Feudal Era Meets Mermaid Princess

Ch. 2 Journey Begins

After two weeks she reached the surface world and when she made land she made sure it wasn't near any human or youkai settlement before she pulled herself up on the sandy beach. A luminous shimmering glow surrounded her body and her beautiful magenta tail turned into human legs, her pink hair turned black that only went to her waist and her eyes turned from silver to a dull brown. When she stood up she was wearing a plain brown kimono, tabi, and sandals she looked just like a human commoner she headed to the nearest human settlement she sensed to look for a place to stay for a little bit so she could make some money for travel. She also wanted to learn more about humans and youkai and where she was so she would know where she had to travel in order to reach the youkai lords whom she was sent to offer alliance to.

The progress was somewhat slow going as she got used to walking on human legs instead of swimming in the sea using her tail.

When she reached the village she went from hut to hut inquiring about work and all of them turned her down most likely because she was a foreigner. Eventually she reached the last hut in the village apart from all the other huts where she met a hanyou child and her mother who gave her a place to stay and work. It turned out that the mother needed someone to watch her daughter while the person that usually did was out of town because he other villagers refused to watch her daughter because her daughter was hanyou. She easily agreed because she thought hanyou were beautiful and told them as much the child blushed and the mother gapped in shock because she wasn't used to anyone other than the person that usually watched her daughter and Inuyasha's group accepting hanyou.

Hibiki enjoyed her time with the hanyou child named Shiori and her mother Umi eventually the villagers stopped treating her as an outsider and showed her respect, but only after she saved them for a plague. In that time she learned much about humans and about the relations between humans and youkai she learned about the land too, but all good things must come to an end and she had to leave. She was sent off much like she had been from her home and hugged Shiori and her mother for all they were worth promising she would visit them again before departing on her journey once more.

Break

One thing that had made youkai and mer-people easy allies in the past had been their longevity they were both long lived creatures that could survive for centuries without aging one bit. Another was their unearthly beauty both mer-people and youkai were always beautiful even the poorest among them. The last thing that made them great allies was the mer-peoples way with magic they were powerful when it came to creating spells for just about anything and all youkai had different abilities related to their race and class. The youkai's abilities combined with the mer-peoples powerful magic made them formidable foes in the past.

However when the Great War happened between youkai and humans the mer-people were disgusted by what both races wanted to do and disappeared from the mainland back into their cities far beneath the ocean waves. Their dwelling places on the mainland so they could be closer to their allies abandoned and forgotten in their flight back into the seas. Youkai were forgotten by all but the royal family and she was sure the Youkai had forgotten them except for the royal families as well.

She had stayed in the village by the ocean with Shiori and her mother for about a month and wanted to continue traveling until she was sure exactly what she wanted to say to the youkai lords. She moved from village to village and place to place making a name for herself as a healer and helper of the people and made some enemies with a few of the human lords thought they could never catch her. She had two personas she went by the masked thief who never hurt anyone that was innocent and the friendly healer who helped anyone that was in need.

Her thief name honestly made her laugh the people called her "Tsubasa" because she seemed to have wings when she fought, but oh how that was the farthest thing from what she actually had.

On her travels she heard of the evil hanyou Naraku and the odd group trying to defeat him she heard of the shikon no tama and the power it held, and the shikon miko Kagome a kind soul who wanted to make up for her mistake. According to what she had heard while trying to protect the jewel the miko who was its protector (Kagome) had accidentally shattered it scattering its pieces across the lands. She admired the women's sense of duty even putting up with brash and lecherous companions in order to retrieve the pieces of the jewel and keep them out of evil hands.

She watched them on their travels when she was traveling near them, and saw how Kagome improved over time in her bow skills, miko powers and eventually a sword as well.

The thing that puzzled her was why Kagome did not use her full power she could sense the girl was extremely powerful for a human and could have ended the battle as soon as she was trained. Then she looked closer and saw a powerful seal that could only be broken by the person the seal was on themselves, she had to give the jewel some credit on that one if it didn't want to be destroyed one of the best ways was to get rid of anyone powerful enough to do so. From what she could tell Kagome was likely the only one who could destroy the evil thing and it was using Naraku's desire for the miko Kikyo to do its dirty work by having him get rid of Kagome. Though it wasn't working it was a scary thought something that evil to be allowed to remain in this world.

