Title: No Words

Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome

Challenge /Inspiration: I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep and there are no words for that.

Notes: It's Inuyasha speaking, thinking what he doesn't have the words in his mouth to say, what he can only think and never express.

"When I look at you, it's as if the whole world melts away, and I'm left with just you. Your eyes, your lips, your hair, your voice. You are all that matters, everything in this place that I long for and desire.

You are lit by eternal sunshine, lit from within. It's in every strand of your hair, every fleck in your eyes, your very skin glimmers with it. A smile form you lights up the forest. You are beautiful, beautiful like rain, like a misty mountain, like a grey day.

I can't describe how much I feel for you. I want to wake up every day by your side, I want to spend every day with you, I want to go to sleep knowing you're there and will always be there. I want to look into a child's face and see you in it, and see me. You are in my heart and my mind. A reflection of you lives in me.

I've memorized your scent, your stride, your knock, your expressions, even your lies. Your happinesses and sadnesses are mine.

It is simple. You are in every part of me, in the bark I rest my head against, in the word I chop, in the forests I trek, in the house I love, in the time I live, in the quest I follow.

I love you.

I love you simply because I know no other way to love you, and I describe you complexly because I know no other way to describe you."