Life's Unfair

Last left off - "Sit down and I'll tell you everything." The lady, Sage, offered Mina a seat. "It all started..."

Chapter cautro - You're a WHAT???

"Mommy, Jun pushed me!" A little kid about Inuyasha's size pulled on Sage's dress.

"I did not!" a different boy, appears to be a little older, pushed the kid.

"See? He push me again!" The kid started crying.

"Oh, suck it up you cry baby!" The other kid started laughing.

"Jun! Say sorry to your younger brother now." Sage told the laughing boy.

"Oh fine...I'm sorry." Jun grumbled.

"That's a good boy." Sage cooled and pat him on the head gently.

"Yea yea." Jun moved away from her and past the little kid. "loser..." He said then ran when Sage stood up.

Mina can't help but giggled. 'what a trouble maker...kind of remind me of Inuyasha somehow' "He's cute." Mina complimented to Sage.

"Yea he is, but he just can't seem to stop hitting his other siblings." Sage shook her head.

"Is he going to be in trouble mommy?" The little boy asked hopingly.

"No honey..." Sage smiled and rub his belly. "Don't you start any trouble either now Kouga." She carried him off her lap and onto the floor. "Here go buy something to eat...take your brothers with you." She handed him a few yens.

"K momma." Kouga stood up and ran to show his brothers the money.

Mina turned her attention from the kids toward Sage. "Are you ok?" Mina can't help but sound worried since Sage's facial had sadden when Kouga left.

"It's Kouga." Sage replied quietly. That got her a confused look from Mina. "Don't you see anything strange between him and the rest?" Sage almost choke while saying that.

"I...not really...hmm..." Mina took a better look at the kids. It was kind of hard because they weren't standing still but she think she know what was different...Kouga. "He's not your real son is he?" Mina didn't meant for it to sound so striate forward. She wanted to say "No, I don't" or "What's different?" but she couldn't help herself.

"No, he's not...but he's the only one who makes me happy." Sage admitted it in a low tone. "Whenever I'm sad he's there, my other kids always leave him out of the group...I just don't want him to feel...unwanted or 'out' of place." Sage grip her hands tightly together.

"It must be hard...to raise so much kids and being a single parent I mean." Mina quickly fix herself before she said something wrong or hurtful toward Sage.

"Well, I...it wasn't...oh who am I kidding??!" Sage practically screamed.

Mina blushed when they started to get unwanted attention from shoppers. "It's ok, whatever that's wrong will turn right soon." Mina tried to make the lady feel better but it didn't work a bit.

"No it won't! It will never be right! Not now not ever you see??? My kids got a father, we were happy...until" Sage burst into tears. "Until..." "...until" "until he got killed!" Sage finally got out.

Mina quickly took Sage's break-out form into her arms. "It'll be ok, accidents happen...there's got to be a bright side to this all." Mina tried to comfort Sage.

"You don't get it..." Sage let out slowly. "He was killed...murdered." She spoke in a soft fragile tone.

"Oh my goodness, how horrible!" Mina embraced the frail woman tighter. "Did you ever get to know who was behind it?"

"I know who did it, they told me they were going to do it if we don't stop seeing each other, what they don't know is we had kids together already...and we cannot stop seeing each other for we love each other deeply." Sage voice cracked. "So when I was send to pick up some things, they killed him behind my back..." Sage press her face into Mina's shirt, she couldn't continue right then...it hurt to much.

Mina was left speechless, she couldn't find the words to console this poor woman. Mina tried her best to ask who was it that murdered him and the respond startled her. "wha...what?" Mina sputtered.

"I was so mad, filled with hate for them...I tried to kill them!" Sage continued, her tone was full of energy. "That's when I got disowned." Sage's voice broke out.

'omg, how cruel, her own parents left her for dead...leaving her with three boys and no money to support them.' "I'm...I'm so sorry to hear that." Mina spoke out, running her hand up and down Sage's back calming down the hiccups.

Sage shook her head lightly. "Then I'm glad they did that." Sage smiled. "When I was on my way to I don't know where...I found Kouga." Sage's eyes sparkled. "He was tied up to a tree, beaten very badly...unconscious." Sage frown. "Who would be so cruel as to do that was beyond me...I quickly got him down and bought him to a local village." Sage took a deep breath. "I got lost but luckily, a kind hearted woman helped me. She goes by the name Kiade. She was more than a mere lady as I got to know her...she was a priestess." Sage smiled as if remembering Kiade.

"So do you have place to stay?" Mina changed the subject when she saw Lenny, one of Sage's sons, yawned.

"Why yes, but only temporary." Sage look up at Mina. "Why you ask?"

Mina smiled. "You are welcome to stay at my place...I have an extra room and it's big enough for you guys."

"Are you serious? I mean, I don' want to be a bother to you and your family. And my kids are pretty loud, they tent to cause troubles." Sage added just to make sure Mina knew what she was in for before letting them in and then regretting it later.

Mina laugh softly. "If it'll change your mind, I'm a daughter of Lord Lenard Issamuro Kenshin."

"Who's that?" Sage questioned.

"Why he's the most powerful and richest man ever!" Mina look at Sage to see her eyes widen. "He's the boss of Lenard Slave Convention...otherwise known as LSC (haha Liberty Science Center lmao...sorry I couldn't help it)"

"The delivery service convention?" Sage raised an eyebrow.

"Yup, the one and only." Mina smiled then frown. 'Inuyasha...'

"Are you serious? I went with my agents once to pick up a slave from your company here when I was a little younger." Sage voice rise.

"Really? I was also here a few years before when I had to deliver..." Mina stopped. "Naraku..." She look down.

"Who's that?" Sage asked curiously.

"He's a boy I met when I was 10. I had to give him always to a bidder going for $900." Mina remembered crying having to let him go. "I was 13 when he had to go." She smiled at Sage as if saying "don't worry I'm over it".

"Really? I remember picking up a boy and talking to a girl that bought him there." Sage look at Mina striate in the eyes.

"...it's just a mere co-wince-si-dent then, because I had met up with a princess that day." Mina look at Sage thinking she'll be impressed.

"I was wondering why you look so familiar." Sage laughed.

'what? Oh no, it can't be' "Princess Shanna?" Mina ask softly.

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"They don't fit to be king and queen! And ...he isn't ...we didn't...we're not married." Sage said quietly. "It's forbidden to love a slave."

"A slave?" Mina's eyes widen. "You loved a .."