The Jewel of Lethe by Mysticangeldust

Everything Ends Eventually

This is a drabble series written to help get myself through some rough writer's block with my other story. Snowstorms has not been forgotten. Seeing as it is a drabble, chapters will be extremely short.

A big thanks to my awesome Beta Lady Kirara.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyahsa.

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Five years after Kagome had fallen down the well and shattered the jewel the journey was now complete. Naraku had been destroyed with fewer casualties than anyone had expected, and the world was saved from his evil for good. ‘Sounds so cliché’ Kagome thought to herself, “And they all lived happily ever after,” she whispered under her breath as she rolled the now completed jewel between her fingers. The reality of the situation was that while Naraku had been destroyed and the jewel completed, her own life was about to shatter once again. A wish had to be made, and with it, her time in the Feudal Era would end.  She would make yet another sacrifice for the good of others. She would never see her friends again. She would never see-

 “Onna,” a low baritone voice came from the door of the small hut she’d all but locked herself in for the past few hours.

“Sesshoumaru,” she breathed almost sadly as his form obstructed the light from the doorway. Yes, she would miss him the most. The youkai, whom she’d fallen in love with and mated almost two years prior. Neither could say exactly when it had begun; perhaps it was during the time her group stayed at the Western Shiro while Kagome did her best to save Rin from an illness. Or perhaps it had been during the brief encounters her group would have with his before that incident , due to Rin’s requests to see the ‘pretty lady’ as she liked to call Kagome. Regardless of when it had begun, it had happened and she was happy it had.

He’d moved into the room now and was holding his arm out to her, “Come Kagome, we return to the Shiro today.” His face was impassive as it always was, but she could see it in his eyes. He was afraid she would reject him; that she would wish on the jewel. It had been their conversation from the night before that was the cause for her brooding this morning. Her mate had proposed that they leave the jewel as it was and protect it as other Mikos had done for many years since its creation. It warmed her heart that he didn’t want to lose her just as much as she feared losing him, but this was her duty. He’d known of it when they’d mated.

She smiled sadly. No, she wouldn’t be returning to the Shiro and she knew that the longer she took to make her wish the greater the chance that he would find some way to keep her from doing it.

Before she could lose her courage the young woman from the future lunged towards her mate, and pressing her lips to his firmly before shoving herself backwards. She clutched the jewel tightly and made her wish.

Tears fell from her eyes freely as she witnessed the look of pure hurt and anger pass over her mate’s face before she faded completely from the past.

I wish for everyone who was hurt by Naraku and the jewel to live long and happy lives.