My flying monkies have not yet returned so I can not say I own Inuyasha. Any thing in italics is spoken in English. Its just easier than telling you when they are speaking in English or in Japanese.
"So when do you think your haha will show up?" Kagome whispered to Carolina as they left class Tuesday afternoon.
"Soon. Toru has been trying to get a transfer so the Mama and Kay probably have passports already. Still she would have had to book a flight. And the flight it's self takes 18 hours. We don't know if the call was Friday night or Sunday night either. So I'd say anytime between yesterday and Sunday."
They stopped by a vending machine out side a store offering healthier fare than the ones in America. Rice based snacks mostly. Some seeds and nuts. Seaweed flavored popcorn. That kind of thing.
Carolina fed a few coins in to the machine. She kicked it when it tried to keep both her money and her snack and the package fell. She claimed it and popped a few soy beans in her mouth and glance absently at the plastic container.
"I don't believe this." She stated staring at the package.
"What?"
"Read it." She replied handing it to Kagome. Roasted soybeans. Allergy information; contains Soy.
"They actually felt a need to tell people their soy beans contain soy?"
"Hey, I once had a bucket of ice cream that 'may contain milk or milk products'." Carolina replied taking her soy beans back while Kagome chuckled at the stupidity of food packaging companies.
All of a sudden from out of no where a small form collided with Carolina. "Sissy!" The two girls found them selves looking down at a little girl, about five years old, with black ringlets and big violet colored eyes wearing a pink Care Bears hat. She had one arm wrapped tightly around Carolina's waist and the other wrapped around a yellow Care Bear that was almost as big as she was.
Carolina sunk to her knees and hugged the girl tightly. Then a smiling woman with a sun-kissed tan and cream colored, almost white, hair approached.
"Baby!"
"Mama!" The two embraced warmly. Carolina's mother took a step back to look at her little girl. Then with the slightest Irish accent declared. "You've lost weight, you haven't been eating have you?"
"I haven't lost any weight. You've just always thought I was to skinny. And if I have lost weight it's only because I get more exercise here." Carolina replied.
"Well. Any way, we need to talk about something." Her mother stated looking very stern suddenly.
"I know." Carolina replied cringing. Then glanced over at Kagome. "Oh, This is Kagome. Kagome, this is my Mama."
Now Kagome was glad that English had been a required class for years. "Hello. Is nice meet you uh..." What was the English honorific for a woman? "Ma,am." She took a step forward and offered her hand to the older lady like she'd seen on t.v.
"It's nice to meet you to dear. Please, call me Aislynn." The older unicorn replied shaking Kagome's hand.
"And this is my sister Kayley." Carolina told Kagome, petting the kid on the head.
Kayley had stuck her thumb in her mouth as soon as she had let go of her sister. Now she removed it just long enough to say, "Konichiwa." And promptly plopped it back into place.
"Now dear, my daughter and I have something we need to discuss, so if you'll please excuse us..."
"Actually, I know what you want to talk about and Kagome is involved."
"You've gone and got this girl wrapped up in what ever your up to?" Aislynn asked sternly.
"Aislynn ma,am, Carolina not get me wrapped up. Is other way. please, my house down the road. We may talk inside." Kagome informed Aislynn.
Suddenly in a flash of red and silver Inuyasha appeared behind Kagome "Hey, whats taking so damned lon...Argghh"
Before he could finish his sentence Carolina grabbed his ear and twisted it hard. "It's none of my business how you speak around Shippo but you'll learn to watch your language in front of my little sister. And just where is your hat? It's broad daylight you know!"
"Geez, take it easy. I didn't know...wait, this is your sister?" He asked looking down at the little black haired hanyou. She stared up at his exposed ears with wide eyes.
"The humans are gonna see those if you don't keep them covered you know." She informed him taking her thumb out of her mouth long enough to point at the subject of this conversation.
"Uh, yeah. I forgot."
