Colors of all sorts wiped about her, her arms flailing about her. She tried to scream but no matter how she pushed her longs trying to make the sound escape her she could not hear a note.
The rapid speed she had been going began to slow until the next thing she knew her feet had been firmly planted back onto damp soil. From above she heard someone whistling a tune.
Kit gazed about her surroundings noticing the wooden planks weakening and allowing bits of dirt to seep through cracks. Trickles of clear water ran down the sides from what she figured was an underground stream.
"Is anyone up there?" Kit shouted loudly and had to plug her ears to prevent an eardrum from bursting.
"Yup, is anyone down there?" The voice sounded cool and unafraid.
"Well duh! How else would you be talking to another being!"
"Well you never know." Jake pierd over the edge his brown hair flopping over his wide smiling face.
Kit gazed upon him for a moment, this was the first time she had seen him face to face. She noticed he to had the dog ears atop his head, seeing this brought her joy although why she couldn't figure out.
"Mind giving me a hand out?"
"Well just climb, after all it's not that steep."
"So? It'd still be easier to have like a vine thrown down to me!"
"Or you could jump!"
"I can't jump that high?"
"Okay it's more of a spring but give it ago." Kit looked at him as if he were a loon but decided to give it ago anyway. So with that she lowered herself and kicked off, thus zooming her upward.
"That was fun!"
"Never done it like that but I s'pose it would be."
Kit glared at him with a question floating in her mind just as a balloon would.
"So Kit what you wanna do?"
"I don't know."
"How about meet your parents?"
Kit's head flow sideways to stare him in the eyes. Her own eyes widened as big as a baseball.
"T-they're still around?"
"Well duh! Demons live longer then humans plus it takes for ever for us to lose our youthful looks." Jake stroked back his hair and made a pouty face.
"You actually know my parents?"
"Oh yeah! I told them you'd be coming back."
Kit stares at him, her mind racing with loads of questions she'd like to ask him. She looks over every question trying to find the more important one, her search is however interrupted by Jacob's voice.
"So, got any questions?"
"yeah, tons!"
"Well get to askin'!"
"what are…."
"your parents like? They're really kind."
"I thought…"
"Demons were evil? Not all are."
"Oh."
Jake looked at Kit waiting for her to through out more questions, but instead she remained silent and looked at the ground.
"You ok?"
"Yah, just nervous I guess."
"Don't be. Anywho lets go!"
Jake began to walk toward a dirt path. His footprints still fresh in the dirt. Kit watches him walk and sees him glance back from the corner of his eye. When he realizes she noticed he instantly turned his gaze back to the path.
"You'll really like your parents. At least I think you will?"
"Why should I? They didn't come looking' for me?"
Jake stopped and turned around and looked at her his eyes filled with sympathy, but at the same time frustration.
"It's not exactly their fault, plus they heard about your capture and never imagined you'd return to them."
"I was only asleep!"
"Yeah but that shrine progressed through the ages and the time we live in remained in the past."
"Yeah.. So!"
Jacob shook his head and continued along the path. His sandals left new marks upon the ground near the already existing ones but not over them.
"I'm sorry Jake…"
He stopped and turned to her once again.
"It's ok, it's not your fault."
Kit shrugged and kept her gaze on the dirt path. She glanced up from time to time when she heard a noise. She could hear a chuckle from Jake ahead of her.
"What?!"
"A bit jumpy are we?"
"Well… No!"
"O.K."
She glared at him evilly at him. Kit looked up at the sky and at the birds flying through it. As she looked around she saw many trees and nests in them. Kit's eyes bobbed around her surroundings as the walked. The path quickly turned to a gravel path and her thin shoes didn't seem to protect her feet from the shooting pain of the rocks beneath them.
"Ouch!"
"Wanna trade shoes?"
Kit glances to the sandals on his feet that look to be much thiner.
"Umm, no thanks."
"Okay."
They continue to walk on, when suddenly a large man jumps out from behind the bushes.
"Well 'ello there everyone! Jake you've got yourself a pretty little lady here!"
"So? I know she's pretty, you know she's pretty, what's your point?"
"My point is, she'll be comin' home with me!"
Kit looked at the man quickly, his black blue overcoat ruffled as he seemed to leap at her. His circular sun glasses shimmered as he flew into the new angle and a slight smirk appeard on his dusty face.
"Well go ahead and take her then, I don't care."
"What! Jake what are you saying!"
As Kit's eyes widened she glared at him and her jaw dropped. Just then she felt the man grab around her waist and before she knew it she had been flung onto his shoulders and he was racing away. Kit looked back to Jacob, a wide grin on his face his left hand in his pocket the other waving good-bye to the two of them.
"GGGRRR!!!!"
Kit felt the anger balling up in her and she began to kick furiously.
"Let me down!"
"Why? I've got myself a pretty woman, wouldn't want to hurt her."
"I don't mind hurting you!"
As her anger at Jacob for letting this stranger in a bizarre world take her worked her way to her fist she realized what was going to happen and prepared for it. A flash of light shot from her fist and there, appeared the blade of silver and gold, jewels in the handle and her named engraved above her fist.
