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A/N: Hey guys! I know I said 2 reviews but I just couldn't wait to put up a new chapter! I was on a roll! This chapter is probably a bit better than last chap so I hope you like it and I'll be waiting for your reviews!

Disclaimer: I don't own anybody but Kiotsu, Katanna, Nemaru, Takai, Sora, Tsunami, and future characters i'll make up or anybody I missed here.
(Still wish I owned Sesshy. T-T)

Chapter 13

----------Goes to other Dream----------

Kiotsu was in a hut with the man and the slightly younger version of his mother.

"What's a...", said Kiostu, pausing,"... Half-breed."

His mother and the man both sat in shock at what he said.

The man's head bent down so his bangs hid his eyes.

Kagome walked over towards him and said," Kiotsu, I want you to ignore anyone who says those words. They don't deserve your attention if they think that. Understand?"

Kiotsu nodded still confused and said,"But, what's a half-breed?"

The man tensed up and said,"Did someone call you that?"

"Yes", Kiotsu replied.

"Was it someone in the village?"

"Yes."

The man growled low in his throat.

"Who was it?"

"I don't know. I've never seen them before. I think they were new."

The man started to ground his teeth togeather and got up.

"Daddy?", Kiotsu asked.

Kiostu then noticed that the man's claws were longer and he had two jagged purple marks appearing on his face. His fangs were longer as well.

"Daddy?", Kiotsu asked again.

The man turned towards the door.

"Daddy?", Kiotsu asked standing up.

The man turned his head and growled in a deeper voice that usual", I'm going to get something at home.Don't follow me."

Kiotsu gasped when he saw the man had red eyes with golden orbs slowly turning blue.

----------End Dream----------

Kiotsu sat up in bed, eyes wide, breathing rapidly, and in a cold sweat.

'What just happened?', he thought,' There was that man again and what did that boy call me again? Half-breed? What's he talking about?'

Kiotsu got up, pushing the covers aside.

'I've finally made a decision', he thought, going down the hall,'I've got to ask mom... about my father.'

He came to his mother's closed door and knocked lightly.

"Mom?", he asked.

He got no reply.

"Mom?", he asked, again.

Once again, getting no reply, Kiotsu pushed open the door and looked inside. Kagome was lying in her bed, sleeping peacefully, with the lamp still on. He sighed and got ready to leave but spied something laying on the bed beside her. He walked over and realized it was a photo album but not one he'd seen before.

He walked over and picked it up. He opened it, suprised at the pictures inside. The first picture had his mother when she was around 16 maybe 17, dressed in a green and white sailor school uniform. She was with a young woman who looked to be about a year older than her. She had long dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, magneta eyeshadow, and was wearing ancient clothing from the feudal times. She also had a large boomerang on her back. She and his mother were laughing.

He flipped the page. The next one was with the young woman from before and a young man dressed in purple and black monk's robes. He had his black hair pulled into a small ponytail at the base of his neck, and violet eyes. The woman had her arms crossed and she was glaring at the man out of the corner of her eyes. The man had a red handprint on his face and he had a goofy smile, as he rubbed it.

He flipped the page again and came to a strange picture. There was the young red haired boy from his dream and he was laughing while he chased a strange 2 tailed, creme colored, cat.

'How odd', he thought.

He turned the page again and saw an old woman with an eyepatch gathering some herbs in a garden.

He turned the page and scanned it. The picture looked slightly lopsided as if the person had never taken a picture before. The monk and the woman were on the left hand side of the picture. The woman had her hand in her fist and was glaring at the monk so ferociously he was suprised the monk hadn't been burned by her gaze. Kiotsu looked at the monk and quickly looked away, shocked at where he had found the monk's hand. He looked near the middle and saw the little kid and the 2 tailed cat. The kid was waving and smiling. He looked to the right and saw his mother giving a real smile, something she rarely did anymore. Kiotsu sighed before looking beside her. Kiotsu's eyes widened as he looked at the person.

