A/N: Yes I know it's really short but I needed to get a filler chapter in and I'm having trouble concentrating on anything due to a family issue that has come back to my attention.
Please bear with me and do enjoy the chapter!
I sat outside the small hut on the porch and stared off into the forest. I had been here with the elderly woman and her husband just about two weeks and I was finally feeling better.
"Ah… I see your up." The woman said as she came out of her house.
"Yes I am. Thank you for taking care of me for so long. I will be leaving soon though."
"Yes. To save your son."
I opened my mouth then closed it. "You already know what I'm going to say don't you?"
She smiled and slowly sat down next to me. "Once upon a time I would have done anything to save my child. She was very lively and extremely talented in sowing. She made beautiful silk kimonos for the Lady's in the higher classes and her husband forged weapons for the armies. They were very happy. I would have done anything to keep it that way."
I gazed at the woman beside me in wonder. Could she… I stopped. No. No she couldn't be.
"What happened to them?" I asked as I watched her.
"The opposing army ransacked the village they lived in they killed everyone. They were going to bring their child up the next day to visit us; it would have been the first time in several years that I would have seen my granddaughter."
I turned my face away from the aging woman beside me to cover my shock. She might actually be my grandmother… My last connection to the human world…
"In fact…" She continued. "She would be about your age now if she had lived."
I fought not to look back at her, to tell her that it was I, that I was still alive and that she had a great grandson. But I couldn't. I couldn't tell her who I was.
I'll come back after I get Kaemon back… After we're a family again…
"I'm sorry for your loss…" I murmured.
"At least you can still save your whole world." She answered as she stood up. "Stop sitting here worrying and go get him."
I turned and smiled at her. "Thank you."
She smiled back. "No… Thank you…"
As I walked away I heard her husband turn to her and ask; "Was that her…?"
"Yes…" She replied. "That was our little Kaori…"
I bowed my head as a tear slid down my cheek. I promise… I told myself as I continued into the forest. I promise that as soon as I have my son and daughter I will bring them back here to meet them.