Chapter 3
The Mysterious Box
After breakfast, Serena, Inuyasha and Kagome were in her dark room again.
"I always wondered what was up here." Kagome said looking around the room.
"Oh yeah. I never allowed you to come up here huh?" Serena was handling the Tetsusaiga. Inuyasha was on her bed looking at the pictures in the book she left there.
"How come?" Kagome watched as Serena pulled the Tetsusaiga out of its sheath.
"Well for one thing. I am your older sister." Serena was looking at the blade of the sword while she said, "And I didn't want you to touch my swords because you could have really hurt yourself with these."
Kagome gave her an angry look and said, "Would not!"
"Actually you would have gotten hurt." Inuyasha said looking up from the book. "You're always getting into trouble back in the feudal era."
Kagome gave them both angry looks. "INUYASHA!"
Oh no! InuYasha knew what was going to happen next. As he quickly pushed the book aside Kagome yelled "SIT BOY!" which caused him to slam face down on the floor the moment he stood up.
"Doesn't that hurt him?" Serena was kneeling right beside him as Kagome went to the stair well.
"Yep." Was all she said as she walked down the stairs.
InuYasha slowly lifted his head and said, "Damn that wench!"
"Does she do that all the time?" Serena put the sword back in its sheath and helped him sit up.
"Yeah." He rubbed his forehead where a large bruise from the fall was beginning to appear. "Sometimes she does it until I'm knocked out."
They sat on the floor for a while. Serena was still holding her sword and tapping the end of it on the floor. After a moment of silence, he asking, "What's this box you keep talking about that you found the swords in?"
"Here I'll show you." Serena went to her closet door and opened it. It was mostly empty except for a few things that she never took with her when she moved out of the house. On the shelf was a long, dust covered box with ancient writing all over it.
"This is it." As she showed the box to him she noticed that there were several cuts on the lid that she never noticed before. Probably from when I dug it up with a small garden shovel, she thought. "I put the kimonos inside. I didn't want them to get covered in dust."
They both opened the box and inside were two rolled up bunches of cloth. InuYasha pulled out the red kimono and said, "This is my kimono. It's made out of the fur of a fire rat."
"And this one?" Serena pulled out the white kimono and unrolled it. There were red patterns on the shoulders and on the ends of the sleeves.
"That belongs to my brother, Sesshomaru." He said angrily. He threw the red kimono across the room and it made a thunk sound when it hit the wall.
"Wait a second." Serena got up and went over to the kimono. "Clothing doesn't thunk when it's thrown against a wall."
Serena slowly picked up the kimono. It was still in a rolled up bunch and as it unrolled, something inside was clicking and clanking inside the robes. Inuyasha got up and went over to her as a small box fell out of the robes.
"What is that?" he bent down to pick it up as Kagome came back in the room.
"I'm sorry I left like I did." She saw Inuyasha with a small box in his hands. "What's that Inuyasha?"
"How should I know?" He handed the box to Serena and went back to the book on the bed.
Serena looked at the small box as Inuyasha and Kagome argued. There was more ancient writing around the lid of the box. She put the kimono on the back of her chair and ran her fingers around the rim of the box. For some strange reason, she understood what the writing said.
"Only those who are pure of heart, full of demon spirit and has the two legendary swords of the fang, can one open this box. For inside, is the treasure of the greatest hero of Fuedal Japan." Serena whispered these words out loud. She didn't notice that Inuyasha and Kagome had stopped arguing and were now looking at her. She didn't notice that she had spoken in a different language. And she also didn't notice that the box in her hands was glowing brightly.
Serena was so focused on the box that she didn't here her sister call her name. Her hand touched that lid of the box and slowly lifted it open.
"SERENA STOP!" Kagome yelled. She tried to get to Serena, but a barrier had formed around her. Even when Inuyasha tried to get to her, he was deflected right off of it.
"Serena! Wake up!" Kagome cried. "Inuyasha! What's happening to her?"
"I don't know. But that box is controlling her somehow!" He tried to claw his way pass the barrier but to no avail.
The only words Serena heard was "Open the box." And she did. The moment she opened the box and a wave of energy surged through her body. The light coming from the box was so bright that Inuyasha and Kagome had to cover their eyes.
The red kimono flew off the chair and onto Serena. The energy running her body became painful and she then realized what she had done. She started screaming as the pain became too intense to ignore. She felt as if her body was transforming into something else.
Then the light went out in an instant. The pain she was feeling finally ended and she fell to her knees. As she fell to the floor, Inuyasha and Kagome saw that she was indeed different from before.
