Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King.
Warning: If you are expecting or hoping for a fluffy ending it is not going to happen.
Tohru Komayaka was born into a long line of Shaman. Her whole family were Shamans. Her father, cousins, uncles and aunts, everyone except her mother. Rosetta Komayaka was a normal human; although she could see spirits she never had nor wished to have any powers. This always worried Tohru's father who was very protective of his wife and feared that if anything were to ever happen she would not be able to fight back. Rosetta was a beautiful woman. She had straight white hair that reached down to her hips. She always wore it pinned up and put a flower in it every morning. Her slender figure and Crystal Blue eyes made her appearance startling. Tohru's father had been blown away with her beauty and they married at only 18. He never stopped telling her how beautiful she was, after Tohru was born he continued to tell her but then he had another equally beautiful female in his life. Tohru had inherited her mothers beauty and looked very similar to her. There were however, a few differences, Tohru had her fathers eyes. They were a beautiful green like emeralds and sparkled with life and hope. Her father always told her they sparkled like diamonds in the dark of the night. She also had his temper, although her mother always stayed calm, she had more of a tendency to get irate, but she could control it. Tohru's father had taught her to be a strong Shaman and when the day came for her to receive her guardian ghost her family looked on, proud at what she had become.
Her guardian ghost was called Ellena and was a very powerful spirit. Her skin was as pale as snow and she had sky blue hair that tumbled in soft curls trailing behind her as she walked. Ellena was unusually tall and her eyes were completely black. There were also blue markings all over her body. She wore a short dress made of material so light it appeared to flat. Ellena was the Spirit of water. One of the five most powerful known spirits and she had been the guardian ghost of females in the Komayaka family for generations.
One July when tohru had become a teenager, Tohru had been out for the day with friends. They went to the riverside and stayed there all day talking to each other about the normal topics that teenage girls discuss.. She was to have a large party for her birthday that evening. Her family were travelling from all around the world to be there and she was looking forward to it.She had not seen many of them for a long time.
Her friends went back to her house ahead of her to get ready, she lagged behind with Ellena and waited for her them to call for her. After 10 minutes she began to grow curious and pushed aside the door. The horror that greeted her was one that would stay in her mind forever. Hundreds of bodies, her friends all her family, every last one of them slaughtered. She stared in shock and disbelief, willing it to be some sort of joke. She saw her father lying there next to her mother and ran to them both.
"Father!" she sobbed, "Who did this? Why?"
Her father stirred shocking her into silence.
"To-hru...get..to..Do-bi Village...You will be safe there...other shaman...protect you."
"But who did this father"
"Find...map...to...Dobi...Village...in...Family...Temple"
"Who?" she began to sob again.
"Toma...Makura Toma...stay away...from...him...I..love...you"
His eyes closed and he left out a sigh as his spirit parted from his body. Tohru clutched at his clothing.
"Father, why did you have to leave me.Why."
She stared at the peaceful form of her mother lying next to him, she realised she must do what her father had told her. She kissed her mother on the cheek and took the flower out of her hair, a magnolia, it was Tohru's favourite. The scent made her feel safe and secure because it was the scent of her mother.
She ran down the halls of her house to her room, packing a small knapsack with a change of clothes, a small box containing her most precious possessions and some provisions she proceeded to the family temple on the edge of the grounds of their house. She bowed and walked inside to the small statue at the other end. She was not sure why, but knew exactly where the map was and she placed it within the small box in her knapsack.
She stood facing her house for a while, realising that this may well be the last time she ever saw it and then headed out on to the road, Ellena walking by her side.
A tear rolled down her cheek as she moved further and further from her home. Everyone she had held dear was gone, the only one left now was Ellena and she had no words of comfort for she too was too upset for words, the she had known tohru's family longer than Tohru had, and Tohru was the only one left. Their friendship would hold them together and they both knew it