Inuyasha, "Scar" Kaede drabble
Fandom: Inuyasha
Title: Scar
Word length: 250
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None, but post-manga implied
Notes: Written for the "Curiosity" theme at iyfic_contest
Character(s) Kaede, village kids
Summary: It's not the physical pain from her scar that she feels anymore.
It was a child’s curiosity that jogged her memories of what happened so long ago.
“Does your eye hurt, Kaede-sama?” the young Ami asked. Kaede was taken aback for a moment before reminiscing about the past.
She patted her eye patch and shook her head, relieving the child of her concern. The truth was that it hadn’t hurt in a long time - so long she barely remembered. Though, sometimes it ached from the sting of memory, of what Naraku did and what sacrifices were made.
But the rough, scarred skin that healed over her eye was nothing compared to what she lost. She was grateful for the perfect vision in the other eye, but she scorned the monster that took her sister from her.
The children gathered around her wanting to see what was underneath, but Kaede declined to not scare them.
“Can you still see the youkai okay even though you only have one eye?” the boy Shingo asked.
Kaede nodded. “Oh yes, it doesn’t bother me at all. I can still shoot a bow and protect this village.”
Another boy, his face struck with awe, said to her, “Wow, you’re that good, Kaede-sama?”
Kaede nodded once. “I am,” she answered, and the other children giggled merrily as she ruffled the boy’s hair.
She lost an eye and a sister, but she did gain the peace of this village. And maybe someday, she’d forget she’d once felt pain from her eye, or that a scar was even there at all.
Title: Scar
Word length: 250
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None, but post-manga implied
Notes: Written for the "Curiosity" theme at iyfic_contest
Character(s) Kaede, village kids
Summary: It's not the physical pain from her scar that she feels anymore.
It was a child’s curiosity that jogged her memories of what happened so long ago.
“Does your eye hurt, Kaede-sama?” the young Ami asked. Kaede was taken aback for a moment before reminiscing about the past.
She patted her eye patch and shook her head, relieving the child of her concern. The truth was that it hadn’t hurt in a long time - so long she barely remembered. Though, sometimes it ached from the sting of memory, of what Naraku did and what sacrifices were made.
But the rough, scarred skin that healed over her eye was nothing compared to what she lost. She was grateful for the perfect vision in the other eye, but she scorned the monster that took her sister from her.
The children gathered around her wanting to see what was underneath, but Kaede declined to not scare them.
“Can you still see the youkai okay even though you only have one eye?” the boy Shingo asked.
Kaede nodded. “Oh yes, it doesn’t bother me at all. I can still shoot a bow and protect this village.”
Another boy, his face struck with awe, said to her, “Wow, you’re that good, Kaede-sama?”
Kaede nodded once. “I am,” she answered, and the other children giggled merrily as she ruffled the boy’s hair.
She lost an eye and a sister, but she did gain the peace of this village. And maybe someday, she’d forget she’d once felt pain from her eye, or that a scar was even there at all.