ME: Alright people, I want you all to understand this, I don't consider myself the owner of any of the characters created by Rumiko Takahashi but I do consider myself the mother of some of the characters in this story! So I do beg of you, don't steal Ferika/Akio or her mother, and any other bigger rolls I have put into this story…I have worked pretty damn hard to make it good and I really don't want anyone stealing them off of me!
Naraku: Yeah, and if any of you do, I'll hunt you down and slit your throats!
Me: Naraku, you don't have to do that for me. I already have my buddy Shaku who has volunteered to do that! And she is a real damn good fighter!
Naraku: But I wanted to do that for you! And then I could bring you their heads on a platter!
Me: . . . .Ok, on with the story now!
People go about their lives never really knowing what is going on around them, only focusing on what they can see right in front of them...well that is how I used to be, I used to be this frightened, little, pathetic human with no purpose in life, except to exist. Well, needless to say that all changed one day.
I just came home from school to my slightly small house in the edge of the small town of Hendersonville, North Carolina. I opened the door to find that my father was already home and the whole house stunk of Jack Daniels whiskey. He had been drinking already. I slowly made my way over to the stairs hoping that no one would notice I was home when I heard the voice of my father calling me, ''Get your ass down here this instant, Ferika!'' My name is Teutonic and it means free, but my life is completely the opposite, seeing as I'm basically a slave in my own house. All the neighbors know that my father beats my mother and I, I even think that one of them knows that he also raped both of us. The only person that my father seems to love is my brother, Aidan, who is only three months old and hasn't done anything to ever piss my father off yet. Aidan is the perfect baby, he never cries and he has the most adorable, big, blue eyes...you would never guess him to be the offspring of my father. Then there was my father, he was a big burly man, with dark brown eyes (almost black), short black hair, and the worst breath in the state of North Carolina! My mother is only 32, she was sort of forced into marriage with my father seeing as he had gotten her drunk and the two of them married the same night they met. At that time my mother was only 15, but she looked almost 20, and she got around with a fake I.D. so she could get alcohol and drugs easy. That damn night my father met my mother, he had to take her home and get her knocked up! Sadly I was the result of the two of them sharing a 'night of passion'. But the scariest thing is, I'm only 15 years younger than my mother! Yes, I'm 17 years old and a senior in High School! I have a body to kill and a mind large enough to take out a whole population! I'm currently the valedictorian and the captain of the cheer squad (as long as my father doesn't try to sleep with the coach again). I have sort of silver-like colored hair and golden eyes, which is odd seeing as my mother is a brunette and my father has black hair (as I had stated earlier) and most people don't really have golden colored eyes. My nails have always been longer and I always was good at hurting people with them, when the time called for it...as long as they were the ones to have made the first move. Since I was beaten as a child I always didn't want to hurt anyone, but I would if I needed to defend myself. ''Get your ass down here this instant, Ferika! Unless you want me to punish you again!''
Slowly I trudge down the stairs muttering ''The guy can have an Alcohol Blood level of 6 but he can still hear me tip toeing up the stairs to my room.''
''Finally! Do you know where you're good for nothing mother has gone off to?''
''Do you really think I care? Do you really think I want to care about anything right now! I mean you are the reason my fucking, now, x-boyfriend dumped me today! You are the reason that I'm receiving such good grades at school! Everyone knows that you beat me, and they are either trying to distance themselves from me or treat me especially so that I don't get hurt from you!''
''You are going to pay for speaking like that to me!'' He reaches for the meat tenderizer on the counter and runs after me with it trying to hit my head with it!
'This man doesn't care if I die! What am I going to...I've got an idea, I just hope I can make it!' Quickly I run towards the butcher block and grab a knife from it, just as my mother walks in through the kitchen door. I look over to her as my dad runs into the knife, piercing him in the chest. He falls to the ground with a pool of blood making it's way across the kitchen floor. And for the first time, my baby brother starts crying.
''Quick Ferika, go up to your room and grab some of your things, I don't want you to be around when the cops come!''
''But what about you?''
''Don't worry, I will say that I was the one who killed him...I will say that he was trying to kill me when I pulled the knife, and he ran into it...the cops are sure to let me off easy seeing as everyone knows he beats us.''
Quickly I run up the stairs to my room and grab enough supplies to last me for about a week, not including food. I run into my parents room and grabbed a secrete stash of money that my fucking father had hidden from my mother, but I had learned about it about a week ago! I grabbed the bag that I had thrown all of my things into and headed down to the garage. Once there I grabbed my bike and rode straight into the DuPont State Forest. Once I got far enough into the forest I just fell off my bike and started crying, how could I do that? How could I have killed my father, and not really feel any remorse? How could I do something so evil, and with such hatred...and not really give a damn about it! All I cared about was my mother; I just hope that she will be alright. I got back onto my bike and started riding off to see where I could get to, I rode for about two hours when I finally found small house like building. 'What is that doing there? Why haven't I ever seen it before?' I had ridden these trails multiple times just to get away from that bastard of a father I had, but never once had I seen this rundown little building. 'Wait, maybe I can live in there! As long as nothing has already attempted to claim it that is...' So I parked my bike right outside of the little building and knocked on the door ever so lightly. ''...'' no answer! 'Yes! That means that there is a good chance that no one is home! Or even that no one lives here!' I sang as I did my little mental happy dance. But the one thing that kept nagging at me was the fact that this is a national forest, why would someone build a house/small building in the middle of a national forest!
Beyond my better judgment I entered the building. It was dark, and the floor boards creaked as I took a few steps in. It had a very musty smell to it and I could see some cobwebs from the small rays of light coming in from the cracks in the ceiling. ''Great place you got going for yourself, Ferika!'' I said sarcastically. But just then, I tripped over a set of stairs that I didn't see in the middle of the room. I closed my eyes as I fell, but I didn't feel the ground pushing against my body...had I even landed? What was going on! As I opened my eyes, I found myself floating in what looked like an infinite abyss. There was black all around me; but it wasn't a darkness that I saw, it was more like I was looking out into space. As I looked around I found myself becoming more and more amazed and awestruck-until I finally hit rock bottom. I had landed. Although instead of being inside of that little room that I had been inside of before, I was outside. I was laying in a patch of grass, with some large solid thing pressing against my feet. As I got up I saw that, that solid thing was just a statue of some general, with dog ears? Wait! That guy, he looks somewhat familiar...but where did I see him before? I couldn't remember and decided to try to figure out the answer to that riddle a little later on in my life. As I got up I realized that I wasn't in my usual school wear, I wasn't wearing my blue jeans and pink tee shirt anymore...instead I was wearing a black kimono top with a little cherry blossom design following the fold up and a pair of black kimono pants. My hair was also a little longer than it normally was! Now my hair is reaching down to my butt! (As I had said before, I had shoulder length hair...this is a bit of a change for me!) And where did my glasses go! I will admit, I can see now without needing them...but still, where did they go-wait, I CAN FINALLY SEE! And my since of smell is impeccable! I can smell so many things now! Wow! As I am becoming more and more amazed at my new body, I had failed to notice that my ears were missing. But I learned that as soon as I had tried to tuck a strand of hair behind one of my missing ears!