Three Days
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an Inuyasha fanfiction
by
mkh2
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Disclaimer: It must be said: "Inuyasha: Sengoku o-Togi Zoushi" belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, despite my recent attempts to steal away the rights. However, I will not give up. I have plans, see, plans. ::nods to the piles of scrolls, notebooks, maps, and scrap paper piled up in my bedroom:: One of them has got to work…
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Three days. It's been three days. Three long, terrible days since Kikyo-onee-chan died. Three long lonely nights since we've burned her cold, pale body to ashes and placed them in an urn in a makeshift shrine until a proper shrine could be erected in her honor.
Kaede paused in her sweeping, reaching back to tighten the knot of the ribbon that now kept her hair back in a ponytail. Since her sister died and she had the most spiritual powers, potential and training in the village, she was therefore expected to take on the role of residential miko. She rubbed the back of her hand over her eyes, brushing away unshed tears. She may now be a miko but she was still a child who had lost her beloved sister.
Kaede supposed that the biggest shock to her system was how Kikyo died. Well, no, not how she died – she always supposed it would be a youkai of some sort that would catch her unawares or at least old age – but rather at by whose hands she died.
She had looked up to Inuyasha so much, like he was her hero, like the older brother she never had. She thought he would be her big brother, in time – she was so certain that he and Kikyo cared deeply for each other and that someday that caring would turn to love and then, when, perhaps, the issues with the Shikon no Tama were resolved, they would get married. Perhaps.
However it wasn't meant to be.
It just didn't make sense! Not him, not ever. If he wanted to he could've easily killed her before, he could've hurt everyone in the village, but he had never raised his claws to anyone with the intention to kill, well, except for a few demons (and hurt people with evil intentions) that had threatened Kikyo and the well being of this village. She could see his gruffness was all a bluff. Her big brother couldn't possibly kill any human. It just wasn't possible. Not with those big puppy eyes and those fluffy puppy ears.
But he did. It didn't make sense but he did. And it wasn't fair. She lost her onee-chan and her onii-chan in one fell blow.
Still, she thought, she couldn't find it in herself to hate Inuyasha. She was angry with him, for certain, and she was so confused by her actions but to her he was still her big strong Inu-no-onii-chan and thus could never hate him, not when he hung so innocently on the blesséd tree.
~Owari~
Part one of two finished.
Onee-chan: Elder sister, affectionate
Onii-chan: Elder brother, affectionate
Inu-no-onii-chan: Elder Dog brother; often used by Souta in the Inuyasha series
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This is to be posted in two parts. I had this one on the back burner for a while because it didn't sound quite right. This piece takes places, obviously, three days after Kikyo was originally killed and Inuyasha sealed. The next part will take place much later. It should be up tomorrow, but no promises. I hate making promises.
"One shouldn't use 'never', nor often use 'always', and rarely, if ever, make others promises." – me
The line is from a rather large story that I'm slowly working on and has, strangely enough, inspired another fanfiction titled "Always Never Promise" – I'm not saying which anime it has to do with though – you'll have to figure it out yourself by watching my profile. Nyeh!
This is Mikki, over and out.