Inuyasha, "The Unquiet Winds" ch. 13
Fandom: Inuyasha
Title: The Unquiet Winds
Chapter Title: Another Connection
Author: Paynesgrey
Characters: Sesshoumaru, Kagura's reincarnation (inevitable Kagura/Sesshoumaru)
Genre: Fantasy/Supernatural/Suspense
Rating: PG-13 (overall)
Universe: Canon divergence, Modern
Notes: This new serial was started to follow the themes for contests at Livejournal. This is the 14th installment, written for the "The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create" prompt at i_b_4_y.
Story Summary: Natsumi dreams of another woman's past, a woman who desperately wants to reunite with the man she loves, even if Natsumi has to suffer in the end.
The Unquiet Winds
Chapter Thirteen: Another Connection
Natsumi stared blinking at the stacks of books in front of her. She’d been poring over tons of Japanese historical records and manuscripts for the latter half of her day, and her eyes were starting to feel tired. She looked up from her books, glanced around the library, and her gaze fell idly onto a framed picture on the wall.
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create,” it read, and Natsumi furrowed her brow and sighed heavily.
Not my future, she thought, feeling a chill crawl over her spine. No matter what she did in her life, things always seemed to return to her dreams of a past life. If she wasn’t mistaken, her future was on hold, and she couldn’t even go to work properly without this youkai woman’s past catching up with her, consuming her and even causing her to get ill at the sight of a strange man, who was just as tied to this Kagura woman as she was.
She hated that her quest into the youkai woman Kagura’s past was going nowhere, and she wondered just how obscure her past life really was when none of these books even mentioned her. It must have some meaning for it to garner the attention of Sesshoumaru Taiki, even someone so odd as to act as though he was there - despite her knowing that to be impossible.
Was he an ancestor of Kagura’s? How was he really involved in this?
To find out more meant interacting with him, which also meant Natsumi would be in crippling pain once again. No, she couldn’t do it. Even as she slaved over these books, she still felt better and healthier than she had in the last few days.
Feeling her throat parched, she grabbed her purse and left the table to find the nearest water fountain. When she returned, she froze, feeling startled when a new book that she hadn’t read appeared on top of her stack. She turned around, made a sweeping glance of the area, only to see nothing but the rays of dust glinting in the sunlight through the window.
Well that’s interesting, she thought, and she cautiously sat down and picked up the book, noticing the appropriate title: Youkai of the Feudal Era and Beyond. Her eyes widened when she noticed the author of the book.
Sesshoumaru Taiki! How could this even be possible? She just couldn’t get away from him, could she?
Her eyes narrowed. She felt like she was being duped by some grandiose scheme, but since the book was already here, waiting for her, she braved looking inside. Intrigue consumed her, and she immediately found the publication date of the book.
“I can’t be!” she whispered in disbelief. The first date of publication of this book was 1924, with several re-printings after that.
What is going on? she thought, and she turned around, sensing movement beside her as she barely missed a shadow disappearing into the stacks.
Title: The Unquiet Winds
Chapter Title: Another Connection
Author: Paynesgrey
Characters: Sesshoumaru, Kagura's reincarnation (inevitable Kagura/Sesshoumaru)
Genre: Fantasy/Supernatural/Suspense
Rating: PG-13 (overall)
Universe: Canon divergence, Modern
Notes: This new serial was started to follow the themes for contests at Livejournal. This is the 14th installment, written for the "The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create" prompt at i_b_4_y.
Story Summary: Natsumi dreams of another woman's past, a woman who desperately wants to reunite with the man she loves, even if Natsumi has to suffer in the end.
The Unquiet Winds
Chapter Thirteen: Another Connection
Natsumi stared blinking at the stacks of books in front of her. She’d been poring over tons of Japanese historical records and manuscripts for the latter half of her day, and her eyes were starting to feel tired. She looked up from her books, glanced around the library, and her gaze fell idly onto a framed picture on the wall.
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create,” it read, and Natsumi furrowed her brow and sighed heavily.
Not my future, she thought, feeling a chill crawl over her spine. No matter what she did in her life, things always seemed to return to her dreams of a past life. If she wasn’t mistaken, her future was on hold, and she couldn’t even go to work properly without this youkai woman’s past catching up with her, consuming her and even causing her to get ill at the sight of a strange man, who was just as tied to this Kagura woman as she was.
She hated that her quest into the youkai woman Kagura’s past was going nowhere, and she wondered just how obscure her past life really was when none of these books even mentioned her. It must have some meaning for it to garner the attention of Sesshoumaru Taiki, even someone so odd as to act as though he was there - despite her knowing that to be impossible.
Was he an ancestor of Kagura’s? How was he really involved in this?
To find out more meant interacting with him, which also meant Natsumi would be in crippling pain once again. No, she couldn’t do it. Even as she slaved over these books, she still felt better and healthier than she had in the last few days.
Feeling her throat parched, she grabbed her purse and left the table to find the nearest water fountain. When she returned, she froze, feeling startled when a new book that she hadn’t read appeared on top of her stack. She turned around, made a sweeping glance of the area, only to see nothing but the rays of dust glinting in the sunlight through the window.
Well that’s interesting, she thought, and she cautiously sat down and picked up the book, noticing the appropriate title: Youkai of the Feudal Era and Beyond. Her eyes widened when she noticed the author of the book.
Sesshoumaru Taiki! How could this even be possible? She just couldn’t get away from him, could she?
Her eyes narrowed. She felt like she was being duped by some grandiose scheme, but since the book was already here, waiting for her, she braved looking inside. Intrigue consumed her, and she immediately found the publication date of the book.
“I can’t be!” she whispered in disbelief. The first date of publication of this book was 1924, with several re-printings after that.
What is going on? she thought, and she turned around, sensing movement beside her as she barely missed a shadow disappearing into the stacks.