(AN:)
[start note]
Hay-lo again! So, you have reached chapter one, GOOD FOR YOU! You get a
cookie. No wait.::eats cookie:: IT'S MINE I TELL YOU! MINE! ::ahem::
Before I become my evil insane self over a simple little cookie, let me congratulate you.on.. um.whatever that you did.O.o Nevermind. I like making authors notes.. this is fun. It passes time. Anyway, if you haven't noticed, I have reversified the script into a story, as I stated in the last note.
::turns radio up:: ooo, I like this song. ::starts running around room:: I wish I had a guitar..I did...I sold it to buy a video game T.T It's official.I'm pathetic. Well..
Mikomi Omaesan Enjoi! [end note]
Chapter One: A Destroyed Past
They continue along the path, and are in Yumi Valley. Shippou begins hopping up and down as he usually does to get someone's attention. "I'm hungry. When are we going to stop and eat?" he whines. "As soon as we come to a village and get the money to buy us some food, unfortunately." ::sweat drop:: InuYasha yawns, and takes a big whiff of the cold air. He stops walking, and begins to sniff around. "I smell cat! Where is it?" As they usually do when InuYasha states something of no importance, they keep walking and ignore him.
Along the path, there is a small waterfall emptying itself into a small pond, of hot water. It is surrounded by vines of ivy, and looks as a dream. Bushes are the barricade between it, and the forest.
"Yay! Hot Spring! I'm going in first!" yells Shippou as he makes his way towards the pond. Suddenly, a small, but, suspicious growling comes from the bushes off to the side. They begin to rustle, causing Shippou to run and hide. Unfortunately, he ends up on top of InuYasha's head. "Do you mind?" InuYasha says in a perturbed voice. "Well sorry if I'm a little spooked" snaps back Shippou in a shaky voice. Miroku puts himself in front of Kagome, protecting her. "Stay behind me." he tells her. InuYasha yawns sarcastically. "Of course, be my guest, Take all of the glory and be the star. Typical."
An odd creature emerges from the bushes. It's eyes glow of a yellowish amber tone. Taken as a wolf figure, but oddly enough, with cabbit- like ears, and tiger stripes of black along white fur. Long and sleek like a tiger, it crouches down, slowly examining the intruders of its territory.
Kagome states that it looks like a wolf. InuYasha also announces what he said earlier; he smelled a cat. Miroku begins to whip out his wind tunnel, but only to cause an intrusion, a young girl runs out from the bushes. "Noooooooooooooo!" she yells and runs towards him. She falls onto Miroku; he falls backwards onto the ground, knocking over Kagome onto InuYasha, which stands his ground.
(AN: reminds me of dominoes)
The girl gets up, and strays over to the TigerWolf, which prowls in front of her in a 'ready to attack' stance. The girl whispers something to it, and the TigerWolf returns to its position behind her.
"What's the deal here?" InuYasha stubbornly says. A few seconds later, "And who might you be young lady?" Miroku asks the young girl who fell upon him just moments ago.
"I'm Lima. I'm deeply sorry for this. I should be more careful, and make sure my sister doesn't jump to conclusions, like she usually does. She is very protective." she is interrupted by Shippou. "She's your.sister?"
"Yes, it's odd isn't it? She is three-fourths demon, when I'm only one. You see, my mother was three fourths demon as well, and my father, he was a full fledged human, but practiced magic and managed a shrine."
Kagome introduces herself. "I'm Kagome. So, how old are you? You look familiar." "I'm sixteen, turning seventeen in about a month. Yes, I know, me being short is often misleading. Oh, this is Mouko, she is twenty-five."
Mouko finally speaks, to everyone's amazement, except Limas. "Are you sure we can trust these people? If you feel alright with it, I'm going to go on and head home without you. You know how you are with most outsiders."
InuYasha steps forward, "I'll show you outsider." Kagome yells out the usually command of SIT! InuYasha is pummeled to the ground. "I wish you would stop that."
