Inuyasha

The wind howled a mournful song through the skeletal branches of the ancient trees. Inuyasha, his usual arrogance muted, sat beside Kagome, a single, perfectly preserved firefly trapped within a tiny, hand-carved cage. He offered it to her, his normally sharp eyes clouded with an unfamiliar vulnerability. "I caught it," he mumbled, "for you." The firefly pulsed with a soft, ethereal light, mirroring the unspoken question in his gaze: Could their fragile love survive the darkness that still