Another Inuyasha Drabble

[kristensk]

Just a somewhat melancholy little Inuyasha drabble. I'm not entirely happy with the title, but I was going for one word that meant "old age" and nothing else seemed to fit.



Senescence

She looked fragile, breakable. Mother wasn’t supposed to look like that. Mother was supposed to be smiling as she bustled about their home, always busy.

Now, she was always tired. There was a hoarse rattle in her chest.

But, she still smiled. She smiled through her tears as she struggled to accept each offering her son brought.

Inuyasha knew she smiled for him. He did not know that she cried for him as well.

He was the only child in the village who still had the body of a ten year old boy as his mother died of old age.

- 100 words

Comments

[ks-claw.livejournal.com]

Awww... poor little 'yasha....

[kristensk.livejournal.com]

I know. It was a really sad notion, but after I saw the third movie and it point-blank stated that Inuyasha was 200 years old (or 150 if you figure he didn't age while he was sealed to the Goshinboku) the idea got in my head and wouldn't go away.