Theme:
Gift
Word
Count: 217
Rating:
PG
Summary:
An unlikely gift.
When he picks dirt from his teeth and curses heavily the black beads around his neck, he does not realized it is her gift.
Instead, he blames Kagome, not because she made it or placed it upon his neck, but because it is hers–because it makes him hers. And through it she uses him as she sees fit.
When he endures the pain of impact and cries out in humiliation, he does not think where they would be had it not been placed around his neck to save her life, had it not stopped him when he was berserk, had it not prevented him from so many things he would have done otherwise.
It has saved his life and taken it. But he is never thankful.
Until the day that it is broken.
He collects the beads, carefully one by one, and re-strings the necklace. Each bead tells a story: of his sorrow, of his life, of his love and death–of his devotion. When she sees it once more upon his neck, she is unmoving and does not speak. The spell is broken, but there it remains.
She does not ask why, and he does not answer. Instead, she takes his hand and smiles in relief.
It is their connection and precious to each other.