Chapter 10

"You shouldn't be walking around Kikyo!" Yuka said with her arm around Kikyo's waist to help her walk.

"No, we have to make it to Kohanna's house." Kikyo said.

"Lady Kikyo, I appreciate you coming with me to pay respect to my late father." Kohanna said.

"M hmm, " Kikyo nodded her head, "It's the least we can do. But I still don't remember your family." Kikyo said thoughtfully.

"Maybe you hit your head one too many times." Sora said plainly.

"What was that?"

"Nothin, "

"Hmph, sit."

Crash!

"Why you..."

Kikyo stuck her tongue out at Sora.

"Lady Kikyo, please don't stress yourself." Kohanna said.

"Yeah, you may be a hanyou, but something went through your gut, that's not good." Yuka tried to reason.

"I'm fine. Now, we need to continue."

"But-"

"Just leave her. If she dies, she dies." Sora shrugged.

"Sora!" Hitomi yelled.

"That's not very respectful. She's done many things for you."

"What's she done for me?"

"She gave you that sword, didn't you?" Kohanna said matter-of-factly.

"Yeah, well, she, um-"

"And she helps collects the shards." Yuka added.

"Well, she's the only one who can see the shards." Sora said a little too quickly.

"Is that all you see me as? A jewel detector? Don't you know I have feelings?" Kikyo placed her hands to her face.

"Kikyo, what about what you said about demons not crying?" Hitomi asked.

"Get off my back! I'm only half demon!!!" Kikyo cried.

"Now look what you've done!" Hitomi yelled.

"I don't care." Sora said.

"Hey Yuka?" Hitomi whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Have you noticed that Kikyo has only cried when it was about Sora?"

"I just noticed."

Sora just looked at Kikyo before sighing.

"Kikyo, stop crying."

"Leave me alone!"

"Kikyo-"

"If you wanna see tomorrow, you better shut up!" Kikyo shouted.

"Kikyo, come on. Let's leave him." Hitomi said.

"Yeah, come on Yuka."

"Are they leaving us?" Kohanna asked.

"Why do they always leave us?"

"They wanted to leave you Sora. How can you treat Lady Kikyo that way? I mean, why don't you tell her how you feel?" Kohanna asked.

"You mean bored?"

"Why did you kiss her then?"

"I didn't. She kissed me. On the cheek. That means nothing. You either have memory problems, or you just like to bother me."

"You know you like her."

"No, I don't. Who would like her? She's too stubborn to have a boyfriend."

Kikyo put her hands on her hips and turned around.

"Oh yeah? Well, you're rude, mean, selfish, ignorant, and obnoxious. I doubt you'll ever get a girlfriend yourself. You'll just grow up alone and live like that until you die.

Sora just stood there looking at Kikyo as she turned around with Hitomi and Yuka. Hitomi turned around and stuck his tongue out at him.

"Why you..."

"Sora, leave him. He's only a kid."

He sounds like Kikyo... "Yeah, but he's being a smart a-"

"Sit!!" Kikyo turned around once more to see Sora face down on the floor.

"I'm a dog, " She said pointing to her ears, "I have sensitive hearing."

"I'll make your face sensitive." Sora said raising his fist.

"You wanna try?"

"I don't need to try. I can just do it."

"Oh really?"

"You think you can beat me?"

Kikyo raised her eyebrow, "Sit, "

Crash!

"T-That's not fair!"

"You said you can beat me. So, why does one word make a difference?" Kikyo asked.

"Because of this stupid rosary you put on me!"

"I can beat you without saying... Sit."

"I really doubt that.. Just shut up already."

"Don't tell me what to do!"

"I can do what I want!"

Kikyo pulled Sora up by his shirt and raised her fist. She was about to punch him in the face, when Yuka grabbed her hand.

"Kikyo. You're a priestess right?" Yuka asked.

"Yeah, " Kikyo answered slowly.

"Well, I don't think priestesses fight like this."

"Like what?"

"Okay, let me re-phrase. Um, okay. Priestesses don't beat their friends to a pulp."

"Fine." Kikyo sighed. She let go of Sora's shirt and started walking to the right.

"Kikyo, where are you going? Kohanna's house is this way." Yuka said pointing straight ahead of them.

"I know. I'm sorry Kohanna. I'm going to the other era."

"Other era?" Yuka questioned.

