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Chapter 4- The Song of the North

The servant took Shippo from me and showed me to the hot spring where I could take a bath. I thought about the recent events that had been happening and I remembered back to when I woke up with blood covering my side, I didn't know what had happened but it hadn't been the first time.

Could it be? No, it couldn't, that didn't happen until my 18th birthday, I just simply scratched myself is all. But then again, it looked like claws had been there; I shook my head trying to think of something else. I looked at my left arm and placed my right hand over the engraved kanji on my arm. The symbol engraved meant 'protection' and it was meant to control me. What happens if I become too powerful and it can no longer contain my power? Surely all Hell will break loose.

I relaxed into the water letting my worries flow away willing them never to come back unless they wanted a fight but I knew they would, it was impossible to out run my destiny forever, it was a nice dream but once I turn 18 it will catch up to me and bite me in the ass. I sighed realizing that even the hot spring did not keep my mind off of my problems like it usually did so I got out and dried off. I slipped on some red pajama pants and a black tank top. When I walked into the castle Spikes eyes were on me as he noticed the mark on my arm.

"Where did you get that from?" he questioned and I put my hand over it to hide it from him, crap, I knew I should have packed long sleeves.

"Family secret," I stated emotionlessly looking at him. I noticed Sesshomaru was still there and he just looked at me with cold eyes.

"It means protection does it not?" he questioned eyeing me.

"It does, I was born with it," I said still not revealing as much as he wanted to know.

"Tell me wench, why aren't you with your mate? You know, my half- brother?" Sesshomaru questioned still emotionlessly as always.

"For your information Sesshomaru-sama, I am proud to say that I am NOT that baka's mate, I believe you can find him with his moronic clay pot if you must find him," I spat as a matter of factly.

"I see," he said turning back to Spike.

" Well, I'll be off to bed then, Spike-sama, Sesshomaru-sama, good night to both of you, pleasant dreams," I said bowing respectfully before walking off to the room the servant had shown me earlier.

When I got there I noticed my bag was already in there and I just fell onto the bed and passed out from all the events from that day. When I woke up I had a massive headache that I couldn't get rid of no matter what I did so I just changed my clothes and went for a short walk around the yard.

"Kagome!" I heard someone yell tackling me to the ground. I looked down to see a little girl around the age of 7 with her arms around my waist.

"Hey Rin, I didn't know Sesshomaru-sama brought you along on this trip of his," I said

"Sessho-kun takes Rin everywhere with him now, Jaken is baby-sitting me but he's not doing a very good job at it, he's been gone for three hours now looking for Rin in the woods," she explained hyperly.

"I see, so did you know that I brought Shippo with me, he'll be down in a minute so if you want you can play with him until you leave," I stated as a red flashed by me, "Correction, he'll be down now."

They ran off looking for Jaken to torment leaving me there in my thoughts. I shook my head and smiled as I continued my way to the front of the castle.

"Lady Kagome, I see you are up already, did you sleep well?" Spike questioned walking up to me.

"Quite well thank you, and yourself?" I questioned being polite as he smiled at me.

"Pretty well," he said motioning for me to follow him inside. I did and he led me to a room with a piano in it.

"Why did you bring me here?" I questioned looking at the dusty piano he walked over to taking a seat. I sat down next to him as he said and looked as me as if I knew how to play it.

"I want to hear you play, I need to know if you are the one or not, I will know if you play for me," he said slightly begging. I blinked my eyes in confusion a few times, oh shit he was serious.

"I don't know what you want out of me but I don't know how to play the piano to save my life," I stated slightly brushing my fingers over the keys. For some reason I felt connected to them as if my life would end if I didn't play. Spike stood behind me and placed a hand on my shoulder for support.

"Just try, once, for me, then I promise you and your pup may leave," he stated. I nodded and started to play a song that came to mind, I had never even heard the melody before let alone know how to play it but nonetheless, I was sitting in front of the piano playing my heart out into this melody that floated in my mind. As the song came to an end I started to hum along with it. When I finished I looked up at Spike who had his eyes close with tears pouring from his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I tried to warn you that I had never played before," I said apologizing but he shook his head.

"The song you just played, the tune is called 'To Zanarkand'(FFX), it is the song of the northern lands. Nobody else knows how to play it but my sister, but sadly she disappeared some years ago," he said looking at me.

Things were getting weirder and weirder by the minute. He invited me over here because he thought that I was his sister? He just said that she was the only one who knew how to play it and there I was playing it like an expert and I didn't even play the piano! This was just all too confusing for my small brain to comprehend.

"Are you implying that I may indeed be your little sister?" I questioned.

"Hai," he whispered and I just stood there dumbfounded. What was there to say, he knew about the symbol on my arm then, what it meant.

"Then you know why I have the kanji on my arm?" I questioned and he nodded. Things were getting weirder by the minute and I couldn't take it anymore. I ran out of the room as fast as I could and before I knew what hit me a Neko demon came flying at me.

"Kagome-chan! I've missed you so much!" it yelled.

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