DISCLAIMER: I do not own the characters of the Inuyasha series nor do
I own the original storyline.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Tada!! Here's the first chapter of the actual storyline! I hope you will like
it!! Some of you asked whether this story takes place in the past, well it is,
this story takes place between the Sengoku Jidai and the future (more the first
than the latter though). Anyway, enjoy reading this chapter!!
By the way, I have re-edited this chapter, because I found it more appropriate to name the lord who adopted Kagome instead of referring him as 'the Lord' all the time ^-^. His name will be Takada (so it's either Lord Takada or Takada-sama).
Italic: thoughts
-- --: locations
"...": spoken words
~*~*~*~*~: time gap
*...* : noises
-by Kittymui-
A face forgotten and a remained promise
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A pair of white doors flung open as a young lady entered a long white hall.
Her long raven-black hair billowed in the air as she stomped towards her bedroom
at the end of the hall. She slammed the door shut behind her and made her way
to a pile of white pillows on the floor at the corner of the room and sat down.
A scowl could be seen on her face as she fumbled the sleeves of her white yukata.
Angry tears stung her eyes as she scanned her surroundings.
The walls were creamy yellow of color and the floor was white. A white wooden
bed just like her previous one stood against the wall from across the doors.
A low creamy blue nightstand could be seen next to the bed, together with a
large wardrobe. And of course, her favorite pillow spot at the corner of the
room near the windows. All of this made the room look exactly like the one she
had in her old house, yet none of it could make her feel safe and completely
comfortable like she felt back then.
Her train of nostalgic thoughts crashed when someone knocked on her bedroom
door.
*KNOCK KNOCK*
"Who is it?" she sighed, closing her eyes.
"It's me, Sango."
She relaxed a little. "Come in, the door isn't locked."
Sango was her personal maid and also her best friend. She was always there for
her when she needed someone to talk to. Every single maid wouldn't stop calling
her 'milady', but Sango was the only one who wouldn't mind calling her by her
real name. And she was truly happy about that.
"Milady, you shouldn't be angry at your father," the maid said as
she entered the room and closed the door behind her.
The raven-haired girl on the pillows turned to her and gave her an annoyed look.
"He's NOT my father, and you know that!" she spat before turning away
again. "And how many times do I have to remind you? Call me by my name
when nobody's around...please!"
Sango sighed. "Well then Kagome, you shouldn't be angry at the one who
saved your life...because he's only doing it for your own good," she rephrased
as she walked closer to her.
Kagome looked up when the maid stood still before her.
If you didn't know her you would probably say she was Maya's older sister. They
had the same black hair and dark brown eyes and with those standard clothes
of a maid, they almost seemed two drops of water.
But, unlike Maya, Sango always tied her long black hair into a high ponytail
or let it hanging loosely behind her back, instead of a braid. Without that
difference, Kagome would still be mistaking her for her previous maid. And partly
because of this, she was able to get along with her so well.
"I know..." she replied with a sigh. "I know I owe him my life...I
would definitely have died if he had not coincidentally traveled on the same
path and happened to be there when we were being attacked..." she remembered
with a sad look on her face, which was soon replaced by a scowl. ""But
still!!" she continued after a moment of silence. "That doesn't give
him the right to decide my future!!"
The maid knelt down in front of Kagome. "But Kagome, you are already 24
years old. Most girls of your age have already started a family." she reasoned.
"If it wasn't for Lord Takada's patience, you would already have been forced
to marry years ago."
Kagome averted her gaze as she slowly reached into her sleeve and pulled out
a small opaque bottle. "I know Sango...I know...but...that dream...that
I've been having ever since I'm suffering this...memory loss..." she said
as she closed her eyes. "...though only in fragments, I can still clearly
remember the words he said to me..."
"...I'll search for you until I've found you."
"...I will find you...kanarazu..."
Sango looked down at the porcelain bottle that she was holding. "So this
is the important gift Takada-sama mentioned? The one he said that you refused
to hand over to the bandits and protected while they were beating you up?"
She nodded.
"But Kagome, you surely don't intend to wait your whole life just because of a bottle and a dream?" her maid argued.
"It's not only a dream...I know it...I can feel it...it's a promise made long time ago...by someone very dear to me..." she defended as she ran the tip of her forefinger over the blue imprinted dogdemon that was howling to a crescent moon. "...although...I can't seem to remember who..."
