InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Laconic ❯ Lost Anamnesis ( Chapter 4 )

Lost Anamnesis

Word Count: 166

 

Today it is sunny, but inside Kohaku it is black and dark like the shard that pulses in his neck, tinting memories he does not remember as they float away.

 

Something drifts past him now, and he stops, turning his head.

 

There - he sees her - a strange kitten in her arms with too many tails.

 

`She's very pretty,' Kohaku thinks.

 

And there - next to her - he sits, a boy, chains slipping through his hands, blade slicing pots into pieces.

 

`He looks…almost like me!'

 

“Hello!” he says.

 

They speak, but not to him.

 

Shy and quiet - that is the boy, the boy that looks like him - and soft, reassuring - that is the girl, almost woman.

 

“Kohaku, are you…scared?”

 

“N - not really…”

 

And aloud, Kohaku says, “Funny, we even have the same name!”

 

Later, she says, “You'll do fine,” and pats the boy on the back, and for a second Kohaku almost thinks she means him.

 

But now they are gone, and Kohaku waves, shouting after them, “Goodbye!”