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Chapter Three: Under the Sakura.

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, the great Takahashi-sensei does n.n

A/N: I'm sorry I haven't updated, I've been busy with school and stuff.. I so want to finish GED's and just be done with it.

Here he was underneath the same spot where she had smiled at him with a hint of sorrow hidden within it. A trace of guilt had coursed through his soul at that very moment, he wanted to desperately protect her. Here he was now with his thoughts, and his anger of a certain half-demon.

Naraku.

He had thrown Kikyou, his lover from the past, so long ago, yet so previously also it seemed. Her body hadn't been recovered yet still here he was grieving and remembering, who was he at the moment?

"Kikyou.." The single name of a bellflower escaped his lips, as his ocher eyes held sorrow, regret as well as a hue of anger. Pressing his body against a tree, the petals touching down in a light dance from the branches in a swirl of pink they tickled his ears. It annoyed him the same way it had fifty years.

Mind beginning to drift he thought back to after that moment in the Sakura another day with Kikyou..

"InuYasha.." A voice that even angels would envy he was sure of reached his ears, they twitched as he turned. Kikyou was standing there in her usual attire of a village priestess. Her miko way, a blush apparent on her face.

Walking to her, the grass slightly moist with dew from the night before he smiled, his angled ears upon his crown twitching to show his happiness as he grabbed her in an embrace. Guiding her into a kiss, touching his lips upon hers in a shy kiss, raven tendrils reached upon his shoulder from the woman he held in his arms.

"KIkyou.." He tore his lips from her own and stared into her eyes with a smile upon his countenance, she accepted him even though he was hanyou. "I.. love you.. I want you with me every moment!" He finally confessed his feelings, though he had only been following her and talking to her occasionally, she blushed. The thought of having someone by her side was a nice prospect, especially for a woman who was to remain pure to fight the likes of evil.

"InuYasha.." Kikyou paused, her head tilted to the side, mahogany orbs looking to the ground. Almost as if searching for an answer. "InuYasha.." her voice sounded again, lightly still sounding like a chorus of angels or cherubs to the hanyou before her embrace. "I would like nothing more than to hold you near.." She smiled and pressed her head against his shoulder, before capturing his lips in a kiss. This sealed a promise between the two.

InuYasha took one last look around at the swirling petals, his Kikyou had died, was it possible.. She gave him a reason to live though. To avenge. Naraku would die surely in her name..

Walking away he smiled sadly at the exact same place that they had made a pact of love. "Kikyou.." These were his last words.

Next up:

Wind. Kagura's turn.