Disclaimer: I neither own, nor claim to own any of Inuyasha, his friends or his clothes. However, once my world domination scheme is complete, there will be a different disclaimer to write...
Author's note: This is dribble. The type of dribble that falls from the mouth when some hot guy (namely most of the silvery haired dudes in anime) comes on screen. However, it is my dribble, and my dribble is worth a thousand gold pieces. So read and I hope you enjoy.

Love Smothered Embers

By Petty Insanity

Love.

A foolish word designed for foolish people.

But then again, he was a very foolish person.

How can the wise even contemplate love, if they had never felt the fleeting beat of that blood soaked heart? But then, how can the foolish fall in love, if they were never going to be wise enough to recognise it?

He belonged in the trees, free as the birds in the sky, waving their glossy feathers in the crisp, cold air, calling his already bleeding heart. He had wings, wished he still did, wished for the feel of those silk edges agains his back, wished for their straining muscles to carry him away from the lies and the blood.

He'd been free once, soft summer air kissing his flushed cheeks but he bent away from his crystal, blue skies. Then the clouds came, the rains came, then the thunder came, and the sky was gone.

As he looked back upon that fateful day, where he gave up his skies for this mutinous love, scalding and twisting his heart, greed and jealousy seeped into his cold, dark heart, shielding him from the brilliant blue sky, he realised that he had always been a fool.

And always will be.

The love that constricted his heart blinded his mind, catching flashes of fake heaven from behind closed eyelids, behind smiling lips. Those lips that blurred the warnings, the dangers, the constant whining of alarm bells all around him. Silken finger tips led him deeper, treading lightly in a den.

Her den.

Tiptoeing around the truth.

When the cold hard arrow hit the ground with a resounding thud, the light was gone, the trees were gone, the sky was gone.

And everything went black.

After months of blinding false light, the darkness was deafening.

He woke up covered in a cold sweat he was too numb to feel, and there was nothing.

There was never anything.

The End