Prompt 156: Good & Ready
Title: Grandson
Author: britedark
Universe: post-canon
Genre: family, WAFF
Word Count: 250
Summary: Inuyasha comes across a perfect scene.
Author's Note: This will be added to the Bound to Tomorrow collection. It follows Great-Granddaughter.
Grandson
Inuyasha paused his jog. Kagome and Rin were elsewhere, but Kaede was seated on her bench, Aimiko sprawled across her lap and arm, bonelessly asleep. Kaede was stroking the white hair, her expression radiant with joy and contentment.
His breath caught. He knew the old miko was fond of his daughter, and yet, something about the scene was so right and perfect-
Kaede was the girl who had become an old woman in a blink of unawareness that was fifty years. She was the woman who had accepted his presence, scolded him and fed him, when she should have hated and despised him for his supposed role in her sister's death. She spelled the hated kotodamu around his neck, and supported him and listened to him through three long years without Kagome. And, now, she was 'grandmother' to his little family … a family that for too long, he had never believed he could have …
Kaede looked up, smiled, and beckoned. Sitting beside her, Inuyasha started to reach for Aimiko, then hesitated.
"She walked this morning," murmured Kaede. "Came right up to this bench."
His breath caught again. "She did? She kept trying to stand up yesterday, but kept falling."
"She was good and ready today--she just really wanted to get to great-grandma."
"Feh." Delighted and regretful both, Inuyasha felt emotion rising. "Have I ever thanked you for everything you've done for me? Us?"
She petted his thigh. "You're a good man, grandson."
"Keh!"
Silence and a blush.
"Grandma."
Author: britedark
Universe: post-canon
Genre: family, WAFF
Word Count: 250
Summary: Inuyasha comes across a perfect scene.
Author's Note: This will be added to the Bound to Tomorrow collection. It follows Great-Granddaughter.
Grandson
Inuyasha paused his jog. Kagome and Rin were elsewhere, but Kaede was seated on her bench, Aimiko sprawled across her lap and arm, bonelessly asleep. Kaede was stroking the white hair, her expression radiant with joy and contentment.
His breath caught. He knew the old miko was fond of his daughter, and yet, something about the scene was so right and perfect-
Kaede was the girl who had become an old woman in a blink of unawareness that was fifty years. She was the woman who had accepted his presence, scolded him and fed him, when she should have hated and despised him for his supposed role in her sister's death. She spelled the hated kotodamu around his neck, and supported him and listened to him through three long years without Kagome. And, now, she was 'grandmother' to his little family … a family that for too long, he had never believed he could have …
Kaede looked up, smiled, and beckoned. Sitting beside her, Inuyasha started to reach for Aimiko, then hesitated.
"She walked this morning," murmured Kaede. "Came right up to this bench."
His breath caught again. "She did? She kept trying to stand up yesterday, but kept falling."
"She was good and ready today--she just really wanted to get to great-grandma."
"Feh." Delighted and regretful both, Inuyasha felt emotion rising. "Have I ever thanked you for everything you've done for me? Us?"
She petted his thigh. "You're a good man, grandson."
"Keh!"
Silence and a blush.
"Grandma."