The Blood We Share On Our Hands
Chapter Two: The Feudal Era
Kagome and the rest of the group stared at Akio in dismay . How could this ordinary Japanese high school girl with no connection like Kagome's get through the gates. "So…" Akio swung her legs out so that she could place her feet on the ground. She stood up brushing the dirt off her jeans. "Where am I?" for someone who had just fallen through a well and landed somewhere completely different, she was pretty calm and it was freaking Inuyasha and Kagome out more than anything. "You're in the feudal era, Akio…" Kagome said softly. Akio blinked at her, then finally properly registered what she said. Akio took a deep breath and looked at everyone. The clothes they wore fit perfect with the time frame Kagome just mentioned. "how did I get here?" Akio asked keeping her calm. "that's a long explanation." Kagome said softly. Akio's eye twitched. "start explaining?" It sounded like a question, but it was more of a demand. "I'm not sure how to." Kagome add. That was it, Akio blew. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW!?" she screamed causing Shippo to run behind Sango in fear. Inuyasha stepped in front of Kagome as though he would fight Akio if she rose her voice. "Who the hell are you?" She asked in an aggravated voice. "Names Inuyasha. Who are you?" "None of your business! How the FUCK did I get here!" Akio screamed. Now she was freaking out. "First I'm hearing people by the tree at your house, now im in a completely different era by falling through your well! EXPLAIN TO ME WHATS GOING ON!" Akio screamed. After that her nerves got out of control and her anxiety got the best of her. Akio dropped to her knees trying her hardest to keep her breathing steady but it was getting harder and harder for her to breath. Sango reacted immediately. "you guys get away from her!" she cried as she pulled Inuyasha and Kagome away from Akio. She then ran over to her and began to fan Akio so her breathing would steady at least a little. Akio appreciated that the strange tried to help, but it didn't do much because she faint anyways.
Akio could hear voices. She could hear an old woman talking to somebody else. "How did she get here Kagome?" She asked. "She followed me, but I don't understand how she made it through the well like that. No one else can do that other than me." Kagome said confused. "Very good point. You only made it through because of the shikon jewel." The woman stated. "maybe she has a shard of the Jewel." Inuyasha added. "I highly doubt that. They were all scattered here, remember." "yea, but there have been demons in your world that held a shard within them." Inuyasha stated. Kagome stopped talking and lowered her head in defeat. It was true, she could have a shard, but how did Kagome not feel it when her Akio were together so often. "Kagome, what is this girls name?" Kagome looked over to Kaede. Akio sat up, her head bounding. She was hoping that when she opened her eyes she would be back on Kagome's couch, but she was on a tatami mat on the floor of a cabin like house. "Akio. My name is Akio Sagura." She spoke softly as she managed to get to her feet. Miroku immediately pushed her back down lightly. "You shouldn't stand yet." He told her. "who are you?" she asked softly. "and you? And you?" she pointed to Sango and Kaede. "Im Lady Kaede, this villages elder." Kaede responded. "And Im Sango. I travel with your friend Kagome." She told Akio. Miroku dropped down to one knee and grabbed Akio's hand. "Im Miroku and I'd like to know if you'd bare my children." He asked her. Kagome and Sango expected the same reaction as usual: girl blushes, doesn't answer, the two of the smack him. Instead Akio get irritated easily and smacked him. "Don't ask me that again." she growled. Akio felt disgusted by this and refused to pay him any attention after that. "so, do you have that explinat-" Akio cut her sentence short when she spotted Shippo and Kirara. "oh my god!" she squealed. "You are so cute! come here little guy!" she opened her arms for Shippo to go to her. "What's your name?" she asked happily. For some reason Akio adored children. "I'm Shippo." he said with a smile and Kirara let out a small meow as she walked over to Akio. "oh! Will you are just precious!" Akio laughed a little and picked up the demon kitten and placed it on her lap. "Oh, look at that two tails." she took a small deep breath. "She isn't a normal kitten is she?" Akio asked softly. "No, she'd a demon cat. She transforms into a larger form of herself." Sango told Akio. She nodded her head and petted Kirara. "Her name?" Akio asked. "Kirara." Shippo answered. "so, explain to me what's going on, please?" Akio asked softly having finally calmed down. Kagome sat down in front of her and explained everything.