Title: And Here I Sleep
Theme: Inuyasha; Set #1 Theme #2- Dream
Genre: General, Angst?
Characters: Inuyasha
Word Count: 250
Rating: General
Summary: Introspective- Inuyasha's mind while pinned to Goshinbuko
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'If you're sleeping, are you dreaming/ If you're dreaming, are you dreaming of me?' -the song Calling You, by Blue October
I can see her clear as day, the picture of her the last time I saw her burned into my mind's eye. Her hair is blowing in the wind, her eyes burning with a deep fire, and hatred- hatred aimed at me. My chest stings, and I know it's not because of an arrow.
There are so many memories I have of her that are a part of me- some of the happiest memories I have. But as time flows on around me, those memories, the good and the bad, fade into the darkness, and I continue on into time.
More images come to mind- a child, a woman, an older brother. My memory is getting fuzzy now, and I can't so much tell you who these people are as know that they are- were?- important to me.
Slowly, dreamily, I slip backwards, images dredged up from a childhood I would prefer not to remember. Sticks and stones never harmed me, for I could dodge them most of the time, but I preferred them over the words that were tossed at me- before I was even old enough to know what they meant.
Back further, they aren't even full memories- just fragments of what I do remember; my mother smiling at me, the way she smelled, the remedies she would fix when I was sick, the sad look she would get on her face sometimes.
The last thing that registers before I wake is that something is tickling my ears.