NA: umm, thanks for the review. That means a lot. When I was looking over the story, I found so many mistakes… I found two run-on sentences and some that doesn't make sense. I'll try harder to get them finished quickly AND correctly. I can't procrastinate anymore, since I have readers. Still, I am an amateur. I need some inspiration to write, but I've had fewer and fewer inspirations this week. But I had a little spark in the corner of my head, since I was watching so much anime this week. In Clair de Lune, Rin is featured as Kagome's little sister. And for Kagome's mom, her name is Emiko. Oh, yeah, Lord Inutaiso's name is Yasamaru; I recently figured out. Please read and review!
Clair de Lune
by Sansy
Chapter 9:
"Did you come to find... me?"
Kagome sighed, folding the delicate fabric in half. Her mom, who heard her sigh for the tenth time, put down the towel she was folding. Kagome looked up, and found her mother making a suspicious face. Kagome quickly looked down again, and hastily continued to fold the fabric she was holding. Her mom continued to stare at her.
"Kagome, do you have something to tell me?" she finally asked, and Kagome shot her head up. She blushed, and squeezed the fabric she just finished folding. She shook, and finally slammed down the fabric onto the floor. She gasped before shouting out a question:
"MOM! How did you become to love Dad?" Kagome yelled, so loud that even Rin, her sister, peeked from her room to see what was wrong. Her mother was dumbstruck for a moment, and then she laughed like a little girl.
"Dear, dear. So that was what you were curious of? Well, I guess I was fascinated by his... err…interest. When I first met him, I thought he was cold because he hated me. But then, he started worrying about me, such as when I got bullied. He's never done that before, but later I figured out that he liked me, and he has been cold because he didn't know how to express himself. Isn't he cute?" Emiko laughed, blushing slightly. Kagome blushed along.
"Right! That's it, isn't it?" Kagome yelled, blushing bit harder. She swung her fist. Emiko stopped laughing, and stared at Kagome, round-eyed.
"What's it?" she asked. Kagome just then realized that she was overreacting, and sat down.
"Um... I just thought that Dad would be like that." whispered Kagome, fidgeting with her sleeve. Emiko made a suspicious face again, and lifted Kagome's chin.
"You like someone, don't you?" said Emiko, smiling mischievously. Kagome jumped back, yelling "ehh!" as loud as she possibly could. She was speechless for a moment. Then she jumped back to her seat. Then hastily, she nodded. She wasn't aware whether this was a love or just a mere friendship, but she had to choose either one, didn't she? So she chose love.
"Yay Kagome finally fell in love!" said Emiko, and Kagome stood up to pull her down to her seat.
"Mo—mom! Not so loudly!" she said.
"Ha! Kagome, what are you afraid of? You fell in love!"
"MOM!"
Sesshomaru walked down the hall of the Sakenjyo University. His footsteps fell heavily and echoed through the empty hall. As he reached his destination, he quietly opened the door and entered. It was a lecture room, big enough to fit about a hundred people. But the only people present were people on the front, which seemed to be roughly thirty people. Sesshomaru took a seat in the last row.
The professor was giving a lecture about a speech, swishing his silver locks. His hands busily jotted down the equation on the chalkboard, making clicking noise. He was talking at the same time, explaining the equation. On his chest, there hung a nametag: Prof. Yasamaru Inutaiso. Sesshomaru just watched as the professor explained the difficult equation with deep voice. From his pocket, Sesshomaru took out a picture, half burnt off. There was a woman with beautiful silver locks, smiling. On her left, there was a man, with his name written on hastily on the photo: Yasamaru. He compared the man in the picture with the professor.
"Now, who wants to solve the equation?" said the Professor, turning on his heels. Sesshomaru awoke from his thoughts upon the professor's voice. Professor made a disappointed face as he saw no one raised their hands. "No one? Then I'll pick someone randomly… Okay, you, in the back." He said, pointing to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru stood up (although somewhat hesitantly) and walked to the front. He studied the equation and picked up a chalk. Then he started to write out the process; the professor and students watched as Sesshomaru solved the equation briskly, not once stopping to think. And when he was done, the professor studied the process carefully.
"I've… never seen such equation… whose is it?" asked the professor, and Sesshomaru avoided direct eye contact.
"Does it matter?" Sesshomaru thought he sounded a little arrogant, but the professor didn't seem to mind.
"Not really, but I was just curious." The professor smiled kindly, unlike his grim appearance.
"I just solved it in my way." He said curtly. Yasamaru chuckled a bit, lowering his eyes. He noticed that Sesshomaru was wearing the Sakenjyo High School uniform. His eyes widened.
