BloodyCrystal: Number 4, in a possibility of what happens after Kagome goes home when the jewel is complete. Obviously enough, AU since I'm surethe actual endingwas much happier.
Duty
It was so very cold. Freezing so much so that she could see her breath. But she didn't—no, couldn't bring herself to care. If she died, she would see them again, be with them in the Land of Dead. Knowing her luck, she wouldn't freeze to death. And that would mean failing her duties, and she had learned, oh how she had learned, how very important her duties were.
And they would not be happy to see her, knowing that she had forsaken her duties for her happiness. That was where the other had faltered. And she could not, would not, fail. Not after all they had been through. That would be betraying their memories, and she would forever hate herself if she did that. They might forgive her, but she would never be able to forgive herself.
She turned away from the bridge, towards loneliness—and ever-present duty.