Disclaimer: Sad, but true that I don't own Inuyasha.

"Epitaph"

By Chiisana Anisa

She ran out of the church, white ceremonial kimono swaying behind her on the wind, runaway locks from her pretty black hair gathered in the back of her head with a single clip, falling down and tears in her gorgeous blue eyes, dripping down on the concrete now and then. Mist was in her head and in the same time she never felt more clearer in mind.

Everything seemed to make sense now. The wind howled stronger around her and she was almost positive she could hear Hojo's screams for her to come back and that he loves her. She didn't even turn around when she was actually near enough to hear them and now they were hunting her.

The wedding didn't go through because she just couldn't go through with it. Her heart belonged to someone else. Inuyasha.

She ran and ran, hard till her muscles started aching with the pain of the effort she put in them to get to the Well as soon as possible. Her heart was racing fast enough she thought she's going to give herself a heart-attack but still, love lived in it. And hope.

In the matter of minutes she reached the well house and jumped despite all the clothes she was wearing, forgetting the weight of them altogether. Time rip opened and she found herself on the other side after seven years.

Seven whole, long, lonesome years she hasn't been in the Sengoku Jidai. She stopped just to breathe in the clean air to her hearts content and to feel a different kind of wind on her skin. Everything around her screamed nature when she started walking.

Not enough time has passed for her and she found herself at the bottom of the Goshinboku tree. She stopped again to relinquish in it's beauty, to observe the large limbs of it and the rays of sun peeking through the many leaves.

Bringing her gaze further down to the roots her eyes fell upon the epitaph written there. Reading it, new tears sprung to her eyes, and her heart broke to million pieces never to be put together again. Her soul felt empty and incomplete for real this time and her knees buckled underneath her.

She fell on the roots of the tree and awkwardly hugged them, Inuyasha's name on her lips, whispered over and over again franticly. The world around her collapsed through and through, the sun didn't shine anymore and the nature stayed quiet.

Her heart wrenching screams could be heard far away and they brought her lost friends to her. They stood two meters from her, understanding her sorrow and the right to cry. For the epitaph said this:

"The last resting place of a great warrior, hanyou Inuyasha."

THE END

AN: I want to thank to those who reviewed. But as I said, it's a little, short story, nothing that was taken out of context, just a decision made by Inuyasha and Kagome to have a child of their own. This one also is just one-shot, not further explanations on what happened and how. That's way I call them "short stories".

Either way, I thank you for your time to review and I do appreciate it. I hope you enjoy this one too.

Chiisana Anisa