This is the part of the story that explains Hitomi's past when she was still human. I let her name be Hikari at that time just for fun.
Chapter 1
"Hikari, hurry, your father is back!" came a voice from somewhere inside the house. Following the voice came a pretty young woman. She wore a long brown skirt
and a simple white blouse with a clean white apron tied around her thin waist. Her long brown hair was braided into two neat braids. She was definitely anxious, whoever was riding up the dusty road, was not riding up fast enough for her, so she decided to meet him herself. A young man jumped of his horse when he saw the woman running toward him, he caught her in his arms and kissed her as if she was the only thing existing for him in the world. He was tall and handsome, his raven black hair and his violet eyes were so dark that they seemed to draw light in them, those unnatural eyes gave him a dangerous reputation among the villagers, but the woman didn't seem to care, she loved him so dearly that no power on Earth but death itself could keep her from him. The tender moment was cut short by a happy scream
"Daddy!" yelled a young woman as she run toward her parents.
The man let go of his wife only to have his young daughter hang herself around his neck.
"You've gotten bigger 'butterfly'" said the man calling his daughter by a nickname he gave her when she was little "You're quite a young woman now." he commented as he looked over his child.
At her fifteen years of age Hikari looked like a tall child, pure innocence flowed from her wide eyes, a man might find such innocence at such age alluring.
"Oh, stop it Raymond, you know that she has a mind of a child what kind of woman spends her time chasing butterflies and grasshoppers…"
"Don't be so hard on her Amelia, she just hasn't met the right person to teach her how to be an adult, but she will sooner or later." replied Raymond "but enough about that what do we have for dinner, I haven't eaten a good meal since I left home six month ago."
"Well, for you I'll cook something really special" said Amelia as she followed her husband and daughter into the house. She was truly happy that he was back, hearing him tell stories of his adventures to his little girl waiting until dinner is served made her feel safe and secure. She knew that now that he was with her everything will be good.
The next day Raymond had to go into town and see if he could trade some of the goods he brought from his traveling for food and cloth. Amelia didn't like him leaving so soon again, but she reassured herself that it was only for a few days, after all what can possibly happen in such a short time? But she was only kidding herself; she knew that something bad was going to happen, not to her, or her husband, but to their precious daughter. She waited so anxiously for her husband to be back because she believed that once he is back no one would dare to try and hurt her dear Hikari, but now her husband had to leave again, and she had a bad feeling about it.
"Raymond, are you sure you have to leave?" asked Amelia in the mourning.
"Well I have some business in town and I want to trade those goods right away, it's not safe to keep such expensive things in our house, why do you ask?"
"A while back I had a bad vision, I feel like Hikari is in great danger, if you leave I wouldn't be able to protect her from anyone who wishes to hurt her."
"Don't worry honey, Hikari will be alright, there is no one out there wishing to hurt her, and I'll be back at home in less than three days, everything will be all right" he said it in the most reassuring tone he could conjure up, but at the moment he was the one needing reassurance, when his wife got one of those strange visions it was a sign of sure trouble, and she was never wrong. He almost thought of not going, but he couldn't risk staying at home with his goods another day, he had to go, but as he left home that mourning his mood was dark and a strong feeling of uneasiness was pressing on his chest making it hard to breathe.
As Amelia watched her husband ride away a strong feeling that someone is watching her crept over her mind.
"Hikari!" she yelled to her daughter who was happily waving good bye to her father.
"Yes mother." She answered a little startled by her mother's sharp tone "Is something the matter?"
"No Hikari, let's just go inside, it is not safe for two women to stand by themselves in the middle of the road like this." answered Amelia a little ashamed at herself for scaring her daughter like that. She knew that she was right and that they had to get inside as soon as possible, but Hikari didn't know that, there was no need to worry the girl for no reason.
"C'mon honey, hurry up…" she said again this time gently to reassure her daughter that she wasn't angry.
Hikari knew that something was wrong, but she didn't know what. Much like her mother Hikari sometimes had visions of the future and sometimes the past, but never about herself, only about others, so now she only sensed the tension through her mother, she didn't see the dark cloud of danger hanging over her own head, and danger was there watching her, waiting, patiently, until it is the right time to strike. But Hikari didn't know all that so she just assumed that her mother was upset about father leaving so soon again.
"Don't worry mother, father will be fine and back soon." she said.
"I know honey, I know" said Amelia as she led Hikari into the house. Finally they were safe, she thought, but were they, she didn't know.
Amelia was cooking dinner. Two days have passed and nothing happened. Maybe she was wrong, maybe there was nothing out there that wanted to hurt Hikari.
"Butterfly, would you pass me the carrots…" Amelia asked from across the kitchen.
Hikari jumped up ready to help her mother, but as she grabbed the carrots she accidentally knocked over the bucked with water.
"Oh no, that was the last bucket we had!" whined Hikari disappointed at her own clumsiness.
"Hikari! Are you alright?!" yelled Amelia as she ran to her daughter.
"Yes mother, I'm alright, but that was our last water, father is coming home today, what will we cook diner with?" she said more to herself than her mother.
"Oh, don't worry abut the water Hikari, there's plenty in the…"
"I know! I'll run to the river and bring back a fresh bucket!" exclaimed Hikari as she grabbed the empty bucket and darted outside.
Fear gripped at Amelia's throat, it all happened so fast she didn't get a chance to do anything, her girl was going out all by herself. She clearly felt the darkness that had followed her all these days that Raymond was away, she tried so hard to protect her family and now, when in a few hours they would've all been safe, she may be loosing the most precious thing in her life over a spilled bucket of water. The realization of that fact broke the bubble of slow time that formed around her when she saw Hikari run out of the house. She was about to panic as she ran out of the house faster than the wind.
"Hiakari! Hikari! Come back!" she yelled frantically searching for her daughters shape running across the meadow. Hikari could've not gotten over the hill that separated the meadow in front of their house with the one before the river so fast. Something must've happened to her, she thoughtlessly ran in the general direction in which her daughter would've walked, but she didn't get far as she wasn't looking where she was going and in the tall grass didn't notice a rounded object on the ground. She ran right over it tripping and bruising herself really badly as she fell on the ground. The impact caused her to briefly loose her consciousness. When she woke up it was already dark, she tried to get up but fell right back to the ground, her ankle felt like on fire, she has never felt pain like this before, and it was twisted in an unnatural position. She tried to look at what tripped her and cold fear enveloped her in it's grasp, the events of the past afternoon came flooding back into her memory, she looked at the object that tripped her, it was a bucket, the bucket, the very same bucket that her little girl had with her when she left home earlier that day. Sharp pain cut through Amelia's chest, the kind of pain that is sharper than any knife, that hurt more than even her ankle, the kind of pain that is stronger and more deadly than any physical pain can ever be, the pain of loss. The feeling lingered in her chest clawing from the inside for a way out, she wanted to scream, but the same pain pushed on her chest so hard that she had no breath to scream, for a moment more, that creature stayed in her chest and then decided to move up to her throat. The screaming thing in her throat blocked of all the air as it choked Amelia from the inside until it finally let go transforming itself into liquid form spilling out over young mother's cheeks as two silent streams of burning tears.
"Amelia!" came a scream from the direction of the house. A man with a torch was running through the meadow "Amelia! Where are you!?"
"Raymond!" she finally screamed letting out all the pain she was feeling.
"Amelia!" the man was now kneeling beside his wife "good heavens what happened here?" he sounded horrified
"Hikari, she's…" Amelia never finished that sentence as she fell lifeless into her husbands arms.
