InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Manifestation of the Inuyasha Doll ❯ Of Stink Bombs and Paint ( Prologue )

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Manifestation of the Inuyasha Doll







~Prologue~




Of Stink Bombs and Paint





Dawn was slowly coming to an end as the sky began to turn its regular shade of pale blue. Ah, the afternoon. Kagome looked out the car window, watching sail boats and surfers at the beach, ready for that summer sun. Today was a great day to go to the beach. That's where she should've been today. With her friends. In the beach. Having the time of her life. Instead, she had to go pack two days earlier to move to stupid Sendai, far away from her beloved Tokyo. Stupid, stupid city.

Kagome sighed and tore her gaze away from the window. There was no use sulking. They were already half way. Later, she'd be going to her new school, seeing new people. Yes, seeing; because she new she would not be meeting them. They'd all pretend she was mute and just talk about her behind her back. Then soon, it would all die down.

She turned to Souta. He looked just fine and dandy. The little idiot. Kagome knew she shouldn't be taking it out on Souta because the poor boy hadn't done a thing to make her day worse. She just needed something to take her anger out on. Well, no more of that. She should go to her happy place, yes…

Many people seemed to use "bunnies" as a key tool in creating the perfect imaginary utopia. Why bunnies though? Many domestic rabbits urinate and leave trails of crap all over people's houses. Some are even capable of decapitating a human finger.

Some smell, bite other rabbits, and hog the pellet plate. Some even fornicate with their own family members.

So why bunnies?

Kagome closed her eyes. She preferred goldfish. Yes…happy little gold fish, swimming around breathing oxygen bubbles.

Well, everything came and went…just like her happy childhood in Tokyo.




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"Here we are!" Mrs. Higurashi said excitedly.

"Yay," her two offspring mumbled half-heartedly.

"Oh, try to sound more enthusiastic about it. It's only going to be for a year! We'll go back when the house is done," Mrs. Higurashi said, soothingly.

Kagome sighed. Mama insisted on getting the house refurnished. She said the bathroom fixtures were positively ancient, the paint was peeling and rotting, and she swore she heard scurrying between the walls.

Kagome never noticed them though. She adored the place...the Goshinboku, the shrine, her beloved bedroom, her school...and Grandpa. Grandpa was the only one who was tenacious enough to remain at the shrine. He said he was going to "supervise" the workers, just to make sure they were doing the right job. Mama had agreed to this, though the kids argued maliciously.

Anyways...we're here. Might as well make use of our time, Kagome thought with a final sigh.




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After some uneventful unpacking, Kagome laid her sore body on the mattress in her and Souta's room, fiddling with her spherical necklace. She had a strange habit of tangling her fingers in it when she was in deep thought about something.

Her mind drifted off to the dreaded first day of school. She closed her eyes and imagined the other students' gawking, bulging eyes watching her as she crossed the room to the teacher to give the piece of paper that said she was in that classroom. She could imagine them talking about her as if she was completely deaf and couldn't comprehend a damn thing they were saying.

Yes…it would be hell…

Oh, but wait. Maybe there would be a way out. Maybe…when she entered the school, she could pretend to be going straight into the building but scale the fence instead! Yes…that would do…or maybe…at lunch, she could sneak through the parked cars and hide in a 7-11 or something. OR, she could pull the fire alarm and go through the back door, hijack someone's bicycle, bike down the freeway to Sendai Station and catch the next train back to Tokyo! Maybe, if that's not possible, she could just seduce the principal into not telling her family where she was going during school---

No. Maybe she wouldn't go that far.

But must she be an antagonist? She didn't even start school yet and she was already thinking up means of escape.

When her mind drifted to the unconscious happy phase called sleep, her mind cleared of the heinous tomorrow.




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The heinous tomorrow came. It wasn't so bad that morning. The happy birds were chirping just outside her window and the sun wasn't all that blinding.

Maybe 'cause my curtains are shut, Kagome thought. She sat up and pulled the curtains to reveal more of the sun. Nope, they weren't blinding, even when her curtains were pulled back. But those birds were getting on her nerves. Rock…must find…rock…

"Kagome!! Breakfast!!"

