CHAPTER 2: THE CHILD WHO CRY
ONE WEEK BEFORE Kaede sighed with low voice, coming down from the saddle with rigid movements because the long ride but also because her old age. "Are you ok, Kaede-sama?" asked one of the escort. "Yes, yes." she answered, churlish. She looked around her. They were arrived in a small village, built between the forest and a not very large lake. Kaede corrugated is wrinkled forehead. Time was passed from her departure. She had wanted to attend Inuyasha and the others at the village, but a recurrent nightmare had put her to depart in their pursuit, following their faint tracks. Kaede sighed. According to her nightmares, her sister Kikyou had to die soon, and the jewel was going to be completed, but the miko was scared because how that all would been happened. If Inuyasha'd wished to become a full youkai.or her sister'd remained in life.all that would been finished by blood. Her nightmares had shown to her a mountain with a sacred barrier. Known that mountain, Kaede had departed for help her friends and to dispel her fears. "Well, let's go. We have to take information." she said at her escort. They came in the village, carrying their horses by the halter. Kaede seen in a minute that something was wrong in that village. Everybody looked at them with suspicious eyes, without an evident justification. An old man came to her. "Good morning, miko-sama. - he said, respectful- I'm the head of this village. Can we do anything for you?" "I hope that." Kaede answered. The head took her to his home, where the miko asked for information about Inuyasha's group. "An hanyou with three humans, a kitsune and a cat demon? - the man asked, puzzled- No, they were not been here." "Thank you anyhow.- said Kaede- Can you tell me how far is Mount Hakurei from here?" "Four days, more or less, to north-west, miko-sama.- answered the head of the village- But, be careful! It seems that it's not a secure place, now." "I know.- Kaede sighed, standing up- I know it very well." In that moment, a woman head overcame from the door. The head stood up. "What do you want, Haneko?" the old man asked. "Can I speak with you, miko-sama?" she asked, talking to Kaede. The old miko nodded, following the woman. She bowed her head, nervous, torturing her kimono. "Are you interested on strange facts, miko-sama?" the woman asked. "Just a bit." Kaede said, puzzled. She was probably the only miko on Earth so involved with mysteries and demons.apart from her sister and the young Kagome. "Then, can I introduce to you a person?" the woman asked. Kaede nodded. At that point, she was a little curios. To left some minutes there were not a tragedy. The woman, named Haneko, took her on the fields near the village. There, she pointed with her index just in front of her. "She was there.- the woman whispered- Can you see her?" Kaede, on a first look, didn't see anything strange. Some women worked in the fields, one was taking water from a well, one was.Her only eye returned on the girl at the well. "A stranger?" she murmured. The girl, twenty years old, more or less, wasn't similar at the others around her. Her skin was very pale, near to the color of Kikyou's and Kagome's. Her body was thin but feminine, under her simply kimono. Her golden brown hairs were very long and came down till her knees wavy. A simply white ribbon held them. Kaede turned to the woman. "Do you have a stranger in your village? Is this the strange fact?" she asked, losing interest. "That strange girl.we don't know how she came here.- hissed the woman, glaring at the girl- We found her in the forest. She was confused and wore very strange clothes. She speaks Japanese with a strange accent, and she isn't respectful at all! And her eyes.she has something very strange in her eyes. She seems a youkai!" "I'll talk with her." said Kaede. At that point, her curiosity was very high! Some minute later, Kaede was attending the girl in the house of the head of village. In that moment, she came in from the door. "Good morning, miko-sama." she said, with low and musical voice. Kaede nodded, and she sat in front of her. Looking at her from a short distance, Kaede admitted to herself that that girl had something wild, but she seemed sweeter than Haneko's description. Her eyes, gray-blue, affected her. The girl attracted all her spiritual energy. She had some powers, but she was not a demon for sure. "What's your name, girl?" Kaede asked. "Anna, miko-sama." she answered. Kaede nodded. A foreign name. "Someone has tell to me that you came in this village in a strange way, girl." said Kaede. Anna nodded without a word. That girl has guts, she looked in her eyes without fear. "Can't you return at your home, little girl?" she asked. Anna smiled mischievously to herself. "I can't, miko-sama. This is what I think. My trip was not through space but through time." she said. Kaede stood, astonished. "I know.