Chapter 4: Lin's Past
Everyone was silent as they walked towards the village. Everyone was doing their best to make sense of what had just happened. As they entered the village they came across Kaede making her rounds.
"What be yee doing? Who be yee?" Kaede asked.
"Kaede we need to talk in your hut about Lin here." Kagome said.
"Follow me then." Kaede then led them into her hut. "What do yee need to be talking about?"
"Here let me explain the events at the well to you Kaede before we do anything else." Kagome proceeded to tell Kaede about what had happened. Kaede merely listened has Kagome told her tale.
"We decided to come here to talk." said Kagome as she finished her tale.
"Now let us have our questions answered by Lin." Kaede turned towards Lin who had been quite patient to tell her story and answer questions.
"I'll start at the beginning since that is always the best place to start. Well, I don't exactly know when or where I was born since I was abandoned and left at an orphanage when I was close to a year old. I wish I could say I was adopted into a good family but that is not the case. In the area of the orphanage the majority of the people couldn't afford to feed their own children let alone some orphan." Lin's eyes obtained a faraway look as she said. It looked like she was reliving it in her head. "Times became easier for the people but by then I was around 9 and not manywanted to adopt a child that old but ones 5 or under.
"By this time I knew I would never have a family of my own. But I was not the only one to realize this, every kid in my class at school would taunt and tease me about my situation. They would make fun every thing from my donated clothes to my unknown ancestry." Lin voice contained anger and her eyes still had the faraway look as they narrowed in hatred. "One day when I was walking back to the orphanage, I noticed my classmates bullying another orphan, who was only about 6. As I watched they began to shove and push him around. I don't why it made so angry because I saw it all of the time, but before I knew it I was fighting the 15 boys of my class. Although they out numbered me severely, I still won the fight.
"The boy I had saved from the bullies, had run back to the orphanage and told the caretakers about me fighting. They scolded me for fighting but not punish much since it was to help someone. They sent me start to bed and said they would send up the nurse to check me out as soon as possible. The nurse didn't come to see me until the next morning. When she examined me she found no scratches, bruises, cuts, or scraps. I looked like I had never been in the fight at all." Lin's fingers started to trace lines along her body, as if there were scars where these lines were. "The nurse confused by my unscathed body sent me off to school.
"My classmates were even more shocked than the nurse or I was at me being uninjured. The next day all of the boys older brothers and some of the girls older brothers were waiting for me after school. The older brothers ranged from 12-17 in age and there were about 20 of them. I could have taken on a couple of them and come out the winner but they were stronger and bigger than their siblings. All I managed to do to them was to give a couple of them some nasty bruises and cuts before they overcame me." Lin's fists clenched and unclenched as if she were ready to fight them again. "After they had beaten me so bad I couldn't move they took me to the outskirts of town in which we lived. They threw me down and told me if they ever saw my face in town again they would not be so gentle again.
"I laid there for I don't know how long until I finally left the town. I wondered around until I came to another town. I stayed there for a couple years, doing odd jobs for food and clothing. When I was around 13 a strange women came to town. I thought nothing of it except that she might have something I could do." Lin's voice then became unsteady as she continued her story. "I never learned her name but I did learn that she would do anything or use anyone to complete her goals. She had come looking for candidates to give to an "ally" in exchange for something. She choose me as a candidate since I had no family or friends.
"She lured me out of town saying she needed some help gathering mushrooms and would give some in payment. It was a cool evening and the sun had not yet completely set when she decided to take me out with her. She led me to a glade in the nearby woods. Instead of seeing mushrooms I saw about 10 men who looked to be not too trustworthy. She told them that I was an orphan and had no ties to anyone. They simple said 'She'll do for now. Get on with it witch.' The witch then started lay a curse on me." Lin started to shake as she remembered the dreadful event. "The curse was that of the werewolf, a terrible curse where the soul of a wolf is first tainted with evil then thrust into aperson body. The wolf soul eventually taints the human's turning it evil. But it backfired on me instead of the wolf turning my soul evil, I purified its somehow.
"They didn't realize this until later, after the curse was cast the witch left with her payment. Leaving me with the 10 men who turned out to be werewolves. The alpha or leader approached me and said 'Welcome to the pack you are to be my mate once you grow a little.' The sun had set and the moon was rising. The moon turned out to be a full one meaning my first transformation was taking place then and there." Lin shook her head as if to get rid of the awful memory that clung to her. "Since the wolf's soul had been purified by my own, her soul comforted me as I changed for the first time. Luna said she would help since I had helped her.
"When my transformation was done so were the others. We had all transformed into wolves I was the largest despite being the youngest. I seemed to them to be truly destined to be the alpha female of their pack. All but one showed submissive behavior and that was the alpha male. He was determined to show he was the pack leader and I his lesser. But he underestimated me, although I was only slightly bigger than him which usually means the winner of a fight can be either one. I had no intentions of staying and becoming his mate and lesser. I fought back when he tried to show dominance and soon got the upper hand and had him pinned and injured." Lin eyes once again narrowed in hatred. "I took off after I had him pinned down. The others to confused on what to do stayed by their injured leader. Luna advised me on where to go and how to hide my trail. I have only meet then a few times in the past couple of years.
" Since then I have been wondering around avoiding my own kind and humans when possible since they wouldn't understand me or trust me. Until one day I sensed something. I followed the strange feeling to where Kagome and InuYasha were. Upon seeing InuYasha I thought that he might understand and befriend me and I thought you might to Kagome." With that Lin finished her story and waited for questions to be asked or screams to start.
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crazyhanouyed-You right about her being a miko but she does have a little bit of demon blood in her which will be talked about later
Yeah another chapter done Well Bye Bye for now