"Lady Kagome was born in another era. Kikyo goes down this ancient well, and then, she's able to visit it." Kohanna said. Yuka looked confused, but nodded. Kikyo kept walking until she reached the well. She looked in her robe to make sure the leather bag was still there.

"Well, I gotta get to school tomorrow. I have a very important test tomorrow." Kikyo sat on the side and closed her eyes. She leaned back and fell into the well. being greeted by the warm blue light. She opened her eyes when she felt dirt on her back.

"Tokyo." Kikyo whispered when she heard cars driving by and when she smelled pollution. She climbed to the top when she heard littlle children from inside the house.

"What the-"

Kikyo walked in the house when she heard people in her room. She narrowed her eyes in anger and grabbed her bandana that was on the coffee table. She put it on and walked up the stairs. She listened and there were two girls, younger than her.

"Listen to this Lia,

'Dear Diary, my friends wanted me to go out with Videl, but I lied and said that Sora was my boyfriend. I don't know if I really want him to. I might. He's really cute and nice when he isn't a jerk and-"

"Hey! What are you brats doing?" Kikyo yelled walking in the room. It used to be her mother's, but she took it keeping pictures with her mom and dad.

"Who let the stranger in?" One girl whispered under her breath to her sister.

"I'm no stranger. I happen to live here... Well, sometimes. I should be asking you that. And what are you doing with my diary!?!" Kikyo yelled. The girls ignored and opened the diary again.

"I'm telling you. Drop it!" Kikyo yelled.

"Make us." They sneered. Kikyo's eyes flashed red and she started growling. The girls got scared and started screaming and running out of the room. Kikyo following.

"Father!"

Kikyo stopped. Father?

The girls ran until they reached a man. He turned around and squinted his eyes. He widened his eyes in remembrance.

"Kikyo is it?"

"How is it that everyone knows me? First, it was Miroku and Sango. I still don't remember-"

"No, it's just that I'm Sota. Don't you know who I am?"

"Sota? That's my brother's name, and he was named after my uncle." Kikyo smiled, "Oh! You're my uncle!"

"Father? She's our cousin?" The youngest girl asked.

"Lia, Sati, be nice." Sota warned. Sota turned back to Kikyo.

"Wow, you look so much your father."

"You've met my father?" I never knew father met uncle Sota. I thought father never stayed for long. I surely thought that he couldn't stand the smell and noise. "Hold on." Kikyo started smelling the air. "Someone's here! Who is it? Oh my God! It's Videl! Uncle Sota, please distract him! I'm going back down-" Kikyo looked at the girls.

"Down-Downtown."

Sota smiled and nodded.

"Videl's here, so Uncle Sota..." Kikyo ran. All you can see is a red blur. Kikyo stepped by the well house and looked around before she opened the door. She stepped inside and closed the door. She walked over to it and sat on it. She was about to slide into it when the door opened.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Lia and Sati stepped inside and looked at her strangely.

"How did you get here so fast?" Kikyo asked. I ran with my hanyou speed, but how can regular humans almost match me?

They sat down with her.

"Tell us what's really going on." Lia said.

"Tell you what?"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong."

"Come on. We never met you before, but we're really smart for an 8 and 9 year old. So tell us."

"I'm not gonna talk about my personal life. I don't talk to hu- I mean, people I don't know."

"I know what's wrong." Lia, the younger one, blurted. Kikyo eye's widened, "You-You do?"

"Yeah, it's that Sota and Videl problem you have. That's why you ran out?"

"That's right. You're diary entry." Sati backed up. Kikyo smiled and sighed. "You got me." Kikyo faked being caught.

"But, how did you know he was there?" Sati asked.

"Huh?"

"You were talking to father, smelled the air, and then, you knew it was him." Lia said.

"Well, he was wearing strong cologne?" Kikyo tried.

"He wasn't wearing any that we smelled."

"Well, lucky guess."

The girls didn't want to give up, but just shrugged.

"Come on." Lia grabbed Kikyo's hand.

"Go where?" Kikyo asked.

"Well inside of course. It smells like years of dead things in here." Sati said scrunching her nose.

"Tell me about it. You're not a dog." Kikyo mumbled.

"What did you say?" Lia asked.

"I was saying that they used to put the dead bodies of demons in the well. The flesh would eventually decompose leaving the bones. That's why they called it the Bone Eaters Well." Kikyo explained.

