InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Anxiety ❯ Daydream ( Chapter 5 )

+++Chapter 5+++

++Daydream++

 

Kyasha had woken up late that morning; her mother came in and rudely awakened her from her beauty sleep.

 

“Kyasha…” Her mother yelled. When no response came, her mother decided to skip to the physical force, knowing Kyasha wasn't too easy to wake up. She yanked on the blankets; pulled open the curtains, flicked on her light, and walked out knowing full well that that would wake sleeping beauty up.

 

“Why is mom such a bitch?” Kyasha mumbled to herself as she walked to school. Kyasha was never a morning person. On weekends, all of her friends knew she slept in so whenever they planned to call her, they would call at around three in the afternoon.

 

“Hey, Kyasha? Running late I see?” She heard a voice call behind her. Kyasha recognized the voice and was so not in the mood to talk to her. “What did ya sleep in?”

 

“Leave me alone Hikari…I'm not in the mood.” Kyasha stated. Hikari was the most popular girl in school. She had the grades, the looks, everything a girl could want, but she still wanted more. Hikari tried out for cheerleading captain, got it; She tried for school president, got it; anything she wanted she got, but she was never satisfied in Kyasha's eyes. So she would pick on other girls that weren't, as she would say, at her level.

 

“Oh, so little miss athletic doesn't want to play? Too bad…I was really hoping to talk about that new teacher with you, what was his name….Mr. Izayoi? I heard he kicked your butt in baseball yesterday? That must have been bad, knowing you, and how you hate losing….geez, what a poor-” She was cut off by a force slamming her in the face; she looked up to see Kyasha standing in front of her. Her fist clenched at her side, ready to fight.

 

“You, you just hit me!” Hikari declared.

 

“Yeah, you got a problem with that, bitch?” Kyasha asked as she was about to lay another punch on her when something or more to the point someone, stopped her.

 

“Get to school, I'll handle this.” A low but demanding voice called out to the girl on the ground. Hikari stood up and ran to school as fast as her feet cold carry her. It almost made Kyasha want to laugh.

 

“What the hell was that for?” Kyasha said as she pulled from the man's grip and found her staring into golden eyes that were glaring at her.

 

“I was about to ask you the same question. You could have seriously hurt that girl, and for what, to prove to her that you were better then she, that she couldn't say those things to you, though I know she had no right to that still doesn't allow you to hit a girl.” Inuyasha explained. Kagome told Inuyasha that in her time, it wasn't right to hit, and now that he was a teacher, he had to enforce this, in his mind, a stupid rule. He thought that people should fight to get their point across.

 

“It's none of your damn business….” Kyasha said, knowing nothing else that would help her get out of this situation.

 

“I got to ask you something…” Inuyasha said, ignoring her last comment.

 

“You can ask, doesn't mean I'll give you my answer.” She stated as she turned away from her teacher.

 

“Okay, fair enough….I was wondering….what are you?” Inuyasha bluntly asked. Kyasha's jaw dropped. `What kind of question is that? What does he mean, what am I?'

 

“What's that supposed to mean?” She asked as she redirected her body to face the man.

 

“I mean, what are you? Human? Youkai perhaps?” He asked.

 

“Who asks that kind of question, I'm human, and can't you tell from the black hair, I don't have any youkai traits.” Kyasha answered, knowing that he knew she was lying, how this guy had a clue about how she might not be as human as she says.

 

“You're lying…but if you won't want to tell me the truth….I'll give you a little bit of my secret.” He said simply. It got her attention; she lifted her head up to see what he meant. Inuyasha had taken off his baseball cap and showed her what she guessed was there, but it still shocked her.

 

“Your…you…you're a youkai? You have dog ears?” She stammered.

 

“Yep, but you got to swear not to tell anybody….and by the way, I'm only half...not full youkai….” With that he left to school. “Oh, and I'd rather you not be late for class.”

 

Kyasha stood there, mouth hanging open. `He's like me….half Inu-youkai…should I tell him? Or does he already know?'

 

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Kyasha was on her way to her second play practice. School was finally finished, but Kyasha's head still was stuck on the fact that Inuyasha, Mr. Izayoi, showed her that he was, in fact, a hanyou.

 

`Does he have some sort of trust with me? Or is he just trying to blackmail me into telling him…guilt trip?' She constantly thought that, and didn't know which one was the real answer. `Maybe I should stop by there, ask him or something….? But isn't he living in a hotel now since their house is burnt?'

 

“Hey, Kyasha, over here! Were practicing one of the battle scenes and we need your character!” She heard a voice call. Kyasha looked up and saw Kana coming over with her script in her hand.

 

“Oh, yeah, sure, what battle scene is it?” Kyasha asked. `Aren't I in every battle?' Kyasha thought as she skimmed through her script. Her lines were pretty much repeated the whole way through the play. Yeah, she played the leading role, but this character rather came naturally to Kyasha, she didn't know why. Maybe since she was also a hanyou, like him.

