Catalyst

by Fyuu

She was a catalyst for change, created for the sole purpose of bringing it about. And seeing that young boy and knowing what fate had dictated as his path, her heart could not help but bleat for he who saw things so clearly in black and white. And so she chooses to be a catalyst one last time… perhaps changing her own fate in the process. Kagome/Shinobu Sensui Drabble Story.

37. Chapter 37

He felt the magic of the well even through his rage fill haze, its power danced across his senses and soon after the vibrancy of Kagome's soul reached out to him a gesture that usually brought him such ease. And part of him wanted to revel in that relief, curl up in her warmth of body and soul, however another part, a larger part of him wanted to seep in his hate, in the unending blackness that was the world as a whole. He could hardly see her through the veil of rain as it pounded his shuddering body but he could tell there was no hesitancy as she made her way to him her blue eyes stared at him with sorrow and confusion.

And he flinched because she was light, she was a stark whiteness in an unyielding blackness, a blackness that festered in all of humanity, he himself not exempt from such.

Which was why as she reached out to him, his name quietly slipping from her lips he snarled viciously at her hoping perhaps to scare her, to make her realize that they weren't worthy of her light, or her salvation, that he wasn't worth saving. "Don't touch me." Even so he took her hand, pulling her toward him roughly, his eyes closed as he brought her calloused appendage to his face momentarily allowing himself to take pleasure in her warmth and purity.

She didn't hesitate, didn't fear, or worry, simply threw her unhindered arm around him, pressing her light to him, and for an instant he allowed himself to be cradled in it.