A/N: Hi. This was inspired by Emania's Once Upon A Solstice. It's really good. Go read it.
Emania gave me permission to post this, so here it is.
A Snowy Waltz
They had stopped in a wide clearing, opening to look out over a hill at an expanse of shimmering white. The snow was fresh, light and powdery. Inuyasha frowned. It seemed almost as ifhe had been here before. He shook it off and went to sit with the others.
It was getting on in the day when Kagome was playing with Shippou. She started humming to the kit, and the soft sound of a woman singing jolted something in Inuyasha's memory.
Dancing bears, painted wings
Inuyasha stared off into the wide expanse of snow. It glistened, sparkling in the twilight. A strand of music floated in his mind, just out of reach. Something from long ago in his past
Things I almost remember/ Someone holds me safe and warm...
A memory surfaced, unbidden, from the recesses of his mind.
His mother swung him around, her hair falling across her face. She pulled him close, hugging him tightly to her as she danced in the snow.
A deep voice called to them, but the words were faint, and Inuyasha could not, for the life of him, remember what the deep voice had said.
Glowing dim as an ember...
The melody was clearer in his mind, and a verse of the song came to him.
Things my heart used to know/ Thing it yearns to remember...
Inuyasha remembered lights, and a large ballroom. women in beautiful dresses...his mother and father in the center of the floor, revolving slowly.
Dancing bears, painted wings...
Inuyasha began to hum softly, not seeing the snow or the trees, or his companions looking at him strangely. His eyes were full of visions from the past. Gold light, warm torches. A marble floor, the whispering of many dresses as they swept across it.
Waltzing with his mother...
A little child, held in her arms, hair combed and tied back, dressed finely in his best clothes.
Horses prance through a silver storm/ Figures dancing gracefully/ Across my memory...
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and swept her up, dancing her out to the middle of the snow covered clearing. He waltzed her around and around, humming the song quietly.
She fell into step with him, after a few stumbles. Neither noticed their friends leaving them in peace, alone.
Inuyasha continued to dance, staring into Kagome's eyes. He remembered...
Inuyasha mentally dressed himself in fine white clothes, Kagome in a beautiful gold gown. They danced across the snow, almost flying.
And a song someone sings...
Once upon a December