- she said- I know a girl that comes from a time far from this. She can return to her home by a well. If you come from the same era." "What girl?" Anna asked, focused her inquiring eyes on the miko. If there was a way to return to home. "Her name is Kagome.- Kaede answered- She comes from." "One moment, please.- Anna stopped the miko, turning pale- Your name.is Kaede?" "Yes, I'm Kaede." the miko said, after a moment of silence. "And the girl.she's Kagome Higurashi, isn't she?" Kaede nodded, dumbfounded. The girl lost heart. She sighed, with a hand over her face. "Better and better!" she growled, than exclaimed something in a foreign language. "What's the problem? How do you know Kagome?" Kaede asked. The girl looks at her with dark eyes. "Well, Kaede-sama.I come from the same time of Kagome." she started. "Well, there's no problem then, my girl!" Kaede exclaimed, but the young girl raised a hand to shut up miko's words. "I come from the same time, but not from the same world, it seems." Anna said. She smiled at the confuse look of the miko. "In my world, your story is.well, just a story. Kagome, Inuyasha, you and the others are only characters of a Japanese woman's fantastic mind. I've read your adventures till my trip here." Kaede made a little cry of surprise. "I'd understood that I was catapulted in the Sengoku Jidai, and this was incredible for itself, but to be in the same Sengoku Jidai of Inuyasha and Kagome.well, it's out of the reality I've ever know.- she murmured angrily, corrugating her eyebrows- I can't return at home." Her eyes darkened. Kaede felt pain for that unlucky girl, that, like Kagome, was in a world that is not hers. Kagome had found a way to return at home, friends and a mission in this era, but Anna seemed hated in the village and she couldn't return at home.for the rest of her life, probably.
"A parallel world.- Kaede whispered, thinking- Tell me how are you arrived here." "I was coming in Japan by fly, for studying.- Anna said, with a very low voice- Then, near the airport.do you know what is an airport?" Kaede nodded. Kagome had explained it to her. "Near the airport, I had a strange but clear vision and I felt a strange energy run through my body. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was here, near the village." "What have you seen?" Kaede asked. "A building. An enormous and beautiful palace.- Anna whispered, thinking- There was someone standing in front of the palace, near the door, but I couldn't see him very well. I felt.his sadness and his loneliness." "And then you were arrived here." Kaede said, and Anna nodded. "It seems that someone has attracted you here through time and space, knowing that you come from a parallel world. It can be interesting to find who is this someone." "Yeah, so, maybe, I'll leave this awful village and that superstitious people." was the acid comment of Anna. She sighed. "I'm sorry, Kaede-sama, I'm very irritable. Changing subject, how is the Shikon search finished?" "It's still in progress. I'm on the road because of it." answered Kaede. "I see, and I hope that all can finish alright, Kaede-sama." Anna said. The miko looked at her for one moment, while she bowed respectfully. "Don't think about me anymore, Kaede-sama, you have other fish to fry. I'll try to hang on. You could not do anything, anyway." With those last words, Anna exited. Kaede left after a few time, leaving the village at her back. For all the day, she thought about the sad and cold eyes of that girl. "I must do something for her.- she decided, in the end- When I'll return, I'll introduce her to Kagome and the others. We'll carry her with us. If she could not return at home, we'll make her life here less hard." With this decision in her mind, the miko went without other distractions at Mount Hakurei.
