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Kagome meeting Inuyasha for the first time...
(Fragments taken from the novelization: Shosetsu Inuyasha).
(A boy…?)
It was a boy. He looked tall and slender, and about the same age as Kagome. He was standing leaned against the trunk of Goshinboku, bathed in the sun streaming diagonally through the branches. What she’d seen as fire was a scarlet garment and pants, what she’d seen as smoke was beautiful silver hair that extended down his back.
What was strange was that his body was wrapped in many of Goshinboku’s thick roots.
It was as though Goshinboku had captured him.
When she got closer, Kagome let out a small gasp. (An arrow! A white-feathered arrow!) A single arrow was pierced into the boy’s left breast. The arrow looked like it had been weathering the elements for quite a long time. Nevertheless, the boy wore a very calm expression, with his eyes closed quietly. He looked like an innocent sleeping child, with his head slightly tilted and bathed in the sunlight filtered through the tree…. It was a peculiar sight.
But Kagome got the feeling that she’d seen something like this before. Where? An illustration in a picture book a long time ago? A picture of a martyr she saw in a church? Or something she saw in a long-forgotten dream…?
“Um… what are you doing?" She asked this assuming he was asleep, but the boy didn’t budge. His scarlet clothing appeared to be stained in a few spatters of blood.
As if guided by some unseen force, Kagome climbed onto the thick roots entwining the boy in order to get closer.
“Hello…?” she attempted again a little closer, but again there was no response.
Kagome examined the boy’s face. She wouldn’t call him handsome, but he was unblemished. His eyebrows gave her the impression that he was strong-willed. Lashes long enough to cast a shadow on his face… When the sunlight filtered through the trees, his silver hair shimmered like a million stars.
(I wonder who he is…)
Goshinboku is portrayed so beautifully in this movie I could burst
THIS FRAME HITS SO HARD