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This chapter talks more about Hikari's powers. Also what I was going to put in the chapter "Melodies of the Past."

The Hair Demon

Powers of the Soul

"What…just happened?" Kagome wondered out loud. She stared at Hikari for a minute. "Hikari, when you told us about what happened when you went missing, were you telling the truth?"

"I well…kind of… sort of…not really…No." Hikari felt guilty for lying.

"Tell us what really happened."

Hikari explained what had happened.

Flashback

She was still crying, but she knew, whatever happened, she had to protect the butterfly. Hikari dropped down onto the floor, still crying, as the demon flew towards her. A droplet of her tears fell onto the blue butterfly, a pure light flashed. As the demon flew towards them, it was stopped, by some kind of barrier. A pure barrier, one that was so pure, the demon was destroyed.

End of Flashback

"Do you think maybe you have some secret powers? Something to do with that butterfly." Sango said pointing to the blue butterfly on Hikari's shoulder.

"Hey, the beam, and the light barrier, doesn't Hikari mean light/ray?" Kagome asked.

"Well, yeah…" Hikari said.

Late at night, Hikari walked outside, sat on the grass, and looked up at the stars. She sighed.

"What's wrong?" Sango came and sat next to her.

"I have…nothing left. Nothing, everyone has happiness… Why can't I?"

"What…exactly happened in your past?"

"My village…It was destroyed by demons. But the one that seemed to control them was in an outfit thing… Everything was destroyed, only I lived."

"That sounds like my past." Sango started.

"Eh? What's happened?"

"The demon slayers of our village, including me, went to slay a demon. But it was a trap. Demons came into our village and destroyed everything, the other demon slayers were killed. Only me and my brother still lives."

"Where's your brother?" Hikari asked.

"He's being controlled by an evil demon named, Naraku."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"You know, I never really got to trust you. Now that I know of your past, I should be the one that's sorry."

"Th-thank you Sango. Thank you for trusting me."

"But…your powers. Maybe you have pure powers that you never known of…"

"Maybe…" Hikari said and gazed up at the stars again.

"Let's go back inside." Sango got up.

"Hai!" Hikari followed Sango and went into the house. We've both seemed to have the same past. I want…to avenge my village. I will, I hope…

Morning came fast and the gang was almost to Hikari's house. "We're almost there! We only need to walk about 3 kilometers before we reach my house. The house we've been in yesterday was very dusty and dirty."

"Yeah, and Inuyasha kept snoring!" Shippo whined.

Inuyasha punched Shippo on the top of his head.

"Wah! Kagome!" Shippo ran to Kagome.

Kagome sighed, "Inuyasha, sit boy."

"Oof!" Inuyasha fell face flat on the hard ground. An anime vein appeared on his head.

"You've got to stop doing that! You deserved that!" Shippo exclaimed.

Inuyasha punched him on the head again. Kagome sighed and took out a tape recorder/player. She pressed the play button. This was not a good thing…

"Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!"

Yup, she seems to have recorded herself say "Sit" so she doesn't have to say it so much. Inuyasha fell and made a HUGE hole on the ground.

Hikari giggled and continued to walk towards her house.

End of Chapter

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