Words from the Sengoku Jidai

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InuYasha's Vision


Protecting goddess,
this small slip of a woman-child,
Kami bright,
standing there with bow and arrow drawn,
feral
in that way women become
standing over the ones they love --
how often she had brought him back
from the edge of the abbys..

And even when she would collapse in anger,
or fear
or grief,
he would watch her in amazement,
this woman,
stronger than any,
who thought it was all an act of kindness.

How dare he warm himself at her fire,
Kami bright,
and yet like a moth,
he always returned,
unable to stay away.

He would keep her there
In the shrine of his heart,
youki guarded,
forever