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Lament
InuYasha
The night wanes, ceding to the heralding, tri-colored light of sunrise. Even in this morning light, his face looks as though all color had been stolen by the dawn, replaced with the pale ash of one whose life is nearing its end.
Hope has long since run from the scene, towing Joy in its wake. Without either, the small company of human, hanyou, and youkai seem to have nothing left, other than the chilling morning breeze and the even colder sense of loss. Though the young man clad loosely in torn purple and black robes still breathes, the ghosts of the afterlife have already come to claim his soul.
Only the taijiya is crying, bent over the robes of the dying with silent pleas for his life. Her shaking voice is the only noise rising in the small clearing, above the sound of the awakening forest life. And when it becomes apparent that no amount of speaking will bring the prostrate man before her back to the land of the living, she raises her head and stares into his face.
One last time, his eyes open slowly, bringing the tiniest glimmer of hope to the girl's distraught expression. With a bloodied smile, he beckons her closer with just a single look. Into her ear, he whispers the only words she wishes she would have listened to sooner.
It is then that she knows, and as she chokes back a sob, she finally tells him the only words she wishes she would have said sooner. Now it is his turn to weep, though it doesn't last long. With a final spoken word, he breathes his last as his friends bid him farewell in their own ways.
The taijiya swears upon his grave, that she will not forget… this is her lament.
300 words.
… -isshot-
Where
the hell did this come from? Eek.
Ahaha. Angst-fest! Honestly, I debated sharing this piece at all since it's so angsty, but I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. X.x Oh, I am such a hypocrite… if Takahashi does anything like this, I will boycott the manga. Here's to what should NOT happen to Miroku! XD
Okay,
I'm running away now… -opens mouth, inserts foot-