Chapter 9: My Brother's Name
"Well, I got one more letter added to his name." I said at breakfast that morning. Sesshoumaru, Jaken, and I ate alone, away from Inuyasha and the others. "What was the letter?" Sesshoumaru asked. "G." I answered flatly. "'G'?" Sesshoumaru averted his gaze from his meal, and stared directly at me. "Yes, a 'G'. Now it spells Onig. Who's Onig?" I asked confused. Sesshoumaru shrugged, cleaning his bowl. "Maybe more dreams will come, and you'll gather more letters as they come along." He rose, and took both our bowls and left. "Well, maybe there'll only be a few more dreams…Only a few…" I thought. That's what I did think, but alas as the nights came and went I gathered only two letters a U and a M. Sadly, the quest to find more letters wasn't finished here, but no more dreams of the man came, and from the dream when I recovered the G, I realized something. The man was as I described, as the U dream and the M dream came, I saw his hair was jet black and he had demonic red eyes. But this night's dream was not of the man, but of some one else.
Dream Memory
I saw a stern looking man with short, golden hair and blue eyes, and a woman with long, wavy, brown hair and purple eyes, like mine. The man was dressed in a monk's clothing, from the looks of him he is, or was, a monk from the Village of the Dragon. Then, I turned to the woman; she wore a beautiful Kimono, embroidered with different silks of many colors, reds, blues, but manly oranges. The oranges and reds made up a pattern running up and down her sleeves to the stomach section of the kimono, it was a creature. Wings stretched out of the flames, I noticed, it was a phoenix. "A phoenix?" I thought. I remembered then their names the man's name was Taiki, and the woman's was Yasuna. One word came to mind after their names….Parents… "Mom, Dad?" I started to cry a bit. Then, Yasuna disappeared then after Taiki. "No, Yasuna, Taiki! Don't leave me!" I yelled.
I awoke to Inuyasha shaking me to wake up. "Are you insane!" He yelled fiercely. Suddenly, Kagome rushed in, and yelled, "Inuyasha!" He spun around to see her, angry faced, in the doorway. "Sit boy!" She continued. The magic in the necklace around his neck went off, sending him to make his face meet the floor. "Are you okay?" Kagome asked, a bit nicer. I nodded, still wondering why the memories of my parents are coming back now. "What was it?" Kagome said, helping me to sit against the wooden wall of the hut. "Well," I gulped hard looking for the right words, "I saw…My—parents." "Your—parents?" She replied. I nodded again, "Except, they looked like—they were dying." I remarked starting to quiver. "Y'know, I think I have to be alone right now. So, I'm going to go to the river." I stood up and started to walk to the door. Noticing Kagome was following me I added, "Alone." As I walked out, she stayed behind to help Inuyasha out of the indent of the floor he made. "Why can't I get these thoughts out of my head? I mean, I had a memory of my parents, but—I still don't know the other letters to his—" I stopped myself in thought. The final letter had made itself visible, an O. "Onigumo." I stuttered as I spoke the name. My eyes filled with tears of happiness, "Yes! I know his name! I know his real, true, full name!" I went about the village screaming those sentences over and over and over again.
Sango turned to see me jumping up and down and all around screaming that I knew my brother's name. "Rafe? Then what is his name?" She asked. Inuyasha, Shippo, Miroku, Sesshoumaru, Jaken, Kagome, and Lady Kaede joined us. "Well child, speak up, what is his name?" Lady Kaede snapped. Everyone else joined in asking the same question. "His name…" I pause for a dramatic effect. Everyone leaned in closer, ears and eyes wide open. "Onigumo." I said at last. Lady Kaede started to cry, Sango, Kagome, and Shippo tried to comfort her, but I didn't understand what she was so upset about. "Is something wrong?" I asked. "Yeah something's wrong!" Inuyasha said sharply, "You're brother's Naraku!" To be continued.