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Never Leave Me Alone

Words I never meant to say

Sprang from my lips

I love you and I hurt you

Without even meaning to

She looks so peaceful, so content nestled in the gentle embrace of slumber. The pure moonlight illuminates her long, black tresses and creamy skin. Her body and face show no signs of earlier anger or stress. A slight,placid smile graces her lips. She wasn't the furious and hurt female from earlier in the day; she was a smiling goddess nestled in happiness. Happiness that I can never give her.

I'm not stupid or dense as so many people label me as.

I'm not blind.

I do notice the obvious details.

She would never look so calm in my presence, never so content. I'm a jerk; an arrogant jerk to her even while I love her so deeply inside, I hurt her. I say all the wrong things.

How can you stay with me?

With all the harsh treatment and brutal words.

How can you, how could you...

Keep on forgiving me just the same?

So many people tell me that she will one day leave me for all the things I have done. I don't doubt that. How could she love an outcast that hurts her so continuously?

Insults always shoot from my lips with the intent to wound.How can she still forgive me after all the things I have done? In a flow of warmth and sweetness, she always forgives me after I made her cry. Made her cry with pain. When will she finally give up on me and leave?

Forever.

After all the wrong wordsand cruel actions

I plead silently: Please don't leave me.

Even though you never do, I fear so much of desertion.

Please don't leave me alone.

I glance wistfully over to her again. The night was young and peaceful, it soothed my irate nerves, but not the fierce fear burrowed in the core of my heart. My fear leads me to comtemplate all the wonderful memories I have stored of her. I remember all the soft words she murmured, all the stunning smiles she smiled, and all the sweet doings she did. All to me, the person who caused her harsh pain.

I love her and I desperately pray that one day she'll love me back, but I don't deserve her love. Not me. Even though that fact throbs painfully in my head, I realize I need her. She is the rope I grip tightly in the frothing, rampant seas; she is the only one I have to survive. I know... deep words coming from me, but it's all true and that's why I never want her to leave. If she does I will not survive, I will die.

(Regular POV)

A hanyou, sleek and silent, springs from his high perch ona sturdy branch of the towering tree. He gracefully lands by the sleeping girl he had been watching, who was unaware of everything except her dreams. Deep amber orbs glow brightly in the darkness as he hesitantly sits down very close to the girl. Almost sadly, he reaches for her hand and with one thumb, gently massages the smooth, white skin.

Pain and feargleam openly on the hanyou's face as he leans down and places a soft, loving kiss on the young woman's forehead. Brushing silky black wisps of hair away from her closed eyes, he murmurs into the night three precious words: I love you.

After his quiet confession, fear increases on his face-- seeping into the natural lines of his skin--as if he thought the young female would wake and catch him there, but of course she doesn't. Silently letting out a relived sigh,the hanyou smiles wistfully then whispers a final sentence.

"Please, even though you can't hear me, Kagome... please never leave me. Never leave me alone".


Fin...


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