Is this… the End?

Fanfic by FallenPandemonium

Inuyasha cried in pain. His struggles came weaker and weaker as he lacked his strength, needle-like roots cutting him and drawing his blood. He now cursed the idea of leaving Kagome to Kaede's. Especially this night, when there was a new moon.

Inuyasha was in halfway turning to his weak human form. His eyes were already violet, his ears were pointed and in his hair were some black splotches.

"Dammit this cursed human in me!" Inuyasha groaned. He tried to break away from the branches time after time, he didn't care when the roots ripped his kimono and flesh. Soon he was drenched with his own blood. He collapsed to rest down on the branches, panting heavily with pain.

Is this gonna be… the end? he thought. Is my destiny to die… alone? Without anyone being by my side?

Suddenly, image of a girl who he knew very well, appeared in front of his blurry eyes.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha whispered.

"Can you forgive… me?

"But I don't want… to die here, separated of… Kagome… At least I want to be with her when… when I… die…"

His transforming to human was now complete. He watched his ebony hair for a moment, then closed his eyes.

If it's meant to be this way, he thought, I can't deny it.

He sighed heavily.

I'm a hanyou, I'm not a human, nor a youkai. I don't belong anywhere, so I have to end up… alone.

He wavered when this agonizing thought reached his mind. A tiny, lone tear rolled down his cheek. He felt strange, fuzzy, when he realized that he was dying.

"Kagome…" he whispered, and fainted dead away. He didn't see, nor hear, a dark haired girl running towards him, crying out his name.

Owari

Note: I do not own the characters of this tale, they all belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

P.S. I'll write more… If I have time to.