Heart of Tensaiga
Heartfelt Confessions
"Inuyasha, I know you are troubled by the disappearance of your friend…but something else is bothering you," Katsumi's soft voice inquired without truly asking him to tell her. She sat beside him in the Goshinboku tree and waited to hear what he would say in response.
Inuyasha sighed and looked down at his claws, "I'm never strong enough to protect those that are with me. First there was Kikyo and now Kagome. Am I always going to lose the people I care about?" He hadn't meant to say the last sentence but it couldn't be helped. His mind was far too into itself to think about restricting his speech.
"It is cruel what has happened to you; but, you cannot give up hope. If you do than there surely is none for you," she said with a small smile.
He glanced at her and wondered why she was being so kind to him. After all this time it was still something he was not terribly used to. They had fought with swords clashing and power exploding, they had made a shaky alliance with one another due to common goals; but, for the first time he started to see her as someone that actually cared. He looked into her now pale blue eyes and started to see her as a friend.
Due to his silence she continued, "Inuyasha, I am certain things will turn around for you. You just have to have faith in yourself."
His eyes looked hopeful once more.
(A/N) This is the last of the intoduction chapters introducing Katsumi. Next we shall start getting into Sango and Miroku's relationship!
For those of you wondering about the timeline of the story, the Inuyasha side of events has been taking place the same time as Kagome's. When last we left off with Kagome she has been missing for 22 days. (A lot longer than Sesshomaru's prediction of 2 weeks by far!) As of this chapter, it is the 20th day of Kagome missing. To be honest, I really didn't know I had my story so well in synch timewise until I sat down and wrote which day each chapter was and realized the days missing matched up!