She watched with horror as her world slowly came tumbling down.
She wondered if it was death that was hurting her or the sight of the man she loved running towards where his heart belonged to. His choice. The one he couldn't live without. The one he couldn't lose. Not again.
Who was she, after all, but an intruder to a love story written before her time?
I will stay beside you forever, she heard herself say to him once before, when he had asked her to. She had given a vow so selflessly—a vow that meant everything to her, but received nothing in return.
Kikyo was right. Naraku had won. This was the final piece of the puzzle she needed to ultimately realize that Inuyasha would never love her the way she wanted him to.
Dying would then be easier. What could hurt more than knowing that Inuyasha could let her die just like that so he can save the woman that he loved?
Kagome closed her eyes and accepted defeat. She waited as Naraku's tentacle-like arm pierce her broken heart. She was robbed of hope, of salvation.
This was the end.
Glint.
A familiar sword suddenly hit the ground before her, its blade buried deep into the earth. Instantly, a greenish barrier erected itself around her, cutting off the poisonous miasma seeping into her open wounds.
Kagome gasped.
Tenseiga.
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Somewhere in Time
FanfictionIt started with the smell of tears. Sesshomaru was drawn to her. Kagome was perplexed by him. Their paths always crossed, and these odd encounters unknowingly wrote the Lord of the Western Lands and the Miko into history. #Wattys2019
