Hello and welcome to another chapter of Hello There. No reason to keep you waiting any longer since it's been around a week since I last updated, so on with the chapter.
Chapter 9: The Half Demons
After everyone had agreed to go with Lin, they had stocked up on their supplies and left within a couple of hours. The reason being that Myoga had informed that the journey to the half demons was about a month's travel.
That had been about 3 ½ weeks ago and everyone was hoping to get there any day now. It had been an interesting journey, they had come across 4 jewel shards, fought countless demons, and Miroku had learned not to spy on the girls in the hot springs due to Lin chasing him around each time he did. The group had even learned to deal with Lin's strange eating habits. She sometimes ate normal food like everyone else but other times she would go hunting and bring back anything from a rabbit to deer to share with the group. Everyone enjoyed the meat she brought back but only InuYasha, Shippo, and Kilala weren't totally disgusted by the way Lin ate, she preferred hers raw.
"We should reach the home of the half demons around midday." Myoga informed the group as they set out. "Their home is by the lake, there." He said gesturing to a lake at the bottom of the valley in which the group was heading into.
"About time." InuYasha said.
"Soon." Lin muttered to herself.
Poor Lin, she wants to know about her parents so badly. Kagome then came up with an idea. "Hey, InuYasha why do we have to wait to midday when we could hurry up and get there in no time."
"You know Kilala could carry me, Miroku, and Shippo, while InuYasha carried you, Lin could run as well and we get could get there in 10-15 minutes." Sango said tacking Kagome's hint.
"That sounds great Sango, let's do it." Kagome said smiling.
"Hey, what are you doing deciding without even asking how I felt about being treated like a common mule!" InuYasha shouted.
"Sit. If that's how you feel about it I'll ride on Kilala too." Kagome said as she started walking towards Kilala.
"I'll carry you, Kagome." Lin said just before she transformed and walked towards Kagome.
"Oh, thank you Lin." She said as she hopped on Lin back. "You coming InuYasha." Kagome said as Kilala started the fly away and Lin started to run.
"Feh, I coming" InuYasha said as he ran after them.
Lin was much faster than anyone realized and reached the lake and the home of the half demons minutes before anyone else.
"Wow, your really fast I figured you could run faster than when you chased Miroku, but I didn't expect you to be that fast." Kagome said as she got off of Lin back.
"I can run faster than that but I didn't want to accidently make you fall off of my back." Lin replied after see transformed. She soon was preoccupied with the home of the half demons and the half demon who had just walked outside.
The half demon was a vixen. She had pitch black hair and piercing blue eyes and her ears were black with white tips. Her tail, unlike Shippo's ball of fluff, was long and black with a white tip. She wore a suit identical Sango's exterminator suit, expect hers was totally black. The vixen simply stood there when the other's arrived.
"Why do you wear an exterminator's armor?" Sango asked before anyone else could.
"I wear it because it was my mother's." The vixen replied.
"Mother's? Your mother must have been Kena, the exterminator who fell in love with a demon." Sango said as she remembered the story she heard when she was little about Kena. Kena was one of the best exterminators in the village and had never failed in exterminating a demon. Until she came across a town on her way back to the village. In this town strange things had been happening and she was asked to investigate them. It turned out a bored fox demon had been playing tricks on the town, but instead of killing the demon she fell in love with him. Sango had heard rumors that she had some children, but had not given it much thought.
"Yes, my mother was Kena and my father was the fox demon Tippo." The vixen replied.
"Hey, that was the name of my father's oldest brother." Shippo said as he recognized the name. "I remember my father telling me that his oldest brother had gone against their parents' wishes and married a human. My father lost contact with him sometime afterwards."
"What is the name of your father?" The vixen asked.
"His name was Kippo and he was killed about a year ago." Shippo said sadly.
"My father told me that his youngest brother Kippo was the only one not to stop speaking to him altogether. He said that over a couple years the two of them lost track of each other. My father would be saddened if he was still alive. " The vixen said. "Brother, it seems that we have a cousin who has decided to visit us." She called as another half demon approached everyone.
The half demon was a male this time. He had the same piercing blue eyes but his hair was snow white and his ears were white with black tips. His tail was white with a black tip. He wore a white fire rat outfit like InuYasha's. When he heard his sister's words he started to run.
"I'm sorry that I haven't induced myself but I'm Rena and this is my brother." She said as her brother stood beside her.
"My name is Lan." The male half demon said. "May I ask which one of you is my cousin?"
"I am, my name is Shippo." Shippo said.
"Nice to meet you Shippo. Who are your friends?" Lan asked.
"I'm Sango, and I'm a demon exterminator and this is Kilala."
"I'm Miroku."
"I'm Kagome, and that's InuYasha."
"I'm Lin." Lin said. "I'm the reason we came here. I wish to find out about my parents."
"Why do you wish to find out about your parents? By the way you smell kinda funny, what are you?" Lan asked.
"I'm a werewolf." Lin said.
"What's a werewolf?" Lan and Rena asked together.
"It's kinda of a long story." Lin said.
"It's alright, we like stories and you guys can come in to our home to tell your story." Lan said and led the way into their home.
"That was an interesting story. We would be happy to use our powers to help you learn about your parents." Lan said. "About helping you find jewel shards that might not be possible since there are far to many jewel shards and far to many places they are and can be. It would prove to difficult to be able to tell them apart."
"Feh, weaklings." InuYasha muttered. Unfortunately Kagome heard him.
"InuYasha, sit." Kagome said. "Sorry about that, but he can be so rude sometimes."
"Oh, it's alright." Rena said.
"Do you wish to know about your parents now?" Lan asked. "What am I saying of course you do. Well let's start."
"Do you want us to leave Lin?" Kagome asked.
"No, I want you to stay. You are my friends and I want you to know." Lin said.
"Okay, I you need to sit in between me and Rena ." Lan waited till Lin was sitting in between them, then he and Rena joined hands around Lin. Then after a few minutes Lan started to talk in a strange voice. "Lin, your mother was human and she was last of the demon exterminator line till you were born. In fact she was proud to pass on the bloodline of the demon exterminator Sango and her husband Miroku."
Sango blushed until she was a bright as InuYasha's outfit.
Miroku scooted next to Sango and asked. "When do you want to start?"
SMACK Sango slapped the monk.
"I didn't mean the continuing our lines part, but the being married part." Miroku said.
"Are you proposing to me?" Sango asked.
"I guess I am." Miroku answered.
"I want you to say it." Sango said.
"Will you marry me?" Miroku asked.
"Yes, but on one condition you can't go groping or asking other women to bare your child." Sango said.
"Alright, I promise not to." Miroku said. Then Miroku was enveloped in a hug from Sango.
"Your father was the one who had the demon blood, in fact he was only a quarter demon himself. He also provided you with the blood of a powerful priestess, Kagome in fact and his father was InuYasha." Lan said.
Kagome and InuYasha looked at each other and blushed.
"The reason they abandoned you is that they went into battle with a powerful demon, who they knew they could only defeat if they gave their lives. They did this to make sure that the world you born into world safe for you and all other children to grow up in." Lan then snapped out of his trance. "Wow, that was interesting."
"Yeah, who would ever guess Lin was InuYasha's and Kagome's granddaughter and Miroku's and Sango's descendent." Rena said she stretched.
"So am I supposed to call you guys grandma and grandpa?"
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