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Chapter 3: Noki's Story.

A few hours after Noki fainted, Inuyasha and Shippo were thinking. Razet was looking over Noki, who was on a mat.

"There's only one answer..." Inuyasha said.

"Yeah, and that gives us a major clue on who her father was..." Shippo said.

"It must be..." Inuyasha started to say.

"There's no other way..." Shippo started to say.

At that very second, Noki's eyes fluttered open.

"Noki!" Shippo said happily.

"Oh... great, you're awake." Inuyasha said.

"Noki-San?" Razet said carefully. "A-Are you okay?"

Noki sat up, rubbing the place where the crescent-moon-shape was. "H-Huh? What happened...?"

"After you changed back to normal, you blacked-out." Shippo told the confused girl.

"..Oh... I did?"

"Yeah." Inuyasha said.

"Oh..." Noki said.

"One thing..." Inuyasha said, crossing his arms.

"Yes?" Noki said.

"By any chance, is..." Shippo started.

"Is Sesshoumaru your father?" Inuyasha finished.

Noki looked surprised. "Wh-why yes... Umm... how do you know his name?"

The hanyou got ready to answer, but Shippo cut in. "Inuyasha here is his brother!" Inuyasha whacked Shippo on the head.

Noki was shocked. "..R-Really? ...Y-You are...?" Inuyasha nodded, and Shippo rubbed his now-sore head.

"Yeah... oh, Sesshoumaru never said anything about little peoples, accept Rin, how...?" Inuyasha asked.

"Well, I'm not really related to Sesshoumaru-Sama... well, I guess you can say I am, I do carry some of his blood—literally." Noki said.

"B... but the dog... those purple marks, the moon-shape... and that silver hair!" Shippo complained loudly.

"I know, but here's how it goes." Noki said almost sadly.

Flashback...

On a windy day, a long time ago, like, 10 yrs. or something, a little girl with long dark-brown hair and a tattered kimono, lay on the ground, almost dead. Her two departed parents lie next to her, their hands touching. Anyway, the girl found enough energy to sit up and glance at her once-living parents. She shed a few tears and glanced to her right. There lay a sword, so she daintily picked it up, and thought of killing herself. But no, something wouldn't let her. She was too miserable to even come close to killing herself. Instead, she just dropped the sword, stood up, and started walking. She staggered for a while, but eventually got the hang of walking with a slit left leg. She turned back, thinking of what had happened to their little village. A half an hour ago, a horrible, cruel demon with great power and black hair, tore through, killing everyone in his sight. She went back a few steps and picked up the sword, just in case she finds any demons.

Then she began walking again.

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The girl, after barely living for 7 months, finally came upon the demon that killed her parents and friends. It still looked menacing, even in a monkey-suit. But someone was fighting it, a man with light silver hair, a puffy sash-thing, and pointed ears. Next to him, or behind a rock hiding, was a little green thing holding a staff with 2 heads. He also had pointed ears. The girl watched the fight go on for a few minutes... actually, it was about 39 minutes when the monkey-suit guy finally noticed her. The silver-haired one didn't care, he thought the one in a monkey-suit was fooling with him—until the said monkey-suited guy blasted a powerful blast of black light at the girl. That's when the silver-haired one took notice. The girl went flying, almost dead again. The second life-threatening thing that has happened to her. And then the monkey-suited one thought his work was done here, so with a flash, he was gone.

The green-one saw the girl, and ran over to her.

He picked up her head, then called to the silver-haired one, who was sheathing is sword. "S-Sesshoumaru-Sama! It's a girl, what should we do?" The green one said.

The silver-haired one, who you know as Sesshoumaru, walked over and looked over the almost dead girl. "I don't think we can do anything, Jakken."

Jakken, the green-one, looked back to the girl. "We can't just let a little girl die like this, if she was a demon, that would be different, but she's a human."

Sesshy was going to say no again, but the girl started to say something. "...H... help, please..." And she fell back again. Sesshy, hearing this little tiny voice, had a quick change-of-heart. (Not all bad-guys are truly bad!) He picked up the girl, and said something very quietly, waving his arm over the girl at the same time. In an instant, the girl's dark-brown hair turned snowy-silver, she got purple marks on her cheeks, right where Sesshoumaru's are, and she gained dog-ears and a tail. Also, the sword she had, grew larger, and her eyes went from a hazel, to a nice blood-red.


"What did you do?" Jakken asked.

"I gave her some of my power, now she is a demon, and is stronger, so next time, I won't have to come save her." Sesshoumaru answered.

"W...Well, should we take her with us for a while?" Jakken asked, a slight sense of hope in his voice.

"...Fine, but keep her out of my way." Sesshoumaru answered again, turning to leave.

"Alright." Jakken said, dragging the girl. Sesshy turned around.

"You can't carry someone like that." He said, lifting the girl to his shoulders, then resting her there.

End Flashback...

"Over the years, he had called me his daughter twice. 'Daughter', saying it from him, is my favorite word. I long to hear him say it again." Noki explained. Then there was silence as everyone thought that through.