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Chapter 12:
Parting Gifts & Goodbyes
“From the first to the last
The signs said stop
But we went on whole hearted
It ended bad but I love what we started,”
-Fiona Apple, “Parting Gift”
Kagome looked into the bathroom mirror and couldn’t even summon the energy
to grimace at her own horrid reflection. You’re
separating from your first love and look like something the cat would be
embarrassed to drag in. The thought should have horrified her into a flurry
of female primping but she was just too drained. Pushing away from the counter,
she went back to her room where Inuyasha and her bed waited.
Was this a wise move?
No, she mentally snorted, it was absolutely the
stupidest thing she could possibly be doing. But when they had both been so
disappointed and sad outside, it had seemed like the right decision.
I wonder if anyone else
deliberately ends a relationship and then goes and has sex with their ex that
same night? She opened her
door quietly. Yeah, other people do this
stupid stunt all the time. Do they know how dumb it is? Or are they like me,
knowing and not able to summon a damn?
Inuyasha’s piercing eyes looked at her as she entered. There was
nothing more to be said and the decision had been made.
They were over.
“We should make this a clean break,” Kagome suggested quietly. “Not do
this.”
The hanyou snorted. “Can the end of this be anything but ugly? I don’t
think so.”
She settled onto the bed next to him. “I meant the sex. I don’t think
it’s a good idea.”
Inuyasha thought for a few long moments. “I want to have sex with you,”
he said finally. “It’s not because it’s sex. It’s because I’m…close to you when
we’re together. I’m not going to have that much longer.”
Kagome made an amused noise. “You know, if I didn’t know you so well,
I’d think that was a line.”
Inuyasha blinked. “Keh.”
Kagome let out a watery giggle and Inuyasha smiled reluctantly.
“Keh,” she imitated poorly and then laughed again for no real reason.
Later she would remember it as one of the sweetest moments between
them, the two of them laughing until tears came down and their cheeks and
stomach hurt. They ended up on the floor, holding onto each other as they tried
to catch their breath.
Inuyasha gazed down at Kagome. Her cheeks were red and her eyes squinty
as she hiccupped and finished giggling. She looked wonderful, as perfect as
happiness.
It felt natural to lean down to kiss her.
She responded so sweetly that Inuyasha groaned and pressed her down
onto the carpet. Kagome wound her arms around his neck, urging him close and
closer until her body was fully against his and it felt sinfully good.
As clothes were slowly peeled off, the kisses slowed to match. The
loving gentled to a slow, unhurried pace. His mouth drifted, nipping and
kissing wherever it landed. Her hands wandered over his body with a sensual
purpose. Both shuddered from the sensations that were intensified by the
imminent separation.
Inuyasha whispered sweet, loving words and tried to show her how much
she meant to him. Kagome replied by opening her legs and welcoming him closer
to her.
Deftly feeling the warm wet between her legs, he slid into her for the
last time. Shuddering Inuyasha held himself, trying to hold onto the sensation
of that first sweet bite of pleasure, the ultimate gift she had given him so
readily all these years.
“It never gets any less sweet,” he told her in a hushed tone. “You…You
always feel like home to me.”
Kagome nodded as sweat began to coat her skin. “It always feels
wonderful,” she agreed in a raspy tone. “It always seems better than the last
time.”
Inuyasha moved once, twice but then paused. “I still love you,” he
whispered, all emotional inhibitions gone with the certainty of their end. “I
still do.”
Kagome scratched at his back letting him know that she needed him to
move. As he thrust as deep as he could, Kagome gasped out, “I love you too.
Oh..!” She moved with him in a jerky synchronization that smoothed as physical
rhythm took over the both of them.
When the passion was too much, the pair climaxed simultaneously,
glorying and mourning at the same time.
His breath bursting in and out, Inuyasha leaned down and lightly bit
Kagome shoulder, dragging his sharp canines against her skin. She smiled at his
absent-minded version of aftermath kisses.
I bet he doesn’t even know he
does that.
Kagome kissed the top of his head as he rested it against her shoulder
for a moment.
Seconds and minutes past in a blissful contemplation of nothing.
Inuyasha raised himself up with a groan to pull out but Kagome stopped him with
a tight hug.
“Don’t,” she whispered into his much loved ear. “I want to feel you get
soft in me.”
Inuyasha chuckled. “Saying stuff like that certainly won’t help.”
She grinned. “I don’t see the problem in that.”
