Adventures of Kikyia
The couple lay in bed, snuggled in eachother's arms, sleeping soundly. Then, suddenly, the child screams in her bed, then jumps over the railing of her bed, running into her parents room. The tears trickle down her face, she couldn't stop them. She felt shame as her father would see her cry.
"Mu-mu-mommy?" The little girl called. Her mother shot up in her bed, bringing her husband with her, at the sound of her daughter's sobbing voice.
"Kikyia? What's wrong sweety?" She said, rushing her daughter into a tight embrace.
"Yah, tell us, pup." Her father encourage.
"I had a bad dream..you went through the well! You left, and you weren't coming back. You were going off to fight the monsters!" She sobbed into her mothers night gown.
"Oh...baby...we won't leave you, I promise." Kagome sighed, holding her daughter tighter.
"Yah, in fact, why don't you sleep with us, pup. You can make sure we don't leave." Inuyasha suggested, tickling his little hanyou's ears. Tehir daughter giggled, as they settled her in between them, Her white bangs floating across her face, and her pitch black hair raging wildly behind her. Kikia's eyes gold eyes fluttered closed, and she slept.....
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"WHa-what?" Kikyia stuttered. her eyes stinging.
"I'm..so sorry, baby. But he's back, we never thought-"
"You promised! You promised you would never leave!"" Kikia said, turning her sadness into anger. "You lied to me!"
"Honey, if we don't go back...we know we have to, if we hadn't decided to go, then who knows how things could change? You have to understand."
"Well I don't. Can't I come?" She said, hiding her eyes with her white bangs.
"NO! Under no circumstances are you to go through the well!" Inuyasha growled. He had remained quiet, Kagome saying it should be her to break the news to Kikia, but this he had to say. "Naraku would not-no- he would try to kill you! Kikia, the well leads to the place of ghost stories we've told you about! Listen, you need to stay here with your uncle and brother, and protect them both."
"I'm no babysitter..." she grumbled.
"I trained you to hold a sword for this reason. Sango and Miroku need our help. And there's only one person I'd trust to protect the jewel."
Kikia looked up, and saw the chain in her mother's hand. Kagome placed it on her neck, and that was that last thing they gave her before they left...
It's been 6 years, and they still haven't come back. Myoga come around from time to time,to give us there regards, let us know they're alive, that sort of thing. Me and my friend, Kouru, were talking about them on our way to school. He being Sango and Miroku's youngest, he's the only one I can talk to this about.
"Man, Kikia, do you think they'll ever get back."
"I don't no, but if they don't hurry, I'm going in after them."
"Yah right, and face the wrath of your pops?," the image of his enraged face came to mind, giving me shivers, "Or worse, your mom!" That image was terrifying.
"Yah...well, it can't take them that much longer to send for us. Besides, two more years, and they can't stop me." I grin mischeviously.
"Awe my friend, you braviory astounds me, "he say, grabbing my shoulder's in an embrace. Kouru and me have been friends since we were barely a month old. He was born only 2 weeks after me. Suddenley, I felt a tight squeeze on my butt.
"AHH! You mofo, get off me!" I say, kicking him hard.
"Ouch! Kami, that'd be my shin your kicking!"
"Yah, and next time I'll be aiming to rid the chance of you ever reproducing!" I scream, then running off to the school building. The sutra on my back is itchy, and I'm aching to take it off, and let my ears out. I go to the same school my mom went to, so her old uniform is a good fit. But the skirt is soo short with my long legs, I'm almost sure the perv is getting a view, so I pick out speed. No one around, so I go fast.
Like passing a car fast.
"Hey! No demonic powers!" Kauru shouts behind me.
After school I drop my stuff on the grass and run to the well. I go into the well house and sit down. I'd only been to the feudal era once, to get my sword and train a little. The sword sat there were I'd left it this morning. I trained everyday day, and wouldn't stop till needed. Tetsryia and the jewel were the only things left to connect me to my parents.
I grab and sit down, letting the calm wash through me I take a breath, then start talking.
"Hey...I did my homework before during lunch...so I'm good mom...", I say to the well, leaning in, hoping maybe, somehow, they'll here me, "I also kicked Kauru's ass today...after he grabbed mine. I should of seen it coming actually... I got an A on that test, so...no worries there. I've been keeping Tetsryina nice and polished..." I absentmindedly rub a finger over the little indention in my sword, for when, if it's an emergency, I shall place the Shikon No Tama, for an extra boost, "I know you'd kill me dad if I didn't practice. Uncle Souta and Aunt Hitomi are great, you know since yesterday...I miss you, I really wish you'd come back...it's been six years...I can barely remeber your face." My voice cracks a little. I walk out of the well, and begin to practice.
I focus on the energy of the wind, waiting for the tear...and there it is... if I were to slash right through it, the vibration, making beautiful sounds, could destroy the whole lawn. I smile, and relax. The wind scar disappears, and I walk in side, sword my my side. I've never slept without it.
I wake up shuffling on the floor boards...someone here. A door slammed, and someone in Souta's room...
I calm my self down, reasoning that maybe he was just in the bathroom, and had gone back to his room.
Just then something choked me. Not hands, or an actual solid object, but just the...presence of something...dad had once called it a demonic aura...
