Contentment and Purity
Me: Help! Math test coming up! I forgot how to find the volume of prisms!
Inuyasha: Okay… I really know what that is.
Kagome: Inuyasha, SIT!
Inuyasha: Ouch. Whadja do that for?
Everyone laughs at Inuyasha
Me: Anyone else surprised about the end of the last chapter? It just popped into my head after I was done toying with Miroku. I hope Josh never reads this!
Josh: stares at screen Who the heck wrote this? Oh well. Now I'll go read or something. Oh, there's my manga!
Me: Avoided that one. Here's chapter 3!
Chapter 3: Transformation and Remembrance
"A reincarnation?" I barely knew what that word meant. Everyone sat and stared at me. Inuyasha pondered for a second, then began to speak again.
"Something like that. Or maybe it was that you are one of the walking dead? But how's that possible? Could you have been revived between worlds?"
"It could happen." Miroku stepped in. "You never know anymore. Isn't there more of a chance of reincarnation than that of being revived from the dead? Besides, she looks nothing like a demon."
"I know one thing." Kagome stood up and looked as if she was the most important person in the room. "Akaya's going to fight with us."
The entire room went still. The silence was broken only by a small whimper from Kilala, begging Sango for attention. Shippo coughed, and the rest of us looked awestruck. Josh, who was still in the room, uttered a small "Reincarnation?" before passing out.
The rest of the afternoon was spent discussing possible scenarios of battle and other ways to protect myself from harm in the Feudal Era. We revived Josh after a while, and he solely claimed to have fallen asleep instead of passing out. Kagome prepared to travel through the well once again, and I followed close behind as we crossed between eras.
All of us barely fit in the well. Perhaps it was because of Kilala's untimely transformation, but it was hard to breathe when Inuyasha's hair was in my face. Our group managed to scramble out of the well somehow, and we found ourselves face to face with Sesshomaru.
"What do you want?" Inuyasha didn't sound particularly excited about seeing his brother. Apparently the older sibling returned the feeling. He ignored his younger brother and turned to me.
"You are the one I spoke of?" Seeing no reaction from me, the demon continued. "When you disappeared that day, Rekaiu, I was worried. You had always followed me before then, driving me crazy with your hyperactivity."
"I'm not sure if I am the person you're talking about, sir." I stated, hoping to veer somehow off of the subject, or at least find out more about this person. "When did this Rekaiu girl go missing? What happened right before?"
"It was several years ago. 11 years, I think. Some humans had shot Rekaiu with an arrow which held a certain concoction harmful to dog demons. She escaped with only a taste of it, but it had its effect.
"Rekaiu slowly turned into a mortal. After fully transforming, someone was said to have kidnapped her instead of their original target and throwing her down a well. From there she supposedly traveled between eras and joined a human family. Rekaiu may have aged back to a small child in order to blend with her new home."
"I do remember some disturbance the night Akaya came." Kagome made herself known to the group, who had been ignoring each other to listen in on the conversation. "There was a little girl on our doorstep, about 2 years old. She had been looking for a man who my parents guessed must've been her father. Boy, did we guess wrong!"
"I… I'm not really me, then?" I said, attempting to get my facts straight. "I mean, I'm not who I thought I was? I'm… a demon."
At this moment, pain shot through my hands. I screamed as my fingernails grew longer and claws formed. My teeth shaped themselves into sharp fangs, and my ears became furry and pointed, and shifted to the top of my head.
The pain stopped suddenly. Everyone was looking at me as if I were the weirdest thing in the world, excluding Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, who were only slightly appalled. I surveyed my hands and was amazed at my changes.
"Sesshy!" I cried, not really knowing I had done so. A pang of familiarity enveloped me and I ran up to Sesshomaru. Inuyasha grabbed the back of my shirt before I could get to him, however, and I fell backwards onto the ground.
"Hands off, half-breed." I stood and glared at the one who had stopped me. "I have a right to see Sesshy. You can't stop me, you weak runt."
"We'll see about that!" Inuyasha unsheathed the Tetsaiga, and it soon turned into a demon-versus-sword fight. Sesshomaru hopped in with the Tensaiga in an attempt to stop the fight, but only Kagome could calm Inuyasha down.
"SIT BOY! Don't kill anybody! We've only been here for 15 minutes!" She screeched at him. He immediately fell to the ground. I ran over to Sesshy and hid behind him, not knowing that I had also sprouted a tail.
Sango and Miroku had taken a seat below a tree and watched everything play out in silence. Miroku had now come to stand by Kagome's side, followed by Shippo. "I guess you're not really Kagome's sister then? Akay-Rekai- What do we call you now?"
"Rekaiu. And, I'm sorry, Kagome, but I've found my true home now. My home is here, with Sesshy. At least, it will be when I start to annoy him again!"
Sesshomaru's face had a happy expression on it. (that may seem hard to believe) He sighed. "I thought you were past the annoying stage of life."
"Are you kidding? I'm only getting started!"