A/N: I know you're probably gonna hate me for this in future, but these chapters, Your Past, My Past, and My Past, Your Past there are going to be a lot of them. Please don't hurt me for them, they help the story, and when the least you want to read about their past... you'll get one. So like... in past chapters, we got to hear Sango, but didn't get to know what was going on (if you couldn't tell) until the chapter next. Believe me when I say this, they DO come in handy, you and I (I know I've wrote it) will come to hate several, because of the timing, but hey, it's there, and it's staying. In truth... they help me... when I had writer's block... Sorry... I'm not taking them out... Because... well... I rather like them... To be honest... and not to say anything else...
Go and read!
Kagome soshite sono Inu Doyatsu izuko Ato Hanyou
Summary: OOC. AU. Whence running from school in the rainiest day ever, ever feel like theirs something watching you? While running down an ally Kagome meets a glare from a pure white dog, hiding from the rain. T for random foul language.
Note: Most of the Japanese that I have used are on my profile. If a word is not there, please tell me, and I'll put the word up, as soon as I can :-)
Chapter 13 - Your Past, My Past III
I guess she didn't tell because it has been a few days and I'm still here, alone. She still could have told. Gods what if she didn't? And they know she knows something? And they torture her or something? It'll be my fault! I sat down my feet began to tire after pacing for a couple of hours straight. I didn't even know her that well and she was beginning to annoy me way to much for a ningen girl.
I could still smell her scent; it was like the winds didn't touch it. They wanted that smell to stay. The wind pushed me from behind telling me to follow it. I rolled my eyes and let the winds have their way; they'd get whatever they wanted from me at least.
I followed her scent. She didn't originate from the forest centre because her scent led outwards. Leaving the protection of the woods wasn't safe for any youkai or hanyou that were still here these days, but I guess this is the way that girl came because for some reason she ventured into the darkness maybe she was chased? I blinked and stopped; I was worrying for the baka ningen! The wind pushed me again and I sighed, and then kept walking.
I stopped seeing the weakest barrier ever, it must have been there for a long time, for it to weaken or it was attacked a lot of times… I walked into it, it didn't even hurt. Whoever placed this up, it's not doing much good, considering I can walk into it. But I did feel as if I just jumped into a cold lake. I looked around it seemed no one was here, but the scents were still fresh, so they haven't been gone long… I looked up at the house. I really guess I shouldn't even call it a house, now I know why it had a barrier. This place is a shrine.
Gods the girl is a miko? I'm in a lot of trouble. I shouldn't even be in a threshold of a shrine, and yet here I am. Sniffing around for a ningen girl, it'll be instant death if I stay any longer… but one thing eludes me. Miko's have been dead for a long time… I was sure. They can sense auras so she knew I was there even before she looked up? But she didn't scream… maybe she hasn't been taught yet, maybe because no one can teach her… I'm getting myself confused! I looked up to the shrine's roof again, I then jumped to it.
I gazed over the land in the barrier. What a strange shrine… no one around…
"Mama!"
Until I heard that. It was the girl? She could speak. Just not to me… that annoyed me. I wanted to follow the voice, but considering it echoed I couldn't very well place where it originally came from. I willed her to call again, but if she saw me, what the heck would she do? Tell "Mama"? Or even worse the Kyapucha-? That's a horrible thought.
I sat on that roof for a while, I realized that from here the perfect sunset or sun rising was here, on this shrine roof. It was weird, but fascinating at the same time. I don't know why I stayed there, but my mind knew. It just wasn't telling me everything. The girl didn't call out again, hell, maybe it was her time to sleep or eat. How am I meant to know the daily lives of ningens? I haven't even been near them, unless you count the Kyapucha- as ningens.
I stared up to the night sky, thinking of why that klutz-y, baka, ningen girl came falling into my life… or even why she was in the forest at the first place… I think she was running from something… but it still leaves why she was out of the barrier in the first place, she must know about it, but maybe it's so weak that she can't see it. But why leave the place of her origin? Why go deeper into an unsettled forest? Running away from something no less? I sighed and looked back to the forest trees, being alone was something I was used to. But, being here made me feel worse. For some reason, thinking about the girl made me feel even worse.
She hadn't told the Kyapucha- I think she has no idea what they are, so she could walk right past them? But I can't understand why she would go deeper into an unsettled forest, alone and running. Maybe she didn't know the forest was once filled with youkai… or about the unsettled winds rushing past, her trying to tell her what they could… she's just a miko-in-training. A pup, like me, trying to get past a day. Just one day for her, her supply of food won't run out, like mine. The scents that the Kyapucha- set down, kill the food plants... pollute this earth more so then it already is. But the air in the shrine was mostly clean… maybe because of the weak barrier it can keep out pollution… maybe that was the reason it was put up, because ningens are condemned to instant death themselves.
I sat up, it wasn't like me to worry about creatures like ningens; maybe I'm ill. I looked over to a tree that stood in the middle by itself, by one sniff I could tell it was an old tree, old enough by at least five to six hundred years. I wonder how long it will stay aging for, before it is cut down…
I walked back to the forest tree line, and then looked back to the shrine all the lights were out, so whoever lived there along with the girl, they were convinced it was time to sleep. I smiled towards it then ran into the forest, back to my unsettled forest home.
Gods if the ningens are condemned to instant death is it wrong of me to ask to spare one? Just one? I know ningens do deserve instant death, but Gods I ask please spare the ones who don't deserve instant death. They did nothing wrong. They are just trying to live.