Lima stands there, staring at them. ::sweat drop:: She turns to her sister. "I think I'll be fine. I'll bring them to the inn." Mouko nods and runs back into the forest, and they lose sight of her.
"So, you live in the forest?" asks Kagome, just looking for answers about this new girl before them. "My grandmother owns an inn not too far from here. It's being passed down to me considering her old age, and my sister, she'll scare the visitors." Lima smiles. Kagome now begins to remember why Lima seems so familiar, as well as her name. "You're the girl from that flyer, out by the fork in the road, right?" "Why yes, I am. Not many people notice that posted there. They eventually just wander here. Actually, the Gensing River meets up along the Yumi Valley path, just a ways from here. So it doesn't matter what path you take, you end up in the same place. Shall I show you the way to the inn?" Shippou tugs on her pant leg. "Is there food?" "Yes." Shippou begins running in circles. "Then what are we waiting for? I'm starved!" Miroku taps Shippou on the head with his staff, and walks up to Lima. "I suspect there are bedrooms?" "Yes, it's an inn, what do you suspect?" Miroku has a perverted look on his face.
(AN: Doesn't he always? ^-^*)
Lima snaps back at him. "If you are expecting a night with my sister, she wouldn't even take a second glance at you." Miroku stares at her surprise at the attitude she has. "Plus, she is engaged." Kagome interrupts before Miroku can get a word out. "She is?" "Yea, to some guy that stopped in one day, and ended up staying for about a year. They fell in love, happily ever after, that sorta thing. I don't too much into that stuff like I use to." Miroku butts into the conversation between Kagome and Lima about her sister, only to change the subject. "Ok then, how about you? I can't just stand here and wonder, I must ask you.." Lima just looks at him and begins to stutter at not knowing what to say. "Uh.I.um," she takes a step back and begins to lightly blush, "I'm single.why? What do you want?" There was a short minute of silence. "Don't answer that question.." She turns away from Miroku back to Kagome, her newfound friend. "I'm sorry, I only know your name, who are the others?" Kagome looks over at InuYasha. "That's InuYasha. Beware of him, he can be a real pain and is very stubborn." InuYasha just glances over at them and rolls his eyes. Shippou tugs on Limas pant leg again. "I'm Shippou." Miroku grabs Limas hand, and kisses it lightly. "I'm Miroku." Lima's eyes begin to give the expression that she is annoyed, but isn't surprised. ::sweat drop:: "That explains a lot." Miroku lets her hand go. "So, you've heard of me?" "Why yes I have, from the travelers that stop at the inn." "What have they told you?" "You are a perverted backstabbing monk." InuYasha says something in the background. "They speak the truth!" Lima continues what she was saying. "Don't touch me. I'm keeping my eye on you." Miroku responds with a slight grin. "Oh really?" "Don't get any ideas, you just stay away from my sister. You obviously don't know about me do you?" "What is there that I should know?" "That's for me to know and for you to find out." Lima winks at him teasingly. Miroku lightly blushes at her odd response.
(AN: Lima uses that line a lot throughout the story. Just wanted to point that out)
Shippou is sitting above in a tree, looking down on the group. "Can we get going? I'm tired of sitting here." He jumps down and finishes his sentence. "and I'm still hungry." They all look at Lima. "Follow me. Sorry to keep you all waiting." She runs down the path ahead of them. InuYasha says sarcastically, "Well, it's about time we got moving!" They all begin to follow her down the shady path. When she comes to a stop, it is nearly dusk. Lima says turns to them, with the inn behind her. "This is it. Let me go tell my grandmother that we have visitors. I'll be right back." She goes off toward the in, and opens the door slowly. She peeks inside. There is a short while of silence, and then she waves back at the other to come inside.
