InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Song ❯ A Love Story ( Prologue )

Love Song

Prologue

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For reasons I cannot explain, I always loved seeing my father stare at my mother. I never understood why, but when I was a child, I always caught myself looking in their direction. The pure love that radiated from my father's eyes when looking at my mother was a beautiful thing. Even though he was gruff and tough, he always stared at and treated my mother with an inhumane gentleness. Nights that my siblings and I would play games in the living room with our parents on the couch come flooding back in to my memory when I think about my parents.

 

Those nights, Mama would always fall asleep against my father's shoulder or against his chest. And when he realized she was in a deep sleep, he would signal us to be quiet. Then he would cradle her in his arms like a new-born, holding her against his own heart and with all the care in the world, slowly make his way to their bedroom. I'm sure my brothers never noticed, but I did.

 

There are six of us. Mama and Dad got married when Mama was twenty-nine, but they had been together since Mama was eighteen. I think they hit a few rough spots during their relationship, but they resolved them in the end. Kaemon, Rinji, and myself are triplets, born to Mama and Dad two years before they were married. Kaemon is the oldest though, he was born fifteen minutes before myself. And I was born ten minutes before Rinji. Out of the three of us, Mama always used to say Kaemon was more like Daddy. Dad, on the other hand, said I was just like Mama, but I looked like him. And Rinji…well Mama said he acted like her younger brother.

 

 

Jaime was born next, when we were ten years old. That's when Kaemon lost his `just-like-Dad' title. Jaime was our father in a skirt…she was fierce, she was gruff, and she was the spitting image of him. But Jaime was the devil himself and she was extremely rebellious. So much, that she left our family when she was eighteen.

 

 

Taikeo was three years younger than Jaime. He was purely a Mama's boy. He loved our mother dearly and usually ended up fighting with Jaime when she disrespected Mama. He was a curious one when he was little, always sitting on the countertop while Mama cooked. She taught him how to cook, how to draw, and Dad showed him how to fight, how to never let anyone think they were better than him. He taught us all that, actually.

 

 

And finally, there was Emiko…the baby.

 

Although Jaime and I both had good relationships with our father, we never purely depended on him. Maybe when we were little, but not as we grew up. My brothers usually were the ones I relied on. But Emiko…she was the light of my father's eyes. He would always say “you're just like your Mama, Emi.” She always came to our father, always hugged him and kissed his cheeks. She would even braid his hair when she was little, but then again, she did that with our brothers to. She would also fall asleep in his arms, just like Mama would. And just as gently, he'd place her in to her bed.

 

 

Mama and Dad---wherever they are---would probably be joyous to see our family expand and see what we've all accomplished since they've been gone.

 

 

I always thought Mama and Dad were a fairytale. Mama shared their story with me just once and it was the most beautiful story in the whole wide world. I think I was sixteen at the time when she told me…told us. She told us all individually. Even though their story is not mine, I will share it with you because even though their gone, their tale lives on.

 

And so, it all started on Mama's first fifteenth birthday…

 

 

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A/N:

I hope you enjoy this story as much as I will love writing it. Thank you!

 

 

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