Kagome walked into the kitchen to see her mother cooking at the stove. She watched her mother with all the love she dared to have for her. She remembered how it was for her best friend InuYasha without his mother. Kagome knew that InuYasha still thinks of his mother from time the time. She knew that all that she had been through she always had her mother to come home to. She had known her mother all her life but one thing always nagged at her heart. She always wondered why she looked different from her family. She had asked her mother before but all she did was cry.
"Mom," Kagome asked, "Why do I feel like don't exactly fit in here? I feel more comfortable in InuYasha's time than in this time."
Kagome's mother looked at her daughter. She didn't know how to tell her. Should tell her she is not who she thinks she is. She was adopted after she and her husband found her in the well when she was a baby and she was no ordinary baby but a hanyou child with the mark of miko demon. Her bloodline is powerful though she didn't know where Kagome had received such power or the family she is descended from.
"Kagome," Kagome's mother turned around to face her daughter. The concealment spell that has been placed over her was about to break and she will wake on her sixteenth birthday a hanyou, "Please sit down and I have something to tell you. I have put off telling you long enough," She brought two glasses of iced tea to the table while Kagome sat down to listen to what her mother was going to tell her, "Kagome my dear I don't know how to tell you. You need to know before you turn sixteen."
Kagome took a sip of her tea and looked into her mother's eyes, "Just tell me mom. I won't hate you."
Neko, Kagome's mother, sighed for what seemed the hundredth time, "You are not my daughter."
Kagome's eyes went wide. Some how it didn't surprise her, it was as if something was already telling her the same thing, "Who are my real parents?"
"I don't know," Neko answered, "Let me tell you how you came to be with us. It is a little different:
Neko was kneeling down next to the sacred tree pulling weeds from around the tree's roots. She was praying and dreaming of having and raising a child with her husband whom she loved dearly. Neko's long sandy brown hair was pulled back in a high bun; her soft brown eyes were cast down. For two years they had tried to conceive, "If anyone is listening up there please grant us a chance to be parents." Tears fell down the young woman's cheeks, "I don't care what kind of child it is or if it is even of our blood. Just please grant us a child that we can raise and protect."
Suddenly a hand was placed on her shoulder, "Don't worry dear we will have a child. I have been thinking of adopting." Her husband looked deep into his wife's eyes.
"You have been?" Neko wiped her tears away, "When are we going to start?"
"Yes, and I w…" Neko's husband's voice broke off when they noticed an aura appearing in the most unlikely of places. Then they heard sounds coming from the well. It sounded like a baby was crying.
The twosome ran across the yard to the well just as Neko's father-in-law came around the corner of the house also coming toward the well, "Did you hear that?" He asked as they reached the well house.
"We heard and felt something coming from the well," Neko said in a soft voice.
Neko, her husband, and father-in-law walked into the run down old well house. They heard the cry again this time they were sure it was coming from the well it's self. When they looked into the well they saw a little basket with a bundle inside. Neko's husband jumped into the well and looked inside of the basket, "It's a baby," He called as he grabbed the side of the well holding the basket securely in his hand.
"Stay there I will get a ladder," Neko's father-in-law grabbed ran out of the well house and returned a few minutes later with a ladder. He placed the ladder in the well and Neko's husband climbed out basket and all.
The three of them went into the house and carefully placed the basket on the kitchen table. Neko carefully lifted the small bundle out of the basket and uncovered the baby. The three some were stunned at what they saw. The little one was different from any child they found. She had silvery white hair with two dog-ears on top of her head. Her hands were claws when she opened her they saw the most beautiful sapphire blue eyes they had ever seen.
"It's an inu hanyou," The older man said."
When Kagome's mother finished the story. She sighed and waited for Kagome to say something, "I was found in the well."
"Yes, dear you were. There was something else we noticed. A mark was on your upper lift arm. It was in the shape of a blue star."
Five hundred years in the past an old woman sat in her hut stirring a stew. The anniversary of her younger sister's disappearance will be in a few days. Keade let out a low sigh. Her and Kikyo had promised each other that they would never speak of their younger sister after the fateful day. She had no idea if her sister lived or died in the well. The infant disappeared in the well. Koi had disappeared and was never seen again. Koi was her sister's name. Her father gave it to her before he died in the demon's prison in the prison hill. He was a dog demon from the main continent. He had long silvery white hair and beautiful sapphire eyes. On his lift shoulder was the symbol of a blue star. That was the symbol of his family.
The man had fallen in love with Kikyo and Keade's mother while traveling Japan. He loved and cared for his two-step daughter's and fathered one of his own. The man's love and family were short lived after Lord Sesshomaru who didn't tolerate others coming from the main land into his lands and captured him. It wasn't even two month's after the birth of their sister that he was arrested. The woman he fell in love with was put to death and the girls ran with little hanyou sister.
While the girls were traveling they were attacked by demons that were after their little sister. They kept their sister in a reed basket. One day the demons came running after the girls for their little sister. Kikyo and Keade found the bone eaters well and lower their little sister in the well intending to return later when everything seems clear. When they returned the rope they lowered into the well was cut clean away and their baby sister was gone.
Keade let out a long sigh as she thought of the people she had lost, "Keade," Keade turned around to see her older sister's walking corpse.
"Kikyo," Keade voice was soft and breathless as the woman walked into her hut, "What brings ye here?"
"I want to know what happened to our sister," The dead woman threw daggers at her sister, "I must know. Then I will leave in peace and return the part of Kagome's soul I have stolen." Her emotionless voice hide behind a veil of darkness.
"Perhaps Kagome would know something." Keade answered knowing her sister had already left, "No one ever listens when I am talking." She shook her head.
Kagome sat dumb founded, "Why do I look human if I am completely different?"
