Kanashii-Sorrow
Kagome's sparkling, wide eyes gleamed with wonder at the first sight of the vast fields.
"OH, wow! How big IS this place!" she released Link's hand and ran a little ways into the field. Kagome looked around and blocked the blaring sun with her hand. The playful wind swept her thick black hair to the side and tied it into loose twirls.
Link walked slowly, calmly, to her side and took her free hand, again, smiling at Kagome's small, surprised look. He gripped it firmly, "You'll really like where I'm taking you..." he walked forward, and felt her body come in step with him.
They spoke not a word as they slipped away across the amber waves of tall grass. The trees whispered to one another as the fragile wind blew through their branches. Link looked up to them and came to a slow halt. Kagome didn't expect this and she stopped in alarm.
"Link..?" she walked closer to him and followed the path of Link's eyes. She gasped at what she saw.
A giant owl?
"Helloooo Link, long time no see, hoo!" it hooted in greeting, ruffling its feathers and cocking its head to the side.
'It talks!' Kagome stepped behind Link and gazed over his shoulder to curiously peer at the great owl.
"Hey, Kaepora... didn't know you were around..." Link casually said.
Kagome put a hand on his shoulder when the great being swooped down from the branches and came to the ground, with a great beat of its wings. Link reassuringly stroked her elegant fingers and gripped her hand. Kaepora began to step closer to them.
Kagome felt afraid... this bird was almost the same height as Link and probably bigger than herself. She cowered behind the safety of Link's body. Kagome felt the squeeze of the elf's fingers on her hand.
"Whooooo's the girl?" he hooted loudly, standing up to full height.
"Kaepora...this is Kagome.." Link pulled her from behind him, but kept his hands on her shoulders.
Kaepora cocked his head to the side and stuck his pointed beak in Kagome's frightened face. She saw as the great owl brought a feathered wing out, fully stretched and glimmering in the golden sun, then brought it back in to his chest and dipped low, in a graceful bow.
"Very pleased to finally meet you! Hooo!" he said formally, coming back up from his bow, "Lady Kagome... please... you must go to the castle immediately, hoo! A goddess shouldn't just be walking around! Hoo hoo!" he said urgently.
Kagome released a breath and then bowed back to him, "Thank you, great Kaepora, for your concern. But I believe that I am very safe with Link." she smiled and turned to Link, who in turn, took her hand, smirking.
Kaepora hooted a small laugh, "No, Lady Kagome, you doooo not understand... you must take your place with the rest of the sages." he gave a wide-eyed look of knowing to her.
"Wh-what?" she looked to Kaepora and then back to Link, "Kaepora... Link..." she began to wonder..
'Will I be able to see Link again?' she began to whimper with frustration. She suddenly felt very drowsy and her eyes rolled. She put her hands to her face and dived deep into the chasm of her mind.
Kagome felt the world around her melt away and the vision of Link's figure reaching out to her faded into her after-vision.
'Link...'
'Kagome... I'm so sorry... I didn't tell you... you have to come with us... I spoke with the sages... and they told me...'
'But... Saria why do I have to go... I can stay on this earth.. helping... I can do that..'
'Kagome.. it's not that simple... when gods and goddesses stay on Hyrule for too long... they become attached... and you feel it with Link, even now.. so this must be stopped before it is too late...'
'...Please... no ask them again... I need to stay on Hyrule! I am safe with Link!'
Kagome heard a soft, frustrated sigh in the back of her mind. There was silence for a long while and she began to wonder whether Saria was gone...
'Saria..?'
'... it took everything in my power to convince them that I had found the Goddess of Eternity... do you really believe that they will allow you to remain here, on Hyrule?'
'Please try Saria... I thank you for everything that you have done for me... and I hope someday to repay you for your kindness... and right now, I need you more than anything... please...' she begged.
