The days passed. Kagome ruminated on. For once, it wasn’t just Sesshoumaru and his absence she was dwelling on, but something deeper. Intangible to her, but no less vital, she sensed. She felt like she was probing at the edges of some great and formless question, waiting for an answer to take shape from the
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SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 166
Kagome returned home with Shin, to Sengoku Jidai. She’d barely stepped one foot across the threshold of the hut when Inuyasha caught her to him and hugged her tight. As he did, Kagome realized then how nervous he’d been—nervous that now that she was free to live in the Modern Era, she wouldn’t come back.
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 165
“They say love at first sight is a myth,” Mr. Higurashi said, lowering his eyes briefly before raising them to Kagome’s again. “I still love your mother, Kagome. In a way, I always will. But when I saw Reiko…I don’t know how else to say it, but I knew. I knew at least, at that
The Pact Side-Stories: Ghost-Hunter Nakamura, Part 4 (Final)
It was a tall, broad-shouldered man, who might’ve been quite handsome if not for his slouching posture, cantankerous expression and the ridiculous-looking ensemble he was wearing—a mismatched Western-style suit and cap, with tennis shoes, tinted sunglasses, leather driving gloves and a comically-overlarge umbrella slung over his shoulder. He looked very much like he’d gotten dressed
The Pact Side-Stories: Ghost-Hunter Nakamura, Part 3
Outside the ramen shop, a silvery, misting rain was falling, casting a shimmering veil over the dark city-scape beyond. Stepping over to her parked motorbike, Reiko straddled the seat as Kirara sprang from her shoulder, landing lightly in the delivery basket behind her. “Ready to go?” Reiko asked, glancing back at her feline companion as
The Pact Side-Stories: Ghost-Hunter Nakamura, Part 2
Still fuming, Reiko went down the street to the garage. She found her motorbike—tagged Nakamura Ramen – We Deliver—started it up and kicked it into high gear, revving the engine. Peeling out onto the wet pavement with a flash of silver spray, she accelerated and maneuvered with superhuman ease through the bustling city streets, swerving
The Pact Side-Stories: Ghost-Hunter Nakamura, Part 1
He was tailing her… Again. Grinding her teeth, she rounded the corner as if nothing were amiss, then ducked into the shadowy alcove of a closed storefront. Heavy rain fell, pattering on the curved slats of the awning, jostling the ribboned streamers which whipped and whistled in the snatches of gusty wind. Despite all this
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 164
Mr. Higurashi held out his hands to her, beseeching. “Can I hold him?” Kagome wanted to say ‘no,’ but she couldn’t. Defeated, she held Shin out to him instead. Mr. Higurashi lifted her son easily out of her hands and smiled. Blue-eyed and human once more, Shin smiled back. “Jiijii,” he burbled, and Mr. Higurashi’s
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 163
“Since I left,” Kagome’s father answered, at last. She nodded. “But I never betrayed your mother.” Kagome turned her face away. He stepped toward her. “That was why I left like I did,” he said, his expression torn. “Because when I fell in love with Reiko, there was no turning back. I thought I’d be
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 162
The man turned fully toward her, and now Kagome knew for sure. They both did. His cigarette dangled forgotten in his hand. “Kagome,” Mr. Higurashi said, stepping toward her slowly, as if in a dream. As if in a dream, Kagome pushed forward with Shin to meet him, and it was like wading through quicksand.