Author's Note: Well here's Chapter Two, hope you enjoy, once again I'm sorry if Kagome seems a little out of Character, but anyway I'll let you read and then you can give me you opinion of it.
Chapter Two
Forgotten Them
When I woke up the next, around midday, (I had wasted half a day sleeping!), I knew that something was happening in the village, something that was causing a lot of commotion. I felt fear, what if the Demon's had attacked and something terrible was happening? Why hadn't anyone bother to wake me up? But once I had gathered my thoughts more, I realise that the commotion was more excitement then fear. I crawled out from under my blanket, pulled on my shoes and jacket and padded lightly outside and went looking for the commotion.
I quickly found the source of the commotion (the village isn't all that big, it wasn't all that hard to find where everyone was.).
"What's going on?" I asked Hana once I found her and the others, once again not with all that difficulty. When Hana turned to answer me, I could see the brightness in her eyes, her face was alight with excitement that made her look years younger, I was really impressed, I really wanted to know and see what had excited everyone so.
"Some Demon slayers are here, to exterminate that demon that's been bothering the shrine lately." Hana explained, I raised an eyebrow and what about exterminating my demons while they where at too.
I gently pushed my way threw the crowd to see the Demon Slayer's group. My mouth dropped, my Demons where part of the Demon slaying group, well didn't that make the world turn upside down and inside out for you, (I know I have really weird quotes and I have no idea where they came from.). Who ever heard of demons joining with the ones who where paid to destroy them for a living, maybe they came to some sort of agreement or pact, "you don't kill me and I'll help you slay twice as many demon then you usually do in a month maybe more", which seemed really likely since my big white demon, who seemed just as terrifying in the day time as he did at night, was there and I had a feeling could kill even more then that, if he felt like it, though he seemed to be one pf those demons who thought they where above all that. He was standing a little away from the rest of the group, beside a two head dragon thing, with the little toad demon and the little girl I had seen last night, the little girl, Rin was looking longingly towards the rest of the group, clearly she wanted to join in on the fun, but wasn't sure if she should, after a look from her Demon Lord she ran laughing to the group, who where as odd a bunch as she had come from.
I could guess there where three humans in the group, plus Rin, one was a male, he looked a monk carrying an odd staff, with some odd beads wrapped the hand that he held his staff in. The other two human was a girl maybe a year older then me, maybe more, maybe less. She was dressed in armour, her long hair tied back in a high ponytail, she held a large boomerang in her hand, her other hand on the shoulder of a young boy not much older then eleven, dressed in similar armour to her, he looked in a bit of a daze like he wasn't what was going on or something like that.
The rest where demon, three of them where dressed in wolf skins, they too stood a little away from my group of villagers, two of them looked absolutely fascinated by us as we where of them, but their leader, I'm guessing, he looked like their leader, he looked smarter then them, though that wasn't all to hard, anyway their leader, looked bored and disinterested in us, weak humans.
Talking about disinterested, the guy with the white hair and dog ears, wrote the book on how to look disinterested, not only was he seemingly disinterested, he looked downright furious about something. He kept scenting the air, he may have been disinterested in us in particular but he sure has hell had something on his mind and it was bothering him. He looked so agitated, I felt sorry for him, he had this strange pained look in his eyes, as if he had lost something dear to him and was close to finding it, but just couldn't pin point where exactly his lost dear thing was. The more I stared at him, the more my heart pounded, I realise somewhat dazed that this had been the guy that had gotten my heart going last night, and no wonder, he was so cute, and look at those dog ears, they where adorable.
I want to touch them, was all I thought at the time, it didn't really occur to me, that I had seen him before, when Isamu had tried to kiss me and I had pushed him away because of an image of a guy with dog ears came to mind. Coincidence, how should I know?
"Don't worry kind villagers; we will slay your demons for you." Said the monk and I realised that he had been the one who had tried to stop dog ears and I'm guessing wolf leader from fighting, I tilted my head and stared at him, he seem genuine about he was saying, yet he was saying it to the heads men daughter instead of directly to the head man and his sons, who were somewhat confused by this, the girl with the high ponytail looked furious, but was trying to restrain herself. The Monk catching the Demon Slayer girl's look quickly dropped the head men's daughter; (her name is Aimi,) hand and turned his full attention to the head man himself. So I was right! There was something going on between the Monk and the Demon Slayer girl, I couldn't help but grin at this knowledge.
"Uh, we shall go and defeat the Demon now." The Monk said, he sounded nervous but I don't think it was from the thought of facing the demon.
Shortly after they left the village to the cave near the old shrine, which the demon was pestering, I sighed, I had wanted to get a better look at them too, maybe they would come back for their reward, somehow I felt that the Monk would try to come back, he seemed the most interested in the reward.
I went about what I always did, I did my chores quietly, vaguely listening the excited chatter of the other villagers, this had been the first time we had had an outside come to the village, well since I arrived, which was a year ago, so you can imagine how much excitement this cause to have such a large group come to our village and a Demon Slaying group, none the less.
"Haru isn't this great." Said Cho, she is two years younger then me, but she has always acted as if I was her younger sister, instead of the other way round. I shrugged.
"I guess."
"The monk's cute but so was that indifferent guy." Cho said dreamily, I rolled my eyes, Cho was a hopeless romantic and at that moment she was in out of space, probably flying around Venus. Venus?
Something was stirring inside of me, ever since the Demon Slaying group had first appeared, something inside my brain was clicking and moving and it was scaring me.
