The Nexus of Satisfaction by Gladiel

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Title: The Nexus of Satisfaction

Author: Gladiel

Series: Inuyasha

Genre: General, Romance

Rating: PG

Word-count: 246

Summary: Ends mark beginnings and for Kagome, that's how it is.

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First loves are confusing things. Some days they taste bitter; other days they taste sweet. First loves are addicting things that draw one in, consume one with bliss to have that need for love satisfied, until one day reality breaks that chain of ephemeral goodness. First loves are hard to forget. Perhaps they're permanently embedded into the memory of a person as a seed of experience--a product of victories and mistakes. All first loves have a beginning but not necessarily an end.

Kagome's first love was something she considered a blessing. It was a mixture whose constituents included friendship, camaraderie, innocence, hate, anger, patience, annoyance, and love. She relished the sweetness and joy of spending happy hours with him, treasuring each day like a fragile doll that needed tending. She yearned for the mutual return of her innocent affections, something she desperately hoped to be possible.

However, time proved that she stood no chance against the woman, a walking corpse in fact, and was forced to satisfy herself with friendship, patching heartache with an exhausted resource of band-aid.

Still, she considered that a blessing.

Well, now at least she was no longer a virgin on the subject of love. She no longer feared pain, but rather opened her arms in joyous welcome because she knew that love, too, has its rewards.

With a genuine smile adorning her face, she found herself ready to accept the fact that this first love had to have an end.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Themes for this compilation are from the LJ community, fanfic100. The first two chapters serve as a prologue.