Significance (Higurashi Kagome (Inuyasha)/Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho))
Fandom: InuYasha/Yu Yu Hakusho
Title: Significance
Author/Artist:
yume_mori
Theme: 007. First sunlight after the darkness.
Pairing/Characters: Kagome/Hiei
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership of Sengoku Otogizoushi - InuYasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. InuYasha belongs to Takahashi Rumiko, Shogakukan, Viz Media, ShoPro Entertainment, and Shounen; while Yu Yu Hakusho belongs to Togashi Yoshihiro, Shueisha, Viz Media, and Shounen. No profit or money of any kind is made from this fan-created crossover.
Warning: Slight spoilers for the end of InuYasha.
Summary: Sometimes we all need a reason to keep on living.
Cross-posted to: fafiction.net; mediaminer.org
The days began to mesh together again, though it was different this time. This time she had a silent watcher. Her goal of each day was to try and get him out of the trees he traveled by. She wanted to see into his carmine depths again; she needed to see the proof that her time in the feudal era hadn't been some incredible dream that her mind concocted. Most of all, she just wanted to be able to touch something she believed to be lost in her past.
After all, how many could say they touched a demon and lived to tell the tale?
Of course she didn't consider him a demon. She didn't see a difference between human and demon; both breathed and bled the same. Both also held dreams, wishes, hopes and desires; both could laugh and cry. The only difference was that one could live for millennia, while the other lived for only a blink of an eye. One could know all there was to know, while one could know how to savor life. It was almost impossible to relish everything that made life worthwhile when one had centuries to experience.
In her eyes, he was a creature of another world, but not a bloodthirsty one. If he was, he would have killed her by now. As it stood, she was still breathing and functioning. Though there were days when she wished she wasn't. If there were still demons around in this time, then why had Inuyasha, Shippou, Kouga, or hell, even Sesshoumaru not come to find her? As depressing as her answer was, it still didn't change the fact that she believed them to be dead. Why else would they not have come for her since she knew demons still existed in her time?
If they were dead, then sometimes Kagome wished she could be as well. This lazy modern life was once all she wanted and now it was all she wished to be rid of. And death was looking like a tempting offer to reclaim that life she once had. Death was nothing more than the start of a very different and new adventure, one that would reunite her with her friends.
Life would be that much bearable if she could use the well. Her eyes narrowed at her bedroom wall as she thought about the well. It had been her way to the past when it first dragged her through its depths over a year ago. She had been so caught up in her new normal that she had never tried going through it since her return.
Hope welled up deep in her heart. Perhaps the well hadn't closed and everyone was waiting for her to return! It was that hope that took over her body and gave her feet wings as she ran out from her room and house to the small shrine around the well. She forgot all about her silent watcher as she threw the door open and ran down the steps to the rim of the well. Without a second thought, she jumped over the edge into the caliginous depths with practiced ease. She wanted to feel the initial rush as the well's welcoming magic surrounding her, bringing her to the time of her friends. It was always such a rush to feel the warmth of magic surrounding one's body causing every nerve to stand on end as the adrenaline of free-falling as it coursed through the blood veins.
Her hope died a crushing death as no magic surrounded her body bringing her to a time of bloodshed and truth. As soon as her feet touched the hard-packed earth, she crumpled under the painful weight of a shattered hope. The well was closed off. There was no more feudal adventure. Never again would she see the demon slayer. No more perverted monks to watch out for. Never again would she get to hold the fox demon close to her. No more Inuyasha...
"You humans are all alike. Whenever life doesn't go your way, you seek the easiest way out."
Kagome looked up through the unnatural darkness of the shrine to see carmine eyes made falun red from the darkness. She looked back down at the ground beneath her, not wanting to appear weak in front of such a perfect creature.
"Yeah, well, we can't all be like you demons who know how to live without feelings." Melancholy and bitter tears made her voice sound harsher from what she intended.
She could feel the weight of his glare on the top of her head. It was not like she had meant to say what she did, it just came out. If she said sorry now and tried to retract those words, it wouldn't go well. If there was one thing she learned, it was the weight demons placed on words. That was the underlying reason as to why most demons only spoke when it was necessary so they might not say something regrettable, unlike humans who threw words around to the point they lost all their meanings.
A battle-worn hand gripping her arm startled her. Her head snapped up to look into those deep pools of carmine that revealed and hid so much from her own eyes. All she could see was annoyance and curiosity as he pulled her out of the well as if she weighed nothing. She knew that tomorrow morning her arm and legs would be hurting her, but she found she couldn't care. This strange demon was, quite literally, pulling her out of her past and giving her something to look forward to in her present and future. It was as if he was giving her, her first glimpse of sunlight after spending so much time lost in the darkness. Did he not realize the significance of what he was doing by helping her?
As soon as she was away from the miniature well shrine and back to face her new life, his harsh grip disappeared from her arm. "Next time you live up to the stupidity of your species, I'll help you die." He disappeared from her view as his last word faded into the night's embrace. Yet she knew he was nestled within the branches of Goshinboku as he had been earlier in the night and many nights before.
She had to give a small smile at what he said. It was his way of telling her not to die. Not wanting to head back inside and back to even more reminders that this wasn't the past just yet, she sat down at the base of Goshinboku. "I'll remember that."
They sat together in peaceful solitude. Words had no meaning as the pre-dawn dusk disappearing before them spoke enough. As the dawn bathed them in its primary colors of mauve and lavender, a sense of tranquility settled into their souls. It seemed only the dawn was willing to part with its peace to grace their lives with halcyon days after lurid pasts.