"Which indifferent guy, there were three?" I asked off-hand, I wasn't sure if I really cared, but hey it built a conversation.
"Oh, it's hard to say, they were all soo cute, but the one with the dog ears defiantly." She let out a silly little giggle. The one with dog ears, I felt a twinge of jealousy, but pushed it aside, I didn't know the guy I had no right to be jealous about him. But somehow this feeling of jealousy was familiar, and the feeling of only ever being second best and no way as good as her or up to her standards. Who? Who her? I don't know, why was I only second best.
I pulled a face; Cho tilted her head and stared at me in confusion.
"Uh, Haru, you ok." She asked me gently, placing a comforting hand on my arm, I sighed; all I ever did was worry people. I smiled at her, reassuring her I was fine, before going on my walk after asking if anyone needed any help, when everyone said they where fine, I left.
As I walked in the afternoon sun, once again up the river, my head ached, felt as if I was coming close to discovering something, but wasn't sure what.
I kicked off my shoes and paddled in the water, it was cool and refreshing. After a while a found a rock and lay down on it, letting my feet dry off, I skipped rocks across the water, smiling at the ripples they made.
I moved to the edge of the rock leaning over to get a drink when I saw someone looking up at me from the water.
"Aghhhhhhhhhhh" I screeched, before mentally smacking myself around the head, because I had scream at my own reflection. Then I notice something odd, my reflection hadn't screamed with me, it just stared at me. I stared back and realised that though my reflection looked like me, it wasn't me that was reflecting in the water. The girl in the water had straighter hair then me, a way paler face, more narrow then mines too, and she was wearing priestess garments. I blinked at her and she blinked with me, huh.
I sighed, she was stunning, a real beauty. I sighed again, turning my head away from the water girl, sliding my hands into the refreshing, cool water, not looking into it and drank as I did so a voice in my mind started to talk.
Are you sure your back to normal?
Then I heard my own voice answer the first.
Yes, for the tenth time today, I feel perfectly fine again!
I can hardly believe the old Demon managed to suck my soul out of me… but I'm back to my old self now.
Sucked my soul out, I shook my head now I was imagining things, but I couldn't help but think, I wish I could say the same for Inuyasha. Inuyasha, did he have his soul sucked out of him too, who knows. Things are so confusing, especially since the voice in my head that had asked me if I was back to normal, sounded familiar, as if I had just heard it not too long ago. I closed my eyes trying to grasp a picture or scene to go with what I had heard.
I was sitting by a small stream, I was sore, but I was at least ok. I wasn't going to let them know I was sore or they would worry and we had more important things to worry about then me. A little boy, with a fluffy tail was siting beside me, watching me worriedly. I told him I was fine and back to my old self, he seem a little convince but still worried all the same. I myself was more worried about someone else, something about him running into someone and had been spending a lot of time spacing out.
I open my eyes, well that helped a little. Wait no it hadn't, not really, but it was at least a memory, well I hoped it was a memory, I hoped I wasn't going insane and my mind was playing tricks on me, with my luck it probably was.
I head back home, feeling depressed, I was so deep in thought I didn't notice the group of children running towards me until I was knocked over by them.
"oow." I complained, half joking, half actually meaning it. The kids looked a shamed and quickly said their apologizes for not watching where they where going and for knocking me over. After I told them it was fine they ran off, all except two, who where staring at me in disbelief. After a second look over of them I realise that they where the two kids from the Demon Slaying group, I gave them a funny look and started getting up, when they reached up grabbing my arms and holding them with amazing strength for kids their age.
"Uh, can I help you?" I asked them pleasantly, smiling at them, this seem to make the kids eyes widen and the next thing I knew I was on my back again with the boy fox demon, looking into my face, blowing the few stray hairs from my face. After a moment his small face was alight with joy.
"Kagome" he screamed and hugged me, and was quickly followed by Rin.
"Whoa, what?" I yelped, did this kid call me Kagome,
"Shippo, what the heck are you doing." Demanded the really disgruntle dog eared guy, he sniffed the air and his eyes widen then narrowed.
"Inuyasha, it's Kagome, Kagome." The two kids squealed, I winced well if I didn't have headache before I did know.
"whhaat." Said the wolf demon leader, suddenly appearing in a whirl wind, in front of us, blocking Inuyasha from view. Inuyasha, I frown the name was familiar, and not because it meant Dog Spirit.
After about five minutes I was surrounded by the Demon Slaying group, who where all staring at me in disbelief. I shifted uncomfortable under their gaze.
"Yep, it's defiantly Kagome, I could recognize that pretty face anywhere." Said the wolf Demon leader, I raised an eyebrow.
"Why didn't you tell us you where here." The dog eared guy, no wait I now know his name Inuyasha demanded, in a low dangerous voice.
"And why would I tell you I was here, I don't even know who you are." I snapped back at him, he looked like I had slapped him and just stared at me open mouth.
"You don't know who we are." The Monk asked cautiously, making sure he had heard right.
"Yup, I don't have a clue who you are." I said again.
"Then again, I don't have a clue who I even am, so I guess you shouldn't feel to bad about me not remembering you lot." I added, shrugging, getting up.
"This might take some explaining." Said the weird Monk after a time of silence.
Ok I was all for hearing it.
Author's Note: Things will start moving after this, I promise, though next chapter will have a lot of talking, but after that, things should start rolling a little, ok, thanks for reading, please Review, bye.
