Title: Snow of the Moon, Ice of the Sun
World: Inuyasha
Challenge: Dokuga Twisted Fairytale Challenge
Chapter Eight
Rating: M
Kagome sat in one of the magnolia trees of the floating palace, her mother sitting gracefully in a pavilion nearby with food spread out on a low table. She knew that once she had known someone that enjoyed sitting in trees, even sleeping in them…but it was getting so hard to remember her life before she came to the flying palace that only small flashes of memories would flit through her mind's eye, but they were so rare and over so quickly that they meant nothing to her. Really, the only option left to her was to ask her mother. It was getting annoying, those flashes of nonsense that would leave her icy heart aching.
"Mother, how long has it been since you brought me here?" She took a bite out of the plum that she had been tossing and waited for the elegant inu to answer her. Mother was what she called her, but she knew that the female was not her mother nor of her blood. It was so obvious that even a blind man would have seen it. They were not of the same race nor were their coloring similar.
"How long do you think it has been?" Ageha tilted her head to one side and sipped from the small porcelain cup in her hands. It was ironic that Kagome had asked of her that question the very day that her Pack would arrive at the gates of her palace. How fortuitous.
"Years. Years upon years upon years." She jumped down from her tree and walked into the pavilion, plopping down gracefully next to Ageha. She had lost track of time and it flowed smoothly for her. The only clue she had was how her hair had grown to be comparable in length as her mother's. Already she had cut it several times to make it more manageable, but it simply kept growing.
"And what if I were to tell you that only a week has passed since I found you, my little warrior?"
Azure eyes blinked in surprise and then a smile worked it's way onto Kagome's face. "Then I would not be surprised, not at all, Mother, not at all. You are, after all, unsurpassed when it comes to Magic. None can rival your glory."
Sesshomaru was not pleased.
The Miko-yet-Kitsune that they had been searching for had been hidden, all this time, in his Mother's Palace.
He was not pleased.
Author's Note:
Kagome has not gotten younger, it's merely the magic of the curse taking effect as well the Shikon no Tama's own little twist on it. She's forgotten her human life. For all intent and purposes, she considers herself to be an odd creature, a rarity that Ageha decided to take in and raise. I hope that was able to clear up any confusion?