Hello everyone! It's seems as if the gods are against me right now. When I was watching the weekday episode of Inuyashaon adult swim they just happened to show the episode where Kikyo is resurrected and tries to kill Inuyasha the moment she sees him...yippee for me...at least I've got yet another reason for me to get pissed off and write this...god i hate that girl...
chapter3:vengeance
Talika's P.O.V
We had been traveling for most of the day Through that time the monk occasionally got himself injured by Sango as well as having to sit through Inuyasha's constant muttering about "how useless it was to be going all the way out here for some little pup"...I chose to ignore those comments though...and even though I knew Shippo was only a little kit...but his whining slowly started to drive me insane. I pitied Inuyasha for having to listen to that for nearly a year already...Kagome was actually the only one normal...almost motherly to wardsme. I couldn't quite figure it out...but by the slight tenseness around Inuyasha I think everyone else was taking some sort of hint and knew something I didn't...and it also involved Kagome as well... Soon we were almost there and with my demonic abilities I could see the ruins of the temple. All that was left was the ashes and a broken part of the entrance which, amazingly still stood. It was terrible. Who could have done something to destroy this much? And why? We had spent much of our time in solitude only aiding awaiting those who were desperate and willing enough to make the long journey to wards our temple for help. Then I saw two girls up there rummaging through the ashes.
"Oh it's you again!" one said turning around. Then I finally recognized them. It was some of the younger students I saw when I last was here. It must have been many years I was gone, since the last time I saw them, they were mere children. Their names were Botan and Momigi...I think.
"Oh my gosh! Sister! It's the cute little ones again! And they've brought more!" Momigi squealed running over to Kyra, Shippo and Kilala. (I have an excellent source that shows me that they are sisters )
"Wait! Stop hogging them all! I want to see them too!" Botan yelled trying to shove her away. As they were distracted by Kyra, Shippo and Kilala, I walked over to the piles of rubble. It tore me so deep to see the place I once called home, destroyed like this. But then again, ever since my master went away...this place never felt like home again...Then I kneeled to the ground as I suddenly blacked out.
"Oh my gosh! Talika!" Kagome yelled running over to her.
"Talika...was that not the name of the young hanyou who use to reside here when we were children? Dear kami...it's her...Botan! It's her! The hanyou girl that left with Tsubaki!"
"My word...it is her! All the stories we heard about as children were actually true!"
"Tsubaki? Wasn't that the name of the dark priestess that put the curse on Kagome two months
ago?" Sango asked whispering to Miroku. But a pair of hanyou ears also picked up their conversation as well.
"What did you say about Tsubaki?" Inuyasha asked turning around.
"We will explain once we get her inside. Come, there is a wing of the temple that was not damaged"
Momigi said motioning for them to follow. Kagome went and picked up Talika and then carried her to the direction the girls were headed towards. The others glanced quizzically at each other and then followed. (You'll get this part later)
Flashback:
'It's been atleast a month since she left...I wonder what she's has doing? I bet if I hurried...I could be able to track her or catch her scent still lingering around and follow her' I thought pacing back and forth.
"Young one. What ails you?" the priest asked me.
"I am worried for Tsubaki...I have not seen her in a month...and she always visits...do you know where she has gone?" I lied. I actually did have an idea of where she went, but I wanted to see what the priest knew about her...
"I'm sure she has just gone offfor a long meditation. Do not fret. She will return" he said patting my head. Even if he was telling the truth or not, I still was worried. A little voice in the back of my mind told me something was going to happen...
"Alright master. I will go and search for herbs. I shall probably return as the sun sets" I said before walking away. As soon as I was out of the priest's view I sprinted towards her scent. Then as I came closer to a clearing I heard voices so I quickly ducked into a bush nearby.
"Tsubaki! Why are you here?" a tall girl yelled. Her hair was tied into a low pony tail and she was wearing the traditional and old red and white priestess robes. I assumed that this was the Kikyo I overheard about.
" I am here to get what is rightfully mine! It was a mistake for my master and the taigiyas to allow you to keep the jewel. You are not qualified for such a responsibility...I know of the half demon you are involved with."
"And what business is of yours to care what I do? I was entrusted with the jewel. So obviously they deemed more worthy than you...besides...t'was your own master who handed it to me" the girl said smiling bitterly.
"What? You lie!"
"Now why would I be one to lie?"
"Shut up! I shall have the jewel either way!" Tsubaki yelled. Then she growled and from out of nowhere a snake demon appeared and master Tsubaki sent it directly to Kikyo, but before it got to her, Kikyo brought out her bow and it was repelled back and straight into Tsubaki's eye. Once I heard her screaming I could no longer sit and watch, so I ran out of the bush and to her aid.
"Master! Are you alright? Please! Say something!" I yelled trying to wake her. During all of this Kikyo did nothing but sit and watch.
"Do not waste your tears over her. She is still alive..."
"You! You're the one that did this! How could you! Everyone say you're such a compassionate priestess but yet you would strike down my master and then not help me or her in anyway!"