Kagome walks inside amazed at how big the inn is. The living room has a small table in the center, with a vibrantly designed rug sprawled out on the floor. Small chairs surround the table. To the right of them, close to a fairly large window, is a raised table, with a series of chairs around it as well. This is obviously the kitchen. Just off to the side near the living room is a staircase leading upstairs, where there is a corridor of doors, and there is railing along the side, which looks down onto the living room. "Wow.this place is nice." An elderly old woman, shaky and holding onto her cane as she walks, comes toward them. "Just call me Grandmother Kisaki, and why thank you. Who might you be?" "Kagome." Lima interrupts this small conversation before her grandmother engages onto one her long stories. "Grandmother, you remember the monk that young traveler told us about?" "Yes my dear. Why must you bring up such a story when we have visitors?" Lima coughs. "Um, he is one of the visitors I'm afraid." Miroku turns around toward the two from gazing at the inn. "Has someone mentioned me?" Grandmother Kisaki raises her cane, almost poking him in the face. "What have you bestowed upon my faithful granddaughter you man hoe? Speak now or forever hold you peace!" Miroku stares at the grandmother in puzzlement. Lima pulls back her grandmother and places her back in her rocking chair in the living room in front of a fireplace, which is lit. "Grandmother, please. He doesn't seem as bad as what we have heard. Trust me. I can fend for myself now." "If you say so Lima. Now, where is Mouko?" "She's probably with Suyo somewhere. You know those two, always together." Kagome over hears and asks, "Who is Suyo?" Lima turns and looks at her, and walks back to the others. "Oh, Suyo is her partner I mentioned." Grandmother Kisaki tells Lima to show them to their rooms and to then prepare dinner. "Yes m'am." She looks at the others and nods, as she begins to head up the stairs. The first door on the right has a sign on it: 'Keep Out! Lima's Territory' Lima opens the door. "Kagome, you can stay in my room." "You didn't really have to." "Don't worry about it. I'm fine with staying downstairs anyway." Lima smiles. "Alright, if you say so." Kagome walks into the room, and shuts the door, and looks around, learning more about Lima at everything she sees on the wall.
Lima makes way down the corridor, passing two doors, and then stops to another door to the right. She opens it. "Shippou and InuYasha, you guys stay in here for the night." Shippou runs in there. "Yippee! I get a roommate!" He turns around and peeks from behind the door after InuYasha walks in annoyed with the fact he has to stay with an annoying little runt. "But Lima.can't I stay downstairs with you?" Lima bends down and looks at Shippou. "I would prefer you to stay in here with InuYasha. Is that okay with you?" "I guess." Shippou turns around and mopes back in the room.
When Lima goes to stand up, Miroku makes a disturbing gesture.
(AN: And we can all guess what that is. ::mutters 'what a sick pervert he is'::)
Lima glances at him over her shoulder, and turns around only to slap him across the face. Therefore, now there is a red mark on his face, which disappears after a few seconds. "One more time and I'll throw you over this railing!" Miroku looks over the railing to the downstairs. Lima explains to him, "Yes, I know. It's a long drop. Now, this way to your room." Miroku follows her, as she opens the door to the room at the far end of the corridor, which the end wall has double doors leading to a balcony leading to the outside. She opens the door to her left. "As for you, you will be staying here." Miroku glances inside. There is a queen size bed in all of the rooms. Miroku passes at her, "Are you going to stay in here with me?" "Not a chance! I'm not even going to tell you where I'm sleeping at the thought of what you're capable of. I'm not some skank you just pick up from anywhere you know." "You don't know the half of it." Miroku clutches her hands. "Why must you deny me so? I'm just looking for someone's heart to love, and you have set a perfect example of what I'm set out for." Lima just stares up at him, and then at where he has her hands grasped in his. She jerks her hands free, and looks down. "I deny you.because I'm afraid of a relationship with someone. You don't know me, you wouldn't understand." Lima walks down the hall, slowly making her way into a sprint. Miroku begins to think to himself. 'Maybe if I talk to her, I can get the pleasure I'm looking for, but, why does she seem so upset?'
