The people around them stared. They were quite an oddity: A girl riding on
the shoulders of a boy who ran through the city. "Dumbasses." Inuyasha
muttered as he ran.
He ran up the steps of the shrine. "Wait, Inuyasha, can I pack first?" Asked Kagome while careening through her home.
"No! We are leaving right now!" Inuyasha scowled.
He skidded to a halt. Kagome's mom was standing in front of him.
"I'm leaving early mom. See you later!" Kagome told her.
Inuyasha was about to keep running.
"No wait! Kagome! We know what is going on here!"
Inuyasha sighed and set Kagome down. He sat down on the floor and grouched.
"Kagome, you need to quit singing that song."
"Yeah, I know. How do you know about it?"
"Grampa told me."
"Why is the song causing all of this?"
"I don't know why or how you heard the song, but the shrine is apparently haunted by Grampa's childhood friend." Kagome's mom shuddered. "That's a special song that she made up for Grampa. You need to never sing it again. She says you sing off-key."
Kagome blushed.
"Why is she haunting the shrine?"
"You're taking this better than I thought you would."
"That's unimportant. Tell me why she's haunting the shrine."
"She's in love with Grampa. She wants to stay here until he dies."
"That is unacceptable! I'm not living with her that long!"
"I know, I know." Kagome's mom was very understanding.
"I am going to get rid of her. Come on, Inuyasha!"
Kagome and Inuyasha hopped up to their feet.
"Wait!"
"What now?" Kagome was now as cross as Inuyasha.
"Don't be rude to me!"
Kagome 'hmph'ed.
"You should know that she's buried in a tomb under the shrine!"
"Where under the shrine?"
"I don't know! Ask your granddad!"
Inuyasha sniffed the air. "This way!" He grabbed Kagome's wrist and headed to the gift shop section of the store.
Kagome's grandpa was just ringing up some customers. Kagome and Inuyasha waited for them to leave and they ran up to him.
"Where is the thing buried?" Inuyasha demanded.
"What? Mitsuki's not a thing! She's a little girl." Her granddad told them indignantly.
"We are going to exorcise her! Tell me where she is!" Kagome barked.
"Alright... I'll take you to the tomb... but don't you dare hurt her." Her granddad pulled some things off of a shelf. He handed her a couple of bottles of sake, a bunch of o-fuda, and a few more unrecognizable items. He lit a torch and walked to the backyard. Between a few bushes there was a door, it looked like a storm cellar door. "Watch your step." He said.
They walked down a flight of dirty and crumbling wood stairs. What they found was a small room with a table and an urn on the table. There were bows, toys, pictures, and melted candles everywhere. It was dank and cold, the air was musty.
"YOU!" The little girl appeared and snatched two bottles of sake out of Kagome's hands. She poured them out along the perimeter of the room. She ran and grabbed the torch out of Grampa's hand and threw it at the bottom of the stairs.
Instantly the room was engulfed in flames.
"You don't have to do things this way!" Kagome called to her.
"No, I don't! But this is the best way!" The little girl shouted back resolutely.
"What will get better from this?"
"Easy! You will die, and I will be happily ever after with the one I love! The only loss is my song!"
"Do you really think that you will go to heaven if you do this?" Kagome asked her.
The fire was growing.
Mitsuki looked shocked.
"Oh no! I have to stop this!" The little girl scaled the stairs and came down with a garden hose in her hands. She was only slowing the the spreading of the flames. "You have to get out! Get out! Get out!" She screamed.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and her grandfather. He jumped over the flames and out the tiny door in one big step.
Kagome slammed the tiny door shut. "There" she resolved. "The flames will get smothered now.
The little girl dropped to her knees and cried. "Now no-one will ever hear my song the way it was supposed to be. I thought that I was fine with it... but I'm not!"
"It's okay! You can borrow Kagome's body! Then you can sing your song." Grampa thought it was a great solution.
"WHAT!?" Kagome and Inuyasha turned to him in unison.
"You heard me!" Grampa shouted.
"I'll give you an hour to use my body, would you agree to move on after that?" Kagome asked the little girl.
"WHAT?!" Inuyasha turned to Kagome. "Kagome that's an awful idea! How do you know that she won't destroy your body, or that she won't just keep it?"
"Easy! I'll kick her out if she tries!"
"Deal!" The little girl smiled with glee.
"It's 12:31." Kagome said looking at her watch. "You can use my body until 1:31."
"O-kay!" The girl said as she jumped into Kagome.
The ghost could not be seen, but Kagome moved differently than before. She ran up to grampa and kissed him on the nose.
Inuyasha gagged.
She ran out of the house and ran through the streets. She seemed to have a very specific place in mind. Inuyasha followed after her, effortlessly jumping from rooftop to rooftop.
She ran for almost twenty minutes.
Suddenly she stopped.
She was looking at a lamppost.
