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Running up that Hill	By : bebejinx Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 964 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Running up that Hill
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Disclaimer:
Not mine.
A/N: Written
in 30 mins with Placebo�s cover of the Kate Bush song �Running up that Hill� on
repeat. Completely un-beta�d.
Running Up that Hill
The true
problem was never how to kill Naraku.
The question
was what would happen after the evil thing died. After the jewel had been put
back together piece by piece. In the time between falling down a mystical well
and completing a task that took five years, nothing had truly changed.
They were all
five years older, a little bit quieter, and a lot more mature but they were
still the same.
Kagome was 20
years old, yet she still felt 15. Frozen in place unable to move forward or
backward, unable to live.
Being in the
present with family and friends, she felt like a stranger. A predator watching
the lucky ones hoping to steal a piece of every ones life to assemble something
close to an imitation of the life they all led.
She wasn�t in
school. She wasn�t really at home. Her job was more an obligation to not be a
quitter. But for five years Kagome had been running; from friends, from death,
from the truth that any ending to what she was in could never end with her
smiling.
Kagome had
stopped wondering what love was. It wasn�t until she was 18 she realized that
it, whatever it was, was in her and it was for him. To be honest,
she hardly had a choice of men to fall for. A priest who saved everything he
had for an untrusting warrior or a little boy that had left to forge his own
life with people that looked like him. The only person left was Him.
Inuyasha
wasn�t so sullen, less temperamental and more reverent. But all of this
couldn�t change the fact he was only part human. Part whole, part
there, only part unnoticeable. Ears that wiggled when the wind swirled
around them and hair so silver it was near white were hard to hide, even if the
city was Tokyo.
At 19, six
months after Naraku was killed, Kagome had realized that Inuyasha could never
live in her time. He didn�t belong and no matter how many times she told
herself it didn�t matter, in the end she wasn�t really in control of what did
and didn�t count.
She would
sometimes fantasize about what their life would be together in her time.
It always
seemed to turn into something ugly. Them hiding from everyone whoever knew her.
Him a constant threat to the outside because even after five years to smell her
time always put him on edge. Her creating lie after lie because more than
likely she would have to run home at least once a week because she just knew
something was wrong with him.
�It doesn�t
hurt me.� He had said once when she had explained why living in her time just
wouldn�t work.
Kagome knew
though, that it did. He understood that he was never whole that he was only part
of something. That even though she herself accepted him; society,
regardless of the time or the place, just wouldn�t.
She had once
hoped that her acceptance of him would be enough. But even her love couldn�t
stand against millions. He understood.
Kagome wished
she believed him.
The month
before her 20th birthday, four months before they completed the jewel, Kagome
realized she couldn�t stay in the past with Inuyasha. It wasn�t her place. She
couldn�t say goodbye to her family and friends and almost everything she had
ever known.
She wouldn�t
give it up.
For the past
five years, she had only been able to steal snatches of something similar to a
life. She wouldn�t be complete in the past. She knew it because in the past she
was always the strange one. Regardless of what she wore or how she spoke it was
as if every stranger they met knew she was different. Normalcy wouldn�t
be in her life if she stayed.
The well had
no reason to stay open after the jewel was complete. Her only reason for the
past now was love.
How could that
be enough?
People fell in
and out love so much in one lifetime. How was their love any different? Why
would it be stronger, why would it be more than enough to defeat magic?
Two months
before the jewel was complete, Kagome found herself slipping. Not from Inuyasha
or her friends in the past, but from the struggle of trying to live two lives.
She felt herself running up some hill, trying to find her footing only really
slipping farther down. Every move brought her closer to the end of them and
every footstep felt heavier than the one before it.
A month after
they completed the jewel, Kagome couldn�t cross time.
She remembered
the panic that seemed to choke her immediately. �Breathe,� she had told herself
as she knelt to the cold packed earth at the bottom of the well.
She had dirt
in her nails for days after that. The earth felt dead, like it had never opened
for her, like there had never been a sizzle of magic anywhere. She had clawed
at the packed dirt, scrambling for a way in.
�Let me in.
Please.� Kagome squeaked, hoping someone would hear her grant her one last
chance to see them.
�Kagome?�
The young
woman looked up to her mother�s face curious as to why her daughter was digging
in dirt with her bare hands.
�Mama.� Kagome
gasped, sucking in sobs that were trying to escape. She knew this would happen.
�It won�t let me through. I can�t see any of them.� She choked out, shaking her
head in dismay. �Mama I never got to say goodbye to any of them. Mama
�Inuyasha.� She breathed out before stopping her dig. And there she sat staring
useless into the hole she made.
And as tiny
worms and beetles seeped from her dirt hole, Kagome couldn�t help but feel very
sad. She should have realized this would happen two years ago.
Love wasn�t
enough to transcend time.
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