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Chapter 6: The Tree

            "Um, Rekka…" Mikomi tentatively touched his arm. They had arrived back at Miroku's house, and Tora was sleeping in Sanhi's room, along with Mikomi, if she felt like it. She had walked outside to talk to Rekka.

            "What?" Rekka grumbled.

            "I'm sorry if I've hurt your pride, not to mention you," Mikomi whispered softly.

            "…"

            "I'll leave you alone with your thoughts," Mikomi looked at him, and then walked away.

            "She's a lot like her mother," Shippo replied from the shadows.

            "I think she's like her father as well," Rekka replied and tried to find her scent. Her scent smelled of sakura blossoms and pine. She hadn't gone back inside… "I'm going for a walk, I'll be careful, and I'll watch out for her, father."

            As he flew off, looking for her, Shippo replied, "That is all that I could ask for."

            "Why am I walking?" Mikomi muttered, soon she found herself standing beside a giant tree! "Father's tree!" Mikomi bit her lip, fell down and began to cry. The arrow from when Kikyo pinned him was still there.

            A figure walked out of the shadows, Mikomi turned and saw… "Mother!"

            "Mikomi!" Rekka yelled and he quickly stepped in between Mikomi and the lady who looked exactly like her mother.

            "I guess tonight must be my lucky night! Two demons for the price of one!" the lady laughed.

            "You are not my mother…" Mikomi backed into the tree in fear. "You're Kikyo! The one that hurt my father's heart! Only mother fixed it, and not you! You are the same as my half-Uncle!"

            "Who are you? How do you know of Inuyasha and me?" Kikyo glared at her.

            "Umm, I'm… not important, I guess you should go ahead and kill me, then I'd be with my family," Mikomi gulped when she saw Rekka throw an angry glare back at her.

            "Not until you answer me!" Kikyo growled.

            "I owe you nothing," Mikomi replied softly.

            "YES YOU DO!" Kikyo roared. She let her arrow fly, and to her surprise, the girl ran into the arrow's path! Right in front of Rekka! Mikomi held out her hands and the arrow stopped and fell to the ground, no magic was left in it.

            "I owe you nothing, except to thank you for dyeing," Mikomi smiled knowingly.

            Kikyo blinked in surprise, "Inu…yasha?"

"Close, but then, you've never met me, Kikyo, but he told me all about you," Mikomi stared at Kikyo until the dead-priestess left the tree's clearing.

"Mikomi, why did you do that?"

She turned around to face Rekka; "Do what? I had to protect you before you ended up like my father did. Stuck to that old tree."

Mikomi fainted into Rekka's arms. "Even with her blood mixed, and her being powerful, she's still weak."