Author Notes: First of all, I really can't believe that I managed to finish this story. There is yet to come the epilogue and a short story relating Kaede's life with Inuyasha, Miroku, Sesshomaru and Kouga. I really really love this story and I want to thank all the readers, and everyone that lent me a review even if it was only one time. I had troubles during my life while translating this story and it was a difficult task, but I managed to finish it. Here it is. I hope you like it, I hope you enjoy the epilogue and again, thank you for being there, at the other side of the monitor reading this. This was a new challenge for me and I think I managed to pass it. For above all, thank you so much PandaStarz for your unconditional help being my beta-reader during the whole story. Thanks!
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Thanks to: My beta reader, PandaStarz, for her wonderful work on this chapter.
Slavery.
Author: MikoAucarod
Chapter 22: The key.
The only thing he was capable of feeling at that moment was pain in every single one of his cells.
Physical and emotional pain.
But pain… pain was good, right?
It wasn't of interest what had happened, his mind didn't want to work anymore. He just… he just wanted to be conscious enough to feel that light touch on his hand, almost like a breeze. Was it a ghost? Was someone's spirit keeping him company in the afterlife? Was someone with him at that moment?
It had to be. There wasn't any other explanation. Around him he could hear screams, thuds, more pain. The sound of sirens? What a pitchy sound. Blood, tears, yells, more thuds, everything was so confusing, if only he could open his eyes… damn, if only he could remember the last seconds…
Seconds… seconds that had been eternal to him, it hadn't mattered to him anymore what Naraku was doing or the seven warriors whatsoever. He didn't even care for the rest of the people inside that room.
If only he could react, but the pain was so intense…
But it was good…
Because it meant that there was life running inside of him.
Inuyasha felt his skin get colder when he stared at Naraku's gun, which was pointing directly at his head… no… damn it all! It was aiming at his shackle. Naraku was intending to kill him right there and get rid of all his problems.
He was conscious of the trigger sound. He detected the thunderous sound of the gunshot followed almost instantly by Kagome's scream.
He saw the bullet and he didn't want to die. He couldn't! Why the hell did he feel like a coward at the last second?
He looked at Kagome and ignored everything else. It all happened in just fractions of a second, but it didn't matter; the time was insignificant as long as he could contemplate her eyes. That calmed him down. Her vision would always be perfect. Damn, there were so many things that he wanted to tell her, so much he wanted to apologize for, he wanted to say that he lov-
The bullet made contact with the stone and shattered it. The sight in front of Inuyasha disappeared and instead of looking at Kagome's eyes, he was now in total darkness.
The young half-demon fell onto his knees and punched the floor; he was furious and completely desperate. He couldn't feel his wounds anymore and neither felt weak or dizzy. That was it. He was dead. Naraku had won, Goddamn it! Damn it all!
What was going to happen with Kagome and Kikyo? The boys! What if they were killed too?
Inuyasha sat and flexed his knees, hiding his face between them. He hated that period of fifteen seconds.
It was already the third time he had been in that place. It was frustrating to be in that place, where there was nothing more than darkness and echoes of voices, some like whispers, and other ones closer to him making him remember over and over again every single one of the orders he had received and bee forced to obey during his entire existence as a Slave.
Every single one of them.
Since Tsubaki, until her former owner, Kaede. That's what had happened the last time, when he had killed himself near theforestofKagome's house.
Hundreds of voices. Thousands… millions of orders were drilling his head. Was this some kind of punishment for being a Slave? Did everyone else experience this too when they died? Because if it was something 'special' because he was a half-demon he swore that-
"Honestly, Inuyasha. Of all the Slaves I have met, you're the only one strange enough to not want to do anything while being in here."
The hanyou stood up when he heard that voice. It was completely different than the other ones he was hearing and looked around him. Only then did he notice that in the middle of the darkness, small fragments of crystal, thousands, maybe millions of small pieces of crystal were floating all over the place, hovering over his head.
It reminded him of those places of entertainment, the planetariums where you could supposedly walk among the stars of the sky…
'Why am I remembering nonsense stuff like that in a moment like this?'
"This isn't nonsense, my dear. Those are the things that everyone cherishes inside themselves."
Inuyasha looked at his left and there it was the origin of the voice. A tall woman, with long and silver hair and stripes on her cheeks, almost identical to Sesshomaru's, was standing near him, watching him with a small smile on her face.
"Who are you?" Inuyasha asked. Was this what happened when he over passed the fifteen seconds period? Because he was sure that that amount of time had already passed.
