Hi all!  I wrote this on my lunch break today, on a whim.  This
is something of a milestone for me, since this is my very *first*
*completed* fanfic!  Woo-hoo!  ^_^


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Thoughts of a Girl in the Past
An Inuyasha Mono-Syllable Fic
by Krista Perry
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     I don't know what I feel.

     At times, I think I hate him.  He's crude and brash, with
his sharp tongue, and that sneer on his face...  Oh, he gets me so
mad that I shake!

     And then, out of the blue, he's... kind...

     How strange.

     But he's a beast.  A half-man thing, with the ears of a wild
dog; with sharp fangs and claws that can tear through stone and
steel; with gold eyes that gleam in pitch dark.  He could rend me
in two, if he so chose.

     At times, he scares me.

     Still, one word from my lips -- "Sit!" -- and he's flat on
his face.

     Oh, that makes him so mad!

     He's... kind of cute when he's mad.

     But... I can't let him know that!  I can't let him know that
those thoughts steal through my mind.  What if he laughed?  Or
sneered?

     Or worse, what if he got that sad, lost look in his eyes?
The look that says he still thinks of... of *her*...

     I... don't think I could bear it.

     What am I to him?  Do I bug him?  Am I just a dumb girl,
forced on him in hard times?  Am I just a tool, with this strange
gift of Sense that I have, to help him find the Jewel of Four
Souls?

     No.  I know I'm more than that.  Those times when I feel his
eyes on me...

     When I feel his gaze on my back... sad and warm...

     Is it me he sees?  Or his old love?

     Or... his old love, born new?

     At times, he scares me.

     Like now, when he's so close, and he has that look again,
and I can feel my heart pound in my chest, and my face grows flush
and my hands start to shake--

     I need to go home for a while.  Back to my own time.
I've... I've got a math test to take...

     ...

     I don't know what I feel.

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