He grinned back and shoved all the misery he was feeling to the back of
his mind. As he rolled over and heard her laugh in surprise, night was falling
finally. Their last day was ending.
Take
what you can, he told himself
as he felt perfect lips kiss his neck. One
day, one moment at a time is the only way to get by.
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“It’s kind of stupid looking…Never noticed that before,” Inuyasha
mumbled as he stared at the well.
Kagome nodded her head.
The silence stretched uncomfortably, as if they were strangers instead
of lovers.
“I guess I should go…”
“Yeah…”
Neither moved.
Inuyasha fidgeted, searching for something to say. Sneaking a look at
Kagome’s closed expression did not offer any hints of what she would like to
hear. He couldn’t sort through his thoughts to get everything he was thinking
in these last few moments to express himself.
Screw it.
“What are you going to do now?” he blurted out.
”Honestly?” At his slightly irritated nod, she grinned. “I think I want to go
to university and maybe then a graduate program.”
“Graduate program…oh, that thing,” Inuyasha recalled her explanation.
“Fine. To become what?”
“A veterinarian.”
Inuyasha stared at her disbelievingly.
She shrugged. “I like dogs.”
“Very fucking funny,” groused Inuyasha.
Kagome just smiled. “I have no idea how I’ll pay for it but I’ll
manage.”
The uncomfortable silence fell again and neither could break it.
Finally giving in, Inuyasha pushed his hand through his hair in a
familiar rough gesture. “You say something,” he demanded. “I’ll follow.”
“What do you want me to say?” Kagome asked bitingly, annoyed that even
now he used his usual heavy handed, controlling tactics to communicate.
“Something important.”
“Oh, is that all?” she asked rhetorically.
“Yeah.”
Rolling her eyes, she nevertheless concentrated on what she wanted to tell him.
Shifting from one foot to the other, Kagome wondered how to sum up what she
wanted to say without quoting Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Parting is such sweet sorrow but somehow I don’t think he’ll care for that.
She murmured, “All this is coming from something I realized recently.
I’ve only got one life and I’ve got to make it count.”
“You could do that with me around,” he whispered, a last ditch effort.
“I don’t think so. I wish I could but…I just don’t think so.”
The silence was no longer strained but instead heavy with the weight of
words that couldn’t be recalled.
It was a silence born between two people aware of the futility in this
delaying tactic.
Inuyasha growled. “Fuck this.”
“Wha-?”
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and hugged her tightly. Inhaling that
particular scent that was uniquely hers, he kissed her temple gently. “I love
you. Deal with it.”
Kagome shook her head and hugged him back. “I love you too.”
“Well that’s all I need to hear. I need to leave, remember?” he
whispered hoarsely.
They stayed like that for a few minutes.
“Hey Inuyasha?” Kagome said softly.
“Yeah?”
“Go back to your own time.”
He stared at her for a moment and then, suddenly and without warning,
he began to smile. “You’ve been dying to say that to me, haven’t you?”
“Yeah,” she admitted. “It was so bratty when you shoved me into the
well.”
His shoulders shook and his laughter rang out. “I deserved that.”
And suddenly it felt like the time was right.
He gently pushed her away and jumped onto the lip of well. Looking
back, he saw her eyes were filled with tears. “Don’t cry.”
“Can’t help it.”
“Women,” he snorted.
She stuck out her tongue and Inuyasha felt it like a punch to the gut.
God, I’m going to miss her. He turned around- he just couldn’t look into
her eyes as he jumped back in time.
The familiar blue light filled the hut for the last time and Kagome
clutched her hands to her side.
The hut seems so much darker once
the glow fades, she noted
absently.
There was no need to test the magic well. She could tell that it was
now nothing more than wood and dirt, with that same sense that could once
detect jewel shards.
She clambered up and leapt into the mouth of the well anyway. Her
landing was steady, perfect and completely useless. Looking up at the well
house roof, Kagome knew it was really over. She climbed up the ladder, opened
the doors of the well house and stepped through. She could see the Goshinboku
faintly in the dawn but not enough to see where an arrow had once held a boy
for fifty years against the trunk.
Locking the doors of the well house behind her, Kagome walked back to
her house.
It was past time for life to move on.
“There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave
You were what I wanted
I gave what I gave
I'm not sorry I met you
I'm not sorry it's over
I'm not sorry there's nothing to say
I'm not sorry there's nothing to say...”
Stars,
“Your Ex-Lover is Dead”
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