My head felt like HECK. What the hell happened? I slowly opened my eyes. I started at the ground. Oh yea, I had fainted; that's why I was starting at dirt. I pushed my arm out from under my body. I tried to at least flip over so I was lying on my back. It didn't work out too well but I did manage to roll on to my shoulder. Unfortunately it was my bad arm. Well I guess if you're going to try to roll over I guess that's one way. My arm kinda caused me to roll off it so I was laying on my back.

I kinda just sat there for about half an hour or so staring at the so called "sky." It was merely just a shade of gray painted above me. I sat up as soon as I thought I could. It was a little too so but I didn't feel as bad as before. My eye sight was a little blurry but I could see in front of me. I looked around really quickly before I realized that I was totally alone. Kiana wasn't anywhere near me or anywhere I could see. I took another look before I realized there was a wall of orange and red surrounding me.

I rubbed my eyes and I looked around with a clearer vision. It wasn't just a wall of red and orange, it was a wall of fire. I took another look above me and below me. Gray sky and dirt ground. It wasn't the ground that shocked me as much as the sky did. They gray was too dark to be even clouds.

Wait a minute. I had lost QUITE a lot of blood before I fainted. Wait! Did that mean I was in Hell? My eyes widened. OH CRAP. That sucked. I couldn't really believe it until I started to sweat a little. Hell was supposed to be hot right? That MUST be proof that I was in Hell. I had always kinda wondered what Hell was like or if it was nicer than what everyone said. Apparently I was wrong. Me: 0 Everyone Else: like 1000. I guess I just sat there for a little while before it really started to get hot. My hair was plastered to my skin from my sweat. I would have taken off my demon slayer outfit IF I wouldn't be self conscious. I might have been alone but I felt as if the whole world had their eyes were on me. I even felt as if I was blushing. Not from just being hot but from being embarrassed. Mostly because of years of training I was able to go less than a month on my own. My grandmother had even said I was the best demon slayer she'd seen. Then the others must have sucked. Either that or maybe she just said that. Ah Hell, I was stupid Of course. It was the grandmother act. But would she really lie to me about something so serious?

Well at the moment I didn't care. All I really cared about at the moment was getting my fucking stomach to stop acting up. God I swear, if I wasn't me, I would have cut my stomach out. Wait? Could you die in Hell? I didn't think so since you were already dead but if I cut my stomach out wouldn't that kill me? God was I confused. But could you get sick? Cause I already felt like I was.

Maybe if I lay down my stomach will feel better. Hey, if I was going to be in here for like another 100 years, why not like just sleep it away. I guess I was a little more tired than I thought I was cause I swear I fell asleep as soon as I hit the ground.

"Hey, I think she might be waking up." My eyes slowly opened themselves. I wanted to, I tried to keep them closed but they just tend to open themselves. I swear I have like no control over them. I felt my head being cooled off with a washcloth or towel. I didn't know and I personally didn't care. I looked around. I could barely believe it. I wasn't in Hell. Well, at least not in this dream. "Hey, are you okay?"

I rubbed my head as I sat up, "Yea, I think so." I was pretty tired again. Maybe I hadn't been "sleeping" for as long as I thought I had been.

"So what's your name?" A girl asked. She looked kinda odd. She was wearing a tiny green skirt, a long sleeve white shirt with a collar type of thing that was the same color as her skirt. "I'm Kagome."

"I'm, I'm Ari." I stumbled.

"That's a really pretty name." She smiled. "That guy in the tree, over there is InuYasha. He's a half demon. The Monk is Miroku, Sango is the Demon Slayer." My eyes slightly narrowed when she told me about Sango. "And Shippou is the little Kitsune." I guess she didn't see my eye but Sango sure as hell did.

"So, don't mind me asking but why are you dressed like a Demon Slayer?" Sango asked me. I thought she had a pretty voice, unlike mine. I thought mine was too light and happy sounding. I was FAR from being "happy" often.

"So, are you from the Demon Slayer Village?" I asked, not bothering to answer her question.

"Yea." She sounded a little reluctant to tell me. Her voice seemed to just quiver, not enough to really notice unless you were really listening. Like me. Everyone always had said, "I was a good listener." Hell like I was, I rarely ever listened and when I did I guess I just listened really well.

"Do you where it is?" I asked.

"It was, burned." She said now her voice noticeable to everyone else. I felt stupid to even ask after hearing her voice like that. She swallowed before her voice returned to normal or what I would call normal. "What is your spear called?"

"Shitobaru. It was a "birthday" present." I said, it was more of a weapon that my grandmother had given me because she didn't have enough money to pay for anything else. I wasn't complaining, I was merely stating the facts though it may have sounded like a complaint. It was actually the best present I had ever gotten I guess. It was the only thing left of her that I had.

"The Shitobaru?" She asked making it sound as if it were the Stone Bowl of Buddha.

"Yea, it was my grandmother's." I said.

"You mean, you're the granddaughter of Aiko. The best Demon Slayer in near 100 years of the village." She asked. I swear, if she had been 13, like me, her eyes would have been as wide as, well, I guess they would have been wider than normal.

"Yea."

"Then, there is a possibly, we could be related." She said.

"How?" I was a little confused. I don't know what I was confused about, I just was. It seemed as if it was easy to get me confused at times.

"She was my grandmother too. I never knew her though since she was gone before I was born." She said.

She just lost me farther there. "Huh?" I asked.

"Well, you do know she left the village right?" She asked and I nodded. "She left cause she hated our grandfather. She must have already been pregnant with your mother or father cause she never was married to anyone else. Right?"

"Yes, my father." I answered.

"Well and she took her weapon with her. It was supposed to be passed down to me since I was the first Granddaughter but she left before I was born and she never came back to the village." She finished, "Get it?"

"Yea." I said. I guess it made more sense, if Grandmother was here she'd explain this fully but she wasn't so there wasn't any hope of her coming back to life just to tell me how me and Sango were cousins. It wasn't that important but I was just curios. I had always wanted an older sister, I mean, I had had an older brother but he didn't count. I guess an older cousin was just going to have to count.