Chapter 1: A trip into the past

First let me tell you a few things about me. I am a girl my hair colour is a mix of light and dark brown and my eye colour is a blue/grey with a golden ring around the black pupil or in between the black of the pupil and the eye colour itself. I have always had long hair mostly tied up in a ponytail. I am a slim build and have been told from time to time that my eyes change colour when I am either in pain or really mad like so mad that they can become cold dark looking eyes that would give anyone nightmares. Not sure if that is true though about the eyes changing colour. And due to wearing boy clothes I have been mistaken for a boy. Even with long hair some think I am a boy but I am a girl I tell you.

Now some say there is no such things as monsters. While others say the world is full of monsters. For me I have come to see that maybe just maybe I am the monster. I have done bad things in the past, killed so many under orders but I am getting ahead of myself. Let's go back to when this all started shall we? It will help if we did as you will know how I become such a cruel and self hated monster.

It all started when I was just a child. I was 8 years old when it happened. It was on my birthday July 31st. I was not having a good birthday as both my mum and dad had not bothered to remember then again they never really seemed to do birthdays, don't get me wrong we did holidays like any other family such as Christmas and New years. Just not birthdays for some reason so that was not the problem. No the problem was that on this day I had so far through no fault of anyone's somehow ended up falling over outside near our family's old well house. I had cut my knee on a bit of metal that someone had left most likely a visitor wanting to see our family's shine. Yes we get people who will come by our family's shine and shop our family's home is behind the shine and off limits to anyone who is not family.

Sighing I picked myself up letting a few quite tears fall. Yes it hurt but I knew it would be okay. It was at this time I heard something a sound of some sort coming from the old well house. I swallowed and steeled myself trying to be brave like the people in my books that I would often read. I walked calmly as I could and went into the old well house. I looked around but could not see or find anything that would have made a noise, then I heard it again the noise. It seemed to be coming from inside the well. I walked over and looked down. There was nothing there I took a step back and turned around thinking that maybe just maybe I had read way to may books as of late. I had not even taken anymore steps when it felt like something had grabbed my shoulders both of them and pulled back into the well.

I had this falling feeling as I saw that I had fallen into the well. My eyes widen thinking of how much trouble I was going to get into. I knew I could climb out as was wearing my karate outfit. It was black so there would not be any noticeable marks. I landed hitting the back of my head making my eyes close, just for a second I swear. When I opened them I saw light from above thinking that maybe my mum or dad had came into the well house. I let out a sigh and got up. I started to climb out of the well but when I got to the top I was shocked.

I was not in the well house anymore but I was outside I could see trees and the blue sky of early morning. Hear the birds and a river. I landed on the ground blinking around trying to make sense out of it. Did I knock myself out when I hit my head? The noise of footsteps caught my attention. Looking over I saw a group of men but strange enough they was wearing really old clothes from Japan the clothes looked to be from 1800's I knew that from watching anime like Kenshin one or that Hakuouki one. They was my best ones but I didn't know what to think. These men stopped and looked at me none of them seem to be friendly with the look in their eyes. One smirked and drew his sword. At first I had though that maybe they had came from a kendo class but I was so very wrong.

"Hay what is a little kid doing all the way out here alone? You look kinda lost boy maybe we should teach you not to stare" One guy said as he pointed his sword at me. I closed my eyes thinking that this was it I am either having a nightmare and will wake up or I will die here. Yeah I know I was a strange kid. It was at this moment that I heard the sound of something slicing flesh and a sword being knocked out of the guy's hand as well as pained cries and dying breathes. Opening my eyes I looked up into the eyes of something that was not from this world. No one was like that he had golden eyes long flowing pure snow white hair two purple stripes on both side of his face, and his ears was pointed. Like an elf from lord of the rings or a Vulcan from star trek. Looking at the hand in which he held a sword I saw the fingernails looked more like claws.

No this was not Shesshomaru but he did look so much like him and this would be the person to rename me, my old name was Lisa but he did not like and claimed to find the name to hard and so renamed me Tenma and even gave me his last name which was Himura. His eyes narrowed coldly towards me as he looked down at me. "Pathetic" he simply said as he sheathed his sword, which I took note of and saw it looked much like a long sword a katana. However this sword looked more custom made even the sheath looked custom made. I must have been looking for too long as the demon before me let out a growl. "Well are you going to thank me boy?" He said in such a harsh cold icy tone. Shaking like a leaf I said, "Th...thank y...you" With cold unreadable eyes this demon reach out and grabbed the back of my karate top and slung me over his broad shoulders. Then he stated to walk off away from the well. This I would later learn would be the man or demon who trained me to be a female warrior without knowing I was a female until one of my most life changing battles.

The man's name or the demon's name was Tenshi and yes he was a dog demon a full one much like Shesshomaru. He just didn't have a moon symbol on his forehead. He was a master of a powerful sword style known as the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu style that's right the same sword style that Kenshin knows from that one anime. I trained for 3 years and had only needed two lessons more to have mastered the style that I was being taught. However this is where I began to fall into a deadly trap and my sensei Tenshi would not save me this time. I had taken to job along side my friend Momo chan. She like myself had also learned the same sword style I had by Tenshi and had also on top of it learned taijutsu or hand to hand combat. I was 11 while she was 16. She was for all of my training like a big sister to the point I had even called her so. And she would always call me her little sister sometimes due to me being dressed as a boy her little brother, this was in order to keep me more safe. Tenshi sensei never knew or if he did never showed he knew as he always kept calling me boy.

Momo chan looked up at me smiling she had told her father that I was a boy as she wanted a friend that was a girl, and that no one but her would know, her father also a warrior walked next to her looking at me and believing me to be a boy smiled and said, "We have a job to kill a demon from a lord's castle. Now Himura kun I know you know the same sword style as my daughter but you also know how to use a chain scythe from me. You are 11 now and old enough to go into battle." I nodded feeling a little scared and worried. "Yes sir" I said to him as I got my weapons ready. Once dressed in my demon slayer outfit that Momo chan's father had given me we moved out to the lord's castle.

Once there we battled a big demon I was skilled enough to cut some of it's many legs. However this was a trap that I and the other demon slayers had fallen into. A thread fall onto my neck. This thread would serve as a link to control me forcing me to kill the others. My chain scythe sliced and cut through air killing everyone it hit. Slicing them apart like a knife cutting through butter. For me it was like being stuck in a nightmare. Momo chan's face watched on in horror. "Tenma chan what are you doing? Why have you slain my father and the others?" She asked fear in her eyes as she asked the question. I didn't reply as I went to fight her. Momo being fast due to the same sword style dodged my attack.

"Stop it Tenma chan" came Momo's voice. She had noticed the thread that was linked to me and the one who was controlling me. She kicked me and went to kill the one who controlled my mind. However before she could get to that person she was killed by my chain scythe. Her head fell to the ground blood pouring out soaking the dirt beneath my very feet. I was released from the link shaking I to fell to my knees and cried out, "Momo chan what have I done?" The guards however vanished leaving behind what looked like a man with long black hair and dark soulless eyes. Looking at me he said, "Do you want to remember? I can take away all your memories and you can come and work for me Tenma chan"