Finding the Light
Chapter 2: First Day of Remembrance
Shin's eyes slowly opened to a wooden roof above her. She looked to her left and saw a small cat with yellow- tanish colored fur, two tails, black paws, black swirled around her tails, and a black diamond on her head. The cat laid there sleeping, then to her right she saw a young boy no bigger than 1.5 feet tall with light brown hair, pointed ears, wearing a blue kimono with leaves embodied on it and also wearing a vest made of tan fox fur. She rubbed her eyes slowly and saw the boy had fox legs and paws instead of human legs and feet and a puffy tail behind him. She sat up and screamed with terror.
The girl from Shin's time, a girl wearing a pink kimono with her dark brown hair tied back by a ribbon at the end of her hair, and an elderly woman wearing a red pants and a white kimono with an eye patch ran inside.
"Shin! Are you alright!" said the girl with the uniform. "My name is Kagome Higurashi and I'm from the "present" like you. This is Sango and Kaede, they're from this time…what happened?" Asked Kagome, while pointing to the dark brown haired girl first then the elderly woman and trying to console the frightened girl. Shin pointed to the two tailed cat and the young boy.
"Huh? Oh that's just Kilala and Shippo. Kilala is my best friend and yes a demon cat. Shippo is a fox demon orphan and clings to Kagome. They're here to help you adjust to this time." Said Sango picking up Kilala and Shippo jumping on her shoulder.
"Now Shin you have to listen carefully….Your in the feudal era 500 years in the past from our time. We don't know how you got here, but we're going to try to get you home…I promise." Said Kagome trying to calm her down. Sango made some tea and over the next hour Shin calmed down and was getting used to everything that was happening around her.
As the girls sat there drinking tea a young man walked inside staring at them all, then at Shin intently. He had black hair pulled back into a small ponytail, a purple and dark blue robe on, a sort of old style glove covering his palm and half his left arm, and a staff in his hand. He was obviously a monk from this time
"Well, what do we have here….a new friend eh? Well we should give her the proper greeting." He walked up to Shin, kneeled down in front of her, and took her hands in his. "Miss, would you consider….baring my children?"
"WHAT!? YOU SICK PERVERT!!!!" Shin moved her hands away from his quickly and punched him in the stomach sending him flying out the open door into the river across the way. "Who the hell was that guy!? Don't tell me you know him Kagome!" She asked standing at the window making sure he didn't come back.
"Actually…that's our friend Miroku. Don't mind him, he's always like that. He asks every girl to bear his children." Said Kagome looking at Shin like she was crazy for punching Miroku. Sango sat there with her hands formed put into fists and when Shin looked at her she could see imaginary flames behind Sango.
"What the hell is goin' on in here? I just saw Miroku fly by…oh your awake." Said the boy in the red kimono wit the dog ears.
"Yeah she's up and Miroku hit on her right away. Shin this is…" Kagome was interrupted by Shin.
"Inuyasha……I….remember you from somewhere….." she said staring at the strange boy who struck as a distant memory in her mind. Everyone stared at her like she was crazy.
"How could she know me…? She wasn't born in this time…unless…" thought Inuyasha to himself and staring at Shin completely shocked.
"Well actually….I don't know where I was born or where I came from. I never knew my parents and was found on the side of the street when I was very young by my foster mother who soon after died. I searched every hospital in the country and I was never born in any of them. It makes me think…maybe I was never born in that period…what if….I was born here…." Shin said looking around at everyone. Only Kagome had eyes full of tears from hearing her sad story.
"Well we can find out here Shin. If you travel with us we can find what happened." Said Sango with a smile toward her new friend
"Alright…I'll travel with all of you….But keep away from me you perverted monk!!!" Shin punched the monk behind her and the entire room broke into laughter.