"Believe me. That's the last thing you could ever be interested in knowing. The question here is: why aren't you watching your orders?"
Inuyasha frowned and stared at her, not understanding at all. He could hear the echoes but… watch them?
"The crystals, my dear," she continued patiently.
Inuyasha looked above his head. There was a small crystal floating just above him at that moment so he reached his hand and, very carefully, took it.
He was surprised when he looked at it. It was like some kind of mirror's fragment because he didn't look at his reflection in the crystal, but a memory of himself. There he was, standing in front of Tsubaki and grinning cruelly, staring at the witch in front of him that seemed desperate for something. She was yelling over and over again the same order.
"I command you! I order you to love me!"
He remembered that order clearly. It had been one of the first ones – if not the first one – that she had given to him and at the same time it was one of the few – and he was grateful for that – he couldn't obey.
"I'm ordering you, love me Inuyasha!" she was furious and looked a bit shocked.
"I already told you I can't do it," he said, observing with great pleasure how she took her hair and began to move her hands around her head, completely desperate.
Inuyasha felt weird, this was similar to watch in the TV a movie where he was the protagonist.
'Hold on… if this works like this then…'
Inuyasha let go the crystal which floated again to its original location above his head. Then, the half demon began to run through all that darkness, searching between the crystals. He randomly took one, stared at it for a couple of seconds and then released it too to continue with his search.
"Hey! Take it easy, my boy. Time in here flows in a different way, you can stare without any hurry at your orders to see if one can help you. But-" the woman looked around her. There were millions of crystals floating. Poor creature. "Are you sure you want to try this? I don't want you to get depressed if you don't find what you're looking for. We can leave right now if you want."
Inuyasha observed her, not understanding anything she was saying. One order that could help him? What was she talking about? He only wanted to find one of Kagome's orders to be able to watch her in that place. If he was already dead and had to spend an eternity in that place, at least he wanted to have a memory of her.
They looked at each other with an expression that clearly indicated that they didn't know what the other was doing.
Ah?
Inuyasha stopped his search and walked towards her.
"What do you mean with 'one that can help me'? I only wanted a fragment from Kagome to remember her."
The woman stared at him with surprise. What was he? An idiot? She had had cases of Slaves that as soon as they entered this zone immediately knew what they were looking for, yet they could never find it. But… well, the last Slave that had done that had been there almost 1,000 years ago.
"You have no idea of why you are here, do you?" she finally spoke, noticing how Inuyasha had gone back to his task and was taking crystals randomly.
"I was killed and the fifteen seconds had already passed, so I know I'm dead," he spoke, hurt, but at the same time he felt lighter, it wasn't a worry anymore. Well… it was but he couldn't do anything now, right? ... Right?
Inuyasha stopped in his tracks and looked again at the lady that was pressing her hands against her temple and murmuring nonstop.
"That explains why they came already ready to part! Inuyasha, you really are an idiot!"
"Hey!"
"All right, all right. Let's see…" She straightened herself and went to Inuyasha and then, placing her hands on his shoulders, she looked him straight in the eyes. "Listen very closely. This is something that you could call a 'limbo'. Does that small head of yours understand that concept?"
"What the hell does that-? Am I dead or not?"
She sighed and patted Inuyasha's head, making him growl with a small pout. He wasn't a kid!
"It's hard to explain… mmm…" Inuyasha observed her walk around him, meditating. "Well I could tell you why I'm here but- no that's not of interest and this place is so ancient… well first things first."
She finally stopped her walk and took a crystal, with a nod of his head, she told Inuyasha to come with her.
"Look at this. He was one of your owners, wasn't he?"
Inuyasha looked through the crystal resting on the youkai's hand – he reached that conclusion, she had to be a youkai. Her resemblance with Sesshomaru was almost frightening! – And nodded his head.
He was staring at Tsubaki's father.
"You see, Slave, my daughter Tsubaki is dead. I don't require your services and I don't want you near my lands, so from now on you'll obey this man." He spoke coldly and harshly, signaling a merchant standing near him."
This is from when Tsubaki's father told me that she had died and he sold me to another owner," Inuyasha explained, at the same time he looked at the lady at his side. "What does this have to do with anything?"
"That was the order you received and what was your answer at that moment?"
"As you order, master," spoke the Inuyasha inside the mirror.
"I don't want to ever again obey that filthy pig," was the simultaneous answer from the real Inuyasha.