"I am helping you right now by sparing you! Now go! Get her out of my sight before I finish her off...for good." she said walking away.
"I swear that one day I will seek you out Kikyo! I will come and avenge my master. You are going to suffer in the worst possible way...just like my master suffers" I yelled at her retreating figure. Then I gently lifted my master onto my back and carried her away. After what seemed to be hours she finally woke up. We were now deep within a cave that was behind a waterfall and I had started a fire for her with some incense burning which would help her awaken.
"Talika. What are you dong here?"
"I followed you...and then when you were hurt...I brought you here..."
"You should not have come. Look at me now! My face...my beautiful face...it's ruined..." she sobbed.
"Do not worry master...you are alive that's all that matters..." I said, trying to comfort her. Now my master had burn marks on her right eye from where the demon had entered. She prided herself on her appearance and her effort. And now she had nothing left. No temple would let her in sensing a demonic presence within her and she would refuse to ever show her face again to the outside world...she had truly lost everything she held dearly.
"It was HER. Kikyo is the one that did this to me! Now I have been ruined because of her!" my master seethed.
"Master...it will be fine...you'll see. She shall not get away with what she has done...I swear it..." I growled clenching my hands.
"Do not fret...she shall have retribution...but for now we must prepare...while I was gone I heard of other mikos which prove to be more powerful. We must train in their ways. Their powers are used to seek out vengeance on those who have wronged others and they feed off the darkness in one's heart. If the evil is strong within them, then they suffer more. It is actually very lenient method if you ask me"
"I agree. I'm sure that after a few days they come back to repent. We must learn these techniques!"
"We will venture away to seek these dark mikos ...and from here on you will now be my disciple. And we shall learn these new ways"
"Together?" I asked excitedly.
"Yes...together..."
"Alright. I think it would be best if you started to explain." Miroku said sitting in front of them. The two sisters glanced at each other before beginning their story.
"Well...when we were merely children here, Talika also stayed here. I seem to recall that she and Tsubaki had a very strong friendship and loyalty to one another...I believe the others said that she was the only one who Tsubaki was everkind to. I remember stories the elders told us as children about fifty years when they said that Tsubaki was still kind and compassionate. The elders said that they Tsubaki had found her as a toddler, on the brink of death in the wilderness one day and disobeyed the temple code and brought her here to heal against many of the others wishes. Later, she convinced the head priest to allow Talika to stay and learn to be a miko as well. Many of the other people whoresided here did not like the fact that a hanyou stayed and learned here and so they say, that they began to beat her everyday as soon as Tsubaki left for her meditation until sunset. But because of her hanyou abilities they healed over night so Tsubaki never found out. One day Tsubaki came back early because of an approaching storm and found them in the act of beating her." Botan explained.
"I have heard that she went into a total rage and her miko powers nearly toppled over the entire temple. From that day on no one dared to hurt Talika out of fear that Tsubaki would unleash her destructive powers again, this time even stronger, and surely kill them all" Momigi added.
"And after that Talika pledged her services to her in every way possible in gratitude and loyalty to Tsubaki. And once Tsubaki left the temple, she soon followed and became Tsubaki's disciple"
"And after that?" Inuyasha inquired.
"That is all we've ever heard. We never once believed the story was true about Tsubaki having a follower until we laid eyes on her for ourselves just a few minutes ago"
"Besides Inuyasha, it's a children's story. Meaning that it most likely will have a happy ending" Shippo informed him.
"So you're saying...50 years ago...Tsubaki was actually nice?" Sango asked incredulously.
"Keh! It was only a children's story. You can't possibly believe it was true" Inuyasha snorted.
"Of course it was...why do you think she came back?" Kagome said softly, speaking for the first time since she had carried Talika in.
Flashback
"The Tahou tower? We were just there a few months ago...but why would a little girl like you be going there all by yourself."
"I am on a mission to fulfil her last and dying wish. And hopefully I will find closure as well"Talika explained.
"Kagome is right. Why wouldn't the stories be true? Her loyalty for her master, has lead her here. To the last place her master was before her death, where she hopes to find clues to her master's dying wish."
"The poor thing...she was truly loyal to her master. Although through it all Tsubaki was slowly getting corrupted and she didn't even know it"
"Hold on there! See, now you're looking too into this. For all we know, she was in on Tsubaki's curses the whole time."
"First of all! She doesn't even know how Tsubaki died! And second if she was in on it with Tsubaki would have beenthere along with her! And then she would have known about you and your Backlash Wave!" Kagome screamed frustrated. (I don't care if there's another name for this attack. In American this is the name of the attack that killed her)
"Kagome does seem to have brought up some points." Sango reasoned.
"I agree" Shippo commented.
"Either way. It is best we wait until Talika wakes up to tell her side of the story"
Ta da! My computer has been a bit fritzy so it took a bit of time (and effort) to get this chapter up. I will now go on andstart writing another chapter toone of my stories...which one to pick?
