Prompt 186 Inkstone
Title The shards of the stone
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Inkstone
Word Count 600
Warning none
Summary Alia steals an inkstone from the kami Tenijin
To say she wass embarrassed would be an understatement The question what she was embarrassed about Was she embarrassed that she had stolen the ink stone at the request of her idiot brother because he thought it was coll (He had no idea what it was and his choice showed his lack of taste)
Was she embarrassed that she got cuaught and was forced to apologize with her mother and father and grandmother in front of Amaterasu and Sussanoo. The embarassment to her relatives probably hurt more than the theft or the capture.
Perhaps the greatest embarrassment was the place she was now. Standing in front of her great grandfathers shrine shop Ordered to steal the inkstone. Not even time could stop the wrath of the kami
Alia thought herself very clever when she had dumped the inkstone down the well Transporting the stolen Afterr goods across time was perfect way of stashing the goods Without the inkstone, she could not be convicted Or so she thought
Unfortunately Ji-chan had recognized the inkstone the relic of Tenijin kami of calligraphy and scholarship. her theft After the inkstone disappeared from his shrine causing him great consternation
The inkstones location was revealed when Jichan started advertising the inkstone as a way of making money. The shrine became known for its connection to Tenijin He was even selling inkstones to the unsuspecting worshippers.
Alia had been ordered to steal the inkstone and present the stone to the Heian court. She would become the little girl who told the emporer how he could settle his debt to Tenijin by making him a shrine and having him declared a kami
It galled her She was stelaing the very thing that she had stolen from her own great creating the kami that she had stolen the inkstone from There must be a way to save face.
She stared at the inkstone with a gaze that would fry eggs. Jichan came up to her and patted her on the shoulder." Is there something I can do for you,my child?"
The story came tumbling our of Alia's mouth as she cried on his shoulder. Jichan begin to grin as he saw a way to help his great grandchild. The inkstone broke when it passed through the well. All the remained was shards
He would agree to take the inkstone off display In exchange he would keep the shards. At the last minute he asked Alia for something to remember her by. All she could think of was the crysknife she carried.
After Alia returned from her mission to the past, Susanoo checked to see if she kep her promise Tenijin's shrine had been established and the inkstone was the relic on which worship had bee n founded. As a result millions prayed to him for success on their examss
The inkstone was a cheap 20th century knockoff, but there was no one to test the validity of the claim that it had beclonged to Tenikin because it was the basis for Tenijin's claim to be a kami and he could not look too close it
The priest in Tokyo did stop claiming that he had the shards of the original inkstone, but Susanoo had good information that he still had the shards. In addition, he used the crysknife to start of the worship of a new kami St. Alia of the knife.
Susanoo smiled. This girl who was the granddaughter of his granddaughter in law was worth investigating. Maybe they should go into business together since she and her grandfather were his kind of people