The half-demon inside the mirror crossed his arms inside his haori and began to walk behind the merchant, after he had given the landowner a quantity of gold. That day he had begun to change owners.
Meanwhile, the real Inuyasha was staring at his hands with intrigue. He had heard that order and it had felt so real, as if he had been commanded it again. That's why he had gone against it, almost involuntarily. But he wasn't suffering, and he wasn't feeling any pain coming from the shackle. This was confusing.
"I can see you don't have any trouble thinking that you don't have to obey the order, because truth be told, you don't have to."
Inuyasha stared at her, not understanding.
"The goal of this place," she said, "is to allow you to see one and every order you were given and allow you to contradict it. This is to see if you can find some order that, when you contradict it, can take you back to the world of living. It has never happened before, sadly. But that's why I'm here, if you know that there's no hope, we can simply go to the afterlife right now."
Inuyasha's head was spinning. He felt dizzy from all that information that he didn't really feel was important.
'The hell, I can't even think straight.'
"You mean that… if I find an order that I decide to contradict and it helps me go back, I can do it?"
"Basically, yes. But you must understand that in millennia no one has ever managed to return to the world of living. Sometimes they find something that seems will help, but it doesn't completely help them."
"Then what order should I search for?"
"I don't know, no one has ever found it." She smiled with sadness and sorry.
Inuyasha looked again towards the crystals, thinking on something that could help him. Maybe if he listened to every single order he could find a clue but… there were so many…
He was sure that none of his earlier owners had ever ordered something that could help him to survive. Everyone had been selfish or only ordered him to go and fight or not kill someone else.
Kaede had been different but despite not being selfish her orders usually were something like "don't run", "take care of me", "don't yell", "bring this", "go for that"… and her parents had ordered him to clean the house and garden… no, nothing of that was of help.
Maybe Kagome… but where were her crystals?
"Do you have any owner in mind?" the woman asked. "I can help you organize all this. You've been through so much, my dear."
Inuyasha decided to ignore that last comment.
"Can I see only Kagome's crystals? She was my last owner." The lady smiled and extended her arms, and the next instant almost all of the crystals disappeared, and only a few remained.
They floated in a group and Inuyasha ran towards them, checking them all one by one. On one hand, he was hoping this could work, on the other hand at least he was able to see her again… even if it was only in his memories…
"Inuyasha…" she said nervously. "Please, take Shippo to the market's entrance, my mother should be waiting for us at that place…"
"Inuyasha. Don't stay behind," called Kagome, waking the man up from his shock.
"Don't you dare compare me with that girl!"
"Sit boy!"
How could he forget that? He remembered clearly how things were at that time. Not even three hours being her Slave and he was treating her so badly… it wasn't an excuse, but he was hurt, and not even Kaede had managed to make him get over his own memories.
"You can do whatever you want, whenever you want, as long as you want and wherever you want, only if you promise never to abandon us, never do anything crazy or anything wrong and over all never do something that can hurt you or can cost you any kind of damage."
"And I can tell that you would not stand it to be locked up the whole day, so you can explore this wood as much as you want, even if you want to travel for a time in it and do something for you, I won't deny it, but please just keep us informed, either my mom or me. We only care for you. We just want you to be happy."
Of course he never did it. Only the time when he wanted to flee from her because of her father. He had learned that not everything was so bad after all and this was indeed a new chance of 'life' so to speak. Kagome had quickly found the path towards him and had found his barriers, breaking them all, one by one.
"This is a gift that I want to give you. It's from me to you. You will accept it because you will accept it," she said, not really knowing what else to say.
"I dare you," she answered, half-awake, in a challenging tone.
"Let Inuyasha do it!"
"Is there something about Kikyo that you should tell me?"
"Are you sure that nothing else has happened with Kikyo before this? You two haven't been laughing behind my back? Is there something going on that I should know about?"
"Are you all right? She didn't do anything to hurt you, did she?"
"Did you like her kiss?"
"How did you know where I was?"
He remembered that moment, he had hurt her and yet she had been able to trust him. And then he knew that he loved her. He didn't want to see her sad or suffering. He wanted her to be always smiling and full of energy. He wanted her to feel as good as he ever felt when he was by her side.
"Don't even think about breaking it, Inuyasha. These things are too expensive. I can't be spending money like that. We have to see to our future."
"If there's no way to get out of here before it gets dark, sit on the blanket while the ride stops. That way none of the blood will stain the floor."
"Don't push yourself, Inuyasha."
"You can't do this to me, Inuyasha… You can't do this to me!"
