A/n: Still not that many reviews but we are getting better! Okay anyways here is the next chapter which is actually quite amazing for me seeing as how I usually never even get past chapter 6 on most stories. But as you can see I actually enjoy writing this one even if no one likes reviewing it. Well here is the almighty chapter 8. Read, Review ect…ect…ect…
Family Tree
Chapter 8: The Truth
"I'm the jewel…" Ayame said, just repeating what her mother had told her.
"Yes and there's more." Kagome said.
"What?" Ayame asked.
"The reason we left you in the modern era…it wasn't only because Sora was sick, it was because there were people after you that we feared for your life." Kagome said.
Ayame looked at her and anger met her eyes.
"You mean to tell me, that you have been lying to me this entire time that we have been back together?" Ayame asked.
"Yes, but for your own good Aya." Kagome said.
Ayame stood up. "I can't believe you would do that! I'm not a child! I'm seventeen mother not five!"
Kagome walked to console the angry teen however she was pushed back.
"Don't touch me!" Ayame shouted.
Inuyasha stood to try to intervene but he was too late when Ayame reached for her black backpack and ran out the door.
"Ayame!" Sora yelled and began to chase after her.
"She hates me…" Kagome said and started full out crying.
"No she doesn't." Inuyasha said and walked out the door after his daughters.
"Stupid family, always lying to me…" Ayame said to herself as she walked back to the well.
"Ayame, where are ye going child?"
Ayame looked to the speaker of the voice to find the old woman named Kaede. Ayame looked her up and down. She was amazed that the woman lived as long as she did. She remembered her 'mother' telling her that Kaede had been around since she was fifthteen and used to come here on the jewel mission. Ayame was amazed the woman could live this long, she had to be hitting eighty and that was uncommon to live that long in these days.
"Home, I can't stand it here anymore." Ayame replied.
"Ahh did ye and young Sora fight."
"The problem isn't her; it's those lying parents of mine." Ayame replied.
Kaede began to walk, well more like hobble in Ayame's eyes back into the small hut she and the fox-demon she had come to know as Shippo shared. It seemed Shippo was taking care of the elderly priestess in return for her kindness to him over the years. Ayame followed her inside and dropped the black backpack to the ground. Kaede sat down in front of a fire pit and began to make an herbal medicine. Ayame sat opposite to her and watched with interest.
"Now child tell me your troubles."
"Well, my mom and dad…they told me that I was the jewel."
"Ahh so they finally decided to let you know. Yes it was an odd turn of events; however you mother wouldn't see to anyone trying to fix the problem. She went on about how everything has a reason for happening."
"Yeah then why did she ditch me on my uncle?"
"Ahh, so that is what ye are angry about. I will tell ye the story."
Ayame sighed, but she knew she needed to listen. It was a history lesson yes, but one about her.
"You see child when ye were born as you know the jewel was one with ye. Everyone in the village began to worry that you would cause demons to come here and kill them and their own families so the begged of your mother and father to dispose of you. Your mother refused, and your father almost disposed of a few people himself. He was very overprotective of you, it was actually quite strange seeing him act the way he did when ye were born."
Ayame smiled seeing a mental picture in her head of her father with her as a child.
"Not long after your first birthday, your mother had found out she was yet again with child. Sora was born shortly after your second birthday. Your parents were the happiest I had seen them in a long time. You and Sora were inseparable for the first two years of her life. You protected her with all you might and she would giggle endlessly." Kaede said, and Ayame could tell she thought of the two girls as her grandchildren.
"So what happened? Why did they take me to my uncle?" Ayame asked.
"You see, on the eve of you're forth birthday a demon lord, by the name of Taromaru came to the village with his young son Kiromaru. He sought out your parents and tried to betroth you to his son." Kaede said and took in a long breath. "Your mother as well as your father refused. Your father was the one that actually told them that for one to marry he thought it best if they loved each other."
"Wow…" Ayame said.
"Yes, as you could guess Taromaru was furious and he threatened if they refused you to his son, he would come back and kill them then take you anyways."
"What a jerk." Ayame replied getting angry with a man she never even met.
"So you're mother, who worried for you're safety took you to your uncle in hopes that if they told Taromaru that you died of the same illness that you're sister at the time did have, they would leave you as well as the village alone." Kaede replied.
Ayame nodded as she started to understand her mother and father's reasons for leaving her in the modern era.
"However, Taromaru heard from a spy within the village that they had in fact taken you through the well. He came back enraged beyond compensation. He threatened if your mother did not bring you back he would make sure she would never see you again."
"So what happened? I know Mom didn't come get me."
"You are correct child. She refused, she said if he wanted to he could kill her but she would never allow her child to be taken by force. Instead of killing your mother he sealed the well with an ancient spell, that just until recently was one of the strongest spells I had come across."
"Then how was it broken?" Ayame asked.
"Why that is a mystery…however my best guess would be that you broke the spell child. You and your powers of the jewel." Kaede said and coughed lightly.
Ayame sighed and was about to ask more, however she forgot what she was going to say just as Shippo walked in through the door. He took the stack of firewood he was carrying to the corner of the room. He set it down and turned his attention onto Ayame.
"Your sister is looking for you."
"I suppose she would be." Ayame replied.
"What happened?"
"Mom told me about the jewel…"
Shippo nodded. "Yeah, that would shock me too."
"Yeah, not only did I just find out I have demon blood, but I am also the Shikon no tama…life has gotten a hell of a lot more interesting since that damn cat of mine lead me into the well house that night."
Shippo laughed and took a seat between Kaede and Ayame.
"Shippo would you please pass me some fire wood and the tea kettle." Kaede asked the demon.
Shippo nodded and went to retrieve the two items requested. Kaede took them from Shippo's hands and began to make a pot of tea.
"Well, aren't you going to go let them know you're safe?" Shippo asked.
Ayame shook her head no and smiled. "They can wonder for a little while, I need some alone time before I scream at them all."
Kaede chuckled and handed each of the teenagers, well not really but Shippo looks like one, a cup of tea. They took them with a smile and a "thank you".
"This is all so weird…" Ayame said after finishing her cup of tea.
"What is?" Shippo asked.
"That I'm sitting here, in feudal Japan talking to an elderly priestess and a fox-demon…" Ayame said. "And my dad is from this era, and my mom from another one…so what would that make me? Would I be from here or the future?"
"Uhhh…" Shippo said, not to sure himself.
"That is for you to decided child." Kaede said.
"So if I'm 17 here, does that technically make me 517 in the future even though I don't age…and if I'm from this time…wouldn't that technically make me older then my own mother?"
Shippo looked at Ayame with confusion. "Stop thinking so much." He said. "You are who you are, there isn't anything you can do about it."
Ayame sighed and looked at the bottom of her cup where the tea once was. The tea leaves at the bottom made the shape of a crescent moon.
A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. I don't exactly know where I am going with this story just yet…actually I am in the middle of putting on a performance of The Phantom of the Opera, with a few moderate changes like Christine staying with the Phantom at the end. But anyways please remember to review, and thanks for reading, oh and if you have any ideas/suggestions please feel free to tell me them, I just might just use them…or maybe write a whole different fanfic off that idea…