Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha no matter how much I wish I did.

A.N. This is yet another depressing fan fic (where does all this depressing stuff come from?) but it does a happyish ending.

A Single Red Rose

The sun had slit his wrists as the moon looked on, cool uncaring and stained in her lover's blood. The bloody sky and clouds coloured usually white hair and ears red.

The red demons ears drooped as he thought about earlier that day.

He had gone to Kikyo's house, he wanted to give her a rose and a box with the Shikon No Tama necklace, something she had wanted for years, he had saved for two years to buy it and found her with another man, on her couch, kissing passionately.

"Naraku," He had growled.

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry." And she looked it, Inuyasha had known it was ending, Kikyo had never loved him, she had just gone out with him because he was poor and a half demon so she could escape from her snobby family's expectations. That didn't mean it still didn't hurt. She had never truly accepted him; she had always made him wear a hat whenever they went out to a fancy restaurant.

His relationship with her had had its advantages, she had got him promotions so he could earn more money, live in a bigger house and just live a better life.

Now he was thinking about how he could kill himself. Maybe like the sun, he certainly felt like the sun, Kikyo watching him as he slit his wrists.

Suddenly something caught his eye, a girl, leaning against a bin. She looked a couple of years younger than him in Miko clothes, but that was common enough in such a mixed society, there were demons, humans and anything in between.

She also seemed thin, to thin for a fifteen year old; he might as well do one act of kindness before he killed himself.

"Do you want to have dinner with me?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yes please. Thank you very much." Her speech was oddly formal. But Inuyasha was too depressed to care.

"What's your name?"

"Kagome," The answer was short as though she didn't want to reveal anymore.

"I'm Inuyasha, what kind of food do you want to eat?"

"You're the one who asked me so surely you have something in mind." Kagome replied.

"No, not really, I don't mind at all where I eat."

"Oh, ok. How about we eat there." Kagome pointed at an Italian.

"Yeah, sure, why not?"

Inuyasha and Kagome entered the restaurant. They were given a table for two and a pair of menus.

"What do you want?" Inuyasha asked.

"I don't know, I've never had this kind of food before. You choose something for me."

"Sir, Madam, may I take your orders?" The waiter asked.

"Please may we have a marinara pizza each." Despite the phrasing, this was not a question.

"Yes sir." The waiter wrote it down and hurried off, avoiding the golden glare and the disturbing lack of life in the lady's calm, brown eyes.

"What's wrong?" The directness of the question caught Inuyasha off guard.

"I found my girlfriend with another man." Inuyasha returned the bluntness. "I knew she didn't love me but it still hurts to be betrayed like that.

"Yes, it does." Kagome's eye's clouded over with pain. "I'm sure sometime you'll find some one who will love as much as you love them." She smiled brightly.

Maybe I will Inuyasha thought looking at Kagome, with new eyes and then gasped. She looks exactly like Kikyo. But her eyes are strange, almost like they're dead, no, that can't be right.

"What's wrong?" Kagome looked worriedly at Inuyasha.

"Nothing, don't worry." Despite looking like her, she doesn't act like her. "Where do you live?" He asked to change the subject.

Kagome laughed, it was a soft laugh and not mocking, so different from the derisive laughter of demons and jeering, scornful sniggering humans or the contemptuous giggle he had heard from so many girls of both races, just because he was different. When she laughed, he knew she knew that he was deliberately changing the subject.

"I'll tell you tomorrow." She promised. She had let him get away with it.

Kikyo would never let me change the subject, actually if I did she would pursue it even more ferociously and hang on like a mastiff.

They got through the rest of the meal without very many difficult questions. After the pudding (a Nuttella and mascarpone calizone) Inuyasha gave Kagome the rose and was about to give her the necklace with the Shikon No Tama on it when she put her hand on his.

"Give it to me tomorrow." She said smiling into his eyes.

"Ok, where should I meet you?"

"The grave yard, next to the big angel monument, I'll have the rose, so you'll be able to find me."

Odd place to meet he thought. "Ok."

"At midday?"

"Sure."

He said goodbye, then started to walk home, he then looked behind him, to wave. But Kagome had disappeared.

Inuyasha looked around the graveyard for the angel monument and Kagome. Eventually he came to it, it was a massive black, pink and green marble angel, he thought it was a strange choice of colours.

Next to the angel, he saw a flash of red in the shadow of a small mound. The mound was covered in moss, so carefully Inuyasha scraped away the moss and saw engraved into the stone:

Kagome Higurashi

1722-1738

Miko of Fuji village

The flash of Red had been the rose he had given her the night before. He took the necklace out of his pocket and buried it in front of the grave.

He left the grave and under it a single red rose. Contemplating suicide again until he remembered what he had heard the night before. She's right. He smiled and behind him he heard the soft laugh he had heard so often last night as a soft hand caressed his check.

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Thank you Lauren for checking through my last story, I for got to write it down, sorry. ;;