Hello and welcome to chapter 2 of The Past Coming Back. This chapter starts getting into details and information about the past. I want to see who can guess what she is. Those who know it from Dokuga please do not say. Thank you.
Chapter 2: Describing the Past
As I arrive at the museum, I can see many people standing outside of the doors waiting for entrance. I walk up to the front doors and open them. My workers go to their stations and start preparing for the visitors. I go over to the exhibit doors and open them wide. My workers still look at the items in the museum with wonder even after seeing them for so long during their training.
"Kagome-sama, everything is ready for the guests," says Silvia, one of the greeters and a half tiger and half leopard demon.
"Very well open the doors. It seems that people are more interested in the museum than was here yesterday," I tell her.
"Well at least that is good profits for us so we can expand the exhibits some," she tells me as we walk to open the doors for the public.
"Very true now let's get to work," I tell her.
People come rushing into the room and the new people gasp at the elegant designs of the room. I took the design for the museum straight from Sesshomaru's design of his art hall. The ceilings are high and are painted with dog demons fighting. The fighting dog demons is all part of a legend.
Many have forgotten the legend but I have personal experience. Just as this thought passes through my head a group of young demons and half-demons approach me. I smile at them and point them to the staircase. Silvia looks at me and nods in understanding. She knows that if any demons come asking for information to send the upstairs to me.
"Why do they get to go upstairs," I hear one of the patrons demand.
"Sir, Kagome-sama is giving lessons in legends right now. The next available class starts in two months. The next two classes are full to the brim and they last a month," Silvia replies with our practiced lines.
I knew that humans would want to know why certain people were allowed to go upstairs. What she says is partially true. I am going to start telling "legends" to the human population in two months' time. This will give the younger demon population to quench their curiosity.
I step into the meeting room and close the doors behind me. A few seconds after I close it, a small group of young half-demons step through the door and close it behind them. I sigh as the full demons growl, hiss, or make other noises of hatred according to their breed. The half-demons reply the same way.
"Enough of this I will not have any fighting in my territory. While you are here there is no difference between any of you. If you dislike that then leave my territory," I command.
"How is it that you can lay claim to any territory, your human? You speak as if you know the differences between human and demon society," demands a young boy.
"I am a person that has traveled through time and done many things. I was and am the Shikon miko. I traveled with Inuyasha, the younger half-brother of Sesshomaru-sama. I traveled with a taija, a monk, a fox demon, and a two tailed neko demon. I am very experienced in the ways of demons child. I have much I can tell you. All you have to do is listen and you will figure out how I know so much. You can ask questions every once in a while," I tell them. "Take seats and I will start at the beginning."
The children sit in comfy chairs that are spread throughout the room. Some grab the bean bag chairs from corners of the room and drag them over to near me. I sit cross legged on the floor and start to tell them about my adventures in the past. All of them listen with rapt attention. Around four, I stop for the day and look at them.
"Aw come on," whine most of them while a few look as if they would say the same but will not go so low.
"I shall continue this tomorrow. Any questions," I ask.
"How did you survive Sesshomaru-sama's poison," asks a full neko demon.
"Tetseiga placed a barrier around me which protected me from harm. The sword recognized me as something it was made to protect and did as it was made for," I reply.
"Did it hurt having your soul removed," asks an inu half-demon.
"As I said earlier, it felt as if someone was pulling me in half and the pain was immense. I had my soul ripped from me twice both times I came back and fought. The second time I will tell you about soon young ones. I never told Inuyasha because that would have just caused him more pain knowing that the one he loved and wanted caused so much pain to another just to be alive again," I tell them softly. "The pain is no longer there but sometimes I have dreams of the events."
Some of the younger looking children come forward and young me around the waist. A few climb into my lap and touch my cheek in sympathy. I smile at them assuring them that I am alright.
"May I ask, is your soul whole once more," asks an older tiger demon.
"Yes it is and we will cover that and everything up to the demise of Naraku," I tell them encouragingly.
"Yea," yell a bunch of the children.
"Did Koga eventually marry Ayame," asks a wolf demon.
"Yes he did and that will come later in the story young one. Alright everyone head home, your parents must be worried that you have been gone for so long," I command.
"Yes Kagome-sama," yell all of the children.
All of them have loosened up around each other and me. Hopefully this can lead to peace one day between all of our races. I walk down stairs and watch as most of them skip happily out of the building while others follow behind at a more sedate pace reminding me of my friends in the past. Silvia comes over and smiles at me.
"Those guys seem happier and more rambunctious than when they came. The whole group has shown so much improvement in such little time," she says.
"They are so eager to hear stories of the past. Have the rooms cleared. I will be doing my rounds in a few minutes," I tell her.
"Of course Kagome-sama," Silvia says.
"I told you to stop that," I reprimand.
"I am sorry but you are still. . . ." Silvia starts as we clear people out of all the rooms and lock the front door.
"Enough. I have told you that until he acknowledges me again, I have position at all," I interrupt her.
"It does not feel right to call you anything else ma'am. My parents told me of your kindness and power to me it is only right I call you that," she replies.
"I know but I have no clue how he will react since things have changed. He will find me at some point on his own time. I am sorry for what happened but I cannot go back and change it," I tell her as rest of the employees clear out. "Good day, Silvia."
"Good day, Lady Kagome," she says.
I growl lowly as I close the workers entrance and lock it. I head home thinking of how he will react to me being alive.