Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANY INUYASHA CHARACTERS OR SONGS I USE AS SCENE BREAKS!
"Speaking" 'Thoughts'
-8- So here I go I'll dive right in Break through the waves Straight to the ocean floor -8-
"Now boarding flight 145 none stop to Osaka"
"Arashi?" she turned and found herself face to face with her new foster mother. She was a few inches taller then her 5'6" with short brown hair. She didn't look like a descendant from a line of priests.
"Ms. Higurashi?" she asked carefully. Ms. Higurashi smiled warmly.
"You can call me mama if you like. Are these all your bags?" she gestured to the single suit case and got a nod in response. "Let's go home"
'Home…' she thought wearily
-8- And although my hands are shaking I lay perfectly still Cause I'm determined to let myself sink down-8-
Three months earlier
"What do you mean he got away?!" the detective screamed angrily into the receiver. He slammed it back into place and sighed he looked at his door and knew waiting somewhere on the other side was a scared 16 year old girl who had her foster family slaughtered, her own life threatened and the man who had done it had gotten away.
"What should we do with her?" his partner asked "she won't be safe here"
"Guess it's witness protection" he sighed the girl was still covered in blood and dressed in pink pajamas with little white bunnies on them.
-8- And I know I'm buried too far down To feel the warmth from the sun again -8-
She wasn't Arashi but her grandmother was she had passed away when she was four and she apparently was the only person who cared. She was a quarter Japanese and because of it she had been shipped away to Japan to be with another foster family. She tried to be optimistic but the voice told her he would come no matter what.
"Here we are" the taxi stopped at the bottom of a river of stairs Arashi could only gap at the distance.
"Aren't you glad you only have one bag?" Mama smiled at her and she nodded as they began to climb. "If you need to stop and rest just let me know it'll take you a while to get used to the climb" she nodded and didn't bother to say that she wouldn't need to. As a habit she'd run everyday for a half hour that included stairs and hills. She looked up and smiled this at least would be good endurance training. At the top was a small shrine where she supposed the family lived as well a well house and a huge tree. She took a few steps toward the tree then stopped remembering herself she looked back at mama who nodded. She walked to the tree and put a hand on it, it pulsed under her hand as she closed her eyes and inhaled its sweet scent. This was the promise of hope she thought and for the first time in months she felt the weight of her grief lift away just a little. The door to the well house opened and a girl in a green school uniform emerged carrying a large yellow back pack.
"Kagome!" Mama smiled at her daughter as they embraced. Arashi watched wearily as they spoke in low murmurs. She turned away and gave her attention to the tree it had an odd aura but it was welcoming. She reached up and touched the small hole in the trunk. She got the image of a boy dressed in red with white hair sleeping soundlessly with an arrow shot through his chest.
"Arashi!" Mama called puller her back from the vision. She drew her hand away slowly and turned. Kagome still stood at her side, she noticed then just how much they looked alike the only difference might have been the shape of Kagomes eyes.
"Arashi this is my daughter Kagome. Kagome this is Arashi"
"Nice to meet you" Arashi said with a bow. Kagome smiled and returned her greeting. They walked inside and were immediately assaulted with sea salt.
"Demon be gone! Evil entities disperse!"
"Grandpa!!" Kagome cried
"Don't interrupt child I'm cleansing you all of sprits"
"Grampa" Mama walked to his side and took the salt from him. "I'm sorry Arashi my fathers a priest here" Arashi smiled politely she'd read up on Japanese heritage before she came and knew the superstitions well enough.
"Instead of attacking everyone with sea salt and herbs you can spread the sea salt in the doorways. It'll keep them out of your home."
"In the door ways ehh…" he stood and contemplated her suggestion while analyzing her with a critical eye. "You'd make a descent priestess" Kagome and Mama sighed with relief now that grandpa accepted her, the hard part was over.
-8- I could wave my arms and swim away, But never reach the shore -8-
Nightfall came and she lay awake in a small room that she suspected was a closet but it had a small window all the same. They were all so nice, which surprised her; most people aren't lucky enough to get two gracious foster families in a row. She sighed and rolled over onto her side to look out the window she had a clear view of the well house and the tree. The well house had a similar aura to the tree funny how she hadn't noticed before. She saw a shadow move around the open space and she froze.
'Now so soon!?' she panicked and sat up drawing a metal bat from under the bed. She eased her bedroom door open and moved out closing the door behind her. The house was silent around her. She held the bat tightly with both hands and silently descended the stairs. She watched the shadows carefully and kept an eye on the doors and windows. Was she going senile? She heard murmurs upstairs and decided to go back to bed. She hit a creak in the floorboards and winced. The murmurs stopped instantly she sighed and figured the jig was up. She was still silent but not as much as she had been.
"I have someone staying in my house for a while Inuyasha. She probably just got thirsty and went for water"
'What's an Inuyasha?' she wondered distantly as she approached her bedroom.
"With a bat?" she froze with her hand on the edge of the sliding door. It was well past midnight and Kagome had a boy in her room!? She shook her head it was none of her business even if she was they were the same age. She closed the door behind her and put the bat back in its place under the bed. Ever sense that night three months ago she had a weapon with her always. Even a butter knife would do so long as she could defend herself with it and cause harm. Once she was back in her room their voices turned into indistinguishable murmurs. In the morning she was going to help grandpa in the shrine she would start school sometime next week with a full uniform and a set of brand new text books. Everything seemed picture perfect except for the shadows always circling in her mind.
-8- But for now I will lay face first in the sand With the wreckage from ships that lost their way -8-
"Inuyasha what are you doing here?!" said Kagome angrily
"You were taking too long" he grumbled
"I've only been gone a few hours…"
"We need to get going and find the rest of the jewel shards before Naraku we don't have time for vacations"
"This isn't a vacation I have to stay for a few days"
"Why?" before she could answer he threw up a hand to silence her, his ears twitched to the footsteps just outside her door.
"It's ok" she whispered. "I have someone staying in my house for a while Inuyasha, she probably just got thirsty and went for water" he frowned and looked back to Kagome.
"With a bat?"
"What?"
"I saw her downstairs, she looked ready for battle" Kagome yawned and tried not to go back to bed and ignore him.
"You're imagining things Inuyasha" Inuyasha scrawled and picked up her bag.
"Let's go"
-8- And I know I'm buried too far down To feel the warmth from the sun again -8-
this is my first inuyasha fan fic please be nice to me and don't forget to Review
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Scene breaks: "Dive right in" by Story Of The Year
