Author's note: This is a fic about my alter-ego (or Role-Play character if you will) Daho, and I use a lot of characters from other places that will be put into roles that aren't canon. I'll be using characters and parts of the plot from Yu Yu Hakusho, and characters from Inuyasha, NightWalker, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, other anime/manga and a tweaked up Inari from Japanese mythology. This is my third fic and it is taking a long time to do ', so please be patient XD. Any flamers will be ignored by me, so don't even bother writing them. This story has a pretty dark chapter in it (the Hell on Earth chapter) so if you get grossed out by hints of gore or rape, don't go there. Ja ne! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: The characters I took from various anime and novels are properties of their official owners. I do not lay claim to any of these, except the characters I made up myself. The character Daho is entirely mine, as she is me, so don't even think about stealing her! Some parts of the settings will be taken from various anime (mostly Yu Yu Hakusho) and I do not lay claim to those either. Any other names, like Arcadia, are purely fictional and coincidental.
Prologue: Before Life
My name is Daho. Daho Maya Narusegawa. There is more to my identity, but since my parents never married, I do not take my father's family name. I was told that my name means "Midnight warrior". It suits me, for I've always loved the dark nights, with only the moon and the stars to guide me. I am a warrior, but not an honorable one. I grew up as a slave, trained to steal jewels and anything of value for my master, so he could go and gorge himself on fine foods and wine. As for me, and the other slaves, we were in the dirt, eating whatever we could find. Now that I think about it, I was actually eating a delicacy...according to the French...but I never really did like the snails and maggots. Too slimy. I always got sick back then, and was really weak, even by human standards. If it weren't for my brother, I would have not survived those early years.
How did my childhood come to that? It was all because of my ancestors. Long ago, one of my great-great grandsires was a youko. His name was Sura, son of Inari, who was the greatest Empress to have ever ruled Earth. That is, the Earth that existed before it was separated into 3 dimensions after Inari's death. Legend held that Earth will someday reunite after humans have learn to make peace with other intelligent beings. But that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon. Enough of the legend, it's off-topic. Sura, before the Earth was split, ended up marrying and mating with a Koorime, which was, and still is, forbidden. I do not know the name of the female, I only know that she became my great-great grandmother. She and Sura eloped and ran off. They had a daughter who, physically, was Koorime, but still retained the royal blood of Sura.
Then the Great War came, and Inari was killed. I do not know what has become of Sura and his Koorime. Perhaps they too were killed. Their daughter escaped the brutality, but became trapped in the Human Realm. She was in Japan at the start of its Feudal age, and she hid among the mountains, away from humans. One day, a Diamyo man, named Domyoji Narusegawa, was traveling in the mountains and got caught in a snowstorm. The Koorime found him almost dead, and healed him. When he woke up, he thought he was looking at a winter goddess, and fell instantly in love with her. Well, you know what happens next, unless you have no clue how children are made. They too had a daughter, only she was more like her father. Her name was Genkai, and she was my Grandmother. She's dead now, but I owe my life to her. My brother never really got along with her though, their attitudes were too alike. Genkai, because she was part Koorime, was able to have a child on her own, without a man with her. Humans who belonged to a certain sect...Catholicism I believe...would probably be upset at what I said, but remember that I am not human, and therefore will not care whether my reader gets offended. Back to the point, my mother was born. Her name was Hina Narusegawa (see how the last name keeps coming?), and she had the looks and powers like that of a pure Koorime. The only difference was that she was brilliant with a sword. I believe that's where Imiko and I got our skill. She was always interested in her Koorime ancestry, and she left Japan to go live there. That would turn out to be a deadly mistake.
Now, to a human reader, you may be wondering where the Koorime homelands may be. Or if you are not, I will explain anyway. The lands in the Demon Realm are different that those of the Human Realm. The Earth, as humans know it, has large oceans surrounding land. In the Demon Realm, the oceans would be land, and the continents would be water. A negative image, if you will. The Gulf of Mexico would be a round peninsula. Near that peninsula there is a small island floating about a mile away from shore in the air. That is the Koorime mainland, the only place where they are found. As I mentioned before, Koorimes are female demons who are forbidden to mate with any males, therefore they are asexual. They are not homosexual, because they do not have a concept of sex whatsoever. My mother decided to travel back there to learn about her roots. Genkai was upset, but she let her go without a scene. That would be the last time that she would see her daughter.
