Chapter 1

Am I real?

"So you really can't remember anything?" the boy looked at the white haired girl. He scratched his head, his red eyes flashed in the night.

"My name is Kanna...that is all," that was her only reply as she held a small mirror in her hand. Her robes matched her hair as the boy sniffed her.

"Hmm, you're a demon, but I don't smell anything from you...you don't smell like anything," the boy scratched his head. "Well, I am not use to smelling humans either way, but that's sad..."

He sat on a random stump in the middle of the dark forest. The sun had set as a small plant like creature slowly appeared from the brush.

It went no further than the the boys legs, the creature had a sprout for a head and wore a dress of leaves. She scanned the expressionless girl before crossing its arms. "She really is like a doll, I bet you could cut one of her eyes out and she wouldn't move an inch,"

"That's not very nice to say, considering she is like this because of you..." the boy eyes narrowed as the plant creature scoffed.

"It's not my fault, we were in a hurry. I thought the witch was a demon, if I know she was human I wouldn't have snapped her neck," the plant creature sighed as the boy turned back to the girl.

"Um, well my name is Muja, sorry about earlier...like my friend said we just wanted to help you, but it seems that we just made things worse,"

The girl looked at her hand for a moment, noticing a small cut. She wondered if she got it earlier as a small drop of blood slowly fell, "that's not right...

"Hmm?"

"I think..." she didn't finish

The plant creature frowned before grabbing Muja's head and dragging him to the side. The creature then whispered in his ear.

"Something is wrong...we should just leave her," the plant like creature voice was stern as Muja frowned.

"Seicho, she is weird, but isn't that interesting? I can't actually feel anything from her,"

"That's not a good thing..." the demon known as Seicho shot back, "even for demons that is...not natural,"

"That is true, but it's our fault she is lost like this. We killed the witch before she could tell her anything, don't you think we should at least help her for a bit?"

The plant like creature grumbled as he looked over to Kanna, still an unchanging expression. "Demons should look after their own, this is a bad idea Muja,"

Muja just shrugged before putting on a large grin, he walked back over to the girl named Kanna, "what do you want?"

"What do you wish me to want?"

His eye twitched at the response before scratching the back of his head. "That um, don't you want to know about your past?"

Kanna remained silent for a moment, it was an odd question, but oddly enough she didn't care. However she constructed something, the two demons in front of her obviously wanted to help her, but what did that mean?

"Past..."

Seicho grumbled, "pointless, pointless, pointless, she really is like a doll. Hey doll, tell me what that witch told you?"

"Witch..." her mind pieced thing together. "She told me, that I was a piece of something, someone that is long since vanished. She told me she used a piece of that to bring me back, she did that with another...I do not know them however,"

Muja crossed his arms, "that doesn't really help a lot...we should just ask around to see if anyone knows you!"

The moment those words escaped his lips Muja felt something hard hit his skull.

"Moran, you can't go around just asking humans that, we are demons after all!"

"Oh, I guess you are right, I guess we'll just do what we can..." Muja looked over to Kanna. "Do you want to come with us? We travel a lot, but we tend to stay around a few areas for awhile,"

"Do you wish me to come with you?"

"...Okay sure,"

"Then I shall,"

The plant demon gave a sharp laugh, "this is so pointless Muja! She really is no better than a doll, I bet if you sliced her fingers off she wouldn't even cry~"

Muja ignored his friend's comment before sitting on the grass. He looked at the mirror the girl was holding. "What is that mirror anyway?"

"A fake..."

"Huh?"

"The witch told me, the mirror is a false one. Something that is like the original, but inferior, I..." Kanna gazed into it, "understand how to use it...she told me, because Kanna knew how to use it," she spoke about herself so oddly.

"Hahaha, I think her mind is gone," Seicho laughed. "Just go to sleep Muja, I doubt the doll can do anything else," the plant wrapped itself in its leaves leaving Muja and Kanna alone.

"I guess we can start looking for things tomorrow, I'm going to sleep," the demon boy yawned as he collapsed on his back. He was asleep in less than a minute as the white haired girl examined the mirror.

"Sleep..."

The sun rose on the scene as the three walked through the empty field, they simply picked a direction and wandered there. Kanna held her mirror as Muja scratched his cheek, Seicho standing on his friend's shoulders.

At least...that was the logical conclusion that one would reach about their relationship.

"Why are we here Muja? This place is so~ dull," Seicho pulled his friend's hair.

"Don't be like that, there is apparently a human village nearby, but more importantly a powerful demon is also around here. I want to see it," Muja smiled as he gazed over to Kanna. Her expression was still motionless.

"Hey doll, do you know anything about the ways of this world?" Seicho asked.

"Yes, you are demons, there are creature known as humans. I know about food, what food is acceptable to eat, if I need food, how to eat,"

"I don't need that much detail you stupid doll..."

"Seicho be nice," Muja stated.

They continued through the field, the girl with the mirror looking out of place against the green grass. They finally made it to the small village in the middle of nowhere, Seicho hid beneath the small layer of clothing that Muja had as both he scanned the small town.

Everything was unsettling, Muja's eyes narrowed for a moment. The town kept their eyes on both him and Kanna, but despite that fact it seemed they were worried about something else entirely.

"Excuse me, but can you tell me why everyone is acting so strange?" Without even a hint of hesitation Muja walked to the first person that he saw and just asked it bluntly.