"Inuyasha, you don't have to shout."
"Shut up." Kagome's voice sounded cold and clearly offended.
"Don't go."
That was Kagome. His sweet Kagome. She was so changing, she could be angry, grumpy, inquisitive, bossy… but she was sincere, cheerful and she was always seeking the good in her friends. She was someone that would never stop surprising him.
"What are you talking about, Inuyasha? I just want to talk. It was all so sudden… what happened? Why did you decide to leave so suddenly? Are you hiding something from me? Are you all right?"
"The truth doesn't kill, Inuyasha." She shook her head with shame but she needed to know. She needed to know what was happening with him. "Is that the reason you left?" she asked cautiously. "And I imagine it has something to do with me… Is it something bad or something I should worry about? Were you the one who hurt him or who attempted to do him harm? Did you know it at the moment? Did you know that would happen?"
"Give him back." Kagome's voice trembled with anger. "I order you to give me back my father!" Despite the tone of voice, she barely spoke above a whisper. But she was angry and out of control.
"Then I order you to die."
"Do it."
"Don't go! I'm sorry!" gasped Kagome, between sobs, looking almost pleading. Inuyasha looked at her, surprised and with a deep, profound relief in his heart. Kagome didn't hate him. "I didn't mean it- I… I don't know what I was thinking. I- I just… you- you won't hurt yourself, right?" She continued sobbing at the same time she stood up, helped by Kikyo. "Don't listen that order, I don't want you to die- I…"
"Then don't go," was the final order from Kagome, who freed herself from Kikyo's embrace and got near Inuyasha.
That moment had been really hard for both of them. They were both miserable with a past in common. And she had told him to die! But then she had retracted it. It was then when they could start all over again. They learned to get over the past together.
"It isn't humiliating to release your suffering. You told me to not drown myself in my own suffering, don't force yourself to do the same thing; don't hold in your suffering anymore. Here I am."
"Inuyasha, don't be rude."
"Don't be exaggerated Inuyasha, he just wanted to chat with us for a while. Actually, you were the ones being rude to him."
"Why would it have to matter to you, Inuyasha?"
"May I know what you are doing with my blanket in this place? At this hour of night?" she said, annoyed, while taking back the object from Inuyasha. "I swear it, Inuyasha you've been acting really weird the entire day."
"Let him go! Inuyasha, let go Hojou at this moment! Inuyasha!"
"Inuyasha, don't apologize. I shouldn't have ordered…" Kagome interrupted the hanyou and then she lowered her head, with her eyes still closed.
Even if that encounter with Hojou had taken him near to death, it had been the same Kagome who had taken care of him and waited for him to recover. She was always taking care of him… since the beginning it had been that way.
"Don't even think about it, Inuyasha!" she scolded, sending him an angry glare.
"That's the point, Inuyasha," said Kagome, resuming her work. "If we want to go out, nobody can recognize us, we don't know if Naraku has spies around the city, what if he discovers that we're still alive? We'll pretend to be Lady Kaede's nephews and nieces and we will be able to go to the cemetery without any problems… Mom may be overreacting with all this but it never hurts. Now, stay still."
Even during the hard times, when they were hiding, she managed to always keep her smile, she was trying to keep going with life as calmly as possible… it was curious how every single order from her had never been something so important… they were more like petitions that everybody made once in a while.
"In-Inuyasha… don-don't move," whispered the girl while closing her eyes with pain. Then she heard thuds and groans from Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha… you mu-must obey… obey every-everything that N-Naraku and his minions tell you to do."
"Don't talk like this is the last time we'll see each other…"
"Don't ask impossible things, Inuyasha," she sobbed.
"Inuyasha, calm down. I'm here. We'll get out of this."
"Dammit! Let go of me! Inuyasha- Inuyasha you can move!"
Inuyasha let go the last fragment of crystal and looked towards the lady that had been with him during all that time at his side.
"There's something I remember that my mother always said about me, when I was a pup." spoke Inuyasha, smiling with a calm face.
The woman smiled at the same time, she didn't need any explanation, she had seen all of the orders and she was very grateful that that girl was so impulsive. This had to work.
Inuyasha took one of the fragments again and pressed it inside his hand, reviving Kagome's order.
"Then I order you to die."
"I'm sorry if I disappoint you, Kagome. But I will not die."
"Do it."
"It doesn't matter if you insist. I won't."
