DISCLAIMER: I do not own Ceres or InuYasha
Chapter 4
Aya looked around. What she saw astounded her: almost angelic Sakura completely encircled her and the pond she was standing in. Aya wasn't alone in this pond. There were many other women with dark, rich colored hair wading around, bathing. Even though she was in the pond she wasn't wet and she was also clothed. As she backed up, away from the water and towards land, she noticed that beyond the gorgeous Sakura there was wooded area.
Aya started to wander around peering through the thick Sakura. The wood looked undisturbed and harmonious. She worked her way through the Sakura into the wood. Aya hadn't acknowledged the brambles that were wound within the thick Sakura and had been cut by some of it. She stopped to fix her wounds even though the cuts weren't very deep, she still didn't want any sort of infection to form. While Aya was stopped, she distinguished there was a well off in the distance.
Soon after Aya bandaged all of her wounds, the sun started to linger upon the horizon. Aya stayed put and found some wood for a fire. The sound of rushing water was near by, so the hope of fishing was within Aya's heart, she was famished. As the sound of water neared, she was instilled with serenity and tranquility. Some trees were the only things that now parted her from the stream that lay ahead. Aya peeked through these trees and spied another woman on the other side. This lady looked oddly familiar, and Aya had no idea why. As she neared the edge of the trees, she was about 10 to 15 feet away from this memory-striking woman. Aya circled around all the way to the edge of the stream without this lady having noticed her. She then made her way, under the protection of the trees and damp leaves under foot, all the way over to the other side, where the stream cut off her passage.
Now that Aya had gotten a good look at this lady she connected it to be Kikyo, the priestess Toya, Yuhi, and she had met previously that day. Now that she knew who this was, she stepped out of the cover of trees and sauntered over to her. On her way over, Aya snapped a twig underfoot and Kikyo whipped around with a bow out and an arrow ready to be shot. As Kikyo inspected Aya she never relaxed her grip on the bow, this made Aya weary. Kikyo then circled her as she had previously circled Kikyo, stopping at the streams edge and rotating back the way she had come. After a thorough inspection Kikyo dropped the bow down, as if shooting towards the ground, but did not loosen her grip or put her arrow back in the quiver that was slung over her back.
"Who are you?" Kikyo asked in a tone that was very cold and detached.
"You don't remember who I am?" was Aya's only question to ask.
"Why would I remember who you are? I've never met you before."
"But, don't you remember… back in the street?" Aya inquisitively spoke.
"What is this 'street' you speak of? You make no sense." Kikyo added in a superior tone. She then stalked out of the clearing near the stream with an eye on Aya to keep her at bay. Aya then starts to think about it all: That was so weird… how could she not remember? Toya and myself paid for her hotel room for goodness sake!!!! What's up with her anyways, she's always so stuffy and rude. Maybe she is a hermit…… it's always possible right??
After all of that, Aya realizes how hungry she really was, and searched for things to make a contraption of some sort to catch some fish. She found some twigs of fair length and some string, but had no idea how the string itself ended up at the stream. Aya somehow managed to make something that resembled a fishing pole. Now how in the WORLD did I figure that out?!?! As she cast her line, she peered into the crystal clear water, and was surprised to find a dark brunette haired, brown-eyed lady looking back at her. She jumped and screamed. What the… After waiting a few moments and gathering her thoughts, she looked again, and found the same image looking back at her. Pausing… she inspected it, seeing they resembled one another… yet the hair… the eyes… so much different.
