The Shadows of Dreams
|Meduza|
Chapter Two: New News
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.}
After the scary experience of walking down the corridors behind Sesshoumaru –she still thought she should be afraid of his name alone—while sticking her gaze to the floors, not knowing what to say. Once she lifted her face to see the way she was going to, she found that all the corridors and rooms surrounding her were beautifully decorated. The wooden floor looked... alive. The color of it was bright, but it didn't seem to hurt her eyes. On the walls there were pictures of forests, waterfalls, rainbows, lakes...
To her surprise, she found out that she really did know the way to her mother's rooms. All day she got the feeling that something was wrong, that she was somewhere else...
~*~
Sitting in a wooden chair, watching the dead. Watching the ones that were killed, seeing the blaming faces of the people she thought that were protected...
~*~
"Kagome. Come in." She heard a familiar voice, one which she never could have mistaken it for another.
"Mama..." escaped from her lips before she could stop it.
"What did you say?" Her mother watched her.
"No-nothing." Her cheeks flushed and she turned a bit redder than usual.
"Sit, Kagome. Why are you standing?"
"I... um... hai." Kagome sat down next to her mother.
"Tea?" She was asked.
"Yes, please."
"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.
"Yes, Inuyasha. You haven't seen him, I assume. His brother, Sesshoumaru is inside the castle."
"Half brother," she said, her brain concentrating on other things.
~*~
A monk walked with them. "And Inuyasha, too. He may not look it, but he is a good fellow."
'He's right. Too bad Inuyasha doesn't see it himself...'
*
"What?... What do you want?"
"I'm scared, okay?! It seems like it could start moving any second now, so..."
"..."
"..."
"That's all?"
"What do you mean, 'that's all?... ...Just what exactly did you think I was thinking about?!"
"Hey, you're the one who's snuggling up to me!"
"And you're the one having dirty thoughts!"
*
"...want you near me..."
*
'If half of him is a demon, and he's a half demon... Then the other half is human?'
~*~
"Kagome?" Kagome's mother pushed her back to the reality, from her unwanted and misunderstood thoughts.
"Yes?"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. I'm fine. Just thinking."
"About what?"
"About that that there is no way I'm marrying him."
Her mother's jaw opened without the intention of closing for the time being. "I tried to pick the best I could, and –"
"So you just went and picked a demon."
"How..? He is not a full demon. He is half human."
"And half demon."
~*~
A boy?... What is he doing here?
"Excuse me – Hello?--"
'Those aren't normal human ears...
I want to touch them.'
~*~
"I won't marry him." Kagome declared. "He's an immature, jealous, completely idiotic jerk..."
Her mother watched her, eyes widening in shock of her daughter's words. "By the way you're talking about him, it looks like you're already married..." She sweatdropped.
Kagome glared at her mother. "I won't marry him. I don't really care who... as long he's not the son of Inutaisho."
I have bad experience with both...
"I don't care if you will drag me and torture me- I'm not marrying him."
"That's the idea!" Her mother smiled widely. "If I have to," now the smile turned sweet, "I will drag you to the wedding myself."
VOCABULARY
Hai- Yes, okay
Preview:
"Nee-chan? To where?"
"To the kitchen!!"
"But, Nee-chan..." Souta freed his hand from hers. "The kitchen is on the other way..."
"Then let's go to the other way!" She decided, and started to go to the opposite way, only to have Souta dragging his legs on the floor when he walked after her, looking at her in disbelief.
"Ano... Nee-chan?" He cleared his throat.
"Yes?" She turned her head to face him.
"You just missed the kitchen by two doors..."