The End...
...Of Osuwari's
She landed on the other side, Sengoku Jidai. Kagome lifted her familiar friend, the big, yellow bag, onto her shoulders and started to climb. Once at the top, she removed the backpack and leaned against the well, studying the scenery and waiting for someone to realize she was back. Someone would have to go down in the well to get the other two items she brought and it wouldn't be her.
"Oi, wench!" came the familiar cry. Right after hearing this, a hanyou burst into the clearing, slowing to a walk as he came closer. Inuyasha stood before her; he was a head taller than her, unruly white hair falling to his ass- quite a nice ass, too,- golden eyes performing their own perusal of her, and one must not forget the oh-so-kawaii ears that topped his head. Currently, said ears were twitching slightly, picking up the sounds the rest of their little group were making on their way to greet Kagome, the heart and soul of the group. "Where the hell have you been? You said you'd only be gone three days, so imagine my surprise that not only after three days had you not returned, but someone also made sure I couldn't go get you! What was so much more important than finding Naraku and completing the Tama that you took shichi extra days to return?!"
Seeming to have completely ignored his tirade, she spoke, "Inuyasha, I brought extra stuff this time; it's still in the well could you please-"
"What do I look like to you, a servant?" he huffed as he leapt into the well only to reappear moments later with the black carrying case and the guitar. When he would have just dropped both items, Kagome snatched the guitar case from Inuyasha, thanking him curtly while cradling the guitar case to her chest. He surveyed the baggage then turned his attention to her again. "Planning a long stay this time?"
Before she could answer Shippo came into sight, launching his small kitsune body at her with an enthusiastic "Kagome!" Subconsciously expecting this, the young woman had already shifted the case to one hand, and stood ready to catch the boy with her free arm. Sango and Miroku followed quickly on Kirara. As greetings were exchanged a certain, patient, hanyou stood to the side.
"Wench! I asked you some questions."
"Inuyasha, I did return the day after I initially left. I spoke to Kaede and she told me you all went to track a rumor of a kakera; something had come up, so I told her I needed more time and asked if she could place a miko barrier around the well to keep you from getting me. Obviously she did a good job of it."
As Kagome spoke to the hanyou, it hadn't escaped the notice of the taijiya that her friend had more luggage than usual and it hadn't escaped the notice of the houshi that a certain woman's attention was diverted. A hand casually reached out; another hand, in the shape of a fist, made contact.
"Kagome-chan, why did you bring extra bags?" Sango asked, completely ignoring the dazed man on the ground.
"Ano, minna, I've decided to stay until the Shikon is complete and Naraku is dead." She sat on the grass with Shippo, pulling the black case towards her. "I wanted to make sure I would have no reason to go home anytime soon, so I guess I over did it." Kagome now was digging through the case and soon emerged with a strange black box. She lifted the box to her face and turned towards Sango, who failed to notice who had regained his equilibrium. A flash of light was aided in startling the woman by a groping hand. Another flash of light signaled Miroku had met a favorite friend of his, Hiraikotsu.
Kagome took the paper that came out of the little box and laid it next to the first one that had appeared. "This," indicating the black box, "is a camera, a Polaroid camera. It... paints an instant picture, you could say." Shippo, still sitting in Kagome's lap, looked down at the square papers that had come from the pole-are-ode came-era.
"Look, look, there's a Sango and Miroku!" he squealed excitedly. Inuyasha leaned over Kagome to see two pictures: one of the houshi groping Sango and one of her beating him.
"What's it for?"
"It's to capture a moment in time, to create a keepsake of a memory. In this case, the memory was a funny one." She passed the Polaroid camera to Shippo and once again rummaged, giving a small, pleased sound as she revealed another black box, though differently shaped. "This is a digital camera; it has the same idea as a Polaroid camera, only you don't get the picture on paper but, rather, on the screen. Watch." Winking at Shippo, Kagome called out in a singsong voice, "Oh, Inuyasha." Shippo's eyes lit up in understanding and anticipation as he raised the camera as he had seen her do.
"What do you want, wench? We need to get going if we're gonna find more shards and Nara-"
"Osuwari!"
Two lights flashed simultaneously, catching the descent of Inuyasha forever on film.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
After a day of playing with the cameras, the shard-hunting party decided to depart come morning. They currently sat in Kaede's hut, passing the time after eating dinner and going to bed.
It was at this time Kagome opened the second black case, revealing a well-used guitar. Sango watched in fascination as she pulled out the wood instrument and began tuning. The woman had no need to pay attention to the lecherous houshi as he was currently... taking a nap.
"Kagome-chan, what is that?"
"This," indicating the instrument as she began to tune, "is a guitar, a musical instrument. Just pluck the strings," strikes the open A, "and you get a note; if you put your finger on the string," places two fingers on the A, "you get a different note," plays a C. "From that, you could build a chord, which is three notes played at once." She placed her fingers across several strings and played an F major chord. "From the chords comes the song." Kagome sat in the firelight and began to play.
