A/N: I am writing Coco like Koko and Sunny like Sani. That is how it is written in Japanese and that is how I am choosing to write them myself.
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*20 years ago*
Alone in her cell, Oichi lay in labor. No one was coming to help her. The last two years have been pure hell. And she couldn't shake the feeling that, in the morning she was going to lose her life. But right now she had to focus on the birth of her child. Her little girl.
Another contraction ripping through her she ground her teeth together as she held her breath. She didn't want to make noise, so that she could have as much time with her daughter as she possibly could have.
Looking over at the block that was lose she let tears fall from her eyes as she took heavy breaths between contractions. She hoped that she was wrong, but she knew when the time was right her daughter would find that note that told her everything. And that she would be strong enough to get away from this hell.
A few hours later she held her breath and ground her teeth together as she delivered a healthy baby girl. Her wail moments later made her smile as she moved and lifted her into her arms. She flinched as she settled her in her arms when she heard footsteps and watched guardedly as a woman brought in a large basin of water, then dropped a fresh bed and some blankets with an extra outfit. A sigh of relief as she turned and left.
Setting to work she quickly cleaned her daughter, wrapped her in a small blanket and then cleaned herself up and changed the bed. Sitting down she rocked her baby in her arms as she nursed her. She had the same blond hair that she and Ichiryu had. But had eyes that were an icy blue. Eyes just like her mother. "I wonder if they will at least keep this name for you. My Kike."
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*6 months later*
"Please don't do this Kiromaru. Please don't….." But Oichi gasped as she was backhanded. Her eyes glaring as her daughter who was held but some other woman behind him started to cry. "You can't do this. Please. Don't take me away from her!"
"You were only needed to give us a kid. Now that she is six months old, we are going to start pushing her to see if what we wanted to happen did. You are no longer needed." Kiromaru then turned and nodded for the woman to leave as she did with the baby. "Don't worry. When she is big enough, she will be moved right here too." He then turned and left, letting someone else go in to take the woman's life.
Once he was upstairs he went up to the baby who was still crying. "Kike is what she called you. I don't care for the name but I don't really care for you. Our time in you is only to strengthen this village and make us as wealthy as your piss poor excuse of an uncle. How he was able to do everything he has done I don't know. Let's take her and get started."
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*18 years later, Kike's birthday*
Another long day of abuse and pain. Every day they did the same thing to her. She was bitten by snakes, had venom and poison from so many different plants and animals injected into her hoping that she would create her own as they said. But nothing ever happened. She negated every poison that got near her. Even Demon Devil Python venom.
So that is what they focused on now. Making sure that she was immune to all of them then according to Kiromaru she was going to be used as a test subject. Looking over at the one small picture that was in the cell of whom she was told was her mother stayed and gave birth to her. "Mama. I don't know how much more of this I can take. But it isn't like there is anywhere that I can go."
Falling back on the bed she curled over on her side as she let out a sigh as tears streamed down her face. She wanted to leave. But where would she go? She knew they would come and hunt her down. Sometimes she even felt like death would be the only thing to release her. "I wish you could help me Mama."
Then almost as if on que, there was a sudden gust of wind from nowhere. It blew up against the wall on the far side of the cell. Sitting up she blinked as she looked around. She didn't feel the wind, she heard it. It blew the papers over there. "That was strange." Going to the other side she started to look around. That was when she noticed that there was a brick that had a crack in the concrete around it like it was lose.
Getting her hopes up, she hoped that her mother had started a way to get out of there and she would be able to finish it, she pulled it out of the wall, and found that it was only a small fraction of one, and there was only a small slip of a space. "I guess not. Mama must have been as trapped as I am."
As she started to put the brick in place she saw the envelope that was in there. Reaching in and pulling it out she gasped again as she dropped the brick. It had her name on it! From her mother! Going back to the bed she sat down and opened the letter. Tears springing from her eyes as she read every word that her mother wrote. Some of it mixing with her tears.
But she had hope now. She had a reason to want to get out of there and try to plan it so she could get out of there! She did have someone to go to. She did have a place to go. She heard Kiromaru and everyone else talking about the IGO and how powerful they are, but they hoped that with what they could get from her to take the power away from them.
And along the way trying to get there, she figured she would actively look for the others mentioned in her letter. She knew they were all much older than she was, but it was worth a shot of it.
Folding the letter she tucked it away in a hiding place and smiled as she curled up to go to bed that night. Just as she was starting to despair and think that she was better off dead, her mother helped her out and now she had a reason to want to live. 'I will get out of here Mama. You will see.'
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*2 years later*
Running as fast as she could, Kike couldn't believe her luck! They took her out to see how she handled poison in the wild, and they were attacked by a herd of beasts! She used that chance and just started to run. Running as fast and as hard as she could run. She had to get away from there as far as possible. She knew once the stampede was over that they were going to start looking for her right off the bat.
Breaking the trees, she hoped to find a city, or another village that she could hide in. But no. She was on a mountain! How was she going to get away from them now? "Man this is just great. What am I going to do now?"
"You are going to turn around and march your butt right back to that cell you little witch."
Flinching as she looked back at Kiromaru and the group that was with him. They found her already! They had to have been on her tail from the second she ran. Fisting her hands at her sides she glared at him as frustrated tears fell. "I won't. I won't go back. You have done enough haven't you? You tortured my mother then killed her. Just like you do me now. Do you really think that I am going to do as I am told? Not anymore. I won't!"
Taking a step closer to her then stopping with a glare as she moved a foot back toward the edge, Kiromaru closed his eyes with a sigh. "You really don't want to make this harder than it has to be Kike. Now get away from the cliff side and…." He then opened glaring black eyes. "Get back to your cell. Now!"
Resting her hands on her stomach as she relaxed and more tears fell from her eyes. There hidden in her clothes was her mother's letter. "I am sorry Mama. I didn't get out the way you thought I would. I will see you soon."
"Don't you dare!" Kiromaru lunged forward to try and stop her but wasn't in time and he watched with a glare as Kike fell backwards and fell toward the cliffs. "You witch!"
Falling fast, Kike smiled as her tears flew up along with her long hair and she felt her eyes drifting closed. "Mama…." But just before she blacked out she heard the call of a bird and then a thud and it was a black void.
Headed back home, Kiromaru glared as he fisted his hands. "Twenty two years down the drain. This sucks."
"Look it's her!"
Turning with wide eyes, Kiromaru gasped to see that Kike was in the claws of a bird that was flying away from them! But he knew that bird! He saw it one other time, and he didn't like where it would lead. "Let's move! We have to get to the bird and get her back before he gets where he is going."
Running after him toward where their birds were, the other men were confused. "But isn't that just a nest? He is an emperor crow so it shouldn't be hard to miss."
"Yes but he isn't just an emperor crow. There is only one around these parts and he is the animal partner of a Heavenly King. Coco." His black eyes narrowed as he swung up on his bird and shot off into the sky. "If that bird gets to him, Coco won't just hand her over to us like Zebra would. We got to take the bird out and get her back before he can!"
"Right!"