Theme: Please
Warnings: Character death
Words: 100
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Staggering, Kagome choked quietly and willed her hands to stop shaking.
His sword felt too heavy in her grasp, weighted down by guilt - its or hers, it didn't really matter. They had both failed anyway.
He continued to lay there, beautiful and broken, his unseeing eyes fixed upon hers. The beating of his heart echoed inside her brain, and she just wanted to lay down with him -
The echo fluttered and stopped, and she felt Tenseiga pulse so violently it almost brought her to her knees.
"Please," she sobbed, begging the universe to fix her mistake.
The sword fell.