There was another empty silence... Kagome felt wrong for trying to persuade a little girl to against everything that has been, since the dawn of time... but right now.. all that she wanted was to be by Link's side forever... and she didn't know why, but he had such a strong impact on her. Why was he any different from any other guy?
'Link...' she felt the tears coming... the knowledge that she might never be able to see him again rose in a hard lump in her throat. But she would not cry... she needed to be strong.
'Kagome... I know that you have strong feelings for Link, and that you don't want to leave him... but I can do nothing for this situation... only you can... ask the sages... I have no power over them... tell them that---------'
Kagome was suddenly ripped from her chasm by a rough hand moving down her face. She sighed deeply, "Link... I need to go to the sages..."
Link tore away as if it were hot coals that he was touching and not Kagome, "But wait.. Kagome what are you saying?" Link went into slight frantics, but then calmed and let his arms hang limply to his sides. He sighed and stood up, holding a hand down to her, "I'm sorry, Kagome, it is your choice... C'mon, I'll show you the way.."
'What is she doing...?' his brows furrowed and he frowned.
Kagome looked up to his awaiting hand, "Link... listen to me... I--"
"No... Kagome.. It's alright... I guess... I wanted you to stay longer..." he looked away, his blond bangs covering the emotion that splayed across his eyes.
Kagome felt the stinging of upcoming tears... ones that brimmed at the edges of her eyes. She stood up on her own, planting her fists firmly to her legs, "Link... I have to sort this out on my own... if I don't I'll never--"
"I told you... it's alright..." he snapped his head back to her, "Don't.. don't give excuses... I guess it was my fault." he walked quickly past her.
Kagome sniffed and sighed, "Kaepora... what is wrong with Link? I know I can fix things... I can ask them if I can stay here... and then everything will be okay..." she turned to face the great owl... but he was gone..
"Kaepora?" she looked around, but the beast was nowhere to be seen.
"Kagome! Are you coming?"
Kagome turned quickly around, facing Link.. what was she going to do? What would the sages do if she just hid away and never bothered with them...? What would Link say? She shook the questions away and ran after him.
'Link...'
Kagome came to a slow halt and stared at him, her eyes filling with liquid sadness, "Link... I..." she smiled, "...thank you.."
Link turned away, "Don't." and he continued walking.
Kagome's temper was flaring, "Link!" she ran in front of him and got in his face, "What is wrong with you?" she fisted her hands tightly and anger was flaming fiercely in the depths of her eyes.
Link looked at her and suddenly, felt... guilty, "Kagome..." he wiped an angry tear from her face. Kagome's eyes shifted to the ground.
"Why are you so mad?" she said softly.
Link took a deep, refreshing breath, "I—I don't know right now.."
Kagome snapped her head to his and her face began to contort into a look of pure sadness, "Do you understand, Link, that if I don't fix things... if I don't request that they let me stay... I could never see you again? Don't you get it?" she closed her eyes and turned her face to the left.
Link crooked his finger under her chin and brought her face to him, "Yes... and that is why I wish I had never met you... so I wouldn't have to feel this right now... do you think this is easy for me?"
Her eyes slowly opened and thick tears poured from them, "Link... I... I'm sorry.." she began to walk away, but was stopped by a hand on hers.
"Kagome.. don't just walk away... you don't know where you're going..." he stated.
Kagome looked at him for a second and then laughed a small, wistful laugh, "Oh, right.." she wiped her tears from her face. Link always found ways to make her laugh. Even if it was so small.
"Besides... we don't have to go to the sages just yet.." he smirked at her and led her the other way.
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Inuyasha reached the boundaries of the well and sighed in sadness.
"Kagome..."
He drug himself out of the wooden passage and up the steps of the wellhouse. This was going to be so hard...
"Hey, Inuyasha!" Souta hollered from across the shrine. He dropped his broom and ran across the pavement to the hanyou standing at the door. Inuyasha stood there and kept looking at him... emotionless.
