Chapter 6- Learning the truth…

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In the library…

Two figures stood hunched over various books.

"So Miroku, what will we be doing today?" Kagome smiled. Even though the monk was perverted, he was wise and great to talk to.

"Well Kagome I thought that we should take a look at our pasts."

"OK! So what do we do first?"

Miroku smiled, Kagome was such a kind sweet innocent girl and so very helpful to anyone that needed help. "First you must find the book that has all of your families history in it. Then we can trace your past and find out what, and who, your ancestors were."

"Alrighty then! Lets get started!" Kagome quickly began to skim the many books in the history section of the grand library. 'Waaaahh! There's just too many books!' She began to nibble on her lip. 'How am I going to find it!' Suddenly her eyes hazed over and she went into a trance. Her body began to walk by itself down many rows of books, towards an old and dusty book that had a dark green velvet cover. Her hands reached up and pulled it from its place in the wall. As soon as the book was in her hands her eyes cleared up and she jumped. 'How did I get here?' She turned her head around frantically for some clue of where she was.

"Hmmm… Oh! What's this?" She examined the cover of the book.

The letters were printed in gold, but it was so old that they were faded away and was impossible to read. She flipped through the book, the musty smell of the book made her sneeze and cough as she breathed in some of the dust. 'Wow… What an old book.'

She opened the book and began to read its contents. As she read she found out that the book was about a two youkais that shared a forbidden love, and we're hunted down because of it. It was said that the woman was one of the most beautiful youkais in the world, where as her lover was said to have had many women who lusted after him as well. Her name was Sahori Kurumi and she was the princess of the City in the Sky. She had fallen in love Harukaas she gazed down upon the earth one day.

One day as she watched him she saw him battling a fierce demon that was jealous of Harukaand tried to kill him. Harukasurvived but just barely and was badly wounded. Sahori couldn't stand to see him in such pain and flew down to save him. She tended to his wounds as he passed out and as she finished and was about to leave he grasped her wrist.

"Who… Who are you?"

She gasped for she had been caught. "That is not important." She turned to flee but he held fast.

"Please my lady I beg of you to tell me your name. For I owe my life to you." He stood up and bowed, but then winced as he felt some of his wounds reopen.

"What are you doing! You'll reopen your wounds!" She forced him to lie back on the ground as she pressed her hands to his wounds and a white glow covered her hands as his wounds slowly began to heal themselves.

"Thank you."

She smiled. "You're welcome."

Later on they became very close to each other but their relationship was frowned upon by both of their clans. Many people came and warned them that they should stop before one of them would get hurt. But they did not listen for they were too in love with each other. When Sahori came back pregnant the entire city went in an uproar and set out to kill HarukaSahori could not stand to see this but her family imprisoned her in a cell and would not let her out. Instead of killing Harukaon sight they brought him back to their city and beheaded him in front of everyone. This is what started the war between the two clans, both ending in the destruction of each other. No one knew what happened to Sahori during that time, many say that she died during the war and her child along with her, while others said that she was still alive and was hiding both her and her child from the world.

'I wonder what happened…' Her eyes began to mist over. Their story was so sad… She had hoped that they would've gotten away and lived. But they had died… She continued to flip through it and found a family tree written in a language that was foreign to her. But some how they also looked familiar, she traced her fingers over the words and her eyes started to change from her aqua blue to a misty green.

"Kagome?"

"Eeeep!" She jumped into the air and spun around to glare at Miroku, her eyes changed immediately back to their original color. "Gah! Why did you sneak up on me?" Her eye was twitching hazardously and she was very tempted to whack him in the head.

"Eh? But I didn't Kagome-chan I didn't!" He pointed towards the book. "Besides you were so absorbed into that book that you didn't hear me." He walked closer to get a better view of the book. "By the way, what is it?" He snatched the book away from her, began to flip through the book, and ignored Kagome's cried of protest.

"Hey! Miroku! Give!" Jump. "It!" Jump. "Back!" This time she didn't bother jumping but settled for hitting him in the head and knocking him to the ground before taking the book back.

"Serves you right…"

"Ugh…" Miroku slowly stood up and rubbed the top of his head while glaring at Kagome.

"Why do you even have that book?"

"I… I don't know…" She turned to him. "Do you know which family this is about?"

Miroku took the book back from her and began to skim over the book. "No… Not really… Hmmmm." 'This book… It can't be… Could it?' He smiled and shook his head. "I'm sorry Kagome-chan but I don't know anything about this book." He placed a red book into her hands. "This is the book on your family. Now go and read it."

"Huh? Where are you going?"

"I have to go and talk to Inu Tashio-sama about something important." He smiled and patted her on the head. "Don't worry I'll be back soon. In the meantime you should start learning about your families history." He turned around and left Kagome standing there with the book in her arms.

"Well… That was a waste of time…" She sighed and walked towards the table and set the book down. "Well time to learn about my ancestors!" She smiled and began to skim through the book. 'Gaaaah! This is sooo boring!' She propped her chin up with her hand and began to think. 'You know what?' She smiled and began to flip through the pages. 'Here! I want to know more about my family.' Tracing the family tree with her fingers, she came to her mother and father's name. 'What? Hey! Where's my name!' Her eyes scanned frantically over the pages. "No…" She shook her head… 'No… It can't be true…' Her eyes began to tear up.

Flashback

"Who does she think she is?" Sneered a snake youkai.

"Yeah. Who does she think she is? Associating with upper class youkais like ourselves." Replied a cat youkai.

"That is what she should be doing." Snickered a bear youkai while pointing at Kagome, who was helping the maid pick up pieces of the plates. "She should be a servant."

"Hahaha! I agree. Just look how well she cleans up! She was born a servant, so why should she be treated like royalty?"

"I heard that she was found at the door step of the Higurashi estate and that the Higurashi family only took her in because they felt pity for her."

"Really?" Gasped the snake youkai.

"Yes. I myself was shocked when I heard the servants talking about that."

"Shh! Shh! She might hear us!"

The group of female youkais walked away laughing and continued to gossip about different subjects. Their servants trailing behind with heads bowed.

End Flashback

'It… It can't be… Sessho… He said it wasn't true…' She shook her head. It couldn't be… Everyone had said and acknowledged her as Kagome Higurashi. Could it be that everyone had lied to her? She was so confused… She didn't know what to do. She walked out of the library and into the garden to think it over. Five words spilled from her lips, changing her life forever. "They all lied to me…"

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