 

“I think it's after the hanyou, your part, gets pinned to the tree and set free by the priestess, it's some youkai that's after the Shikon no tama jewel. Come on, we got to hurry, I was sent to find you, what took you so long?” Kana explained.

 

“Nothing, just doddled, that's all.” Kyasha explained it was true, partly; she was so distracted about the episode this morning she hadn't been able to concentrate this entire morning.

 

“Okay, hurry, we got to get back.” Kana stated as she grabbed her friend's arm and dragged her to the theatre. Kyasha was still not in the mood to act today, actually, she thought she'd never be in the mood. She decided to go for it, Kana always loved this sort of thing, Kyasha forced herself to be `Juliet®' and she actually did pretty well. That's what the teacher said anyway.

 

“Oh, Miss Tanaka, good to see you, I'm glad you're here. We were just talking about your character.” Ms. Boute exclaimed as she pulled up a chair for Kyasha right beside her. Kyasha made and `o' shaped mouth and sat down. She flipped her page to where the class was.

 

“What were you saying?” Kyasha asked.

 

“Oh, we were just saying that I've had some confidential information brought in from a friend of mine and he said that this character, the hanyou, has an amazing personality. He's passionate, aggressive, and I heard he has a bit of a temper.” Mr. Boute stated.

 

“Oh, now where, if you don't mind me asking, did you get this information?” Kana asked.

 

“Can't say, but he said he had done in-depth research on this legend from our heritage.” She said. “Okay, we will now go through scene 4 where the first priestess believes she was betrayed by the one she loves, the hanyou. So, if I could get Kyasha and Hikari up on stage and read out your lines for this scene.”

 

“Ummm, Ms. Boute? Are you sure I have to play a guy part? I mean….it is kind of hard to…well, grasp this character…if you know what I mean.” Kyasha asked.

 

“Oh, Kyasha, I know you'll do fine, you just have to read out the lines in some form of enthusiasm.” Ms. Boute answered as she shoved Kyasha on stage.

 

“Oh, god…” Kyasha mumbled to herself. She looked up to see Hikari there, looking a little freaked out. `Ha, she's still scared of me, well, serves her right.' Kyasha thought to herself as she made her way up the rest of the stairs to the stage.

 

“Okay, from the top, right now, if we could start at the part where Hikari's role is about to shoot her final arrow at the hanyou, we don't have nay props yet, but just do your best at making a bow and arrow, and Kyasha just get hit my the arrow and fall for now, until we have the scene made out.” Ms. Boute stated.

 

“How could you betray me you vial hanyou, I never want to see your face again.” Hikari stated as she rose her arms up to show she had a bow in her hands.

 

“But…” Was all Kyasha could say since Hikari was supposed to shoot her and cut her off from talking and explaining the truth to her. Kyasha fell to the ground and slowly pretended to die.

 

The class clapped, it wasn't that big of a scene, but it had a lot of emotion, or that's what Ms. Boute said.

 

“Good, good, that was excellent. Now if we could skip to the scene where the hanyou meets the second priestess, after she pulls the arrow from the hanyou.” The teacher stated as the class split and some kids came on the stage, namely the people who played the second priestess, some warriors, and this other old lady Kyasha couldn't remember what her role in the play was. “Okay, and…action!”

 

Right as Kyasha's teacher spoke, Kyasha blacked out. Her mouth wouldn't move and everything felt like slow motion. `What's happening to me?' She asked herself as she slowly fell to the ground.

 

`Kyasha…' She heard a voice call to her. Kyasha thought it was one of her classmates calling to her since she was now on the ground. Then she realized it was spoken to her from inside her own head.

 

`Who are you? What's happening to me?' Kyasha asked the women's voice from inside her head. Kyasha was startled when she began to feel like she recognized the voice. No voice came, but instead there was a flash of light and then Kyasha was standing up, in a small clearing.

 

`Where am-…this is the Higurashi shrine? But why am I here?' Kyasha asked. No answer came; but Kyasha heard crying. She looked up to see…Mr. Izayoi? But he was different; he was wearing a red cloth that Kyasha didn't recognize.

 

`Mr. Izayoi!' Kyasha called out, but he didn't hear her. `It's…like…I'm not here, like I'm invisible.'

 

“Kagome, she's not here!” He called towards…the well house? Now this was confusing. Kyasha didn't understand, she was invisible to these people, and Mr. Izayoi had on some freaky clothing and he was talking to a building.

 

`This has got to be some kind of joke, this is nuts…' Kyasha tried convincing herself.

 

“Where is she Inuyasha? I can't lose her; she's got to be somewhere.” A girl cried as she ran out of the well house.

 

`That's the girl I saw when I rescued that boy from the house, she must be his wife, but….what did they lose?' Kyasha asked herself.

 

“I don't know, I'll look inside again….you go back to the feudal era and see if something happened there, maybe she did get through.” He said, even though he knew she wasn't there, he felt he had to get her out of there.

