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Ava: "Very good Jaken, now, LEAVE MY SIGHT!" *Jaken limps away* "Now, Hello dear readers, I just want to say I really enjoy all the reviews I have been receiving, on with the story!
Chapter 9
Origins of Kagome
Darkness, complete utter darkness is all that surrounded her. She knew she had to open her eyes, but right at the moment everything hurt. As she lay on the ground, she made a mental list of what had caused said sore body.
"Ouch, and double ouch. What the hell was that Sesshomaru?"
Complete silences meet her.
"Sesshomaru!? Hey! What the heck? Where is everyone?"
By this time Kagome finally decided that maybe this would be a good time to open her eyes to see what was going on, as she did, she realized that this would also be a good time to panic. She was no longer in Sesshomaru's study or his castle as she thought about. She was sitting in the middle of a forest, surrounded by what she could see where huge intimidating mountains. Her assessment was she was in a valley of some sort, but she was also without a weapon of any kind, in a place she did not know, but yet she did, kind of confusing, she still did not know where HERE was.
"Kagome."
"Who's there? What do you want?" Kagome said as she gingerly stood up from the forest floor.
"Do not be afraid child. I have waited a very long time to see you again Kagome, And I must say, you have grown into a beautiful woman my child." The voice said as it grew closer. It seem to be surrounding Kagome, she had no clue as how to pinpoint its location. She was almost to the point of sheer terror, as she felt the wind pick up and lift the leaves that had scattered the forest floor. As they swirled around her, Kagome was fruitlessly looking around for the owner of the voice.
"What do you mean again?! I don't even know you or where I am!" Kagome yelled into the wind.
All that answered her was a feminine chuckle as the leaves began to circle one another, getting faster and faster, until a woman stood before her. She had long black hair, tied in two low ponytails to the side of her head. She wore a deep green flowing Kimono with cherry tree branches running from the bottom to her bust line.
"Oh, but I do my dear, you just cannot remember my child." The woman said.
"My child? Why do you call me such? Who are you, what is this place? Kagome asked. She felt no evil coming from this woman before her. Then it came to her, the woman in the painting back in her room at Sesshomaru's castle.
"WAIT A MINUTE! You are Lady Una, but you….your…suppose to be dead?" Kagome said a little confused now that the woman before her was the exact same one.
"You are indeed correct, my name is Una, and yes I am dead. My soul was attached to the scroll, waiting for you to return." Una said with a sad smile.
"Return? What exactly are you saying?" Kagome asked as she came closer to the woman.
"Dear child, it is a lot to explain, first and foremost, I am you birth mother." Una said.
"M….Mo….MOTHER! No way! You can't be, no deffinatly not!" Kagome argued.
"Like I said dear, you don't remember, but you will soon enough." Una said as a light began to form in her hand and she pointed it at Kagome.
"Wait, what are you doing!" Kagome screamed as said light hit her squarely in her chest. As she hit the ground, she could faintly hear Una's voice
"Come back to me, my precious child."
Then everything went black .
Images began to flash behind her closed eyes. Images of her as a small infant, with the woman called Una holding her. People celebrating her birth, a demoness smiling at her with such love, a male demon looking down at her with pride, then screams of terror, everyone running, Una running with her in her arms through a forest. The well, oh God, the well. Una saying something, then a light. A bright blue light. Then there was a man and woman, dresses in foreign clothing, Una crying, and begging the couple for something. The woman, the one she has known as her mother kneeling down and taking her from Una's arms. The last image was of Una kissing her head and jumping down the well. (Una's my mother! Oh God! What Happened to her! Mother!) Kagome bolted upright and looked to the woman that sat patiently beside her.
"Mother?"
"Yes, my dear Kagome." Una said as tears began to fall from her blue eyes.
"How, what happened? Tell me everything!" Kagome demanded.
"It happened over three hundred years ago." Una began.
"Three hundred years! Wait how is that even possible, I'm only twenty years old!"
"We are elementals. Some of us can control time, I do, or did. I opened a time portal in that well, to take you some place safe, where nothing could get you. I met that man and woman that raised you as their own. I didn't know how far into the future I went, but that did not matter, you were my priority Kagome. I put a seal on you, so you could live a normal life, I never thought it would break, but when you mess with time, some things happen. You my child are a completely different elemental, one that has never been heard of before."
"What do you mean?"
"If you would let me finish my dear, all your questions will be answered." Una said with a laugh, at which Kagome blushed with embarrassment.