EIGHT DAYS LATER "Anna! Anna, lazybones! Where are you?" "Shut up, rook!" hissed Anna, made herself more little behind the water's barrel near the house. Haneko was in pursuit of her, to force her to work hard in some of those damned fields, surely. "That gaijin!- cried Haneko- I give her hospitality, I feed her and she doesn't raise a single finger!" "If you call trash ten hours a day under your whip." Anna murmured with hate, sliding silently behind the house and then in the forest. She ran, than her walk became slow. For that day she was full of that slaver and of the allusive chitchats of the village's women. She needed to stay alone. She sighed, touching tenderly the bushes and raising her eyes at the sky. The nightfall was near. Anna stumbled, cursed through teeth in a language that no one might understand. That cursed kimono.it was not already a habit. She known that to walk in the forest was dangerous, more and more at that time of the day, but the nature returned to her mind a shadow of mental sanity. She had heard with an only ear the voices of youkais in the forest but now on, she could not ignore them anymore. What a crazy story, she was now in Inuyasha's world! She might to write a fantastic fanfiction.if only she was at home. At home. She dried her teary eyes with anger. If only she fell in cry, she could not hang on anymore. A tiny sound stopped her thoughts and her walk. Anna heard, ready to run for her safety to the village at the first danger signal. But that sound wasn't very fearful. It seemed.seemed. "A cry?" she asked, talking to herself. Yes, it was just a child cry. Anna thought that a village's baby was lost in the forest. She went to the sound, very heartbreaking, now. She came out in a clearing. In the middle, there was a child that cried in desperation. "Child." Anna murmured. The little child raised her head with a sigh of fright. She was six, eight years old. She had brown eyes and hair, not very short. She had a little ponytail on a side of her head. Her face was wet of tears, her eyes was red because the cry. Anna smiled sweetly. "Child, why are you crying?" she asked, with reassuring voice. The little child tried to recompose herself drying her eyes with her hands. "Who are you?" she asked with a break voice. "I'm Anna." the girl answered sitting near her. That child had very pure eyes."Do you want to tell me why are you crying?" she asked another time. The child sighed. "Rin is lost." she said. "Rin."- repeated Anna, puzzled- Is Rin your name?" The child nodded and Anna smiled. That little girl talked funny. She seems very likeable. "Are you here from a long time, Rin?" she asked to her. "The sun was high. I was in search of flowers." the child answered. She looked at the girl. That Anna seemed kind, she was better in her presence. "Some hours, I see.- Anna whispered- Were you with your parents?" "No.- Rin said, looking at the sky- Rin's parents are dead." "Oh, I'm sorry, Rin." Anna said. The child smiled brightly. "But Rin isn't alone!- she stopped her mouth, returning serious- Well, she wasn't alone." "Do you want my help in your search, Rin?" asked Anna. "Really? Do you help Rin to find her way, nee-chan?" Rin exclaimed, jumping on her feet for joy. Anna laughed. Nee-chan? "Sure, Rin!" she said. That child was really adorable. "And.if we don't find them?" asked Rin. Her eyes were full of tears again. Anna hugged her tenderly. "Don't cry, Rin-chan.- she said, stroking gently her bang and kissed her on the forehead- I'm sure that we'll find them, if not this evening, tomorrow. You could sleep with me at the village and tomorrow morning." "Rin will be not a trouble?" the child asked. Anna smiled and shook her head. "If I'll work for you too, no one had to talk." she said, with battling voice. Rin looked at her. "You are very nice with Rin, nee-chan." she said. Anna looked at her in surprise, than smiled again. "Well, courage! On the road!- she said, with a false enthusiasm- Who are the peoples we had to search?" "Oh, their names are." started Rin. "Rin. I've search you everywhere." A very cold voice at her back, freezing Anna on her feet, whiles Rin jumped behind her with a cry of joy. Anna turned slowly, felling a great danger. At her back, with the little Rin took root over his leg, there was a tall man, well dressed. His glacial amber eyes were focused on her, his silver white hair flying in the evening wind. A fluffy tail stood over a shoulder and a sword was on his side. "I'd have to know it." Anna thought, before Rin's words erased every doubt.
"Look, nee-chan! Sesshoumaru-sama has find Rin!"
