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Act Eight
Inu-yasha drove Kagome and the others to Sesshomaru's home on the outskirts of the city. It was a fine old house with high stone walls and many servants tending the estate. Keade, Eri, and Sotta were waiting for them there. They were all safe and they were all happy to see Kagome. The news of Miroku's death though made them all grieve and Eri shrieked when they brought his body in to lie in chapel which Sesshomaru had built in a small hut connected to the main house by a bamboo walkway. There Kagome stayed with her husband, weeping for him, and praying for him until the sun rose early that next morning when Inu-yasha found her asleep in Miroku's arms
"Oh Kagome." He said as he lifted her up and carried her back to the main house. Her face was red and her cheeks were puffy. She'd been crying all night long and this made Inu-yasha's heart break. He'd never loved anyone quite like he loved Kagome. He thought back to the day that they had met and he could have kicked himself for treating her the way that he did and every time he'd seen her since. It seemed like all they did was fight. Now when she had needed him most, he'd let her down. He thought back to the battle and wondered if he might have been able to save Miroku but he couldn't have. Not even if he'd sacrificed his own life to save his, then they all would have died under those arrows.
"This is a black day." Songo said when she met Inu-yasha at the door. She looked at Kagome, sleeping so peacefully in his arms. "You know I believe that though she did not love her husband, she did respect him."
"She loved him." Inu-yasha told her. "It may not have been the perfect kind of love that people dream about but she loved him as much as any woman can love her husband. They were married after all. A woman doesn't marry someone without feeling something for them. Even if it was to save her home at first, she loved enough to marry herself to him, and be with him every night. And I can never compete with a memory."
"I grieve for you Inu-yasha." Songo said. "More than I grieve for the two of them because your heart is pure. You have loved Kagome all this time and kept away while she has loved other men."
"My heart's not pure." Inu-yasha told her. "I've done things that would make a more righteous man's gut wrench. I hate myself and love her more than words can say and I know that together we could have had something beautiful. That will never be now. It can't ever be because the more I love her, the more she'll hate me, because I couldn't save him. I will go as soon as I put her to bed. I will go and face the Emperor. I will plead for your lives and die so that the rest of you may live. So that Kagome may live. That may in the end be a curse I place on her though. At least she will be alive though, alive, and free to maybe find the kind of love that she and I could have had." Inu-yasha carried Kagome up to one of the spare bedrooms and laid her there to rest then he went down to the stables where his brother was waiting.
"Will you go alone Inu-yasha?" Sesshomaru asked him as the two of them mounted their steeds.
"If you want then you can ride with me as far as the Emperor's Palace. Then at least you can lead your horse back home. I'd hate for us to part owing each other anything." Inu-yasha told him.
"I owe you a great deal, little brother. You have been annoying. You have been a pain, and you have been a drain on my personal economy. In the end though, you are my brother, and father said that I should watch out for you. Remember the twin swords that he gave us to symbolize life and death?" He asked.
"Yeah." Inu-yasha replied "Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga."
"Well then let us draw swords together and face the Emperor like brothers aught to." Inu-yasha smiled at Sesshomaru and then the two of them dashed off to face their destinies together.
Act Eight
Inu-yasha drove Kagome and the others to Sesshomaru's home on the outskirts of the city. It was a fine old house with high stone walls and many servants tending the estate. Keade, Eri, and Sotta were waiting for them there. They were all safe and they were all happy to see Kagome. The news of Miroku's death though made them all grieve and Eri shrieked when they brought his body in to lie in chapel which Sesshomaru had built in a small hut connected to the main house by a bamboo walkway. There Kagome stayed with her husband, weeping for him, and praying for him until the sun rose early that next morning when Inu-yasha found her asleep in Miroku's arms
"Oh Kagome." He said as he lifted her up and carried her back to the main house. Her face was red and her cheeks were puffy. She'd been crying all night long and this made Inu-yasha's heart break. He'd never loved anyone quite like he loved Kagome. He thought back to the day that they had met and he could have kicked himself for treating her the way that he did and every time he'd seen her since. It seemed like all they did was fight. Now when she had needed him most, he'd let her down. He thought back to the battle and wondered if he might have been able to save Miroku but he couldn't have. Not even if he'd sacrificed his own life to save his, then they all would have died under those arrows.
"This is a black day." Songo said when she met Inu-yasha at the door. She looked at Kagome, sleeping so peacefully in his arms. "You know I believe that though she did not love her husband, she did respect him."
"She loved him." Inu-yasha told her. "It may not have been the perfect kind of love that people dream about but she loved him as much as any woman can love her husband. They were married after all. A woman doesn't marry someone without feeling something for them. Even if it was to save her home at first, she loved enough to marry herself to him, and be with him every night. And I can never compete with a memory."
"I grieve for you Inu-yasha." Songo said. "More than I grieve for the two of them because your heart is pure. You have loved Kagome all this time and kept away while she has loved other men."
"My heart's not pure." Inu-yasha told her. "I've done things that would make a more righteous man's gut wrench. I hate myself and love her more than words can say and I know that together we could have had something beautiful. That will never be now. It can't ever be because the more I love her, the more she'll hate me, because I couldn't save him. I will go as soon as I put her to bed. I will go and face the Emperor. I will plead for your lives and die so that the rest of you may live. So that Kagome may live. That may in the end be a curse I place on her though. At least she will be alive though, alive, and free to maybe find the kind of love that she and I could have had." Inu-yasha carried Kagome up to one of the spare bedrooms and laid her there to rest then he went down to the stables where his brother was waiting.
"Will you go alone Inu-yasha?" Sesshomaru asked him as the two of them mounted their steeds.
"If you want then you can ride with me as far as the Emperor's Palace. Then at least you can lead your horse back home. I'd hate for us to part owing each other anything." Inu-yasha told him.
"I owe you a great deal, little brother. You have been annoying. You have been a pain, and you have been a drain on my personal economy. In the end though, you are my brother, and father said that I should watch out for you. Remember the twin swords that he gave us to symbolize life and death?" He asked.
"Yeah." Inu-yasha replied "Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga."
"Well then let us draw swords together and face the Emperor like brothers aught to." Inu-yasha smiled at Sesshomaru and then the two of them dashed off to face their destinies together.