The bright smile on the kids face disappeared, "Hey, where's Kagome?" he began to look around and behind Inuyasha. Souta ran to the wellhouse and peered down the opening.
"Sis!" he stopped and listened for a reply but only heard the mocking echo of his own voice, "Kagome?" he said softly.
Inuyasha watched from outside. He couldn't say anything... it wouldn't come out.. his voice was caught in his throat and resided painfully in his heart.
Souta erupted from inside the dark wellhouse, "Where's Kagome?" he gave a frightened look towards his role model, "Where is she hiding?" he began running throughout the shrine calling for his sister, but with no reply.
"Inuyasha? Is she still in your time?" his hopeful tone pained the hanyou and he couldn't breathe.
Inuyasha didn't answer... he didn't even move..
Souta balled his hands and looked angrily at Inuyasha, "Where is my sister! You'd better answer me!" he beat both of his fists on Inuyasha's chest in rage.
"Hey, kid... get your grandpa." he said stoically, "I----got somethin' to tell you guys." Inuyasha swallowed and took a breath that he didn't know he was holding... he wished this would be easier.. after all.. it was his fault that Kagome was dead. The first person that Mrs. Higurashi would target would be Inuyasha.. but for all he cared.. she could kill him if she wanted to.
He reached the door to the kitchen, "Mrs. Higurashi.." he said sadly, looking for the older woman.
Her head popped from inside the livingroom, "Why, Inuyasha, how pleasant to see that you have come to visit! Welcome back!" she put her hands on her hips and stared around, "Hm.. where's Kagome?"
Inuyasha looked to the floor and then to his trusted sword, the Tetsusaiga, "That is what I came to talk about, Mrs. Higurashi." his bangs covered his eyes.
'Gods... I can't do it...'
"Well, what is it, Inuyasha.. what has happened to Kagome?" she asked softly and patiently, pulling up a chair and looking up at him.
"M-Mrs. Higurashi... Kagome.. she.." and he told the story.. slowly and tears tore down his face and soon Mrs. Higurashi's. Inuyasha didn't even try to stop the tears that fell quickly and thickly down his cheeks..
"Kagome is... gone... she's dead, Mrs. Higurashi..."
His nails ripped through his palms and drops of dark red blood dripped and plopped on the tile floor. Inuyasha took a blurred look at Mrs. Higurashi...
She fell to the floor and curled up in a ball on the floor and began screaming, tears streaming and falling over the bridge of her nose, "Kagome! KAGOME! NO! NO! NO!" she sobbed loudly and fiercely, beating the crap out of the floor, so much that her knuckles began bruising and bleeding.
Souta and Grandpa came in and noticed that Mrs. Higurashi was in her state, "Mom! Mom! What's wrong!"
Souta gave a frightened look to Inuyasha, who still had tears throwing down his cheeks, "What did you do to her!"
Grandpa was too shocked to say anything.. or do anything, he just stood there... seemingly... stupified..
Mrs. Higurashi tore from the floor and gripped Inuyasha's haori with rage, "You MONSTER! How could you do that to her! SHE LOVED YOU! Did you even love her at all! HOW COULD YOU!" she fell back to the floor.
Inuyasha bent down and held on to Mrs. Higurashi's shoulders, "Mrs. Higurashi... I loved Kagome with everything that I held inside of me."
"Then WHY did you go with this... Kikyou?" she looked up at him with her red eyes and gave him a sad look that tore Inuyasha's heart from his chest.
"I-I don't know... she cursed me... I was supposed to go to hell with her and I refused.." he said sadly.
Inuyasha reached for his sword and handed it to Mrs. Higurashi. He got on his knees and then fell over in a ball, to where his nose touched the floor. Inuyasha put his hands behind his back and waited. When nothing came he looked up at her.
"Have my head.." then he put his nose back to the floor.
Mrs. Higurashi whimpered and was quite taken aback.
'Have his head... he wants me to..'
