Demon Child
A.N./ Hey guys! Wow! Such a soon update!…I admit it…I'm a lazy ass…there I said it…
Thanks 4 the love guys! I know I'm not the best but I'm really trying, and I got quick edit to work! This helps a LOT
Yura: Yeah cause your so demented you can hardly edit your own story!
Hana: shut up Yura, like you're any better!
Yura: Harry Potter freak!
Hana: freak in general!
Me: GIVE. IT. A. REST!
Hana: sorry…
Yura: whatever…
Congrats…you've just been exposed to the idiocy that is my BFFs and me…luv ya guys…
Anyway! On with the Chapter!
Disclaimer: What's, hot, kick-ass and totally NOT MINE? InuYasha!
Chapter 3) Blades
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"What are YOU doing?" "Playing…duh." 6 year-old Kara tossed the rubber ball forcefully back to the little brunette girl standing across from her, nearly knocking her off her feet "Sorry Nishi!" "That's okay" Nishi smiled "Just not so hard, Kara" she tossed the ball back to her friend. "You're not playing right!" Minami Taisho stomped her little black mary janes into the playground dirt, "What's wrong, Minami?" Nishi's honey eyes were filled with confusion "Girls shouldn't be playing BOY games! That's STUPID" she flipped her raven hair over her shoulder and played with the lacy skirt on her dress. "Feh. Why should we care? Were having fun doing THIS, just go away Minami" Kara didn't even look at the newly declared 'queen bee' as she spoke, Minami and Kara had hated each other from first glance. "You don't tell me what to do, you, you, half-breed!" Nishi dropped the ball and just stared from Kara to the once again perfectly composed Minami. "Don't make me tell Mister Hojo, Minami…" she mumbled, Nishi Osamu had always been shy… "If you do, I'll tell my daddy you called me names, you'll be in SO much trouble!" her dark eyes glinted with self-satisfaction as she glanced over her shoulder and ran to join her nearby, giggly friends…
"Would you look at her? Miss 'My-daddy-owns-half-of-Tokyo-so-I-guess-I-own-you-too'…I hate her I hate her I HATE her!" "Kami, Nishi, I hate her too, but ya don't see me spazzing out like that, I prefer to despise from afar…" Kara waved her hand in an overly dramatic way, to which Nishi just rolled her eyes. "Besides, I'm totally gonna kick her bitch butt at the tournament this weekend" Nishi nodded her agreement, not noticing her other friend sitting down beside her on the ground…that is not until she felt a familiar presence resting on her derrière. "What the-?" TWACK! "Kuro! What. The. Hell?" The cowering teen shot her a weak smile and clambered to his feet "sorry, sorry…greet you, not your backside…I know I know…but is it really my fault you're so lusciously irresistible?" TWACK! "No really! Is it?" TWACK! "Oh, cut it out you two. Nishi, he's lost so many brain cells from you doing that, I'm surprised he can tell your ass from his!" The other two looked over at the raven-haired girl with surprise, usually Kara encouraged the beatings. "What's wrong with you, Kara?" Kuro looked worried, even though the three, stinging, red impressions on his face were sorta obscuring his vision…(O.o)
"Nothing, nothing…but really, Kuro, Nishi, give it a rest! If this is how you've been flirting all these years…then I don't wanna see what goes on if it gets serious" Kara played with a piece of grass as she spoke, she smirked when Nishi's face got redder, and redder with each word. "FLIRTING! OH MY GOD! Kara, you've been around that old shrine WAY to long…something's messing with your already screwed up head!" Nishi's honey eyes glared dangerously at her still smirking best friend "THIS IS'NT FUNNY!" "Oh, my simple minded friend, but it is" Kuro stared at Kara with disbelief as once again, Nishi stalked off to go fume for a while.
"Come on! Mamma! I'm going to be late!" Kara shrieked out of the passenger side window of the small car, she was in enough trouble at school, if she missed another practice, then she could say bye-bye to the fencing team for good. "kami! You're not going to be late, Kara! Just give me a minute!" Kara rolled her amber eyes and slumped down into the seat, her mother was the slowest person on the planet in her opinion. "alright, let's go!" Kagome slammed the driver door and smiled cheerfully at her sullen daughter "do you have any idea how dead you look?" the woman chuckled and tried to brush back the girl's raven bangs "do you have any idea how stupid you sound?" she mumbled back, running a hand through her hair so that it once again hung in her face. Kagome just sighed "touché" "feh."
While Kara warmed up on the piste, (an./ all fencing terms are explained at the bottom) Kagome sat and watched from the stands. The teen had been in love with the sport for years, and no one could argue that she was indeed quite gifted, not to mention famous for losing her temper, resulting in several minor and even a few major offenses. Kara wished Kagome wouldn't watch her; it was always like her Mother was comparing her to someone else when she watched her fence, and Kara couldn't count how many bouts she had thrown worrying about just that. "Hey, don't worry about it, Higurashi, you're probably just imagining things" one of her teammates gave her a grin, which she hesitantly returned.