"Are you… a high school student?" gasped the professor. Sesshomaru just looked at the professor before returning to his seat. The professor laughed softly.
After the class was dismissed, professor caught up with Sesshomaru who just walked out of the lecture room.
"I never realized a high school student could solve such a difficult equation. Why did you come? Don't tell me you came solely to listen to my lectures." said Yasamaru, smiling fatherly. Sesshomaru shifted a bit.
"I came to find someone." said Sesshomaru. Yasamaru raised his eyebrows in a fascinated way.
"Did you come to find… me?" asked the professor carefully, who by the time knew that Sesshomaru was hard to talk to. Sesshomaru just looked away.
"Dad!" yelled a cheerful voice, and the professor turned. Sesshomaru looked before the professor did, and realized that it was professor's son. He knew who the boy was. He knew it before he came to Sakenjyo High School. He just turned and escaped quickly out of the hall.
"Inuyasha!" exclaimed the professor. "You came out of the hospital!"
"Yeah. Mom was busy making dinner, so I though I could walk home together. It's okay, right?" said Inuyasha.
"It's all right, son. Right, listen. Today, I found a high school student who could solve difficult equations… he's right… huh?" Yasamaru stopped as he figured out that Sesshomaru was gone, nowhere to be seen. "He was right here…anyway, he seemed to attend your school. Do you know anyone that if good at math in your class?"
"Not really… well, Kagome is."
"Kagome is good at everything in YOUR view."
"Aw, Dad, come on!"
Sesshomaru walked down the street with quick paces. It was beginning to rain.
I don't want to see your face.
He tripped, and fell. His coat billowed and spread out like wings.
I don't want to see it.
He stood up, and leaned on the cold wall. The rain started to fell heavily; Sesshomaru found it suffocating. His hair was already wet by the rain.
I don't want to break down in front of you.
Sesshomaru started to feel cold and numb.
You're not my father; my mother told me so.
He felt it getting more painful to swallow and think. His legs felt useless. They bent and he fell.
But I try so hard to make a difference… I'm powerless, after all. I want to believe… that I had a father. A kind father like you.
"Sesshomaru!" said a familiar voice. He felt being lifted up to a sitting position and leaned to the wall. A warm hand was put on his forehead. Then when he remembered a bittersweet memory, he became unconscious.
'Father!'
"Nn..." Sesshomaru moaned, bringing his arm up to shield his face from a blazing light that shone up from the ceiling. He tossed himself, feeling warm sheets under his fingertips. He snapped his eyes open, and raised himself. He was in a foreign room that he has never seen before. His clothing was just as he remembered; only his coat and the jacket of his uniform were on the chair nearby. He was wearing a green turtleneck.
"Hey, you woke up!" said a voice, and Sesshomaru quickly shifted his eyes to the door. There stood Kagome, with a tray that had two cups of tea. She handed one to Sesshomaru, and he obediently took it. Green tea, he thought. "I was worried, since you fell unconscious last night."
"What… happened?" he didn't believe he was saying this, but he was. He had completely no memory of coming here whatsoever…
"I found you burning up in the alley near my home, so I took you here. Oh, yeah, I called your mom. She sounded okay."
"She yelled at you, didn't she?" sighed Sesshomaru, running his hand through his long hair.
"Yeah, but that's okay. She said she'll pick you up when you're conscious." said Kagome, sipping from her cup. They were at loss of words until Rin came in.
"Hello… nii-san." She said shyly. Sesshomaru merely nodded. Rin suddenly gripped Sesshomaru's arm, hugging it tightly. "Kagome nee-chan, I'm going to marry this nii-san. He's so handsome!" She squeaked. Kagome laughed, and softly pinched Rin's cheek.
"Okay, but before you marry him, let's make him a breakfast, ne?"
"Right!" Rin agreed, following Kagome out of the room.
The breakfast at Higurashi's was not at all lonely, unlike Sesshomaru had every morning. He appreciated the bickers that Kagome and Rin made, because it made the morning fill with cheerful air.
NA: I hope this was long enough to be likened, since I spent two or three hours on it. This is just part of the boring stuff in the beginning of the story… climaxes will be in later episodes, like the eleventh… eh, I'm pretty good at guessing, so please expect the real romances at those times. This is a T rated fanfic, which means there won't be any… deep relationships, if you know what I mean. This is sort of like a kid's love, so don't expect any lemons. Please read and Review! -
-Sansy, 5-27-06