cherryblosomz: That was a really good idea, but I already had a plan for how I was gonna do it by the time I read your email, sorry! If I hadn't, then I definitely would've used your idea. Maybe I can do that a little in later chapters.....
Hurry for hurricanes! As of Tuesday, September 7, 2004, all schools in Troup County, Georgia(where I live), are closed due to the pending hurricane threat. In other words, I get to stay home and work on my story all day! YAY!! Anyway, here's chapter 5 where we get to learn about Naomi's past.
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Naomi looked around. Everything was dark, and she couldn't see a thing. For some odd reason, she wasn't scared. Actually, she was rather calm about it. She heard the running of feet behind her. She turned around slowly, but there was no one close enough to be seen. Then a red ball came into view. It rolled to a stop at her feet. She picked it up gingerly, fingering it lightly.
"Hi!" Naomi heard a girl say. She looked down and saw a fifteen-year old version of herself, hair up in a ponytail and wearing a black kimono(Let's call her Younger-Naomi).
"Hello there," Naomi said. She wasn't surprised, though she probably should've been. She handed her the ball.
"Thanks," Younger-Naomi said.
"Do you know where we are?" Naomi asked, glancing around.
"In a dream," Younger-Naomi replied. "There are some things I have to show you." With that, she took off running, disappearing in the darkness.
"Hey!" Naomi called after her. She took a few steps before being blinded by a bright white light.
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She blinked a few times, then her eyes started to adjust. She looked around and noticed that she was in a village. Brown dirt was underfoot, and huts were everywhere. She heard someone crying, then saw a five-year old version of herself(This one will be Mini-Naomi) wearing a black kimono and with her hair up in a ponytail. Naomi walked over to her. "What's wrong?"
Mini-Naomi didn't seem to hear her. She just kept crying, head buried in her hands. The red ball was a few feet away.
Naomi put a hand on her shoulder, but was stunned to see that it went right through. "What the hell?!"
"What's wrong?" a boy's voice asked. The older Naomi looked up, but Mini-Naomi didn't. Standing there was a five-year old version of Inuyasha, holding the red ball that he had picked up. "Why are you crying?"
"I'm not crying!" Mini-Naomi said, wiping her eyes furiously without looking at him.
"Oh, sorry," Inuyasha mumbled.
Mini-Naomi finally looked up at him with a tear-stained face. She gasped when she saw him. "You're...you're a half demon too!"
"Yeah," Inuyasha said.
"Sorry I was rude," Mini-Naomi said. "I thought you were another human that was gonna make fun of me like the others who were just here. I didn't smell the demon blood in you."
"It's okay," Inuyasha replied, shrugging it off. "Hey, you wanna go play?"
Mini-Naomi's eyes brightened. "Yeah!" she exclaimed exitedly. "Oh, my name's Naomi."
"I'm Inuyasha!" They ran off, leaving Naomi to stare after them.
'Inuyasha...I came to this village when I was five....and I met him...'
Suddenly, bright light blinded her again.
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When the light faded, she was in the same dark place as before. Naomi heard someone running towards her, then turned just in time to catch the red ball that had been thrown to her. Younger-Naomi ran up, smiling. "That's good. You're beginning to remember." She grabbed the ball and ran away again, once more disappearing into the darkness. Naomi took a step forward, then light blinded her again.
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This time, when it died down, she was in a meadow. There was grass for a long way in front of her, and she could just barely make out a village in the distance. Then she heard voices.
"I'm gonna beat you!" said a girl's voice.
"Keh! You couldn't beat a snail!" said a boy's voice.
Naomi watched as two figures approached. One was herself, eleven this time(Little-Naomi is what she'll be called) and still wearing her hair up with a black kimono, and the other was Inuyasha, also eleven. They were both running, racing each other. They rushed past her, obviously not seeing her, and continued running. Naomi whirled around, seeing a forest behind her.
"I win!" Little-Naomi announced as she touched the tree on the very edge of the forest.
"You cheated!" Inuyasha accused.
"Prove it," Little-Naomi countered, smirking.
Inuyasha didn't have anything to say about that, so he just changed the subject. "Why'd we come here, anyway?"
"Follow me and I'll show you," Little-Naomi replied mysteriously. She ran off into the trees, Inuyasha following on her heels. Naomi hesitated a few seconds before following the two of them.
All three ran for about five minutes before Little-Naomi stopped in a clearing. Inuyasha skidded to a stop just before he ran into her, and Naomi skidded to a stop after she had run through both of them. It was a weird feeling, running through people...
"So, why're we here?" Inuyasha asked, getting a little annoyed.
"Don't you know?" Little-Naomi asked, grinning at him over her shoulder. "Lots of real demons live in this forest, and two are coming right this way! This'll be excellent training!"
Inuyasha grinned too. "Great!" he exclaimed.
Little-Naomi, Inuyasha, and Naomi all waited. They only had to wait for another second or two before two centipede demons came charging out of the trees. They were each about as thick as two people and about as long as twenty.
