A heart of gold
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an Inuyasha fanfiction
by
mkh2
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Crack!
The sound of breaking glass rang through the room.
Kagomes eyes crinkled around the corners as she carefully swept up the broken glass with a broom and dustpan then proceeded to mop the floor, doing her best to make sure there was not one piece of glass left.
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In Asian cultures, in the past at least, when, say, a precious vase was broken, it wasn't repaired in the Western way where they tried to make the damage invisible, almost seamlessly putting it back together, to make-believe that it never had suffered… In the Eastern way they celebrated the breaks, repairing the chinks by filling it up with gold, celebrating the new history it had. It showed that it had experience, that it was cherished, that it was valuable. Something that was always sheltered never grew strong. Just like a baby bird must fight its way out of its egg, just as the butterfly beats furiously at the cocoon, the place where it was mended grew stronger… at least that's the theory. It worked well enough in Western cultures anyway; when glue is used properly, the newly made "joint" was stronger than any other part of the pieced together object.
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Kagome carefully dumped the water out, watching the slightly murky water swirl down the drain.
Could the same be said of her heart?
Inuyasha probably had no idea how many times he must have broken it, only seeming to take notice of a few times, and, perhaps, once setting out to do it purposely –which she naturally stopped before it begun.
The drain burped.
Kagome wondered how many times she had left, filling the chinks and sealing the long, wide, gaping cracks before her heart was made of gold. A heart of gold is a precious thing.
However…
Gold can't feel.
Kagome wasn't sure if she dreaded or anticipated that day.
~Owari~
One of my earlier works – it wasn't a fanfiction, but I changed it so it became one… Hope you like.
My sister would probably bash my head in if she realized that I changed "a perfectly good original work to a stupid fanfic – grr!" Yes, my sister would probably go "grr."
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Wow, I've had this for at least ten days (wait – it says created and last updated on 11-13-03, so… um, 11 days?) but I didn't post… wonder why.
Yup, they do do the gold thing in the East, I loved looking at the pictures of the repaired pottery – I often thought it to be more beautiful than if it had never been cracked.
Hm, I'm thinking of adding something from Sesshoumaru's point of view, and a strange collection of Inuyasha character interviews by Mikki (scary, I know, but I've had them for quite sometime now…) but these are only random thoughts.
I like random thoughts.
Anywho! … what was I saying? Ah, yeah! I was thinking of deleting my posting of my three-part story "Who I am", but I accidentally came across an author who had it saved under their favorites (and I already forgot whose profile I saw it in) so I'll leave it up. I know how heartbreaking it is too find one of your fav stories go AWOL – happened to me so many times… mostly because when I was a Sailor Moon fan my favorite site disappeared (found a rather odd version of it a few weeks ago, and I last saw it around September 11th, 2001 – you know what I'm talking about, ne? Almost all my favorite stories are gone.) Anyways, "Who I am" is my baby, along with "Nooo!", one of my first DBZ fics and (I think) one of the funnier ones too.