Hey everyone! This is my first story on , I hope you like it! I actually sadly don't own InuYasha, or any of the characters, exept my own, but in this I decided not to give her a name, so when ever you see ----, just put your name in it, this one was the first and only story I couldn't think of a name for one of my characters, so I'm sorry if this doesn't agree with anyone. Well thank you and I hope you all like it, oh and bare with me, this is only the first chapter.
Weakness Or Strength?
Chapter 1: Lost?
Walking to school was never an easy thing to do, especially at a new school. Other kids wouldn't think anything of it, but there was one simple thing different
between the other kids and you, that simple thing being that they could see. You had been blind since you were very young, an unfortunate punishment you still had not known the reason for.
The wind blew gently against your face as you gripped tightly onto your cane tapping it lightly to the ground, you were seventeen years old now and hadn't seen the beautiful blue sky since you were five, but the memory of it was still as clear as the darkness that now haunted you and would for the rest of your life. There was no chance to get your eyesight back, there had been too many doctors that had told you those news, but there was nothing in this world that would ever stop you from wanting to see the sky again, you would give anything to see anything again.
A body shifted toward you, scaring you, "He- Hello?"
"Sorry, did I scare you?" A man's voice asked, leaning toward you.
"Umm, only a little.."
Wind flushed quickly back and forth as he waved his hand in front of your face, "Can you not see?"
Your faced your head down toward the ground quickly, "No, I can not."
"Oh, I'm sorry for being so rude, My name is Hojo, what's your's?"
"My name? It's ------. I'm trying to get to school, maybe you could help me, um I'm going to…"
"I know where your going, all the girl's at my school wear that uniform, I'll help you get there, ok?"
"Sound's good," With that he got you guys there in less the five minutes.
"You were pretty close, I can't believe you got that far with out getting lost!" He spoke as he opened the door for you.
"Well thank you, but I have to say I left my house an hour early just so I wouldn't be late…" the bell rang as you spoke, "And now look what time it is."
He laughed, "Well it was nice meeting you ---, I got to go to class the principles office is right in front of you, I hope to see you later!"
You waved as he left and reached out for the door, but was stopped by another hand around your wrist, "Hey sorry, Your --- right? I'm Kagome Higarashi, and I am here to help you through out the year, so if you need anything just come to me." She pulled back, but stayed where she was, "Oh, I do have your schedule, it's right here so you don't have to go to the principle to get it, I tried to make sure that all of our classes are the same so that I can help with the best of my ability." Her hand came up and rounded around yours, shaking it. She let it go quickly and then shuffled some papers, "Ok it looks like our first class is Physical Education."
Following her voice she ended up leading you to a large room that echoed violently, you finally had to ask, "So do you guys ever do anything very interesting in this class?"
You both sat down on the hard bleachers that were on your left before she answered, "No not really, we run a lot of laps, stretch and if we have time we play a small game, like maybe doge ball…"
"Ah, I see…" your voice dulled with excitement.
The rest of the class calmed down as a figure walked in front of them all, a male voice, at that point, began to speak, "Ok, it's the beginning of a new quarter and I believe we should start something new, no more dodge ball for awhile." He paused, "On another note it seems like we have a new student, ----." He asked quickly for you to stand and take a wave, as you sat down he began to speak again, "Alright, so what I would like to start today is a little archery, just the basics and we'll see where we'll go from there. Oh yeah, and please be careful for our new arrival, everyone…get your bows."
Everyone paired into twos, Kagome and yourself of course were placed together, she picked the target and scuttled off to find you both a good set of bows and arrows. As she came back she seemed to be pondering something to herself, mumbling quietly. "Are you ok?" you ask with slight concern.
"Yeah, it just occurred to me, no offense, but your blind… will you be able to do this?"
All you did was nod as you dug in your bag, "I know it's a ridiculous thing to be carrying around, but I have this to help. I used to be one of the best at my old school."
Kagome reached for what you held, taking a moment to understand what was going on, "So, what is this exactly?"
"A metronome, usually only used in a music class, but I just think of myself as being really special when it comes to things like this. If you could place it in the back of the target please."
"Alrighty, I don't exactly get it, but I'll do it," only moments later she was back and you could hear the steady knocks coming from the nice tempo keeper. "Here's your bow and an arrow…umm, oh yeah and stand here. I've already taken my first turn, go ahead and we'll see how you compare."
You smirk not really wanting to even try to hold it back, "Alright.." The bow was held in your left hand as you concentrated on fizzing out the other noises that might ruin it and then stretched out the string holding it all out in front of you. The string left your hand quickly but it seemed to last a good amount of time before you heard the thump of the arrow hitting the target. "So, How'd I do?"
The answer seemed to take longer then it seemed for the arrow to hit the target, "Oh, um," she seemed to be stuttering like she never seen someone do this kind of thing before. "You hit it, the center… not to mention you went right through my arrow. Have you ever been called Robin Hood before?"
That statement made you laugh as you placed the bow down gently, "Well no, actually, but I don't think many Japanese people really read those kind of stories to their kids. Isn't it usually about demons?" You laughed again noticing the arrows stopped being shot about the time you took yours.
