I felt a gentle breeze blow around me as I walked into the river to wash off the blood and dirt from the past few days.
"S-so c-c-cold!" Kagome said shrinking in the water. I'd forgotten that Kagome was in the river with me.
"Kagome, don't be unreasonable and come out." Kaede called to her.
"No way! I'm covered with blood and mud...I can't stand it!" she told the old woman.
"Do you want me to heat up the water for you?" I asked her. I was fine with the cold water but being what I was, I would always be okay with it.
"You can do that?" she asked me.
"Sure. Heating up the water is easy, especially with the fire Kaede has going over there." I reached my hand out to the fire and some small bit of the flame came top me. I put the fire close to the water and said a spell to heat up the water.
"Thanks Amane! This feels much better she said before diving under the water. I smiled at her and continued washing my hair the best I could as I remembered what we all talked about last night.
"So what are you?" Kagome asked me suddenly.
"What do you mean?" I asked her.
"Well, with all those abilities you have, you can't be human, right?" she asked me.
"I'm an Elemental." I told her. "I use the elements around me and create whatever I need. The most powerful of Elementals can create their own elements. My grandmother's sister could." I said looking down into my lap.
"What happened to her?" she asked me.
"She was killed. Their's a blade that kills Elementals with some type of poison that only works on my race." I told her.
"I'm so sorry. When did she die?" she asked me.
"Before the Shikon no Tama was giving to Kikyou, according to my grandmother." I told her. "I realized that there was no way I could be in the same time as her."
"How?" she asked me.
"Something my grandmother told me. "The same heart couldn't exist within two bodies." When Elementals die they're born back into their families. My grandmother didn't marry until many years after her sister died. Same with my parents."
"So you're her reincarnation?" Kagome asked.
"Yea. But with my people when you're reincarnated you don't just share a soul and appearances, they share their memories with them." I told her.
"So you have your aunt's memories?" she asked me.
"No, for some reason they're blocked from me. Maybe once I meet someone who knew her, they'll appear." I said smiling. We looked up to Kaede as she walked into the hut with something wrapped up in her arms.
"Kaede, what's that?" Kagome asked her.
"I don't know. It was found by the doorway, with your name on it." she said handing me the package. I looked from it to her and Kagome before opening it and gasping. It was armor, but not just any armor.
"This... belonged to my aunt..." I said quietly. My grandmother had told me about her sister's armor and how she'd left it for someone special years back. I picked up the note and read it quickly before pulling out the armor. The chest piece was lightly colored for each element. Brown for Earth, Red for Fire, White for Air, Blue for Water, Black for Darkness, and Silver for Light. The bottom half was a red skirt with two slits running up to the upper thigh. There were black tights that would cover the legs all the way down to the ankles. Inside was also a pair of thigh high black boots.
"Osuwari!" I turned to see Kagome splashing back down into the water and Inuyasha fall face first on the ground.
"Oh, so you've come, Inuyasha." Kaede said. I got out of the water and went behind the bushes with Kagome. Our change of clothes was back there for us, where we'd put them.
"How indecent, peeping on us like that!" Kagome yelled at him as we changed.
"Keh, you idiot. I was just..." Kaede stopped Inuyasha talking.
"You came to steal the Shikon Fragment, didn't you?" Kaede asked him.
"I see you understand, Kaede-babaa." Inuyasha told her.
"I have a bad feeling about the future." Kaede said looking back into the fire. "Inuyasha, you must join your power with Kagome's ability to sense the Shikon no Tama, if you want to make sure that it is."
"That's why, I've agreed to work with those girls, for the sake of the jewel." Inuyasha told her, turning around to her as we came from the bushes. Kagome was dressed in the white top and red pants that all mikos wore in this time period and I wore my aunt's armor. It fit perfectly.
"So... you hate us that much, do you?" Kagome asked him. He stared at her for a moment before she went to clean off her clothes.
"What's with the face, Inuyasha?" Kaede asked him.
"Kaede-sama..." a woman said, coming from behind the cliff. "My daughter..."
"She suddenly collapsed?" Kaede asked her. "I must return to the village. Amane, try to keep them from fighting." I raised my eyebrow and shook my head. That wasn't happening.
"Oi." Inuyasha said after a short time.
"What?" Kagome asked him.
"Take 'em off." I winced as Kagome hit him over the head with a large rock. "Bitch! What the..."
"Indecent!" Kagome yelled at him.
"I didn't say get naked. Just get back in your weird clothes!" he told her. So that was what was wrong with him.
"Because these make me look like Kikyou?" Kagome asked him.
"...None of your business." he said looking away from her and I gave him a look. He was acting younger than any child I knew.
"Anyway, with an attitude like that there's no way we can work together." Kagome told him.
"Hey! If that's the case, then fine by me. I can do it on my own." Inuyasha told her. Kagome looked to me and I shrugged.
"Oh, I see... so, you'll be alright without us, then?" Kagome asked him. We went and got out clothes off the poles they were drying on and folded them up before walking away.
"Hn? And where are you off to?" Inuyasha asked us.
"We've made our decision." I told him.
"We're going hom. Goodbye, Inuyasha." she said and we continued walking away.
"Going home?" he asked, "Oi!"
"Huh? It's no use trying to stop me." Kagome told him, angry.
"you've got the Jewel fragment, leave it here." he commanded her. She pulled out the small bag with the fragment in it.
"Oh, you mean this?" she asked him. "Osuwari!" he fell to the ground instantly and we walked away.
"Biiitch..."
"We'll be keeping this." I told him. We walked through the forest until we can across the dry well we'd come out of. We should be able to get back home from here, right? I looked into the well and saw bones from the demon we'd faced a few days before and I remembered what Kaede told us.
"That well is known as the bone gobbling well. The remains of Mononoke are disposed of there. When a few days pass, the remains will completely vanish. I watched as Kagome knelt by the well and looked down at the ground. Suddenly a bird fell to the ground cut in half.
"What?" Kagome asked looking at it. She stood up but her cheek got cut on something.
"Kagome!" I tried walking to her when I felt small cuts all across my arms.
"Hair!?" Kagome said. I looked into the sky but saw nothing.
"What hair?" I asked her.
"Hmm... so you can see it, huh?" a woman's voice said. We looked up to see a woman floating in mid air.
"It's my Kushi no Kago, but simply being able to see it is useless." she told us.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked her.
"Sakasa-gami no Yura. Though there's no need for you to remember that." she told us. "Your life is as good as over." Auddenly something cut us all over. I covered my face to protect what little I could.
"Ah..." I looked at Kagome and saw the Jewel Fragment get taken from her.
"Oh my!" Yura said pulling out the fragment. "So this is what's become of the Shikon no Tama?"
"Gi... Give that back!" Kagome told her.
"You may die now." Yura drew her sword and attacked Kagome. I pulled Kagome back and we fell into the well, screaming.