"There was a time when demons and humans lived peacefully with one another, that reason was us, the elemental mikos and monks. We were the balance, we took care of both races, during famine, war, or sickness. Over time, some of our race thought us better than the demons, and soon they began to take humans as mates, hence were normal miko's and monks began to be known within the human race, and the prejudice against demon kind began. With our own race divided, the two races began to hate and kill one another. Overtime, the ones like myself, which still believed that humans and demons must live in peace, fled into the mountains in the west, the very place we are right now. A great demon lord ruled over the western territory, and he believed in the peace that we once held, he swore an alliance with what was left of out clan. I on the other hand, became great friends with his mate, Lady Yui. She was like a sister to me, I loved both of them very much. I soon fell in love with one of the lord's generals, and we became mates, soon after I learned I was pregnant with you. Never before had one of our kind mated with a demon, so I did not know what you would be like, but I did not care, you were brought on by love. When the demon lord had his first son, the demon council was determine to convince him to destroy what was growing in my womb, called you an abomination, but he wouldn't. Few months later you were born, and the lord and his mate as well. I knew you were special the moment you were placed in my arms. But yet; even through all the joy there was sadness, for you were half demon. The Lord told said that you would live a long life, for you had the life span of a full demon, but also that your powers were so great that they would kill you, unless you mated with an equally powerful demon. But it would almost be impossible, because of the fact that you were also half elemental. Your father and I wept of your fate that night, but as I slept, I had a vision, you were meant to do a great thing, and that you would find happiness, but it was going to be a long road to find it. My people the next day took you from me, to see the extent of you powers, that's when everything became more complicated.
You see, us elementals, are only born with two, maybe three, powers of the elements, you my dear, were born with the power to control them all, and even manifest them from within you. Our leaders called for a celebration, for only every few hundred years is an elemental like you born. Word reach other lands, and soon it reach our enemies, wait, at that time he wasn't. Kyoishi, my brother, I do not understand why he did what he did, but he hated you more than anything. When he came and saw you, he told me to "get rid of it", I of course refused and he left. I thought that would be the last time that I saw him, but I was so wrong. The day of the celebration, the lord of the lands was gone, so his mate lady Yui, came to oversee, she loved just as much as you father and me. That was also when I learned she had a vision of her mates soon to be betrayal. She saw a human hime, and the half-breed she would birth. She had asked me if I would leave with her, when this came to be, to which I whole heartedly agreed, at that moment an explosion erupted and people were running and screaming, that's when I saw him, you uncle, Kyoishi. He had come to kill you, or so I thought, but he was there to kill everyone. Lady Yui told me to flee, protect you at all cost, you were meant to do great things. So I fled, I used the wind to carry you and I as far as I could. When I reached that well, I placed a seal on your powers, all of them, and created a time portal in the well. I didn't know how far in the future I was, but when I saw that man, I begged for him to take you in, care for you, and love you, when I could not. His wife, I believe, answered me by taking you into her arms. I told them I had sealed your true self, and that one day you would return. What I didn't know at that time, was that a soul of a priestess attached it's self to you and fused the jewel inside you, making you forget everything.
When I left, kyoishi was waiting, he demanded to know where you were, to which I told him he would have to kill me, for I would never tell him. As his blade ran me through, Lady Yui's poison whip took his head from his shoulders. As I laid dying, Lady Yui said she would make sure I would see you again, she took my soul as it left my body and trapped it in that scroll. She had her mate write out the whole account of what happened to our people. Soon after, or years, I do not know, she left her body and somehow joined me here. We have been waiting for you sweetheart, for a long time." Una finally finished.
"Why? Why have you been waiting for me?" Kagome asked.
"To train you of course."
"How?"
"Ha, the mind is a wonderful thing, what will seem like years to you, will actually only be weeks. Lady Yui will be with us shortly, but for now, tell me, how has your life been."
So Kagome told her mother everything, from every "boo-boo" she had to the point she realized she was in love with Inuyasha, up to the point she was at now.
"I just have one question, how exactly did Kikyo's soul end up with me? I mean Kikyo didn't die right then, that was years later." Kagome questioned.
Una leaned back on her hands and looked up at the sky, for a moment she said nothing. "Controlling time is very tricky, if you're not careful, you can really disrupt things. I think, since I was so scared for you, I did not really concentrate, so somehow, I mixed different eras up. You know, to many options at one time, or something like that, I do not really know." Una said as she looked back to her daughter.
"Huh? Oh well whatever, what's done is done right." Kagome smile to her mother.
"I wish I could have been there to watch you grow up. I am so sorry my little one." Una said with tears in her eyes.
"Don't be mother. You did what any parent would have done for their child." Kagome said as she leaned into Una and hugged her.
"I will say that I am proud of the woman you have become. I am very happy I had found someone that raised you the same way I would have." Una said with a small but happy smile.
"Well…when will Lady Yui be here, I have a lot to ask her." Kagome questioned.
"Lets just say, she has some explaining to do for a certain person." Una said with a slight smirk.
"Who exactly?"
"You'll hear about it, of that I am most sure. He has been such an unruly boy!" Una laughed.
There we go! Another chapter done and more to come. Just a little note for all the readers, the next few chapters will be a back and forth kind of thing. Some will be what is happening in Kagome's mind like her training and such, and the others will be about what is happening while Kagome sleeps. So with that said….JAKEN!
*limping imp* Jaken: "Yes my mistress"
Ava: "Finish for me, I must work."
Jaken: "yes….right away! Please read and review! This humble servant begs of you!"