ONE WEEK BEFORE Kaede sighed with low voice, coming down from the saddle with rigid movements because the long ride but also because her old age. "Are you ok, Kaede-sama?" asked one of the escort. "Yes, yes." she answered, churlish. She looked around her. They were arrived in a small village, built between the forest and a not very large lake. Kaede corrugated is wrinkled forehead. Time was passed from her departure. She had wanted to attend Inuyasha and the others at the village, but a recurrent nightmare had put her to depart in their pursuit, following their faint tracks. Kaede sighed. According to her nightmares, her sister Kikyou had to die soon, and the jewel was going to be completed, but the miko was scared because how that all would been happened. If Inuyasha'd wished to become a full youkai.or her sister'd remained in life.all that would been finished by blood. Her nightmares had shown to her a mountain with a sacred barrier. Known that mountain, Kaede had departed for help her friends and to dispel her fears. "Well, let's go. We have to take information." she said at her escort. They came in the village, carrying their horses by the halter. Kaede seen in a minute that something was wrong in that village. Everybody looked at them with suspicious eyes, without an evident justification. An old man came to her. "Good morning, miko-sama. - he said, respectful- I'm the head of this village. Can we do anything for you?" "I hope that." Kaede answered. The head took her to his home, where the miko asked for information about Inuyasha's group. "An hanyou with three humans, a kitsune and a cat demon? - the man asked, puzzled- No, they were not been here." "Thank you anyhow.- said Kaede- Can you tell me how far is Mount Hakurei from here?" "Four days, more or less, to north-west, miko-sama.- answered the head of the village- But, be careful! It seems that it's not a secure place, now." "I know.- Kaede sighed, standing up- I know it very well." In that moment, a woman head overcame from the door. The head stood up. "What do you want, Haneko?" the old man asked. "Can I speak with you, miko-sama?" she asked, talking to Kaede. The old miko nodded, following the woman. She bowed her head, nervous, torturing her kimono. "Are you interested on strange facts, miko-sama?" the woman asked. "Just a bit." Kaede said, puzzled. She was probably the only miko on Earth so involved with mysteries and demons.apart from her sister and the young Kagome. "Then, can I introduce to you a person?" the woman asked. Kaede nodded. At that point, she was a little curios. To left some minutes there were not a tragedy. The woman, named Haneko, took her on the fields near the village. There, she pointed with her index just in front of her. "She was there.- the woman whispered- Can you see her?" Kaede, on a first look, didn't see anything strange. Some women worked in the fields, one was taking water from a well, one was.Her only eye returned on the girl at the well. "A stranger?" she murmured. The girl, twenty years old, more or less, wasn't similar at the others around her. Her skin was very pale, near to the color of Kikyou's and Kagome's. Her body was thin but feminine, under her simply kimono. Her golden brown hairs were very long and came down till her knees wavy. A simply white ribbon held them. Kaede turned to the woman. "Do you have a stranger in your village? Is this the strange fact?" she asked, losing interest. "That strange girl.we don't know how she came here.- hissed the woman, glaring at the girl- We found her in the forest. She was confused and wore very strange clothes. She speaks Japanese with a strange accent, and she isn't respectful at all! And her eyes.she has something very strange in her eyes. She seems a youkai!" "I'll talk with her." said Kaede. At that point, her curiosity was very high! Some minute later, Kaede was attending the girl in the house of the head of village. In that moment, she came in from the door. "Good morning, miko-sama." she said, with low and musical voice. Kaede nodded, and she sat in front of her. Looking at her from a short distance, Kaede admitted to herself that that girl had something wild, but she seemed sweeter than Haneko's description. Her eyes, gray-blue, affected her. The girl attracted all her spiritual energy. She had some powers, but she was not a demon for sure. "What's your name, girl?" Kaede asked. "Anna, miko-sama." she answered. Kaede nodded. A foreign name. "Someone has tell to me that you came in this village in a strange way, girl." said Kaede. Anna nodded without a word. That girl has guts, she looked in her eyes without fear. "Can't you return at your home, little girl?" she asked. Anna smiled mischievously to herself. "I can't, miko-sama. This is what I think. My trip was not through space but through time." she said. Kaede stood, astonished. "I know.