The Simplest Things
A/N: Sorry all that it is taking so long for me to update this story between my crabby old computer deciding all on its own when it is going to work and life I just haven't been able to spend as much time as I would like posting. So if there are any other delays my apologies ahead of time, sometimes ya just gotta work with what ya have. dragonfly-rising
By: dragonfly-rising
Kagome ran through the forest with sure steps knowing intimately the way to her guardian tree. She felt little guilt over leaving her friends in the manner that she had, after all they knew she did cast glamours from time to time to collect her thoughts away from the prying eyes of others. It was a simple magic that any of her kind could accomplish with a small effort.
~ How could they not know me? How could I not know myself? ~ She thought desperately as she moved deftly through the forest.
She remembered vividly all the moments she had shared with Inuyasha and yet jumbled between it all were intense memories that could only have come from a human. Her own dryad memories warred savagely with the human ones. She could feel the arrow as it embedded itself inside of her guardian flaring wildly with miko energies, pinning Inuyasha to her for years. She could remember the time as it passed, feeling his heartbeat as it echoed against her own inside her tree. Granted she could also remember the wild beating of her human heart as she faced Mistress Centipede and reached for that very same arrow hoping the dog boy could and would save her from the monster that was threatening her life. And in the midst of these confusing memories was love, always love for Inuyasha and a need to help him live beyond what his lover had condemned him to by using her magics against him.
With these strange thoughts tumbling inside her mind Kagome found herself stumbling to the foot of her guardian tree, falling to her knees before she could touch the bark of it and seek solace in its unending sense of eternity. She stared blankly at the ground, attempting to come to terms with what she had learned, what she wanted to deny with every fiber of her being. For a time without end she had known life as a dryad, she had weathered so many changes in the environment around her. She had survived many lifetimes of danger from human, youkai, and nature itself. And for all that she knew to be true she had imagined living on past even Inuyasha who would, as all things of flesh and bone, eventually grow old and die. She would not grow old and die as long as her guardian existed. It was a simple truth, the simplest of lies.
Finally she looked up at her guardian and for the first time in her existence felt betrayed. She knew she had used this word to Inuyasha and the others before but she had only meant it in the context that she understood it, not attaching it to the feeling she had rising inside of her as she gazed at the tree that had not once seemed duplicitous.
~ And now my guardian will you lie to me? Will you tell me what my heart yearns to know or will you throw me further away all I have known...from myself? ~ She asked of it silently.
The tree did not answer her, nor could it without her physical touch but she resisted the impulse to touch it. She knew she was denying herself now but she could not bring herself to do it. Her heart ached for the answers to her questions but it wanted to avoid asking anything that might destroy it even further. She wanted to know and she did not want to know anything at all. For a moment she pondered leaving the vicinity of the tree, never touching it again, never dwelling inside of its heart.
With a strangled sob she threw herself at the tree, embracing it as best she could and called on the entity that resided inside of it.
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"Where did she go?!" Sango exclaimed after a long silence from everyone else.
"I don't know" Miroku answered her just as confused.
Miroku turned to Inuyasha who had moved off from them sniffing the air around the tree Kagome had appeared to vanish into. He put a hand to the trunk then bent down sniffing at the ground beside it. After a few tense moments he stood up, dusting his hands off.
"She went in the direction of the tree. Her scent isn't easy to pick up any more, she smells like that damn tree now. It covers up her scent almost entirely." Inuyasha commented his voice colored with annoyance.
"Should we go after her?" Sango asked the men, knowing already that she at least would.
Miroku and Inuyasha nodded in unison, which surprised Sango. It was a rare occasion to see the men agree on something. Sango shrugged the thought away and turned to Kaede who was staring off into the forest her face lined with concern.
"Do you wish to come with Kaede?" Sango asked her politely.
"Nay child this is no place for me. Bring her back if you can she should not be left alone in such a state." Kaede remarked.
"If we can we will Kaede" Miroku said firmly.
"Lets go already!" Inuyasha snapped.
Inuyasha kept to himself that he could sense magics all around the place Kagome had been and beyond that trailing into the forest. He kept to himself that he could not discern her scent at all anymore that he was following the magics left by her to find her. He kept to himself that he had just put two and two together and guessed where Kagome had gone by the direction the magics led. He kept to himself that he could still hear the words that Kagome had said...
