The Shadows of Dreams
|Meduza|
Chapter One: Dreaming the Past
Here are the rules I'm following...
"..."-Talking.
Italics-Thinking, to emphasize words.
Underline-To emphasize italics words
~*~-Flashbacks
*-Scene changes in flashbacks
^*^-Scene changes in that particular world
-*--World's change
{I know it's a lot. Remember- I needed to memorize it too, and unlike you, I have it only once.}
Kagome jerked awake. This room wasn't hers. This room wasn't the hard chair which she fell asleep in. She remembered crying, so much crying... and then she remembered blood.
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There was blood in their eyes... the need for life.
The empty eyes looked up at her, like accusing her, 'you weren't here'.
The Living...
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"What... was that?..."
The door opened, and a girl, not much younger than her entered the room. She wore a long black dress which almost looked like a sack for a girl so thin.
"Ohayo," Kagome said, the word jumping to her mind.
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Screaming. "Save them! Help them!"
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The girl looked surprised, but quickly looked at the floor. "Ohayo gozaimasu, Kagome-sama... Your mother wasn't expecting you this early. You shouldn't have awakened so early in the morning..."
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"Oi, Kagome. Let's go."
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"I know." It seemed that she was starting to forget. She saw things... and forgot them soon after. "I wish to bathe before."
The girl played with the cloth of the dress. "As you wish..." and left the room. Kagome couldn't help but notice how the girl's shoulders straightened soon after she left the room and turned around to close the door.
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Sitting in a chair with no fire. Just grieving.
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She remembered that her mother wanted to talk with her about something important. She forgot. She remembered what she ate last night, but she couldn't remember what her mother wished to speak of.
The girl who was there before came back, carrying some towels. "The bath is ready."
Kagome got up, and her mind picked up slowly that she was wearing a white night gown. It didn't matter. After all- she wore it herself last night...
She followed the girl quietly, and when her eyes fell on an open door that a bath was in there, she didn't need the directions from the servant.
She stripped out of her clothes, and sank into the bathtub with a sigh. She had a dim feeling that she was forgetting things. Things that she should have remembered. Things that were supposed to be important. Like that nasty, overbearing, childish jerk,
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"Kagome! Wait! Don't go away..."
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A shaky hand reached for her shoulder to touch her lightly.
"My lady," the servant said. "The time is running, and your mother is waiting,"
Kagome nodded, soaped herself, and got out. 'The time is running...'
It sounds almost prophetic, she decided when she dressed.
She walked behind the shaky servant, who led her to an enormous room. Someone was waiting for her, someone whom she knew she should be afraid of.
"Ah, Kagome-sama. It sure is the time for your arrival."
"Excuse me?" She asked, her voice polite and cold.
It's not me. I'm not like that... She hit an invisible wall which started to fade and circle her...
"I am the one to escort you to your mother, for some reason." Sesshoumaru said, almost as if everything was distant.
"Leave us, please," she asked from the servant girl, who hurried back to where-ever she went to.
I wonder what she's so afraid of, a part of her mind wondered. The other part just answered back, it should've been obvious for you.
"Shall we go?" His voice reached to her.
"Yes."
They walked, both silent, Kagome one step ahead of him.
As a minute had past, Sesshoumaru had stopped. She was sure that his face held a bordered smile, an unpleasant one at that too.
"Having a nice dream, Little Girl?"
It was Sesshoumaru's voice; there was no doubt about that. But it hadn't come from him. It came from a part in her mind. And Sesshoumaru just stood there, smiling his unpleasant smile, smiling as knowing demons she never will, and she knew it without seeing...
She told him her response in the best way she could without giving away her nervousness. "My mother expects me, Sesshoumaru-sama."
It didn't sound right to say it like that. To say his name of all things like that.
"Of course she is, and so are you." His grin disappeared, leaving his emotionless face visible again. "You should know the way to your own mother's rooms, Girl."
She winced, but said nothing except for, "I believe I do, thank you."
VOCABULARY:
Ohayo- Good morning
Ohayo gozaimasu- A politer way to say "good morning".
A/N:
Please bear with this horrible beginning. ^^;
Preview:
"I believe you remember what we talked about a week ago," Mrs. Higurashi said as she poured the tea. "I talked to Inutaisho, from the Western Lands yesterday. He agreed to the betrothal. You will marry his son –"
Sesshoumaru? No way.
"—Inuyasha." She finished.
"No way. Wait, Inuyasha?" Kagome wanted to make sure she heard the name right.