Miroku walks out of the room, shuts the door, and follows Lima down the stairs. Lima stops to speak with her grandmother. "I'm going to take a step outside. I'll be back in about an hour." "Be careful this time. This is the first time you have ventured out on your own without Mouko." "I'll be fine." Lima grabs her jacket, and walks outside, and begins to run out of sight. Right after her grandmother loses sight of her from the door, Miroku reaches downstairs. She turns around and looks up at him. "You are wondering what she is upset about, aren't you?" Miroku nods to the old woman's question. "I'll let you in on her little secret. Pull up a chair, this will take awhile." Suddenly, a slight fog forms, as if going back into a flashback.
"When Lima was a young girl, when she was about fourteen, she fell in love with a young boy." A picture of a young Lima appears, standing at the door, holding a dust cloth, when a young boy around her age walks in, and spots her. He has dark hair, and is taller than her. She looks down and lightly blushes. "His name was Naraku, so he said. He stayed for a long while, and looked to have an eye for her." There is now an image of Lima and Naraku sitting on the floor in front of the fire, with his arm around her, whispering things into her ear, and then her laughing. Then she rested her head on his shoulder. "After about a month, he left a note on her bedroom door." Lima is picking up a note, and reading is, recalling some of what it says. She says "I'm sorry my love.it has been nice to be with you." she smiles and continues. "This makes my life all more the bearable. I'm deeply sorry for the pain I may be causing you, but this relationship must come to an end." Lima drops the note, and tears begin to fill her eyes. When the note reaches the floor, she is running out of her room in tears. She runs outside onto the path, and sees no sign of Naraku. She falls to her knees, still in tears.
The picture slightly switches to Lima now, she is running through the forest, swatting at branches out of her way, and her eyes enveloped in tears.
The grandmother speaks again. "She went into an emotional breakdown. She became someone different from the Lima we all knew and loved so dearly." Her grandmother offers the young Lima some food, but Lima just pushes it away, and turns her head. Mouko is talking to her in her room, and Lima just doesn't say anything, and has her head hung down. A small tear runs down her cheek. "She actually just started speaking less than a year ago. Now, she has made a vow to herself." Lima is outside on the balcony on the second floor looking out. She is muttering to herself. "I don't want to experience this pain any longer." Lima has a knife clutched in her hand. She lifts it up..but the drops it. "I just can't do it!" She begins to go hysterical. She leans over the balcony rail, looking down on the path in front of the inn. "From this day forward, I will never love again." The flashback fades away, and is now back at the scene of Miroku and the grandmother speaking at the table. "Now have meeting you, and the way you have been.how do you young ones say nowadays, 'hitting' on her, makes her afraid to even liking someone. She is scared of having feelings for anyone. I don't want her to end up in the wrong hands, she is a very sweet and intelligent girl, but very naïve. This is why her sister goes with her. Mouko has a sense.I guess, if someone is good or evil. Unfortunately, she didn't feel anything toward Naraku, he was blocking he senses." Miroku goes to stand up, but the old woman continues to speak with him. "There is something else you should know about my Lima. She.is unique. She has.powers in other words. She can create thunderstorms out of nowhere, and move things just by looking at them. If any evil source overpowers her pure heart, she can destroy anything and anyone that crosses her path. I wouldn't try to make her mad if I were you. I get the feeling you respect her now by what I have told you." Miroku nods to this fact. "Now, go find her. We don't want her to swallow herself up in self-pity. I don't want her to attempt killing herself once more from the pain it has gotten to such a large extent. Go, quickly!" Miroku runs out of the door. Grandmother Kisaki directs him in the way in which she ran off, and told him of a clearing by a mountain ledge where Lima often goes to try and sort her thoughts out.