"Don't go! I'm sorry!" gasped Kagome, between sobs, looking almost pleading. Inuyasha looked at her, surprised and with a deep, profound relief in his heart. Kagome didn't hate him. "I didn't mean it- I… I don't know what I was thinking. I- I just… you- you won't hurt yourself, right?" She continued sobbing at the same time she stood up, being helped by Kikyo. "Don't listen that order, I don't want you to die- I…"
"Oh, believe me Kagome. I will listen to whatever I want. It's my choice. And I choose to go back. I never did anything to hurt myself. It wasn't for me. I didn't want to die when Naraku shot me. Everything will be all right, Kagome. I'm coming back."
The fragment of crystal began to glow and Inuyasha felt tired and hurt. He had forgotten of the injuries that Naraku and the seven warriors had made.
Despite the pain, he felt happy. It was the proof that he needed to know that he was going back. He looked at the lady one last time, with a small smile on his face.
"My mother used to say that I was a very determined and disobedient pup. She never had so much right." Those were his last words at that place.
The sight of the darkness and the woman disappeared and instead he was looking at a wall. He felt his entire body hurting, aching and numb. His muscles and bones were crying in agony, but at the same time he had so much strength and adrenaline. There wasn't any time. He knew now that he didn't have any more time to spare.
Not even thinking now, Inuyasha stood up, turned over his heels and ignored all the blood that began to pour from his injuries again and the pain that shot all over his body.
He extended his claws and looked towards the only one responsible for all of this.
It all happened in less than a second.
His claws went through Naraku's chest, which let his arm down and shoot towards the floor, releasing an agonized scream.
Inuyasha didn't stop because Naraku was a human, he didn't feel his strength weakened because he wanted to hurt a human. There wasn't any pain coming from the shackle because he had just gone against one of his former owner's order. There was nothing to prevent him from doing justice.
He gave him an instant death.
Inuyasha removed his hand from Naraku's body, making his blood splash slightly onto Kagome's body, who was on the floor next to him.
His enemy fell towards the floor with a thud that echoed in the silent room.
Yells of triumph from Kikyo, Kouga and Sesshomaru were heard and at the same time, the seven warriors yelled in disbelief and despair.
How the hell had that been possible? Why was Inuyasha still there?
Both youkai took the opportunity and got free from their imprisonment. After the shock, the seven warriors tried to regain control.
The adrenaline running inside Inuyasha made him faster than them. In a matter of seconds, the seven of them had their shackles loose.
Kagome looked up and observed Inuyasha, standing alive in front of her, he was hurt, he was tired, but he was alive. It seemed that he would pass out at any moment, but there he was… Inuyasha was alive!
Fifteen seconds passed and none of the warriors stood up from where they had fallen. Only then did Inuyasha manage to breathe in relief.
It was all over.
It was then when the adrenaline and strength abandoned him.
His legs couldn't stand his own weight and he fell backwards. Kagome managed to catch him before he hit the floor and kneeled beside him.
The only thing Inuyasha was capable to feel at that moment was pain in every single one of his cells.
Physical and emotional pain.
But pain… pain was good, right?
It was Kikyo the first one to react and, with Sesshomaru's help, went out to look for help, a phone, a cop, an ambulance, anything!
Kagome was half-calling, half-screaming at Inuyasha, who had apparently passed out. She took his hand between hers and began to rub her thumb finger against it, as she always did.
Kouga, after make sure that the injuries in his legs weren't life-threatening, began to group the warriors' bodies and Naraku, throwing them against one of the walls, not caring to have respect or be careful with them. He just wanted to have more space for them.
"Kouga, please help me. I hear sirens. I think Kikyo managed to get someone, we must get them down," she spoke signaling Miroku, who was also unconscious. "They need immediate treatment."
Inuyasha was alive. How? They didn't know. The only thing they needed to know at that moment was that he needed to receive treatment on his injuries at that very instant.
Inuyasha was breathing hard and forcefully, wanting to capture air no matter what. He complained and grunted while moving him because of his injuries, but that was good.
Because it meant that there was life running inside of him.
He opened his eyes and it took a moment for him to realize where he was.
He observed the white ceiling, a constant beep was hurting his ears and Kagome's soft breathing could be heard beside him.
It was a hospital room… he was in a hospital.
Inuyasha tried to move but it was impossible. His body was almost completely covered with bandages and there was plaster around his chest, both legs and right arm. He had a pair of needles stuck in his left arm and a bandage on his head. A patch on his right cheek completed the picture.
And he had never felt better before in his life.
"Hi," he heard Kagome's soft voice and observed her at his left. There she was, sitting on a near chair with a magazine on her lap. "How do you feel?"
