Title: Sentiment
Author: Kristen Sharpe
Date: September 22, 2010
Genre: General
Rating: K
Disclaimer: Inuyasha, the character and the series, belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan Inc., and Sunrise.

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She had trusted him before she knew anything of his nature. Blindly, naively, she had never considered that he might harm her. And, for reasons he had never understood nor cared to examine, he had never sought to break that delusion.

Instead, he had revived her. He had provided for her. He had protected her.

Then, he had almost lost her.

And, when his mother questioned him, he found that he could not answer. He could not, would not say that such an insignificant creature mattered to him.

But, at the same time, he could no longer deny it either.

--100 words