Note: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters in Inuyasha. Just so ya know.
EDIT: (Thursday June 12, 2008) So, I re-read this thing and made a few (very few) changes. It's mostly the same, but I changed Souta's words a little to keep him from sounding too advanced for his age. I noticed a lot of I will's and changed them to I'll's instead, for instance. Just little things like that.
Souta
"Going already, Sis?" I ask with the faintest hint of disappointment.
"Yeah," she says, tousling my hair a bit. "Off to gather more jewel shards." She grabs her overflowing backpack and is gone again, just like that.
That's how it always is. She comes and stays for three days at a time, then she's gone again. She stays away for much longer, weeks at a time, even. I sometimes wonder if she isn't just a figment of my imagination. Do I really have a big sister?
Of course I do, I tell myself. Her name is Kagome, and she's gone to Feudal Japan to fight demons and collect the shards of the sacred Shikon Jewel. She does exist. She's not just someone I made up.
Lately, she's been talking about close they are to beating Naraku and collecting the final shards. Once that happens and the jewel is complete, what then? Kagome told me that you can make a wish on the jewel. She also said that if the wish is pure, the jewel will probably disappear. She can only travel to the Feudal Era if she has part or all of the jewel; if it disappears, what will she do? Will she stay there forever or stay here?
Maybe I'm reading too much into this. I'm only in third grade, after all, and I shouldn't be worrying about things like that. But still... She's my sister. I might act annoy her sometimes, but I still love her. I know that one day, her stay in the Feudal world will turn from days to weeks, and those weeks will turn into months. Months will become years, and, someday, I'll realize that she's never coming back. My sister will be gone in that other world forever.
Until then, all I can do is be the same little brother that Kagome has always known. I'll annoy her sometimes, understand her others, and look out for her in any way I can. I can't do anything when she's gone through the well, and sometimes I can't even do anything when she's here, but I'll do all I can. I'll bring her books to school for her when she forgets them. I'll make extra toast in the morning for when she's going to be late. I'll keep Buyo out of her room when she's doing homework. It isn't much, but it's something.
I understand that she can't stay with us when she has a whole other life in a whole other world. She has things to do there. Once it's all over, she might come back again with the full jewel. She'll stay for three days, then leave one last time. She'll tousle my hair and say that she has to go check up on her friends. She'll tell me that she'll come to visit in a few days, once everything's settled.
But I'll know. All the same, though, I'll tell her good bye and to be careful. I'll tell her that she better come back soon because Buyo will miss her. In my mind there'll still be doubt, but my heart will know.
Her stay in the Feudal world will turn from days to weeks, and those weeks will turn into months. Months will become years, and, someday, I will realize that she's never coming back. My sister will be gone in that other world forever.