Families CAN Be Replaceable
I woke up to the sound of birds chirping. "Funny." I told myself, "I usually don't hear birds around here." Then I noticed my bed was even harder than usual. I mean my bed is hard, but not like this. This was like sleeping on the ground. The ground! I opened my eyes. All I saw was green. I was sleeping on a bed of moss and there were trees all around. I sat up. "How'd I get here?" I asked myself, "And where is here? There's no forests like this near Tokyo."
By then I was starting to panic. You would too if you woke up in a forest nowhere near your home. That's when I noticed my backpack. I realized that wherever I was my parents or someone had abandoned me here. I was betting everything that it was my parents. Deciding to find something to calm myself with, I unzipped the backpack and started pulling out the contents. A change of clothes. Another change of clothes. A kimono. Why would I need that? Five packs of instant Ramen. A lighter. A blanket. And a diary.
A low growl escaped me. If I ever saw my parents again I would rip them to shreds. They hadn't even left me a note! I noticed there was a front pocket and it was also full. Maybe there was a letter in there. I unzipped that too and pulled out a pen, a pencil and a picture of the family. I remembered that photo. Of course I wasn't in it. They had gotten it done professionally last year. Mom and Dad were sitting in chairs in the middle. Edward and Kumiko, the five year old twins were sitting in front of them. My four year old sister, Emily was sitting on my mom's lap and Montaro, my 6 year old brother, was standing on my dad's other side. I flipped the picture over hoping for a note. Nothing. The two people who called themselves my parents were dead.
As I stuffed the pen, pencil, and picture back into the front pocket, my fingers came across one more thing. Of course I pulled it out. It was a little crystal hardly two centimeters tall. I looked at it closely and shrugged. It sort of looked like a diamond. I couldn't live on 5 packs of ramen forever. If I found a town maybe I could trade it for a meal. I stuffed it in one of my pockets.
That's when I started to hear rustling in the brush. Whatever it was, I didn't want to find out. I grabbed my backpack, stood up, and began to run as fast as I possibly could. I have to say that I can be very, very fast when I want to. It probably has to do with my demon blood.
Now the forest was pretty dark to begin with because there were so many trees around me, but I could still tell when a shadow flew over me. I stopped and looked up. Big mistake. Before I knew it, the most frightening creature I had ever seen in my whole 12 years of living landed in front of me. I screamed and fell back.
The creature sort of looked like a saber tooth tiger except it had two tails and fire at the end of each. There was a woman and a man on it. The woman was wearing something that sort of reminded me of a ninja suit and samurai armor put together. She was holding a big boomerang. The man looked as though he had jumped out of a history book. He wore a black robe carried a staff.
"Not so fast demon." The woman said coldly. She started put her hand on the boomerang. I didn't want to know what it did. "Inuyasha!" the man called, "We stopped it!" A second man ran out of the brush. "Good." He said smiling. The smile was nowhere near warm. I screamed again.
Now this man would have scared any of my sister's or brother's friends to death, but not me. He looked a lot like me in fact. His hair was silver and he had matching pointy ears poking out. They looked like mine. The man's smile revealed four pointy fangs and his hands and feet definitely had claws on them. What scared me was the huge sword he was leaning on.
"Are you ready to die, demon?" he demanded. I began to cry. "I'm only a half demon!" I sobbed, "And why would you want to kill me?! I haven't done anything to you!" "Don't give me a show, half demon." He said, "Now die!" The big sword came flying at me. Luckily my reflexes are great and I jumped out of the way. That was the last straw. My mind decided what to do. My fight or flight mechanism decided on fight. My ears went back and I hissed.
"Inuyasha!" a girl's voice called, "Why do you have to be so dratted fast? Oh! Where are you?" "Over here, Kagome." The man whose name was Inuyasha called back. A few seconds later a girl a few years older then me made her way out of the bushes and towards the guy. She looked around.
This girl was the first one so far that was wearing clothes that weren't old fashioned. "Did I interrupt a fight?" she asked shyly. "You're damn right you did!" Inuyasha yelled. "Sorry." The girl whose name was Kagome said. "I'm fighting that girl in the weird clothes." He continued.
