2. Kagome
Kagome was fully aware that girls her age - almost adult women in the opinion of the five year old girl - usually wanted ponies with flowing manes and cute names. They wanted frilly dresses like all heroines from Western fairytales and animated movies were wearing. They wanted to meet and fall madly in love with a Prince Charming with a British accent and blue eyes.
Kagome was different. She wanted to meet and fall madly in love with a boy who would love her no matter what and would fight bad dragons alongside her. She barely tolerated girly dresses and ribbons, being more used to traditional garbs of the shrinekeepers and clothes allowing her more freedom of movement. And she definetely didn't want a horse who would poop around the shrine grounds and eat her Momma's flowers.
For her birthday her Daddy found a way to give his little girl a steed who wouldn't poop, a strong one, not requiring food or hours of mane brushing. The little girl bounced on her heels when he led it out of the shed and presented it to her. Then she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek before turning to admire the bicycle with curiousity.
"Okay, princess, let me show you how to ride this steed so you can one day go and rescue your very own prince," Mr. Higurashi said with a chuckle when the girl bit her bottom lip, obviously wondering how to mount her brand new pink bike.
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Years later Kagome smiled at the memory of the sunny afternoon when her father had been teaching her how to ride a bike. Then she started pedaling faster to catch up with a goat youkai who had a certain hanyou impaled on its horns and running wildly through the forest while the said hanyou was yelling profanities, cursing not only the wounded, maddened by a loud screams youkai, but also its ancestors, close relatives and future children, wishing for all of them to die from choking on a wolf shit.
Kagome had no time for memories, she had her prince charming to rescue.
A/N: Totally blame this on me working on the next chap of Adorable Curse.
As you see there's a pattern - I'm going to write all the character prompts like this. A glimpse of the past of a character and a little bit of their present.