Fool
nuyasha thinks his brother a fool for not taking what is so freely offered. For not taking Kiare's love when it is given, for not enjoying what would come with it. Namely, Inuyasha admits to himself, her body. She has a fairly nice one, and, even though he loves Kagome, and he's waiting until he can see her again, he has found himself admiring Kiare's legs.
It is, he assures himself, pretty much a guy thing to do.
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Sesshomaru thinks his younger brother a fool, for not seeing and understanding why Sesshomaru has not accepted Kiare's love, why he has not taken her to his bed. His reason is simple, and he figures even Inuyasha should be able to understand it.
He does not love her. And since he does not, he has nothing to grant her in return, and so does nothing.
He shares his home with her, grants her protection when she needs it, allows her to come and go as she pleases. She is a restless creature, seeming to always be on the move, and it would pain them both to cage her. He does not admit to anyone, rarely even to himself, how, every time she leaves, he fears she won't return.
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Kiare thinks herself a fool, for falling in love with him to begin with. It is not pure, she thinks, but is insteda a tainted thing, made so by her bitterness, and she does not wonder why he does not want her.
She has done little to aid him, she thinks, although she knows Sesshomaru would disagree in his cool, even voice. She knows he values her companionship, because they have traveled together, and then shared a home, for nearly four hundred years, and there are things he remembers that only she understands.
He calls her a friend, which is a title he bestows upon very few, and none other in their immediate circle of acquainances. She is happy with this, content that he sees her this way. She just wished it didn't hurt every time he said she was his friend, with an inflection that stated she was nothing more.
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