1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.

2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.

3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the timeframe of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards! [I confess: inveterate beta that I am, I did go back and edit a bit--but I did not write more! I swear! I only fixed typos and so on.]

4. Do 10 of these, then post them.

Warning: End of manga spoilers below.

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7. Into the West, by Howard Shore

She strode slowly home that day. She always did, but somehow, today…she felt like her feet dragged in a different way.

Something was…calling her.

She followed her compulsion, and came to stand before the Goshinboku.

Tears slipped down her cheeks, silent. Why did it end the way it did? Why couldn't she just forget? Why did she still long, so much…

A shift in the breeze. The sound of his rare laugh, of her friends' chatter, of an arrow sailing cleanly through the air.

In a daze, she walked back into the house and packed her bag. She didn't know what she was doing. But she hadn't known that for the last three years, had she?

With something terribly and wonderfully like hope bubbling in her throat, she walked to the well-house. She didn't dare think too much of what she was doing, but she kept walking.

She'd talk herself out of it if she acknowledged her plans.

And yet, the call…of starry nights, and firelight, and a quiet forest…

She breathed deeply, and passed through the well, a final time.

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A/N: I happen to really like this one. The song in question is about moving on beyond your past to a new beginning. It's a bittersweet mix of sadness at having to leave behind what you love now, but hope and dreams of the future you know not of. I felt like it fit very well with Kagome passing through the well that final time. I hope you all like it too; reviews are always appreciated!