 

“Okay, but hurry…” Kagome said as she ran back to the well.

 

Before Kyasha knew it, she was pulled back into her own mind again. Kyasha slowly opened her eyes to see thousands of eyes on her.

 

“What?” Kyasha asked innocently.

 

“Kyasha, you fainted, are you alright? Maybe we should call off practice for today, you should get come rest.” Ms. Boute stated.

 

Kyasha slowly sat up and rubbed her head. `What the hell happened? Was that some sort of dream? But, why was Mr. Izayoi in it? Maybe I should get some rest.'

 

“I'm going home…” Kyasha stated as she got up and started walking to her backpack.

 

“Kyasha, I'll walk you home.” Kana called out.

 

“No, I'm fine; I'll go alone, please…” Kyasha said as she raised her hand to stop her worried friend. “I'm fine, it anything happens I'll call, okay?”

 

“Okay, but you swear, you'll call?” Kana asked.

 

“Yes…bye” Kyasha said as she walked out the school gates. `What did it mean? Was it just some warped dream or something?' She asked that question a million times over and over but it never got any clearer.

 

She stopped walking, she couldn't handle it, maybe she should ask someone, but whom? Kyasha was so enveloped in her thoughts she never saw the red ball that hit her in the leg.

 

“What the?” She asked. She looked up to see a young by with long silver hair come running up to her.

 

“Hi, my name's Daitan…ummm, can I have my ball back, please?” He asked as he pointed to the ball at her feet.

 

“Oh, sorry, here…..your name's Daitan? Do you live at the Higurashi shrine?” Kyasha asked.

 

“No, my Grandma lives there, we were visiting her, me and my mommy.” He explained.

 

“Oh, hi Kyasha!” She looked up to see Mr. Izayoi and his wife walking up to her. “I see you've met our son, Daitan.”

 

“Oh, yeah, ummm…..” She said as she glanced at the woman beside him, hoping for an introduction.

 

“Oh, ha-ha, my name is Kagome, I'm his mother.” She said with a smile.

 

“Oh, nice to meet you, my name's Kyasha Tanaka.” She said as she reached her hand out for a hand shake. Kagome froze a little when she heard her name, but smiled and shook her hand.

 

“Would you like to stay with us and play at the park?” Kagome asked.

 

“Umm, sure, that'd be nice.” Kyasha answered as they all walked back to the park.

 

“So, how old are you Kyasha? I heard that you're the one that saved my son from the shrine when it was on fire; that was very brave of you.” Kagome asked.

 

“Oh, yeah, no big, I'm fourteen years old, my birthday's on its way.” She stated.

 

“Oh really? When is it? Maybe we can have a birthday party here for you?” Kagome stated as they sat down at a bench next to the swings where Daitan and Inuyasha were.

 

“My birthday is in May, a few more weeks…and you don't have to celebrate, I think I'm a little too old for parties.” Kyasha said and they both giggled.

 

“No, I guess you are, but maybe a dinner….ya know? The shrine should be repaired by then.” Kagome asked.

 

“Maybe….by the way, what started the fire?” Kyasha asked.

 

“Oh, well, my mother….she was helping me give Daitan a bath, she was getting him changed. I was downstairs in the kitchen….I….was cooking, and well, I over did it with the heat and a spark came. Me and fire don't mix, I grabbed a cup of water to throw on it, but realized after the water hit the fire that it was a grease fire and that only made it bigger.” Kagome explained. “By the time my Mother was done with Daitan and came into the kitchen the whole room was up in smoke and I was on the ground fainted she said.”

 

“Oh, that's terrible, so she ran out with you but left Daitan?” Kyasha asked.

 

“Pretty much, I'm just glad you came when you did or my baby boy wouldn't be here right now.” She said with a bright smile.

 

“Your welcome…actually I wanted to ask something…to Mr. Izayoi, but I guess I could ask you.” Kyasha started. “I was just at practice for this play at my school, we were going into this scene and before we started, I fainted and fell to the ground….” Kyasha had to find the right words… “When I fainted I saw this…scene, actually you and Mr. Izayoi were in it….I'm not sure what I saw, or what it meant.”

 

“Really? What did you see…?” Kagome asked as she stole a glance at her husband who was pushing a little too hard on the swing and almost made Daitan fly right over the top of the swing set.

 

They were interrupted by a big lightening strike that appeared to flash right in the park. They all looked up and Kagome and Inuyasha's jaw dropped. Kyasha was confused. “Kyasha, take Daitan and get out of here!” Was all she heard other than the thunder as Kyasha grabbed Daitan's hand and ran.

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Kyasha…………………… 230;….Dainty (`Key-yasha')

Kana……………………̷ 0;……No meaning (`Can-a')

Atama……………………R 30;…..Bold (`A-toma')

Hikari…………………… 230;…...light (`Hick-aree')

Daitan…………………… 230;…..Brave/Courageous (`Day-tan')