First fanfition, so please be nice. I don´t own Inuyasha or Rise of the Guardians. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi and DreamworksPictures.
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Chapter1: Sand
The paper-lanterns lighted the night a little and soft music played in the air. Thousends of different colored lanterns hung between and in front of the stands on the festival in the old shrine. People of all ages gathered between them and eyed the differnt snacks, masks and other mostly traditional, but sometimes also more modern items, that were offered.
Some young boys played tag between the visiters, nearly running over a group of four high school girls. Like everyone else they wore kimonos.
"Hey!" called one of them after the boys. "Watch it!" But then she shook her head and smiled. She had short, black hair and wore a green kimono with white and yellow flowers and a yellow obi. Around her neck hung a beautiful, green metal flower. Her earthy brown eyes were shining as she smiled. "Oh, this had been a great idea."
"You´re right, Eri!" agreed the girl on her left, as they walked on. Her shoulder long, jet black hair was hold back by a white head band. It matched the also white obi of her red kimono, that had white sakura pentals falling from her shoulders. "Thanks for taking us, Kagome."
"Glad you like it." the raven haired girl known as Kagome said smiling. She wore a sky blue kimono and a turquiose obi with small stars in black, white and dark blue on black leather colar necklace, from which a small chain was connected to a purple marble, around her neck seemed a bit out of place, but no one said anything. "I thought it would be nice to do something together again. It sure had been a while, hasn´t it, Yuka?"
The jet black haired girl nodded. "Yes, it has."
"Are you sure, going out is good for you?" the last girl of the group asked. She wore a purple kimono with golden butterflies and a matching obi. Two hair clips keeped her shoulder long, dark brown hair from fallen in her face. "You were in the hospitel with an unknown sickness only three months ago."
"Excatly, three months ago." agreed Eri. "And since then she skyrocked to the captain of the kyudo-club of our school, made that super rare test for the senshi-miko titel, works in her family´s shrine and as maid at the café near Yuka´s place and is training Sota´s soccer team. I think she is going to be fine, Ayumi."
"Yeah, her sicknesses finally stopped three months ago." Yuka smiled. "And when her aunt called her shrine for help two weeks ago, she started training for tonight right away."
"Oh, that reminds me." said Kagome, looking at the clock. "Gotta go and get ready. The kagura starts soon."
"I can´t wait!" said Ayumi. "I have never seen an taditional miko dance before!"
"Me neither." declaired Yuka and Eri added: "We´ll be cheering for you!"
Kagome laughed and ran off.
"I wonder..." said Eri and turned to the other two. "Does she really think, we believe in her so called sicknesses?"
"I´m not sure."admitted Ayumi. "But it is pretty clear that -from her fifthteen birthday till three months ago- there was something going on."
"Really now." Yuka shook her head. "Every month she was excatly three days at school. Half of the time was she hurt. And that InuYasha-guy was never really normal either."
"But we have to honor her choice." Eri reminded them. "She´ll tell us what́s up, when she´s ready."
The brunette nodded. "And time is up, we will help her. After all we´re friends."
"Yes, and with Eri as vice-captain of the kendo-club, Ayumi as best of the health care club and me as ace of the science club, we´ll be prepared for anything." Yuka smiled.
Ayumi looked around. "Were did Kiara go?"
"Kagome´s new, two-tailed cat?" Eri looked around also. "Shadowing Kagome, like always, I guess." She thougth. "I bet that cat is involed, too."
"The thing with patience ..."said Ayumi slowly, "... is it´s very concept."
"Yeah. Let´s go or we miss Kagome´s dance."
After the dance, Yuka went to pick up Kagome, who went chaning back in her normal kimono. Eri left to get some snacks for everyone and a fish for Kiara. And Ayumi tried to find their frie work spooting place, Kagome had shown them earlier in the forst behind the shrine, again. A small path leaded to it.
However, the girl was in deep thought. Her eyes...,she thought. They had been sad turning the dance...
Suddenly her foot slipped. Her eyes went wide. She was falling of a cliff. Ayumi screamed. The rocks below raced closer. She was going to die!
Golden sand shot below her. Catched her. Ayumi stared at it in shock. The sand carried her higher and sat her down on solid ground. Her jelly-like legs gave away under her.
The sand retreated and Ayumi´s eyes followed it to it´s master, who was sitting in a jet out the golden sand. It was a small men with a round face and standing up in five pits reminding of a star hair. His eyes had a warm, brown-golden color.
She grapsed. T-the sandman! ,Ayumi thought. The sandman just saved my life!
But before she could overcome her shock and thank him, he had already disapeared in the sky. "Wait..."she wispered. But Ayumi knowed it was to late and he couldn´t hear her anymore.
"Ayumi!"called Eri and ran up from behind her. She had different snack bags in her hands. "What´s wrong? The place is a bit farther up."
"I´ll fell..." she mumbeled.
That got the other girl worried. "You fell? Are you hurt?"she asked. "You were lucky, you didn´t fell of that cliff."
"I did."the brunnete said and stood up. "He saved me."
"What?! You -?! Who saved you?!"
She smiled at her. "The sandman."
Eri blinked. Once, twice. Then she laughed. "The-!"she laughed hard."Oh, you really got me there! Haha! Sandman!"
"It was really him! I´m sure!"got Ayumi angry.
"Stop joking." Eri smiled. "Chese! Don´t scare me like that!"
"I´m not joking!"
"Yeah, right! The sandmen dosn´t exist." With that the older girl walked on. "It was a good joke, but -"
"It was no joke!"
So, that was the first chapter. I wanted to start out of the view of Kagome´s friends, since I haven´t seen it before. How did you like it? Please review. Updating soon.