"What? It's only…7:45..." Kagome groaned, glancing at her alarm clock. "…7:45!! Wait…7:45--ah no!!" Kagome yelled, running to the bathroom.

When she had put on her new school uniform, she headed down the hall to the kitchen and found Mrs. Higurashi and Souta already at the table. Kagome sulkily sat down.

"Morning," she said in a dead voice.

"Kagome dear…I promise that after the first day, things will get better," Mrs. Higurashi said, rubbing her daughter's arm affectionately. Kagome attempted a smile.

"I'm sure," Kagome replied.

"It's just so quiet without Grandpa around," Souta said, picking at his food.

"Hey remember a couple years ago? When we were playing in the snow and you tripped on a log and nearly smashed your face?" Kagome asked Souta. Souta laughed.

"Yeah, and you walked up to me and started crying and saying I was dying," Souta reminisced.

"Yeah..." Kagome sighed with a solemn smile.

There was a moment of nostalgic silence. Mrs. Higurashi looked at her children, feeling remorse. Was it a bad idea to drag them here? Well, they couldn't live in that house. It would be uninhabitable. Holes in the wall, stripped wallpaper, no bathrooms…

No, this was the right thing.

"Okay, you two go on now before you're late," Mrs. Higurashi said, giving her two kids a kiss before shooing them out of the door.

The two headed towards their respective schools. Outside, the clear sky could be seen with the beautiful young sun. Kagome rubbed her temple. Those birds were still pissing her off though…




****





"S o she's the new girl?" Kagome heard one of the students whisper to someone in the classroom, completely audible, mind you, as she handed the pass to the teacher. She made it just in time. 8:25AM, on the dot.

"Yeah. I heard she's from Tokyo."

"One of those rich girls huh?"

"I don't know about rich."

"I heard she was evicted."

"I heard there was a fire and she had to move."

"I heard there was some weird activity going on in their shrine and they got freaked out and left."

"I heard her dad was a transvestite prostitute who couldn't make any money for them so they had to move to a smaller place," said one boy.

Everyone stared at him.

He grinned sheepishly. "Hey, that's what I heard."

"All right everyone, settle down," Kagome heard her new teacher, Ms. Yasuhiro, say.

Kagome took her seat, hoping everything would settle down, but unfortunately, it didn't. To her misfortune, her day went just as she had described it.

She, once again, found herself fiddling with her necklace then looked down at it. She never really thought about what it was. She always thought it was just some glass marble-thingy her grandfather gave her as a decorative trinket for her to wear. Grandpa had told her a story of this "Shikon no Tama", but she just shrugged it off as a tragic, romantic myth.

Well, lunch finally came and she sat at a table near the door so she could quickly run up to the classroom. She watched as a group of girls gave her some sort of look, but she ignored it. She'd probably be getting that for the next couple of days.

After lunch, more gawking in classrooms and other uncomfortable situations, she finally got as settled in as she ever felt she would. At least after the bell rang she could go look around town. That, she would enjoy.




****




Where in the world are their restrooms? Kagome asked herself as she headed down the empty hall. It was truly an emergency and if she didn't hurry, she'd be late for her next class.

She turned down the hall and found the restroom signs. She sighed with relief.

Oblivious to Kagome, two male rebels were snickering just outside. They had been waiting all day for an unsuspecting victim to fall into their quarry. And yes…they found her…entering the boy's restroom. This was not her fault though, for the boys intentionally replaced the boys' bathroom sign with the girls' and added a little surprise. Of course, it was cliché, but according to their prank books, it was still a classic.

Kagome exited the bathroom, her eyes dull and insentient. People around her were laughing and pointing. Had she known she was in the boys bathroom? If those idiots didn't switched the signs--oooh!!! To top it off, they put a stink bomb in there...One day she'll get them. But right now, she no longer cared what happened to her. She glanced out the window and found a bird chirping away on a branch.

Damn it, where's that rock?




****




After school, Kagome was surprised to see Souta running up to her.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Aren't you-" Kagome began.

"I was dropped off here by a--oh hey--why do you smell like fart?" Souta said, seeming obviously repelled by his sister.