"Wow, I don't believe this, where did you learn to do that, ----?" The gym teachers voice came to your ears as he walked up to the two of you.
"Natural talent, that's what I tell everyone anyway," you took a moment to giggle before you began to speak again. "But I was never really taught, it just seemed interesting when I was younger and I didn't think there was any other way."
"Well either way you should definitely join the archery club. Kagome wouldn't join it to save her life for some reason."
"Well I'm always sick, you know that sir. I wouldn't want to join something just to bring you guys down initially instead of helping," Kagome told the teacher with a matter of fact tone.
"I guess your right, well what about it? Will you join?" he pleaded.
"Sure, that sounds fun," you finished the conversation quickly before you continued practicing with Kagome.
*****
The day continued and finished quickly, as the last bell rang, Kagome asked if she could help you get home but you denied the offer telling her that you wanted to check out the archery club before you left, and you would meet up with her tomorrow. Right as she said goodbye a hand landed on your shoulder, it shocked your system making you jump a little.
"Sorry, did I scare you?" the voice of a male entered your ear, a familiar one.
"Are you Hojo? From this morning?" even though you couldn't see you could feel the smile on his face from where you stood.
"You remembered? that kind of makes me happy," he let out a small laugh. "I was thinking about you all day, and I remembered how you were having trouble get here this morning and I thought that you might need help getting home…"
"Oh, um how thoughtful of you. No I'm alright, I was hoping to check out the archery club before I left tonight, if I really need the help I'll ask one of them, but for now I think I can handle myself. Thanks though."
"Alright, can I at least help you get to the club area? I just need to make sure you're going to be ok."
You smiled at his sweetness, "Actually I didn't think about that, thank you though that would be awesome."
As you reached the club he stayed for a little watching you do your thing but only for a few minutes before he also said his goodbyes, leaving you with only two or three other people around. As time passed though you were the last one there not noticing it till it was too late.
There was nothing else to say but the obvious, when you left the school you got lost, wondering around for what seemed like an hour or two, before you felt it might be a good idea to maybe ask for some help from some of the people who lived near by. So you followed an up hill drive way leading you to what felt like an old wooden door, as you reached it you knocked.. The silence was scary, not knowing where you were was only getting you more nervous than anything. Finally you just opened the door wanting to prove you were just paranoid and began to call for some one, but again no one answered so you walked in, taping your walking stick with almost every step you took.
The floor indented into a stair that was followed with of course a group of them until your walking stick hit a soft ground at the bottom, almost like dirt. Your foot followed and your mind sat on that thought, this was dirt. Why would one make a house with dirt inside? Shifting your feet slowly, and waving the hand that wasn't on the cane, you grabbed the edge of a wooden object. It came up about waist high and the edge of it was probably just as long, if not longer, you reached down to check on how deep the inside of it went but as you did you lost your balance falling in face first hitting the ground deep down inside.
You sighed leaning back against the wall trying to calm down in the dark well of a hole, as you thought it you knew that was where you were, in a well. Groaning, you let your hands fall to the ground digging your nails into the dirt, scrapping something that felt grimy and rough. As your attention fell to this item your fingers curled around it pulling it out to examine it further. The item was round in the middle, but extended into to nubs on each side, you froze realizing you held a bone in your hand, dropping it as if it carried a killer virus. You squeezed against the wall, only to feel more objects all around you. The bones were forming more than just a chill down your spine, they scared you, making you move around frantically.
The wall to your back was smooth, felt like it was made of stone, but you turned around anyway trying to find a way to climb to the top. Your fingers grazed a lip that you grabbed and pulled yourself up placing your foot on another, finding your way up very slowly. As you gripped the lip of the well you lost your footing and slipped once more into it, hitting your head. The sounds around you slipped out of your existence as you fell into unconsciousness.
******
It didn't feel like you were out long, but there was no telling, the ground seemed more moist than before and the air did feel more damp, but that probably didn't mean anymore then the time did in fact change. You sat up feeling the large bump that seemed to swell more within the minute, that was only one of your problems though, the main of which was of course your sight handicap, the second of course being the fact that you were trapped in what you had to assume was an old dried up well. Standing up, you tried to ignore the nasty cracking that was coming from beneath you, and you felt over all the walls contemplating the best strategy to get out of there. Finally, you really wanted to hit yourself for this, but you found a vine on the far wall from you, testing at how tough it was you decided that it would be able to hold your weight and climbed up it with no problem.
Your hand hit the edge once again, but you double checked that it wouldn't slip off, and jumped over the side. In happiness you stepped away from the side and began jumping up and down only to freeze a moment later as wind blew through your hair. Your face fell to the ground noticing that it was more of a grassy feeling rather than dirt which was what you remembered in the first place. Why was this different? Was the door open to make the wind blow in there? Or were you dreaming? You reached out to find a wall or even the stairs that led down to the ground, just to prove you weren't going crazy, but there was nothing, you even walked a good distance away and still nothing. Something, you didn't quite know what, but something had happened, and you were definitely not in Tokyo anymore…
