A So Called Family Reunion
Kunara's Castle
Forest
Mayuko and Goshin were going at it hard. Both were bleeding and cut pretty badly. "I told you that I was no ordinary hanyou. {half demon} Now surrender unless you want your head to be rolling around separately from your body." Mayuko threatened. She held her sword up at him and smirked. "Well, what is your decision?"
Goshin just gave a cackle and pushed away the sword. "Yeah right, like I'm going to surrender to a low-life half-breed such as yourself. That's where you are mistaking me." He smirked as he pulled out a knife from his leg and stabbed her in the back. "Now, bow down to me, or next time it'll be your heart."
"Like a puny little knife like that is going to make me bow down to you. Feh..." she winced in pain as she noticed the blood flowing to the ground. Her eyes glances to where Goshin's comrades once were and saw no one. She looked back at him and smirked. "Well, well, well. It looks as if your buddies have abandoned you."
When Goshin heard those words, he was furious. 'Why would they leave? They know I have the shards of the Shikon Jewel. Were they afraid of this weakling?' he thought. "Girl, you had better shut..." before he could finish his statement, Nakan had caught up and was sucking his soul out of him.
"What were you going to say? For her to shut up?" Nakan asked in a quiet monotone voice. "I think we both proved you wrong now didn't we?" she smirked and glanced up to Mayuko right in front of her.
"Na-Nakan!" Mayuko stammered, slowly starting to back away. She looked at the now empty shell of a body and saw a purple light coming from his shoes. 'What the heck is that?' she asked herself. She quickly ran over to the body and took off his shoes. Her head lifted as she felt Nakan's hand on her shoulder.
"Master Kunara demanded that I bring you home immediately. Come with me." Nakan said, tightening her grip. She smirked as she started heading back towards the castle, Mayuko in her grasp.
Mayuko pushed Nakan's hand away and glared at her. "I'm not going back to that prison! You can't make me go back there." She yelled, getting ready to run for it. "I'm going to find my REAL father, and nobody can stop me..." she said before holding onto Goshin's shoes tighter and started to run away.
Nakan showed no remorse or emotion. She just had a blank face on and headed back towards Kunara's castle. "You fool, even if you find your true father, Master Kunara is going to come after you." She quietly said. Her body seemed so disintegrate into the wind as she walked off.
Kunara's Castle
"Master Kunara, Mayuko has left. She said that she went to find her birth father. Are you going to go after her?" Nakan asked, now walking through the door.
"Her birth father you say? So, she has tried to escape my grasp. I'm not going to let that happen. Nakan, get Rakagu ready for a capture as soon as possible. Like right now!" Naraku demanded, He was sitting on his cot and looked out the door. 'Mayuko, why would you do this? I took you in and cared for you all your life. Your father was never there for you, so why do you want him in your life now?' he asked himself. Nakan nodded and headed towards her sister's room.
Forest
Mayuko was running with all her might and not looking back. She jumped from tree branch to tree branch, carefully landing on a branch above a group of people. 'Well, I'll be safe here. As long as others are here as well, I'll be protected, hopefully.' She thought, lying down on the branch.
"Hainuya will you slow down? I'm worried about Setsuna and Mekago. They look so tired. I propose that we rest here for now." Kumiro told him, not really worried for the girls but wanting a chance to rest and maybe get some groping in there as well.
"Shut up Kumiro. I'm only going to rest if we get to have ramen for dinner tonight." Hainuya snapped at the hoshi. "Well Mekago, do I get my ramen and you get your rest?" Mekago rolled her eyes but nodded anyway. "Good, while you cook, I'm going to take a nap." He stated and laid under the tree Mayuko was in. Mayuko tossed and turned and soon enough, she fell out of the tree, right onto Hainuya. "What the heck?!" Hainuya yelled as the other hanyou.