Hey now, all you sinners
Sango gave a pointed glare at the now conscious Miroku, who responded with his usual innocent expression. The young miko's voice was smooth and gentle as she continued, despite the grin from watching the byplay.
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you lovers
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you killers
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on, you better leave your lights on
Kagome gazed into the fire, lost to the music now. Inuyasha sat against the wall, eyes closed, seeming to ignore the song, but his ears stood at attention, catching every nuance of the music. Sango, Shippo, Kaede, and Miroku sat spellbound by the sound flowing effortlessly into the small space.
Cause there's a monster living under my bed
Whispering in my ear
There's an angel, with a hand on my head
She say I've got nothing to fear
There's a darkness deep in my soul
I still got a purpose to serve
So let your light shine, into my home
God, don't let me lose my nerve
Lose my nerve
Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Wo oh hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Her voice grew stronger, more passionate as the song played on.
Hey now, all you sinners
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on, you better leave your lights on
Because there's a monster living under my bed
Whispering in my ear
There's an angel, with a hand on my head She say's I've got nothing to fear
La ill aha ill allah
We all shine like stars
We all shine like stars
Then we fade away
The last notes faded into the silence, broken only by the crackling fire and the steady beat of rain outside.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
The next morning, Kagome stood aside with Kaede, speaking softly. The older miko hugged the younger one and whispered words of encouragement and farewells, promising to pray for her.
Kagome straightened up and left her mentor standing alone. She approached her friends, specifically the hanyou who stood tapping his foot in a familiar display of impatience. When he would of lambasted her for taking too long, she reached up and placed a finger on his lips. The young woman gripped the edges of his haori, pulling him down; she then shifted her grasp to the prayer beads that had been his for practically their entire relationship and slipped them up over his head.
"I trust you not to hurt me now," she explained to the speechless Inuyasha. "Just try to have more patience in any situation where I would have previously 'sat' you, ne?"
"A-arigato." Then, with typicality of the emotionally stunted demon we all know and love he then said, "We've wasted enough time, let's go." And with that he started walking west, back to the sun and his stunned friends, feeling as though he stood at the top of the world; the past three years of friendship, trust, revelations, disappointments, new enemies, old love and new behind him, something vastly, but dreadfully, unknown before him. The feeling that something great, something horrendous was coming began to grow deep within.
(Please belatedly note that any and all songs used in this story do not belong to me.
Put Your Lights On from Carlos Santana's Supernatural featuring Everlast
Shichi is one of several Japanese words for seven.)
7/17/03
...Of Osuwari's
She landed on the other side, Sengoku Jidai. Kagome lifted her familiar friend, the big, yellow bag, onto her shoulders and started to climb. Once at the top, she removed the backpack and leaned against the well, studying the scenery and waiting for someone to realize she was back. Someone would have to go down in the well to get the other two items she brought and it wouldn't be her.
"Oi, wench!" came the familiar cry. Right after hearing this, a hanyou burst into the clearing, slowing to a walk as he came closer. Inuyasha stood before her; he was a head taller than her, unruly white hair falling to his ass- quite a nice ass, too,- golden eyes performing their own perusal of her, and one must not forget the oh-so-kawaii ears that topped his head. Currently, said ears were twitching slightly, picking up the sounds the rest of their little group were making on their way to greet Kagome, the heart and soul of the group. "Where the hell have you been? You said you'd only be gone three days, so imagine my surprise that not only after three days had you not returned, but someone also made sure I couldn't go get you! What was so much more important than finding Naraku and completing the Tama that you took shichi extra days to return?!"
Seeming to have completely ignored his tirade, she spoke, "Inuyasha, I brought extra stuff this time; it's still in the well could you please-"
"What do I look like to you, a servant?" he huffed as he leapt into the well only to reappear moments later with the black carrying case and the guitar. When he would have just dropped both items, Kagome snatched the guitar case from Inuyasha, thanking him curtly while cradling the guitar case to her chest. He surveyed the baggage then turned his attention to her again. "Planning a long stay this time?"
Before she could answer Shippo came into sight, launching his small kitsune body at her with an enthusiastic "Kagome!" Subconsciously expecting this, the young woman had already shifted the case to one hand, and stood ready to catch the boy with her free arm. Sango and Miroku followed quickly on Kirara. As greetings were exchanged a certain, patient, hanyou stood to the side.
"Wench! I asked you some questions."
"Inuyasha, I did return the day after I initially left. I spoke to Kaede and she told me you all went to track a rumor of a kakera; something had come up, so I told her I needed more time and asked if she could place a miko barrier around the well to keep you from getting me. Obviously she did a good job of it."
As Kagome spoke to the hanyou, it hadn't escaped the notice of the taijiya that her friend had more luggage than usual and it hadn't escaped the notice of the houshi that a certain woman's attention was diverted. A hand casually reached out; another hand, in the shape of a fist, made contact.
"Kagome-chan, why did you bring extra bags?" Sango asked, completely ignoring the dazed man on the ground.
