205 5.94 Realm Of Mind With The 5 Of Us And A Complete Quantum Leap (1/2)
After the discussion, Hiko-sama appeared at the doorway and was kind of rudely awakened by the loud cheering by the 4 girls. He knew I had discussed the plans with them and foresee that we would be having 3 new buildings in the empty plot of land, which consists of a dojo, 2 storey conference building, and a 3 storey community building.
I was as if I had planned for everything in my head and worked out the most feasible plan for us to sit back and reap what we had sown in the future. I said to Hiko-sama that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
When he asked who Jack is, I mentioned it's just a name I had thought of. A few moments later, Shippo, Kohaku, Sango, Kikyo and Inuyasha appeared at our garden area and sat down. Shippo and Kohaku walked towards the trading district to get themselves the largest sketchpad they could lay their hands on as Shippo would be doing 3 drawings together.
”You wanted to meet us, Himura? What was the matter about?” Kikyo asked.
”It's about a drawing that Shippo had drawn and it's about the 3 eyed raven Youkai. It reminded me of something and I wanted to summon all of you here so that you could try and look for yourself, if possible.”
”That Youkai had been killed by Kikyo's Hama no Ya since its able to evade my hiraikotsu,” explained Sango.
”What's with the bird? It reminds you of something?” asked Inuyasha.
”Yes, it's like I've seen the bird somewhere but it happened when I dreamt about it. I dreamt that the bird Youkai had grabbed the Shikon no Tama away and when Kikyo missed shooting it down with her arrow, it struck the Shikon no Tama into hundreds of shrapnel and spreads across the whole of Japan.”
”Even if it is a small shard of Shikon no Tama, a Youkai who possesses it would have their powers become ten-fold at least.”
”What are you trying to say, Kiddo? Do you mean to say you lost the Shikon no Tama? Since that day you took it with you, I never even see it anywhere else here in this village are you trying to cheat my Kikyo here?” Inuyasha was pulling his sleeves up to his elbows and was cracking his knuckles as if he was ready to beat the crap out of me.
”Relax... I'm going to confirm with Sensei for a while.” I reassured the guys as I whispered to Hiko-sama if it's safe if I brought everyone to the Realm of Mind so that they could view the Shikon no Tama that was placed in a shrine in a stand and was in between of two forever burning incense.
”Let us all go inside the house and into the living space. We see if everyone can enter that place together. Would you be able to bring everyone in?”
”They have acute spiritual energy that can see my Third Eye. But you didn't so I had to bring you personally for the first time. Come, let's all go inside the house and I will let all of you enter my Realm and view the Shikon no Tama.”
I led everyone in and we all sat down in a circle on the living room floor. I explained that everyone would enter a meditative state and I would call out their names when we are inside the Realm. Once to log off, I would need to nudge your elbows or tap your shoulders to come back to the real world.
”Please do not be alarmed when you see my Realm. So let's begin.”
We sat down more comfortably with our knees touching with each other to ensure the connectivity of the constant flow of our meditative state to become as one. After a minute or two of silent meditation, I opened up my eyes first and found that everyone was already in my Realm of Mind.
”Alright, everyone. Welcome to the Realm of Mind. Open up your eyes now. Don't be alarmed when you see the item in front of you. Those are the items and equipment that Sensei and I had used to produce the Refined Steel Plates here.”
Slowly everyone opened up their eyes and the first thing they saw was the huge smelting pot on top of the furnace, automated bellows and a dispenser pot on top of the conveyor belt. The sight in front of them was magnificent that they had forgotten their purpose here in the first place.
”Sorry guys, this is not the place where you should be seeing first. Hang on while I change the scenery to the place where I kept the Shikon no Tama.”
I stood up and swiped the scene to my right ad it changed to an indoor area very serene with the Shikon no Tama perfectly sitting on a stand and surrounded by two burning incense that gave a nice soothing scent.
”KEH...!! Where is this place? Did you change the scene like as if its a kind of magic or illusion? What is this Realm of Mind you were talking about eh?”
”Inuyasha, calm down. This Realm of Mind exists only in my mind. The same Realm of Mind also exists in you when it is time for you to retrieve the katana that your father had forged using his fang. It was actually a sword but your father had split it into two instead and that's for you and one for your brother.”
”How did you know so much about me and my brother and about the katana that my father had forged. How do you know it was n originally a single katana and was split into two for either of us?”
”This Realm of Mind is created to look back into the past and into the future. Come, Miko-sama, please forgive me for using your name instead of any honorific. Please verify the Shikon no Tama and ensure its the same one you had given to me and it is still being purified in this Realm of Mind.”
Inuyasha was on all fours and he reached the spot first while Kikyo had only reached him by 3 strides.
”Inuyasha, don't do anything foolish or you won't be able to get back to the real world.” I gave out a warning as a precautionary measure to ensure Inuyasha won't grab the Shikon no Tama and brought it back to the real world for himself.
Kikyo reached out and placed it in her hands and it became clear and purified once again after not been handled by Kikyo for a very long time.
”Himura, you had never gone to the shrine where I had placed this Shikon no Tama on a prayer stand and yet you could conjure up the similar stand and scene that I had personally made for it. How do you that?”
”Miko-sama, as I've mentioned before, this Realm of Mind is a place where it holds many secrets and also my past, present and future. What you see here and experience is all part of my construction of the present time I had been. I hope that whatever I mention here would be kept as a secret and no one else is supposed to know it.”
”Not even Kohaku, Shippo, Hachi and Miroku?” asked Kikyo when I mentioned that this would be a secret among the 3 of them.
”Do you know the actual reasons why I brought everyone together? Ok, about the bird. Before that remember I told you that someone impersonates Kikyo and tried to kill Inuyasha and impersonate Inuyasha to give a mortal wound to Kikyo on one incident? That person's name is Naraku.”
”I personally haven't seen how he looked like and I know that he is a difficult person to deal with. He made himself an impure Shikon no Tama which was black in colour and thus made his demonic power to be a thousandfold!”
”Miko-sama, before your demise, you had nailed an arrow on Inuyasha on a tree and you later was created together with the Shikon no Tama. I'm not sure how it got into the hands of the raven Youkai you had successfully killed, but it happened somewhere after 50 years after your demise.”
”A girl by the name of Kagome Hugarashi had entered the Bone Eater's Well from her present time which is mine too and she appeared out of the Bone Eater's Well after the bones of the caterpillar Youkai had been thrown inside there.”
”She was born with a shard of Shikon no Tama in her body and easily go back and forth through this era as well as her real world. She was the modern-day Miko like you. She saw Inuyasha stuck on the tree and pulled out the arrow. Inuyasha at that time mistaken Kagome as you, Miko-sama.”
”Back to Naraku, he had disguised himself as a Youkai and one day everyone was killed except for Sango who had been mortally wounded by Kohaku this was killed by Naraku and brought back to life to assassinate everyone including your father, Sango-Chan.”