One last Chance
Author: Yasmine
Email: ebonysky1@yahoo.com
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I am using this story as entertainment only. Please don't sue. I'm a poor college student with ten cents to buy Ramen.. that is all.
Summary: While fighting another of Naraku's henchmen, a mysterious arrow appears a long with a girl that knows everything there is to know about the gang. Who is she? And how does she factor in with the disappearance of Naraku?
Prologue
The women lie on her deathbed. Her long gray hair lies on the pillow under her, as her big brown eyes stared motionless at the ceiling. The sheets felt heavy on her chest, but the cold wind that pushed against the house forced her to bear the load. She shuddered to think of what the outside world looked like now, she knew that the devastation that the demon had brought was a force that her time could not deal with. But she was too old to fight, her fighting days long gone. All she could do now was listen to the screams of the people outside and hope that her decision was the right one.
"Momma, are you up?"
The women rolled her eyes from the ceiling to look upon the most beautiful hazel eyes she had ever seen. A woman of twenty looked down on her. Her white hair fell to her shoulders thick and straight, yet every once and a while you encountered a couple strands of black. She stood tall, her face made her look younger than she was, but the stress of the past events showed heavily in her eyes. The old women often could not look directly into her eyes for long; the sorrow of the lost of this woman's childhood always haunted her.
"I am up Kumiko. I have been up for some time, awaiting your arrival. I am glad to see you have stayed out of sight."
The old woman tried to make her body move to sit up, only to have her weight keep her down. She groaned in pain and tried again, and like always she could not lift herself.
"Oh mother, why do you keep trying? The poison has already taken your energy, why do you not let me help you?" Kumiko frowned as she walked over to help her mother sit up.
"Because I'm not a baby! I must learn how to move on my own, you shall not always be here. If only he had lived longer, I might have."
"You might have died trying to get to him. Mother, that was a long time ago. You and he did not know the dangers of that encounter. Or how his coming would bring such disaster." Kumiko sat down beside her mother, lightly brushing her thick gray hair.
"I can still see his golden eyes, imagine his body so close to mine. Had I not been so stupid as to think it was over, maybe I could have killed it." The tears fell from her tried eyes.
"Mother, there was no way of you to know, as there was no way of him to know. The past is the past, and hopefully I can change that mistake." Kumiko smiled at her mother.
"Yes, Kumiko you shall change the past. I have made sure of it. So my daughter, this is what you must do. Find Inuyasha. And stay by his side! Help when needed, but tell him nothing of who you are. Do you understand my child? Tell him nothing!"
The old woman grabbed onto Kumiko's shirt, her small hands grasped the fabric with all their might. Kumiko leaned into the touch, her own hands wrapped around the frail woman. Her tears threatened to come out, but she refused to comply. Letting go slowly, she kissed the woman on her forehead, and moved from the bed. A smile on her face showed the little fangs behind her lips.
"I will find Inuyasha, and stop Naraku. Then we will be safe. I promise."
Kumiko turned from her mother; her hair twirled on the force. And briefly, just briefly, you could see her dog-ears as her hair moved. Kumiko did not see her mother smile, nor did she see her mother take her last breath, but in her heart she had a mission and she had promised her mother that she would die trying to save their world.
And as she sat on the edge of the well, the same well that had brought about the destruction of her world and the same well that would take her to a past that her mother knew well, she looked at her house.
'Find Inuyasha. Find Naraku, and kill them both.'
She jumped into the well, a bright pink light surrounded her, and her world disappeared.
That is the end of the prologue. Stay tuned for Chapter one.
Author: Yasmine
Email: ebonysky1@yahoo.com
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I am using this story as entertainment only. Please don't sue. I'm a poor college student with ten cents to buy Ramen.. that is all.
Summary: While fighting another of Naraku's henchmen, a mysterious arrow appears a long with a girl that knows everything there is to know about the gang. Who is she? And how does she factor in with the disappearance of Naraku?
Prologue
The women lie on her deathbed. Her long gray hair lies on the pillow under her, as her big brown eyes stared motionless at the ceiling. The sheets felt heavy on her chest, but the cold wind that pushed against the house forced her to bear the load. She shuddered to think of what the outside world looked like now, she knew that the devastation that the demon had brought was a force that her time could not deal with. But she was too old to fight, her fighting days long gone. All she could do now was listen to the screams of the people outside and hope that her decision was the right one.
"Momma, are you up?"
The women rolled her eyes from the ceiling to look upon the most beautiful hazel eyes she had ever seen. A woman of twenty looked down on her. Her white hair fell to her shoulders thick and straight, yet every once and a while you encountered a couple strands of black. She stood tall, her face made her look younger than she was, but the stress of the past events showed heavily in her eyes. The old women often could not look directly into her eyes for long; the sorrow of the lost of this woman's childhood always haunted her.
"I am up Kumiko. I have been up for some time, awaiting your arrival. I am glad to see you have stayed out of sight."
The old woman tried to make her body move to sit up, only to have her weight keep her down. She groaned in pain and tried again, and like always she could not lift herself.
"Oh mother, why do you keep trying? The poison has already taken your energy, why do you not let me help you?" Kumiko frowned as she walked over to help her mother sit up.
"Because I'm not a baby! I must learn how to move on my own, you shall not always be here. If only he had lived longer, I might have."
"You might have died trying to get to him. Mother, that was a long time ago. You and he did not know the dangers of that encounter. Or how his coming would bring such disaster." Kumiko sat down beside her mother, lightly brushing her thick gray hair.
"I can still see his golden eyes, imagine his body so close to mine. Had I not been so stupid as to think it was over, maybe I could have killed it." The tears fell from her tried eyes.
"Mother, there was no way of you to know, as there was no way of him to know. The past is the past, and hopefully I can change that mistake." Kumiko smiled at her mother.
"Yes, Kumiko you shall change the past. I have made sure of it. So my daughter, this is what you must do. Find Inuyasha. And stay by his side! Help when needed, but tell him nothing of who you are. Do you understand my child? Tell him nothing!"
The old woman grabbed onto Kumiko's shirt, her small hands grasped the fabric with all their might. Kumiko leaned into the touch, her own hands wrapped around the frail woman. Her tears threatened to come out, but she refused to comply. Letting go slowly, she kissed the woman on her forehead, and moved from the bed. A smile on her face showed the little fangs behind her lips.
"I will find Inuyasha, and stop Naraku. Then we will be safe. I promise."
Kumiko turned from her mother; her hair twirled on the force. And briefly, just briefly, you could see her dog-ears as her hair moved. Kumiko did not see her mother smile, nor did she see her mother take her last breath, but in her heart she had a mission and she had promised her mother that she would die trying to save their world.
And as she sat on the edge of the well, the same well that had brought about the destruction of her world and the same well that would take her to a past that her mother knew well, she looked at her house.
'Find Inuyasha. Find Naraku, and kill them both.'
She jumped into the well, a bright pink light surrounded her, and her world disappeared.
That is the end of the prologue. Stay tuned for Chapter one.