It was a man. He was glaring at the camera, teeth bared, looking as if he was growling at the camera and had his arms crossed. He was wearing a feudal era style red haroi and hakama and his feet lay bare. But that's not what shocked him. The man had long silver hair reaching down his back.

'Just like mine', Kiotsu thought, fingering a few strands.

He had golden yellow eyes and there were claws on his fingers.

'Also... just like mine', he said looking down at his clawed fingers and thinking of how many times he had looked in the mirror finding those golden yellow eyes looking back at him.

Then, Kiotsu looked up at the man's head and his eyes widened... a lot. He shakily, took his hand and let his finger's trail over the top of the man's head. He had...

"Dog ears", he whispered, unbelievingly," Just like Nemaru."

He looked at every feauture of the man, taking it all in. This was... his father. Why had he never seen him before? What happened to him? Did he just up and leave him like Katanna's father had? Leaving her alone with her mother?

Kiotsu's eyes saddened as his mind drifted to how much Katanna had been through. Her father had left her and her mother when Katanna was still very young. He remembered Katanna's mother. She had seemed so kind and caring but Katanna lost that in first grade. He remembered how Katanna had been called to the office. They were in art at that time.

----------Flashback----------

"Look Kiotsu", said a 5 year old Katanna," I drew a flower!"

She held up the sloppily painted red flower.

Even though Katanna was 5 she had been moved up to first grade already. Kiotsu was 6.

Kiotsu looked up from his painting and smiled as he said," Wow! That's really good!"

"I'm going to give it to Mommy", she said happily.

Katanna was beaming when suddenly the intercom came on. "Do you have Katanna Tagurasha in there?"

"Yes", Ms. Nikki replied.

"Could you please send her to the office?", the voice said, kind of sadly.

Katanna looked at Kiotsu and said," I wonder what I did?"

"Katanna", said Ms. Nikki," Go on down to the office, 'kay? You know where it is right?"

Katanna shook her head.

"I'll take her", said Kiotsu.

"Okay", said Ms. Nikki," You go show her where the office is."

Kiotsu and Katanna got up from there seats and left the room. Katanna followed Kiotsu through the building.

"I wonder why they want you", said Kiotsu," Did you do anything wrong?"

Katanna shook her head and said," I don't think I did."

They came to the office door and walked inside. The woman at the desk looked at Katanna and said," Are you Katanna?"

Katanna nodded her head and the woman's eyes saddened. She turned to Kiotsu and said," Are you a friend of hers?"

"Yeah", said Kiotsu," I'll leave now."

"No", said the lady," I think you should go with her."

Kiotsu was still confused but nodded his head.

"Go through there", the woman said, motioning to the door beside her.

They opened the door and went inside. The principal turned around and looked at them. The principal was a woman who looked like she was in her early 30's. She had dark brown hair and violet eyes. Her name was Mrs. Hikashi. She looked at Katanna and her face saddened.

"I'm guessing you're Katanna?", said Mrs. Hikashi.

Katanna nodded her head confusion in her eyes.

Mrs. Hikashi turned to look at Kiotsu and said," And may I ask who you are?"

"I'm Kiotsu", he replied," I'm her best friend so the lady outside told me I could come in."

Mrs. Hikashi nodded and said," After I say what I need to, you're probably going to be needed."

Kiotsu became even more confused. She turned to Katanna and sighed very sadly.

"Katanna", she said," we got a call..."

Katanna still looked confused.

"...from the police", she continued," there was a car crash. Both cars were destroyed."

Katanna's eyes were still filled with confusion but there seemed to be a glimmer of understanding as well.

Mrs. Hikashi took a deep breath and said," You're mother was one of the people."

Katanna's eyes widened as she slowly understood.

"I'm sorry", said Mrs. Hikashi," she was killed immediately. The other one... was your father."

Katanna started to slowly take steps back, her eyes wide. Her eyes started to grow wet as tears filled them. Kiotsu stood in shock as her words played in his mind. Timiko, as Katanna's mom always prefered to be called, had been like a second motherto Kiotsu and these news weighed heavily on him. He felt like he was going to cry but as he turned to look at Katanna he felt that he needed to be strong for her.

