Chap. 7: True Over Soul

I looked at all the other sleeping bodies around me, knowing I wouldn't be able to get to sleep. Why? Because of this little feeling that I should take a walk. 'Well, what harm could it do? I'm in my era now, after all.' I think to myself, getting up slowly and silently, sure to be so quite that not even Inuyasha could hear me. And even if he did hear me, I would just tell him I was going to the "restroom." I even got a rool of toylet paper to back me up.

Luckily no one woke up, but I was on my guard until I was well away from them.

It was a nice night, the waning half moon shined through the canopy of trees I was walking through. I hadn't the slightest clue were my feet were taking me, but that didn't mean I would lose the group, either. I had secretly stitched one of the jewel shards into my backpack, so I could sense it when I went to go out somewhere on my own in the futile era. So I walked on, letting my feet guide me.

In the back of my mind I vaguely recognized the trail I was on, and before I knew what trail it was, I was at Inu no Taishou's shrine house. I walked up to it with my own will and curiosity. When I stepped in, the candles and incense lit up.

"I wander why they do that? Is there any reason for it?" I said looking at them.

"They do that, because you are worthy to enter here," I turned around with a jump as a voice came from behind. 'Or was it beside me? And if so, which side? Maybe in front... no there was no one there.' I turned back around. An there, with long silver hair in a high pony-tail, blue streaking marks on his cheeks that were jagged on the edge, molten gold eyes, long fluffy tail like pelt- first connected and then forked into two tails- draped on his back, and elvish features. Strapped to his back was the sword only he could control, Sounga.

"Inu no Taishou?" I said, bowing in respect.

"Please! Call me dad." Inu no Taishou said.

"Yo... you heard me?"

"'Course I did! And you felt me, didn't you?" Inu no Taishou reached over to my shoulder and gave it a small squeeze. It was the same as before!

"So it was you!" I said, "But what did you mean by it?"

"I was hopping you would have gotten curies, and come back to check the place out."

"Why were you hopping this?

"Well, your my sons fiance!" Inu no Taishou said with a warm fatherly smile, "Why would I not want to meet you?"

"Oh... Sorry," I said, with an anime sweat drop.

"No need to say sorry. So your going to marry my son? I'm so proud,"

I had a sudden though of the fact that I was a shaman, and looked at Inu no Taishou, "Hey, if you want you might be able to attend to wedding. You see, I've just found out I'm a shaman, and you could travel with us till we are married, even longer then that if you want."

"A shaman! No way! That's a big coincidence."

"How so?"

"I had shaman in me."

"What? Really?"

"'Course! How do you explain the fact that I was able to control this sword?" Inu no Taishou pointed to Sounga.

"But, that's an evil sword, is it not? Why would you have chosen it?"

"Ah, it was evil. But when Inuyasha and Sesshomaru defeated him, the spirit of Sounga was gone, and the true spirit of the sword was once again in control." Inu no Taishou had a far off look in his eyes, " The spirit had been in the same situation as I had been in. He was a fearsome creature, but didn't want to hurt the good. But they didn't see the good in him, and so they set out to kill him. He was a dragon. Proud and strong, most dragons looked down on the weaker creatures with disgust, but not he. He was different. He saw poor but intelligent people. And though he plead for them to except him, they wouldn't listen. Instead, they set out to find and kill any dragon they saw. And the poor dragon, he jumped in front of another dragon to save a human. While his back was to him, the human stabbed him in a weak spot. When the sword was made out of his heart and bones, it was harbored by a spirit that was and wasn't him. The hatred had built from what the dragons were doing the humans, but as he died, he forgot who was who, and which one he hated. So he decided to hate them all. When I came in possession of the sword, I had a dream the very night I got it. It was the true spirit, asking me fore help, to help him over come the hateful spirit within him. And so I promised to help him, and I was granted the power to combined our soul together in unity. I am sad to say I didn't complete my mission, having died, ironically, with the sword in hand to protect Izayio and Inuyasha.

"But Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were able to defeat him, and I am happy. The dragon is happy, too."

"What was the dragon's name?" I asked.

"He does not have one. At least not now. As he died he forgot it... But enough of that. So your a shaman?"

"Hey, I just found out. The others say its because of the ring and choker Inuyasha gave me for his proposal."

"Hum... May I see them?"

"Sure." I held up my hand for the dog demon spirit to see the ring. "The tooth is Inuyasha's. He said it has powers that only I can use. Then there's the choker. He said it has your tooth, and that it was for his mother, but it never got to her."

"Ah, yes. It is only proper that Inuyasha gives it to you." Inu no Taishou went to touch it, and when his transparent fingers touched, there was a strange tingling feeling that spread through my body, but it was a good tingle, somehow I could tell. It seem the same for Inu no Taishou. He looked on in surprise.

"I know this feeling!" He said.

"What? What's it mean?"

"When a shaman meets their true Over Soul, they feel something like this. I felt this when I met the dragon spirit. I must be you true Over Soul."

"What's an 'Over Soul'?"

"Its the soul that a shaman partners up with. They can have more then one. But every once in a while, the shaman finds their true Over Soul. Its a very rare thing to happen, but it seems you have found yours in me."

"Ah! R...Really! I can't believe this! Your the first soul I meet- I mean one that actually has a body-, and you turn out to be my true Over Soul!"

"Now that must be a new record. I don't think anyone has ever found their true Over Soul in the first soul they meet."

"But wasn't the dragon spirit the first soul you meat when you found out you were a shaman?"

"Oh. I was made into a shaman. There were no shaman in my blood line. an since I was made in to one, I could only have one over soul. And that was the dragon spirit. So that made him my true Over Soul. I could see other spirits, but was never able to unite with them."

"This is a lot to take in..." I said.

"It seems the choker is our main link." Inu no Taishou said, "What do you use as a weapon?"

"Bow and arrow. Why?"

"Hum. If I am your Over Soul you need something I know how to use, too. And the only weapon I'm accustom to is sword."

"Oh. Well, I wouldn't mind learning how to use a sword. But what sword would I use?"