The Mutt

Chapter 12

Back in Kagome's room

"So youv'e raised Kagome since she was a child?" Tengi asked Niokay.

"Oh, hai. She stayed with us a whole summer." Niokay answered.

Tengi: "What was she like?"

Niokay: "She was very sweet"

Tengi: "That's sort of hard to believe"

Niokay: "The whole time she was with us, Kagome was human."

Tengi: "Human?"

Niokay: "Hai, she becomes human on the nights of the cresent moon"

Tengi: "How do you become human for a whole season? The cresent moon can't come out for a whole season."

Niokay: "Every ten years, on the season of their birth month, the mark of each Lord activates."

Tengi: "Activates how?"

Nokay: "Well, for example, this year during winter time it will rain as if it were spring in the Northern Lands. This is one of the ten years it will happen."

Tengi: "So, since it is now Fall..."

"The Lordess of the South has sakura blossoms blooming at the Southern Land palace" Niokay finished

"Oh, I get it. Because her sign is a sakura blossom." Tengi said

"Hai." Niokay was enjoying his company but she was very curious. "How did Kagome stumble upon you and your sister."

"Well it's a long story"

"I've got time" Niokay didn't take no for an answer.

"Well..."

FLASHBACK

"Anna run" Tengi screamed

Anna and Tengi's home were suddenly ambused by Central troops. They were recently living with their parents,one a Red neko and the other a Scarletcolor both in humaniod forms.Their otou had two tails and theiroka, one tail. The troops were of Central territory but Anna and Tengi's family were located in the Southern forest. The Head General rode a rageing hoarse while ordering the soldiers about. Hiswhite and grey hair was swishing all around him and his dark black eyes would scare the hell out of you. He had yellow and purple diamond marks in bunches of small dots on either end of his eyes.

"Kill them. Kill the nekos and burn the house to the ground. They are a threat to us all." He yelled with a devil's grin.

The soldiers all at once locked up the hut and set their home a blaze. The hut was made of wood and like all logde homes, set a fire easily.

They were trapped in their home and it was on fire no less.

'Tengi, you must take Anna and leave at once." His mother pleaded holdingher children tightly close.

"Iie, oka-san. I dare not leave you" Tengi was only 14 years old in human years and Anna was 3.

"Tengi, please my son." His mother started coughing from the smoke. "You must take your sister and continue on living." his father continued.

Tengi started crying. Anna was in her transformed state all huddled against her mother whon was being held be her father in a corner.They were all together in a corner. Flamming arrows were being flung by now.

"Outo, Oka, please. I want us to be together." Tengi was trying to be brave. Then Anna started hacking, as a cough for a cat.

"We have not the power to transform." Tengi was handed his sister and then is mother began crying. "Go son, Im counting on you. We will always be together." Then everything got blurry as Tengi transported out squeazing Anna close to him and weeping.

On the outside, more hazzard was happeneing. It was a gruesome sight indeed. They could see the General raising his sword at the sight and laughing with victory. Tengi hid Anna in a pocket he had big enough for her to fit in. She had passed out at this point. Just then a soldier spottedTengi and began chasing after him with two other troops. They chased him upon their hoarses until he tripped over antree root that was sticking up from the ground. Before he could look up one of the soldiers blades came down on his backside between the ribs. Tengi had died.

"That all?" one of the soldiers asked.

"Yeah, let's return to the boss

With that they all rode off on their hoarses and left.

Kagome, a 16 year old mutt, was traveling among the South. She had smelled smoke, alot of smoke, and felt the need to investigate. She recognized this home and remembered it belonged to a strange family of neko demons. Kagome cameupon the a small burnt,to seeit was diserted with ashes of wood on the groung. She noticed a pile burned wood in a corner of where the hut must have had a floor. She lifted dome wood only to see two hands sticking out of it clasped together. It appeared to be a man and woman holding hands, they were dead. Arrows were sticking from out of the pile that Kagome had not picked up. She took out a sudtra and laid it on the pile. "Rest in peace" She muttered in japanese.

'Hm. this fire had not occurred but a while ago and I can't detect the pilvagers because of all the polution. Shimatta.' Kagome thought.

Then she picked up something. "Iie, iie .Please Tengi wake up. Pleeeease." Kagome immediatly rushed to the scene.

Anna woke up a while after. It was dark and she couldn't breathe. Well no wonder. Tengi forgot that he put her in his pocket and went to sleep, and he was crushing her too. Maybe her parents even survived and were looking for them right now. She pushed her way from out of the dim hole.Anna was still in kitty form so it was harder with out thumbs. Eventually her cute head had peeked out the pocket and then her paws made way. But one she was out, Anna saw blood. She got so scared and leapt over Tengi to wake him up. First she began to sniff him and lick his nose. That ususally wakes him up. Cats are light sleepers. but once he delayed she transformed back.

"Tengi wake up, it's over. Tengi please wake up." Anna shook him and turned Tengi over on his back. Then she saw it. Then she saw the blood staines and stab mark on his stomach. Anna had not noticed it before because Tengi was wearing a black leather vest his father mad for him, but infront he was wearing a white farmer's shirt. They were not rich enough to afford kimonos. Their family made living by farming and Anna wanted to perform miricals when she was older to make more money for the family. Well, she can't do that now.

"Iie, iie. Please Tengi wake up. Pleeeease." Anna began sobbing all over Tengi, hugging him and just falling apart by the second. Next thing she knew a woman with her hair up in a bun and dressed in a black and white kimono walked up to her. Anna ignored her completley. Kagome understood that this must be the only survivng person from the home of nekos. The girl kept crying and paid no attention to Kagome.

Kagome went over to the neko girl and picked her up. She still ingnored Kagome but put up no fight. She was hurting too much to care. Anna cryed herself to sleep in Kagome's arms. She transformed back and Kagome saw her three tails which explained perfectly why the girl's home was burnt down in the first place.

Kagome glanced over at the neko boy who Anna claimed to be 'Tengi'. Maybe she had enough miko powers to revive one person and this was the one that Anna had begged to come back so...

Later on that evening...

A fire was set in the middle of now where. Anna had awoken to the sight of Kagome. She refused to look at her. Kagome didn't exactly have a pleasent look on her face though. She was staring out ahead of her-, as if looking at something. Even though Anna sensed that Kagome had a evil heart Anna trusted her for some reason. But hey, when she gets her energy back, if Kagome did try to kill her, Anna could easily out match a human. But right now, she couldn't barley look up. She was being held by the woman, and still in kitty form too.

Then Kagome got up and walked over to a nearby stream, still holding Anna. She poked her hand in and pulled out two fish. Anna thought that the fish was for her and the woman. But when cooked, Kagomeset themdown infront of Anna, who she set down, and a boy Anna just noticed. Hold on...that boy is Tengi. He was moving and eating and...Alive!

Anna tryed to get up but was too weak. Tengi couldn't even speak. He was recovering from being revived. Then Anna felt soft fingers underneath her stomach. It was the woman. She was helping Anna walk to her food to feed her. Anna has looked up to Kagome as a mother ever since...

END FLASHBACK

"And that's what happened" Tengi concluded.

"Oh, so I see that my mothering skills have worn off on Kagome. I'm so proud." Niokay said with a warm smile.

That's the end of this chapter-sorry-but i typed a lot

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