And doing some IY:

As I stand here waiting, I reflect.

Mostly because I am also standing in front of a mirror.

I finally understand Kagome- well, as well as I ever
will.

Yep. Best to qualify that.

  It's a terribly

terrible

yourself.  How she dealt with Kikyou as gracefully as
she did I'll never know, but the least I can do is
return the favor-  no matter how much I want to keep
her away from Inu Yasha, and declare that she is mine.
 Damn it, we were born into the same time- can't she
understand?  She is mine, and I am hers.  That's the
way it's meant to be.

Kagome: But I want Shippo, not you or Inu Yasha. I'm sorry.

I first noticed Kagome when we transferred from
elementary school to junior high.  We hadn't been in
the same school until them,

then

 and even though I must

have passed her on the street a hundred times, I
didn't know her.  I guess it was a touch of me being
blind- again.  I've never been particularly observant,
but sometimes I amaze even myself in how dense I can
be.

If I wasn't so dense, I'd be even more amazed.

I am not who I was, but I remember.   I remember the
anguish on her face after she caught me speaking to
Kikyou.   I remember fighting for her, how the
Tetsusaiga seemed to only respond whenever she truly
needed it, fighting with her when we first met.   I'd
even occassionally thing

think

I knew the instant she passed through the well for
the first time.  I felt as though part of me we
breaking away, and that suddenly I was caught back
into the endless loop of fate.   The excuses from her
family started, and I knew what was happening to her.
I started counting the months, knowing all to soon she
would have her heart broken by the man I used to be.

I shouldn't've

shouldn't have

asked her out then, when she was

gettng more and more involved in the feudal age, but I
did.  I simply couldn't stand to think of her in Inu
Yasha's embrace.  It must be the same as she feels
about Kikyou.

I hate Inu Yasha.  I am not him anymore.  I want her
to love me as I am now.

Definitely an interesting twist. I like it.

"Houjou-kun!   I'm so sorry I'm late!" Kagome says,
coming up to stand beside me.

I smile at her.  "That's ok,

okay

 Higurashi-san!" I chirp

cheerfully, hoping to see her smile.  "I'm glad you've
gotten over your pneumonia!" I assure her, pretending
to believe in her grandfather's unbelievable excuse.
"I've got tickets for that move

movie

 you wanted to see, and

after I think we can go to the new sushi bar over on
Sakura."

As I hoped, she gives me the blinding smile I had
been hoping for.

been longing (you already used 'hoped)

Reborn to be by her side when the Bone Eater's Well
closes for the last time on her.  I will be here for
her then, and perhaps this time, we can have our happy
ending.

Nice little fic. Very brief, and it's only playing with the idea, but as I
said it's an intruiging one. Aside from the simple spelling errors, nice
work

D.B. Sommer

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