The Blood We Share On Our Hands
Akio's Story (Understand The Character Some ^^): All Akio Sagura's life she lived beside and attended schools with Kagome Higurashi. While growing with Kagome, she loathed her for some years because Akio always saw herself as plain ordinary and never pretty in the bit. Her parents belittled her and she grew up being compared to Kagome's intelligence. During their final year of middle school where Kagome was constantly "ill" and never in school she took it into her hands to out shine the every so fantastic Kagome Higurashi. Shocked beyond her wildest dreams, Kagome still managed to graduate with her class into high school. Finally Akio's parents stopped comparing her to Kagome and at last she could let her loathing for her die, she was no long the person she had to surpass, but someone she could be friend. Finally, when high school started Akio befriended Kagome at last but hid her former hatred for, fearing it would ruin what she now has. Though Kagome still was never in school, Akio would visit her when she new Kagome could have company or when she finally attended school. At last, the faithful day that Akio decides to go surprise Kagome with a fruit basket for her to get better, the sacred tree takes her full attention. When Akio approached it and could feel another presence, as though someone lived within the tree and since that day, she has been more drawn to Kagome and the sacred tree and the day she follows Kagome, she finds out more about herself and Kagome then she bargained for.
Chapter One: That Sacred Tree
It was a Saturday morning and Akio planned that previous Friday night to sleep her morning through and go on a date with a very persistent Hojo. As her cell phone rang over head on her shelved bed frame, she reached her hand up to answer it as she recognized the ring tone. She finally grabbed hold of her phone and groaned lightly. "Hello?" she answered softly trying to hid her cracked voice from just waking up. "Hey Akio? Im feeling a lot better today, do you want to come over for breakfast?" an energetic Kagome chimed on the other line. Akio sat up in her bed and yawned. "sure, I'll be over in about 15 to 20 minutes, ok?" she responded as she stretched out her back. "Ok, see you over here!" Kagome chimed and hung up the phone. Akio slid off her head and prepared herself for a very unplanned, last minute day. Akio sat at her vanity as she pulled her long black and silver streaked hair into a pony tail. She already knew that breakfast at Kagome's was a feast whenever she recovered from whatever bug she caught. Akio brushed her bangs to the left side of her face with her hand, then applied her eyeliner. Akio may have gotten her parents approval at last academically but she felt uglier than any demon Kagome has ever faced in the feudal area. She tied a black sweater at her waist over her tight blue jeans and tied on her sneakers. Before exiting the house Akio made sure her face was perfect and none of it made its way onto her white blouse. She smiled and headed out the house to go next door for a feast. Akio hopped the gate and landed directly beside the sacred tree. She smiled at her perfect landing and went to walk to the house when she heard a mans voice. "What's taking Kagome so damn long?" Akio looked around her for the guy the voice came from but saw no one. "is someone there?" she asked as she walked around the tree. She thought that she was starting to loose it or she was just a little sleep deprived for some reason. Akio shrugged it off and ran her fingers along the tree trunk. "What is there about you that attracts me so much?" she laughed a little to herself. "Inuyasha, did you hear that?" "You bet your ass I did." "Where do you think its coming from you guys?" "Ah!" Akio screamed and fell back from the tree. She now was hearing two men and a woman! She knew she was bugging out and decided to cut her time with the sacred tree short and head into eat. She was defiantly starting to hallucinate.
"Kagome!" Akio called into the corridors of the house. She kicked her sneakers off and walked into the house. "Kitchen!" Kagome called back to her. Akio smiled and head for the kitchen just to be welcomed in by piles of pancakes, French toast and Kagome's famous omelets. "I'm a damn lucky girl aren't I?" Akio asked playfully. Kagome gave her a big smile for a moment, then it lowered. "Something wrong?" "Oh, no. I just don't get that often." "Dead beat boyfriend again?" Kagome turned red at Akio's comment. "He's not dead beat!" Kagome turned away to finish her cooking then corrected herself completely. "He's not my boyfriend either!" she placed the final omelet on the table and Akio's face lit up. "I'm starving! I was starting to hear voices that's how hungry I am right now." Akio laughed. She then kicked herself mentally for having not been Kagome's friend earlier. She sighed with a smile and began to demolish the food before her. Kagome sat down beside her confused. "Voices?" she questioned. "What do they sound like?" she asked. "two guy, one girl. I started hearing them by the sacred tree." Akio said as she went to finish her first plate of food. For someone so thin, she could eat like someone who was scary obese. Kagome raised an eyebrow. "By the tree?" she asked. "Yea. I heard you name and I heard the name Inuyasha. Weird hunh?" she asked with a smile. Akio obviously thought it was only in her head, but Kagome knew there was way to it. The two chit chatted for a few hours. Akio's phone went off. She pulled it from her jeans to answer it. "Hello? Oh hey Hojo. Hm? Yeah we're still on for this afternoon. Mhm, yeah I'll meet you at the train station. Ok." she smiled. "see you then." Akio hung up and smiled at Kagome. "I don't understand why you never liked him, he's a sweet heart." Akio smiled. "I don't know, I just didn't." Kagome shrugged then looked the time. "what time do you need to meet him?" "in about 30minutes. I'm going to leave in 10 though. Akio smiled and headed for the front door that her sneakers take a bit to get on. Kagome stood in the door way in her pajamas just staring into space. "Thinking about him?" Akio asked as she stood up. "Yeah." Kagome smiled and gave her a hug. "You have fun, ok?" Kagome said to her and Akio nodded her head and ran down the steps of the temple. The moment she took one step off the finale step her phone went off. Akio grabbed it quick and answered it. "Yes Kagome?" she asked in confusion. "Want to sleep over tonight?" she asked her. Akio laughed a little and brushed her hair out her eyes. "sure, I'll come right over after this date." she giggled and hung up the phone, rushing her way to the train station.
