My Muse

Okay this is my first story so please no flamers, constructive criticism is welcome. I am not saying any of these characters belong together, believe what you want to, but keep an open mind. They were given their part based on their personalities. This is about Sesshomaru's inner conflict while living in present day Tokyo. He is working on his first independent film when he just crashes, his inspiration has run out, but he works to support his little brother Inuyasha one day he runs into a young actress Kikyo who is struggling to find a good job,while working for ameager pay at a cafe,at her last job working for a more famous but less kind director named Naraku, and she is less eager to work under a man, but she has to support her little sis Kagome. They inspire each other and grow to respect each other, and dedicate themselves to this independent film. So they risk it all in this small film about the random and insignificant events that can change our life.

The couples are:

Kikyo/Sesshomaru

Kagome/Inuyasha

Sango/Miroku

Kagome and Inuyasha go to high-school

Kikyo and Sesshy are in their mid-twenties

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters….don't sue me because I don't have any money.

I hate my grammar teacher so I hate grammar but any grammar/spelling checks from readers are welcome.

Again the couples are made because of their personalities and so on…..blah blah blah……Kikyo is older and appears so in the anime so she became the older sister, Kagome is younger and more innocent, like a child, so she is the younger sister. Sesshomaru is paired with Kikyo because he seems older and I didn't want to pair him with Kagome who is a child and he is Kikyo's age. If I haven't convinced you why I made these pairs and your going to flame me then just fuck off and don't read my story.

Sesshomaru sat listening to the rain, he repeated the lines in his head trying to get his point through. After a few minutes Jaken, his assistant's voice, breaks through his thoughts "We have only a few months, get a move on the script". This wasn't the first time they had an argument today.

"Sessohmaru, you must write something, and we still haven't found our leading actress why won't you listen to me……."

"Jaken, shut up, get out sight, and get me some coffee."

Jaken left, Sesshomaru waited till the door closed then lit a cigarette. In the dark room, his golden eyes were lit up buy the lighter and he let his long hair fall over his face. He breathed out, he remained silent listening for Jaken's footsteps. Inuyasha wouldn't be home until 3, when his school got out.

"No, he'll be out late with Miroku, the boys will probably be with their girlfriends, Kagome and Sango."

"Hmmm" he felt alone just then, he couldn't focus and didn't notice the cigarette burning on the floor. He cussed out, then apologized to Jesus, he needed to get out, away from Jaken and try thinking in a new place.

"This house is hell" before Jaken could return with the coffee, Sessohmaru was out the window and on the lawn. He let out a deep growl of satisfaction, as he heard Jaken shout every profanity word in Japanese. "Now to get some good coffee" he pulled his coat closer around him as he ran through the rain to get to his favorite café.

The place was empty except for one customer, a woman with raven dark hair reading a small stack of papers. She lifted her head as he came in and gave him a small smile. He sat down at a table across from her, he took out his unorganized stack of papers and began to evaluate. In the opening scene the protagonist is standing in line waiting for her train she begins narrating "But what does she say?" he thought.

"No No No!" he thought, what was she thinking and what about the other passengers. "But what's wrong with it, nothing, it's just me." "Something is wrong." He took out his stress pen that he clicked every time he came across a writer's block; the pen had its life clicked out of it lately. This time the pen had enough, it snapped. A sweat drop and a frustration character popped on his head,

"That was my only pen" he hoped the woman didn't notice the little characters appear on his head.

"She is cute" he looked up to find her already stating at him, "He is cute" she thought.

They both looked down quickly, like embarrassed children. Sessohmaru was the first to speak, noticing her drink he asked "What are you drinking?"

"Coffee" she said, seeing he didn't have a drink she asked him if he'd like a drink. "Sure" he said unsure what she had really asked him. She made her way gracefully behind the counter. "What would you like to drink" she asked sweetly, he said a sake.

"In the middle of the day?", she said as she poured the drink. "I'm Kikyo by the way"

"Yes I need a sake, and I'm Sessohmaru" he answered and exhaled. She walked over to him setting the drink down on the table, she stared at him. "You look familiar Sessohmaru, are you involved in films?" "Yes I've directed just one, wasn't any profit though" he replied looking at the beautiful woman before him. "It was still a moving film, you're really talented." she said pulling up a chair next to him.

"Thank you so what do you do?" he stopped after he asked, realizing the obvious. Kikyo smiled kindly, "I also do some acting, but right now I am just working here, I am grateful for this job."

Her smile comforted him; he thought "She is so kind."

They talked for hours about their lives, she was single raising her sister and he was in the same situation. "So what's this?" Kikyo glanced at his papers that were shuffled on the table. "Oh, just the script for a movie"

"Tell me about it" she looked at him into his eyes. "I haven't been on it lately, a sort of writers block." Sessohmaru nervously searched for words, he didn't know what to say about this film, this idea in his mind. "Is it like your last one, is it the same story I mean?" Kikyo wanted to talk to him about his life's work, his creation in film.

"No I'm still working out the first scene, it's about…life, in a way. The protagonist is curious about the small quirks in life, no matter how insignificant they seem, she discovers that they affect her life and that she greatly helps others in small but important ways just like the small things in life and in the world."

Kikyo looked at him "It's going to be a great film can you not see that."

"Thank you…..do you…..do you like the character in this film?" Sesshomaru thought of Kikyo as the main character she was curios and passionate when something interested her. "Kikyo would you want a part in the movie?" Kikyo looked up at him stunned, "I'd love to, you don't already have an actress?" Kikyo had just met him but she felt like he knew her, and she trusted him., "No we haven't had many interested in the film, would you at least look at the script…well…."damn I don't' really have a script, "but do you like the character from what I've told you?"

"Yes, I'll have an audition, where and when?" she replied. This Sesshomaru, I feel that to anyone else he would be very confidential about the film, and I've told him so much about my life already. Sesshomaru and I share something; we hold back our inner thoughts from others to protect ourselves.

"If this doesn't seem too soon, how about at my house, right now?"

Next Chapter: Here and Now

Thank you for reading

The film Sesshomaru is supposed to be working on is called Doki-Doki, which was directed by Chris Eska. It is an independent film shot in Tokyo and Yokohama. It's a story about a young woman named Yumi, played by Yumi Endo, who after years of riding on the same train with the same people decides to learn about their lives, she begans by talking to Makiko a high school girl with problems with her classmates and her family. Yumi changes the girl's life when she gives Makiko a present. Yumi wants to learn even more about another passenger, Yosuke a young man who she knew in preschool but she believes has forgotten about her. Yumi studies him on the train and follows him around Tokyo learning more about him until the climactic night when all three of the character's lives collide in a moving story about life, love, and the people and events that change us.

"Doki-Doki is a Japanese onomatopoeia that refers to the sound of the heart beating. In slang popular with young woman, it has come to mean a heightened state of anticipation or excitement , especially concerning the "butterflies" in a girl's stomach when she's near a boy she has a crush on" -director Chris Eska

It is a great film, so go try to see it.

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