Chapter 2

-Lianne-

"Mom, I'm hungry!" Mom was talking to me about my powers and stuff like that. It was interesting finding out about my father. Mom went to cook some sushi. Not any normal sushi, but Inari Sushi. My favourite sushi in the world! I was unable to contain my excitement as my mom walked back inside. I started dancing and singing but I fell into the pond!

I couldn't scream. I was submerged into the underwater world. It was so terrifying. Suddenly, the strong current pulled me. 'I'm an ayakashi, I won't die.' I thought. I guess I must've inherited some arrogance from my father. I let this current pull me as I arrived in a strange land.

"Is this the Mononoke Village?" I looked around. It was old fashioned but at the same time it was bursting with colour. I saw someone, blonde and beautiful, a man. He had long, silky, blonde and bouncy hair. His skin was pale and flawlessly fair. His fox ears were pointy, sharp even. But he was way too old for me. So I just looked at him as he looked at me. "Who are you?" He asked, curious.

"Depends, who are you?" I queried. I didn't want to give myself away already.

"So you think you can question the clan head? You're brave." I instantly realised who this man was. He was Miyabi. I decided to have a bit of an argument with him. It would be the best way to introduce myself. A hysterical one as well.

"I don't know who you think you are, clan head." I put myself into ayakashi form. I haven't been trained but I have secretly been giving myself lessons.

"You're a weakling."

"Try me." I was provoking him. I wanted him to know exactly how strong I was if he thinks of disowning me. He left my mom so I'm going to have to show him how awesome I am. I threw a kitsune-bi at him. But he dodged it rapidly. He returned the favour. I dodged as well. It barely scraped me. But this time, I was too slow. His kitsune-bi embraced me as I fell in pain.

"Lianne!" I hear a familiar voice behind me. Miyabi looks really surprised as well.

-Miyabi-

Hmm? I could've sworn I've heard this voice before. I knew this voice. I've heard it a million times.

"Lianne!" I looked behind me and I saw her.

"Natalia?" I see her. Her gorgeous red hair blocking her eyes as she races toward the girl. She embraces the girl as she sheds tears. And then she sees me.

"Miyabi?" She stared at me, carefully studying my face. I stared back, unaware of what to do. "Who's this?" I looked at that blonde girl next to Natalia.

"My daughter." She replied.

"Whose?" I ask.

"Just another ayakashi kitsune thing's." She paused. "It's yours, I don't know any other kitsune."

"One minute, you manage to have and raise a grown child in TWO years!"

"I don't know what you're talking about , Miyabi. It's been sixteen years." She was anguished.

"What?" I forgot the time differences between the Mononoke Village and Earth. I stared at my child. I started to realise this child looked exactly like me and Natalia. She had long blonde hair like me. Brown eyes like her mother. Face shape like her mother too and skin like mine. My child. She looks… Beautiful. I then realised I had just attacked my own daughter. Natalia's going to hate me more than she already does. Great. That's amazing. I observe the two of them. They're looking at me, slightly annoyed.

"What's her name?" I ask.

"Lianne." Natalia replied.

"Pfft. Rubbish name choice." I say my thoughts out loud, as per usual.

"Oh, so first you leave me to die during childbirth which almost happened, then you attack my daughter and then you call her name rubbish? That's bull-"

I cut her off before she can say anymore.

"Your daughter? Are you serious? She's my daughter, too."

"Just because you gave her life DOES NOT make you her father! You didn't do ANYTHING fatherly to be called or even thought of as a father. You left."

"But-"

"You left." She repeated again. "Don't forget that."