Oh no! The dreaded songfic! But, this one isn't a one-shot. First, it will have a greater impact as a chaptered thingy. Second... I feel like my last one sucked because it was so short. So now I have to make it up to you guys. See how much I love you? :) -Ariana
Why They Call It Falling
"It's like jumping,
it's like leaping,
it's like walking on the ceiling.
It's like floating,
it's like flying through the air."
A slender hand raised itself into the air, the soul snatcher weaving itself delicately around the forearm and back again. Kikyo smiled gently. It wasn't a pet, exactly, but it was companionship in some way.
She resumed walking, the only sounds being her feet as they brushed gently across the grass, and the soul snatchers whistling through the air around her.
For the millionth time, her thoughts drifted to Inuyasha.
The hanyou was almost a nuisance now. No matter how much she told him that she would kill him, he would sniff after her and follow, like the puppy he was.
Kikyo sighed softly, thinking of how things used to be. They were so happy. Why, why did this happen? She begged silently. Why did so much go wrong? They had love, didn't they? She frowned, closing her eyes.
Was it love?
For sure, it had been. The elated feeling that she'd get, the butterflies in her stomach. They were all for him. She hadn't killed him initially because he'd looked so human. So human, and so much like a young man her own age.
How could she kill one who seemed like a comrade?
But slowly, inevitably, those feelings changed. What had at first seemed a grudging acquiescence, soon evolved into something more. Something yearning, a need.
Kikyo, who had been lonely all her life. Inuyasha, the hanyou who had been shunned and hated for all of his. They drew from each other, even without their own knowledge. They felt it, within themselves, the need that drew them together.
They needed that companionship, as much as they needed oxygen to breathe.
Kikyo opened her eyes, viewing the slowly sinking sun as it made its daily journey to leave the world in darkness.
That feeling she had with Inuyasha, 50 years ago... would she ever have it back?