Kagome sighed. "I don't really wanna talk about it," Kagome said with a hint of irritation in her voice.

"Okay…can you tell Mama I'm gonna go hang out with Kojiro? Tell her I have a ride," Souta said.

"Sure…"

"Thanks, bye Onee-chan!" Souta said cheerily before he sauntered off into his friend's car.




****




The area of Sendai city she was in was pretty nice. Lots of tall buildings and not much homeless people like down at Tokyo. Maybe she could even find a part-time job here. Besides, Mama would have wanted her to do something after school.

Could she try to settle in a place like this? Hopefully.




****




"Ah… just paint this and I'm almost done! There we go."

The young girl looked back at the shop name she had just printed "Shizuma Kottouhinten" - the Shizuma antique store. She squinted and noticed a small spot missing paint. Unconsciously, she reached for the paint and clumsily knocked the whole can over…on an unlucky pedestrian.

"Oh shi--damn it!" the girl swore.




****




To Kagome's surprise she felt something drop to her head, and she too, dropped as well. Before she knew it, she was on the ground, covered in some sticky goop.

She inhaled it and gagged. "Paint! I'm covered in paint!! Great! First we moved here…then I had to deal with the stupid, staring kids at school, then I get caught in some idiot's pranks, now I get dumped on the head with paint!! I look like a freaking chewed piece of mutant bubble gum that smells bad!!" she yelled to no one in particular.

"Gomen nasai!!!" she heard a girl cry out from above.

"Kami-sama…am I…?" Kagome began as she looked up at the girl standing in the light. She chuckled.

"I'm so sorry," the girl said. Kagome blinked a couple times before she could see.

"I'm not dead?"

"No, just knocked on the head. I'm so sorry. Why don't you come in? You can go wash yourself off in the back-here let me take your bag-oh gosh, I'm so sorry," the girl continued as she helped Kagome up.

"It's all right…" Kagome sighed.

"My great-aunt just told me to go make a sign so I did…unbeknownst I'm the clumsiest one in the family," the girl said with a soft laugh. "What's your name?" she asked as she walked with Kagome into the store.

"Kagome."

"I'm Sango, the future owner of this dying business," the girl said, implying the tiny shop.

"Oh…I think it's pretty nice," Kagome said, looking around. There were antique dolls, shamisen, kakemono, and paintings all over the shop. Kagome found herself fascinated.

She walked to the back where the bathroom was, and when she finished, she continued to scan the store. Something suddenly caught her eye. It was a small doll sitting on a broken tier in the back of the room. She looked closely at it. The poor thing had some sort of stick right in its heart. It also had incredibly strange eyes for a doll. It was gold…and its hair was completely white though it didn't look elderly at all.

"That is what we call recycling material," Kagome heard a voice behind her. She turned to see Sango standing at the door.

"Why does it have a stick through it?"

"I don't know, but it came like that. We assumed it was part of it."

"My cat, Buyo, had a doll like this once. He destroyed it completely," Kagome said with a smile.

"You can have it if you want."

"No, I can't--"

"We're gonna throw it out anyways, might as well make use of it correct?" Sango said, tossing the doll to Kagome.

Kagome chuckled softly. "Correct."




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Kagome slumped down on her bed. Yes, today wasn't so bad. She even made a friend and got a job! She was now an employee of Shizuma Kottouhinten!

"Isn't that great Buyo?" Kagome asked the enormous cat, lounging on her bed.

She turned back to the doll. It seemed to be staring right at her. She gave it a peculiar glance and walked right over to it.

"You know…this stupid arrow is really bugging me," Kagome said to herself as she tugged at the arrow. To her surprise it came right off. She turned around to the bed where Buyo was and waved the stick around. Buyo attempted to take it, pawing at it incessantly. She chuckled and quickly threw it to an area on the ground where Buyo could see it. She smiled then turned back to where the doll was.

Or where the doll was supposed to be.

In place of it was a young man with bright gold eyes, white hair, and an ancient outfit that was used back in the feudal era, crouching. He wore a sardonic smirk.

"What are you staring at wench?"













A/N: Was that a long first chapter? I thought it was…never again will I make such a long chapter!!! Please review and tell me what you think!!