She felt a dent in the base of it.
A tear slid down her cheek, but she smiled.
"Hello everyone!" She shouted, and people started to gawk at her.
"My name is Mitsuki Tatemono and you're in for a real treat! I'm going to sing my favorite song for you!"
She smiled brightly, a smile brighter than a Christmas morning smile. "I wonder if you know about of me that won't let you go. Do you even know about the words inside I don't let out? Do you have some too? Well, here goes: This song's for you! I've loved you! I've been true. From when I first laid eyes on you, I knew, That you should be my one and only, or I'd be lonely. I want you to know that I never want to harm you. I only want to charm you. Say you'll love me too. I've loved you. I've been true. From when I first laid eyes on you, I knew... say you'll love me too. I've... loved... you...!"
Mitsuki bowed and blew kisses into the crowd.
People clapped and cheered.
A man stepped forward from the crowd, he approached her.
He took her hand, "Mitsuki was it? Well Mitsuki, I'm from a record company. I'd like to sign you on with my company. What do ya say?"
She smiled even more. "I say I'm really honored!"
"So you'll sign?" He asked expectantly. He got some papers out of a brief case and handed her a pen.
"I would! I really really would love to, but I've got some better plans!" She smiled at him.
She took the pen and drew a heart and her name on his cheek.
"But what could be a better plan than to be a star?" He asked her, mouth agape.
"Bye bye! It's been real!" She said, running off with his pen in hand.
She looked at Kagome's watch. "I have fifteen more minutes left... I'm going to a park."
Inuyasha, who was crouching in a tree sighed with relief. It appeared to him that she was really going to keep her word.
She came to a park. She sat on a bench. She looked into a lake with ducks and a tree growing out of it.
"It really is a beautiful place... this world." She said, smiling and crying a little... "I'm going to miss this. God only knows what I could have been. Well, I guess I'll go see him and find out. Goodbye earth."
She left Kagome's body, and Kagome fell down on the bench.
Inuyasha jumped down to see her.
Kagome sat up again. "Hi Inuyasha, ready to go home... our home?"
"Yeah," he said. He crouched so she could get on his back.
However, she didn't.
"We got time to walk, don't we?"
"I guess so..." He said in a calm, kind of... sweet voice. As he stood up again.
She wrapped her arm around his waist and leaned up against him, just like they did on the way to see Mr. Shumizi.
"Are you doing that because you're still hurt?" He asked.
"Sure... why not." She smiled at him.
He smiled too, and off they went to continue their adventures in the feudal era.
He ran up the steps of the shrine. "Wait, Inuyasha, can I pack first?" Asked Kagome while careening through her home.
"No! We are leaving right now!" Inuyasha scowled.
He skidded to a halt. Kagome's mom was standing in front of him.
"I'm leaving early mom. See you later!" Kagome told her.
Inuyasha was about to keep running.
"No wait! Kagome! We know what is going on here!"
Inuyasha sighed and set Kagome down. He sat down on the floor and grouched.
"Kagome, you need to quit singing that song."
"Yeah, I know. How do you know about it?"
"Grampa told me."
"Why is the song causing all of this?"
"I don't know why or how you heard the song, but the shrine is apparently haunted by Grampa's childhood friend." Kagome's mom shuddered. "That's a special song that she made up for Grampa. You need to never sing it again. She says you sing off-key."
Kagome blushed.
"Why is she haunting the shrine?"
"You're taking this better than I thought you would."
"That's unimportant. Tell me why she's haunting the shrine."
"She's in love with Grampa. She wants to stay here until he dies."
"That is unacceptable! I'm not living with her that long!"
"I know, I know." Kagome's mom was very understanding.
"I am going to get rid of her. Come on, Inuyasha!"
Kagome and Inuyasha hopped up to their feet.
"Wait!"
"What now?" Kagome was now as cross as Inuyasha.
"Don't be rude to me!"
Kagome 'hmph'ed.
"You should know that she's buried in a tomb under the shrine!"
"Where under the shrine?"
"I don't know! Ask your granddad!"
Inuyasha sniffed the air. "This way!" He grabbed Kagome's wrist and headed to the gift shop section of the store.
Kagome's grandpa was just ringing up some customers. Kagome and Inuyasha waited for them to leave and they ran up to him.
"Where is the thing buried?" Inuyasha demanded.
"What? Mitsuki's not a thing! She's a little girl." Her granddad told them indignantly.
"We are going to exorcise her! Tell me where she is!" Kagome barked.
"Alright... I'll take you to the tomb... but don't you dare hurt her." Her granddad pulled some things off of a shelf. He handed her a couple of bottles of sake, a bunch of o-fuda, and a few more unrecognizable items. He lit a torch and walked to the backyard. Between a few bushes there was a door, it looked like a storm cellar door. "Watch your step." He said.
