Reborn
Prologue
A hand taps her head, then shakes her shoulder. Her pointed ears twitch, and she hears a relieved sigh.
"Good. Now wake up, Takumisa." A firm voice calls. The eyes crack open, and take a moment to adjust to the world that is spinning around them, then firmly open.
"Where am I?"
"For now, you're safe." Realizes it's a female voice, and bolts upright. The voice laughs, and she turns to see a young woman, perhaps nineteen.
Her crimson hair hangs to her waist in a thousand tiny braids, and her toga-like red shirt clinging to her incredibly feminine figure, much like her red silk pants do.
"A half-breed?" Is the youkai woman's first surprised comment. The woman nods, and returns her gaze to the youkai.
"Takumisa, what do you remember?" At first, the youkai is unwilling to answer to the half-breed, but has the urge to tell someone her tale, and tells her.
"I remember….I had the ax, and I was getting ready to kill my annoying little stepson. And then…."
"Nothing, I suppose." The red-head nods. "I see." She smiles. "Try to stand."
Takumisa frowns, but gently pushes herself off the stone table she had been lying on, and tries to stand, to find her legs are perfectly capable.
"My…." She catches a glimpse of herself in a mirror. Her hair is no longer wild and untamed, but soft, and shiny. She no longer wears a spaghetti strap dress, but a denim vest over a white turtle neck and a pair of khakis.
"So, Takumisa….you like?"
"I look so different."
"But different is good, right?"
"…Yes. I suppose it is." Takumisa runs a hand through her now manageable hair.
"I understand you still want to kill your stepson." The red-head receives a nod. "Very well. I will lend you some weapons, with which you may use to slaughter, impale, behead, drown, or any other form of inflicting pain upon your stepson."
"Why do you do this for me, girl?"
"Not girl. Xiena. And besides, if things were left as they were, he might undo all my success."
"I see. Then….thank you, and goodbye." Takumisa bowed, and slowly walked out of the room. Xiena watched and grinned.
"Good luck, Sha Takumisa…..you're gonna need it."