Chapter 3
"So last night you fought a wolf demon and won and that is how your clothes got all ripped up." Guddorakku asked to make sure he had the story correct. I nodded, though it was had to tell because I was swinging while being upside-down on a tree branch. Guddorakku was sitting on the ground watching me. Suddenly he started to laugh.
"That must have been Kouga. He used to have jewel shards in his legs, so he ran so fast that it made a cyclone. I guess the jewel has after-effects," he told me then started to laugh even harder. "He lost to a girl demon that just got here; every demon is going to be rubbing it in his face! When my dad finds out he's probably going to walk right up to Kouga and laugh at him!"
I laughed too, flipped off the branch and landed in front of Guddorakku. He clapped and I bowed.
"One question why did you come here?" he asked.
"I came because I didn't like life in America. I wanted to create a life here without the nuns of the orphanage saying things like no Shasta you can't it's too dangerous, and, no you can't go a nice family is coming to see if they wanted to adopt you." I answered mimicking one of the most annoying nuns of the orphanage it wasn't the whole truth but it was definitely true. He nodded.
"You know my parents might be able to help you." He told me.
"Really?" I asked my eyes lighting up at the thought.
"Yes, but I got to warn you one thing. My parents are Inuyasha and Kagome." He answered looking troubled.
"I'll do it any ways. I already know a lot about you parents, about Miroku and Sango, about Shippo, about Naraku, and everyone else. Stories of your parent's accomplishments have been passed through my family since Hirai. True my stories stop at when your parents found the last shard besides mine but I know enough not to get my head cut off by the Tessiaga." I told him.
"Before we go let me fill you in a little. Then we will leave when my mother calls for me." He offered. I nodded.
"Ok here goes. After my parents gathered the second to last shard they finally just gave up. They couldn't go on because they knew Naraku was gone and they had gotten rid of all the demons that could have done a lot of damage with the shard. It had taken them five years and they were ready to just settle down. With the almost whole jewel they turned Kagome into a half-demon and she and InuYasha were married or mated as it goes for demons. Following their example Miroku and Sango were married. Shippo was sort of adopted by Kagome and Inuyasha but he moved out a couple years ago. I was born 16 years ago and my sister Akisame 5 years ago. Sango and Miroku also had 2 kids, a 13-year-old girl named Akikusa and a 7-year-old boy named Inoru. Miroku and Sango built a house in a clearing near the village of the priestess Kaede, Inuyasha and Kagome did the same. Even though 21 years have passed since they met they are not so changed. They both have wild tempers and have barely aged past the age of early parent, they still are very powerful if not more so." He explained.
"Do you know if they'll try to take the jewel shard?" I asked.
"Do you use the shard when you fight?" he asked me.
"No I only use it to stay here." I answered
"Then they probably won't." he told me. I sighed in relief, even though I was a full-demon they were probably stronger than I was.
"Can your mother still sense the jewel shard?" I asked. He shrugged but the question was answered a moment later.
Suddenly a little hanyou with two small dog-ears, golden colored eyes, tiny fangs and claws, wearing a little red kimono burst into the clearing.
"Guddorakku, Guddorakku, mommy told me to find you and bring you home. She is sensing the last shard!" the little girl told Guddorakku while tugging on his kimono.
"I guess that answers our question." I said to no one in particular.Akisame looked up at me.
"Who are you? You don't look like any regular demon." The girl asked when she noticed I was standing there. I smiled at the sight of such a little demon standing up to someone so much bigger than her.
"Hello my name is Shasta one of your brothers new friends. Yes, I am very different than other demons." I answered her smiling and bending down to her size.
She looked at her brother with mischief in her eyes. Suddenly she started to run out of the clearing.
"Guddorakku has a girlfriend!" she yelled then kept chanting it afterwards. Both Guddorakku and I jumped up and chased after her. In a few moments Guddorakku had caught up and placed her on his shoulder.
"Don't worry I won't tell anybody" she told us, smiling.
"We're only friends Akisame." I replied.
"Sure." Answered Akisame, in a sarcastic tone. Seconds after she said this we entered a clearing where Kagome, InuYasha, Miroku, and Sango were standing waiting for whatever demon came with the shard. I gasped, I couldn't believe that the people that my parents had told me about when I was little were actually standing in front of me. Guddorakku looked at me and I stepped forward.
"Hello." I offered to break the silence.
"Mother, father, Miroku, Sango, this is Shasta. You have no reason to be worried it is true she has the shard but she won't use it for more than staying in this era." Guddorakku reassured them. Everyone but Inuyasha seemed to soften.
"If Guddorakku trusts you then I will. Hello my names is Kagome." Kagome said.
"I already knew that, you are InuYasha, you, Sango, and you are Miroku, but I don't seem to see Shippo." I told them, pointing to each of them in turn. Seeing the looks on their faces I just explained my whole story again.
"So I came to you hoping that you wouldn't try to take the shard from me but help me instead. I have nothing to live for in America but I can build my dreams here." I finished clutching the shard.
"No, we can't let you take on the burden of the Shikon Jewel. There are too many demons that would kill for the power of just a single shard. I can't put you at risk of such a fate you are too young." Answered Inuyasha looking hurt that he had to take it away from me. Tears came to my eyes.
"You don't understand I have no future in America. Nobody will adopt me and I am forced to walk past the place where my parents were killed. Mother told me when I was old enough I was to go to Feudal Japan and live my life there because at heart I was here. I will not let you have this shard?" I bowed my head and whispered to the crowd around me, this time a little more of the truth came out of my mouth. Suddenly, tears streaming from my eyes, I started to run out of the clearing, I jumped from tree top to tree top until I reached the tree I had slept on.
"Nice dad, you caused her to run away! And you made her cry!" yelled Guddorakku after I had disappeared. He crossed his arms over his chest.
"Well no matter what she wants her life to be, the jewel is surrounded in secrets, misery, and death. We couldn't leave her with that kind of burden." Inuyasha told his son. Kagome sighed and set her head on Inuyasha's shoulder. Akisame pulled on his sleeve so he picked her up and cuddled her.
"Dad she isn't as weak as you think. As you just saw she's very fast, and she is a full-demon so that makes her very strong," Guddorakku informed InuYasha but seeing he still didn't see her power added something more. "She almost killed Kouga last night."
Suddenly everyone was paying attention. Guddorakku smiled.
"Would you really cut down such a promising spirit." He smirked.
"Why don't we test her." Offered Miroku.
"Yes her speed seemed to be close if not equal to Sesshouaru." Sango added. Inuyasha nodded.
"I will get him. Guddorakku tell Shasta what our plan is. If she can fend him off well enough we will allow her to keep the shard. Be ready in a day." He instructed Guddoraku handing Akisame to Kagome then jumped in the direction of Sesshoumaru's castle.
"Thank you father." Guddorakku whispered to himself. At that moment Akikusa and Inoru walked out of Sango and Miroku's house. They were like smaller images of their parents.
"Was that the demon with the shard?" asked Akikusa. Sango nodded.
"Has the fight to the jewel begun again?" asked Inoru.
"We don't know." Answered Miroku.
"Would you mind if Akikusa went with Guddorakku to find Shasta?" asked Kagome sending Akisame off to play with Inoru. Akikusa looked up at her mother and father with pleading eyes so they signaled her to go with him.
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