InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Siu ❯ Hating Tchaikovsky ( Chapter 10 )

For: iyfic_challenge Week 27 “music” (placed third!)

Word count: 298

Notes: For the record, I love the Nutcracker Ballet and I adore Tchaikovsky's music. This ficlet pretty much contradicts my love and adoration, and it probably doesn't show how much I love and adore classical music.

Summary: How the Nutcracker Ballet can ruin your night.

 

Hating Tchaikovsky

 

Partway through, Kagome knows that she shouldn't have agreed to Houjou's invitation to see the Nutcracker Ballet. But she couldn't help it anyway, since this might be the last time she would ever see Houjou, and going to the Ballet usually relaxes people, and Kagome certainly needs the relaxation.

 

But Kagome does not relax, and finds herself hating it, hating that a girl would throw her slipper at a monstrous rat and get pulled into another world for it and hating that the girl found a land full of happiness and delight. She thinks that in real life, the girl would probably not have encountered beautiful dancing sweets, for there is more in the world other than that, and the rat would probably not have been stunned by just a little slipper, for it takes more to bring down monsters. She should know after all.

 

The dancing of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Valet during the Pas de Deux makes her shut her eyes, because she doesn't want to see it, the way the two dance as though they'll dance together forever. And although Kagome is ashamed to admit it, she feels jealous, since her own dance partner seems to like dancing with another.

 

But to her despair, closing her eyes isn't enough. She can hear the orchestra sounding out their longevity. The strings cry and the brass comforts. A reed instrument rides over the sounds and proclaims their endless love. The brass section comes forth again, pleading time to stop so that the two would never part. And then all the other sections join in, asking, together, how could anyone dare make these two stop dancing?

 

“It's so emotional, isn't it?” Houjou whispers when he sees tears on her cheeks.

 

And Kagome hates it even more.