Inuyasha tensed and awaited the sharp, cold, edge of the sword to come crashing down on his neck. But it never came and he relaxed slightly, but still, he was expecting this. It was all he could give them. A life for a life.
"Inuyasha.. this is barbaric. I will never steal your life for my daughter's. In life, Kagome was a bright and beautiful child.."
"WAIT! IN LIFE!" Souta yelled.
He snapped his head to Inuyasha, "You killed Kagome! I HATE YOU INUYASHA!" Souta went to Inuyasha and began punching him and tears flew from his face.
"Kagome loved you, Inuyasha! She never stopped talking about you! Never! sometimes, she would be upset because she too much homework to do and she didn't get to go see you! SHE WOULD CRY!"
Souta planted a hard punch on Inuyasha's left cheek, "And, to think, I looked up to you!"
That did it.
"Stop!" Mrs. Higurashi's voice bellowed throughout the kitchen, "Souta.. come here." he held her arms out to her child, who ran into them as fast as he could, burying himself in his mothers chest and bellowing great, hiccuping coughs. Mrs. Higurashi put her forehead to her son's shoulder, and wept soundlessly, while Grandpa wrapped his arms around his family.
"M-Mrs.." Inuyasha shook his head and went to the Goshinboku tree that swayed in the gentle winds.
There was nothing he could do for Kagome's family.. he listened to their frantic and sad wails coming from deep inside the Higurashi household. Inuyasha glowered at the twittering birds.. he could kill them right now... how dare they be joyful and full of spirit... he extended his claws and prepared to jump at them with wild fury... but he stopped...
'I am blaming birds for my grief... its not their fault... its no ones fault but mine.' he thought mournfully. The hanyou slowly lowered to the ground that lay covered in a blanket of shade, underneath the God Tree.
He had run into a dead end in his life.. no where to run.. no one to turn to... his roads had been blocked, never for him to venture forward... a wall.. a cliff... a boulder...
...a rut...
"Kagome..." he sniffed and his face screwed up into a look of uncontrolled sorrow, "I'm sorry..." silent, yet furious tears swept down his face, falling quickly to the earth... and he sat there... all alone under the Goshinboku Tree.. until time seemed to stand still... and the sun set on the last of his days...
Inuyasha closed his amber eyes to the rest of the world and fell into a dreamless sleep... one from which he would never awake from...
...but that was okay... because now... he won't have to grieve... he wouldn't feel lost any longer... and he wouldn't trouble himself with endless spirals of mixed emotions... because here... in his dreamless slumber... he knows nothing.. feels nothing... loves no one... no one but the whispering darkness that keeps him here...
... and he succumbs to this empty world...
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Link loved the feeling of Kagome's fragile, elegant hand in his... it made him feel strong, powerful... loved...
He slowly craned his head.. inconspicuously... and stole a glance down her shirt and grinned evilly, laughing humorously to himself...
'Heh heh heh...' he felt his face turn red and he smiled wider... '.. eheheheh... cool...' he felt stupid though... getting all worked up over what was hidden sweetly down the "v" of Kagome's shirt... but he felt warm all over and his grip on Kagome's hand strengthened... and he saw her from the corner of his eyes turn to him, and he tried to look serious again... but... sadly it wasn't possible..
"Link?" she laughed, "Um... what? What's the matter? Ha ha! You're red again!" she turned to him and giggled, shaking her head almost disbelieving of him, "What has gotten you all worked up now?" she ran her hand down his red left cheek. Link's smiled broadened and he burst into a chuckle that was too great for his body to handle.
He shook and erupted in insane laughter. 'Why am I laughing?' he thought seriously to himself.
'God... Kagome... don't look at me like that...' he ceased laughing enough to look at her and his eyes went everywhere on her body... here it came... the blushing and the crazy feeling inside of him that made him freak out.. he could hear his heart pounding inside of his ears, seemingly slamming on his eardrums... his body was numb... his entire being wanted to---
'No... no... no... okay..' he sighed with lost breath from laughing so much and suddenly found himself on the ground, holding himself up with an extended arm behind him and one knee up, supporting his other arm... and from this angle... Kagome looked damn sexy...
