Kagome Higurashi's Complete Soul; Live well for me. The room was very simple.
There was a low table, several cushions, and a small Buddhist altar in the corner. A few sticks of incense were offered inside it, pale smoke curling upward, drawing fine lines in the dim light.
Grandma Kaede poured Chiyo and Kagome each a cup of tea.
The tea was coarse, with a faint bitterness, but it was warm.
Kagome held the teacup in both hands, her head lowered, not daring to meet Grandma Kaede's eyes.
Grandma Kaede sat across from her, her gaze never leaving Kagome's face.
The silence lasted a long time.
"In the end, you are not my elder sister."
Grandma Kaede spoke.
Kagome lifted her head and looked at Grandma Kaede.
There were tears in Grandma Kaede's eyes, but her voice was very calm.
"Your eyes are different. My sister's eyes... would not look at me like that."
Kagome opened her mouth, wanting to say, "I'm sorry."
Grandma Kaede shook her head.
"There is no need to apologize. The fact that you look exactly like her is no coincidence in itself."
Her gaze fell on Kagome's chest.
"Inside you... there should be the power of the Four Souls Jewel."
Kagome froze for a moment, then instinctively covered her chest.
"You can sense it?"
"I have lived all these years. I dare not claim much else, but I would never mistake the aura of the Four Souls Jewel."
Grandma Kaede lifted her teacup, took a sip, then set it down.
"Speak. Who are you? Where did you come from? Why did you come here?"
Kagome took a deep breath and began from the beginning.
She did not mention Chiyo's affairs.
She only spoke of the parts she could say.
About how she had fallen through