The man dropped her to the ground instantly and she stood as quickly as she could bring herself to her feet. She spread her legs apart and held the blade in front of her a glare in her now red eyes. Her once purple hair had for the first time turned red, along with the rest of her hair. The tips all around were deep red and slowly turned to white near her scalp.
"Oh my god!"
The man turned in terror and began to pull from his belt his own sword. But something had taken Kit's body over and instantly swiped across the back of his hand. His blood began to draw and slowly seeped out of the cut. He quickly pulled away from his belt and placed his hands in the air.
"I told you to put me down! And I meant gently!"
"I'm sorry, please forgive me!"
Her eyes narrowed and she lowered her sword to her side.
"who are you anyway to be just picking me up and carrying me off!"
A smile formed on his face now sweating and wiping his face off with a rag from his pocket.
"I'm hurt that you don't remember me!"
Kit's eyebrow raised and her own face she had realized had begun to sweat also.
"Remember you?"
"Yeah! You'd think one would remember her own father!"
For the second time today her jaw dropped to her feet and her eyes widened.
"You're my real father?!"
"Yep, and this is your mother."
Another figure stepped out from behind the bushes and trees lining the gravel path. Her figure was a slender one, her hair turquoise and her eyes purple.
"Hey dear, sorry about all this."
Jacob came walking down the path still smiling his wide smile.
"Kit this is you're father Akiro and your mother Ayame."
"Mom…Dad?!"
"That's us dear."
Kits mother joined Jacob in a wide grin and was soon followed by her husband.
"Now let's get you home so we can have dinner and you can ask your questions about your history."
Kit nodded and began to follow the three of them off the path and for a long while among the bushes and trees and thistles, until they cam upon a clearing.
"So this is home?'
"Yep, this is where you would have grown up, had your mother been watching you."
Ayame gave him the stink eye then opend the door for all of them.
"So dear what would you like to know?"
"Am I a full demon?"
"Yep, and proud too!"
"How can that be? I mean Jake told me about Kagome being human, and Inu-Yasha being half demon?"
"Kagome and Inu-Yasha went their separate ways after collecting the shard and Inu-Yasha married a wolf demon. They together had your mother and we had you."
Kit nodded her head this making sense. She looked around the cabin and saw the fireplace was raging and a few chairs were scattered about the room, and 5 around the table in the center of the room.
She turned her eyes and saw two hallways leading back to what she figured to be the bedrooms and hopefully a bathroom.
"So honey have anymore questions?"
"Not right now…."
"Okay then, that's eat!"
Akiro turned and walked to a cabinet and pulled out plates and utensils and 5 glasses. Ayame began to cook some stew over the flame and Jacob had gone to help Kits father set the table.
For the first time she noticed her father had a tail trailing from his back end and a cresent moon upon his forehead. But when she glanced to her mother she had neither the tail nor the moon, but instead had Kits ears and her facial features (though really Kit had Ayame's).
Soon the stew was set on the table and food was quickly dished out to everyone.
"So Kit Jake has told us you have a crush in school?"
"Umm, yeah I do."
"You know I don't think you should date yet. After all I need to catch up to my little girl before she can date."
Akiro smiled at her as he shoveled food into his mouth.
"No worries dad, there's nothing' between us."
"Oh Kit don't listen to him. But if I'm not mistaken you and Jake make a cute little demonic couple!"
Jake looks up from his food as he opens his mouth to put a bit of meat into it. As he chews his food he gives kit a little smile and a wink.
"I.. Umm… Right."
The rest of the evening was spent discussing her treatment with her other parents, and what human school was like.
"You know Kit you'll have to come here to learn how to weild your sword. Though today it seemed you could do quite well?"
"I don't know what happened but something just took me over and… I, just swung. I'm sorry about cutting you."
"Oh it's nothing see."
He puts his hand up for her to see and it had already vanished.
"Wow, how'd that happen?!"
"It's a part of being demon Kit we heal easily and quickly."
"Oh…."
The group finished they're meals and moved onto dessert, then began to say good-byes,
"Bye mom, bye dad. I'll come over tomorrow and I'll find out if I can spend the weekend with you guys."
"Okay Kit make sure you tell the humans about you're real family!"
"I will."
Kit and Jake waved good-bye and began they're way back to the well. It didn't seem to take as long to get to it as it had to leave it but soon the well appeared into sight and not to long after they were standing beside it.
"Well Kit, see you tomorrow?"
"Yep I think you will."
Jacob leaned forward and tried to give her a kiss but Kit moved back and jumped into the well quickly to avoid it.
The colors swirled around her again but she didn't fight or flail her arms as she had done earlier. She soon emerged from the well and walked back to her house.
Once she had reached it she crept inside and found her parents. Kit told them of the going's on and explained why she needed to go there for the weekend.
"Well dear, I suppose sense you found them it'd be ok… But you will come back to us right?"
"Of course mom! They may be my genetic parents but you will always be my true parents."
And with that she gave them a hug and walked upstairs to her room, where she changed her clothing into her pajama's. Kit crawled into bed and covered herself with her blankets. Before long she had slipped into her dreams again. And they too were filled with demons and Jake's kiss.