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Title: Significance
Author/Artist:
yume_mori
Theme: 007. First sunlight after the darkness.
Pairing/Characters: Kagome/Hiei
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership of Sengoku Otogizoushi - InuYasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. InuYasha belongs to Takahashi Rumiko, Shogakukan, Viz Media, ShoPro Entertainment, and Shounen; while Yu Yu Hakusho belongs to Togashi Yoshihiro, Shueisha, Viz Media, and Shounen. No profit or money of any kind is made from this fan-created crossover.
Warning: Slight spoilers for the end of InuYasha.
Summary: Sometimes we all need a reason to keep on living.
Cross-posted to: fafiction.net; mediaminer.org
The days began to mesh together again, though it was different this time. This time she had a silent watcher. Her goal of each day was to try and get him out of the trees he traveled by. She wanted to see into his carmine depths again; she needed to see the proof that her time in the feudal era hadn't been some incredible dream that her mind concocted. Most of all, she just wanted to be able to touch something she believed to be lost in her past.
After all, how many could say they touched a demon and lived to tell the tale?
Of course she didn't consider him a demon. She didn't see a difference between human and demon; both breathed and bled the same. Both also held dreams, wishes, hopes and desires; both could laugh and cry. The only difference was that one could live for millennia, while the other lived for only a blink of an eye. One could know all there was to know, while one could know how to savor life. It was almost impossible to relish everything that made life worthwhile when one had centuries to experience.
In her eyes, he was a creature of another world, but not a bloodthirsty one. If he was, he would have killed her by now. As it stood, she was still breathing and functioning. Though there were days when she wished she wasn't. If there were still demons around in this time, then why had Inuyasha, Shippou, Kouga, or hell, even Sesshoumaru not come to find her? As depressing as her answer was, it still didn't change the fact that she believed them to be dead. Why else would they not have come for her since she knew demons still existed in her time?
If they were dead, then sometimes Kagome wished she could be as well. This lazy modern life was once all she wanted and now it was all she wished to be rid of. And death was looking like a tempting offer to reclaim that life she once had. Death was nothing more than the start of a very different and new adventure, one that would reunite her with her friends.
Life would be that much bearable if she could use the well. Her eyes narrowed at her bedroom wall as she thought about the well. It had been her way to the past when it first dragged her through its depths over a year ago. She had been so caught up in her new normal that she had never tried going through it since her return.
Hope welled up deep in her heart. Perhaps the well hadn't closed and everyone was waiting for her to return! It was that hope that took over her body and gave her feet wings as she ran out from her room and house to the small shrine around the well. She forgot all about her silent watcher as she threw the door open and ran down the steps to the rim of the well. Without a second thought, she jumped over the edge into the caliginous depths with practiced ease. She wanted to feel the initial rush as the well's welcoming magic surrounding her, bringing her to the time of her friends. It was always such a rush to feel the warmth of magic surrounding one's body causing every nerve to stand on end as the adrenaline of free-falling as it coursed through the blood veins.
Her hope died a crushing death as no magic surrounded her body bringing her to a time of bloodshed and truth. As soon as her feet touched the hard-packed earth, she crumpled under the painful weight of a shattered hope. The well was closed off. There was no more feudal adventure. Never again would she see the demon slayer. No more perverted monks to watch out for. Never again would she get to hold the fox demon close to her. No more Inuyasha...
"You humans are all alike. Whenever life doesn't go your way, you seek the easiest way out."
Kagome looked up through the unnatural darkness of the shrine to see carmine eyes made falun red from the darkness. She looked back down at the ground beneath her, not wanting to appear weak in front of such a perfect creature.
"Yeah, well, we can't all be like you demons who know how to live without feelings." Melancholy and bitter tears made her voice sound harsher from what she intended.
She could feel the weight of his glare on the top of her head. It was not like she had meant to say what she did, it just came out. If she said sorry now and tried to retract those words, it wouldn't go well. If there was one thing she learned, it was the weight demons placed on words. That was the underlying reason as to why most demons only spoke when it was necessary so they might not say something regrettable, unlike humans who threw words around to the point they lost all their meanings.
A battle-worn hand gripping her arm startled her. Her head snapped up to look into those deep pools of carmine that revealed and hid so much from her own eyes. All she could see was annoyance and curiosity as he pulled her out of the well as if she weighed nothing. She knew that tomorrow morning her arm and legs would be hurting her, but she found she couldn't care. This strange demon was, quite literally, pulling her out of her past and giving her something to look forward to in her present and future. It was as if he was giving her, her first glimpse of sunlight after spending so much time lost in the darkness. Did he not realize the significance of what he was doing by helping her?
As soon as she was away from the miniature well shrine and back to face her new life, his harsh grip disappeared from her arm. "Next time you live up to the stupidity of your species, I'll help you die." He disappeared from her view as his last word faded into the night's embrace. Yet she knew he was nestled within the branches of Goshinboku as he had been earlier in the night and many nights before.
She had to give a small smile at what he said. It was his way of telling her not to die. Not wanting to head back inside and back to even more reminders that this wasn't the past just yet, she sat down at the base of Goshinboku. "I'll remember that."
They sat together in peaceful solitude. Words had no meaning as the pre-dawn dusk disappearing before them spoke enough. As the dawn bathed them in its primary colors of mauve and lavender, a sense of tranquility settled into their souls. It seemed only the dawn was willing to part with its peace to grace their lives with halcyon days after lurid pasts.
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