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Chapter Two: The Meeting

Magaru leaned on his cane for support, he was getting on in years and couldn't walk without it anymore. Despite the pain in his legs, every day he took a walk along the river, it calmed his nerves. It was still early and most people weren't out of bed yet but Magaru was wide awake as he always was. The air was chilly and his head filled with thoughts of the hot breakfast that would be awaiting him when he returned home to his wife. Beef stew with mushrooms and... Huh? There was something pink floating in the water against the riverbank. Magaru hobbled over to take a closer look and saw a small girl. But this wasn't any ordinary girl, she had white dogs ears on top of her head and small fangs could be seen through her open mouth, tiny claws graced the ends of her fingers. He leaned down and put his head against her chest and heard a heartbeat, she was alive. Her breathing was shallow and her pink kimono was ripped on the edge. Magaru knew she was part demon but even so, she was only a small child and he couldn't just leave her there. With much difficulty, he managed to pick her up and carry her back to his hut.

At first Magaru's wife was skeptical about having a hanyou in the house, after all it could be trouble, not to mention what the other villagers would say. However her opinion of her changed quickly and she would grow to love the girl. Raye's head was killing her, she couldn't remember a thing about what had happened except a whole lot of water. She was called Raye, she knew that, but she couldn't recall anything else. Yet there seemed to be another presence that should have been there but wasn't. Someone who had always been with her and she knew she missed them greatly but she couldn't remember who it was. Raye opened her golden eyes to find herself staring at a wooden roof. She groaned a little as she sat up. An old woman rushed over to her side, "Oh your awake little one. You should stay lying down." Raye shook her head, "I'm ok." The woman smiled, "What's your name?" "Raye." "Oh that's a pretty name. You can call me Taiya. Where did you come from?" Raye looked down, "I-I don't know." Taiya put a had on Raye's shoulder, "That's ok, you probably just bumped your head. My husband said he found you in the river. I'm sure you'll remember soon. In the mean time you can stay here." Raye smiled, "Really?" Taiya nodded, "Of course."

4 years later...

Raye ran. A giant demon had attacked the village. Granny Taiya and Grandpa Magaru were dead. She cried, they were gone... she tried to protect them but she wasn't strong enough. All those years, they had taken care of her, comforted her when the villagers taunted her and called her a monster. She never did remember what had happened in the first two years of her life but she had learned to live with it, except for that hole where she knew someone she was very close to should be. Out of all things, she wished she could at least have remembered whoever that was. She could hear the screams, smell the blood in the air, it was sickening, she had to get away...

In Tokyo...

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Sakura, Happy Birthday to you!" Sakura leaned forward and blew out the candles on the cake that read: Happy 13th Birthday Sakura! Everyone in the room clapped as her Mom started to cut the cake, it was chocolate her favorite. Sakura smiled, everyone she cared about was here. Her Mom and Dad, her Uncle Sota and her Grandma, Her big sister Saru with her husband Koroshi along with their 3 year old son Akeru, three of her closest friends and her big brother Asano. Asano smiled down at her but she could tell it was a forced smile. He always tried to look happy and cheerful on her birthday but it always reminded him of Raye, after all these years he still blamed himself for what had happened. After they finished eating the cake, they opened the presents, a sweater from mom, new training gloves from dad, cd's from her friends, a new walkman from Saru and Koroshi with a drawing done by Akeru taped onto it, school supplies from grandma and a new dvd from Asano. She thanked everyone for their gifts and two hours later, everyone but mom and dad and grandma had gone home. (They already were home.) Saru lived in the Feudal Era with Koroshi and his family and Asano rented an apartment on the other side of town.

Kagome walked through the living room picking up wrapping paper when she noticed a small stuffed bear. Picking it up she realized it was Akeru's, she should return it. With the bear in hand she headed for the door when Sakura came into the room, "Where you going mom?" "Akeru left his bear here, I was going to return it. " Sakura walked up to her, "I'll do it mom, I don't mind." "Are you sure? Well, okay, be careful." Sakura took the bear and headed to the well, "Don't worry, I will!" Jumping down the well, the familiar flash of light came and she looked up to see a clear blue sky. She climbed out of the well and headed toward the village. Numerous villagers greeted her as she walked by and made her way to Saru's house. She knocked on the door and when Saru answered, Sakura held out the bear, "I think you forgot this." Saru took the bear and hugged Sakura, "Thank you Sakura. You want to come in for a while?" Sakura shook her head, "I should get back or mom will worry." Saru nodded and waved goodbye as Sakura made her way back towards the well.

Sakura was walking along the forest path when she passed a man who jumped back from her, "It-It's you! Stay away from me you demon!" Then he took off running. That was strange, he must have been from another village because everyone in Saru's village knew her. But that still didn't explain why he seemed to recognize her. Curious, she decided she would come back tomorrow and follow the path he had come from to check things out. I was summer so after a good nights sleep she would have all the time she needed to look.

Sakura had told her parents she was visiting Saru for a week or two, she knew they would never approve of her going through the wilderness chasing a silly hunch but it was something she felt she had to do. Packing her bag she jumped down the well once again. This time she went the opposite way from the village following the way the man had come from. It would have been hard going for a human but for her it was pretty easy, all the demons she came across were minor and easily taken care of but she saw no sign of someone who may look like her. At last, after five days of traveling she saw a small village in the distance. "Get out of here you filthy hanyou!" Sakura looked around but it didn't seem that whoever yelled was addressing her. Suddenly she saw a flash of dark blue go by her and the smell of food. Whoever it was had just stolen food from that village, she was going to find out who.

Raye ran through the village and slashed the door of the store house, taking as much food as she could carry she sprinted away with the villagers running after her. Smirking, she looked back at the pathetic humans, they would never catch her. After the old couple had died, she tried to fit in with the village but of course they wanted nothing to do with a hanyou. Finding her own way to survive she now lived in the forest away from the ridiculing mouths and the cruel stares of the humans. She didn't really need the food she had stolen, she merely did it for kicks and to teach those humans a lesson for how they had treated her. If she hadn't been so preoccupied with the food she would have noticed the young girl she ran past and the fact that the girl followed her.

Jumping up into a tree, she started munching on her food when the scent of demon came to her. Looking down, she almost dropped her food, standing below her was a girl that looked exactly like her down to every last detail. For what seemed like hours the two just stayed there staring at each other not believing their eyes.

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