Kay held up her hand with her fingers spread wide. "I'm only five and I never forget my hat." She turned to look at her mother. "He says he forgot his hat Mommy."
"Well, that certainly was careless, wasn't it baby?" She replied. And the group started toward Kagome's house.
"Well. that certainly is some story." Aislynn said after thinking for a moment about what she had just been told. "A magic well?"
"Yes. Is this caveman not enough to prove it?" Kagome asked, taking the opportunity to take a jab at Inuyasha with out him knowing it. Unfortunately Kay decided to translate that sentence for Inuyasha as Carolina seemed to forget that was her job.
"What is a 'cave man'?" Inuyasha asked.
"Oh, those are the people on t.v. that don't like Geiko." Kay explained.
Inuyasha just stared blankly, not understanding. Just what the hell was Geiko anyway? Kagome and Carolina both smiled at the explanation.
Aislynn's Japanese wasn't very good but she was able to understand what Kayley had just said. She shook her head and smiled. "Perhaps I should think about cutting back on how much t.v. you are allowed to watch."
Then Aislynn reached over and grabbed Carolina's ear, twisting it. "You should have told me about this! Going into another time with out telling anyone! What if something had happened to you and I had no idea where to look?"
"I know that I can not tell you what to do anymore, you are a grown woman after all. I can not tell you not to go, especially if you have friends down that well. But I need to know when you do this. I need to know where you are. What if you didn't come back home? Do you know how worried Toru would be?"
"Toru would be worried about me? He isn't my father, why would he worry about me?" Carolina asked.
"He is your step-father, and he does worry about you! He worries about whether or not you know which parts of the city to avoid. About whether you are making many friends. Whether you are home sick. He thinks of you like a daughter you know. Oh, by the way he got his transfer. I told everyone that I was coming to look at apartments."
"Really? We're moving here?" Carolina asked. Her eyes lit up and a smile formed on her face.
Aislynn stared at the rare display of joy for a long moment before smiling at her daughter. "You really are happy here, aren't you?"
"Yes. well, down the well I am. There is something else I wanted to tell you but not on the phone." She then looked around at every one. "Can we talk out side Mama?"
"Of course sweet heart." Aislynn replied standing. She followed her daughter out into a small courtyard that surrounded the shrine. Aislynn noticed the small wooden well house not to far from where they stood now. An entire world lay mere yards away...
Carolina had her hands in her pockets and avoided her mothers eyes as they walked. She paused once she knew they were out of Inuyasha's hearing range. "Mama, the thing I wanted to tell you, that I couldn't tell you on the telephone is that I met this guy. I really like him a lot."
"You have a boyfriend?"
"Yeah. His name is Sesshomaru. He's Inuyasha's half brother." Carolina replied turning a little pink.
"So he's a dog. Dogs are usually good people. A little hot tempered, they say, but loyal friends. Is he full blooded or is he also a halfbreed?"
Full blooded. And he is a very good person. He is very reserved. But once you get to know him he is kind, loyal, protective, and he is such a great father."
"He has a foal...or... A pup?" Aislynn asked quickly.
"No. He adopted a human orphan." Carolina explained. "Her name is Rin. She is seven years old." Aislynn was visibly impressed. Carolina knew that she would be with this information. Any male who would willingly take care of another's child was a good guy in her mother's book.
"So how do you pass through the well? Is there a spell or incantation?" Aislynn asked her daughter.
"No. You just jump. It seems only those who are powerful can pass through on their own. Children have to be carried through the well by some one the well accepts and Kagome can only pass through with shards of a powerful jewel."
"How do you know children can be carried through?"
"A while back Rin was snake bitten. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru brought her to me. It was a good idea too, if they had tried to come get me and take me back we might not have been in time."
"You know I want to meet these friends of your. And I have to meet this young man your so taken with."
"I know Mama. So when do you want to go?"
"Well, Kay and I are not busy right now, did you or your friends have plans?"
"No. Lets go get them then."