A Refractured Conversation

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an [Inuyasha] fanfiction

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mkh2

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Disclaimer: if Inuyasha ever belonged to me, I'd be sure to let you know.

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            A refractured fairytale is only possible if you've already fractured it first.

            Oh?

            But most of them have been so completely demolished by Disney I guess it's okay to take their plotlines and completely change it.

            Does the Hunchback of Notre Dame count?

            I don't think it's a bona fide fairytale but I think we can pass.

            You sure?

            Pretty much, yeah.

            Why?

            Did you see what they did to it?

            Not really – saw the commercials, though.

            First off, the guy in long garb, can never remember his name – he dies; Desdemona – she dies; the hunchback – he dies; in Disney, nobody dies, but everybody lives happily ever after in a never ending festival, capice?

            Ouch.

            Very.

            Didn't you say this was kind of like a fairytale?

            What's like a fairytale?

            This place, this time, this world, this… us.

            Oh, I guess I might've said something along those lines.

            Then what happened to our happily ever after?

            What?

            You know, the happily ever after!

            Having you been going through my movies again when I'm at school?

            … Maybe.

            In most original fairytales they weren't that happily ever after… it often took a lot of pain to get there, if ever.

            Oh.

            I guess you could say this is happily ever after if you feel like it.

            Really?

            Sure – you happy?

            I guess.

            Good.

            You?

            I think so.

            So this is happily ever after, right?

            Well, if the shoe fits, wear it, and if the ever after makes you happy, amen.

            Amen?

            So be it.

            Ah.

            Ah.

~And all was calm. Amen.~

~Owari~

Probably my strangest piece of fiction ever. For a moment it was between two made up characters I have, to be placed at the beginning of a collection of short stories I'm trying to compile but am having a miserable time of, but then I started thinking of it being a strange conversation between Inuyasha and Kagome, preferably at sunset, my favorite time of the day. I guess I'll post it here for now.

Yes, I know Kagome is Japanese and probably wouldn't use Amen, which is a Jewish word (which I'm not, by the way – oy, the chutzpah you all have!) However, it's one of my favorite words, connected to a rather silly childhood memory of Grandpa leading the family (consisting of more than thirty people, usually) in prayer – my sister and I ended up thinking that we all had to end the prayer in an "Ah-MEN" and a loud clap… we were silly children. Forgive us. Besides, I did say this was originally for something completely different and was planning on ending it that way.

Also, yes, I know, Inuyasha has barely seen any television (there was an episode where he saw a news report at Kagome's house after he helped stop a bank robber and saved a girl from a burning building – silly puppy-head sniffed the TV in confusion!)

The style I used in this piece I've seen once, I think, in the novel The House on Mango Street, though I'm not entirely sure if that is the title.

Note: is there such a word as refractured? I saw that phrase somewhere before "Refractured Fairytales" … Hello? Anybody out there?

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Another note: I've put out two Naruto one-shots, for anybody who wants to poke the pointer at it.

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