Author's Note:: I decided that I should update sooner than I had wanted to. This chapter won't be very long, but I'm gonna try and make it at least 2,000 words. This is really just a chapter on how Jewel discovers part of who she is.

Disclaimer:: See chapter 2.

Chapter 3 – Ohio is for Lovers

And I can't make it on my own

And I can't make it on my own

Because my heart is in Ohio..

So cut my wrists and black my eyes

Cut my wrists and black my eyes

So I can fall asleep tonight, or die..

Because you kill me

You know you do you kill me well

You like it too and I can tell

You never stop until my final breath is gone..

-Hawthorne Heights

"Jiueru!"

Jewel looked up to see gray eyes staring back at her. She laughed when she saw her friends come into the park clearing.

"What are you laughing at!?"

"You guys look like you're gonna fall asleep on me!"

Keiko tried to laugh, but it came out as a cough. She hadn't gotten a lot of sleep in the past couple of nights. She just always had a strange feeling when she went off to bed. As if someone was watching her go to sleep. She shrugged it off when she heard Jewel talk again.

"Well, the reason I wanted you to come here is cause I have an idea."

"And we won't get killed in it?" Sakura was already in trouble enough when they went 'skiing' in the neighbor's backyard two months ago.

"Nah, unless your parents don't like the idea," She paused for a moment, and made her voice tinier and put on sad eyes before continuing, "Of breaking and entering."

"WHAT!"

"Hehe?"

"Jiueru," Keiko soon piped up, "What's so important that you need to break into a house?"

"Well, I had did some research up on who my mom was. I decided I'm tired with my old family. They're as boring as churning butter. And THAT can be boring."

"You're only saying that cause of the time when you tried to put butter all over the hill so we could go skiing in the middle of the summer and get me in trouble for it!" Sakura spat at her friend.

"That was fun, but the butter part was boring!"

"Aren't we getting off subject?" Both icy blue eyes and golden amber ones turned to Keiko.

"Yeah, but anyways, I got some good information on my supposable mom."

"Read it."

Jewel nodded at Keiko before continuing. " 'Kagome Higurashi was priestess of the Higurashi Shrine after the passing of her grandfather. She was going to Junior High in 9th grade, and up to that point in time she had been an average student. But she had soon started falling sick with illnesses and missed several days, sometimes only showing up for important tests and staying a day at a time. This continued up until 11th grade, when she started coming back every day, only missing a day around once a month. She had a daughter, but it had only been a rumor at the time. No one ever found her, or ever knew her name, because she had given her up to a family she had known. The daughter's father was never found out, and Kagome disappeared after finishing high school.'" Jewel stopped out of air and shock as she stared at the new found information.

Keiko's lip's curled into a smile. "Let's go check this place out. Higurashi Shrine, is it?"

"Yeah, but I think we should get some more information. Time to get cracking!" Sakura answered and put her hand up into the air.

"Yeah!" Jewel said and put her hand up to Sakura's in a slap motion.

"What fools." Keiko said before joining her hand with both of the others.

"We need to use our name for ourselves." Eyes turned to Jewel as they all kept they're hands in place.

"What? The name we made up in like the 5th grade?" Keiko laughed at Sakura's comment on their name.

"Yeah."

"Fine on the count of three."

Then in unison, they all whispered "One, two … THREE!"

"Julianna Theory!" All three of them shouted as they smiled at each other and ran to the gates.

"It's time to go to work!"

"Operation: Higurashi!"

::15 minutes later::

The wind was increasing, zipping past the three teens. Jewel was in front of the two others, her arm above her eyes to shield them from the strong wind. They had been sprinting since the park, and Sakura and Keiko were fatiguing. Jewel was getting a little tired, but she kept up her tough exterior, as usual.

"Jewel, the wind is way too strong for us to keep going on like this!" Keiko yelled above the howling wind to her friend.

The wind was against them, that was all too true. Keiko and Sakura were strong from hanging around Jewel for so many years, but even the strongest human would have been tired after that.

"Yeah, and I'm about to get blown off my feet!" Jewel paused before continuing, "Tsuki's house is near-by, why don't we head over there?"

"Got ya!" Jewel heard the shout from behind her.

After taking two lefts and a right, and about 5 minutes later, they appeared in front of an enormous mansion. The house shined in all it's glory, and a comforting warmth radiated off of it. Jewel stepped up to the gates and pressed the sliver button on the side. She almost got an immediate response.

"Hey, this is Tsuki, and since I'm home alone, I'll be upstairs. If you truly live here, then just put your finger on the scanner to the side. Thank you and have a nice day." The soft voice erupted loudly from the intercom.