They walked down a flight of dirty and crumbling wood stairs. What they found was a small room with a table and an urn on the table. There were bows, toys, pictures, and melted candles everywhere. It was dank and cold, the air was musty.
"YOU!" The little girl appeared and snatched two bottles of sake out of Kagome's hands. She poured them out along the perimeter of the room. She ran and grabbed the torch out of Grampa's hand and threw it at the bottom of the stairs.
Instantly the room was engulfed in flames.
"You don't have to do things this way!" Kagome called to her.
"No, I don't! But this is the best way!" The little girl shouted back resolutely.
"What will get better from this?"
"Easy! You will die, and I will be happily ever after with the one I love! The only loss is my song!"
"Do you really think that you will go to heaven if you do this?" Kagome asked her.
The fire was growing.
Mitsuki looked shocked.
"Oh no! I have to stop this!" The little girl scaled the stairs and came down with a garden hose in her hands. She was only slowing the the spreading of the flames. "You have to get out! Get out! Get out!" She screamed.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and her grandfather. He jumped over the flames and out the tiny door in one big step.
Kagome slammed the tiny door shut. "There" she resolved. "The flames will get smothered now.
The little girl dropped to her knees and cried. "Now no-one will ever hear my song the way it was supposed to be. I thought that I was fine with it... but I'm not!"
"It's okay! You can borrow Kagome's body! Then you can sing your song." Grampa thought it was a great solution.
"WHAT!?" Kagome and Inuyasha turned to him in unison.
"You heard me!" Grampa shouted.
"I'll give you an hour to use my body, would you agree to move on after that?" Kagome asked the little girl.
"WHAT?!" Inuyasha turned to Kagome. "Kagome that's an awful idea! How do you know that she won't destroy your body, or that she won't just keep it?"
"Easy! I'll kick her out if she tries!"
"Deal!" The little girl smiled with glee.
"It's 12:31." Kagome said looking at her watch. "You can use my body until 1:31."
"O-kay!" The girl said as she jumped into Kagome.
The ghost could not be seen, but Kagome moved differently than before. She ran up to grampa and kissed him on the nose.
Inuyasha gagged.
She ran out of the house and ran through the streets. She seemed to have a very specific place in mind. Inuyasha followed after her, effortlessly jumping from rooftop to rooftop.
She ran for almost twenty minutes.
Suddenly she stopped.
She was looking at a lamppost.
She felt a dent in the base of it.
A tear slid down her cheek, but she smiled.
"Hello everyone!" She shouted, and people started to gawk at her.
"My name is Mitsuki Tatemono and you're in for a real treat! I'm going to sing my favorite song for you!"
She smiled brightly, a smile brighter than a Christmas morning smile. "I wonder if you know about of me that won't let you go. Do you even know about the words inside I don't let out? Do you have some too? Well, here goes: This song's for you! I've loved you! I've been true. From when I first laid eyes on you, I knew, That you should be my one and only, or I'd be lonely. I want you to know that I never want to harm you. I only want to charm you. Say you'll love me too. I've loved you. I've been true. From when I first laid eyes on you, I knew... say you'll love me too. I've... loved... you...!"
Mitsuki bowed and blew kisses into the crowd.
People clapped and cheered.
A man stepped forward from the crowd, he approached her.
He took her hand, "Mitsuki was it? Well Mitsuki, I'm from a record company. I'd like to sign you on with my company. What do ya say?"
She smiled even more. "I say I'm really honored!"
"So you'll sign?" He asked expectantly. He got some papers out of a brief case and handed her a pen.
"I would! I really really would love to, but I've got some better plans!" She smiled at him.
She took the pen and drew a heart and her name on his cheek.
"But what could be a better plan than to be a star?" He asked her, mouth agape.
"Bye bye! It's been real!" She said, running off with his pen in hand.
She looked at Kagome's watch. "I have fifteen more minutes left... I'm going to a park."
Inuyasha, who was crouching in a tree sighed with relief. It appeared to him that she was really going to keep her word.
She came to a park. She sat on a bench. She looked into a lake with ducks and a tree growing out of it.
"It really is a beautiful place... this world." She said, smiling and crying a little... "I'm going to miss this. God only knows what I could have been. Well, I guess I'll go see him and find out. Goodbye earth."
She left Kagome's body, and Kagome fell down on the bench.
Inuyasha jumped down to see her.
Kagome sat up again. "Hi Inuyasha, ready to go home... our home?"
"Yeah," he said. He crouched so she could get on his back.
However, she didn't.
"We got time to walk, don't we?"
"I guess so..." He said in a calm, kind of... sweet voice. As he stood up again.
She wrapped her arm around his waist and leaned up against him, just like they did on the way to see Mr. Shumizi.
"Are you doing that because you're still hurt?" He asked.
"Sure... why not." She smiled at him.
He smiled too, and off they went to continue their adventures in the feudal era.