Who I Am
Ch. 1 The Truth
Key:
Bold = Dreams
Italics = Thoughts
Under lined = Meanwhile (Some one else's POV)
InuYasha has been pushing us harder to collect more shards and he's been getting on my nerves. "Oi, wench, get a move on!" "InuYasha you better behave or she will SIT you." Sango warned. "Shut up!" he yelled back. "InuYasha….." His ears flattened to his skull "Don't you d-" "Sit" I calmly interrupted. Miroku snickered as he watched him kiss the ground. I turned to Sango. "I'm going for a walk do you mind coming with me?" "No not at all." we walked till we came to a clearing, there was a man there, but not just any man, a demon. He had short sky blue hair and two black stripes on each cheek and his wrists. "Yukio. What are you doing here?!" Sango yelled furiously. I stepped back I have never seen Sango this mad, not even when we are in battle with Naraku. "My, what a spin on fate the gods have placed to have us meet again." He said not looking at Sango, but placing his gaze on me. Something seemed familiar about him but I wasn't sure. "Why did you come back?" Tears were slowly making their apperence, but her anger still shone brightly. "I came for Miyuki, my daughter." With that he charged towards me. I turned to run but only made it about ten feet before he had me in his grip. He bent down to my ear and whispered. "Sleep." My body went numb with that one word, I yelled for InuYasha but my voice was stolen away. Sango tried to run to my rescue but before she could Yukio opened his blood red wings and we flew away towards the South. She threw her giant boomarang but Yukio turned himself into a giant bird with me in his talons and easily avoided her attack.
Some where along the way I must have fallen asleep because when I awoke I was in a large room with no doors or windows, but a clear shot to the sky about a hundred feet up. "Good your awake." I looked behind me to see Yukio his eyes changing colors so fast it was giving me headaches. I backed up carefully. "What do you want from me?" He laughed and stepped closer to me. "You don't remember your old father, Miyuki?" "I'm not Miyuki!" I yelled. "If you trully belive that then explain how I know about the birthmark?" "What birthmark?" "May I?" I nodded out of curiosity. He walked towards me, grabbed my neck and pulled away my collar. A mirrior appered on the wall and I looked at it, there on my neck was a mark in the shape of a star. "Mom said it happened last year, it was the time when I feel down the stairs and nearly broke my neck. I don't like scars so I cover it up." "Then explain this." He backed away and pulled away his hatori collar showing a perfect replica of my scar. "The mark appears only on the flesh of the South's royal bloodlines, but only when they are of age to be given their mates and found the beloved at the same time. Your mother was a powerful Miko, soon after we meet the mark appeared and it burned slightly when I was around her, so I then knew she was my one and only." "Then why don't I have royalty markings like all other royal demons?" "We had to hide them in fear other demons would realize who you were and tried to kill you." He reached into his bag and pulled out a small black seed before handing it to me. "You still don't belive me. Please swallow this." I looked at him with a look of 'you got to be kidding me.' He then spread his wings before flying up and out of the hole. Why not? I'm not getting out of here any thime soon. I popped the seed into my mouth and swallowed with with little dificulty. Nothing happened and after a few hours of waiting, I got bored. 'InuYasha will come for me. I know he will.' I laied down and tried to get some rest.
As soon as I closed my eyes pictures came slowly into focuse, a mother with a tear on her brow and black hair holding a baby, upon it's cheeks were a blue and pink stripes the same with her wrists, then to a new picture, the young child with markings was running through a patch of wild flowers, her sky blue hair flying around her, it changed again, the mother was running with the child pure fear on her face, a new picture appeared, the mother jumped into the well, then the last photo was the mom handing the child to my mom but the childs hair was no longer sky blue but a dark black and her markings were gone.
I bolted upright, panting harshly, my eyes caught a glimpse of white hair. I grabbed a hold of it and realized it's my own. I was surprized again when I looked at my hands and saw the child's marking there. I'm the baby. The miko was my mom and Yukio was my dad. No, not was they are my parents. I smelled something close to summer rain. "Do you finally realize who you are, Miyuki?" My new found father asked his eyes now changing between sea blue and grass green. I didn't trust my voice so I just nodded 'yes'. I got up, right as I had done so he embraced me in a warm gentle hug. "My daughter has returned to me." "C-can we get out of this hole p-please?" I asked quietly. "Of course, you can have anything you want my dear daughter." He picked me up and opened his blood red wings and flew us out of the hole, and soon I saw the large castle that was my old home. There was a room there was candles lit, doors were opened with a welcoming balcony to land on. We perched on the balcony and he called out a name. "Mayumi, our daughter is home once more." My mom ran out and clung to me as if I was her lifeline. Her hair tickled my nose as I took in her scent, spring flowers with a hint of the woods around the castle. "We missed you so much Miyuki." She said into my neck, her tears of joy soaking my shirt. I placed my arms around her in a gentle hug. My dad then placed his arms around the both of us.