'DAH! Dammit! Stupid ass emotions...' he scoffed to himself... he looked away.. and then slowly... he turned his eyes up to her again..
'Whoa.' when did she get closer to him?
...and when did she learn to stroke his cheek like that?
He swallowed thickly as their eyes met in a heated gaze... blue on grey-brown.. her orbs twinkled with happiness and flared with emotions.. so many...
His eyes widened and his face turned scarlet...
'Whooaaa..' why was she smiling like that?
... and just where the hell are her eyes going?
"Aaaalllllright!" he suddenly stood up, "Let's get going!" he said clearing his throat and standing up, gathering every bearing that had been lost during that little moment. He turned to see her laughing, bright face, and he smiled, joining in the atmosphere... the light earthy fragrance of her body filled the air... and all of the sudden... he didn't feel himself... but... he liked it...
"Kagome... I..." he stepped closer to her and dipped his head into the nape of her neck and wrapped his strong arms around her small, beautifully curved waist, "...I feel like this isn't the only time that we have met... like this..." he said, breathing softly into her ear.
Kagome tensed slightly with uneasy anxiety, "Link... I-I don't know what to say I--" but her statement was stopped when his musky smell rushed to her senses... the way his breath upon her neck tingled with wild affection... and the way that his voice reverberated in her ear and made her heart race.
"There are so many memories, Link, and I can't understand them... I remember feeling this way with you.. onetime... long ago... It feels so right..." she sighed and pulled her body away, "But I don't know... Link..." she turned to him and her eyes filled with hope, "... give me time... I will know..."
Link crooked his finger under her chin and stroked her raven hair, running his fingers through it, "Take your time..." he said.. even though he was deeply disappointed, he gave her the sincerest smile and took her hand once more... beginning his journey to the place that he was eager to show Kagome.
But Kagome stopped him... causing him to turn around with a confused look plastered on his face...
Kagome looked at him for a moment and leaned closer to him, "Thank you..." she said.
Link could bear it no longer, "We should get going... it's really... important that... I show you... this..." with each word that he said... he leaned closer and closer to her soft, pink lips, "...place..." he said huskily... but he stopped, "I-I'm sorry, Kagome... I am rushing you..." and he turned around.
"Link." she grabbed his tunic, turned him back around and planted a soft, tender, kiss on his lips.
He turned bright red and sent her a crooked smirk, "Really, now..."
"What? It's just a kiss..." she looked at him innocently and sent a mischievous smile right back at him.
"But... I thought you said that it would take you time to--"
"Hey! I didn't say anything about a relationship.. I just gave you a 'thank you' kiss.. doesn't everybody here do that?" she said, walking in front of him, "Weeeellll?"
Link stuttered on his words, "N-No-Ye-Yes.. maybe.." he laughed nervously, "Well! Let's just say... now they do..."
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End chapter
I am pretty happy with the fluff in this chapter! If you are confused about what went on with Inuyasha.. email me at I will tell you! But! If you know it, then you are one smart cookie!
BTW: The next chapter will be totally dedicated to Link/Kagome... SOOOO be ready for major fluff and possibly a REAL kiss, not just your average... everyday.. thank you, your welcome, goodbye, hello, goodnight, goodmorning kiss! (VERY evil grin) BUT i will keep it in the PG-13 range, im not fixin to get kicked off of And just if you are wondering... "Will Zelda retaliate?" ooooohhh yeah... I'm planning to make it the whole, "Evil concoction" thing... SOOO if you wanna find out just how Zelda will react to Link's new girlfriend that actually CARES and LOVES him! then just be patient for the next chapter! Itll come in a few weeks after every thing is finished in school!
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