This is an entry for A Child’s Play Challenge. I figured that I would create small drabbles for each of the nine prompts.
Theme: Rain, Rain, Go Away
100 words minimum: 507 words used
Rainy Days
For three days the heavens released everything from a light drizzle to buckets of water over the land. The fog accompanying the weather made everyone shiver from dampness in the air. A mist prevented anything from drying even when taking shelter under dense foliage, or in a cavern.
Kagome’s gaze was joined with another as they looked out the mouth of their shelter to the wet world. There was a soft sigh that caught her attention before she turned to face the small girl of nine or ten. It was obvious that the child didn’t like being cooped up for too long. Especially with very little to do.
Looking over her shoulder, she took note of the inu, he had retrieved her from her camp, much to Inuyasha’s displeasure, and forced her to come in order to keep his ward company. Though Kagome willingly came, it wasn’t for Rin’s sake. The miko was determined to find out why the inu was taking a interest in her. He was completely capable of finding another to come and ‘play’ with his ward. Yet he came for her. Even now she as she turned back to the mouth of the cave, she could feel his gaze upon her.
“You know Rin, in my village there is a song we sing when it rains. Some people think it works like an enchantment to make the rain go away when sung by a child,” Kagome spoke out against the silence.
“Really?” the young girl asked in disbelief.
Kagome nodded. “It goes like this: rain, rain, go away, come again another day, little Rin would like to play.”
“It has my name in it,” the girl exclaimed in shock.
“Of course, because you have to say the name of the person wishing for it to stop raining. Why don’t you try it and see if it works.”
Rin smiled and cleared her throat before beginning to sing the short song. “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day, little Rin would like to play.”
Two sets of eyes look to the drizzling rain outside. After a minute they noticed that there was no change.
“Hm… why don’t you try again, only louder this time?”
The girl stood up and moved closer to the mouth of the cave. At the top of her lungs she began to sing. Once she was finished Rin continued to watch the world outside. She was going to try the song once more but stopped suddenly.
“Look Kagome! It stopped… it stopped raining! Sesshomaru-sama, Rin is going out to play!” she squealed and quickly rushed outside onto the wet grass, dancing around in circles.
The miko chuckled as she watched the excited child. From behind her a voice interrupted her thoughts.
“What witchcraft have you preformed?”
Kagome turned to Sesshomaru, noticing the question gaze that bore into her, and with a bright smile and sweetly said, “It’s a secret.”
She found that she was quite please with herself even with the low growling in directed towards her from behind.
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Ja ne
Angelic Memories
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