Title: Wish Granted
Author: Queen Serenity
Fandom: Inuyasha
Chapter: Two – Mourning
After the funeral, everyone was much quieter than usual, and it wasn't just because they were mourning…
The other reason for the silence was because they were all suffering from a state of shock; it was hard to believe. One of them had actually died. Not just gotten badly hurt, or poisoned, or dangerously close to death… Ginuu had died. Flat-out died. This morbid fact had reminded everyone of their own mortality, even Inuyasha and Shippo, since Ginuu hadn't even been a full human.
After all that had happened since they had met Ginuu, and after all the mental exhaustion and the enormous amounts of tears recently shed, Kagome was ready to rest.
She was ready to go home.
Bidding goodbye, as usual, to her rather subdued friends, including Inuyasha, who did not protest her going home for once, Kagome gathered her stuff all together and headed for the well. They all needed this rest… they need to recover both physically and mentally.
When she made it back home, she went through her usual routine quietly, eating, bathing, and heading to her room to retire for the night. Before she went to bed, she set about unpacking her things. At the bottom of her bag, a glint of gold caught her eye. Ginuu's choker… she almost had forgotten about it. Pulling the piece of jewelry out, she examined it closer; it was quite a simple piece, really… smooth gold, devoid of any inscriptions or designs or anything, with a large ruby set in the center of the front, and in the back was a simple-but-sturdy clasp. It seemed like, if bought, it would be quite expensive, but it really was pretty.
Moving over in front of the mirror, Kagome put the choker on, seeing how it looked on her. She smiled slightly as she saw that it matched the yellow pajama set she was currently wearing… the choker really was pretty. However, the smile quickly disappeared… she really wished Ginuu was still alive. She already missed her.
Not bothering to take the choker off, Kagome went ahead and flicked out the light before heading off to bed. As she drifted off to sleep, she failed to notice when, a few minutes later, the stone on the choker started to glow faintly with a warm red light. The light, traveling out from the ruby, moving through her veins. This continued until ever vein in her body was glowing with the same reddish light, and it continued throughout the night.
QS: This chapter was a bit longer. I hope you guys enjoyed it.