"The Bone Eaters Well?" Lia repeated.

"They don't call it that." Sati said.

"Oh yes they do." Kikyo mocked.

"No."

"I think I would know. I live in the F-" Kikyo closed her mouth.

"You live in the what?" Lia asked.

"I live here. Where would I live?" Kikyo asked faking a laugh.

"You were going to say something with a 'F'." Sati said.

"No I wasn't."

They argued all the way to Kikyo's room.

"How long are you staying here?" Kikyo asked grabbing her notebook and sitting on her bed.

"The whole week."

Kikyo pressed too hard on the paper breaking the lead.

"The whole week?!?"

"Yup." Lia nodded. Kikyo started growling and clenched her hands into fists. It seemed as if her claws were growing because they started piercing her skin. Kikyo saw a picture of her father. She remembered her training. Her father warned her that without Tetsusaiga, she has a risk to becoming a full demon when provoked. The risk has lowered since she has priestess powers, but she focused her powers and centered herself. Lia and Sati looked at her with curiousity.

"What are you doing?" Lia asked.

"Nothing, " Kikyo opened her eyes and saw the picture with her parents. Her eyes fell upon her father's dog ears. Lia and Sati didn't know about her being a half demon. Sati turned her head and looked at the picture Kikyo was looking at.

"Whose that guy?" Sati asked. Kikyo didn't answer. Sati was pretty smart. She might figure out dog ears were heriditary in her family. Even her human mother had them.

"Is that your dad?"

Silence.

"He probably is.And that girl looks like Kikyo. Just with black hair and brown eyes. Lia said pointing to Kagome.

"And the boy has the same color hair as Kikyo. By the way, how did you get white hair? I thought only old people get that." Kikyo didn't answer, so the girls kept talking.

"Kikyo looks like the two people mixed together. They just look too young to have children... And look at the boy's dog ears!!!" Sati gasped.

Kikyo kept her head down and kept on studying. Lia quietly got on the bed, with Kikyo's back facing her, and reached for the bandana.

"Don't even think about it."

Lia gasped. "How did you know?"

Kikyo looked up and looked behind her."It's pretty obvious. You're talking about a picture who think are my parents, you want to know if he's my dad, you'll try to see if I had dog ears." Kikyo said. And that I have acute hearing and smelling.

"Well, is he your father?" Sati asked as Lia climbed off the bed.

"My parents don't live here."

"Where do they live?" Lia asked.

Kikyo hesitated. "A better place."

They both gasped, "They died? No wonder you don't want to talk about it."

Kikyo looked at them. A better place? I was talking about the Feudal age where they can be themselves... Well, that works too...

"Yeah. Whatever."

"Maybe that's why she's messed up." Sati whispered.

"Hey! I'm not messed up!" Kikyo yelled.

"Well, if children have their parents killed at a young age, they might-''

"Will ya just shut up?" Kikyo yelled. "I'm not mental." I'm just hiding the fact that I live 500 years in the past. That my father is a demon. I can wield an enchanted sword. I have demon friends. A human friend that exterminates demons. A human friend with a curse on his right hand that sucks in everything. That me and my brothers are hanyous. And that my mother is a human with dog ears! Oh no! I'm not mental! I have a mental lifestyle!

With her concentrating on other stuff, she didn't notice when the very persistant Lia went back on the bed. Lia reached over again and tried to be careful. She grabbed a part of the bandana and quickly yanked it off. Kikyo gasped as she was snapped into reality.

"Give that back!"

"I knew he was your dad!" Sati yelled.

"Give me that you brat!"

"Hey! That rhymed!" Lia laughed.

"You know what rhymes with dog ears? Your tears!" Kikyo started chasing them around the house. The girls ran to their father and hid behind him. He looked at Kikyo and laughed.

"You showed them your dog ears?"

"No, they pulled off my bandana!" Kikyo smiled. Teasing these girls is so fun! I can easily catch them. Even while they hide behind their father. Kikyo looked at the clock.

"It's already 2?!" Kikyo looked at the girls.

"Don't bother me. I have to study!" Kikyo stormed off to her room.

"Yup. She's the daughter of my sister. Then I wonder how my nephews are doing."

"Nephews?!?" Sati asked.

"Yeah. She has older brothers. Twins."

"I just hope that they won't be as boring as she is."