Week 11/ Snow
Title: Roses in the Snow
Author: landofthekwt
Genre: longing for love.
Rating: G
Word Count:508
Prompt: Snow. The Wilted Rose
Universe: Anime The Tragic Love Song of Destiny. 147-148
Warning: None
Summary: Inuyasha asks why he follows Kikyou
A/N This story was inspired by knittingknots picture title "Roses in the Snow" . It is also a country song which Hank Snow and Emmy Lou Harris have sung, but those songs have a different theme.
He followed her even though he did not know why. Since that day when she had asked him to talk to her he had not left her side when she was not in the village..
Originally, all he had wanted from her was the jewel, but it played no part in his thoughts of her now. She made him feel guilty about wronging her. It was she that made him think about someone other than himself for the first time since his mother died.
It had been so long since he had talked to another being. So long since he had shared anything with anyone. He had began to think that it was his lot in life to forever alone. Never to love, never to laugh, never to cry.
The Shikon no Tama had given him hope. Maybe if he was a youkai like his brother he would be accepted by them. He would no longer have to fight for his life against all who wanted the hanyou dead.
Instead, it had brought him face to face with Kikyou. Both of them had sensed how wounded and alone the other was. That is why neither could kill the other. They were partners in misery. Something they could share. And so they treasured their time together.
Today they were marching to some godforsaken village in Hokaido to exterminate youkai. He had been surprised when she had asked to do so. She had seemed more surprised when he accepted her offer.
They hardly spoke to each other during their travels. Yet he knew that just being with her and assisting her made him feel alive again. Like there was something more to life than simply surviving. Someone to live for. Someone to protect.
He had no hope that she would ever love him. Youkai were her enemy. He stood for every evil that she had ever fought against.
Her vows forbade her from loving a man much less a hanyou. She was denied even feelings of love. And yet he knew that she felt something for him.
It was that something that drew her to him. The something that made him want to follow her everywhere. The something that made him think about someone other than himself.
Others could not see what he saw. To them she was just a miko. She was the miko who protected the jewel. The miko who brought youkai to the village. The miko who cared for the sick and wounded.. The miko who cared for their children. The miko who interceded for the kami for them.
Inuyasha saw her differently. She was like roses in the snow to him. To the villagers she was just. a miko, to him she was so much more. He could see the beauty which was buried underneath her burden of duty. Someday the snow would melt and like the roses she would bloom.
And so he followed her in hopes on that day he would be with her to smell her fragrance, to gaze on her beauty, and care for her forever..
Author: landofthekwt
Genre: longing for love.
Rating: G
Word Count:508
Prompt: Snow. The Wilted Rose
Universe: Anime The Tragic Love Song of Destiny. 147-148
Warning: None
Summary: Inuyasha asks why he follows Kikyou
A/N This story was inspired by knittingknots picture title "Roses in the Snow" . It is also a country song which Hank Snow and Emmy Lou Harris have sung, but those songs have a different theme.
He followed her even though he did not know why. Since that day when she had asked him to talk to her he had not left her side when she was not in the village..
Originally, all he had wanted from her was the jewel, but it played no part in his thoughts of her now. She made him feel guilty about wronging her. It was she that made him think about someone other than himself for the first time since his mother died.
It had been so long since he had talked to another being. So long since he had shared anything with anyone. He had began to think that it was his lot in life to forever alone. Never to love, never to laugh, never to cry.
The Shikon no Tama had given him hope. Maybe if he was a youkai like his brother he would be accepted by them. He would no longer have to fight for his life against all who wanted the hanyou dead.
Instead, it had brought him face to face with Kikyou. Both of them had sensed how wounded and alone the other was. That is why neither could kill the other. They were partners in misery. Something they could share. And so they treasured their time together.
Today they were marching to some godforsaken village in Hokaido to exterminate youkai. He had been surprised when she had asked to do so. She had seemed more surprised when he accepted her offer.
They hardly spoke to each other during their travels. Yet he knew that just being with her and assisting her made him feel alive again. Like there was something more to life than simply surviving. Someone to live for. Someone to protect.
He had no hope that she would ever love him. Youkai were her enemy. He stood for every evil that she had ever fought against.
Her vows forbade her from loving a man much less a hanyou. She was denied even feelings of love. And yet he knew that she felt something for him.
It was that something that drew her to him. The something that made him want to follow her everywhere. The something that made him think about someone other than himself.
Others could not see what he saw. To them she was just a miko. She was the miko who protected the jewel. The miko who brought youkai to the village. The miko who cared for the sick and wounded.. The miko who cared for their children. The miko who interceded for the kami for them.
Inuyasha saw her differently. She was like roses in the snow to him. To the villagers she was just. a miko, to him she was so much more. He could see the beauty which was buried underneath her burden of duty. Someday the snow would melt and like the roses she would bloom.
And so he followed her in hopes on that day he would be with her to smell her fragrance, to gaze on her beauty, and care for her forever..