'No surprise she's so good...' Kagome rested her chin in her hand and scanned the salle for any familiar faces…she didn't know why she bothered, most other parents steered clear of her, Kagome supposed they were perturbed by the whole 'single mom' thing.
She heard the fencing hall's large double doors slam as a girl around Kara's age, flanked by what appeared to be a body guard and a few others, made her way to the practice area.
'Hmm… now where have I seen her before?' Kagome squinted her cinnamon colored eyes, the girl was of a tall, elegant build with long, jet black hair, her expression was one of a cold dignity, a face seemingly familiar to Kagome…if she could only put her finger on it.
Her attention was snapped away from the new arrival by the sound of a couple not to far away from where she sat bickering back and forth with one another. "Was it really wise for us to come along?" the woman wondered, she looked as she were in her late teens or early twenties, however the pigtails she wore her dark hair in, gave her a much younger appearance. "Oh course, you baka! M'Lord and Lady told us to accompany the young miss! They told us to, therefore we do it!"
The man was clearly elderly, short and bald, and when he stopped talking, Kagome noticed that he had a distinct, toad-like quality about him. "And besides! You defiance to our lord has gotten us both-" the little toad man stopped mid sentence and turned to glare at Kagome. "Might I ask what you're staring at, wench!" the young woman pinched her companion on the arm, hard "Don't be so rude!" she stood up and walked over to sit next to Kagome "I'm very sorry, he's always on the cranky side" she smiled apologetically "No problem" Kagome returned the gesture. "I noticed you watching that one over there a bit ago" the woman nodded towards Kara who was currently engaged in a heated dry with one of her teammates "Yeah, that's my daughter, Kara" the other nodded "She's quite good, but I must say m'lady Minami could defeat her quite easily" Kagome followed the woman's line of vision to where the icy girl she had noticed earlier was easily parrying each of her opponent's thrusts, she fought with the cool confidence of an accomplished swordsman… Something jogged Kagome's memory as she watched Minami's bout, she glanced back to the young woman beside her, but she had already returned to her place with the old man. No way… she shook her head to clear her thoughts…it just wasn't possible…
"Hey, Kara, who was that girl…ya know the one who came in late with the body guards and stuff?" the teen looked up from the double cheeseburger she was currently stuffing into her gut, swallowed and adopted a look of great disgust amazingly, all in a matter of a few seconds (O.o) "Black hair, better-than-you expression?" Kagome nodded "Minami Taisho, her Dad owns practically half of Tokyo and more, yet with her 'it-girl' status, she still finds time to have made mine and Nishi's lives hell for the past 9 years" Kara's golden eyes scanned the interior of Wacdonalds, before settling on her Mother's face. "That answer your question?"
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Go ahead, Hate me…I got up to this part…and POOF! Madam muse just up and left me! I promise to write about stuff that's a little more important than what's in this chappie, but all the stuff about Kara's life is plot building…and ya'll have probably guessed who she really is…you can read the first chapter and get that much….eheheheheheh, yes it's supposed to be obvious! Lucky for us…several well-loved characters that will soon make an appearance aren't as smart as they would like to think…
And now, for this chapter's question! There's two this time!
1.) who do you think the young woman in pigtails and the little old guy who looked like a humanoid toad are?
2.) who is Minami Taisho really? (as in, who are her parents, etc.)
Get them both right and you'll not only get considered for a cameo, you'll get a special e-mail answering one question regarding the plot of Demon Child 'cause we all (especially me) know how complicated the plotline is!
THANKS!
Review Responses!
Flaming Red Fox: Yo fox-Chan! Thanks for the constructive criticism, I personally think my writing sux in general…and as for the contest/people related to the company thing…oddly enough I understand your point…
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2 things
Numero uno, yes, Hojo is a second grade teacher…an incredibly fruity second grade teacher…eheheheheheh O.o, die homo hobo…
Numero duos, I need an opinion about the story's pacing, if you want a few more chapters about what's going on with our favorite (and not so favorite) time traveling miko, and the teen daughter from hell (my affectionate term for Kara, re-watch any episodes of the anime and you'll see why she'd be the daughter from hell, use context clues is all I can say, a.k.a look at her parents…that is if you've figured it out yet, yes it's supposed to be obvious)
Fencing TermsPiste: the linear strip on which a fencing bout is fought; approx. 2m wide and 14m long.
Bout: a scored match
Dry: a match where no electronic scoring is used.
Salle: a fencing hall.
Parry: a block of the attack, made with the force of one's own blade.
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Tenshi-Chan