The whole way many words were spoken, mostly about how they would never let me slip away again. I listened with a pain in my heart wondering about my other family. Mom then pulled away and led us threw many twists and turns to a room. When we stopped she oppened a door inprinted with gold markings. The inside was a beautiful royal blue with the stars painted on the cieling. In my amazement I noticed the stars and the moon moved slowly in a calming dance. My parents smiled at me. "I'm home." I said happily remembering all the things that happened in this room, the games, the laughs even the nights just staring up at the stars. "Welcome home, Miyuki." I ran to them and embraced my mom her familiar scent calming my nerves. "you better gat some sleep dear. We have a big day tomarrow, we set up a ball in honor of our daughter's return." Dad said as he led me to the fouton. I walked away remembering where my clothes were and found that they were all my size. "Where yall expecting me?" "Your mother had a vision a few dayes ago. So we new you would be with us soon." I yawned as I grabbed me a sleeping kimono. "Come dear we will see her in the morning. Miyuki if you need anything just ring the bell." He pointed to a gold bell on the table. "Okay. Wait before you go I was wondering what am I?" He smiled. "You my dear daughter are a perfect mixture of miko and shift demon. Now go to sleep." The then left me in the room alone with my memories. I changed into the gown and laid down on the soft fouton. A dremless slepp then over came me.
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In the morning I woke up fully rested. I walked to the closet wondering what to wear. I decided on the pink kimono with blue stars around the sleeves, collar and bottom of the dress. It was completed with a blue obi. Dad said to ring the bell if I needed any help. I walked to the rope and pulled on it gently. Soon after a young demoness apeared. "My name is Nubuko, your ladyship. I will be your servent, how may I help you?" "Could you help me with this?" "Of course my lady." As she helped me get dressed I noticed that she was a kitsun. I then remembered something very important. "Shippo!" I nearly scared the poor girl to death when I unexpectingly yelled out his name. "Are you okay your highness?" I sat down on the ground with my face in my hands. "I can't belive I left behind my little Shippo." I sobbed. "Your highness?" Nubuko asked worringly. "I'm sorry if I scared you Nubuko I just left someone very important behind." "The Shippo you keep mentioning?" I nodded. "We can go get him it won't be a problem, but first lets get you dressed." I looked up at her in a silent 'thank you' and got up off the floor allowing her to finish dressing me. When she did she turned towards the closet and grabbed something. "Here, from what I hear you can handle one of theese well." She handed me a bow. "The wood is from a sakura tree, so it's very durable. The string is made from demon horse hair so no matter how hard it's pulled it won't snap." "T-thank you." "Don't thank me my lady it was always yours to begain with." "Call me Kagome. There is no need for formal names, your a freind not a stranger." "Thank you. Lady Kagome you might want to be able to know how to transform before we go though" Lets see if I know what I'm doing Dad said we were shift demons so... I thought of an animal and concentrated on the structure it had, it's fur and it's whole being and when I opened my eyes I saw Nubuko staring down at me in surprise. "What is it?" I asked. "Be glad I speak wolf, if I didn't we wouldn't be having this conversation now." I looked in the mirror and saw I had indeed turned into a wolf, my fur being midnight blue, my eyes a bright pink as well as the markings on my cheeks and wrists, I even noticed more stripes on my ankles, waist and tail. I did it I transformed! "Let's go Nubuko." "Hai."
People didn't give us much attention, as if a wolf walking around the castle was completely normal. She led me thru the castle till we got to the gate. There was a male demon there, he wore soldier clothing and had dark green hair and eyes. "Nubuko you know your not allowed to be here and what is with this stray dog?" I unkowingly growled. Dog, how dare you call me a dog! "Tamotsu don't call your princess a dog." "If she is the princess why is she in this form?" "I chose it!" I yelled. "Your highness he is not kitsun nor wolf demon not even shifter he can't understand you in this form. She is the princess she bears the royal markings. Come see them." He jumped down to glance at my stripes. When he looked into my eyes he might have died of fright. "Please forgive me your highness." He nelt to a low bow. I looked at Nubuko and nodded. "It's ok, she forgives you. Can you now let us thru." He jumped up quickly. "Of course. Open the gates." I watched as the huge doors opened and me and Nubuko walked thru.
"Why is it she always gets into these kind of things?" InuYasha yelled. "What does he want?" Just a few seconds later Kouga ran into the clearing. "Where is Kagome?" Sango then told him the story. "I'll help you get her back. Where the kitsun that Kagome claimed?" "You mean Shippo?" "Yes, him." "Here." The kitsun mumbled, I could easlily tell he was worried. "Don't worry your mamma will be back soon. I'll make sure of it." He britened up a bit. "Thank you Kouga-sama." "You are quite welcome." InuYasha then said. "Something is coming."
