It's Hard being the daughter of Sephiroth
especially after so many people want him dead.
I keep to myself alot and try to stay detached from my feelings-it's the only way to protect to poeple from me. From my secret.
When Bankotsu asked me about my parents, My REAL parents, I told him I didn't remember. To be honest, I don't remember anything about my mother, but my father is a whole different story. Even though I've never met him nor seen him face to face, I know EXACTLY what he looks like.(weird, huh?) Every night before I lay down to bed, I can hear his voice. When I sleep, I can see his face. He always says to me...
A faint hope...
A hollow laugh...
It echos from beneath the darkness.
those words have stayed with me since my birth. He laughs at me...torments me. I can feel him watching me. He's everywhere but nowhere. It is only when I take comfort in Bankotsu...when I'm near Bankotsu that my father cannot touch me.
Sometimes I just know things, ya know? Like the time Inuyasha was late to my inauguration ceremony. He told me he just lost track of time, but I knew from the glazed look in his eyes that he had been with Kikyo again.
I remember the expression on his face. He wore that 'You matter to me ' look.Still, I knew deep down he could care less about me.
"Are you made" he asked me.
"No."
And I wasn't. I was just disapointed. You really are a lousy liar Inuyasha.
Not too long after that, I became high priestess of the village. I was only 15 at the time. Since I was so young, the other priest and priestesses kept a close watch over me. They often told me it was shameful to be around Inuyasha the way I do. They said it was wrong to associate with a 'abomination'. MY answer to them was " Inuyasha raised since I was 8yrs old. So what does that make me?"
They never talked bad about Inuyasha again(At least, not when I was around)
Then came my birthday.My 'sweet' 16. You can probably guess it. Inuyasha never showed up. He never even said Happy birthday. I don't know when exactly me and Inuyasha started drifting apart. He was just never around anymore
Or maybe I wasn't there enough. Back then, He hurt me alot without really realizing it.
Shortly after that, he waltzed up to me, holding his arms in his sleeves like he always does. I was sitting in the shade of our favorite Cherry Blossom tree, right next to the village lake. I didn't want to talk to him right. Still...I thought I should at least say something.
" You missed my Birthday. You didn't even bother to say 'Happy Birthday' to me either."
" I'm sorry."
"My mentors, they don't want me near you. I stood up for you though."
"I"m sorry."
" Is 'I'm sorry' all you can say?''
Inuyasha said nothing. He only gazed at me with those big, golden, puppy dog eyes."Do you want out relationship to go further?"
I looked at him like he just spoke greek to me.
" You what!"
"Kimiko, do you want to go...further."
That time, I didn't say nothing. Honestly, I didn't want to. He sensed it and said" I understand" and sorta faded away. Now that I think about it, I didn't love him like I thought I did. Maybe I never loved him at all.
Inuyasha walked out of my life that day. Or...so I thought.
Several days passed and I hadn't seen him. I was skating across the lake when it happened.
Spinning...twirling...going round and round as fast as I could. I was trying to lose myself.
Inuyasha came out of nowhere. He was smiling. I stopped what I was doing and I met eyes with him. He had what looked like Kikyo's Shikon jewel. Why he had it, I didn't know.
That's when I got angry. He came up here to brag about him and kikyo to my face. I remeber screaming at him. He only grinned. I called him names and said somethings I shouldn't have. I said things I didn't mean. He laughed.
Next thing I knew, he was sprinting towards me, shouting " IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!"
Pain seared across my body. I saw blood spilling onto me. My blood.
And I heard my father's voice.
Estuans Interius(burning inside)
Ira Vehement(with violent anger)
Venias, surgite(Oh come, arise)
Mei liberi(my child)
Mei bellus volaticus liberi(my beautiful, winged child)
Somnus est non (your rest is gone)
Then everything...went blank. The last thing I saw was Inuyasha. I'll never forget that malicious look on his face for as long as I live.
I thought my life as over. I thought I was done for. I felt so lonely.Bankotsu, he saved me. And I haven't had single lonely day.