"More alive than ever," his voice came thick and he realized that his lips were all parted. "How long-?"
"It took three days to stabilize you. You had lost a lot of blood and you had seriously damaged internal organs, not to mention that you had broken several ribs and your legs bones and your arm…" Kagome fell silent when she remembered how she had felt when everything had calmed down and she had realized how grave Inuyasha's situation had been. It had been almost a miracle that he had survived all of that. "After that, you spent a whole week sleeping."
"I needed a good nap," joked the half demon, causing Kagome to smile. "And the guys?" he asked, after a moment in silence. He began to remember, Naraku and the seven warriors were dead. But he recalled seeing Miroku unconscious and he was sure that he had smelled Kikyo's blood. "How's Kikyo?"
"They're all fine. Miroku recovered in a couple of days from that poison Mukotsu threw at him and Kikyo is recovering very well, she's at home. The wound in her hand will heal soon.
"How is it that a hospital accepted to treat me?" Kagome's smile grew even more.
She placed her hand on Inuyasha's neck in a soft movement and he was surprised to feel the touch of her skin directly. There wasn't any cold metal, there wasn't any shackle.
He remembered then the limbo's guardian and he began to chuckle, softly because of the pain, but soon he didn't care about that and began to laugh openly, causing Kagome to worry that he would disturb other patients or doctors.
"Inuyasha, keep quiet, be silent. Inuyasha!"
"Oh no, Kagome. Those days are over. Those days are over!" he exclaimed with joy, letting his head rest on the pillow and he relaxed his entire body. "I'm free. For the first time in five hundred years I'm free! Kagome I'm free! Hell yeah!"
The girl sighed between happy and irritated – she knew that the doctors would soon appear threatening to sedate him if he wasn't silent – but she had to admit that seeing Inuyasha so happy… seeing him with so much life inside of him, so free – as he didn't got tired of shouting – was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
There would be time in the future to speak of what had happened. There would be a moment to worry about how to deal with the other girls wanting to know how they could release their Slaves.
They would even have time to speak with her mother, eventually, to inform her that maybe in the near future she would be a grandma. Because the world was stupid if anyone believed that they wouldn't be together after all the things they have lived.
There was time to do anything. Even to go to the cinemas – they would still have to deal with the 'hanyou and not a human' thing, but he wasn't a Slave anymore.
There were no more shackles or chains. No more problems for it…
Inuyasha calmed down after a while and looked at Kagome with his eyes shining with love and pure bliss. She got closer to him and, being careful to not hurt him, placed a kiss on his forehead, making Inuyasha close his eyes and enjoy the caress. His senses were on the surface and every little thing, even that silly bee that kept hitting the window's glass, was wonderful.
Yeah, he had all the time in the world to enjoy each and every one of the little things that life was giving to him. But he was unwilling to waste any second of that time.
And he would start with a small 'order' that he was sure would make Kagome's mother shriek with excitement.
Because he wouldn't made a request. Oh no, the great Inuyasha wasn't for those delays. Kagome would be his as soon as he could leave that hospital.
Oh yes. He had already collected several ideas to get revenge for those moments when Kagome Higurashi had taken advantage of her 'powers' over him while being his owner. This time, she would know the real Inuyasha.
He would never again be the Slave of the destiny or the tricks of the time. He was now his own master and had total control in his life.
He grinned while kissing the girl calmly.
Fine, he could delay his plans for a day or two, for the time being he wanted to enjoy all of this.
And he swore that for all the sacred things in the world he would do it.
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Final Author Notes:
And this is it. I finished, I can't believe it, when I first wrote the story in Spanish I was totally lost at how to end it and then I said to myself that I should let it flow and enjoy it, since there's only one finale for every story and only one finale to write. And I enjoyed it. I was crying while writing the original author notes because this was the first story that filled me so much, it is a story that's very important to me and I couldn't believe at that time that it had finally been finished. But there's still the epilogue to come and a small extra. Some people didn't like what I did with this ending, claiming that it had been 'very Disney-style' but anyway this is what I wrote, this is what I felt when I wrote the original story and that's how it'll stay.
Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed Slavery at any point of it ^^ I love reading all your comments and it was really fun to do this. I'm not sure when I will publish another story in English, maybe I'll translate my one-shots and stuff like that, but it's not sure, it all depends on my time and mood LOL but it'll always be something that will help me to practice English =)
Anyway, thanks for all your support, see you in the epilogue! ^^