Kagome is peeking out the edge of the door, looking downstairs. She heard the whole conversation. "Poor Lima." she mutters. InuYasha and Shippou are looking out of their door as well.
Before I become my evil insane self over a simple little cookie, let me congratulate you.on.. um.whatever that you did.O.o Nevermind. I like making authors notes.. this is fun. It passes time. Anyway, if you haven't noticed, I have reversified the script into a story, as I stated in the last note.
::turns radio up:: ooo, I like this song. ::starts running around room:: I wish I had a guitar..I did...I sold it to buy a video game T.T It's official.I'm pathetic. Well..
Mikomi Omaesan Enjoi! [end note]
Chapter One: A Destroyed Past
They continue along the path, and are in Yumi Valley. Shippou begins hopping up and down as he usually does to get someone's attention. "I'm hungry. When are we going to stop and eat?" he whines. "As soon as we come to a village and get the money to buy us some food, unfortunately." ::sweat drop:: InuYasha yawns, and takes a big whiff of the cold air. He stops walking, and begins to sniff around. "I smell cat! Where is it?" As they usually do when InuYasha states something of no importance, they keep walking and ignore him.
Along the path, there is a small waterfall emptying itself into a small pond, of hot water. It is surrounded by vines of ivy, and looks as a dream. Bushes are the barricade between it, and the forest.
"Yay! Hot Spring! I'm going in first!" yells Shippou as he makes his way towards the pond. Suddenly, a small, but, suspicious growling comes from the bushes off to the side. They begin to rustle, causing Shippou to run and hide. Unfortunately, he ends up on top of InuYasha's head. "Do you mind?" InuYasha says in a perturbed voice. "Well sorry if I'm a little spooked" snaps back Shippou in a shaky voice. Miroku puts himself in front of Kagome, protecting her. "Stay behind me." he tells her. InuYasha yawns sarcastically. "Of course, be my guest, Take all of the glory and be the star. Typical."
An odd creature emerges from the bushes. It's eyes glow of a yellowish amber tone. Taken as a wolf figure, but oddly enough, with cabbit- like ears, and tiger stripes of black along white fur. Long and sleek like a tiger, it crouches down, slowly examining the intruders of its territory.
Kagome states that it looks like a wolf. InuYasha also announces what he said earlier; he smelled a cat. Miroku begins to whip out his wind tunnel, but only to cause an intrusion, a young girl runs out from the bushes. "Noooooooooooooo!" she yells and runs towards him. She falls onto Miroku; he falls backwards onto the ground, knocking over Kagome onto InuYasha, which stands his ground.
(AN: reminds me of dominoes)
The girl gets up, and strays over to the TigerWolf, which prowls in front of her in a 'ready to attack' stance. The girl whispers something to it, and the TigerWolf returns to its position behind her.
"What's the deal here?" InuYasha stubbornly says. A few seconds later, "And who might you be young lady?" Miroku asks the young girl who fell upon him just moments ago.
"I'm Lima. I'm deeply sorry for this. I should be more careful, and make sure my sister doesn't jump to conclusions, like she usually does. She is very protective." she is interrupted by Shippou. "She's your.sister?"
"Yes, it's odd isn't it? She is three-fourths demon, when I'm only one. You see, my mother was three fourths demon as well, and my father, he was a full fledged human, but practiced magic and managed a shrine."
Kagome introduces herself. "I'm Kagome. So, how old are you? You look familiar." "I'm sixteen, turning seventeen in about a month. Yes, I know, me being short is often misleading. Oh, this is Mouko, she is twenty-five."
Mouko finally speaks, to everyone's amazement, except Limas. "Are you sure we can trust these people? If you feel alright with it, I'm going to go on and head home without you. You know how you are with most outsiders."
InuYasha steps forward, "I'll show you outsider." Kagome yells out the usually command of SIT! InuYasha is pummeled to the ground. "I wish you would stop that."
