AN: My Love Inuyasha here and I just want to say that I'm sorry for not getting more chapters done on my other stories but over the past year or so, I have refined my writing style and I am in the process of rewriting every part of my stories that I have posted. This idea came to me out of nowhere and I had to act on it. This is not a one-shot although it may seem that way at first. I hope you can wait a little while longer until all the rewriting has been completed of my four other stories and check my bio for other stories I am also working on but I won't post until they are finished. Even though I have tried to not post anything until it's finished, this idea came and I just had to post the first chapter. I think the next chapter to this will be coming out within a few days, so look for it.
I'll Wait Forever
Chapter 1:
Crickets chirped into the wind while the moon glistened off a lake in the middle of a forest. Night flowers bloomed shimmering silver petals with dots and flecks of gold and green around the lake, giving off a sweet tantalizing scent that even the least sensitive human nose could smell. A male figure clad in crimson red sat atop a high tree, gazing out at the undisturbed beautifulness of his forest, the place he protected with his life. It reminded him of one person, one person he could not have, the one person that made all the difference in his life. The one he could never bear to loose and yet, he had let slip from his figures and his grasp. The one that trusted him and he pushed away. The one raven haired beauty with blue-gray eyes who said that she would stay by his side even if he wished her not to and would continue with what she had set out to do, keeping her promise. She was the one person that from time and time again, gave her life up to save his against all odds. She, the young woman from the future who stumbled into his world by accident and became a permanent fixture in his life, became his love. Her name, Kagome.
The last battle with Naraku had come and gone. He himself served many fatal injuries to Naraku but it was Kagome who finished him off. It was Kagome who collected the rest of the Shikon no Tama from Naraku and combined the shards she had obtained to complete the sphere. She was the one who gave it to him to make his final decision on what to do with it.
The complete Shikon no Tama rested in his crimson red haori, inside an inner pocket of sorts for safekeeping. But he had no clue what he needed it for or how to use it. Yes, he had sought it out to turn him to a full blooded youkai but now, he wasn't so sure if that was the right thing to do. Once before he had considered turning human with the help of the light pink sphere but something inside him told him that if he did that now, he would make a grave mistake, one he could never fix. Something else also told him that if he used the Shikon no Tama to turn full youkai, he would be making an unfixable mistake. He was faced with the challenge of what he wanted until he remembered why either of those two choices seemed wrong and unfixable. It was because of Kagome. She accepted him for whom and what he was; a rude, arrogant, hotheaded hanyou that was too stubborn for his own good. If he used the Shikon no Tama for either of those choices, it would be as if he was throwing her acceptance right back into her face, making him seem ungrateful of her. He didn't want that.
His silver dog-ears perked up at the sound of light footsteps. He didn't make a move. He knew who it was already by her scent and didn't feel like letting her know he actually wanted to see her. She stopped at the base of the tree he sat upon, his aura giving her the exact information she needed to find him.
"Inuyasha," she called up to him in the darkness with a soft sad tone. The sound of her voice made the forest creatures still in their activities of the night. Something as pure as her should not be that sad, should never know such sadness. They could feel her pain drift off her in waves, the pain of saying goodbye, the pain of parting a good friend or a loved one and knowing that you'll never see them again, a pain that came close to that of loosing someone to death.
Silently, Inuyasha jumped down from his perch to land in front of her. He took in her features one last time; her raven black hair glistened in the moon light, her blue-gray eyes poured free her tears of sorrow, her cheeks flushed and splotchy form the salty moisture and her beautiful figure that once was a thin young girl's now a full firm woman's body, a perfect body with full breasts, curves in the right places and shapely long legs. He knew what was coming and was prepared for it. He just didn't think he would be this emotional. He felt as if he was loosing his own life. Loosing her was him loosing his life, his life with her.
In a rare show of affection and beyond what he had planned to show through his mask, he embraced her in his arms and whispered in her ear one heart broken word, "Stay."
She sniffled, trying to keep a hold on her tears. She hadn't expected him to show his heart to her. She expected him to be happy that she was finally leaving him to do as he pleased. "I...I can't," she stuttered while fresh hot tears broke free of the dam she had constructed against her lashes to fall silently down her cheeks and rest on the shoulder of his haori. "The...the well...it's...calling for me...beckoning me to go. It wants me to return to the future were I came from."
His arms tightened around her as he began to shake with suppressed emotions. Never in his life had he ever been this way, not even when his mother died. He knew then that he had to find a way to keep her there, with him, even if it meant destroying the well.
Kagome continued to speak even though she just wanted to stay in his arms and relish their feel around her silently. "My time here is up. I completed the Shikon no Tama, Kikyou's ashes have again been put to rest and you have the object to change your life, which should have been done long ago. My job here is done and the well is saying that I need to go. I don't have a choice."
