Kiss From a Rose
By Mystical Star
A Kitty-Chan Production
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. Mostly because if I did, I'd have a whole lot of money and I could speak Japanese! But I only know a few words and I'm broke, therefore I can't own Inuyasha or any related characters. So there!
Author's Note: A small dictionary of the Japanese words that appear will be provided at the end of the chapter for all you folk who don't know them :)
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Chapter Three ~ Don't Dream, It's Over
"Five years," Kagome sighed, sweeping the stairs of the family's shrine. Five years and you still haven't come back for me, Inuyasha. She thought sorrowfully.
"Where are you?" Kagome asked, looking up into the blue sky.
"I'm right here!" A voice replied, startling Kagome. She looked down to see a little girl with long, silver hair, golden eyes, and dog ears.
"So you are, Hikari," Kagome laughed. "Where's your brother?"
"Finishing lessons with Ji-chan," The little girl identified as Hikari said, smiling brightly.
"I take it you have finished yours?" Kagome asked.
"Hai, Kasan! Ji-chan says I'm a better listener than you were!"
Kagome laughed. "I wouldn't doubt it. Now go and start your chores, then you may play,"
"Hai, Kasan!" Hikari exclaimed, running off to assist her mother with cleaning the shrine grounds.
Kagome smiled and went back to her sweeping. It's hard to believe that I've become a mother. A mother of twins no less. Kagome thought to herself. Her thoughts found their way back to five years in the past, the night before Inuyasha pushed her down the well with no way to return. She blushed slightly. Who would have thought that the first time…. Kagome sighed, the memory bringing her heart sadness.
It had taken her a week or two to realize that she was carrying Inuyasha's children. She immediately went to the doctor, who told her that she was going to have twins. Kagome was so alarmed that she nearly fainted.
She knew that the school would never approve of her pregnancy, so she dropped out, much to her friends' dismay. They stopped by and barraged her with questions. Kagome found it much to difficult to lie to their faces, so she told them everything. At first, her friends were furious about all of the lies, but their fury turned to sympathy when she told them that she was stuck in the present time, carrying her lover's children. Even now, her friends still stopped by to say hello and tell her the latest buzz. Even Hojou came by once in a while.
When it came time to have the twins, Kagome's mother wanted to take her to the hospital, but Kagome refused, knowing that she was carrying the children of a hanyou, and their appearances might not be "normal". Come to find out, only one of the twins looked like a hanyou. Hikari. She bore her father's features. Her brother Hikaru, on the other hand, looked exactly like Kagome, with the exception of his golden eyes.
Sadly, Kagome knew that she couldn't send them to school. Their strange hanyou features would cause too much curiosity, especially Hikari's ears. So she and her grandfather and mother home-schooled them and Kagome became a miko to the shrine, giving into destiny. She wore the traditional red and white robes, but she refused to put her hair in a ponytail. She always wore it down.
In the past five years, Kagome's miko abilities had flourished. Her grandfather told her it was probably caused by her motherhood, her body had called up her powers to protect her children. Whatever the cause was, Kagome could now sense everything around her, and had acquired many of the same powers that Kikyou once had. Kagome couldn't decide if she was happy or disgusted that she was becoming more and more like her predecessor.
Kagome sighed and decided that she could not waste her time with daydreaming and went back to her sweeping cherry blossoms from the sidewalk.
Just then, Hikaru came traipsing out of the house and ran up to his mother.
"Kasan! I'm done with lessons!" He declared.
"Sugoi, Hikaru! Hikari is over by the well-house cleaning. Go help her, but remember: Don't go in the well-house," Kagome said, ruffling her son's jet black hair. Hikaru laughed and then ran off to go find his sister.
He rounded the corner of the house to find Hikari sweeping cherry blossoms from the sidewalk near the well house. He was about to go get a broom when a strange feeling coming from the well-house stopped him.
"Hikari, did you feel that?" He asked.
"What?"
"That!"
"That what?"
The five-year-old little boy growled and went close to the well-house.
"Oi! Kasan says we're not supposed to go in there!" Hikari scolded her brother. Hikaru didn't listen and pushed the door to the bone-eater's well house open.
"Hikaru!"
Hikaru determinedly walked down the stairs of the well-house and looked down into the well. Hikaru followed him.
"You're going to be in big trouble if Kasan finds us in here!" Hikari told him as the little boy peeked down the well.
"What are you looking at anyway?"
"There's something down there," Hikaru pointed out.
"Huh?" Hikari asked, looking down the well with her brother. "I don't see anything,"
"I wanna know what it is," Hikaru said.
"But there's nothing down there!" Hikari protested. Her brother paid her no mind and began to climb down to the bottom of the well.
"Hikaru!" She called out. The sudden shout startled the little boy, causing him to fall backwards.
"HIKARU!"
Hikaru fell into the blackness and disappeared. Hikari stood there for a moment, trying to contemplate why she could not here her brother crying from hitting the bottom of the well. Suddenly, it sunk in that something terrible happened, and she let out an ear-shattering wail.
Back in front of the shrine, Kagome heard her daughter's cry and dropped her broom immediately, dashing for the well-house.
She found Hikari coming from the well-house, sobbing.
"Hikari! What's wrong! Where's Hikaru?" She asked, kneeling down and looking into her daughter's golden eyes.
"Don't get mad at us but- " Hikari hiccupped, "Hikaru said he saw something in the well, and he fell down and he's not coming back out!"
"Nani?!" Kagome gasped, looking at the open door of the well-house. She could not feel her son's presence. But she knew that he wasn't dead from a long fall.
"Kasan?"
Kagome didn't say a word as she walked into the well-house. She followed the same path her children took, feeling where they had been. She reached out into the darkness with her mind, only to find that her son did not lay at the bottom of the well, but on the other side. Her heart skipped a beat.
"Masaka…" She gasped.
"Kasan, what's going on?" Hikari asked, coming to her mother's side and clinging to her red miko kimono. Kagome took her daughter's hand.
"I'm not sure," she replied. Something from the well was calling her.
"Where's Hikaru?" Hikari asked.
"I think we should go find out," Kagome said, sitting on the rim of the well. She took Hikari up in her lap. "Hang on tightly," the young woman instructed her child. Hikari nodded and gripped her mother's clothing tightly as Kagome pushed off into the well.
To be continued…
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Japanese Words
Ji-chan – Grandpa
Miko – Priestess
Sugoi – Wonderful, amazing, cool.
Oi – hey!
Masaka – It's impossible