Lima stands there, staring at them. ::sweat drop:: She turns to her sister. "I think I'll be fine. I'll bring them to the inn." Mouko nods and runs back into the forest, and they lose sight of her.
"So, you live in the forest?" asks Kagome, just looking for answers about this new girl before them. "My grandmother owns an inn not too far from here. It's being passed down to me considering her old age, and my sister, she'll scare the visitors." Lima smiles. Kagome now begins to remember why Lima seems so familiar, as well as her name. "You're the girl from that flyer, out by the fork in the road, right?" "Why yes, I am. Not many people notice that posted there. They eventually just wander here. Actually, the Gensing River meets up along the Yumi Valley path, just a ways from here. So it doesn't matter what path you take, you end up in the same place. Shall I show you the way to the inn?" Shippou tugs on her pant leg. "Is there food?" "Yes." Shippou begins running in circles. "Then what are we waiting for? I'm starved!" Miroku taps Shippou on the head with his staff, and walks up to Lima. "I suspect there are bedrooms?" "Yes, it's an inn, what do you suspect?" Miroku has a perverted look on his face.
(AN: Doesn't he always? ^-^*)
Lima snaps back at him. "If you are expecting a night with my sister, she wouldn't even take a second glance at you." Miroku stares at her surprise at the attitude she has. "Plus, she is engaged." Kagome interrupts before Miroku can get a word out. "She is?" "Yea, to some guy that stopped in one day, and ended up staying for about a year. They fell in love, happily ever after, that sorta thing. I don't too much into that stuff like I use to." Miroku butts into the conversation between Kagome and Lima about her sister, only to change the subject. "Ok then, how about you? I can't just stand here and wonder, I must ask you.." Lima just looks at him and begins to stutter at not knowing what to say. "Uh.I.um," she takes a step back and begins to lightly blush, "I'm single.why? What do you want?" There was a short minute of silence. "Don't answer that question.." She turns away from Miroku back to Kagome, her newfound friend. "I'm sorry, I only know your name, who are the others?" Kagome looks over at InuYasha. "That's InuYasha. Beware of him, he can be a real pain and is very stubborn." InuYasha just glances over at them and rolls his eyes. Shippou tugs on Limas pant leg again. "I'm Shippou." Miroku grabs Limas hand, and kisses it lightly. "I'm Miroku." Lima's eyes begin to give the expression that she is annoyed, but isn't surprised. ::sweat drop:: "That explains a lot." Miroku lets her hand go. "So, you've heard of me?" "Why yes I have, from the travelers that stop at the inn." "What have they told you?" "You are a perverted backstabbing monk." InuYasha says something in the background. "They speak the truth!" Lima continues what she was saying. "Don't touch me. I'm keeping my eye on you." Miroku responds with a slight grin. "Oh really?" "Don't get any ideas, you just stay away from my sister. You obviously don't know about me do you?" "What is there that I should know?" "That's for me to know and for you to find out." Lima winks at him teasingly. Miroku lightly blushes at her odd response.
(AN: Lima uses that line a lot throughout the story. Just wanted to point that out)
Shippou is sitting above in a tree, looking down on the group. "Can we get going? I'm tired of sitting here." He jumps down and finishes his sentence. "and I'm still hungry." They all look at Lima. "Follow me. Sorry to keep you all waiting." She runs down the path ahead of them. InuYasha says sarcastically, "Well, it's about time we got moving!" They all begin to follow her down the shady path. When she comes to a stop, it is nearly dusk. Lima says turns to them, with the inn behind her. "This is it. Let me go tell my grandmother that we have visitors. I'll be right back." She goes off toward the in, and opens the door slowly. She peeks inside. There is a short while of silence, and then she waves back at the other to come inside.
