I wanted to try my hand at the DDN Oct2020 prompts. I was trying to go for drabbles, but I'm starting to think that I'm unable to. So, I won't submit it as a drabble prompt, but I still wanted to share what I came up with.

Prompt:

Week 2 Theme- Harvest

Earthy, Chill, Feast, Golden, Crisp, Festival, Abundant, Fresh, Ripe, Moon/Sun

Her eyes widened as the space within the circle of candles in front of her glowed impossibly bright. The earthy scent of fresh rain assaulted her senses, and the small room chilled at least ten degrees. She wanted to stand and run, but she didn't dare, she didn't dare break the stillness, it was bad enough that she stopped her meditation.

She had been performing her usual Harvest Moon ritual of cleansing, normally this was done under the light of the full moon, but she promised to help out tonight at the festival being held on the shrine grounds.

The ritual was a simple ceremony, to prepare her body and soul for the second half of the year. She was purging herself of all her negative emotions and things weighing her down like the trees did their leaves to prepare for winter. It was a normal ceremony, similar to the western practice of wiccan. Tonight, newly cleansed and empty of earthly energies, she would bless the shrine. Refilling it with the divine energy gifted to her through the Kami, as a miko.

She had done the ritual to the tee, and intoned her intentions, specifically shedding the upset she had for lost love. She had recently been through a breakup, dumped over the summer for another woman. She had used the most perfect leaves from the abundance dropped by the God Tree as her offering. She shivered, nothing of this nature had ever happened any of the other times she'd done a full moon ritual. Did she accidentally add a new ingredient to her incense?

Peeking into the bowl she catalogued all the dry ingredients, frowning when she saw the crisp skin of a ripe apple among the dried bits of cinnamon, sage and rosemary. The freshness of the apple muddled the dryness of everything else, creating an almost paste instead of what should resemble potpourri.

"How did this get in here?" She murmured in confusion. She dried her ingredients herself; she purified her candles herself, how would she have missed this?

The light dimmed to a glow, suspended at eye level like a soul orb. She watched it warily, waiting to see if it meant her harm. It bobbed for a little staying suspended, while the earthy scent intensified. She gasped as what seemed like an image. Golden eyes looked back at her, looking right through her.

"Kagome!" Her mother called from down the hall, surprising her from her regard. "We're about to start decorating the stalls."

"One minute!" Kagome called back, glancing behind her out of habit. When she looked back, the orb was gone.

"Well, that was weird." She breathed out, ending the ritual with a wave of reiki that snuffed out all the candles at the same time, it wouldn't do to leave a way for the seeming apparition to find a way back and out of the protection circle. She still didn't know what it was or if it was good or bad.

She stood up and left the room.

.:o0o:.

"It was the weirdest thing Kiki." Kagome whispered to her cousin, they were manning one of the booths for her grandfather gifting patrons with well wishes and lucky totems, offering directions and small prayers when asked.

She was telling the other woman of the oddities that happened earlier in the day, hoping for some insight.

"Well it didn't sound like you conjured any spirits. You might have requested that it show you your future." The taller woman explained calmly, mulling her thought over.

"My future?" Kagome parroted.

"Your purging was mainly focused on the emotional. With the addition of a new ingredient, you potentially changed your ceremony from a cleansing to a request to see who you might be fated to. Of course, there's no way to know exactly, this has never happened before. You're not one to mess up your ceremonies." Kikyo looked at her cousin thoughtfully, chocolate eyes meeting worried blue.

"Don't worry about it. You said you didn't recognize whose eyes they were, so that means it's someone new. Just go with the flow." Kikyo patted her cousin's cheek.

"I guess you're right. No use focusing on it." She didn't sound convinced but took a deep breath of the fresh cool air and smiled at her cousin anyway.

"You worry too much"

"Easy for you to say." Kagome muttered.

They were interrupted by a baritone, "Excuse me."

"How may we assist?" Kikyo smiled at the newcomer, Kagome was in mute shock beside her unnoticed.

Silver bangs framed a masculine face, magenta markings slashed his cheeks and a blue crescent marked his forehead. But Kagome could only focus on his eyes. His golden eyes. The earthy scent of fresh rain washed over her senses, so strongly that her knees almost buckled.

She belatedly noticed that he was looking at her, his gaze almost as alarmed as hers.

"Hi." Was all she could whisper out, swallowing thickly.

Kikyo, seeing that both parties were in a similar state of astonishment, took the reins. "Kagome, it's almost time for your break anyway, why don't you show Takeda-san the Goshinboku so that he may attach his harvest wishes." She spoke pointedly. The younger woman looked at her sharply before nodding, swallowing thickly.

"Sesshoumaru." The youkai male spoke, his ochre eyes never leaving startled cerulean.

"Sesshoumaru." She whispered back, leaving the booth to stand beside him. His shiver went unnoticed.

She led him easily through the throng of patrons to the north side of the God Tree, there was activity, as most people didn't walk around the tree to find a place to hang their wishes, they just walked up to the front side of the tree.

"I hope I don't sound like a creep, but I came looking for you." The male, Sesshoumaru, spoke. He scratched his ear almost embarrassedly.

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked, tilting her head curiously.

"Earlier today, I was meditating and-" he paused, before plowing on, "I saw you. I saw your eyes in my mind's eye."

Kagome inhaled sharply, her hand flying to cup her mouth.

"I-I saw you too." She whispered quickly, not wanting her continued silence to make him think she thought he was crazy.

"What does it all mean?" He was whispering too.

"I'm not fully sure. But Kikyo told me to go with the flow." She shrugged. "Would...you like to share some honeycomb toffee?" She asked, an inviting smile on her lips.

"I would love to." He smiled back, quickly hanging his wishes on the tall branch above him and slid his hand in hers. The kanji for hope and blue eyes seemingly winked happily to the sky as a breeze blew merrily through them.

Together, under the light of the full moon, the raven-haired miko and the golden eyed youkai embraced their destinies together.

.:o0o:.

It didn't come out like I thought, but that's quite alright because I didn't really have a plan when I started haha.

I hope you liked it

Much love

-sora