt, what if
she was worrying, what if something had happened...
No, he wouldn't settle for this. Not at all. So he did what almost every male character did when suddenly abandoned on
a foreign world;

He leaned his head back and yelled as loud as he possibly could for as long as he could with every fiber of his
being, demanding his questions be answered. It always worked.
Inuyasha opened his eyes and raised his head so that he could resume normal posture. Nothing had happened. Nothing
at all...except...

Next to him stood another Inuyasha. A taller Inuyasha, with long hair tied back with a piece of twine. An Inuyasha
as naked as he was. But it slowly dawned on him...there were two Inuyashas.



"Two..." he said amazed.

"A soul fragmented..." the other whispered.

"What do you mean!?!?"
The second Inuyasha smiled rather sadly, like a man who knew all the answers, and then spoke rather poetically;



"Hold my thoughts, I'm at an impasse,
Past the place I passed before,
The sweeper's sweeping fragments
Of my head out the door..."

"I don't understand! Who are you! No! Don't look at me like that! I demand an answer!!!"

"And the ice it burns upon my forehead,
The Calmness starts to scream,
Must I always hold the upright,
When my soul longs to dream..."

and the twin Inuyasha shook his head sadly. He had begun to cry,

"Eventually it will all make sense. When that time comes you will know it is too late. You can't wait around to
ask questions, you've got to charge on in, throw caution to the wind."
"What the HELL are you talking about!?!? Stop talking in riddles!!! D'ya hear me?!?! HELLO?!?!"

The other Inuyasha shrugged in a melancholy way and returned to his singing. It was a rather pretty song once you
listened to it for a moment;

"Is it too much to find an answer?
Is it too much to hold you close?
Is it too much to find a reason?
Is it too much to free my soul,
From self control?

I can't get it any better,
I always end up killing time.
Time for Love and time for living,
Time to find what's really Mine..."
And then it was as if all of Inu's senses had been turned up. Like the sights and sounds had been enhanced. Like
the phantom Inuyasha's song was suddenly in surround sound. The world around Inu and the air was filled with vibrations
that hit with the force of an earthquake. And the words, the words that were eerily close to the feelings he felt deep in
his chest, echoed and reverberated freely in every crevace of Inu's brain like children in a great hall. And the words he
heard next sounded awfully familiar. As if he had heard then in another time and another place...:






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AHA! This is a new invention...a mini chapter...it comes in two halves...and leaves you all in suspense!!!
Actually, it just a short chunk of fic that doesn't really fit in anywhere...
Be on the lookout for chapter 3, "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight"...
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Copyright stuff:::

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The song sung by the second Inuyasha is called "Fragments" and is by the band Vertical Horizon. Kewl lyrics huh?

Lyrics will be coming in the next chapter, coz I'm so lazy!!!
Li
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