Kagome walks inside amazed at how big the inn is. The living room has a small table in the center, with a vibrantly designed rug sprawled out on the floor. Small chairs surround the table. To the right of them, close to a fairly large window, is a raised table, with a series of chairs around it as well. This is obviously the kitchen. Just off to the side near the living room is a staircase leading upstairs, where there is a corridor of doors, and there is railing along the side, which looks down onto the living room. "Wow.this place is nice." An elderly old woman, shaky and holding onto her cane as she walks, comes toward them. "Just call me Grandmother Kisaki, and why thank you. Who might you be?" "Kagome." Lima interrupts this small conversation before her grandmother engages onto one her long stories. "Grandmother, you remember the monk that young traveler told us about?" "Yes my dear. Why must you bring up such a story when we have visitors?" Lima coughs. "Um, he is one of the visitors I'm afraid." Miroku turns around toward the two from gazing at the inn. "Has someone mentioned me?" Grandmother Kisaki raises her cane, almost poking him in the face. "What have you bestowed upon my faithful granddaughter you man hoe? Speak now or forever hold you peace!" Miroku stares at the grandmother in puzzlement. Lima pulls back her grandmother and places her back in her rocking chair in the living room in front of a fireplace, which is lit. "Grandmother, please. He doesn't seem as bad as what we have heard. Trust me. I can fend for myself now." "If you say so Lima. Now, where is Mouko?" "She's probably with Suyo somewhere. You know those two, always together." Kagome over hears and asks, "Who is Suyo?" Lima turns and looks at her, and walks back to the others. "Oh, Suyo is her partner I mentioned." Grandmother Kisaki tells Lima to show them to their rooms and to then prepare dinner. "Yes m'am." She looks at the others and nods, as she begins to head up the stairs. The first door on the right has a sign on it: 'Keep Out! Lima's Territory' Lima opens the door. "Kagome, you can stay in my room." "You didn't really have to." "Don't worry about it. I'm fine with staying downstairs anyway." Lima smiles. "Alright, if you say so." Kagome walks into the room, and shuts the door, and looks around, learning more about Lima at everything she sees on the wall.
Lima makes way down the corridor, passing two doors, and then stops to another door to the right. She opens it. "Shippou and InuYasha, you guys stay in here for the night." Shippou runs in there. "Yippee! I get a roommate!" He turns around and peeks from behind the door after InuYasha walks in annoyed with the fact he has to stay with an annoying little runt. "But Lima.can't I stay downstairs with you?" Lima bends down and looks at Shippou. "I would prefer you to stay in here with InuYasha. Is that okay with you?" "I guess." Shippou turns around and mopes back in the room.
When Lima goes to stand up, Miroku makes a disturbing gesture.
(AN: And we can all guess what that is. ::mutters 'what a sick pervert he is'::)
Lima glances at him over her shoulder, and turns around only to slap him across the face. Therefore, now there is a red mark on his face, which disappears after a few seconds. "One more time and I'll throw you over this railing!" Miroku looks over the railing to the downstairs. Lima explains to him, "Yes, I know. It's a long drop. Now, this way to your room." Miroku follows her, as she opens the door to the room at the far end of the corridor, which the end wall has double doors leading to a balcony leading to the outside. She opens the door to her left. "As for you, you will be staying here." Miroku glances inside. There is a queen size bed in all of the rooms. Miroku passes at her, "Are you going to stay in here with me?" "Not a chance! I'm not even going to tell you where I'm sleeping at the thought of what you're capable of. I'm not some skank you just pick up from anywhere you know." "You don't know the half of it." Miroku clutches her hands. "Why must you deny me so? I'm just looking for someone's heart to love, and you have set a perfect example of what I'm set out for." Lima just stares up at him, and then at where he has her hands grasped in his. She jerks her hands free, and looks down. "I deny you.because I'm afraid of a relationship with someone. You don't know me, you wouldn't understand." Lima walks down the hall, slowly making her way into a sprint. Miroku begins to think to himself. 'Maybe if I talk to her, I can get the pleasure I'm looking for, but, why does she seem so upset?'
