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Lyrics listed in this chapter are from Rascal Flats..I'm Movin'On...A wonderful song...
Three Days ch6
I'm Movin' On...
Two Days later found Kagome headed out to ride. Dawn surrounded the apartment complex, and with one look over her shoulder she found Inuyasha standing before the glass doors of the patio watching as she made her way through the parking lot. She knew he'd be up once he heard the door to his apartment open, and while she'd done everything she could she still wasn't able to sneak past her ever watchful guardian. She'd stayed with him as her apartment still hadn't been finished from their water break a few mornings ago, but he didn't mind, and truth be told, she didn't either. Her mind had been a jumbled mess since that morning as she simply wasn't sure what she was feeling anymore...but ever present at the top of her list...was Inuyasha...
He seemed to know her intent as she grabbed her motorcycle helmet from the table by his door, and with only a soft explanation she made her way to the cycle that waited for her in the parking lot...She'd missed the freedom she felt when riding at full throttle down the endless miles of black top that served as her thinking grounds...
There was something about the thrill of the landscape racing past her in a haze of blurred images that seemed to help solidify her mind into the thoughts that would come unbidden in the dead of night leaving her tossing and turning until only the thrill of a fast ride and the open road seemed a worthwhile remedy.
Her bike beckoned her, its high gloss cherry red paint shining along side the endless chrome piping that almost begged her to make them roar to life..it offered her the one thing she needed...freedom...
And with a turn of her key she was off. Speed...the sheer exhilaration it gave her...the way her heart sped up as she leaned into the turns, the way her body instinctively hunched a little lower as she opened up the power of the engine beneath her. Red and silver caught the edge of her vision, made her want to let go of the handle bars to spread her arms out to either side, made her legs grip slightly tighter to the bike that roared beneath her...made her try to grasp the memory that always seemed to skirt just out of reach...something red and silver ...but it was not to be as the memory slipped through her fingertips yet again, plus one simply didn't do something as dangerous as letting go of the steering of a motorcycle while speeding down the street...
She reached to switch the power on to the mini CD player that lay strapped to her waist, and once hitting the random button she leaned forward again and opening the throttle she allowed the bike to take her where it would...she was just along for the ride...
Some time later found her in her old hometown. She hadn't been here since she'd left a year ago.
The music in her headphones died away, the CD player switching over to the FM station once the last track had finished..
She realized with a start just where she'd wound up.
There before her sat her old house. Its weathered red brick triggering a memory she had long since buried. She saw herself running away from Hojo, the man she'd married, her laughter drifting along the breeze as he managed to tackle her into a pile of freshly raked leaves. She'd been so happy then...so in love...but like a homemade picture show the images raced through her mind again until coming to rest upon her image in the mirror...
She sat broken and bleeding before it, her mind bringing back each painful event of that horrible night so long ago. But she didn't cry this time...merely watched as the frozen images of a life she'd once had flickered past her...and it was okay...it was finally okay...
Faintly her jumbled mind picked up the words of a song she'd never heard before. The soft sounds of a piano and violin caressed her ears...as the richness of the singer's voice filled her head...
I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I'm at peace with myself
I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long...
I'm movin' on...
In her minds eye she watched as the neighbors gathered around as her husband was taken away. Each face filled with shock and sadness, yet each one staring the same way at her as she made her way from the house to the ambulance that had been summoned to carry her away...
I've lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they're always the same
They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it
They'll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong
I'm movin' on...
She closed her eyes for a moment before opening them and opening up the throttle once again as she pulled away from the curb and finally left the past behind her...
I'm movin' on...
Her eyes focused on the road ahead as the song continued to play softly through her headphones...
At last I can see, life has been patiently waiting for me
A picture of Inuyasha flashed through her mind, his smiling face something she'd never forget...
And I know , there's no guarantees but I'm not alone
Another image played past her mind of Inuyasha holding the door of his apartment open as he welcomed her home...
There comes a time in everyone's life
When all you can see are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind that those days are gone...
Her hand eased the throttle faster as she past the gas station that had been her last stop the day she left...her heart racing in anticipation of where she was heading...
I sold what I could, and packed what I couldn't
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town
I've loved like I should but lived like I shouldn't
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road
I'm movin' on
I'm movin' on...
I'm movin' on...
She slowed to a stop, her heart racing as he came into view.
He stood shirtless, a rake in his hand as he glanced up upon hearing the deep rumble of her motorcycle and watched as she reached to take the motorcycle helmet from her head. Her hair fell in raven silk waves around her shoulders as she studied him from the parking lot...his body glistening beneath the early afternoon sun, his silver hair spread across his shoulders and back as each strand held tight to the perfection it rested against...and suddenly she realized...she was home...He was home...
And after months and months of living her life day by day as her life past her by she finally decided that ..no more...she was moving on...those days of being alone were gone...
She was moving on...
He was her heart...He was Inuyasha...
And tonight she'd tell him...
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This idea hit me today as I was listening to this song...I highly recommend it..It truly is beautiful and if you listen to it while reading through the song through this story, it is ...can't even explain it..but I had to write this...I hope it was worth the wait, and I hope you liked it...Let me know...
Again..this song is done by Rascal Flatts...and is called Movin' On...