(Out Of Story ~OOS~: I would explain it myself, but im not entirely sure how to myself, but everyone understand whats going on anyways, lol) Akio nodded her head in understanding. "So, how am I here?" she asked now confused as to how she got there. "Im not sure." Kagome told her. "Wait a moment, did you say your name was Sagura?" Miroku asked. "Yeah, what of it?" she asked not understanding what her last name had to do with anything. "I know that name!" He exclaimed. "You do?" Sango and Kagome asked. "Yes, in fact I-" "you what Miroku?" Sango asked in a calm voice, but it was clear that she was angered with what was most likely going to come of his mouth. Miroku looked at her with a confused face. "I performed a series of exorcisms for them. Their family was badly haunted by the many people the head of their clan had slaughtered and there was one other thing…" Miroku then went silent. "which was what?" Inuyasha asked as he leaned against the frame of the door way. Akio couldn't bring herself to stare at him, but she couldn't stop herself from glancing. His long white hair hung behind him, strands of it falling over his shoulders. Though his clothes were baggy and hide most of his body, when he crossed his arms she could see the muscles in his arms. Akio bit the side of her lip. "They had a young daughter, around the age of five." Miroku started causing Akio to break from her thoughts. "she had been possessed by a demon. I attempted to remove it from her body, but to no affect. The demon attempted to reason with me, but I refused hit. The girl soon went missing after that and the family assumed that the demon consumed her and she was dead." "What was the kids name?" Inuyasha asked. "Kaoru. Strangely enough this family had a habit of naming their daughters with male names. Every female child they bore had a males name." Miroku looked to Akio. "It seems that it has become tradition." he said to her. "So what does that have to do with me. My name is Akio, not Kaoru, so im not the little girl. And I was born into my family, not adopted. And my name was set for me before I was born and my parents refused to give me a female name." Akio said. "And why was that." Miroku asked. "Because they wanted a boy. My mother raised me with this story that my family was cursed. She said that only once in a blue that there will be another Sagura male born. The moment the male is born, he is to be given the last name Sagura or the family would no longer exist. My father was the last born Sagura and she hoped that I would be the end of the curse but she was wrong." Akio shrugged. "That was something I had hoped I freed the Sagura family of when I was there last." Miroku said to her. "So what does this mean." Kaede asked. "Im not sure. All I know is that the Sagura family is huge. The continue to have children hoping one will be a son, but always end with daughters. They believed they were unable to have sons. But that clearly changed. I must have just altered it." Miroku added. "Well, thanks." Akio replied. "For what?" "You may not have removed it, but you altered it which means with out you, I wouldn't be a Sagura and my father wouldn't have been either." Akio smiled at him and shrugged her shoulders. "But! I would like to find out how I could make it here. I doubt its because of my family curse." she added with a light laugh. "Im guessing you got a sharp in you some where." Inuyasha announce. "How could that be possible. I've been around Kagome all my life. She would have sensed it." Akio told him. Inuyasha looked her up and down with a scowl. "Ok, that's it." Akio stood up as she placed a now sleeping Shippo and Kirara on the tatami mat. "What is your problem, you've been giving me an attitude ever since I've seen you in Kagome's house. Care to explain?" Akio asked him. "Theres something off about you and I don't like it!" Inuyasha told her in an irritated voice. "yeah? Well im not the one with puppy ears on my head. Im at least a full bread of something unlike someone." Akio just picked a fight she many not be able to finish. She crossed her eyes. Her upper body looked relax as though she felt no need for defense, but the stance she took with her leg was completely defensive. She squared off and bent her knees slightly but all together her body movements and posture showed she feared no one. Completely collected and ready for anything. "I dare you to say that again." Inuyasha growled placing his hand on the tsuka (hilt of the sword) and crouched a little in defense. "You're a mutt" she stated to him. "You wanna fight!" He screamed at her. Akio dropped her arms into a defensive position. "Bring it on puppy!" She said to him. A wicked grin played across her lips. "don't do it Inuyasha!" Kaede called to him as he went running at Akio. Akio bent low then moved to the side. "Inuyasha! Sit!" Kagome called out but instead Inuyasha made a turn and faced Akio. "Fight me like a man!" He screamed at her. Akio began to walk calmly for the door. "But Im not a man." "Your name sure is manly." He cracked. Now, Akio was pissed. "you'll pay for that!" she screamed as she ran at him. "Sit! Sit!" Kagome cried in a panic but nothing took affect. She looked to Kaede in confusion as Sango and Miroku stared in shock. When Akio reached him at last, Inuyasha tried to doge her, but she grabbed onto his shirt and scratched him over his right eye, then punched him in the face leaving a red mark on his left cheek. "You wanna fight a man! I'll fight you as a man!" She growled and slammed him herself to the ground. When she climbed on top of him she punched him a few more time but in the chest hoping to cut his breath short. Inuyasha then managed to push her off. Knowing she would slam into the wall, she fell into a bent over arched like position to catch herself, to everyone in the room she looked as though she were a trained assassin. "bring it on." she grinned and ran out the hut into an opened field. Inuyasha followed her. "But fight fare now mutt, take the sword off." Her voice was raspy voice and devilish. Inuyasha took off his tensaiga and looked at her. He spoke not one word, but went running at her. Akio took one step to the side the gave him a karate chop to the back of the neck causing him to loose balance. "I forgot to mention, I know two different martial arts. I've mastered." she grinned. "and