Title: No longer needed
Author: Angelicatt
Theme: Crutch
Genre: Hurt/Friendship
Rating: K+ (Mild Language)
Word Count: 200
Summary: Continued from ~ 40: Interlude: InuYasha laments on the loss of the 'most important' person in his life.
A/N: Originally posted on LJ 3/25/2010
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but my cracked imagination
InuYasha lay awkwardly on a branch of one of the giant maple trees on the outskirts of the camp, restlessly thinking over the possibility that Kagome had 'finally' given up on him and moved on to his brother.
She certainly had more in common with the elder inu and said daiyoukai seemed to genuinely appreciate her presence and the daily interactions that they participated in. She smiled more, she focused better, and some how over the course of the year that Sesshoumaru had joined up with them, she had become more adept with both her miko powers and archery. It was almost as if she didn't need him anymore.
It bothered InuYasha to think that he was no longer her crutch, not that he really ever was, he just always treated her as if she was totally dependent on him. Kagome was anything but worthless and it was finally hitting him that he had been treating her worse than crap for the longest while; even before Kikyou had departed again. He was losing the best thing going in his life, maybe already had.
"Shit! What have I done? What am I going to do? I pushed her away." He groaned.