Shadowed Hearts From aBroken Future by Lady Knightstar

Prologue: A painful Goodbye

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or an of the characters from the series (though I wish i did).

Shadowed Hearts From a Broken Future

Prologue: A painful Goodbye

They ran through the forest, as he clung to her. His eyes close taking in her scent. He could smell the saltiness of her tears as she wrapped her arms around him tighter.

They came to a small clearing in the forest. She collapsed against an old wooden well. Quickly standing up she placed her son on the lip of the well, and pulled something from around her neck, it glowed a pink hue in the night.

She didn't know how it had come back into being with the birth of her son but it did. She stood there lost in thought of how she felt the Shikon No Tama, after he was born. Even as she held him then, she could see the pink lump of flesh beneath his skin.

She turned around at the crashing of a tree, and watched as a darkness engulfed the forest heading for them. "Inu...yasha..." she mentally berated herself Inuyasha was gone, as where the others.

She grabbed her bow, and reached back and grabbed an arrow, as she dropped the small bottle around her neck. She pulled back and the released the arrow. It flew turning into a pink comet that lit the night around it. But it didn't strike the darkness but the ground in front of it causing a barrier to appear. She turned quickly and ripped the cloth chain for the bottle containing a shard and handed it to the boy on the well, with her eyes full of tears. Then she bent down and took up a sword putting it close to her heart.

Memories flooded back to her as she held it close. Her mind was instantly transported to the past.

----Flashback-----

"INUYASHA!!" her voice broke through the silence that fell when the hanyou crashed to the ground, from his wounds. Kagome ran up to her fallen friend, and looked down at the deep gashes on his chest as she franticly started trying to stop the bleeding.

His hand slowly went up to grab hers taking her hands from his chest. Confused she looked into his golden eyes, as tears ran down her face.

"It's to late" he whispered, his breath much more shallow and broken.

"NO" she shook her head causing her raven hair to swing violently around her face, "I can make a wish on the Shikon No Tama, I can make a wish." Her voice trailed off as she brought the jewel into his view.

"No, Kagome, no. There is something far better that should be wished for." He put his hand on the jewel, and closed his eyes. A light pink glow embraced them, and then vanished. His hand fell to the ground, with a slight smile on his face. "There, now your child won't have to go through what I did."

Kagome's eyes widened and poured tears as she leaned done to his face, "How did you know?"

"Feh, I smelled him on you weeks ago, then your...scent changed." He brushed her face with his hand in a gentle touch, wiping her tears away. "Here," he placed the Tetsusaiga in her hand, "make sure he gets it when he is old enough." He smiled slightly as his hand fell from the blade onto the ground and he went silent.

Kagome set her hand on him and shook him slightly trying not to hurt him, "Inuyasha." Her for was low and worried. She shook him again harder than before "Inuyasha" her voice was much louder this time, but when he still failed to respond she buried her face in his chest and screamed for him, "INUYASHA!!!"

-----End Flashback----

She looked into her sons golden eyes, and smiled. "Remember what you have to do." Before he could say anything he was embraced in a strong hug. Then they both heard the barrier she placed, snapped and give way. She inhaled deeply and placed the Tetsusaiga, and the jewel shard in his hand. "I love you" She turned her head quickly and looked at the dark void coming towards them. Then with out another thought she pushed him into the well, as the darkness consumed her and the well.