A Paradoxal Mistake
A/N: Here goes another one for ya!
Chapter Three: Sesshoumaru.
"Sayonara, Kagome-chan!" Chimed three girls simultaneously, waving their arms in the air enthusiastically as they sped down the shrine steps each one avoiding falling with every stride they carefully took. Though it was still daylight out, the three friends had been shoo'd out of the house by Kagome who had said she was suddenly feeling quite feverish, that one of her infections might be acting up to give her such feelings. The girls took the bait and had eagerly left, while wishing their friend to be well again.
Kagome heaved her front door shut once her friends were out of sight and leaned heavily with her back against it. "Yeesh!" She cried out exasperatedly. "I love my friends, but Inuyasha is going to kill me for being so late today!" With that said, Kagome trotted off into the kitchen to wish her mother good-bye. She plucked her giant already packed yellow bag off of the table and swung it over her shoulders, visibly wincing at the weight of it. 'I'm going to be riddled with back problems, I swear…' she thought, sighing.
As she left the room after kissing her mother on the cheek, she placed her hands around her mouth and shouted upstairs to her sleeping grandfather – who would likely be awake now – and gaming brother. "Good bye! See you again in a few weeks!" That was that, a few moments later and Kagome Higurashi was throwing the well-house door open and vanishing into an era that was not her own, to battle demons and share her modern ninja food with her half-demon love.
Not that he needed to know that, he just needed to wolf down the chips and soda she had bought rather than scold her for being so tardy.
"Uhg, oops! I forgot something at Kagome's." Yuka said regretfully. "It can't wait until tomorrow." She added, pointing her finger up at Eri who was surely going to say something along those lines.
"What could you have forgotten that is so important?" Ayumi asked, folding her arms over her chest. They were standing a few blocks away from the shrine now, waiting for a street light to change so that they could cross.
"Uh, my cell phone." She lied. The guilt eating away at her chest was unbearable – she had stolen something from her beloved and now sick friend. She just had to turn around and give the shard back, didn't she? "Ah," she said, pointing up as the street light changed and a white 'walk' signal flashed at the other end of the crosswalk. "Don't wait up for me, I'll walk home myself!" She said, waving her hand and was already turned and walking in the direction of the shrine again before her two friends had any input on the situation.
Eri shrugged. "If she says so," and three became two, as the girls walked on and went home.
It took her a while to return to the shrine as climbing up the stairs took the wind out of her. "All for this stupid pink thing, what is this thing, anyway?" She wondered out loud. They must have been somewhat significant, as they were protectively jarred up and the girl vaguely remembered seeing them tied around Kagome's neck occasionally. The jewel fragment was between Yuka's thumb and forefinger as she absently walked, not necessarily paying much attention to where she was going.
She had indeed ended up stubbing her toe on a wooden stair and ended up cursing over the shock of pain that radiated through the entirety of her small foot. Stuffing the shard back into her pocket and brushing her green school uniform skirt down flat, she huffed. "What is this now?" She said out loud, staring at the half open door of what seemed like a wooden shack. It was the old well-house that kept the Bone Eater's well safe and pristine; though it seemed that having the door half open didn't stop the cat from sauntering in like he had owned it.
"Aie! Buyo! I'm sure you're not allowed in there!" Yuka said, stepping up the stairs and into the house. She glared around the windowless shed and frowned. "Damn thing, there's no light in here!" No light meant that it was hard to see, it also meant that the flight of stairs leading down into the center of the well-house went unnoticed by Yuka until she was falling down them. In a scrambling attempt to catch herself the woman basically flew down the old well with a screech, tears of fright immediately finding their way to her eyes and her body tensing up so hard she thought she might seize that way forever.
She didn't hit anything hard, and when a strange tingling overwhelmed her physically she was sure she had hit her head very, very hard and had been knocked out right on the spot without remembering. Blinking her eyes wildly in the darkness, after closing them once and reopening them she realized that the darkness had vanished and she was suddenly gently seated on what appeared to be the bottom of a well-lit, dried up old well. She stared upward and noticed that the roof was gone. Her heart thumped. Well, that wasn't right, now was it?
"Sesssssshoumaru-saaaama! We have found you!"
A child's voice? Yuka blinked and frowned. She had definitely hit her head and must have been in some dream now. Carefully lifting herself up on to her feet she leaned against the stone wall of the well and clutched her stomach to attempt to waive off a sudden burst of nausea. "Seeshoumaru, who the heck is Sesshoumaru?" She said to herself very quietly, not realizing that just over the lip of the well a few meters to the left stood the most powerful demon lord in all of Japan.
A sudden scent of a strange human insulted his nostrils (something similar to the scent Kagome carried with her) and the demon lord grunted briefly, moving himself to peer over the edge of the well. "You address this Sesshoumaru, well-dweller?" He asked his voice frigid and baritone and unlike any Yuka had ever heard. Her eyes nearly bulged at the sight of the handsome man leaning slightly to peer down at her. His long silver hair gleamed, but the rest of him was a silhouette against the somewhat darkening sky above them.
"Don't just stand there! Can you help me out of this… well, this well!"
Word Count: 1,081.