"I'll take one," Little-Naomi started. "And-"
"I'll take the other!" Inuyasha finished. They charged at the demons, Little-Naomi taking the one on the right, Inuyasha taking the one on the left.
"Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha shouted as yellowish light surrounded his claws.
"Black Fire Claws!" Little-Naomi shouted as black light surrounded hers.
The two demons were sliced in half with ease. Little-Naomi and Inuyasha smirked triumphantly at each other. "We did it!" both shouted at the same time.
"We actually took down real demons!" Little-Naomi exclaimed, unable to hold in her excitement. "My mom will be so proud!"
"And Sesshoumaru will be so shocked!" Inuyasha said, grinning.
Naomi watched, smliing. 'The first demon I ever fought...After that, we came here practically every day and fought demons to train...'
Bright light blinded her once again.
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It faded into the darkness. Naomi heard a ball bouncing in the distance and looked around. Younger-Naomi came into view, bouncing the red ball sadly with one hand as she walked. "I'm glad you remember most of it now," she said. "But there's one last thing I need to show you. Then you'll have remembered everything."
"If it's about the day I had to leave, then I don't need to see it," Naomi said. "I remember that."
Younger-Naomi shook her head. "That's not it," she said. "It's something else." She caught the ball that she had been bouncing and walked off again, disappearing once more into the darkness.
Naomi, wondering what else there could be, followed her. Light blinded her as it had the other times.
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It faded to reveal a meadow. It was a different meadow than last time, though. There were no trees around this one and there was a cliff on Naomi's right. She looked around and saw Younger-Naomi(She's fifteen but it's not the one who's been showing her all the memories) sitting on the cliff's edge, hugging herself and looking over the edge sadly. Her hair was down, and this was apparently after she had left Inuyasha. She was still wearing the same black kimono.
Naomi walked over to her and sat beside her. She already knew that it would be pointless to try and talk, but she did anyway.
"You okay?" Naomi asked. Just as she had thought, Younger-Naomi gave no sign of having heard her.
Just then, both Naomi's turned at a noise. "Mom!" both exclaimed at the same time. Naomi's mother had cat-like yellow eyes, black hair that fell to her feet, cat ears, and a cat tail. She was wearing the black shirt and baggy black pants that later became Naomi's. She walked with a beautiful yet deadly grace.
"Naomi," she said softly, her voice like the purring of a cat. She sat beside Younger-Naomi. Luckily for Naomi, it was on the other side as her. She didn't want to find out what it felt like when someone sat through you...
"Why did we have to leave? Why couldn't we have stayed?" Younger-Naomi asked.
"I'm sorry," Naomi's mom said. "It was not my choice. We risked a lot in staying for those ten years. If we had not gone when we did, my enemies would have found us and killed us."
Younger-Naomi looked down, contemplating this. "I guess that makes sense..." she said. She drew up her legs and hugged them, laying her head on her knees. "I just can't help wishing that we could've stayed."
"I know. You and Inuyasha were practically inseperable. You'll have to forget about him, though."
"I've tried," Younger-Naomi said. "But I just can't. He's the only one I've ever met who actually understands what it means to be a 'half breed'."
"I know, and I regret very much what I have to do," Naomi's mother said gently. "I just hope that you never meet him again. If you do and you start to remember, it will be painful. Not only mentally, but physically as well."
Younger-Naomi nodded in understanding. She knew what her mother was about to do. She hadn't seen her use the power, but her father had told her about it.
Naomi's mom placed her hand on her daughter's forehead and closed her eyes in concentration. Black light engulfed both of them.
Naomi watched. 'This is...why I didn't remember...' she thought. 'Mother cast this spell on me and erased my memories of him. A few years after, her enemies found us anyway and killed her. They also killed my father. But they never found me. I'll bet that one of them told Naraku about all how I was Inuyasha's friend but I didn't remember...'
The blinding white light came again.
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Once more it faded into the darkness. Younger-Naomi(the one who has been talking to her and stuff) was standing in front of her, holding the red ball. "Now that you have remembered everything," she said, smiling. "You'll-We'll- never feel the pain again. We can be friends with Inuyasha once more, and everything will be the same as before."
"Not quite," Naomi said, smiling back. "Inuyasha has new friends as well. We'll be with him, yes, but we'll also be with them. But will they even accept us after we tried to kill Inuyasha?"
"Inuyasha will make them," Younger-Naomi said confidently. "I'm sure of it. Anyway, you should probably wake up now. I think it's day in the real world."
"Okay, but first I have to do something."
"What?" Naomi grabbed the ball out of Younger-Naomi's hands and whacked her with it. "What was that for?!"
"I couldn't help myself," Naomi replied, grinning. Then she woke up.
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My fingers have gone numb from typing so much....j/k! That was fun to write. I'll probably get the next chapter up tomorrow since I have so much free time to write today. If not tomorrow then maybe the next day. Anyway, please review!