Fanfiction: Goodbye
TITLE: Goodbye
CHAPTER: oneshot
AUTHOR: Argent Shadows
DATE: 10-7-09
FANDOM: Inuyasha
DISCLAIMER: I don’t own Inuaysha, or make any money from it.
PAIRINGS: Inuyasha/Kagome
TYPE: Introspection
RATING: G
WARNINGS: no warnings
OCs: none
BETA: none
WORDS: 429
SUMMARY: While Kagome is gone, Inuyasha discovers his freedom.
NOTES: This was written for the prompt ( http://yaoigirl.com/?p=373 ) “goodbye”.
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Goodbye
It took him two years, but Inuyasha finally found out the secret. Well, two secrets. One… that after two years without Kagome in his life, and two years of no magical sits to ‘tame’ him, he was actually fairly happy.
Two… was that the closer it came to the time when Kagome had promised to come back, the more he didn’t want to see her. Maybe she could have changed; after all, it had been two years. Three years, by the time she left her school. But somehow he didn’t think she would. One hand came up to touch the necklace of beads and claws around his throat. His collar.
Did he want her to come back? Or would it be like when Kikyou had returned, a mess of conflicting emotions and doubtful thoughts. She had wanted to kill him… but at least she had been honest about it. Kagome confused him, with her double standards and her unaccountable actions. But she wasn’t a bad person… she would make a caring mate… wouldn’t she?
But still… when he thought of all the times she had abused the power of the necklace over him, the idea of her with pups made his blood run cold. His mother had been mortal too and she had never acted that way. Even discipline had been just that, discipline and not willful punishment.
Clawless fingers came up to touch his necklace again. He could leave, now that he knew the trick. The necklace bound only his youkai blood. On the night of the new moon though, he was human. And humans were not bound by the spells of a miko on hanyou.
He sat down on the edge of the Bone Eater’s Well and considered it’s depths. The world was certainly more colourful in his human form, and the raging of his youkai blood was quieted. That was probably why it had taken him so long to figure this out. It was hard to think clearly with the instincts of a demon conflicting against his human blood.
And to think he’d used to hate this night of the month. Now… He closed his eyes and pulled off the necklace that the old lady had put around his neck years ago. His black hair slid free, and a sigh escaped him as he dropped it into the black depths of the well. Kagome would find it, and know what it meant. If she wanted to come to him anyway, despite the fact that she could no longer ‘tame’ him, then she could. If not…
“Goodbye.”
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Tags: g rated, introspection, Inuyasha, Inuyasha (series), Kagome, NonYaoi, oneshot