- she said- I know a girl that comes from a time far from this. She can return to her home by a well. If you come from the same era." "What girl?" Anna asked, focused her inquiring eyes on the miko. If there was a way to return to home. "Her name is Kagome.- Kaede answered- She comes from." "One moment, please.- Anna stopped the miko, turning pale- Your name.is Kaede?" "Yes, I'm Kaede." the miko said, after a moment of silence. "And the girl.she's Kagome Higurashi, isn't she?" Kaede nodded, dumbfounded. The girl lost heart. She sighed, with a hand over her face. "Better and better!" she growled, than exclaimed something in a foreign language. "What's the problem? How do you know Kagome?" Kaede asked. The girl looks at her with dark eyes. "Well, Kaede-sama.I come from the same time of Kagome." she started. "Well, there's no problem then, my girl!" Kaede exclaimed, but the young girl raised a hand to shut up miko's words. "I come from the same time, but not from the same world, it seems." Anna said. She smiled at the confuse look of the miko. "In my world, your story is.well, just a story. Kagome, Inuyasha, you and the others are only characters of a Japanese woman's fantastic mind. I've read your adventures till my trip here." Kaede made a little cry of surprise. "I'd understood that I was catapulted in the Sengoku Jidai, and this was incredible for itself, but to be in the same Sengoku Jidai of Inuyasha and Kagome.well, it's out of the reality I've ever know.- she murmured angrily, corrugating her eyebrows- I can't return at home." Her eyes darkened. Kaede felt pain for that unlucky girl, that, like Kagome, was in a world that is not hers. Kagome had found a way to return at home, friends and a mission in this era, but Anna seemed hated in the village and she couldn't return at home.for the rest of her life, probably.
"A parallel world.- Kaede whispered, thinking- Tell me how are you arrived here." "I was coming in Japan by fly, for studying.- Anna said, with a very low voice- Then, near the airport.do you know what is an airport?" Kaede nodded. Kagome had explained it to her. "Near the airport, I had a strange but clear vision and I felt a strange energy run through my body. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was here, near the village." "What have you seen?" Kaede asked. "A building. An enormous and beautiful palace.- Anna whispered, thinking- There was someone standing in front of the palace, near the door, but I couldn't see him very well. I felt.his sadness and his loneliness." "And then you were arrived here." Kaede said, and Anna nodded. "It seems that someone has attracted you here through time and space, knowing that you come from a parallel world. It can be interesting to find who is this someone." "Yeah, so, maybe, I'll leave this awful village and that superstitious people." was the acid comment of Anna. She sighed. "I'm sorry, Kaede-sama, I'm very irritable. Changing subject, how is the Shikon search finished?" "It's still in progress. I'm on the road because of it." answered Kaede. "I see, and I hope that all can finish alright, Kaede-sama." Anna said. The miko looked at her for one moment, while she bowed respectfully. "Don't think about me anymore, Kaede-sama, you have other fish to fry. I'll try to hang on. You could not do anything, anyway." With those last words, Anna exited. Kaede left after a few time, leaving the village at her back. For all the day, she thought about the sad and cold eyes of that girl. "I must do something for her.- she decided, in the end- When I'll return, I'll introduce her to Kagome and the others. We'll carry her with us. If she could not return at home, we'll make her life here less hard." With this decision in her mind, the miko went without other distractions at Mount Hakurei.
