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.

63. Chapter 63

The moments that followed the appearance of the four males were hectic and bizarre, not something the Higurashi matriarch would have been able to recall even under great duress. She watched through her haze of tears as an older appearing InuYasha hustled her and the elder Higurashi back away from her daughters still form.

There was a murmur of voices before a cold commanding tone ordered Shinobu to step away, the red head forcibly removing him when he made no indication that he had heard.

Whispers of promises that her daughter, who was very clearly dead, would be fine met deaf ears. The sound of drawn steal and the cutting of air, and then their panic and worry when Kagome took her first shuttering breath only to exhale a toxic purple smog was like a morbid tune she wished she could ignore. The males reacted to the impromptu snag with more efficiency than she thought possible.

And then her daughter was gone.

And Nodoka finally broke.