The only thing I have every wanted for my birthday, since I was ten. It was to talk or at least see someone if not up close then from afar, from my family other than my grandfather. Since both of my parents died when I was very young I have always lived with grandpa. Because of our family liege, I have to keep a secret from my friends and boyfriend of who I really am. It is sometimes really hard to do that especially when you have a close and imitate relationship with them.
But now, right before my 20th birthday I found someone, someone from my family who shouldn't technically be here. And one who I thought that I would never ever see in my life, but out of nowhere there they were.
About a year ago I started to search on the internet trying to see if anyone from my family might have left a trail, so that I might be able to track them. But there was nothing, it was as if we were the only ones who still existed. Then randomly out of the blue one day when I was shopping, I bumped into an odd couple. A girl in a green school uniform; and a boy wearing a red kimono with a baseball hat on. Out of curiosity I listened to their conversation and I found their names out; Kagome and Inuyasha. I thought to myself what an unusual couple for someone so young.
It wasn't until I got home did I realize that I got my wish. I remembered the stories that grandpa told me about his brother and sister-in-law. How she was a reincarnated priestess that broke and finally destroyed the Shikon jewel that many people wanted. And my uncle who was a half demon, that everyone including him looked down on. But what stuck always in my mind was that he wore a red kimono that was made from the fur of the fire rat and had sliver hair with actual dog ears.
I waited about a week after my birthday to do the trip. The trip that I planned right after I ran into Kagome and Inuyasha. It took me a couple of days to figure out the exact details because I didn't know where they lived.
I get dressed in my combat outfit, which incredibly is similar to grandfather's and great-grandfather's outfit. I am wearing a white body suit that has a violet and deep blue butterfly on my right shoulder with some purple air bubbles around it. I also have armored boots, a chest plate with matching hip and groin armor. My hip plates are outlined in red and similar to my grandfathers but with a more of a feminine touch. I have one shoulder protector, on my left shoulder and it has three spikes going straight across it. I have a gold and red sash to hold my sword, which I tie in the back.
I creep silently down the hall pausing cautiously outside grandfather's door to make sure that he is asleep. Then I slip out of the house and across town in the dead of night. I finally reach the Sunset Shrine, and I find the old Bone Eaters well. I quietly shut the doors behind me and I slowly walk towards the well.
"I can do this…..it's now or never." I gulp and jump over the side into the well. Going through the well was like going through an enclosed water slide tube, with neon strobe lights all around me. I finally hit the bottom; I look up and see millions of bright shining stars. I use the ivy hanging and growing on the walls of the well to pull me up. I reach the top, I just stop and stare. For earlier there was a shrine around this well now…..a forest and the night sky. I can't believe that the well actually worked for me, it actually worked.
I take off running to my left, just running as far as I can get away from the well. To put distance between me and the only thing that will take me back to where I am from. After what seems like hours of running I finally stop for the night. I find a tree with high, wide branches. It will be good for safety for tonight.