InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Siu ❯ Tricksters ( Chapter 6 )

For: iyfic_challenge at lj, week #23 - “Magic” theme - 7/14/05

Pairing: none

Word Count: 290

Notes: This won third place!

Summary: Post-Naraku. Implied character deaths. Kagome doesn't trust magicians.

 

Tricksters

 

At first, Kagome doesn't think it worthwhile, but after a moment of Souta's pout, she relents and allows him to drag her over to a flashy street magician in front of a toy store. Tipping his hat, the magician holds out his long-sleeved arm to Souta.

 

“Pull this string I'm holding here.”

 

Kagome closes her eyes as Souta rushes forward to do as the street magician says, opening her eyes as Souta begins to pull out scarf after scarf from the magician's closed fist.

 

Souta is still laughing as they walk away from the magician, and Kagome nods and pretends to listen as he exclaims over the amazing miracle of creating scarves from nothing. She does not have the heart to tell him the secret of the magic trick, that the magician had only hid the scarves up his sleeve.

 

Idly following Souta as he browses the toy shop, Kagome thinks that it would have been nice if somebody had told her the secret of Naraku's trick before they had pulled the string and let loose his scarves at them. Perhaps they might have been happy if she had realized that Naraku had only been tricking them, like the way a magician tricks his audience into believing that his magic is real. Perhaps she wouldn't have been the only one left if she had done something instead of been tricked.

 

And Kagome continues with her perhaps's, knowing but refusing to acknowledge that she is only tricking herself.

 

As they exit the toy shop with their purchases, Kagome concludes that she doesn't know if there is true magic in the world, but she does know that there are many types of trickery and that she will never believe in magicians again.