"I'm so sorry. I was sleeping, and I guess that I fell out. Please forgive me." Mayuko apologized and got up as fast as she possibly could. Mekago, Kumiro, Poship, and Setsuna were on the other side of a bush until they heard Hainuya yelling.
"There he goes again Mekago. I'll calm him down." Kumiro smirked and walked into the scene with Mayuko and Hainuya. "Hainuya, what's all the commotion here?"
"This little brat fell on top of me!" he answered and glared at Mayuko. Being his usual jerky self, he pushed her off of him and stood up. "And Kumiro, I have this strange feeling that you are about to say something..." he was cut off by Kumiro's sentence starting.
"Ahhh. That's my dream, a woman falling on me." Kumiro pervertedly sighed. "Now young lady, what is your name? You look strangely familiar..." he rubbed his chin, pondering who she so remarkably resembled.
"Oh my apologies, my name is Mayuko. I have just recently escaped my master's clutches. Please protect me from him." Mayuko asked, falling to the ground, crying her eyes out. 'Wait a minute; didn't Lord Kunara say something about my father hanging out with a Hainuya? What was his name again? Oh yes, Kumiro. That's it.' she thought.
"Now, now. Don't let dog boy here bring you down. My name is Kumiro, and this of course, is Hainuya." He introduced. Mayuko's eyes came out of her hands and stared at him. "Now then Mayuko, who do we need to protect you from?" Kumiro smiled.
"Well Kumiro..." she was too afraid to call him Dad if that was the same person Kunara was talking about. "I need to be protected from Lord Kunara." she answered. Right after she said that, Hainuya ran over to her and held her up to his face by her robes.
"Wench, you had better not be lying to me." Hainuya snapped. "You do smell like him and you're covered with blood. Kumiro, get over here and take care of her." Kumiro nodded and pulled the injured Mayuko onto his back. Mayuko flinched when he touched her because she was scared to be touched. She had lost so much blood that she fainted.
"...Dad..." That one word rang throughout his ears as it slowly rolled off her tongue. It was the last thing she said before losing consciousness. Her body became a lifeless lump on Kumiro's back as he kept running to the village.
"Dad? Did she just call me her father?" Kumiro surprisedly asked. "Setsuna! Mekago! A little help over here." He yelled, running over to them. He slowly and carefully placed Mayuko onto a cot and took off her robes.
"Kumiro, what happened here?" Mekago and Setsuna simultaneously asked. They ran over to the hurt hanyou. Mekago rummaged through her backpack and pulled out a lot of bandages. "Setsuna, we must hurry. Look at that stab wound. That is what's making her lose so much blood!" she exclaimed. Kumiro took the robes off her and examined them.
'How can they look so much like mine? Unless... Unless this girl is the daughter of Kituko.' Kumiro thought, backing away from the two girls taking care of his possible daughter.
"Kumiro, what's wrong now?" Gosan asked, looking back at him. The look on her face was not only of worry, but of love. She didn't want the man she loved to be hurting, so of course she was worried. "Come on, you can tell me anything remember that Kumiro.
"Um... uh... no-nothing. I'm fine, I'll just leave now. You two seem to have everything under control here. No need for me to stay around, possibly getting accused of being a pervert." He slowly answered, still confused about the whole thing. "I just need some air."
Hainuya was walking back, almost as if in a trance. "Kunara, did you make another incarnation? But wait, she was only half demon. That means she couldn't have been born from you. Why did she act so weird around that pervert? I'm so confused!" he yelled and held his head with his hands.
Setsuna and Mekago worked their tails off before they headed outside. "Kumiro, are you sure there is nothing the matter with you? You have been acting weird around that girl ever since you brought her in. Now tell me, what is wrong with her?" Setsuna demanded a good answer. She was shaking him until his hands grabbed hers.
"Setsuna, I-I'm not sure how to tell you this..." Kumiro started. He gulped before slowly regaining his strength to continue. "I-I think that she is my... my.... my daughter."
