Bits and Pieces by Nisee

Rescue

A/N:  This is a collection of unrelated drabbles and oneshots written for Dokuga's Live Journal Weekly Perfection and One Shot contests.  Updates will be random and sporadic. 

Standard Disclaimer:  I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters, and neither do I profit from these writings.

Title: Rescue

Author: Nisee39

Theme: Scam

Genre: Angsty Fluff

Warnings: None

Word Count: 200

Summary: She thought the fairy tale was no longer within her grasp, but a voice reached out to pull her from the darkness.

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Fate was a cheat.

She had committed her youth and her heart to keeping the very fabric of existence together and fate had swindled her with promises of a ‘happily ever after’ that it wretched away mere moments after victory.

What did she have to look forward to now?

Sitting in the damp darkness at the bottom of a now worthless well, Kagome longingly traced names in the dirt while she ached to see their faces once more. Tears burned a familiar path down her cheeks and she wished to the darkness around her that she had never played fate’s fickle game.

“Why would you wish for such things?”

The warm, rich baritone of his voice wrapped around her and she dared not blink or breathe in fear that he would vanish in that instant.

“Sesshoumaru?” Her whisper betraying both hope and fear.

In the blackness of the night she could only see the amber of his eyes, but he was there. She reached up and felt hope blossom in her chest as he pulled her out of the well.

“I am here.” his words a balm for her broken heart.

And she finally had something to look forward to.