"That's why I felt I should tell you now. Your father placed a concealment spell on you to hide your demon blood so we could adopt you. Your grandfather played the senile old man who spoke of demons and legends so he could keep people from coming around. We didn't want modern demons and scientists to take you from us."
"I-I think. I will go now." Kagome ran up to her room to packed her bag in shock.
A soft knock was heard and Kagome's door, "Kagome, I forgot to tell you. The concealment spell will be broken at sundown tonight."
Kagome couldn't believe what her mother was telling her. She would cease to be human and become a hanyou. What was she to tell her friends? She wasn't who she thought she was. She wondered if she had family in the feudal era. She couldn't say for sure or what she knew.
Kagome grabbed her bag and ran out of the house and into the well house. She jumped into the well and was instantly swallowed up by a blue light. She wondered what it was that made her family give her up. Then she remembered that demons and humans hated hanyous. Her family must have thrown her in to get rid of their mistake hoping it was would not live.
A tall young man with silver hair looked staring at the woman in front of him. He hated have to her near him. Her face, eyes and hair all reminded him of the past he was fighting so hard to forget. Whenever she was near he just wanted to turn to her and hold her as though there was no tomorrow. What was he to do when he was in love with another woman as well as her? One was her reincarnation while the other was the real deal. Or were they both the real deal. Why did he have to make such a dangerous decision? Will he ever be able to understand what his heart is telling him? Or will he always be lost.
"InuYasha," The woman looked him straight in the eye, "Naraku has done to more to Keade and I then he has done to you. I must ask you to search for something we lost some many years ago." The woman's eyes clouded over with tears that flowed down her flawless face. She hardly ever showed that kind emotion, even when she was alive. She had always held her emotions inside. InuYasha took a step forward to hold her. She took a backwards, "I can not rest in peace until I know what happened to her."
"What do you mean her," InuYasha asked looking at her with concern in his eyes.
"Look for the one with the symbol of the blue star sapphire," Kikyo turned toward the well, "She disappeared years ago. Before I even met you. I was only ten, Keade was seven, and she was two months old. Her hair was as white as snow with its silver glitter. Her eyes were the bluest of sapphires. She had the smile that melted every one's hearts." As Kikyo spoke emotions of love and sadness engulfed her whole body, "But they hated her. Her father was the most powerful of dog demons from the continent. He was captured and killed for who he was. A senseless death one of two."
Kagome had just arrived in the feudal era when she heard distant voices coming from the sacred tree. She wondered to whom the voices belonged to. She was able to guess. She almost knew it was but didn't want to accept it. Kagome carefully walked toward the Sacred tree and hid behind it and saw who it was. It was none other then the two people she didn't want to see together.
"Kikyo, stop being so cryptic." InuYasha half yelled, "Tell me who, you are talking about!!!!" Kagome noticed that InuYasha was getting greatly annoyed by whatever Kikyo was talking about.
"InuYasha, promise me you will find her." Kikyo said, "She has the power to destroy Naraku with one strike. She is the Blue Star Sapphire. She is also my little sister Koi. Promise me you will find her."
InuYasha's face dropped when he heard what she had just revealed. Kagome's heart started to race, the woman was speaking the truth of her words. By the way InuYasha looked she had never told him before, "You have another sister."
Kikyo nodded sadly, "She shows her love in her eyes. Keade will tell you the rest. When you find her and hold on to her and protect her. She is the only one with the power to neutralize the shikon jewel so it can no longer be used for evil purposes only good."
InuYasha started to sniff the air and noticed that he and Kikyo were not alone, "Kagome, come here." When Kagome stepped out from behind the tree she walked up and stood next to InuYasha, "Why were you spying on us?"
"I heard voices coming from here when I came through the well," Kagome never raised her eyes to InuYasha she knew she was going to be yelled at. Right now she didn't care. Kagome turned to walk away, "I am sorry." She didn't know what she was going to do. All she knew was that she was losing everything. What will InuYasha say when she tells him that she is a no name? She has no true family. All her life there was something different about her. Kagome walked out InuYasha's sight but not his hearing range, "Who am I? Where do I come from? Do I truly have a family?" Kagome's mother told her that she would change tonight when the moon is rises. InuYasha what will he think?
Kagome started to walk into the forest. She stood by a large tree and waited for transformation to come over her. The moon rose over head and Kagome stood and watched as her hands turned from beautifully manicured to claws. She grabbed a lock of hair and watched the black bleed out and turned silvery white. Her human ears disappeared and dog-ears appeared on top of her hair. Her eyes turned from a soft brown to sapphire blue. Kagome's eyesight and hearing became more defined. She also felt a great power grow inside of her. She walked over a river near by and looked hoping to see her image in the dimming light.
She decided to stay outside by the river it not like InuYasha would miss her. He forgets about everything when it came to Kikyo. Now she was no longer Kikyo's copy but a person who once looked like her. She would hide from all of them and search for her family. She needed to know why they abandoned her. She needed to know if they ever loved her. She needed to know where she belonged. She always had the gapping whole in her heart that can only be filled in by the love of her family. She reached her hand out to touch the waters surface and felt the cool water caress her fingers. She smiled when she thought of her adopted mother's hugs it was like the soft touch of the river's surface. 'I will become stronger and find my place.'
Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder. Kagome turned around to see the face of a gentle young woman, "Who are you?"
"I am Keiko," The woman sat down next to her looking out over the river's surface, "It's beautiful out here. Don't you think?"
"I think so," Kagome sadly turned her attention back to the river.
"Why are you so sad on a beautiful night, young hanyou," Keiko asked.
"I just found I wasn't human and I don't belong in the home where I grew up."
"Things will get better as time goes by," Keiko stood up and brushed off the dirt from the ground, "You can stay with me tonight."