Kiotsu walked over to Katanna and touched her shoulder as he said, his voice cracking," K-Katanna."

She looked at him before burying her face in his shirt as she hugged him, letting the tears fall. Kiotsu hugged her back and his legs felt wobbly as the words went through his mind again. They collapsed to the ground as Kiotsu hugged her tighter feeling his cheeks grow wet as the tears he tried to hold back fell but he didn't let out any sobs like Katanna did. They sat there letting the sorrow filled tears fall.

----------End Flashback----------

'She's been through so much', thought Kiotsu,' her father abandoning her and her mother, both of her parents dying in one day, going to an orphanage, and having her heart broken.'

Kiotsu became angry at the thought of Takai's smug face and Sora that b...

'Wait', thought Kiotsu,' I'm not going to start cursing now. No matter how angry I am.'

Kiotsu thought back at the things she had been through.

'If you look at her now', he thought,' You'd never think she'd been through these kind of things. It seems almost unthinkable that someone like her has to go through so much. She doesn't and never did deserve to have to be put through that kind of stuff.'

He sighed as he thought about how Takai had treated her.

'How could he just dump her like that', he thought, angrily,'... that... that...'

He longed to call him so many things. Most of them, would make a sailor blush. He clenched his fist. Slowly, he calmed down as the thoughts left his mind. He sighed and looked down at the album he still held in his hands. He let his fingers trail over the man again.

He turned the page again. If he had any doubts that the man was his father before, he didn't now.

There was his mother but this time she looked like she was 18. She was sitting with the man on a tree branch and judging by the background they were on a very high branch. The thing, that made him truley believe that that was his dad now was that his mother and the man were, just like the song, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

The man was cupping her cheek with his hand and had the other at the small of her back. His mother had a hand on his cheast while the other was on his arm. There eyes were closed and you could tell immediately that they loved eachother.

The next picture would have made him laugh, but he stifled it, so he wouldn't wake up his mother.

It looked as if it had been taken after the first picture. The man was now looking at where the camera was and he looked as if he were getting ready to leap at it. His face looked angry but it couldn't cover up the red blush that covered his face. His mother's cheeks were pink as she looked at the person holding the camera.

The next one was of the man leaping at the camera, getting ready to tackle the person holding it. His mother was looking at him and she had the face she would get before she became angry.

He turned the page and it showed his mother in the tree and she was looking angry. She was pointing at the man and yelling something. The man had somehow stopped in mid leap and was falling towards the ground.

The next picture showed a deep hole in the ground shaped like the man. Below that it showed his mother now glaring at the person with the camera. Kiotsu actually winced under the heat of her glare.

He looked at a few more pictures. One picture was of the monk and young woman getting married. His mother was beside the woman, beaming at her. The man was beside the monk and was looking at his mother with a longing look in his eyes.

He flipped through some pages but after a few more pages, one caught his eye. It was his mother and the man. They were at another wedding but this time it was their's. His mother was smiling as she looked at the man. The man was smiling as well and his eyes were soft, unlike the other pictures of him.

He flipped the page again and his eyes widened. It was his mother again. The man was behind her and had his arms wrapped around her and resting on her swollen stomach. His mother was looking up at him, her hands placed over his, smiling softly. The man was smiling, and his eyes were shining with happiness.

He came to the final page and his eyes widened again. It showed his mother with the man again, but this time... she was holding a bundle in her arms. His mother was looking at it smiling with tears in her eyes. The man was beaming with pride. In his mother's arms, a white haired baby looked curiously at the camera with golden eyes. His fingers trailed over the baby.

'That's...that's...', he thought.

"...me...", he whispered softly.

He closed the album and held it tight against his cheast. Kiotsu was broken out of his trance as he heard his mother move slightly in her sleep. He set the photo album where he had found it and walked towards the door. When, he reached it, he turned around and took one last look at his mother before turning off the lamp and leaving the room, closing the door behind him.

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