The end to a lovely relationship. Sess/Kagu, 175 words.
Unending
Sesshoumaru never wondered, even to himself, why he seemed to be always patrolling his lands instead of staying in his comfortable fortress while his dependable dependants patrolled for him. It never occurred to him to do so. In fact, it rarely occurred to him that he had been patrolling for a long time. It was not his nature. Like any dog, he was more concerned with the present than with any past or future.
Something hurt inside. If he remembered, he might have likened it to the feeling he'd had when first his mother, and then his father, died, but those were a long time ago, and he did not remember. He only knew that Kagura's death made him uncomfortable. And, being incapable of changing that, and unconcerned with the future that would eventually bring the fading of his feelings, he merely continued to travel, as he had always done. The ache in his heart and the tenseness of his shoulders were uncomfortable, painful, but there was nothing he could do.
So he walked on.
: forevermore :
:: it might have been easier to cry ::