how to hit every pressure point in your body." she laughed a little then ran at him again. She hit in right below his adams apple, then pinched a point on his shoulders. When Akio went for the pressure point on his neck but her grabbed her by the wrist and went to throw her. When he let her go, Akio landed dead on her feet behind him. "this is where my jujitsu comes into effect." she smirked as she got back onto her feet. "What are you waiting for?" she asked as she stood defenseless across from him. Inuyasha smirked not knowing what she was truly capable of and ran at her again. This time when Inuyasha neared she slid her right foot behind her and grabbed him by the arm, throwing him behind her. When she turned around Akio hit the pressure point on his neck then jumped back. "Ah!" all at once he could feel all the pain from every pressure point she had hit before. Akio walked back over to him and hit the one in his lower leg leaving him unable to stand. She stepped back a little. "I wont call you a mutt if you never call me a guy again." she offered him. "and we can pretend that I never beat you up." she smirked. Kagome and the others stood in the door way as Akio stood over him Inuyasha. "fine" he agreed as he slowly stood up. "would you like some help?" she asked him softly as she held her hand out to him. "Your seriously weird." He stated as he grabbed her hand. "I'd bet you wouldn't be like this had you lost the fight." He smirked. "You'd never know that." She smiled. This was her way of saying, in a match against her, she was unbeatable. As Akio helped Inuyasha back inside, she realized he was holding his right eye shut the whole time. Turns out, that scratch from earlier made a rather deep cut on his face. She sat him down. "I am so sorry!" she told him. "Kagome, do you have anything for me to clean this cut with?" she asked. "Yeah, but I don't minds doing it myself." she told her. "No, I have to. Im the one who inflicted it." she said as Kagome passed her some alcohol pads and a tube of anti-biotic with a few ear swabs. "this may sting a bit." she stated. She then opened the alcohol pads. "Or stink if you ask me." He replied. Akio smiled a little. "keep that eye closed." she told him as she began to clean off all the dry blood and the cuts themselves. Inuyasha squirmed and screamed all the way through it. Akio, unlike everyone else, would stop from time to time and blow on the cut to make sure to sting would go down. Once she applied the anti-biotic she smiled at him. "ok, all cleaned." she said happily. Akio stood up and turned to Kagome. "I don't want to stay here Kagome." she told her. "My family will wonder where I've gone and I've worked so hard to give myself the life I have now. I've got way too much to loose if I stay her." she told her. "Its fine, I like being strange girl in the group anyways." Kagome laughed. Akio smiled at her. She would happily stay but it was because of this world that Akio became who she was, it was this place that helped her over throw Kagome. She would have stayed longer to thank it, but she had to stay on top back at home. "I'll take you to the well…." Kagome said softly as they walked out the hut. Once at the well Akio looked at Kagome and finally noticed one thing completely different about her. "You're an archer?" Akio asked. "I had to learn while I was here. Every arrow I shoot is sacred. Its pretty much the only power I have." she laughed. Just then Akio could hear a growl and thought to ignore it. "So I'll see yo-" "Get down!" Akio screamed as she pushed Kagome out of the way and grabbed the bow and arrow off her back, shooting a loose wolf in the eye. The wolf cried but continued at her. "That thing has a shard!" Kagome cried. "Where at?" Akio questioned. "What?" Kagome responded. "Tell me where it is on its body!" Akio screamed. "It left back leg!" she told her. Akio nodded her head and aimed for the wolf's leg. The arrow appeared to have skinned the dogs leg so Akio grabbed another arrow and shot it in the heart. The wolf fell over dead. "hunh?" Akio could feel a strange tingle in her. She walked over to where her second arrow landed and the shard laid beside it. "How did you know where it was Akio." Kagome asked as she stood up and walked over to her. "I-I don't know. I just did." she said softly. "Like something inside me told me the exact spot it landed." Akio looked at Kagome as though she knew nothing else to do. "Im going home." she stated and headed back for the well just a few feet away. "see ya back home!" she called to Kagome and jumped down the well, just this time it didn't feel the same. She landed right away, on her butt. "Ow!" she cried. "are you ok!" Kagome called down to her. Akio quickly climed up the well. When she got out she stared at Kagome in fear. "I think im stuck here…" she told her with tears in her eyes. Akio sat on the edge of the well and cried silently to herself for a moment. "I just wanna go home!" she yelled lightly. "I know." Kagome said softly as she rubbed her back. "I know."
Lawliet: Poor Akio, stuck somewhere she has no clue about. but good lord the power of that girl!
Akio: *throws ice cream at the Author* I hate you!
Lawliet: Oh stop it Akio! this is a good thing, i promise ^^
Akio: Liar!
Inuyasha: *walks in eating potato chips.* Whats going on? *sees ice cream on Author* Is Akio mad again?
Lawliet: does it look that obvious?
Inuyasha: Yeah.
Akio: SHUT UP!
Kagome: Please Review us ^^; *turns around* Dont start a fight Lawliet!
Lawliet: I wont! *runs away from Akio*
Akio: Get back here! *chases*