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Peacock Feathers

III

That was pretty funny… What an absurd coincidence, I was telling myself.

What a scary coincidence…..

"Ya know," I cleared my throat and continued. "I…I can see ghosts…Well, obviously you know that…'Cause," I paused again, trying desperately to swallow the lump in my throat.

"What?" He barked. "No mortal can see spirits. NONE. So don't you dare come off acting like you, a wimpy human GIRL can see the dead." Kagome winced. Ouch. That hurt. But he was wrong. What a fool… the poor poltergeist didn't even know he was dead. "Listen, I hate to tell you, but… I can see ghosts. Ask anyone. Ask one of your little ghost friends! Oh, pardon. I forgot that poltergeists don't have friends…" My mind wandered after I said that to the little kitsune boy...

What relation did they have with eachother? Poltergeists were usually loners...

His teeth clenched and I saw his eyelid begin to twitch.

"Y-you..are.. You're crazy! Dangit. And I was sensing all this energy from here too… Maybe in the next house over..but.. I'm never wrong! Still… GAAAH!"
His back was turned and his hands swung up to grip the top of his head. His clawed fingers raked through his silver hair and he appeared to be arguing with himself.

I slowly made my way off of my bed. I had to get away… Get out of my room. To my mother. …Well that was stupid. My mother didn't have the slightest bit of spiritual energy. She couldn't protect me. But my child instinct urged me to go to my mom.

Finally standing on the ground, I turned and bolted.

I slammed the door behind me, which was dumb considering that ghosts could go through walls. I screamed as loud as I could. Perhaps to alert my mother that I was in danger. I heard my door open and I gripped onto the railing on the stairs. I swung myself onto it and slid down. My mother immediately came into view. 'Thank you.' I said to myself. 'Thank you mother...' She had a panicked look on her face. "What—OH MY GOD!" I landed on the ground at her feet and she moved protectively in front of me.

"What do you want?" She said warily.

I sighed and smiled. I was safe. She would help me…

Suddenly, my eyes snapped open and I lost my breath. "Mother…You can…?"

"Hush, Kagome." She whispered. "I will ask you again, demon, what do you want?"

He smirked. I pearl-white fang gripped onto his bottom lip. He lowered one of his eyebrows. "I want to know where the Chosen is."

Silence filled the house and still my mother stood there with her arms spread apart.

"The… Chosen." She whispered. "The Chosen…" I couldn't see my mother's face from the position I was in, but I could see that she was shaking slightly.

"Yes. The Chosen. And I won't stop raiding this house until I find him. He's around this house…somewhere. I've decided that much. You see," He suddenly leapt halfway down the stairs in one swift motion. I slammed myself up against the wall on reflex.

My mother, on the other hand, hadn't even flinched.

This made me feel weaker than you can imagine.

His ears turned sideways and he lowered his eyebrows, and suddenly, he had become serious-looking.

"I was trained all my life to fight in ways that humans have never even heard of. I can see the aura of a flea just by looking at it…" He took a step down. "So, imagine my problem, if you can…"

Another step.

"I was trained all my life to find the aura of a person I have never seen before. And all who had seen him have long since perished. So I was trained by men who hadn't seen him either. They were teaching me from how they themselves were taught."

Five steps.

"It was always described to me...The aura... As huge. Massive." His eyes became strangely vacant as he stared at the wall. "Something I would only know when I had seen it… Something containing so much power that at first…I would be afraid."

He took his last step down. "So imagine my plight when I come here…After countless months of searching this forsaken planet for this gigantic aura… That the largest one I have seen is mixing around stupidly in this house. It doesn't seem to belong to anything. It's just floating. This large amount… And the most I can see from where I'm standing is clinging to…" He reached out and arm and gripped my mother's shoulder. 'Mom!' I screamed to myself. He moved her aside and looked down at me with a sort of disgusted expression. "You."

I slowly reached a hand up to clench my chest and felt my heart skip a beat.

"…….Me...?" My heart pounded deafeningly in my head as I stared at him.

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