My Mother was able to travel towards the Yucatecan peninsula (this would be the Gulf of Mexico in the Human Realm) to get to the Koorime island in the sky. She was able to cross the barrier between the Human Realm and the Demon Realm because she received permission from King Yama. Her trip did not go smoothly though. A large group of bandits attacked her and held her prisoner. She was kept in an underground cell for a day, while her possessions were being sorted through. She managed to escape her prison, only to run into the thieves' leader. King of Bandits, Jing. He was known and feared everywhere in the Demon Realm. Females everywhere fell in lust with this mysterious bad boy legend. He was tall, and very handsome, with a lean muscular physique. He had smooth dark skin that suggested many years spent outside. Jing tripped my mother and pinned her down to the ground. He attempted to tie her up, but she fought back, and nearly knocked Jing off a cliff nearby. Her strength startled him, for she looked like a small, weak, young female. She then disappeared. Annoyed, Jing set off after her, but she was nowhere to be found. He cursed, then forgot about her. A year would pass before they would meet again. When they did, it was my mother who would be the hunter, and Jing the trapped prey. For some reason, many males are turned on by females who are in power. I assume that's what attracted Jing to my mother. Even though she knows she is forbidden, she still snuck out of the Koorime lands to meet him. Well, after a while, you know what happened. She became pregnant with me, my brother, and my sister. This seemed to have been her wake-up call, for the possibility of death for her and her unborn children was very likely. She tried to sneak out to leave the Koorime lands, and live with Jing as his mate, but she was caught.
Kryzta, the Queen of the Koorimes, had my mother be forced into labor, but she kept struggling. Kryzta then told her the startling news. Jing was dead. That stunned her enough so the Koorimes could tie her down and induce labor. Imiko, my brother, was born first. Then I came. My sister, Yukina, was born from another Koorime who had mated with my father (but that's another story). Imiko and I were ordered to be killed by being thrown off the island. We inherited many traits from our father, Jing, and they showed. Also, men were forbidden on the Koorime Islands, so my brother would have been killed anyway. Yukina, however, was kept, because her Koorime blood was dominant in her. My mother was begging to be able to keep my brother and I, but Kryzta ordered her to be taken away. Imiko and I were thrown off, into the unknown lands below.
I did not talk about my father much, because I do not know him very well. I do know his heritage though. It is one to be proud of I'm sure. There used to be a powerful tribe of demons called Hirunyns. They lived and ruled what could be considered the Central Americas of the Demon Realm. Hirunyns are like the human Mayan natives, only Hirunyns have the power of fire and flight. They lived peacefully with the surrounding human tribes and were often worshiped as gods and goddesses by the humans. They had dark skin like the natives and the black hair, only they were tall and had large, strong wings that resembles a bat's wing. Their rulers were extremely powerful males and females who were a part of the Grand Nobles in Inari's court. I'll explain more on the court and Inari later. The Hirunyn emperor was the Grand Noble of Fire, and Jing was the prince. When the Great War came, humans armed with magic came and killed them to extinction. These humans were foreigners, they were not the natives that loved the Hirunyns. Jing was only a young child at the time, but her managed to escape the brutal massacre. The sight of his family and friends being brutally killed hardened him, made him withdrawn. He left his hiding place in the morning to run into the unknown parts of the newly made Demon Realm to start a new life.
Jing joined a band of thieves, and over several centuries, became one of the greatest thieves the Demon Realm has ever seen. His specialty was using the fire magic of his tribe, along with his bow and arrow. Before he died, he was given a blade by my mother as a gift of love. It now belongs to me, along with his bow. They are the only things I have to know him by. Genkai never met him, but my mother was able to send messages to her courtesy of the Spirit World. The Spirit world is basically the guard of the border between the Human and Demon Realms, so the two won't collide again and start another Great War. She also sent a picture she drew of him, which was so accurate that it was like a photograph. I also have it in my possession. The Spirit World leader, Koenma, was also kind enough to allow Genkai to watch them...like watching a spy camera, only there was no electricity. It was done using chi, or spirit energy. One look, and Genkai lost what little trust she had in my father. Explains why she never got along with my brother.
Now back to the original question. I was a child slave because I had no family to take care of me. My parents were dead, and my grandmother would not know I even existed for the first 240 years of my life. I have told you about my ancestors, now I will tell you about myself. Starting from after I was banished from the Koorime lands.
