Title: End or Beginning
Characters: Most of them
Genre: Angst/Romance
Warning: Character death
Author note: Okay, well I'm just adding this to let people know that I've re-written the chapters. Hope you all like it. It was a lot of fun re-writing this after so long.
"I love you, I love you, I love you," Kagome chanted softly as she hugged Inuyasha oblivious to the crimson staining her clothes. She was just glad he was back. She'd checked his pulse and his breathing and he was alive, it was like a miracle.
"What?" Inuyasha muttered softly, as he contemplated whether to open his eyes. His body was damn sore, it ached and someone was laying on him and hugging him so tight it was a wonder he could breathe. Wait…someone was hugging him and laying on him? Amber eyes shot open and he saw Kagome was indeed sprawled on top of him.
Brown and amber clashed for a few moments and then once it dawned on her he was awake she smacked him, "You jerk!"
She sniffled slightly as a stray tear trickled over her cheek. You would have thought she'd be all cried out by now…but obviously not quite. Though her actions contradicted her words for she held him tightly as if she never wanted to let him go. Which both surprised Inuyasha but made him feel pretty good as well.
"Ow...what? What did I do?" Inuyasha asked surprised at her outburst and the mixed signals that she was giving off. He lifted one hand and brushed the stray tear away from her cheek, though he could smell the salt coming off her. She'd been crying for a while.
"You died!" she exclaimed and buried her face into his chest as she sobbed with renewed emotion her tears wetting his chest and clothes as it finally dawned on her once more how close she was to losing him. She had lost him…but Sesshomaru had given him back to her, though she didn't know his reasoning for doing so she was still grateful.
"How could I have died if I'm here right here with you dummy?" he chastised her softly though a small smile covered his lips as he said it.
"Because Sesshomaru brought you back with Tenseiga, that's why you're still here even though you died," Kagome told him softly.
"What? You're trying to tell me that asshole brought me back?" Inuyasha asked with a snort and when she nodded he opened his mouth to argue with her once more though he stopped when he saw the look in her eyes. The sad watery brown eyes and he decided that being right wasn't too important right now, he was alive.
"Hn…if you say so," He said finally and wrapped his arms around her waist. Maybe Sesshomaru wasn't such a bastard after all.
After a while the two detangled from each other. Using Tetsusaiga as a crutch and leaning against Kagome the two of them made their way back towards the rest of the group.
Looking up Miroku saw Inuyasha and Kagome making their way towards them. It seemed like everyone had managed to survive the last battle and he was very glad of that. He gazed down at his hand, the one that had housed his wind tunnel for so long and had killed his father and grandfather…it was gone now.
They all had a new chance now that Naraku was gone, they could move on, he thought as he turned his gaze back to Sango who was still nestled against him. Now was the time for him to start being serious, and to settle down if he could finally get a certain demon slayer to agree. "Sango…"
"Mm…" She murmured softly against his chest. The slayer had realised just how much he meant to her today, not that she was ready to tell him that but maybe sometime soon she would have the nerve to say the words too.
"Kagome and Inuyasha are fine," He told her quietly. "We're all fine…"
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