A moment of silence fell upon the room until Sango suddenly stood up and decided
to speak again. "All right! Enough of the nostalgias...come on!" she
smiled and took Kagome's hand.
"W-where to?" Kagome asked surprised.
"Baka...have you forgotten about the Autumn Festival I told you about a couple of days ago??" her maid grinned. "If I'm not mistaking, the archery contest will be the main event again this year."
Kagome's eyes sparkled. "Hontou!??" she cried, instantly forgetting about the previous topic. "H-hold on! I'm going to get myself ready!" And with that, she hastily pried Sango's hand off of hers and ran to her wardrobe.
Sango was truly relieved to see Kagome's happy face again. It has already been
12 years since the incident. Although she herself didn't see how it all happened,
she had heard it from Lord Takada when he suddenly returned with the severely
injured preteen in his arms.
The poor girl, who was not much younger than herself back then, had witnessed
how her father and personal maid was slaughtered with her very own eyes.
She remembered how long it took her and Lord Takada to convince the girl that she was safe and that she could release the porcelain bottle she had clasped so tightly in her bloodstained hands.
Ever since that day, the girl had suffered some sort of memory loss. She was able to remember her own name and the names and looks of her deceased father and maid. And she had also retained parts of how her old bedroom looked like and her old house that stood in the middle of a forest.
Naturally, Sango would be happy for her that she didn't have to remember the
horrendous tragedy that had befallen her only family. But memory loss, just
like everything else, also had features to be wary of, and in this case, no
exceptions were made.
The girl was not able to remember anything that happened during her childhood;
the period of her life that she had vaguely defined as 'the happiest period'.
Nor could she remember the identity of the 'very dear someone' she mentioned
a while ago, who should obviously had been the one who gave her the porcelain
medicine bottle and made the promise she could never forget about.
Sango also remembered the day, on which Lord Takada had confirmed that the wound on her cheek had completely healed without leaving a single scar. The girl, who was already 14 by then, was so happy that day that she ran through every single hall while crying out the same sentence all over again:
"It's gone! Inuyasha, can you hear me?? It's finally gone!!!"
Yet afterwards, when she and Lord Takada asked her who this 'Inuyasha' was and why she was crying out to him, the teenager was unable to answer.
She had kind of guessed that the 'Inuyasha' and the 'very dear someone' was somehow related, but never dreamed of discussing this with Kagome because she was afraid she would make her remember something that would be better stay forgotten.
Her thoughts were cut off when she heard Kagome call out her name.
"Sango? What are you daydreaming about?! We better hurry or we'll be too late to get me registered for the contest!!" Kagome said as she placed her hands on her waist.
Sango shifted her gaze to her and smiled. Her mistress and best friend was now dressed in a white haori and navy blue hakama that matched her eyes. And on her back and shoulder, a pair of brown and silver-colored archer equipment could be seen, which she had pleaded Lord Takada so many times to buy for her.
Kagome frowned. "Now you're daydreaming again!! Come on!!" she pouted
as she grabbed her maid's hand and pulled her out of the bedroom with her.
They walked through the white hall with a high pace as the maid continued to
escape from her mistress' tight grip. "Wait milady!! I haven't changed
my clothes yet!! Wait!!!"
But Kagome wouldn't listen and Sango's loud objection echoed through the long halls of the mansion.
I hope you liked this chapter. Please leave a review behind to tell me what
you think okay? And do look forward to the next chapter!!
Next chapter: The Autumn Festival
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\\"For God's sake Inuyasha!! You are 26 already!! We have already moved
8 times because of that promise you made to that girl!! Whether you want or
not, we are going to stay here in this city and that's FINAL!!"//
\\"Why are you so worked up about some childhood promise anyway?! The girl probably already forgot about you and married someone else."//
\\"She won't." he growled and walked out of the room.//
\\"Hey Inuyasha!! I was already looking for you!!"//
\\He turned to the voice and sighed slightly annoyed. "What do you want Miroku??"//
\\"It's the Autumn Festival today."//
\\"So?"//
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Vocabulary:
kanarazu: expresses that a certain result will happen under a certain
condition, in this context it would mean 'definitely'
baka: (you) stupid/silly
hontou: really
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~Kittymui~
Posted: 15 February 2004
Last Edited: 19 February 2004 (see author's notes for the changes made)
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