Akio stretched as she reached the top of the steps to the Higurashi shrine later in the night. When she got there, she looked at the sacred tree and let out a breathless laugh. "I see your quiet now." She said as she tried to gain her breath back. She placed her hand back on the tree. "You don't have anything to say to me now?" she asked softly. "Of course not. You're simply a tree." She sighed heavily. "Who are you?" a voice responded. Akio backed away from the tree and looked at it. "are you going to answer me or what?" it asked her. Akio believing that she was freaking out again ran straight to Kagome's house and began to bang on the front door like a mad woman. "Kagome! Please!" she was frantic. Akio wasn't sure if she was finally cracking up from all the stress she put upon herself or if it was really happening. Kagome opened the door confused, but the moment the door opened the panicked look displayed in Akio's violet, blue hued eyes vanished and she jumped into Kagome's arms. It was Kagome's property and being in her arms made Akio feel safe from what ever was on her property. "what happened Akio?" Kagome asked her. "There is something around or in your sacred tree and I can hear it speak to me and its freaking me out!" Akio responded and walked into the house. Kagome shut the door behind her and walked with Akio into the living room, but before she could sit down with her friend Kagome's mother walked into the room. "Kagome, could you come here a moment." she said softly. Kagome nodded her head and left the room. Then, a loud annoyed scream escaped her lips. "What are you doing here!?" she cried. "I need to talk to you about the sacred tree Kagome." "It couldn't wait!?" She asked the male. Akio jumped to her feet and went running to Kagome. "Kagome that's the voice!" she cried as she ran into the kitchen to see a man about six feet in a strange red outfit standing before her. His eyes long and while with golden eyes and dog ears? "Akio, I'll meet you in the living room, just go…" Kagome said softly. "What's with the clothes and ears dude?" Akio asked the strange male. He just gave her a dirty look. "fine." Akio rolled her eyes and returned to the living room. She knew that was the voice, but she highly doubted it was that guy. Akio could hear a small bickering in the kitchen and ignored it. Then it hit her, that's the boyfriend! Kagome walked back into the room. "so that's the dead beat boyfriend hunh?" Akio asked. "He is not my boyfriend and he is not a dead beat Akio!" Kagome responded. "And no, that wasn't him. But he is going to take of what's wrong with the sacred tree so you'll be back on your branch in no time." Kagome laughed. Akio giggled and shook her head at her. There was a special branch on the sacred tree that Akio would sit on. The reason this one branch was special to her was because her last name was carved on it. She didn't understand why, but it was, so she claimed the branch as her own. Akio and Kagome sat up until 12 talking and playing card games to pass the time. Eventually Akio fell asleep on the couch during a movie. Inuyasha then popped his head into the room and looked down at her. He didn't make any facial expression but if you looked into the half-breads golden eyes you could see it. You could see that he felt as though he was gazing upon the most beautiful creature alive. Kagome walked back into the room. "so this is the voice that I've been hearing on the other side of the sacred tree?" Kagome nodded her head. "She's live next to me all our lives and we have recently started being friends." Kagome took a deep breath. "She looks familiar to me. What's her name?" Inuyasha asked Kagome. "Akio Sagura." She said in a hushed voice to make sure they didn't wake her. "Sagura…." he recognized the name but couldn't pin point from where. He took a deep breath and turned to Kagome. "are you ready to go?" He asked her. Kagome smiled and nodded her head. She slung her bag over her shoulder and headed for the back. When Inuyasha shut the door, Akio woke up very alert and realized right away Kagome wasn't there. She check her room and the rest of the house and she wasn't there, so Akio immediately went out to the back and say her walk into the area where the old well stood. Akio followed her. When she walked in she saw Kagome jump down the well. Akio in a panic ran after her and jump too, believing she would land on the bottom of the well in Kagome's home. When Akio had set her feet down, she didn't see Kagome but she could hear her and other people talking. "Kagome?" Akio called out. "Did you hear that?" a man responded. "hm…" Akio bit her lip and examined the well. She saw enough steppingstones for her to climb out like she would climb a rock wall. "hn!" she pulled herself out the well just in time to see Kagome yell at Inuyasha. "Sit boy!" She puffed out her cheeks and turned away from him just to see Akio hanging her legs over the edge of the well. "Sick my ass" was all Akio could see. Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Shippo all stared at her. How could this girl get through the well was the only thing they could all think.
Lawliet: Appears to me the Akio is a bit of the curious type. but you know what they say about the curious cat,now dont you? 3
Akio: *walks in* No, what do they say about the curious cat?
Lawliet: -_- *shakes head* curiosity killed the cat
Akio: Yeah, but satisfaction brought him back, right? *eats ice cream*
Lawliet: Go away Akio -_-
Akio: ok, but before I do. *turns to the reader* If you enjoyed us, please Review, kay ^^