Miroku walks out of the room, shuts the door, and follows Lima down the stairs. Lima stops to speak with her grandmother. "I'm going to take a step outside. I'll be back in about an hour." "Be careful this time. This is the first time you have ventured out on your own without Mouko." "I'll be fine." Lima grabs her jacket, and walks outside, and begins to run out of sight. Right after her grandmother loses sight of her from the door, Miroku reaches downstairs. She turns around and looks up at him. "You are wondering what she is upset about, aren't you?" Miroku nods to the old woman's question. "I'll let you in on her little secret. Pull up a chair, this will take awhile." Suddenly, a slight fog forms, as if going back into a flashback.
"When Lima was a young girl, when she was about fourteen, she fell in love with a young boy." A picture of a young Lima appears, standing at the door, holding a dust cloth, when a young boy around her age walks in, and spots her. He has dark hair, and is taller than her. She looks down and lightly blushes. "His name was Naraku, so he said. He stayed for a long while, and looked to have an eye for her." There is now an image of Lima and Naraku sitting on the floor in front of the fire, with his arm around her, whispering things into her ear, and then her laughing. Then she rested her head on his shoulder. "After about a month, he left a note on her bedroom door." Lima is picking up a note, and reading is, recalling some of what it says. She says "I'm sorry my love.it has been nice to be with you." she smiles and continues. "This makes my life all more the bearable. I'm deeply sorry for the pain I may be causing you, but this relationship must come to an end." Lima drops the note, and tears begin to fill her eyes. When the note reaches the floor, she is running out of her room in tears. She runs outside onto the path, and sees no sign of Naraku. She falls to her knees, still in tears.
The picture slightly switches to Lima now, she is running through the forest, swatting at branches out of her way, and her eyes enveloped in tears.
The grandmother speaks again. "She went into an emotional breakdown. She became someone different from the Lima we all knew and loved so dearly." Her grandmother offers the young Lima some food, but Lima just pushes it away, and turns her head. Mouko is talking to her in her room, and Lima just doesn't say anything, and has her head hung down. A small tear runs down her cheek. "She actually just started speaking less than a year ago. Now, she has made a vow to herself." Lima is outside on the balcony on the second floor looking out. She is muttering to herself. "I don't want to experience this pain any longer." Lima has a knife clutched in her hand. She lifts it up..but the drops it. "I just can't do it!" She begins to go hysterical. She leans over the balcony rail, looking down on the path in front of the inn. "From this day forward, I will never love again." The flashback fades away, and is now back at the scene of Miroku and the grandmother speaking at the table. "Now have meeting you, and the way you have been.how do you young ones say nowadays, 'hitting' on her, makes her afraid to even liking someone. She is scared of having feelings for anyone. I don't want her to end up in the wrong hands, she is a very sweet and intelligent girl, but very naïve. This is why her sister goes with her. Mouko has a sense.I guess, if someone is good or evil. Unfortunately, she didn't feel anything toward Naraku, he was blocking he senses." Miroku goes to stand up, but the old woman continues to speak with him. "There is something else you should know about my Lima. She.is unique. She has.powers in other words. She can create thunderstorms out of nowhere, and move things just by looking at them. If any evil source overpowers her pure heart, she can destroy anything and anyone that crosses her path. I wouldn't try to make her mad if I were you. I get the feeling you respect her now by what I have told you." Miroku nods to this fact. "Now, go find her. We don't want her to swallow herself up in self-pity. I don't want her to attempt killing herself once more from the pain it has gotten to such a large extent. Go, quickly!" Miroku runs out of the door. Grandmother Kisaki directs him in the way in which she ran off, and told him of a clearing by a mountain ledge where Lima often goes to try and sort her thoughts out.
Kagome is peeking out the edge of the door, looking downstairs. She heard the whole conversation. "Poor Lima." she mutters. InuYasha and Shippou are looking out of their door as well.