InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cure for a Wounded Soul ❯ The Beginning ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

The Beginning

Kagome looked out the window of her room, watching the rain fall upon the slate-paved courtyard below. The gray clouds overhead cast a gloom upon the world, dimming everything to pallid shades. Her eyes traveled over the rose garden on the far side of the courtyard, and across the stone wall that separated the Pristine School for Women from the rest of the world. The trees swayed in the wind, coming from the West, and Kagome felt a slight tingling, like she always did when the wind blew from the Lands.

She turned away from the window, bare feet making soft shuffling noises on the thick oriental carpet. Sitting in one of the plush chair before the crackling fire, she tucked her feet beneath the ankle-length crimson skirt she wore. That skirt, along with the loose, long-sleeved white blouse, completed the uniform of a Senior girl. Smoothing the warm fabric over her knees, she stared into the flames. As she stared, her fingers made a smooth pattern in the air, tracing an un-seeable figure. The bell shaped sleeves that flowed about he hands moved slightly as she traced her fingers. Suddenly the flames shot higher, and a rose shape appeared on the wall of flame. As Kagome's fingers continued to sketch the air, the pictures changed smoothly, a rose, a bird, a tree. She placed her hand upon her knee again and the flames resumed there normal crackling.

She smiled. She could feel her magick still flowing through her veins, like a warm fluid carving a path to your stomach. She could do more elaborate tricks when the wind blew from the Old Lands, her place of birth and the source of her magick. When the winds didn't blow, she could only perform meager tricks with shadows and water. The farther you got from the wall, the less magick that existed. If you when far enough, it became inexistent.

Kagome couldn't imagine not living without her powers. She had never traveled father from the wall then Horace, a small town a few miles from the school. When she had been very young, her father had brought her to this school, on the other side of the Wall. She had never understood why, but she had not resisted, her father was wise. She had snatches of memory from her time in her homeland, but nothing very helpful. She remembered a house with a red roof in the middle of a huge waterfall, surrounded by a white wall. Her father's house. She had only been there once. A memory of a very small town in a valley, the place she had grown up. Other than that there wasn't much, she had been brought across the Wall when she was four, not very much time to make memories.

As a young child she had an affinity for magick, and had been enrolled in Elements classes almost immediately. When she had mastered every element in the same time it takes to master one, she was moved into the upper classes, where she was top student now. Every year the classes got harder, but she managed to excel nonetheless. Now, a 16 year old girl, she was the top magick user in her school, even over Magistric Rose, who was the teacher of all the magick classes.

Kagome was also wonderful at Latin, Games, and Refinement, but was barley scraping by in Mathematics. She was only doing well because she worked her ass off.

'Thinking of such…' Kagome arose from her thoughts and walked to her big bed, where a half done page of math lay neglected. 'May as well finish this'. That was the nice part of being a Senior, she had her own room.

Fifteen minutes later, Kagome was laying on her bed, finishing up the final problem. Writing down the final answer, she stuck the paper into her bag, and pulled out her newest treasure from the library, a book called 'Witness', from the neat row of books, including a math book, a Latin dictionary, and a book of advanced spells the librarian had found for her. She wasn't that deeply in, but so far it was pretty good, a murder mystery she had found in the back of the library. She settled in to read, having nothing else to do until her father came to visit her. She had just checked her Almanac this morning, one that had both the seasons of Old Lands and Borashnor, were she was now. A new moon was in the corner, and she knew her father would come. Each time the symbol appeared, she knew her father would transport himself to her room. Previously she had to sneak into the main study at night, but that wasn't a problem anymore.

She read for an hour, and her father still had not come. Worry pricked her, he was never late. Something had delayed him. She had just be about to get up when something touched the edge of her senses.

A cold presence made itself known in the back of Kagome's mind, and she immediately closed the book with a muffled snap. Eye wide but unfocused, she tuned in on the chill she had gotten. A demonic aura was headed toward the school. A rather weak one, but if it was powerful enough to manifest on the side of the Wall, it was capable of causing trouble. Grabbing her bow and her quiver of arrows from beside her bed, she made she way to the window. Looking out, she saw a dark smear coming toward her.

Turning, she made her way silently out into the hall and down the stairs to the main entrance three flights down. She was struck by a sudden chill in the hallway, not used to the cold air. She had not time to stop for a cloak; she had to defeat the demon. Stopping only for a pair of shoes, she slipped out the huge door and into the rain. Notching an arrow, she made her way across the courtyard, and out the iron gates that defended the school from intruders.

Sweeping her soaking raven hair from her eyes, she searched for the demon. The cold presence grew stronger, and she saw the demon about a ¼ of a mile off. Its vanished and reappeared a few moments later about 12 yards away, and without hesitation, she shot her arrow. It flew toward the demon with deadly accuracy, and pierced its chest. Purple light blossomed, and with a gurgling noise the demon vanished. Kagome relaxed her stance, and held her bow to her side. Head high, she walked out to were the demon had been a few moments before. On the ground was a sack, tied closed.

She knelt next to the sack, and sensed her father's aura around it. She undid the string, and the sack fell open. Reaching in, she lifted out a bandolier of bells, polished mahogany handles shimmering with magick symbols. She gasped, and almost dropped them. These were her fathers bells, used to help control and power up the seven main elements. Something had to be wrong, he would never give up his bells. Slipping the bells back into the bag, she scooped it up and made her way back to the school.

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Kagome sat on her bed, the bell bandolier before her. Something had gone terribly wrong. Her father had gone missing. She knew that this was trouble, without him, the demon barriers that he had put up would vanish with the next new moon. Then torrents of demons would flood the earth, killing and leaving a wave of destruction on both sides of the wall.

So far she had done everything she could. A searching spell, the best one she could cast, proved fruitless. She, however, knew that she must find her father. By the magick she welded and the demons she vanquished, she had to find him.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, starting here from her thoughts, She arose and opened the door to see Magistric Rose there. "Kagome." She said. "I had a premonition, that you were crossing the wall." Kagome nodded. "My father has gone missing and I must find him." She said. "So you will be leaving us." The Magistric said, confirming her original beliefs. Kagome nodded again, then began to pack her things.

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There you are. Yes, to everyone who is worried, this will be an Inu/Kag. Inuyasha's just not going to show up for awhile. Also, the chapters will get longer, don't worry. The beginning just needs to be shorter so you can soak up all the information.

Till next time!

Dragon Warrioress