"Kagome wake up" yelled her mother angrily banging on the door. The 15 year old girl pushed the thin holed blanket and sat up on the floor for a minuet before picking up her long gray, worn dress, it had a v shaped neck line with no sleeves.
She combed her hair left her 'room' which was really no bigger than a small walk in closet and went down stairs grabbing a piece of bread she set to work on her daily chores. First was watering the gardens outside and the plants inside. Then cleaning up the house like dusting and washing.
While she worked she hummed a little tune while thinking about her life and family, well if you could really call her parents a family. When she was actually home she avoided her parents like the plague itself, she liked her little brother Souta he was nice to her but with both their parents hating her he couldn't really love her. She understood and excepted that to. No one liked her, no one in the town that is, not that she had been anywhere else though.
She was the black sheep in a crowd of white sheep. They all thought she was a devils child , for her black hair that went down to her waist , silverish blue eyes that looked like the night sky itself and tall curvy yet slender frame, unlike her, her whole family was short , had blonde hair and green eyes like most the people in town to. She remembered over hearing a conversation her parents had been having night.
FLASHBACK
"honey what are you doing?" asked Kagome's father.
"I'm thinking of giving Kagome my family kimono, after all its been passed down from mother to daughter for 5 generations "explained Kagome's mother
"no! you know we cant do that she's shanghais daughter , not ours, you know the legends , you know what she is" reasoned father
"yes of course I know the legends but what if they're wrong , what if…"her mother was cut off
"no they're not wrong" stated her father
"please maybe if we raise her with love then maybe she'll turn out differently"
"I'm sorry honey, you know what we must do unless you'd rather we kill her"
"No!"
"Then u know we can't love her"
END FLASHBACK
Kagome had just turned 9 years old, the first year she had gotten no presents.
Ever since that day though Kagome's never cried. When her father beat her she neither winced nor made any noise.
Kagome walked down the worn unpaved road to the market. Then she felt it 4 powerful youkai walking down the street headed her direction. Apparently the other villagers saw them to cause all a sudden people were screaming about youkai running in Kagome's direction. She easily sidestepped the panicked people.
By the time Kagome had gotten though the mob she could see the demons. One was a tall handsome inu-youkai with long silver hair, golden eyes, and a long fluffy tail, another was a wolf demon with long black hair up in a high pony tail and blue eyes, a fire youkai with short spiked red hair and crimson eyes and the forth was a earth youkai with green hair down to his shoulders and bright blue eyes.
Kagome held her head high and walked past them without a second glance. She went over to a vendor and started loading fruits and vegetables into her basket.
The youkai watched semi-shocked as the girl continued going around to the different empty vendors picking out her shopping, of course without paying. Did she not know what they were, WHO they were, if she did, why did she not flee like the rest.
To them she was stunning, for a human, graceful, fearless, calm and you could tell by her posture she was fierce and strong when need be. They had seen her coming even before they could see her face she was taller with long shiny black hair in the masses of shorter humans with shorter duller blonde and light red hair. They had to admit she was much prettier than most female youkai they had scene and met.
She had gotten all the food and was now headed in the opposite direction of which she came. But she stopped short and looked to her left apparently debating about something. Before crossing the street , putting down her basket and hopping the counter of the vendor she had been looking at. When she hopped back out she had 2 bows , 4 quivers of arrows and 4 daggers. She casually bent down and picked up her basket. She turned about half way so her shoulder was pointing toward the demons, she looked at them with a gentle face staring right into the inu-youkai's beautiful golden eyes.
The wind whipped her hair around her delicate shoulders. She smiled at them gently before turning and walking back to her parents house.
"odd" stated the wolf-youkai. The fire and lightening-youkai nodded their heads in agreement
"come on lets go see that man" said the inu-youkai and started walking in the same direction as the girl had just gone.
"yes Sesshomaru-sama" said the fire-youkai. And the 3 youkai followed their leader down the street and into a local pub which cleared out the moment they went in. Sesshomaru walked over to a table in the corner where a man sat covered in darkness.
"Sesshomaru I presume?" asked the man.
"Yes and my companions" said Sesshomaru " this is Kouga wolf, Hikari lighting and Shizuka fire"
Sesshomaru pulled up a chair and sat down , as did the other 3 youkai. The man pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Sesshomaru. He opened the paper , which was really a drawing, actually it was a drawing of the woman from less than 10 minuets before.
"I'll pay you 1,000 gold pieces if you bring me that girl, she has stolen from my house and 5 different of my street vendors." said the man "she's been able to escape all my men, I'm not quite sure how, but she did that's why I called you in."
"When do you need her by?" asked Sesshomaru
"midnight tonight at the latest" replied the man and he got up.
"take her to a clearing in the forest, it's a little more than a forth of a mile in. 4th clearing north of the town" with that said he walked out of the pub. The demons looked at the drawing.
"that's that woman from before isn't it?" asked Hikari
"yes, lets go we can probably catch her scent if we go back to the street" stated Sesshomaru and with that the youkai team left the pub also.