~ There has always been only you Inuyasha. You and I locked together over time and spell. ~
A/N: Sorry all that it is taking so long for me to update this story between my crabby old computer deciding all on its own when it is going to work and life I just haven't been able to spend as much time as I would like posting. So if there are any other delays my apologies ahead of time, sometimes ya just gotta work with what ya have. dragonfly-rising
By: dragonfly-rising
Kagome ran through the forest with sure steps knowing intimately the way to her guardian tree. She felt little guilt over leaving her friends in the manner that she had, after all they knew she did cast glamours from time to time to collect her thoughts away from the prying eyes of others. It was a simple magic that any of her kind could accomplish with a small effort.
~ How could they not know me? How could I not know myself? ~ She thought desperately as she moved deftly through the forest.
She remembered vividly all the moments she had shared with Inuyasha and yet jumbled between it all were intense memories that could only have come from a human. Her own dryad memories warred savagely with the human ones. She could feel the arrow as it embedded itself inside of her guardian flaring wildly with miko energies, pinning Inuyasha to her for years. She could remember the time as it passed, feeling his heartbeat as it echoed against her own inside her tree. Granted she could also remember the wild beating of her human heart as she faced Mistress Centipede and reached for that very same arrow hoping the dog boy could and would save her from the monster that was threatening her life. And in the midst of these confusing memories was love, always love for Inuyasha and a need to help him live beyond what his lover had condemned him to by using her magics against him.
With these strange thoughts tumbling inside her mind Kagome found herself stumbling to the foot of her guardian tree, falling to her knees before she could touch the bark of it and seek solace in its unending sense of eternity. She stared blankly at the ground, attempting to come to terms with what she had learned, what she wanted to deny with every fiber of her being. For a time without end she had known life as a dryad, she had weathered so many changes in the environment around her. She had survived many lifetimes of danger from human, youkai, and nature itself. And for all that she knew to be true she had imagined living on past even Inuyasha who would, as all things of flesh and bone, eventually grow old and die. She would not grow old and die as long as her guardian existed. It was a simple truth, the simplest of lies.
Finally she looked up at her guardian and for the first time in her existence felt betrayed. She knew she had used this word to Inuyasha and the others before but she had only meant it in the context that she understood it, not attaching it to the feeling she had rising inside of her as she gazed at the tree that had not once seemed duplicitous.
~ And now my guardian will you lie to me? Will you tell me what my heart yearns to know or will you throw me further away all I have known...from myself? ~ She asked of it silently.
The tree did not answer her, nor could it without her physical touch but she resisted the impulse to touch it. She knew she was denying herself now but she could not bring herself to do it. Her heart ached for the answers to her questions but it wanted to avoid asking anything that might destroy it even further. She wanted to know and she did not want to know anything at all. For a moment she pondered leaving the vicinity of the tree, never touching it again, never dwelling inside of its heart.
With a strangled sob she threw herself at the tree, embracing it as best she could and called on the entity that resided inside of it.
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"Where did she go?!" Sango exclaimed after a long silence from everyone else.
"I don't know" Miroku answered her just as confused.
Miroku turned to Inuyasha who had moved off from them sniffing the air around the tree Kagome had appeared to vanish into. He put a hand to the trunk then bent down sniffing at the ground beside it. After a few tense moments he stood up, dusting his hands off.
"She went in the direction of the tree. Her scent isn't easy to pick up any more, she smells like that damn tree now. It covers up her scent almost entirely." Inuyasha commented his voice colored with annoyance.
"Should we go after her?" Sango asked the men, knowing already that she at least would.
Miroku and Inuyasha nodded in unison, which surprised Sango. It was a rare occasion to see the men agree on something. Sango shrugged the thought away and turned to Kaede who was staring off into the forest her face lined with concern.
"Do you wish to come with Kaede?" Sango asked her politely.
"Nay child this is no place for me. Bring her back if you can she should not be left alone in such a state." Kaede remarked.
"If we can we will Kaede" Miroku said firmly.
"Lets go already!" Inuyasha snapped.
Inuyasha kept to himself that he could sense magics all around the place Kagome had been and beyond that trailing into the forest. He kept to himself that he could not discern her scent at all anymore that he was following the magics left by her to find her. He kept to himself that he had just put two and two together and guessed where Kagome had gone by the direction the magics led. He kept to himself that he could still hear the words that Kagome had said...
~ There has always been only you Inuyasha. You and I locked together over time and spell. ~