Eventually the little miko grew powerful enough that Hibiki decided to test her by allowing her presence to be felt when she was near their camp always in her thief's cloths when she approached them. The little miko was always away from the group when Hibiki tested the miko the girl thought it was a fluke and dismissed her presence as paranoia because youkai were always after her. Finally the miko's curiosity got the better of her and she called out "I know you are there show yourself" oh Hibiki would show herself alright and it would be a meeting the little miko would never forgot.

WITH KAGOME

After she completed her training with a traveling sword master and a well-known miko Kagome began to sense a presence whenever she was away from the group on her own at first she thought it was a fluke, but as time wore on she began to realize something or someone was testing her. Finally she had, had enough and called out to the presence that had plagued her mind with her friends not that far away hiding in the bushes just in case the presence was hostile. When she saw the figure jump down from the trees though she gasped the person was wearing all black and had a black silk mask covering their head and face, but what caught them all was the way the person seemed to fly through the air as if they had wings.

She knew right away her mystery admirer was "Tsubasa" the masked thief that they had on several occasions been asked to kill by wealthy lords who were tired of the thief stealing from their treasuries. All the lords in question honestly had no right to call themselves lords they were cruel tyrants that treated their subjects like cattle, and deserved to have their money stolen and given to the poor people. They did not say that however because they did not wish to make more enemies than they had, but politely turned the lords requests down as they hunted rogue youkai and the evil hanyou Naraku not ordinary thief's who would be too easy to kill.

The only weapon the thief had on them visibly was a long knife sheathed at their side, but that didn't mean they didn't have any other weapons.

They were again surprised when the thief spoke "well done little miko I applaud you for not showing your fear visibly, having your guard up and coming prepared" the thief's voice was a smooth high, yet masculine tenor. So the thief was a male before she was able to form her next thought the thief was in front of her, and in a flash her sword was in the thief's hands and she was on the ground with her own sword pointed at her throat. "However you still have much to learn before you can stand against an opponent like me." The thief turned his head in the direction were he friends were hidden "you may come out now your friend is in no danger" before all of her friends were out in the open the thief was gone scent, aura, and all.

They were all in aww and wondering who the thief could be they obviously weren't human because no human could move that fast, yet their aura said otherwise it was a mystery and one Kagome intended to solve. Not only that the last bit of advice the mystery thief known as Tsubasa left her puzzled the young miko "train harder little miko" if she hadn't known better she would have said Tsubasa was Sesshomaru because of the little miko comment. That was impossible though there was no way the human hating well most of the time Sesshomaru would say something like that.

Meanwhile Far Away In another Part of the Forest…

Hibiki was laughing her ass off back in her normal peasants attire about what had just happened the looks on their faces were priceless especially the hanyou's the poor dear looked so confused when he couldn't pick up her scent anymore. Though he wouldn't have been able to find her anyway since she altered her scent when she was a going around as a thief, so if those pompous, arrogant lords thought to use a youkai to track her they would have another thing coming. Not only that she used her magic to cover her scent so it couldn't be fallowed she did her best to stay undetected as that would only hinder her work.

She had gathered information on the southern youkai lord first as his territory had been the one she had ended up in when she came to the surface world. The southern lords name was Daichi and though slow to act or make decisions was wise and an excellent tactician and is on the youkai council like the other lords the youkai council was made up of the lords and elder youkai from each of the lands. He had two heirs both male and his mate was deceased though she had been beloved by many of the souths citizens.

She had spent about a month and a half traveling the southern lands after leaving the village so she had been in the surface world about two and a half months she decided she had enough information and moved on to the next territory.

She decided she would travel to the eastern lands the lands ruled by the ryu or dragon youkai she wanted to see if they were anything like the sea dragons of her homeland.

Author's Notes: That's a wrap on the first actual chapter. What did you think. Love it hate GIVE ME REVIEWS! Thank you! As always all the character except my OC's belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

Next chapter Hibiki begins her journey to and through the eastern lands, Kagome trains her butt off, Naraku hears the rumors about the phantom thief "Tsubasa and is intrigued, and Kirara gets high on youkai cat nip. Wha! Read to find out! Ja Ne!