Chapter 7: Through the Years
And so, the party slowly calmed down after that. The girls decided to watch a movie, but they wanted Kira to have to go through with her dare in the morning. They all gathered in her room, crawled into their sleeping bags, and fell asleep. It was about 10:00.
Midnight soon came, and Kira didn't understand why she had just awoken. The lights were still out, no noise had sounded. She looked curiously at the window, where the moon shone in happily, almost begging her to go out in its beauty. The room had an eerie stillness, capturing her in the calmness of the midnight hours. She tried to sleep again, but it proved no use.
As she looked out the window, she began to think about all of her family—the ones that had died before she could have known them. She began to think if she acted like her parents, or if she was nothing like them. She wanted to know of the achievements of them first hand, and not as some bedtime-story fairy tale. She lay there, pondering for what seemed like hours before she decided to get out of bed and go through with the dare then.
She quietly tiptoed to her uncle's office, carefully opening the door. She looked in the dim room—for the same moonlight in her room shone through the office—and she saw her uncle's filing cabinet. She opened it, reading the names of the folders, for her advanced sight allowed her to read in such a dim light.
After searching for about ten minutes, she came across a peculiar file. It spoke of her parents, but not as the good people whom they had been made out to be in the little time of her awareness of them. Sure, Kagome had been made out to be as perfect as she had known, but Inuyasha, well, Inuyasha was written as a senseless fool who had no respect for tradition. Kira knew that hanyous were hated, but she was blissfully unaware of the brutality of the fact. The files said that Inuyasha had been hunted down as a kid, and his mother was killed by the villagers because she had brought such a "monstrosity" into the world.
Kira almost cried as she searched for other files on hanyous. They said that most hanyous were killed at birth, and the ones that survived were soon killed afterwards. Families were broken up, and no one sympathized with them. For a hanyou to be loved, someone had to really care about the goodness of charity.
She looked through all of the other files, completely engrossed in the information. She sat in the room, reading and reading until the sun began to threaten coming above the horizon. Then, she walked back to her room, crawling back into her sleeping bag—for everyone slept in one—and pretended to fall asleep.
About an hour passed before she was "awakened" by the other girls. They couldn't wait until the morning. Kira pretended to be groggy, and she rolled over, though she was wide awake. The girls spent over ten minutes waking her up, and she only awoke because they threatened to dump water all over her. She crawled out of bed and feigned anger. Then, she smiled and walked out of the room, not caring that she was still in her pajamas.
Breakfast was served only a few minutes later—bacon, eggs, and bagels. They ate for quite a while, and soon the sun was fully up. The clock read 7:32. Kira was sleepy, seeing as she had not slept that night, but she could not let the others know that. If they did, then they would ask her about her nightly activities.
Cassy leaned over to her, asking her when she would do her dare. She said that she decided that because it was her birthday, she didn't have to go through with it. The girls protested, but she had her way. For the rest of the morning, the girls and the boys—who had walked down into the dining room only minutes after the girls—partied. At about noon, they all piled into the limo, and headed to the movies. Their movie ended at about 3 o'clock, and they were dropped off at their respective houses.
They had just let off the last girl. Now, only Hitari, Kira, Yuki, and Akio were left. None of them said a word, for they were all basking in the calm silence. The first one to speak was Yuki, "Kira, what are your demonic traits?"
"Let me show you," she replied, and she transformed into her hanyous form. Her hair grew a little longer, she grew a few inches, claws and fangs made their appearances in their respective places, and her ears were replaced by two fuzzy triangles on the top of her head. Also, her brown eyes were replaced with the silver eyes that she had been born with.
Yuki, Hitari, and Akio followed suite, and they showed off their appearances. Yuki's hair stayed the same length—the top of her shoulders—but she gained fangs, claws, and triangular ears as well. Her eyes had taken on a golden hue. Hitari gained two tails, fangs and claws. His eyes became a light blue. Akio, in addition to his claws and fangs, had his ears pointed, and his "tattoos" became apparent on his arms and forehead.
Yuki almost drooled at the sight of Akio, and the fact that he had royal markings didn't hurt that fact. Sure, she was a cat, and he a fox, but with the slow but sure loss of demons in the past years, demons began to not really care abut species barriers. Besides, she was very accepting of the different kinds of demons.
"Kids, here we are at Yuki's house!" came the voice of Fernando from the driver's seat. They all put back up their spells, and Yuki climbed out of the house, saying goodbye to each of the other teens, blushing when she spoke to Akio.
Now, Hitari, Akio, and Kira were the only ones left, and Kira began the conversation.
"So," she asked, "How long until your house will be finished?" she asked Akio, who would be moving in across the street.
"Well, they said that the house would be built in a few months, but we have so many people and demons on it that it should actually be done by the end of the month."
"Cool!" exclaimed Kira.
Hitari added, "You do know that I will be moving into the neighborhood in a few years, about the time when you will have to prepare to move out of the area."
"When are you heading back to your house?" she asked him.
"We'll leave tomorrow." After that, they continued on in silence.
The next day, they said their goodbyes to the wolves. They promised to move into the area in two and a half years.
In the meantime, Kira and Yuki took up weaponry, and they started to use their powers to play around with the teachers's minds.
Two and a half years later, Hitari moved in down the street. Yuki and Akio were now going out, and Kira had a slight crush on Hitari, but would tell no one. She had grown quite a bit, and so had he. Hitari's hair was now the length of Koga's hair, and he was almost 6' tall. Kira had grown quite a bit herself, almost 5'10 in her human state. Yuki was 5'8, and Akio was 6'4".
During the summer, Kira was to go to her Uncle Souta's house—the shrine—in order to spend time with her uncle. This year, she brought her friends, and they had a blast.
Kira was aware of the well, and she and her friends wanted to see the special well.
"This doesn't look too interesting to me!" Akio exclaimed as he looked down the well.
"Ummm…..I wouldn't do that if I were you," said Kira as she saw her "cousin" lean over the side of the well.
"Why not?" he asked, "I'm no going to faaaaaaaallll" he tried to say, but fell into the well. Yuki jumped to catch her boyfriend, Kira to catch her friend, and Hitari to catch everyone else. As they fell into the well, they saw blue swirls surround them, and they landed on the ground seconds later.
Kira looked up, and to her amazement, there was no ceiling above them. The four jumped out, and they were now in a forest. They looked around with awe, until they heard yelling from the woods, as they were in a clearing.
"I can't believe you think that I would do such a thing!" came a masculine voice, "I wasn't the one to touch her like that. You must be mistaken. There simply was a bug sitting there!" The voice stopped when the sound of a slap echoed through the trees.
"Yeah right, Miroku," came a feminine voice, "I'm your wife, and you should have learned to respect that!"
The two walked out into the clearing, and they stopped, seeing the four demons.
"Who are you?" asked the man.
"Ummm…." Stammered Kira. Yuki took control of the conversation.
"We do not know how we managed to arrive here. We were simply outside this well," she pointed to the well, " and he", she pointed to Akio, "fell down it. We tried to save him, but we all fell through. Where are we?"
"You fell through the well?" asked the woman.
"Yes, we did."
"Then, which of you are a descendant of Kagome and Inuyasha?" she asked.
Kira stepped forward, "I am".
The couple, who were in their early forties, gasped, as the woman hugged Kira in a bone-crushing embrace.
END CHAPTER
Well, this was where I was going the entire time…. Sorry for all of the skipping ahead in time!