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Chapter 5: Guilty by Association"That's the one that caused all this destruction!" an old woman pointed at Mikomi's back. Mikomi was picking up her stuff by the well. Rekka was only a little ways away. "Get it!"
"Kill the demon!" angry voices shouted. They loosed their arrows, but Mikomi had turned around and was avoiding them, by spinning Tetsusaiga around.
"What is your problem?" Mikomi yelled angrily at them.
"You're guilty! You shall die! Kill the demon!" the villagers, cried.
"Leave me alone! I've done nothing to deserve this!" Mikomi yelled her eyes wide.
"You were born!" another townsman yelled.
"Rekka!" Mikomi yelled in fright, as the angry mob advanced. Rekka was there in a split second.
"Who are you?" Rekka glared at the mob.
"Kill them both!" yelled an old lady.
"Rekka…" Mikomi gulped and stood with her back to him, the Tetsusaiga ready.
"Stay close, Mikomi," Rekka replied. The mob threw anti-demon spells at them! Rekka screamed in pain.
Mikomi didn't even flinch, "You leave him alone!" She screamed in anger as all the spells flew off her angry form, and she placed a hand on Rekka, and the same happened to him. "How dare you! How dare you treat people with such malice, hatred, and anger! You have no respect for anyone! I place a spell on all of you! You will only be able to attack when evil is near, and then, only the evil can be attacked! You will welcome all the good travelers to your door and be polite to them unless they steal or cheat you!"
"You can't place such a spell!" one of the women in the mob hissed.
"I'm half miko! I have all the power I need!" Mikomi replied back angrily.
"Mikomi…" Rekka stared at the girl in surprise.
"You dared to hurt one of my friends, and you dared to try and hurt me!" Mikomi glared, "I find you people disgusting, and you should be glad I'm not Sesshoumaru!"
"Sesshoumaru!" the people screamed and forced a child into her arms and they ran away. Mikomi looked down and saw the scared young girl cry. "How dare you frighten this child!" Mikomi's rage was growing stronger. Mikomi reached down and hugged the young girl, "Nothing will happen to you, I promise."
"Demon lady… you're not going to eat me?" the young girl trembled.
"No, and I'm a girl like yourself, only I'm half-demon, and I could never hurt a child, unless they were evil. I can tell you are pure and true. Why did they throw you at me?"
"To appease you, so you wouldn't tell Sesshoumaru how they treated you," the girl cried.
Mikomi rocked the girl so gently, that Rekka was in shock. Mikomi had just been in a rage of anger and when she saw that girl-child, her heart turned to mush! "They all fear him."
"Well, I don't fear my ill-mannered half-Uncle at all. He's my enemy, as he was my father's. I will never let him hurt you." Mikomi hugged the girl and smiled at her. "The spell doesn't affect those with a pure heart, and so it won't affect you. Would you like to go back to your family, now?"
"Huh?" Rekka and the girl-child blinked.
"What?" Mikomi asked.
"They would kill me if I went back! They were going to anyways, because my family was slaughtered by a demon that looked a lot like you. I think it was a male demon," the girl-child looked up at Mikomi with tear filled eyes.
"Then you don't have to go back, you can stay with me until I can find you a place that's safe enough for you to stay," Mikomi smiled at the little girl. "I'm Mikomi, and that's Rekka."
"I'm Tora," the little girl smiled. "Thank you for not hurting me…"
"Hey, don't worry about it, okay kid. Just don't get too attached to me, I'm afraid of what might happen to Rekka, and if you became my friend, I'd be responsible to protect you too."
"Protect me?" Rekka scoffed.
"That's what friends do, right friend Mikomi?" Tora asked.
"Yeah, that's right, kiddo," Mikomi smiled at the redheaded girl.
"I don't need your protection," Rekka muttered.
"Maybe you don't; but I'm going to try, whether you like it or not," Mikomi stared into his eyes.
"They must have thought one of you two were Sesshoumaru, because you do sort-of look like him…" Tora cocked her head to one side.
"I look nothing like that two bit… annoying… pain in my… well, anyways, I look nothing like him. I look like my mother, and my father," Mikomi smiled. "I bet you do too."
"Yeah, I did," Tora looked at the ground.
"Hey, my parents were killed too," Mikomi smiled at Tora, picked her up and put her on her back. She put Tetsusaiga away and gathered her things.
"Where are we going?" Tora asked.
"With Rekka," Mikomi smiled at Rekka's frown. "Can you fly?"
"Humph!" Rekka took off and flew quickly, only to find Mikomi in the air, and she was next to him in a second.
