Who
am I to save you,
To try and tame you,
And now that you are
free of me?
Instead he spread his own arms wide open, embracing the coldness spreading around him. His eyes focused on her, steadied on her face twisting in a sudden anger, distorting her angelic features into that of a monstrous demon. She didn't look the same...
Her black wings folded behind her, her arms dropping to her side, her long fingers curling into fists. She began to walk towards him, taking long easy strides, her hips moving sinuously as she moved. "So you will die without a fight? That's a first, Inuyasha."
"I'm sorry Kagome. This is all my fault," he replied sadly, bracing himself for her attack. If only he had opened his damn eyes to see that pain that he caused her, this would never have happened. There was just something that he could do to get her back…but how could he purify the tainted? How could he change black to white? What could reach through the darkness to her and pull her back…Well, of course light…but what is Kagome's light?
She didn't answer him. She just stalked towards him, her hand drawn behind her as long black talons stretched from her fingers. He watched her intently, his mind racing towards some kind of solution to fix this. But none popped up…was death his only option to bring her back?
Kagome attacked.
So
who was I to hurt you,
To desert you,
When you needed me
there,
So now that you've learned to hate me,
You're finally
set free
A muffled cry. Black feathers scattered.
Inuyasha held Kagome tight in his arms, as he once did with Kikyo. He couldn't even lie to himself who felt better against him…but he really wished he could get another chance without her claws stabbing his heart. At first, she struggled against his hold, but he refused to let go. He held her head against his chest, as he whispered into her ear, "I'm sorry Kagome…I was so caught up with my goal to become stronger, to become a full demon, I didn't realize what you wanted of me…"
Her body began to shiver against his. "Inu….yasha."
He tightened his grip, fighting back the blood crawling up his throat, the sudden dizziness clouding his mind, and the fogginess blinding him. "I saw what it was like to become a full demon, Kagome. I saw the power, I saw the strength…but I didn't see you…and I hated it."
Her body convulsed, violently, as the black feathers of her wings began to shed off; little by little they began to drop and sail to the ground revealing the black skeletal frame of the wings. "Inuyasha!"
"Come back to me…Ka…go…me."
"Inuyasha!" Was all that he could hear, her voice fading with his vision, as he fell away from her, his heart beat fading, as he fell back into darkness.
And
I'm breathing slowly,
Like you said to do when you had lost
control,
My head spins from God's wind,
That carries you away
from me,
Looks like you got away from me,
This time,
For
good...