So sorry that it took longer than I had originally made it sound like it was going to be. While I was on vacation, my brothers' computer (that had all my years of writing, and this current story) was infected with multiple viruses. We were able to save the motherboard or whatever it's called, but lost everything that was on it. And I had to backups of the story….so, I just haven't gotten around to doing any rewriting. But since I've been bugged with phrases and paragraphs of a novel I'm thinking of writing, I thought that finishing this story would help.
Hope you enjoy reading it, and review please! Constructive criticism is always welcomed.
Clarity
Thirteen years ago.
Kagome stared at her aged reflection.
She pulled the sagging facial skin tight against bone and could see a fragment of the girl that fell down the well.
Except the part that was left was not the part she had loved about herself.
The part that still existed was the negativity.
She would ask herself question, after question, in the still of the night.
Wishing, waiting, wanting, and dreading a reply. An answer.
Why did it have to be me?
Why couldn't I have stayed there?
Why didn't he say he loved me?
Why did he have to apologize?
And that always stuck with her.
Sesshomaru, a proud noble lord, had apologized to her (a human) because of her feelings.
Her emotions.
Her fragility.
Sometimes when she stared at herself, she wished that the disease wasn't slow and painful.
But fast and violent, like ripping off a bandage, the quick pain and release.
But when the day finally came, exacting thirteen years later, she wished it had taken longer.
She still had things to do and people to meet and food to eat.
She still had her list of things to do before she died.
It would be uncompleted.
Kagome smiled though, at least her family, her loving mother and concerned brother where there at the end.
And the soft breeze that sang through the open blinds.
She closed her eyes, basking in the glow of love, and knew the time was near.
Her mother quietly sobbed.
The breeze started to die down.
Her brother looked away, into her garden.
But she kept hearing a voice call her name.
"Kagome."
She tried to ignore it.
"Kagome."
It was becoming louder.
"Kagome."
It was becoming persistent.
"Come on, Kagome!"
So she opened her eyes.
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Until Next Time….
Hope you enjoyed it! And only one chapter to go.