"Weird clothes?! My clothes aren't weird!" I yelled looking down at my gray sweat pants and little white tank top, "You're the one in weird clothes!" Kagome eyed my clothes. "Why you-" Inuyasha started. "Neither of you have weird clothes!" Kagome said quickly, "Inuyasha, put the Tetsiga down! That girl's clothes are from my time!" "Your time?" I asked. She turned to me. "I want to know exactly how you got here." Kagome said.
I collapsed on the ground and started crying again. "I want to go home!" I yelled. One thing you have to know about me is that I can be steaming one moment and completely fine the next. "We can deal with that later." Inuyasha snapped at Kagome. He ignored my last out break and continued to yell, now at me. "Give me your Sacred Jewel Shard!" He demanded.
"What's a Sacred Jewel Shard?" I asked, my tears ceasing for the moment. "Don't play me!" Inuyasha yelled, "I want that shard you have!" I tried to think back as far as I could for times I had held a jewel or a shard of one. My memory stopped on the thing in my pocket.
I pulled it out. "Do you mean this?" I asked. "Yes!" he exclaimed sounding a bit annoyed. I threw it at him with all my might. "You can have it!" I cried, my tears returning, as strong as ever. "Jeese! Do you ever turn off the water works?" Inuyasha asked. "SHUT UP!" I yelled, still sobbing.
"Lay off, Inuyasha." Kagome said sternly. She walked over to me and kneeled down. "What year do you think this is?" Kagome asked gently. "2004." I replied. "Feh!" Inuyasha said, "That's hundreds of years in the future! Even Kagome isn't from that time!" She turned to him. "Actually I am from then." Kagome said. She turned back to me, "I really need to know how you got here."
I cried harder. "I don't want to talk about it!" I gasped. Kagome exchanged glances with the girl on the cat. Or the man. I couldn't really tell. Then this cute little kid, that was only about a foot tall, jumped off of the cat and ran over to me. He had a big bushy red tail and the hair to match.
"Hiya!" he said cheerfully, "My name's Shippo! What's yours?" My tears let up a bit. "Kyo." I replied, "But everyone just calls me K... or that half demon!" I started to cry again. Kagome stood up and returned to Inuyasha. I guess she decided to leave things to this Shippo kid. "Why are you crying?" Shippo asked crawling onto my lap. "My parents." I said, "They left me here. They abandoned me." I have to admit, telling this kid things, was helping.
"That's awful!" he exclaimed, "Why would they do that?" "Because I'm a half demon." I told him sadly. "Do you know how they got you here?" Shippo asked, "Kagome seems pretty concerned about that. "I don't know." I admitted, "I went to sleep on my bed and I woke up over there." I pointed to the moss.
"That's unforgivable for a parent to do something like that to their child! Even if she is a half breed cat demon!" The girl on the cat exclaimed, "Why would your parents do that to you?" "Half demons aren't very common at my house." I explained, "I stain the family name." I choked back a sob.
"You can come with us then." Kagome said suddenly. "WHAT?!" Inuyasha yelled. "Why not?" she asked a bit surprised. "She's a cat demon, that's why!" I was starting to get my senses back. I sniffed that air. I smelled dog. "And you're a dog demon, aren't you?" I asked. "You're damn right!" he yelled, "Why would I want to take a cat of all demons in?!"
"You're right." I said, "Why would you? I guess I'll just be on my way." "You can't!" the girl on the cat said, "If you're really from Kagome's time, even if you are half demon, you won't last a day." "Come with us." Kagome insisted.
I considered my choices. I could go with them and be hated by the only other demon I had ever seen in my life. Or I could stay out here, unprotected except for my claws and probably be torn to death by a much powerful full demon. I made my choice. "I'll go with you." I said.
Inuyasha: I liked this one better than the rest. I'm in it. And you make me look good. But what's with us bringing the half breed with us?!?!
Kagome: What's wrong with being a half breed? You're one.
Inuyasha: NOTHING! It's that cat part.
Kagome: What's wrong with cats? I like cats.
Inuyasha: You're messed up.
Miroku: Hey! That's where you two have been all this time. OHH! Who's this pretty girl?
Clear Waters: I'm Clear Waters.
Miroku: Will you bear my child?
Clear Waters: Slaps Miroku No.
Miroku: That hurt. Rubs red handprint
Clear Waters: That's the point pervert! Turns to all you readers out there Well I hope you enjoy my story so far! R&R please!
