Colorblind
Chapter 1: Grey
Swimming alone in a dark sea
Running alone through a dark sky
If only to meet you...
Swimming alone in the deep darkness
Until I meet you...
-Gessekai (Nightwalker Opening)
Her eyes open slowly, and her hands, no longer dainty, rub away the sleep. She stays on the cushy blue bedspread and stares at the wall, the same blue.
But she only sees grey.
Except in her memories, they are vivid, full of bright beautiful color and the friends she and Kagome were forced to leave. She remembers Sango and Miroku, who got together shortly after the fall of Naraku. She remembers Jaken, always faithful. She remembers Shippo and Kirara. The fox demon's probably all grown up now. Just like her.
But most of all she remembers her Lord Sesshomaru, the first person to care for her after her family's death and his brother, the half-breed, Inuyasha. He's the reason Kagome wanted to leave the Feudal Era.
Rin loves the demon lord more than anything, just like how Kagome loved Inuyasha more than anything...
But that is the past, a past that they'd love to change but can't.
Sometimes at night, she stares out at the waxing moon and imagines that it's the crescent moon on the Dog Demon Lord's forehead. She imagines that the silvery clouds that float in the star-dusted sky are the silvery strands of his hair. The fireflies fluttering around under the night sky remind her of his eyes, a beautiful gold like the chain around her neck.
It was the last present he ever got to give her, and she cherishes it. Even to the point of grasping onto it as she sleeps. But she doesn't really see it's color. She doesn't see any colors. None. She only sees grey.