I do not own InuYasha or any of the characters created by Rumiko Takahashi
Sometimes
Hiding behind silver hair
and a tough guy smirk
and a big sword
is the small child
weeping at his mother's grave.
Sometimes, she watches him
when he thinks no one is looking,
and sees the child within
struggling with his shadows.
Yes, he knows fully well the need to strike first,
because the cost of life requires it,
this hard carving out of a place of his own
between two worlds,
and yet, in quiet moments,
he stares out into the distance
and remembers the feel of a time
where there was love and acceptance,
unscarred by the days between
then and now
and how it was shattered.
Sometimes,
when the darkness tries to swallow him,
she takes his hand -
and somehow,
through some magic all of her own
she makes a bridge over those years in between,
and the child within,
and the man he is now
finds comfort
in her smile and her touch
and her yielding body,
and all becomes right in his world once again.