Chapter 10: The Bullet that Ended it All

It was raining that cold Friday night in December. It was around 11:45 pm when Tamahome had ran away from his home with a Beretta 9mm to go to Kagome's house. Now it was midnight and he was standing outside her window. Thunder and lighting was booming all about as he climbed a nearby tree to her window. Luckily she wasn't in her room and her window was easy to get open. He managed to sneak in undetected. He slid under her bed and stayed there silently.

Five minutes later Kagome came in and sat down at her computer and started checking out her sites. Tamahome slowly slid out silently and hid the gun behind him. He snuck over to the door and locked it. No one could stop him now.

"Kagome, we need to talk," stated Tamahome firmly.

Kagome yelped and spun around to see the silhouette of Tamahome standing by her door.

"What the hell are you doing here?" she exclaimed, anger gleaming in her eyes.

"Kagome its time, you have to make a choice. You keep saying you wish I never existed and that I should die. You say you say this stuff for fun. You have become weak, Kagome. You should have remembered that I told you I would always be there for you and I still stand by that even now. I've come to help you overcome your weakness," Tamahome drew the gun in front of him, "See this? It has one bullet. One bullet can make a big difference to whoever it hits. You claim you want to forget everything that happened but you won't be able to. You can't run from everything and eventually you will have to face it."

Tamahome walked menacingly towards Kagome with the gun held pointed at her. She backed up in till she couldn't anymore. Tamahome slowly turned the gun around and offered the handle to Kagome.

"Take this gun. If you want to kill me so bad then do it."

Kagome reached out and took the gun from Tamahome. She had a slightly scared look on her face. Tamahome felt that the fact that the rain was getting hard and slamming against the window was a bad sign but he fought back his supernatural superstitions.

"Kagome, the time I spent with you was more than I could have ever hoped for. I want you to be happy. If you would kill the only person in the world that feels this way about you then here is your chance," Tamahome then spread his arms out offering himself to be shot.

After Tamahome said this Kagome got angry for some reason. She had been acting strange ever since the incident, getting mad at praise and such and now was no different. Tamahome had no doubt though that she was strong enough not to do it.

Kagome lifted up the gun and aimed it at Tamahome. She stared at him with hard cold eyes. She whispered, "I hate you," and inched forward.

"You have no reason for hate. You are blind right now from your anger. Hate cant come without strong feelings for someone. Make your choice Kagome."

Kagome stared at him for a good minute then she lowered her gun. Tamahome knew that she had found her strength.

Suddenly she raised the gun back up and while gritting her teeth, shot the one bullet that would change everything.

Tamahome blinked in pain. The world around him was blurring as he dropped to the floor. He sat there astonished. Had Kagome really shot him? Was it by accident? No that was on purpose, but why?

Kagome lowered the gun. Thunder was booming all around them as the lighting lighted up the room. She could make out the figure of Tamahome on the floor bleeding with a bullet wound in his chest. What have I done she thought? Her expression went from anger to astonishment. She dropped the gun and fell to her knees while staring forward. What have I done, what all she could think. She had killed the only person that had every truly cared about her and still did to the very end. The one man that wanted her to be happy and to succeeded in life. The only man that still believed in her after everything she had said and done. She started to cry.

Tamahome felt the life draining out of him. The rain was increasing as though it was crying for Tamahome. His thoughts drifted to that time at the park. His first kiss. The perfect setting.

Everything was perfect.

Tamahome breathed his last breath to the thought of his first kiss.

The End

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Author's Notes:

This story has a message to it. I hope you got it when you read it but if you didn't here it is for you, laid out:

Message: You make yourself look weak when you constantly run away from problems. When you make fun of people you make yourself seem even worse. Be strong and make sure you cherish those who care for you because you never know when they might not be around to care for you anymore. Don't abandon the people who care cause of hardships in your life.

My message is not trying to say that you shouldn't go out with anyone else and marry your first boyfriend or girlfriend. I'm saying you may go out with the person and decide they are not right but when you break up you shouldn't abandon your friendship with that person. Just because you went out doesn't meant that everything will never be the same. Together anyone can get through problems, the more friends you have that care about you the better. So basically this paragraph is saying, don't hate your ex boyfriend or ex girlfriend and become friends with them. YOU DEFINATLY DONT HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT AWAY. People wouldn't expect it to work right away but don't dismiss the person like they never existed. You can't get rid of the memories that you shared, especially if it was as something as important as your first kiss, like Tamahome and Kagome shared.

Sometimes in trying to ignore the other person, you make it worse for yourself because all you think about is avoiding that person. In that case your the one hurting yourself.

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I hope you enjoyed this story. I made it for a few reasons:

1. To test out my writing ability.

2. To see if I could hide a message in the story, like my favorite director of all time Hideo Kojima of the Metal Gear Solid video game series.

3. To test if I could make a story. I want to be a game designer and I cant do much if I cant make a decent story.

No Flaming in reviews please. This is my first ever, more than one page story. Constructive criticism is wanted. Hopefully you can comment on my writing because I think I messed up on the parts like dialog.

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Thanks:

I would like to give thanks out to a few people,

Morgan, for helping me come up with the title.

Ben and Laura(who unfortuantly is on vaction for a few months), for being my best friends and supporting me when I was down. Laura also inspired me to try my hand at writing. Ben was always there for me when I needed him.

Me, cause I'm sexy...

The Readers because you read my story.

Hope you enjoyed A Tragic Love. If you want a sequel with what happens with Kagome contact me at my email.

I would not mind to write a sequel cause quite frankly, I loved writing the first one. The feelings I got and the thrill of writing is really great. Now I know why Laura likes it so much. I may continue probally with some Metal Gear Solid FanFics.