Fiction: Inuyasha
Title: Some Things Change
Chapter: So you fell down a well? That can't be good for your social life.
Rating: T for language
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How in the hell did I end up here? It's as if I magically appeared in this hole. Although, I know this isn't true, it still feels surreal and fantastical enough to believe that some mystical force propelled me into this dark, smelly… erg, place.
Maybe I hit my head too hard. I know I fell into a rather shallow well, but that doesn't change the fact that it hurt. Stupid snake creature had to jump out at me and scare me like that.
Well, not really scare me, I don't get scared, it merely startled me. Yeah, that's it. I was just surprised, that's all.
Now, how am I going to get out of this mess?
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Kagome is on her way home. She'd decided to cut across her family's expansive property headed for some very deserved grub. The town she lives in seemed to explode with life in just a few years. Only thirty years ago there was less than ten thousand people living in the providence, now there are more than three hundred thousand and over a million tourists flock to the bustling city each year.
Originally, a mining town for common minerals, the town had almost been deserted until a local hunter came upon an abandoned bear cave lined with gold. A major mining company bought up the land quickly and proceeded to move in large amounts of people, machinery, and money. Soon, many new jobs became available so that when the mine dried up there was still another entire economical base for the town to continue to exist.
The most noticeable moneymaker is tourism. Apparently, a great deal of people like to spend their vacations communing with nature, and despite the growth of the city there is still acres and acres of untamed land to frolic about in. The Sunset Shrine has only been in existence for a hundred years, but even in so short a time it still managed to gain notoriety. Famous for its beautiful forest, abundant blessings, and great festivals it has always attracted tourism even before the city boomed. This is why the Higurashi family manages to maintain almost two full acres of land for their shrine. Lots of land to impede the filling of ones stomach.
Kagome usually enjoys walking through the woods when going home, but today she doesn't have time to relax. She is late, very late. She runs through the shimmering trees and mild foliage. The forest floor crunching with every step, as the dry leaves and twigs crumble beneath her feet. The brisk air stings her lungs and freezes her face, whipping and trying to hold her back, or at least it seems that way.
She runs swiftly through the autumn night, her strides sure and strong on the familiar ground; so preoccupied that Kagome almost misses the sound of a person's voice. Fortunately, the words are easily heard in that way that only abrasive and loud cursing can be harshly made aware to everything within a mile radius.
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"Dumb snake, I'll kill you when I find you. Make me fall will ya.' Bastard, that hurt!"
I had tried to climb out of the well using the vines that decorated the sides. The cursing did not begin until after the vines broke, slamming my body to the ground from almost the entire length of the well.
"Damn snake would never of gotten away with this if I had been myself. God, I hate this night. It should be torn to shreds, ripped from the calendar. Never to curse me with it's…. it's…." Fuck slick analogies, they're useless, and never handy when one needs them.
"Hello! Are you alright?"
I look up the well to see the outline of a female leaning over the edge. At least I think it's a chick from the sound of her voice, a young female at that, and human. My inferior sight is making it impossible to see anything more than a vague petite silhouette.
"Does it look like I'm OK? I'm at the bottom of a fucking well. Would you be 'alright' if you had fallen down here, stupid girl?" I snap back, forgetting for a moment my current predicament.
"Stupid girl!" she exclaims, "Why you. Fine if you want to be mean about it, I can just leave you down there to rot."
I still. I do want to get out of the well, but I don't want to admit I have been hasty in insulting the girl. My usual problem, it seems. After only a second of silence my pride wins out, also as usual. "Fine by me," I'm pouting, dammit, "I can find my own way out. I don't need some weak human girl's help anyway."
"Oh, you must be a demon then, but why are you still down there? Aren't demons supposed to be too powerful to be bested by something as simple as a hole in the ground?" I don't need my demon abilities to process the smug sarcasm that slips down to me.
My anger, ever ready, flares and I want nothing more than to jump up to the girl and show her what powers a demon can possess. In fact, I try to do just that, but find the wall too great an adversary when my face is struck out of nowhere by a brick. Weird magical well, and all this shit getting in my way.
'Where did that come from?' I think as I shake my head to clear the spinning stars. Not for the first time I'm reminded of how weak humans are and how much I loathed my heritage. I grumble and curse some more at my predicament, just because I can, and it might be the closest to therapy I'll ever get.
The girl sighs, "Look, would you like some help or not? There is a small shrine near here and I believe it has some rope. I can get that and be back in a moment. Is that alright?"
I merely harrumph as a response. Okay, maybe it is 'alright.'
"I didn't hear you. Is that Ok with you?" she persists.
"Fine," is the simple and gruff reply.
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Disclaimer: Look up 'fan' and then 'fiction' in your Funk and Wagnall, and then put the two definitions together. If you have any question as to who owns the rights to Inuyasha after that, e-mail me. Although, I will have to charge you for the information because I sure as hell ain't making any money off of this story.
AN:
Yes, I realize that this sucks.
22 May 2002 / Edit on: 07 April 2009
Nothing is impossible, only improbable. -Ma