Daniel's disclaimer: Yeah, all y'all know the drill.

Been a while. I've been busy, but really I couldn't think of anything.


So.

Fifty years.

In the blink of the eye... it didn't seem that long, but it was all gone.

The forest—his forest—was different. He didn't recognize it at all. It wasn't home anymore.

Everything was gone.

Kikyo was gone.

So.

Fifty years.

The rage was there, anger that destroyed emotions he couldn't wield. But it wasn't an antidote for his sadness.

"Dead. The same day she put the spell on you."

In the blink of an eye...

For him, Kikyo was literally yesterday. Fifty years, everything gone, but he was just beginning to mourn her.

So.

Fifty years.


A semi-first person introspective from Inu-Yasha's perspective, right at the very beginning of it all. Sometimes I disagree with even Takahashi's characterization; if we are to believe the internal timeline (about a month for every five manga), then that means that Kikyo was resurrected about a month after she died, from Inu-Yasha's point of view.

Yeah, that's enough out of me.