Hi! Achoo! Yeah, I'm a bit sick, but it's only a little cold. But I did have to be off from the school today, and I thought I would update. Well, I'm now bringing her here. I own nothing but her! English is not my first language!

Chapter four: Kohana, and Kohaku's past

When Chihiro, Kohaku and Rin reached the village, they saw many people were looking tem in a weird way. They also started to whisper with each other. Chihiro heard they said something like this: "I wonder if they have come to get her…."

'Who her?' She thought. Then suddenly, a man came in front of them

"Who are you and what you want here?"

"We're looking for fairy wings" answered Rin

"You're lying! You're from the Bathhouse! Get away from here, before I do something!"

"What's going on here?" called a beautiful woman's voice behind this man

"Kohana-sama! Get those people go away, they are here for you after all!"

"You. Who are you? What do you want here?"

"We're just looking for some fairy wings" Chihiro answered. She or the others couldn't see woman's face, because she had a gouge, which hide her face

"Then I don't see the problem. You again didn't let them even explain first right?" She asked the man. Man looked scared and ran away

"You three, follow me. You can live in my house while you are here." They followed her to biggest house of the village.

"Wow. It seems that you're pretty noble here."

"Well, maybe, or at least I was…" then she took away her gouge and turned around to face them. They could see that her looks fitted perfectly to her voice, she was very beautiful. She had really dark brown hair, which looked black, tied behind her neck with white ribbon, pale face, and the most seeing side, her eyes. They were emerald green. Chihiro saw something very familial in those eyes.

Then suddenly Kohaku's head started to hurt, while he looked this woman in the eye. He crouched.

"Kohaku! Are you okay, does it hurt somewhere?" Chihiro asked worried.

"I'm…I'm…fine. It's just a head ache." He said, trying to hide his pain. Something in this strange woman was awfully familiar to him.

"Here, drink this. It might taste awful, but it'll make you feel better" Kohana said, handing him a glass of something as green drink as her eyes. Kohaku drank it, but find out it really tasted awful, like a over-boiled pea.

"Yh, what was that thing?" he asked

"Just some old family medicine. But you feel better now, don't you?" She said with a smile

Kohaku noticed she spoke truth

"You're…you're right. My head doesn't hurt anymore"

"I told you so. But come in, come in"

they followed her more inside. They went to kitchen and Kohana started to prepare food for them.

"Uh, Kohana, right? What was that earlier with that man?" asked Chihiro

"I'm sorry about that. It's just that most of the people of this village are scared to death, because they think that the Bathhouse's keeper sends here her minions to get me"

"Yubaba? What does she want with you?"

"Just to kill me, like my family. And what can I call you?"

"Chihiro. This is Rin and this is Kohaku" Chihiro answered

"Kohaku, huh? I once knew someone with that name too"

"Who?"

"My little brother. After our parents died, I took care of him, but he also left me, when he was seven to learn a magic"

she didn't say anything else, but just served a food for them and then they ate silent. Chihiro noticed she often looked to Kohaku, but no one else didn't seem to notice. Chihiro kind of started to feel jealousy.

'Chihiro, what are you thinking? She's much older than him too' Kohana was however awfully young looking, even though she had to be at least 25.

Later, when they had went to sleep, Chihiro noticed Kohana wasn't there. She sat up and then stand. She went out and saw Kohana outside under the cherry blossom tree.

"Kohaku, you've grown so much. I can't believe it's you, after all these years, but what's wrong with you? I know there is something…"

"He's cursed." Chihiro answered

"Chi-Chihiro! You scared me! Cursed? What do you mean?"

"Someone put a curse on him and we're looking substances of the cure. Fairy wings are one substance."

"I see. What are the others?"

"Phoenix feather, sunlight, three herbs unknown to me, piece of the shadow, we got it already and his own blood. But what were you talking about? Have you known Kohaku before?"

"Okay, I guess I have to tell you. Kohaku is my long lost little brother. I'm his only relative"

"I guessed it. Can you tell me your story. I want to know, and Kohaku can't tell me, because he can't remember it"

"Alright.

Well, twenty- nine years ago I was born in the royal family of the Water Realm. I was princess, but because I was female, I couldn't be the next ruler, if I didn't marry my brother. Spirits can marry their own brothers and sisters, it has been a tradition in royal families since forever, also our parents were siblings.

I grew up happy childhood. I had my own bodyguard when I was 5. She became my very good friend. Her name was Karin. However, my parents didn't get a new child and next generation of our family seemed hopeless. I however lived happily still.

When I was 7, to our home came two witch sisters, Yubaba and Zeniba. They became my father's, Kenshin's students. I never liked Yubaba very much, but Zeniba was nice, she became like my aunt and she was my baby sitter, when mother and father were away.

Finally, when I turned 12, my little brother, Kohaku was born. However our parents decided I was way too old to marry him, when we grew up, so I wasn't anymore going to do it. However, terrible things started to happen, someone had attached Kohaku and put half of the bathhouse on fire. And just half year after that happened, our parents got killed, by Yubaba! I always knew she wasn't honest with my parents! I however managed to escape with just 1 year old Kohaku. We went to live Zeniba's house, but because of Karin's warn, we knew Yubaba was after us and we escaped to Human World.

There, we lived happily four year, Kohaku took care of his river once in while, but then, humans destroyed his river and he just left. To Yubaba. He left me this letter.." She handed Chihiro an old looking letter. It read:

'Dear Ane-ue,

I'm going to leave this world. Humans have destroyed my river, and I want to learn how to do magic, so I can get it back and someday take advance for our parents. I'm going to Spirit World, to witch called Yubaba. I've hear she is quite powerful and can probably teach me. I'll miss you, Ane-ue, but I promise I'll come back someday. Then, we can take our revenge for our parents sake. I love you Ane-ue, always will.

Your brother,

Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi'

"Of course, after I found his letter, I tried to go and stop him, but right after I went to Spirit World, Yubaba cursed me and put me to this village. I can't leave here, unless my brother someday would come here. Now he has and I'm free, but I would like to help you somehow to save him…"

"Why don't you come with us? More help wouldn't be bad"

"Are you serious? Of course, if they also accept it"

"I'm sure they will. But two more things, why did he go to Yubaba in the first place, if she killed your parents? And why don't you tell him you're his sister?"

"First one is because I didn't tell him who killed them. I tried to protect him, so he wouldn't try to kill her before he was ready. And second one…think it like this, if I came to you and you wouldn't have known me more than few hours, and I would tell you I was your sister, what would you think?"

"I…I would probably think you're out of your mind and would go away"

"That's right. He needs to remember it by himself. I don't really want to lose him again"

"I understand."

"But let's go to sleep, you'll need your strengths"

So they went to inside and to sleep.

End of chapter four.

Hey! I hope you're not mad at me for bringing Kohana so soon. She just is a dear to me and I wanted to bring her soon. Later, there will be another of my own characters, but she will surely appear later. Ane-ue is by the way one way to say "Big sister". Ask if you need to know something about Japanese words I use. By the way, Kohana's name means "little flower" and Kenshin means "sword heart", their mother's name is Gina, which means "silvery".

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