Chapter 5

I am so sorry, but I was grounded for a month, and couldn't type….but here it is finally. Chapter 5! YEAH!

Naraku laughed as he ran away from the human girl. Then he sobered at how he remembered she blasted him with pure light. He still tingled with sharp pain like needles poking him all over.

'She could be the Chosen, but I doubt it,' he thought to himself. He ran at superhuman speed, and stopped when he reached the border from the Northern and Western Lands. He turned around and waited for the girl to get up the mountain (You know, Naraku doesn't seem so evil when I'm talking about him…sigh...better work on that.) Naraku sighed impatiently.

'Humans are so slow,' he thought, annoyed. He could see her entering the palace; he was using his inhuman vision. He waited what seemed like hours and hours. He sighed a few times over the next hour, but to him it felt like a decade until he heard a scream. He smiled wickedly. 'So…she was indeed NOT the Chosen One,' he thought. 'Pity, she had such power.' He was about to turn away when he heard a laugh.

'What,' his thoughts exclaimed to him. He knew an old woman lived in the Palace, but she always felt pity for those who came to claim the sword. Anyway, the laugh had sounded musical and childish. He knew, though, even if she was the Chosen he couldn't go back because he had seen her power. He didn't want to take chances on his life, so he turned and ran toward the west.

Saria swung her sword left and right, and she heard the sword's song. It was sad, calming, joyful, and intimate at the same time. The sword and her connected immediately. She sheathed her sword and still stood gazing at herself in the mirror. She smiled and noticed her canine-like teeth.

"You seemed to be enjoying yourself, My Lady," said Kanya.

"Kanya," Saria warned. Kanya lifted a gray eyebrow.

"Sorry, Saria," Kanya corrected. Saria laughed. Her lime green eyes sparkled and then she suddenly frowned.

"Kanya, I want to see my family," she said. "I have to." Kanya nodded.

"Child, you have entered into this dimension for a purpose, and I am sure that God will allow you to go through the portal and back again," the old woman said wisely. Saria nodded.

"Then can I go," she questioned.

"Go, and make sure you hurry back for your training," Kanya said. Saria grinned.

"Cool, training," she exclaimed. Then she waved good bye to Kanya and bolted out the room window. She knew she could land easily now that she was Half Neko. She landed on her feet and raced at lightning speed down the hill. She laughed as she felt the wind whip at her face. She felt like she was flying! When she reached down the bottom of the mountain, she turned around and grinned at her kingdom. She couldn't wait to tell her family that she was a Queen. A ruler of a nation, and she felt that in the first time in her life she fit some where and she could call this place home. She sniffed the fresh air, but she smelled other odors too. 'People,' she thought. Many people.

Saria turned back around and noticed her door between two huge willow trees. It was time to see her family, but she wondered if any of them would recognize her. She shrugged and walked calmly toward her door. She reached for the knob and turned it. Bright light flashed around her, and she was back with her family.

"What the heck," her mother screamed when she saw her daughter. Saria smirked.

"Hi, Mom," she said calmly.

"Saria, is that you," her mother, Mrs. Jenkins, asked. Her daughter nodded.

"Yeah, it's me," she said. Her mother screamed. She could hear the thumps upstairs and then the scrambling down the stairs.

"Jane, Jane, is everything alright," Mr. Jenkins yelled. He stopped dead in his tracks when he reached the bottom step and saw his daughter.

"Saria," he questioned. She knew they knew her, even with the 'new look'. She heard her brother call from upstairs.

"Mom, Dad, Saria," Sky yelled. "What's happening?" He then scrambled down the stairs also when no one answered him. When he saw his sister, he laughed. Saria laughed with him. Ah her precious brother, how she loved him so.

"How long have I been gone," Saria asked when she stopped laughing. Her mother looked at her curiously.

"Well, you've been silent down here for over two hours," her mother said. Saria nodded. She noticed that sky was pulling her hair and then when he reached her ears, she purred. They all laughed then.

"So…you're a Neko…or Half Neko," her father said.

"Yeah, but dad I can't go like this in public," she said. Then she remembered that she must return quickly back to the other side of time. She told her parents what happened and how she was needed. She was surprised at how calmly they took it.

"We think that everyone has a purpose in life, and, Saria, this is your purpose," her Dad said. Her mother nodded in agreement.

"I will visit," she said. Her brother looked at her.

"Saria, can I come too," he asked. She shook her mass of calico hair.

"Not until I'm strong enough," she said. "And I don't even know you can go through time." He looked sad.

"I will make my training go as fast as I can, Sky," she said reassuringly. He smiled.

"How long can you stay," her parents asked.

"Dinner sounds like a start and then we wil pack some stuff that I might need then I think I will leave," she said to them. They looked sad, but confident in her.

"Alright, Sis, we may only have a short time, but I am sure we can make the best of it," her brother said as he draped an arm around her waist and then her parents joined him. They all walked up the stairs for their dinner, and they all knew this would be the last time 'til they would see her again for a very long time.