Musume no Shorai – Chapter 1
Sachi sat at the table doodling in her notebook, while her grandmother fiddled in the kitchen, humming. She went back to her birthday just a few month's earlier, she had asked again, the question she asked every year on her birthday.
Her mom always refused to answer, saying she'd tell Sachi when she was older. When would she be old enough to know? Why couldn't she know now?
"Sachi?" Blinking at her name, Sachi looked up to see her mother standing on the other side of the table, looking at her.
"Yeah, what is it mom?" Sachi asked, closing her notebook to hide the small doodles of her-self stabbing her algebra teacher with a ruler. Kagome smiled slightly.
"How was school?" Kagome asked her daughter, sitting down at the table opposite Sachi.
"Alright." Sachi shrugged. "Mrs. Kenataru is evil."
"Isn't she you're algebra teacher?" Kagome asked, a bit of amusement in her voice.
"Yeah, but it's true!" Sachi argued, throwing her books back into her school back, then hurried up to her room to change before dinner. Sachi watched from her window after dinner as her mom walked back out to the prayer room.
The Shikon no Tama... Sachi had asked about that to, but she seemed too young for an answer to that question as well. There was also the well, which Sachi had been forbidden to go near.
There were so many questions she had about the well, but not as many as the Shikon no Tama. It seemed silly, was it so dangerous that she couldn't at least see it? Sachi came to a decision, and left her window.
Sachi snuck over to the well house, taking a look over at the prayer room to make sure her mother was still there. If Kagome were to catch her, even just standing in found of the door to the well house, Sachi could say goodbye to any social life for the next five years. Sachi returned her attention to the door, and the small seal on it.
It also seemed silly that they were still using seals, seals that were used to ward of demons way back when. Demons didn't exist, not in this day and age at least. Annoyed at the tiny peace of parchment, Sachi ripped it off, slide the door open and walked inside.
Sliding the door behind her closed, Sachi stared into the darkness, listening. She didn't hear anything, so Kagome must have still been praying. Sachi looked down, but it was so dark, she couldn't see anything.
Cautiously, Sachi took a few steps forward, finding the railing, and began to descend to the well below. It took a few moments before Sachi felt herself step off the steps onto dirt, she knew from the sound and the smell that wafted up to her nose. Sachi stood there in the dark for a few minutes, giving her eyes a chance to adjust to the darkness.
"This is it?" Sachi thought aloud, looking at the rather ordinary looking well. True it was rather ancient looking, but still, nothing was odd about it.
Sachi circled the well once, stopping, then circled again. Arching her brow in thought, Sachi could seem to grasp what was so special about the well. Leaning against it for a moment, still in thought.
Out of carelessness, or how deep she was in her thoughts, Sachi leaned back just a little to much and...
"Whoa, whoa!" Sachi screamed as she felt herself falling backward into the well, Sachi closed her eyes tightly, waiting for the impact. Inside the prayer room, Kagome's eyes shot open as she heard Sachi's fleeting scream.
"Sachi?" Kagome called, stopping her praying, and rushing out of the prayer room. "Sachi?!"
Kagome looked around the shrine grounds franticly.
"Sachi?! Sachi where are you?!"
"Kagome? What's going on?" Mrs. Higurashi asked, rushing to her daughter.
"I heard Sachi scream, and she won't answer me." Kagome said in a panic, turning and continuing. "Sachi!"
"Calm down, she's here some where. We just have to look." But her mother's words did nothing to sooth Kagome, and she continued in her frantic sure with her mothers help.
Sachi... Sachi... Sachi...
Sachi groaned, opening her eyes. Where was she? She looked up, instead of darkness, there were... stars...
Stars? How could there be stars? Unless... Sachi rose to her feet.
"Mom?!" Sachi called, hoping her voice would rise up out of the well. "Gram?! Hello?! Can anyone hear me?!"
Her attempts seemed to be in vain. Sachi sighed, and noticed some vines on the walls of the well. Taking hold, Sachi started climbing to the top of the well.
Sachi placed her feet firmly on the ground, sitting on the ledge, and looked around. This couldn't be right... there was no way! Instead of the well house, there were... trees!
"I think I hit my head a little to hard..." Sachi shook her head, and blinked, but nothing changed. Trees... Sachi laughed slightly. "I'm going crazy..."
Not paying attention, Sachi began to think and ponder her current situation, not noticing the silver blur drawing near her. In fact, she didn't know until the stranger spoke.
"Who are you?" Sachi looked up started at the voice, a man's voice, but whom she saw... Whoa... did he have...
"Sa-"But before she could finish, Sachi fainted, literally, and started to fall back into the well.
"Hey!" The man grabbed the strange girl by the hand, pulling her back up out of the well.
"I can't believe it... You scared her just by having her look at you!"
"Shut up Shippo!" The younger demon recoiled slightly at the silver haired demons words. Shippo was thankful that he was no longer small enough for his friend to throw him into a tree like he used to do.
"Gees, sorry for caring Inuyasha!" Shippo said sarcastically. He had been worried, Inuyasha's demon dog ear's had twitched, along with his nose sniffing the air, then had run out of Kaede's hut like the devil was on his heels.
Inuyasha hoisted the girl onto his back.
"So... who is she?" Shippo asked, looking at the girl.
"I don't know... But she smells like-"Inuyasha stopped himself, but to late.
"Smells like who?" Shippo sniffed the air close to the girl. "Hey, she smells like-"
Inuyasha stopped the young kitsune by hitting him on the head, rather hard. Shippo may have been too big for Inuyasha to throw, but he could still hit Shippo on the head with painful ease.
"Heh, you just don't know when to shut up do ya?" Inuyasha asked arrogantly, and started running back towards the small village.
"Hey, wait up!" Shippo took off in pursuit, trying desperately to keep up.