The man he was asking flinched as his eye twitched, "s-stupid child, do you not have any tact? If you noticed everyone acting strange then it's only polite that you don't point it out!"

"I mean if I did that then nothing would be solved..."

The man grumbled, "there has been a powerful demon terrorizing the village livestock. The worst part about it, is the fact that unlike other demons this one attacks on a whim anytime. Be it day or night, it will slaughter and kill anyone in its way,"

"It hasn't attacked the town yet, that's weird...what do you think about this Kanna?"

"..."

There wasn't even a response as Muja bit his bottom lip.

"Okay, I'll take care of it," Muja said that on a whim as the man flinched.

"W-wait what, do you think if it was a weak enough for a girl and a boy to handle we would have by now. Plus the demon hunter we requested should be heading here, there is no need to throw your life away,"

"...Okay," despite saying that Muja walked out of the the village, Kanna following after him. He had every intention of fighting the demon that was plaguing them so.

It did not take them long to reach the abandoned fields, only a few cows remained as stains of blood smeared the grass. It was clear that the demon was there the day before, and would likely be making another visit.

Seicho jumped out from under Muja's shirt as he looked around. "Tsk, no one is here, the humans are so cowardly they abandoned their food...how sad,"

"You're right, but that's not really the problem...right now is how do we go about luring a demon here? Do you have any idea's Kanna?"

"You are enough," Kanna stated, "both you and Seicho Yoki is enough to attract other demons. It was actually extremely fortunate we were not detected while in the town,"

"Ah...you're saying we should have made more effort to mask myself?"

"If you wish to stay concealed..."

Though, Kanna noticed something strange. Muja's Yoki was far higher than most demons but Seicho completely dwarfed Muja when it came to Jaki.

"Well, actually I don't really know how to do that..." Muja frowned, "but I guess what you are saying is that the demon is to scared of us to come out!" Muja smiled, however the moment he said those words the trees started to shift.

From the woods came a large monster towering over them. A bear like demon clad in armor, the sword it carried seemed large enough to carve a man into piece with a single swing. The demon was missing an eye as it bared its fangs.

"Oh, so you finally showed yourself,"

"Of course," the demon's voice bellowed. "After being called a coward by three lowly demons it was only natural," the monster laughed.

Muja looked at the demon for a moment before taking a step forward, "you should leave and never return. You don't seem to have that much evil energy in you, and you don't seem that strong. It would be a shame if you died here, even if I don't kill you the demon hunter after me would..."

The demon's eye twitched, "worthless brat!" the demon lifted its weapon and swung downward prepared to break Muja in two.

However Muja simply lifted his hand and caught the blade, not even struggling. There was a clanging noise, as if the blade had hit metal.

"W-what?" the demon struggled to move its weapon but could not make it budge. Muja frowned before letting go of the weapon and stepping to the side. The momentum left caused the demon to nearly fall forward, forcing his weapon into the ground.

At that moment, Muja kicked the demon's arm, a loud snapped was heard as the demon howled in pain, its arm going limb.

"Tsk, Muja is so soft. He could have snapped the arm off, yet he just broke it..." Seicho scoffed at the scene.

"You should go, it's clear that you can't win...so isn't this battle truly pointless, it's not even fun," Muja frowned as the demon just howled. It reeled back it's other arm preparing for a punch.

Muja just took a step forward, before vanishing. Before the opposing demon even realizing what had happened he felt something like a mallet break his armor and dig into his body. The demon twitched as he fell over.

"Man, that was really boring, I guess knocking him out like this is fine. He'll probably wake up before the demon hunter gets here," Muja scratched the back of his head as he started to walk away.

"Damn you!"

"...!" Muja eye twitched as the demon forced itself to its feet. It was its final assault as Muja lowered his stance.

However the attack stopped as something went flying through the air, at that moment the bear demon's head flew off. Its body falling as blood sprayed.

Muja eye twitched as he quickly turned to Seicho.

"I didn't do it this time, I swear!"

At that moment a large shadow from the sky appeared.

A large cat demon slowly appeared overhead as Muja eyes narrowed. The creature had two giant tails, fangs protruding out of its mouth. Flames covered its paws, there was a person riding, a teenage boy.

He wore thin black armor with blue patches on it.

"Demon hunter..." Kanna spoke as Muja eyes widened for a moment.

The boy jumped off of the large creature as he took a few steeps. He held a large scythe like weapon with a chain, however he stopped the moment he saw Kanna.

"Kanna?" he voice was filled with confusion as Muja looked over to Kanna.

"Do you know him?" Muja asked.

"No,"

"He seems to know you," Seicho stated as the demon hunter glanced over to the cat demon.

Muja just looked at the corpse of the demon that was just killed, "you didn't have to kill him you know...he wasn't really a threat in his current condition,"

"That's an odd thing to say," the demon hunter replied, "but I'm more interested why that girl is with you..."

"That's really weird, because I'm interested in how you know her. Though, I don't think they are answers that we'll be getting anytime soon," Muja laughed.

"Hey, we should get out of here Muja, if a demon hunter is here there are probably more on their way. We should make ourselves scarce for the time being,"

Muja nodded as Seicho quickly crawled onto his friend's back, Muja then picked up Kanna before he jumped away quickly heading into the forest.

The demon hunter eyes narrowed, "I need to tell Sango about this,"