"Damn, I guess we should have called." The group stood in silence after Keiko's last comment, and waited for her to suggest something else.

Jewel turned to them, then to the finger scanner, then to Sakura's purse than she now noted was slinging off of her shoulder. After about another minute, Jewel decided to break the silence. "Sakura, hand me your purse."

Sakura reluctantly handed over her purse to Jewel, who zipped it open. Sakura always carried her necessities with her, so she was pretty sure her plan would work. After retrieving the blush and tape, she zipped it back up. While handing the purse back over to Sakura, Keiko spoke up.

"What the hell do you think you can do with some blush and freakin' tape!?"

"It helps to be the town's best online computer hacker!" Jewel said with a wink.

Taking the blush and opening it up, she jokingly pretended to put some on her cheeks as she watched Keiko fume in anger.

"JUST DO IT ALREADY!"

"Mkay." Jewel said with absolutely no fear in her voice.

'Personal experience probably,' Keiko thought while Jewel acted out her next part in the plan.

She took the blush and went up to the fingerprint scanner thingy. After applying some blush to the scanner part, she took the tape lightly in her hands, and ripped a piece from the roll. Holding it up to the sky to make sure it had nothing on it except for the top and bottom (where parts of her fingerprints lay from getting the tape off), she pressed it on the scanner. Thankfully, the parts of her fingerprints weren't caught on the scanner because of how short it was. After applying a little bit of pressure to make sure it worked and checking to make sure the fingerprint was correct, she pressed the 'scan' button.

After about another minute passed, the gates made a 'clicking' sound to notify the girls that it had worked. The gates creaked open, and before any of them could pass, Jewel put her hands out to stop them.

"What's going on Jewel?" Keiko asked quite annoyed.

"This place has better security then I thought. I mean.."

Jewel got cut off when then intercom spoke up in a computerized female voice.

"Welcome home, Mrs. Kumiko."

"This place is really high tech." Jewel paused a little before continuing on, "It has a certain laser going through, it will only let one person pass. And we can't jump, it's been customized to her height. And seeing how small she is, I guess we can make it through the small part between the floor one and this woman's height one. Or we can make it through the top of the gate."

"ARE YOU CRAZY!? That jump must be at least 15 feet high. Not even a ninja can surpass that!" Keiko piped up.

"Sakura, you go through, since you're the shortest. You have to duck a little, but you should make it through. If I can jump the fence, I'll see you there."

Sakura nodded and started to hurry. The gates were closing. She walked through the laser part with no trouble, and continued the way towards the door.

With Keiko and Jewel though, they were having some 'difficulties.'

"Jewel we can't jump this."

"Something is telling me if I don't, that I'll be in some deep sh.."

Jewel was cut off by a very angry Keiko. "Okay, you don't have to curse. But I know we're not getting anywhere with this."

Jewel just stared at the top of the gates. It was about 15 feet high, and if she went any lower, she would get pierced by the points at the top. She felt the pressure on her shoulders, and a headache pounded in her head. She bent her knee's somewhat, grabbed Keiko's wrist, and thrusted into the air. She was amazed when she found herself way above the gate, even with Keiko's weight attached to her. She felt so graceful that high in the sky, as if it was natural to her. Smiling, she plunged towards the ground and landed nice and soft on the ground.

Keiko was breathless when they reached the ground, and turned her gray eyes towards her friend's golden ones. Jewel just nodded, before testing out the new found energy to jump like she just had again. This time, she felt less amazed, but more excited at this burst of energy. But something inside of her ached and told her to get the hell into the mansion before the stench of death came any closer to her than it already was.

And yes, that was true. She smelled the stench of death all around her, and it was closing in fast. She hid this from her friend though, and bursted through the mansion doors. Sakura was standing talking to Tsuki when Jewel came in. They both stared at her in utter amazement before they talked again.

"Jewel, what happened?"

"Something is wrong, and we have to get as far away from this door as possible."

"Well, when Sakura came in, I issued one of the maids to go and lock everything. She should be done in a minute or so."

Jewel was already locking the door when she answered, "I just hope that we have a minute left."

"Jewel, what's going on?" Keiko asked.

"I smell a strong sense of death coming from every direction. I know it's weird, but I have a strange feeling about today. With the wind and stuff, it's hard to pick up all these scents."

"Well, being the already weird person you are, with that flying crap, it's hard not to believe you." Sakura spoke.

"Hehe.. Well anyways, I think we should go stock up on some energy. Who knows, we may just need it."

"You sound like you're gonna fight someone."

"I'm always prepared for it."