"Ano, minna, I've decided to stay until the Shikon is complete and Naraku is dead." She sat on the grass with Shippo, pulling the black case towards her. "I wanted to make sure I would have no reason to go home anytime soon, so I guess I over did it." Kagome now was digging through the case and soon emerged with a strange black box. She lifted the box to her face and turned towards Sango, who failed to notice who had regained his equilibrium. A flash of light was aided in startling the woman by a groping hand. Another flash of light signaled Miroku had met a favorite friend of his, Hiraikotsu.
Kagome took the paper that came out of the little box and laid it next to the first one that had appeared. "This," indicating the black box, "is a camera, a Polaroid camera. It... paints an instant picture, you could say." Shippo, still sitting in Kagome's lap, looked down at the square papers that had come from the pole-are-ode came-era.
"Look, look, there's a Sango and Miroku!" he squealed excitedly. Inuyasha leaned over Kagome to see two pictures: one of the houshi groping Sango and one of her beating him.
"What's it for?"
"It's to capture a moment in time, to create a keepsake of a memory. In this case, the memory was a funny one." She passed the Polaroid camera to Shippo and once again rummaged, giving a small, pleased sound as she revealed another black box, though differently shaped. "This is a digital camera; it has the same idea as a Polaroid camera, only you don't get the picture on paper but, rather, on the screen. Watch." Winking at Shippo, Kagome called out in a singsong voice, "Oh, Inuyasha." Shippo's eyes lit up in understanding and anticipation as he raised the camera as he had seen her do.
"What do you want, wench? We need to get going if we're gonna find more shards and Nara-"
"Osuwari!"
Two lights flashed simultaneously, catching the descent of Inuyasha forever on film.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
After a day of playing with the cameras, the shard-hunting party decided to depart come morning. They currently sat in Kaede's hut, passing the time after eating dinner and going to bed.
It was at this time Kagome opened the second black case, revealing a well-used guitar. Sango watched in fascination as she pulled out the wood instrument and began tuning. The woman had no need to pay attention to the lecherous houshi as he was currently... taking a nap.
"Kagome-chan, what is that?"
"This," indicating the instrument as she began to tune, "is a guitar, a musical instrument. Just pluck the strings," strikes the open A, "and you get a note; if you put your finger on the string," places two fingers on the A, "you get a different note," plays a C. "From that, you could build a chord, which is three notes played at once." She placed her fingers across several strings and played an F major chord. "From the chords comes the song." Kagome sat in the firelight and began to play.
Hey now, all you sinners
Sango gave a pointed glare at the now conscious Miroku, who responded with his usual innocent expression. The young miko's voice was smooth and gentle as she continued, despite the grin from watching the byplay.
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you lovers
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you killers
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on, you better leave your lights on
Kagome gazed into the fire, lost to the music now. Inuyasha sat against the wall, eyes closed, seeming to ignore the song, but his ears stood at attention, catching every nuance of the music. Sango, Shippo, Kaede, and Miroku sat spellbound by the sound flowing effortlessly into the small space.
Cause there's a monster living under my bed
Whispering in my ear
There's an angel, with a hand on my head
She say I've got nothing to fear
There's a darkness deep in my soul
I still got a purpose to serve
So let your light shine, into my home
God, don't let me lose my nerve
Lose my nerve
Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Wo oh hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now
Her voice grew stronger, more passionate as the song played on.
Hey now, all you sinners
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on, you better leave your lights on
Because there's a monster living under my bed
Whispering in my ear
There's an angel, with a hand on my head She say's I've got nothing to fear
La ill aha ill allah
We all shine like stars
We all shine like stars
Then we fade away
The last notes faded into the silence, broken only by the crackling fire and the steady beat of rain outside.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
The next morning, Kagome stood aside with Kaede, speaking softly. The older miko hugged the younger one and whispered words of encouragement and farewells, promising to pray for her.
Kagome straightened up and left her mentor standing alone. She approached her friends, specifically the hanyou who stood tapping his foot in a familiar display of impatience. When he would of lambasted her for taking too long, she reached up and placed a finger on his lips. The young woman gripped the edges of his haori, pulling him down; she then shifted her grasp to the prayer beads that had been his for practically their entire relationship and slipped them up over his head.
"I trust you not to hurt me now," she explained to the speechless Inuyasha. "Just try to have more patience in any situation where I would have previously 'sat' you, ne?"
"A-arigato." Then, with typicality of the emotionally stunted demon we all know and love he then said, "We've wasted enough time, let's go." And with that he started walking west, back to the sun and his stunned friends, feeling as though he stood at the top of the world; the past three years of friendship, trust, revelations, disappointments, new enemies, old love and new behind him, something vastly, but dreadfully, unknown before him. The feeling that something great, something horrendous was coming began to grow deep within.
(Please belatedly note that any and all songs used in this story do not belong to me.
Put Your Lights On from Carlos Santana's Supernatural featuring Everlast
Shichi is one of several Japanese words for seven.)
7/17/03
