InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ The Locket ( Chapter 6 )

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Chapter Five.

 

 

`The Locket'

 

 

“Niraya-sama”

 

 

The black haired, red eyed half-demon looked down at the blond girl sitting by his side.

 

 

“Yes, Usagi?”

 

 

“What is the moon like?”

 

 

He raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”

 

 

“It's just…every time we come up here, at night, to sit by this lake and watch the moon, I can't help but wonder what it's like. So distant and mystical, yet I know it's not as perfect… Somehow, I know its surface is not as smooth as we see it, that it's full of craters, and mountains and valleys… Besides, the moon doesn't emit its own light, does it? It's the light of the sun that reflects upon it, making it brilliant and beautiful…” the girl answered in a whisper, as if mystified by her own words.

 

 

He wasn't as convinced though.

 

 

“But Usagi” he began, chuckling and tightening his arm around her to give her more warmth, “how can the light of the sun reflect on the moon, and be the one that gives it brilliance, when the sun's already turned in for the night, at the time the moon comes alive?”

 

 

The girl furrowed her eyes and bit her lip for a moment, deep in thought, before answering.

 

 

“I…I can't explain it, Niraya-sama…” she put a hand to her temple, her gaze lowering to the ground. “That's because the Sun is still there, somehow, I just know it…I just don't know why…” she explained meekly and sighed, closing her eyes. “…Why do I keep remembering things like this, Niraya-sama? Why do I suddenly know things nobody else seems to understand, see things in a different way than everyone else does? You've said I come from another world, but it's so confusing!” she cried “If I come from another world, then why does everything here look so familiar?!”

 

 

She took a small pause and continued.

 

 

“I know what day and night and the sun and moon are, I know what utensils to eat with and how; without being told, I know to fasten the obi around my kimono and even understand the language when you or the others speak to me” she exclaimed anxiously. “All those things I recognize and wonder if, perhaps, the world that I came from was not so different…but then, then I remember more…Names, sounds and images; imprinted in my head like fire…Objects… Strange knowledge and ideas that nobody else here possesses… making it impossible for that world that I came from to have been anything like this one any longer, if at all…and it's all so tangled and mixed up that it doesn't make any sense…I don't know what to expect, what is real… and what is a figment of my imagination”

 

 

She turned to look up at him, pleading.

 

 

“What's a `toilet', Niraya-sama? And a `radio', a `TV', a `school' and a `Crown Arcade'? What are an idol's purpose, and a sailor scout's? Why do I remember what some strange food called `pizza' tastes like?”

 

 

She was on the verge of crying, eyes cast down once again. He was staring at her wordlessly, his expression unreadable.

 

 

“It's so confusing, and lonely…I just want it to disappear from my head”

 

 

 

 

“I can't believe that I lost it!”

 

 

The blond girl whimpered in dismay as she frantically searched every place of her subterranean chamber. She'd just finished dressing in that odd and otherworldly outfit that her Lord had also delivered, when she noticed its absence.

 

 

She couldn't find it anywhere.

 

 

“Where… where is it? I can't have lost it, the present that Niraya-sama gave me just yesterday night!”

 

 

“What is this?”

 

 

“It's a present, a locket that plays music. When I found you, along with these clothes, this locket was one of the things you carried with you…”

 

 

“Please… tell me that I didn't lose it!” tears were starting to surge in her silvery deep blue eyes.

 

 

He was the one that had given it to her, and it'd only been the night before, but that was not the only reason. It was not because it probably had to do with her past either… It was a symbol of their bond and trust, of one of the few true possessions she really had in this world. When not even her own identity and memories were certain, her new locket was. The locket was real, not imaginary; not an image inside her mind of which she could never ever be sure whether it'd existed outside of her dreams. It was there, tactile, hard, smooth… real.

 

 

It didn't arise too many unwanted questions regarding her sanity, and she clung to it as much as she clung to her beloved Niraya.

 

 

It was comforting…

 

 

Was it possible that she had left it behind?

 

 

There?

 

 

Back there?

 

 

…By the lake?

 

 

In the open.

 

 

…Outside…?

 

 

Niraya-san would surely get angry if he found out she had gone outside in broad daylight, but she had no other choice.

 

 

“I've got to find it…”

 

 

She had made up her mind.

 

 

 

 

“You sneaky little wench! You think you can steal from us?!” a furious voice yelled in her ear.

 

 

“I wasn't stealing! It was mine! You're the ones who've taken it from me; please, I ask you to give it back!”

 

 

“Taken from you?! Wench, when we found it, it was lying there on the ground all by itself! Now you come, try to snatch it from our bag behind our backs, and to top it when we catch you red-handed want to make us believe that it was yours in the first place, and that you'd dropped it near the lake by accident? What kind of fools do you take us for?”

 

 

“You're hurting me! Please! Let me go!”

 

 

“Too late for that one. No one steals from a band of thieves and lives to tell the tale; didn't' you know that, missy?!” the first bandit said, shaking her roughly as she tried to struggle.

 

 

“A weak demon like you should think twice before attempting to deceive dangerous humans like us!” a third thief who until then hadn't spoken said laughing.

 

 

The now stunned girl gaped at him like a fish.

 

 

“De-Demon?!”

 

 

“You're right” the second thief nodded, giving her a quick assessing look “with that hair and eye color and those weird clothes, she's obviously a demon posing as a woman!”

 

 

“Let's burn her!” ordered the one who seemed to be the leader “…That'll teach her not to mess with our kind”

 

 

 

 

Some miles from there, the Sword of Heaven started pulsing.

 

 

“Jaken, I'll be back later”

 

 

 

To Be Continued.

 

 

 

 

GLOSSARY

 

 

`Niraya' is another word for `Naraka' (Hell), the word that gave Naraku his name.

 

 

Someone-`sama' is used to show defference to a superior, a king or a saint.

 

 

Someone-`san' is used to show formality or respect.

 

 

The `Sword of Heaven' is Tenseiga.

 

 

A/N: You probably know what I was going to say, so I won't say it (grins). It's just for this chapter though (winks). However, authors DO need to feel the LOVE! Show what you guys can do! (wink wink nudge nudge)