Sakura was worried at Jewel's strange behavior, but shrugged it off and headed into the kitchen. As they had all turned their backs and headed towards the kitchen, the windows to each of side of the door got covered in complete darkness.

::5 minutes later::

The group had finished their dinner in complete silence, only to have Jewel to break it at the end. "Phew! I'm stuffed!" She smiled her signature smile, and rubbed her stomach in small circles with her left palm. "I swear I'm gonna get fat one of these days!"

"Yeah, like right! You work out 24/7, are one of the strongest people I know, and can jump higher than 20-some feet! Maybe even higher than that!"

"Hehe, I needed that.."

Jewel was cut off as glass shattered behind her, coming from the living room.

"The windows near the door must have broke. But.."

'What the?'

A dark chill spread throughout the room, and a dark eerie fog started spreading on the floor. A high, mechanical laugh sounded through the dark room, and a figure waltzed in to the room.

"Higurashi, it seems we meet again."

Fear consumed Jewel's body as she watched the figure come up to her and cup her chin in his hand. She scowled and ripped her head from his grasp and punched him in the stomach. The figure, who now was known as a man, staggered back a few steps. He laughed again and looked at the girl who glared back at him.

"I dare you to touch me again, you filthy bitch!"

"I'd watch my language if I were you." And in an instant, he was back at her and punched her square in the forehead. She flew back and hit the wall, and slumped down to the floor. She stood up, as if unaffected, and walked back towards the man.

Her eyes were hidden by her bangs, and her breath was slow and normal. In a new rough voice she responded, "You're not supposed to hit a girl." And hit the man in his face.

He suppressed a laugh when he noticed a pink light shining from her right shoulder. 'It can't be, but I've have to find out.' He thought as he brought his hand above her, then thrusted it into her gut. Jewel's eyes widened in surprise as her knees buckled under her. As soon as he removed his claws, she fell to the ground.

"Who are you!?" Keiko spat at the man who had Jewel's blood shining on his hand. The man just brought his hand up and flicked it a few times in the girl's face, getting Jewel's blood all over her. Keiko just growled and kicked the man in the shin. The man went backwards a few steps, and got tripped by Jewel's foot. He just fell backwards, but put his hands behind him, pushing himself off the ground.

Jewel pulsed once as she looked upon her wound. A different, strange kind of pulse came from the center of her heart. She didn't know it at the time, but her demon blood was taking over her. But something was telling her to fight it.

Jewel couldn't hear anything that was happening and couldn't do anything about it. But she feared for her friends. There was no way she could defeat this figure, and she knew it. But that didn't stop her from trying.

Jewel was summoned back to the real world when she got a kick to the face, and her head snapped back. She screamed in pain and brought her head back down. Her eyes were hidden from them with the darkness in the room, and how low her head was wasn't helping them see her face any better. And with one last pulse, her hair around her flew wildly, the silver fronts taking over the whole mass of hair. A strange red light came from the darkness, and a low growl erupted in her throat.

"You've overstayed your welcome." Jewel's voice sounded dark and distant, as she snapped her head back up at the dark figure.

In a blink of an eye, she rose in front of him, and brought her sharp claws down onto his face. He screamed and grabbed his face with his hand, his head going backwards as he staggered away from her. She chuckled lowly and walked silently and slowly towards the man.

"Jewel, what's wrong!?" Jewel's head snapped towards Keiko's voice as her eyes focused on her. They were bright red, with small, blue pupils. Sakura gasped, but Keiko just sighed heavily. She had known Jewel the longest, but she hadn't known her secret. She had only seen this form of her once before, and could think of only one way to save her.

She had to get the sword.

But she was nowhere near it. So that was out of the question.

She bowed her head and chanted a few small words, while watching the purple light erupt from her. Jewel watched in amazement as a small pinkish purple jewel came from her body. It shined a pink light, and glowed beautifully in her hands. The glowing started to subside, and the jewel rested slowly into her cupped hands.

She was confused, her anger forgotten, but the demon side still showing. Jewel remembered what she was doing, and got prepared to kill the man again, but the jewel glowed, and she couldn't fight it. She didn't know what was going on. But the jewel wasn't letting her kill the man. Her body let off a blue aura, and she fought against her demon side. But it was still winning. She closed her eyes tightly, and when she opened them, they were her normal golden, but soon returned to blood red. She growled even more deeply then before. Closing her eyes, she tried to figure out what was going on.

The jewel was trying to help her fight her demon side. But it was hard for her not to become the demon that she was. She was on the verge of dying. Her spinal cord had almost snapped and the hole in her gut wasn't helping much either. The demon side of her kept saying that she was helping but the real Jewel was locked up inside.