EIGHT DAYS LATER "Anna! Anna, lazybones! Where are you?" "Shut up, rook!" hissed Anna, made herself more little behind the water's barrel near the house. Haneko was in pursuit of her, to force her to work hard in some of those damned fields, surely. "That gaijin!- cried Haneko- I give her hospitality, I feed her and she doesn't raise a single finger!" "If you call trash ten hours a day under your whip." Anna murmured with hate, sliding silently behind the house and then in the forest. She ran, than her walk became slow. For that day she was full of that slaver and of the allusive chitchats of the village's women. She needed to stay alone. She sighed, touching tenderly the bushes and raising her eyes at the sky. The nightfall was near. Anna stumbled, cursed through teeth in a language that no one might understand. That cursed kimono.it was not already a habit. She known that to walk in the forest was dangerous, more and more at that time of the day, but the nature returned to her mind a shadow of mental sanity. She had heard with an only ear the voices of youkais in the forest but now on, she could not ignore them anymore. What a crazy story, she was now in Inuyasha's world! She might to write a fantastic fanfiction.if only she was at home. At home. She dried her teary eyes with anger. If only she fell in cry, she could not hang on anymore. A tiny sound stopped her thoughts and her walk. Anna heard, ready to run for her safety to the village at the first danger signal. But that sound wasn't very fearful. It seemed.seemed. "A cry?" she asked, talking to herself. Yes, it was just a child cry. Anna thought that a village's baby was lost in the forest. She went to the sound, very heartbreaking, now. She came out in a clearing. In the middle, there was a child that cried in desperation. "Child." Anna murmured. The little child raised her head with a sigh of fright. She was six, eight years old. She had brown eyes and hair, not very short. She had a little ponytail on a side of her head. Her face was wet of tears, her eyes was red because the cry. Anna smiled sweetly. "Child, why are you crying?" she asked, with reassuring voice. The little child tried to recompose herself drying her eyes with her hands. "Who are you?" she asked with a break voice. "I'm Anna." the girl answered sitting near her. That child had very pure eyes."Do you want to tell me why are you crying?" she asked another time. The child sighed. "Rin is lost." she said. "Rin."- repeated Anna, puzzled- Is Rin your name?" The child nodded and Anna smiled. That little girl talked funny. She seems very likeable. "Are you here from a long time, Rin?" she asked to her. "The sun was high. I was in search of flowers." the child answered. She looked at the girl. That Anna seemed kind, she was better in her presence. "Some hours, I see.- Anna whispered- Were you with your parents?" "No.- Rin said, looking at the sky- Rin's parents are dead." "Oh, I'm sorry, Rin." Anna said. The child smiled brightly. "But Rin isn't alone!- she stopped her mouth, returning serious- Well, she wasn't alone." "Do you want my help in your search, Rin?" asked Anna. "Really? Do you help Rin to find her way, nee-chan?" Rin exclaimed, jumping on her feet for joy. Anna laughed. Nee-chan? "Sure, Rin!" she said. That child was really adorable. "And.if we don't find them?" asked Rin. Her eyes were full of tears again. Anna hugged her tenderly. "Don't cry, Rin-chan.- she said, stroking gently her bang and kissed her on the forehead- I'm sure that we'll find them, if not this evening, tomorrow. You could sleep with me at the village and tomorrow morning." "Rin will be not a trouble?" the child asked. Anna smiled and shook her head. "If I'll work for you too, no one had to talk." she said, with battling voice. Rin looked at her. "You are very nice with Rin, nee-chan." she said. Anna looked at her in surprise, than smiled again. "Well, courage! On the road!- she said, with a false enthusiasm- Who are the peoples we had to search?" "Oh, their names are." started Rin. "Rin. I've search you everywhere." A very cold voice at her back, freezing Anna on her feet, whiles Rin jumped behind her with a cry of joy. Anna turned slowly, felling a great danger. At her back, with the little Rin took root over his leg, there was a tall man, well dressed. His glacial amber eyes were focused on her, his silver white hair flying in the evening wind. A fluffy tail stood over a shoulder and a sword was on his side. "I'd have to know it." Anna thought, before Rin's words erased every doubt.
"Look, nee-chan! Sesshoumaru-sama has find Rin!"