Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters used in this story. The credit on creating this awesome story and all those wonderful characters should be handed to Rumiko Takahashi.
Author’s Note: Woot…I hope I will be able to finish this story up. It was in my laptop for 2 years now and only now I have the guts to post it up. There are grammar problems here and there so forgive me for this. I will try to correct it soon. It’s another one of those, what will happen if Sesshoumaru ended up in Kagome’s time kind of adventure but I will like to tell it in my style and how it should go. As far as this story goes, it is canon as I prefer stories that follow the original storyline. This story is written as a part of the The Spectrum Challenge at the Live Journal community dokuga(underscore)contest. The prompt was 'Blue'.
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Seeing Blue
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"Grandpa, do remind me why I'm here with you again?"
The said old man contemplated on his grandchild question and looks straight into her eyes. "Kagome-chan, we are here for the most important event of the year. Any minute now the auction will begin and we,” He gestured to himself and Kagome. “…as the caretaker of the Higurashi shrine should win...I-I mean should at least possess something more valuable than what the neighboring shrine has."
At that, Kagome sighed in defeat. How many times have she seen her grandfather plotting all sort of nonsense in order to out done the other shrines not far from theirs. She rubbed her temple and began to think of other better things she can do right now than to sit in a mass of old folks who are here for the same goal as her grandpa had.
Leaning back on the chair while playing with a lone thread sticking out of the sleeve of her favorite blue sweater, she began to recall the event that has happened 2 years ago. Naraku was defeated at last and the jewel was successfully destroyed and her mission being there was over. She wa s no longer needed and somehow she was expected to just go on with her life like nothing has ever happened. How was she supposed to do that when part of her was attached to that time beyond the well?
Months after coming back to her own time , she could not put down her memories of her time back in the feudal era. The adventures that she had with her friends were etched in her mind forever and it haunts her. She used to have dreams about being back in Inuyasha’s embrace and staying with him in the feudal era like where she wanted it to be. She would see Miroku and Sango taking care of their children and how loving they can be to each other. Seeing Shippo off when he was about to go perfect his kitsune power and training with Rin-chan who was put into Kaeda’s care by Sesshoumaru to become a miko. Nonetheless, the thought of being with Inuyasha always made her happy beyond anything she wished to have but as soon as she found her happiness in her dream, she will be woken from it.
She will sit there on her bed crying day and night in her room but doing that further had worried her family when she saw how devastated her mother looked because of her. It was then she decided it was time to stop being sad over something that was meant to be in the past and has nothing to do with her anymore. She smiled and gives herself and imaginary pat in the back for being able to let go of it and move on.
She had graduated a year ago from high school and was now furthering her study as a university student which has made her family proud. She will work harder now so as to not disappoint her family anymore than she already has. She was happy with her life now. She has a loving and caring family who supported her all the way and she was enjoying her life as a university student where meeting new challenges is a daily routine. She was broke out of her reverie when her grandfather elbowed her.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen, our next item will be this 500 years old sword.” The two caretakers took out said item which was wrapped in a blue fabric embroidered with gold thread. The auctioneer lifted the fabric from the sword for everyone to see. “It was said that this sword once belonged to a demon lord who used it to revive the dead but how true was it, we will never know."
Somehow no one was interested in the sword due to its worn-out appearance and nothing seems to be particularly interesting about it to everyone except for the girl who was gaping at it.
'Te-Tenseiga?' Quickly without thinking, she raised her hand. "1 million!" She shouted before her grandfather can stop her and before he knew it, he was already writing a cheque for her grandchild has won the bidding by default. No one was foolish enough to bid for the useless worn out sword.
"Should have just let her remain in the house like she insisted to." He kept muttering. Kagome was anxious about the whole thing. She wanted to see the sword that was once seen held by a certain demon who she knew from the past. The elder brother of the one she used to love.
‘How did the sword ever get here?' She began to wonder. 'Did you abandon Tenseiga?' She shook those thoughts away and thanked the person as he handed the sword to her. When they reached home, her grandfather couldn't stand it anymore and began to voice out his thoughts since leaving that auction house.
"Kagome, what were you thinking? This sword is nothing but a piece of junk. Just look at it..." He pointed at the sword. "It doesn't even look and worth a million yen!"
"Grandpa I'm sorry but I just have to have this." She looked at him with hopeful eyes to make her grandfather understand.
The old man sighed and waved his hand in defeat. "Just this once Kagome I'm putting all my saving on this sword you so wanted but you have to tell me if it is really what the legend claim it to be." Now it was the old man who was looking at her with hopeful eyes.
She sighed and began to open the box containing the sword. She took it out and showed it to her grandfather. "Yes grandfather. This is Tenseiga...It can revive the dead and believe me I had seen it being use to that purpose." Now her eyes sparkled with fascination recalling back to the first time she ever saw him use to revive the dead and she wouldn't have believe it if she didn't saw it with her own eyes. "It used to belong to Inuyasha's older brother..." Before she could finish, her grandfather was jumping and shouting with joy. He was running around the house calling for her mom and Souta like he had hit the gold mine.
'Didn't know the old man still had it in his old bones to dance around like this.' Kagome shook her head gently.
"Kagome-chan, do you know how our life will be from now on? Can you see it now child?"
Kagome scratched her cheek with her index finger nervously. "Uhm...I don't think I can see it because I don't think that anyone other than 'him' can use it."
Her grandfather whirled around in disbelief and cracked one of his old bones and fall to the floor. A loud cry can be heard thousands of miles emitting from the shrine.
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After giving one of his long lectures yet again, Kagome realized that she might have gone a bit overboard and was a bit reckless about bidding the sword without her grandfather concern and putting more thoughts about what she should do about the sword. Staring at it now on her study table wouldn not give her the answer she seeks about why the sword was here in the first place. All these years, she had also wondered what happen to all the demons she saw back then in the feudal era. 'They wouldn't magically disappear overnight would they? Something must have happened to them.' And that was why she thought this sword could have been her answer to her question but without its owner, she was back to square one.
She sighed for the million times today and took out the sword to examine it. "I prayed every night, wishing that I will be able to meet someone I know from the past again but I didn't expect to see you here." She asked the sword knowing that she will get no answer from it.
"Alright I know I'm being silly here talking to a sword but who is there to judge me now." She started laughing at herself. After recovering from her laughter, she looked at the sword again. "Where is your owner Tenseiga? Where is Sesshoumaru?"
The sword began to rattle in her hand and she dropped it unceremoniously onto the floor. She backed to her bed and began to wonder if the sword has had it with her nonsensical talks. "Alright, alright, I know I shouldn't be talking to sword and you can stop shaking now like a time bomb ready to explode." She gulped at the thought of it. 'Oh great...Here lies Higurashi Kagome who died talking to a sword that couldn't stand her blabbering and exploded right at her face.'
The sword then seize its rattling and just when Kagome thought it was safe to get back to the ground, the sword began to emit a bright blue light, blinding her eyes instantly. "Urgh, I had it with you Tenseiga! Kill me if you want to but stop scaring me like this." She opened her eyes slowly when she realized the bright red light has subsided but what she saw had her blinking a few times to see if her eyes was playing tricks on her as laying unconscious on her bedroom floor was none other than the person she has asked the sword about...
"Sesshoumaru?"