I had one, but of course I could not feel my own. Kauru had told me about it once..but this one it felt...almost disgusting. I knew what it meant. A demon was in the house.
Was it Uncle Sesshomaru...or possibly...
No! Dad and Uncle had never made me feel like this...frozen in place.
I got up, and ran down the hall pressing my ear to the door. I heard voices.
"Give me the Sacred Jewel! Were is it?!" A women voice shouted.
"Be gone demon." Souta said, probably holding up a sutra or something. Gramps had left that kind of thing behind. I might've rolled my eyes if I wasn't so frightened. "I shall never tell you of it's where abouts!" I couldn't move. It wasn't the aura, but just the pure fear. I clutched the jewel, and my sword in my hand.
All of a sudden there was a slicing sound, and my fear vanished as I heard my uncle scream. I ran in and almost dropped the Tetsrya...
"No...no...NO!!!!" I screamed. Blood was splattered on the wall...Uncle Souta in the middle of it. He was unmoving. The tears welled up in my eyes. I looked at the demon who had killed my uncle.
She had on a weirdly designed kimono, feathers in her hair, red eyes, and a fan she seemed to be waving around. I gripped my sword tighter. "You..you killed him...how could you-"
"Ah...so you have it. I might've killed the man earlier if I knew it would've coaxed out the jewel." She said it so easily, as if killing was normal. I was filed with ate for this women who acted like this was daily business.... "You are the morgel's daughter, are you not?"
"I am Kikyia...daughter Kagome and Inuyasha Higurashi...it's of little concern of you, seeing you won't be on the earth much longer." I growled through my teeth. I stood with my sword in a fight stance. I charged for her, ready to plow the sword through her chest, but then she waved that fan, and cresent shaped flashes of light came at me. I dodged them, but one got my cheek.
"Silly girl. Do you honestly think you can defeat me, a full youkai? You are mostly human. Your pathetic."
"Shut up, bitch!" I say, and then I jump and slash my sword at her. she waves her fan again, and a gust of wing pushes me back. Before I can reach the ground, throws some more slashes at me, which hit my arm and leg, full on. "AHH!" I fall to the ground. There is a huge gash on my knee and elbow, nth on the right side. There's also a couple scrapes in other places. I'm pretty much bleeding badly. I don't have much time to regain any strength, because in less then three seconds, another stream of flashes comes torwards me. I to the first thing I think of, and put my sword in front of me. It holds off for a bit, but it seems the bitch won't stop. I can't hold on for much longer. It's too much, and my sword start's digging into my hands. Blood is streaming down my arms, and I can't hold. My hand feels like's it's sliced through. And other flash hits me, but...it hit me in the chest...there searing pain everywhere....I fall. I've failed...it's all I can think...I've failed...
My head hits the floor with a thud, but my chest hurts too much for me to care.
"Girl, you'd be smart to give me the jewel, come now. Before you drown in a pool of your own blood." Was there a pool of it? Of course there was, why had I thought it must be something else soaking my clothes? It was my blood. I grabbed the jewel around my neck in defiance, the tetsryia out of reach, probably in it's normal form. "Fine, I get it whether your dead or alive..." She picked something up, I don't know what...I don't care. All I know is the the pain..it's everywhere...It couldn't be worse...
Until it did.
There was something stabbing through my side. I scream at the top of my lungs, knowing whats happening. She gone me through with my own sword. I feel like a skewer. No, there was nothing worse then this. I couldn't even feel, I couldn't breathe, I just knew it was done, I was done. I should be dead soon, and that almost made me happy. There would be no more pain...no more worries...that when my head seemed to split in two.
My head was screaming at me, scolding me for giving up. I grabbed the sword lodged in my side, and then I flung it across the room. The voice in my head cheered that.
No, you don't need that...that cages you...
There was something hot in my hands, it was burning me, begging to be let out. I couldn't see past a blinding red, and my body ached. I just did as the voice instructed.
Just release...let go, and I'll get rid of the bitch...Kikia doesn't need to do anything except rest...I take care of it. Just hold out the burn, and tell it in you soul that it can attack the bitch...
I let it control me, because it seemed easier. I didn't know what I was doing, till I was on the floor, gasping. The pain was still there, only now, voices were screaming...I just closed my eyes, hoping for the last time...
I woke up in a hospital bed, and groaned....it hadn't been a dream, he was gone. I would never see him again. He was gone. I cried before I realized Kauru was there.
"Oh thank kami, you awake! I thought for sure that..."
"Baka...like I'd go out that easy...it's my fault." I said through tears.
"No...no it's not. That was a powerful..." he gulped.
"It was a youkai. A beast. A monster. Something that's in me, something that I let loose that night...something that was afraid to go in there before it was too late."
"Stop it Kikia, it's not your fault!"
"Yes it is!"
"Itf it weren't for you,she would've gotten the jewel! Then were would we all be? Kikia, don't you dare feel bad about any of this!" I hadn't realized he was crying.
"I'm...I'm sorry if I worried you Kauru. I'm so sorry."
"Don't you say sorry for a single thing!" He shouted.
"Oh, I'm...where's the jewel?' I said, trying very hard not to say the word.
"On the bedside table."
I looked, and there it was. I reached for it, but when I tried to touch it...it was burning. I grabbed, and it felt...like that women aura. Dark, disgusting, burning...evil.
"Oh no...I...I think I...."