"What about the others?" he questioned in a broken whisper, trying to find something that would keep her there with him.
"I've already said goodbye to them."
"Then just don't go."
"I can't. Since I've trained here to strengthen my miko powers, I can tell when it's time, Inuyasha. As each day passes, the wells magic grows and pulls on my powers, telling me I have to go. If I don't go willingly, it will force me to go. I can't stay here. This isn't my place to be."
"I...I just...don't want you to leave...me," Inuyasha said with raw emotion in his voice, quite shocked at himself for doing it. He had long since admitted that he loved her but he never before told anyone, showed it or said anything that would make a person even remotely think he was in love with the young woman.
Kagome's eyes widened in shock. He had just told her he didn't want her to leave him. He showed her his vulnerability and that he did care for her even if it might not be to the extent that she felt for him. She gave the only reply she knew, heart braking as it was, to him, "I'm sorry but I can't. I want to stay here with you but I can't."
Her eyesight blurred as tears threatened to escape again from her dam. She let them this time, knowing that what Inuyasha just confessed could have been a step in the direction of a love relationship for them if only she didn't have to leave. Her heart broke then, into tiny little pieces. She felt so much pain. She knew no one on her side of the well would be able to fill that void in her heart that Inuyasha had created. She had believed that if it was a one sided love that maybe, in time, she would get over it but with this confession, she felt herself drift in to a pained depression. She needed Inuyasha just as much as he needed her; the problem was that neither knew that.
Kagome slipped out of Inuyasha's embrace and stared at the shocked hanyou. He hadn't expected her to say that she wanted, actually wanted, to stay with him. He felt her emotions seep in him when she said that, the pain of leaving him finally registering in his mind. She didn't want to go, she didn't want to leave him but she had to. Fate just wasn't on his side or her side, for that matter.
Seeing as how the hanyou was still from shock, she took the opportunity to leave before anything else was said, before she could tell him the truth about her feelings. She would die if she confessed her love to him and had to leave, never to see him again. She couldn't bear that. She was eighteen and on her own but in her terms that just meant she was alone. She had finished her schooling and moved out of the shrine to her own apartment in downtown Tokyo where she lived, alone. She hoped that maybe in the upcoming fall, she would be accepted as a student at SnT University to major in history.
She walked out of the view of the beautiful lake and Inuyasha's sight. She would never again see him. This was it, she was going to the place where she belonged; the future and five hundred years after youkai ruled the land, her home.
Inuyasha, still in a slight shock, blinked. He looked around the lake area not finding Kagome anywhere and a slight chill ran through him from where she had been in his arms. She had left while he was in shock.
"I'm sorry, Kagome," he said aloud in a whisper on the wind, hoping that maybe if he said it, he would fell better about the situation. But he didn't. If anything, he felt worse. He wanted to run after her, to hold her and make sure she never left him but it was too late. She was already gone and even if he did stop her from going down the well, she would just have been able to stay with him for a day, maybe two days, before the well forced her to go back. There was no way around her leaving him. He had to accept that.
A single silent tear ran its path down his cheek to fall off and hit the ground once it reached his chin. He didn't know how to handle the emotion called love. That should have been clear to him from his past. He bottled his sorrow up inside him and jumped back into the tree. Thinking over it, he had no use of the Shikon no Tama since he was defiantly not going to use it to turn himself into a human or full youkai. Not after all Kagome had done for him.
He had heard that the Shikon no Tama held great power and could be used to make hanyous, such as himself, either a full blooded youkai or human as well as give extreme power to youkai and humans alike. A thought struck him like a lightning blot. Could the Shikon no Tama hold so much power that it could alter the future? If he were to make a wish or make the Shikon no Tama fulfil his hearts desire, could he change the future? Even if people said that it gave power, could a person make a wish using the power of the Shikon no Tama? His face lit with a wide smile. He knew now what he was going to do with the Shikon no Tama.
With a rustle from his clothes, he took the light pink sphere out of his haori and held it in his palm. 'I just hope this works,' he thought to himself. Closing his eyes, he silently made a wish that could alter the whole wold's future. If it was granted, he would know later on in his life, about five hundred years from now.
A shimmering pastel pink light exploded from the Shikon no Tama he held in his hand and engulfed the area around him. He could only guess that the rest of the world was also engulfed in the light. With in seconds of engulfing the area around him, the Shikon no Tama's power was gone. In his palm, the Shikon no Tama laid powerless, now just an ordinary light pink jewel. He grinned. 'All I have to do now, is wait. And I'll wait. I'll wait forever if I have to, to be with you again, Kagome. I'll wait.'