Title: Old Age
is Irrelevant
Genre: Drama/Introspective
Rating:
PG
Word Count: 228
Characters/Pairings: Kaede --
Inuyasha implied
Old Age is Irrelevant
Her back still aches every morning, and when she sees her sister's dying face in her mind, her eye twinges in pain – resonating with memory of years gone by.
Sighing, Kaede admits humbly that she is old. Her life is not wasted, and many more years could follow today if she keeps herself healthy – if she ignores the pains of memory and fading years.
She stretches her old muscles and feels the pops of tired bones, but her heart still beats and her eyes still well up with tears – her veins still rush with heat at the thought of a man.
Old age means really nothing – it does not remove her from what she is. And while she is old and memory stacks upon memory, culminating in the form of wisdom, she is still a woman – not even time can take that away.
"Kaede, are you alright?" he asks her, the silver haired boy she used to watch and dream about in the forbidden forest so long ago. His silver hair and red clothes ignites more than memory, but she smiles anyway and nods her head to reassure him.
Years and years go by – weighing down the flesh on her face. She may be aged, she may be tired and past her prime, but Kaede is still a woman with desires.
And desires are, Kaede thinks, purely eternal.