Cicada: I'm Baaaaack. I have finally updated. I had a horrible case of writers' block. Luckily I hired a minion to help me with that problem. His name is Minion. [a small… thing comes out of the shadows. It has the body of a cat with a unicorn horn and huge teeth. He also seems to have bat wings coming out of his back and chicken legs instead of hind legs.]

Minion: [stands upright and speaks in English accent] Allo chaps. My name is Minion. I work like a muse but for no money and little food. When my master here had made me she was having some troubles with her story. I suggested that with a new persona she would better able to bring out the potential of her story--

Cicada: which in normal people speech means add a character!

Minion: -_-' Indeed.

Cicada: So lets see if Minion was right shall we?

Koenma's Family Secret: Meet Anela

Anela Ishizaki sat in a chair near the window of their flat. It was another dreary rainy English day. Anela had always hated living in Europe. It seemed too, I don't know, restricted. She missed her New Zealand home. It was nearly always nice and sunny out. It was easy to forget the blazing hot days when you got stuck in rain a lot.

"Honey," said Auntie M, "why don't you go out and do something instead of moping by that window all day." Auntie M really worried about Anela. She was far to serious for a child her age. It wasn't normal. It was probably due to all of the moving that her mother was forced to do. But then again their family wasn't normal either.

Anela and her mother Manami were actually from a very long line of dog demons. They were possibly the only two left in the human world. Hundreds of years ago King Yamma decided to move all of the demons living on Earth to a new world created for the demons called Makai. Auntie M was actually a Sorceress that had helped Manami's father elude capture using a spell that made him appear human. Since the Spirit World organization was sure it had gotten all of the demons they didn't bother looking for demons still left in the world but instead for demons trying to get back to the human world using portals. Although they looked human thanks to Auntie M, no one in their "family" aged like humans and they were forced to move around a lot.

There was actually more on Anela's mind than moving that day however. Anela, unlike her mother, was actually half-human. Anela was extremely insecure about this and as a result often pushed her mother away. She felt that her mother only pretended to like her out of pity. It didn't help any that her mother had noble blood in her unlike her common illegitimate daughter. It also didn't help that her mother seemed to be so perfect and graceful and beautiful. Anela related a bit better to Auntie M but still kept her distance so as not to be hurt later on. Anela kept up a stone mask so as to appear as if nothing bothered her but early on she had decided that she would win the Dark Tournament and become a full demon She had started training since she was 24 years old which for a demon is very young. She was now 56 and felt that she would be able to participate in a few years assuming she wasn't caught training.

"Anela, did you hear me?" asked Auntie M. "You know your mother is planning on moving again soon. Why don't you do something while you still can?"

Anela turned her head slightly as she registered this new information. "Oh really? Where will we be going this time?" she asked with genuine curiosity.

"I thought your mother had told you," Auntie M said. We're moving back to Japan, where your mother was born."

Anela fingered her locket and said more to herself than anyone else, "Great. Let's hope this place will be better than the last one."

In Japan

Kagome sighed. This was the first weekend she had gotten off of Jewel Shard hunting is at least three months. Shard hunting was hard work but seeing as it was her fault she did have an obligation. Besides, it let her spend time with Inuyasha. She blushed and tried to not think about him but it was hard. I mean, sometimes he was such a jerk but then at other times—

Suddenly Kagome's thought was forcibly interrupted. She could feel a jewel shard very close. She turned her head a bunch of kids about her age across the street. It was definitely with one of them. Oddly enough she couldn't pinpoint its location. 'I suppose I should just ask them. I'll look like a nut for sure, but still.' She looked at each one trying to figure out which one had it. The greasy boy seemed sort of strange. So did the red haired one, and the black haired short one, and the tall ugly one; as did the blue haired girl and the black haired girl. Their entire group felt wrong. Her priestess powers were definitely telling her something was off and she could still feel the Jewel Shard as strongly as ever. She looked intently at the black haired girl again. She really reminded her of someone.

For only an instant where the black haired girl once stood was Sesshoumaru. Kagome gasped. This was bigger than a Jewel Shard she had to tell Inuyasha. She took off at top speed in the direction of the shrine and ultimately the well.