InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inu Yasha Themes ❯ Seasons of the Heart ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Setting: Manga Canon
Rating: A
Pre-requisites: Chapters 183, 519.
Characters: Bokusenou
Genre: General
Author�s Note: This was inspired by a 2009 challenge prompt called �Tree� in the Inu Yasha Themes Livejournal community.

Summary: Toutousai must have obtained the materials for Bakusaiga's sheath from somewhere...

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Fantasy | Type: One Shot | Uploaded On: 11.22.2009 | Pages: 1 | Words: 477 | Visits: 226 | Status: Completed

Seasons of the Heart.

Can the immovable be moved?

I once made a promise: three branches for three sheaths. Two were resolved quickly enough. However, the third would be made in spring, after the thawing of an unending winter's ice.

The year I was born, the earth shook from the honour of bearing the weight of the divine warrior. Humans - wanderers and potters - somehow settled yet never settling; the coming of rice; the first chants of the new religion that named the namelessness that had existed before. The coming of the nobles.

The tireless passage of the seasons, to which I bore witness. Watcher. Guardian. Keeper.

Immovable.

With undying expectation, I watched the days blur into nights and months, and finally even years: a conversation triggered by swords and the fate of swords. Yet when it came, it was accompanied by an unexpected twist - the trigger was a single soul; a mere whelp. The conversation carried with it a taste of melt-water. Foolishly, I was surprised.

Wise though I am, I still know nothing at all.

I was able to learn one thing, however: spring was finally coming.

Which begs the question, can the immovable be moved?

That day, I dropped my third branch.

FIN.