"You're finally awake," a familiar cheerful voice said. Kagome got up to find Hemaru sitting on the floor a few feet away from her. She looked around and saw that the rest were sitting awake, soaking wet, and scattered around the room. They were in the room with the statue again but this time the candles were lit.
"Quite an attack you guys took there," Hemaru said in his normal cheery voice.
Kagome turned to see Inu-Yasha sulking and muttering something under his breath. "That little - !" he grumbled, "Arrgh! Just wait!"
Sango struggled to get up. "The girl," she said wearly.
"What girl?" Hemaru asked.
"Onigumo's daughter," Sango said still trying to keep herself up.
"How can you think of that at a time like this," Inu-Yasha grumbled.
Hemaru chuckled, "You encountered her twice (I can't say they were very good meetings) and you don't even know it's her. You don't see that happening everyday."
"What?" Miroku said surprised.
"You mean that Migomi-" Sango started.
"- is Onigumo's daughter!" both Inu-Yasha and Kagome finished.
"You couldn't tell?" Hemaru asked.
"You mean that that's how Onigumo looked?" Kagome asked.
"It's been fifty years since he died," Hemaru said, "I can't say that I know anything about him but Konichi always said that she looked just like her father."
Miroku rubbed his forehead, "Why was she so mad at us when we went through the gate."
Hemaru took a moment to think, "I don't know. She doesn't act like that normally. What was it you called her when you first met?"
"We mistook her for a man named Naraku," Sango said while nodding her head suggestively at Inu-Yasha.
"That's probably it," Hemaru said getting up and walking toward a pile of dry cloth towels. Hemaru picked up a few, and then gave two to Sango and one to everyone else. Kirara came up to Sango and Sango wrapped a towel around her.
"Migomi told me that when she was young, a man named Naraku killed both her mother and her brother," Hemaru said. He didn't sound as happy as he usually did.
"Oh," Kagome sadly said.
"And she didn't try to avenge her family?" Inu-Yasha asked curiously.
"She said she will someday," Hemaru answered.
Kagome looked at the statue and said, "The statue. Migomi changed into that person."
Hemaru looked at the statue. "Oh, she did? You must have really angered her. The statue resembles her mother and Migomi doesn't normally changes into her."
"Just like Naraku," Inu-Yasha thought.
"Was her mother a demon?" Inu-Yasha asked.
"Yes, she was. You can say that she was the guardian of this village. She protected it from other attacking demons."
"A demon that protects a village…" Inu-Yasha thought.
"Does Migomi take on any other forms?" Miroku asked.
"As far as I know," Hemaru began, "She takes on a form similar to her brother's."
"She takes on forms of members of her family," Kagome thought. "Is that her way of remembering them?"
"It's not my place to tell you any of this," Hemaru said, "So please, don't tell her about anything that was discussed here."
The group nodded.
Shippo got up, stumbling every now and then, and then asked, "Who is Migomi to you?"
Inu-Yasha punched Shippo on his head, forcing Shippo to sit back down. "Shut up Shippo," he mumbled.
Hemaru look dumbfounded. The smile on his face was gone and now he looked sad. "She's like a mother to me." The entire group was staring at him now. "When my mother and father died from an illness when I was still a child," Hemaru continued, "she took me in and tried her best to take care of me while she was having… err… problems of her own." Hemaru saw how the group was staring at him and got up and said, "I should be going." He walked up to the door then looked back at the group with a smile, "If you decide to stay for a few days, I don't think you should talk to Migomi for a while." Then he left, closing the door behind him.
"Idiot," Inu-Yasha said punching Shippo on the head again, this time knocking him out.