'Get me out of here!' Jewel screamed loud enough in the inside. But her effort was to no avail. The sounds just echoed off the black walls of the black room the she was concealed in. 'LET ME OUT!' She screamed once again, and attacked the walls that kept her in.

'This is for your own good!' Yelled the Demon Jewel.

Jewel punched the walls several times before a light appeared in front of her. 'What in the seven hells is that thing?'

'It's nothing for you to be concerned with. Stay away from it.'

'You can't tell me what to do!'

'Well I can control you!' And with the last shout, Jewel's body flung backwards and hit another wall.

Jewel's head was spinning, and when she opened an eye, she just saw the same, blurry pink light. She tried to stand, to find her leg in bad shape, so she just tried to limp towards the light.

'The light, it's so warm..' The light was reaching out to her, and she continued to limp towards it.

With every step of the way, she felt like she was gaining more control. Her body was healing itself, using the power and warmth of the pink light. But she was losing her strength. The hole in her gut was bleeding, and not having full control of her body, she couldn't help it. Still she limped on forward.

But as soon as the pink light was in her grasp, it seemed to pull away from her. 'No! I can't lose now. Not again! Not for me, for them! They need me..'

And with her last bit of strength she screamed.

"GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

All heads snapped towards Jewel, as they watched her eyes dart back and forth between her golden gaze, and her blood red eyes. Jewel's hands went up to her head, grasping it and pulling on her hair. She could feel herself winning over the demon, but it was still a long fight. On the inside, the walls were cracking and falling around her, but they kept regenerating themselves. She screamed as loud as she could, and everyone in the room heard her. Keiko was the only one who knew everything that was going on (aside from her demon part), and she couldn't help it on bit.

And there was only one thing that came to everyone's mind.

'She's fighting her other self.'

"The jewel is going to help her fight her other self. But thanks to all the blood she's losing, I don't think she can make it."

"I just knew something like this would happen!" Came the voice of someone new. Jewel opened her eyes to see nothing but a woman on a man's back entering the kitchen. She noticed the girl was the person she read about. The real her was trying to fight off this new side, but it just kept taking over.

The girl known as Kagome, was riding on the back of a strange looking guy. He had silver hair that reached his mid-back, and golden hues, just like hers. His hand had sharp claws for nails, and two pointed fang teeth could be seen. His clothes were the strange kind, a red haori and a white yukata under it, along with a red hakama. A beaded necklace lay around his neck, and a sword hung at his side. He reached into the inner pocket of his haori, and pulled out a small necklace.

It was a simple chain that held a crescent moon in the middle. It was practically made of a strong type of steel, but the moon was a Jade color. The chain was silver, and the chain was connected using bold, strong links. One link was hanging off in the middle, the one that held the Jade crescent moon.

He took the necklace from the pocket and threw it at Jewel. She froze in utter amazement as she watched the necklace fly to her neck and snap around it. Jewel felt something weird go threw her, and everyone watched as she returned to her normal state.

Her hair turned to its normal black with the two streaks of silver, her blood red eyes returning to the normal golden. Her fangs and claws retreated into her, as she felt herself defeating the demon on the inside. The Jade crescent moon turned to a soft blue color, so she figured that it helped her calm her moods. She smiled down at it as she felt the demon on the inside go back into hiding.

'This isn't over yet. I will win.'

That was all Jewel remembered before everything went black, and she lost her consciousness.

A/N:: Okay, so I got carried away and made her meet her parents and all. I wrote this over the course of three days, and well, I'm quite impressed with myself. This chapter is full of 3,000 words or so, and I haven't really written that much before. I think this chapter is a bit rushed though. Well, I'm out for now. Ja ne!

Author's best friends note:: semi-important. This chapter is a bit rushed, yeah I know, and Jewel said that people might be confused since the whole Keiko summoning the Shikon Jewel thingy. You probably won't get it now, but it unfolds later on.

ACTUALLY IMPORTANT.But seriously, it's important.

Jewel, or the writer of this story, had to get me, or her friend, to post this story for her. She went out ice skating with us tonight, and she said when she got home she had to do this. Well, being still herself, she tried to jump really high in the air with her skates (she's one of the best in our neighborhood, other than the hockey people), and landed badly on her hip, fracturing it and popping her knee cap out of place. And let me tell you, this girl was screaming. She's in the emergency room now, so being a good friend, I got it up for her.

She'll write the next chapter in the hospital, so it should be up in two or so days. Hey, when you're in the hospital all day, you get bored.