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quirkysmuseFandom: Inuyasha
Title: Grandpa's One Special Gift
Word Count: 298
Rating: All ages
Characters: Grandpa and Kagome
Warnings: None
Summary: He always gave her ridiculous gifts, all but one.
Grandpa was always giving her ridiculous gifts.
And for every gift, there was a story attached to it. She groaned as she recounted all the abnormal things she was given growing up.
What kind of normal girl can find a use for a sea urchin foot? Or a mermaid scale?
“You know, Kagome, there is a legend about mermaid flesh.” He gave her an intense stare. He was always so serious when it came to these crazy stories. “If you eat the flesh of a mermaid you could become immortal.”
She resisted the temptation to laugh. Instead, she just smiled sweetly at her grandpa, patted his shoulder and then turned around and offered Buyo the mermaid scale.
Her grandpa was not pleased, but even so, the gift was completely worthless to her, so much like all the others.
However there was one gift he gave her that she did keep.
A pink glass ball dangled from a strap on her yellow bag. She kept it with her for good luck when she went into the past.
Her grandpa noticed that she still had it. “So, you still keep that?”
Kagome smiled. She gazed at the pink glass ball, remembering when he had told her the story of the Shikon no Tama, a story that was closely tied to their shrine.
“This is very important to me.” She smiled, and even though it wasn’t the real thing, the story it shared was what mattered to her. She stared at it closely, and the faces of her friends from the past flickered in her mind.
More importantly, there was always one face that stuck in her mind when looking at the pink ball.
‘After all,’ she thought, ‘because of the story behind this gift, I was able to meet him.’
Title: Grandpa's One Special Gift
Word Count: 298
Rating: All ages
Characters: Grandpa and Kagome
Warnings: None
Summary: He always gave her ridiculous gifts, all but one.
Grandpa was always giving her ridiculous gifts.
And for every gift, there was a story attached to it. She groaned as she recounted all the abnormal things she was given growing up.
What kind of normal girl can find a use for a sea urchin foot? Or a mermaid scale?
“You know, Kagome, there is a legend about mermaid flesh.” He gave her an intense stare. He was always so serious when it came to these crazy stories. “If you eat the flesh of a mermaid you could become immortal.”
She resisted the temptation to laugh. Instead, she just smiled sweetly at her grandpa, patted his shoulder and then turned around and offered Buyo the mermaid scale.
Her grandpa was not pleased, but even so, the gift was completely worthless to her, so much like all the others.
However there was one gift he gave her that she did keep.
A pink glass ball dangled from a strap on her yellow bag. She kept it with her for good luck when she went into the past.
Her grandpa noticed that she still had it. “So, you still keep that?”
Kagome smiled. She gazed at the pink glass ball, remembering when he had told her the story of the Shikon no Tama, a story that was closely tied to their shrine.
“This is very important to me.” She smiled, and even though it wasn’t the real thing, the story it shared was what mattered to her. She stared at it closely, and the faces of her friends from the past flickered in her mind.
More importantly, there was always one face that stuck in her mind when looking at the pink ball.
‘After all,’ she thought, ‘because of the story behind this gift, I was able to meet him.’
