Chapter 9: The Root of Everything (part.1)
~Day 2~
"What?! You want me to go to with you?" asked Vanessa.
"Of course! Weren't you excited about me singing? How are you supposed to know whether I'm done if you're not watching?" replied Inuyasha.
"Uh...You got a point there." Vanessa sweated.
"Wait a minute! Am I even allowed to go in?"
"I'll just say you're my family." Inuyasha shrugged.
Jaken yelled that he didn't have time for their discussion and that he wanted to hurry up and get a move on. Inuyasha yelled back that Jaken was in no position to talk. Meanwhile, Vanessa felt astonished at his invitation but she realized that Inuyasha had no one to come support him and in a strange way she felt honored that he allowed her to do so. Jaken walked down to the garage and drove the red Ferrari out to the front.
"W-We're going inside the Ferrari?"
"Of course! Technically, it's my car."
"Yay! I get to ride in 2 fancy cars!" Vanessa thought in her mind.
When the car was close to entering the road, Jaken asked Inuyasha to confirm that the location was the Tokyo Dome and once Inuyasha did, Jaken told the G.P.S the location and its female voice started directing him where to go. When Vanessa heard the name of the location, she couldn't help but get more excited. She wasn't aware of that landmark but the name was self-explanatory that it was well known. As time passed, Vanessa suddenly remembered the question that she intended to ask yesterday but had forgotten.
"Um... Inuyasha, is Kikyo related to someone named Kagome?"
Inuyasha felt his head hurt slightly at the mention of that name.
"Well, all I know is that she only has a mom since her dad died in an accident before Shippo was born. She also has another little brother named Sota who's older than Shippo. After the accident, they moved in with Kaede and her husband at the Higurashi shrine. Why you asking?"
"Um..."
He stared at her and she felt like she couldn't lie to him.
"That person is the one who carries the other part of Ms. Higurashi's soul." Vanessa said quickly because she was starting to feel upset again.
"The one with the same age as me?"
Vanessa simply nodded then she started thinking some more.
"The distortion must be serious if it made Kagome disappear. What else has it effected?" she thought to herself with a severe look on her face.
Inuyasha placed a hand on her back, asking if she was ok. Vanessa then turned and asked Inuyasha for the description of Kaede's husband. Luckily, the description seemed to match that of Grandpa Higurashi. She followed up with a question concerning whether the historical landmarks of the Higurashi shrine , the Bone-Eater's Well and Tree of Ages, were still there. Inuyasha replied that he had visited the shrine but there was no such thing as the landmarks she had described. Vanessa realized that although the distortion was an interesting twist on the old anime, the damage was much more serious than she realized.
"Hey! You ok?" Inuyasha asked since he noticed that Vanessa seemed to be frightened.
"Just thinking of the damage I gotta fix, that's all."
He put his hand on her shoulder and patted it softly
"Hey, it'll all work out, I believe in you and you should believe in yourself too."
Comforted by the gesture and seeing the sincerity from his amber eyes, she suddenly felt like everything would work out.
"Thanks Inuyasha."
"...It's nothing."
Inuyasha slowly pulled his hand back and laid himself against the seat.
"So... You couldn't ask Kikyo to go to your audition?"
Inuyasha reddened then yelled back "What are you talking about?!"
Jaken raised his voice to tell Inuyasha to keep his voice down while Inuyasha told Jaken to shaddup.
Inuyasha replied "S-She would've been busy anyway! Just be grateful that I'm taking you along with me."
"Ok." smiled Vanessa.
Inuyasha felt strange; usually when he made a comment like that back in his old life, he recalled getting yelled at or someone would make a retort at him but Vanessa's reaction was a surprise. It seemed to be genuine instead of simply humoring him. But then again, Vanessa was kind of mysterious. She fell out of the sky on a mission to save his world accompanied by a "talking" cat. He usually had difficulty with trusting other people even in this life but with Vanessa , it was different. She gave off a harmless aura despite the fact she was a witch. He only learned a little about her in the time they spent and suddenly found himself wishing that he could learn more about her and have more time with her. Why was he thinking this way? She was just a friend right? He mentally told himself to stop thinking about such things since it wouldn't matter because they were from different worlds and would be separated once his world was restored.
Sometime later, Jaken dropped them in front of Tokyo Dome where they lined up with all of the other participants and their supporters. Vanessa was afraid that she would get kicked out because of Luna so she snuck the cat underneath her jacket. When it was finally Inuyasha's turn onstage, she got to watch him in an empty room with a T.V. that screened his performance. Vanessa was amazed how his voice seemed to change as he sang. There was no doubt, he was excellent! But Vanessa couldn't enjoy much since an alarm suddenly went off which caused Luna to scratch Vanessa inside her jacket. The funny thing was that the noise was coming from her phone which should've been muted earlier and strangely, no one else seemed to hear it. Only she and Luna were able to hear the alarm.
"Darn it, why won't it turn off? Luckily no one's coming in here." Vanessa asked out loud as she tried to stop the magical app.
Luna had her eyes closed in pain and said "Vanessa! Inuyasha's audition must be having a serious effect on this world's destiny!"
"What do you mean?"
"Inuyasha-san mentioned that he never accomplished his old dream right? Passing this audition will change his fate which is connected to this world! We have to hurry and find the distortion!"
Vanessa was glad that Inuyasha was going to pass the audition but the alarm signified that something more important was at stake. She mentally thought that when she got home, she would listen to Inuyasha's character song to make up for not being able to hear his entire performance. When she left the room, she pretended to ask for the location of the restroom. Luckily, the alarm stopped sounding and switched to G.P.S function. Coincidentally, it seemed that the cause of the distortion was somewhere in Tokyo Dome. Finally, Vanessa entered the stadium and found that the G.P.S. was pointing to the Tree of Ages that was growing there?
