Chapter 4- The night when the moon disappeared
After the fight with Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and the rest of them decided to leave Kaede's village.
Kaede "Are you sure it's ok to leave now?" Inuyasha "Why… It's something wrong?" Kaede "No it's just that now that Marinako has a demonic aura, other monsters and demons will come after her to try to kill her"
Suddenly Marinako entered Kaede's house
"Inuyasha we are ready… It's everything ok?" Marinako asked since Inuyasha and Kaede looked a little worried
"Yeah, everything it's ok let's go" Inuyasha exited and Marinako fallowed him.
Kaede "Take care everyone" Kagome "We will, take care too lady Kaede"
They started to walk while they waved to Kaede
"You have to be strong… Marinako…" Kaede said looking at the sky wondering if Marinako would be able to control her power and what would she have to get through to be able to survive.
Kagome "Inuyasha can we rest a little, I'm really tired" Inuyasha "NO! You always complain about everything! Besides we haven't walked much" Sango "Inuyasha we are not as strong as you are, we're humans"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and sat in the grass
"Ok we'll take a short brake, but not for long we have to get as far as we can from the village" Inuyasha said looking a little annoyed
Miroku "Now what's wrong Inuyasha?" Inuyasha "What you mean?" Miroku "You have been acting very weird lately, is it because of the fight with Sesshomaru?"
Inuyasha took a deep breath "Nah is Marinako…"
"Marinako…?" Miroku asked confused
Inuyasha "Yeah… She is stronger than what I though, if Sesshomaru came all the way here to look for her it means that she is special and…"
Miroku "You're worried for her" Inuyasha nodded
"You don't have to" Inuyasha and Miroku looked up and they saw Marinako standing next to them.
Marinako sat next to Inuyasha
"I know that this is dangerous and that I might die if I don't try my best, but it's what it was meant to happen… I guess"
Then suddenly Shippo jumped into Inuyasha's head "Don't worry Marinako I will protect you!"
Marinako "Thank you Shippo" Inuyasha "Ha you can barely take care of yourself" Shippo "hey I'm an independent kid, and I can take care of myself!"
Inuyasha and Shippo started to fight
"Inuyasha, Sit Boy" Kagome yelled annoyed "We have to keep going is almost dark and I don't want to sleep in the forest!"
"But you were the one who said we should rest!" Inuyasha yelled while everyone was getting ready to keep going.
After walking for 4 long hours, Sango suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong Sango" Kagome questioned
"Look there is a small temple, maybe they'll let us spend the night in there" Sango said pointing at a really old looking temple
Miroku "You might be right, let's ask them since is already getting dark"
They got to the temple and a young man was at the entrance of the temple
"Excuse me! is there any chance that we can stay in here for tonight?" Miroku asked politely
The boy stopped and nodded "Please follow me"
The fallowed the boy into the temple. The boy served them tea and told them to wait for his master to come to welcome them and see if they could stay.
After several minutes an old looking man entered the room where they were
"I'm sorry for making you wait, my name is Kato Kai" the old man introduced himself and so the rest of them.
After everyone was done introducing them self's Marinako was the only one left to do it.
Inuyasha punched her slightly
"What, oh I'm sorry; my name is Marinako Hino nice to meet you"
Kato opened his eyes wide and looked at her with surprise
Kato "Your name is Marinako?" Marinako "Yes, why? Is something wrong with it?"
Kato got serious and after some minutes of silent he spoke again
"You can stay tonight, my apprentice will get you food so please wait here, and Marinako, can I talk to you for a moment"
"For what!" Inuyasha asked looking at Kato with suspicious eyes
"It's okay Inuyasha, don't worry" Mariko got up and fallowed Kato
Sango "Something it's wrong here, did you saw his surprise when Marinako told him her name" Kagome "I did, it was freaky…" Miroku "Inuyasha stay here with Sango, Kagome and Shippo. I will follow them to see that nothing bad happens to Marinako" Inuyasha "I don't like the idea but we can't do nothing else, I leave Marinako to you"
Miroku nodded and got out of the room silently
Meanwhile, Kato took Marinako to a little lake that was in the temple's garden.
"It has been a while since the last time I saw you… You were just a baby back then" Kato said with sentimentality
"Wait, you know who I am?" Marinako asked surprised "You Know from where I come from?"
Kato "It's okay if you don't remember anything, your mother wanted you to live like a normal human, but it seems that your powers where more strong than the spell we put over you" Marinako "You mean that I was born in this era?"
Kato nodded "You are the daughter of a human woman and a dragon… the Blue Dragon a monster with unlimited powers and strength"
Marinako was so confused that she just wanted to know something.
"Why did they abandon me? Did they hate me because I was human?" Marinako questioned with tears in her eyes
Kato put an arm around her "No, they didn't hate it you. Your mother wanted you to live as a normal human"
Marinako "Why? Wasn't I a half demon…?" Kato "That's the thing, for some reason you just inherited your father's power, which means that you were a full monster" Marinako "Than why did he left me a side? Why didn't he take me with him?"
Kato looked at the ground with a sad face
"When your father was going to take you with him… he died"
The last two words were like two stabs to Marinako, she started to cry unconsciously "How d-did he died?"
Kato "Your father was ill from a previous fight with the fire dragon (1) so he was weak, his enemies took advantage of this to attack the villages that he used to protect… of course that your father didn't let them do much, he sacrificed his own life to protect your mother and all people from the villages"
Neither Marinako nor Kato realized that Miroku was listening to all their conversation, Miroku was hiding behind a bush, but also Miroku didn't realize that Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango and Kagome where there hiding too.
"What the hell are you guys doing here!" Miroku said whispering
"Shhh!" everyone said at the same time
"Then what happened to my mother?" Marinako said sobbing
"Are you sure you want to know the rest of the story?" Kato asked looking at how affected was Marinako
But Marinako wanted to know all, she nodded
"Okay… your mother was with your father during his last moments of life, than your dad told her how to put a spell on you so you could become human before you could gain all of your powers. That night when your father died the moon didn't appeared, and it was our opportunity to send you to another era where you could live in peace" Kato paused and took a deep breath before continuing
"We put the spell on you and we transported you to that new era with the help of the Bone Eater's Well… after that your mother got really sick and she also died, but even in her last moments she remembered you and your father, Marinako… they sacrifice their life's to make sure that you could live happily without having to worry about anything"
Marinako braked down in tears, and then suddenly Inuyasha got up and went directly to Marinako. Inuyasha kneeled down and put a hand in her head
"C'mon Marinako, its ok…" Inuyasha said with a weak smile
Marinako looked up and she hugged Inuyasha and started to cry harder
Inuyasha hugged her and Miroku and the rest of them got up and went to see Marinako
Sango and Shippo were crying silently, because they knew that words wouldn't help make Marinako feel better.
The next day
Everyone was still asleep except Marinako. She got up and went to the garden
Marinako sat near the lake and Kato appeared out of nowhere
"I knew you were going to be here early, come with me" Kato started to walk deeper in the garden, Marinako fallowed him
Kato stopped "Here take a look at this..."
Marinako opened her eyes wide and looked at two graves covered in blue roses
Marinako "Are this my-" Kato "Yes, this are your parents… Umi Nawagi and Takuma"
Marinako got close to the graves and touched the flowers
She started to cry again but this time it wasn't because she was sad, she was crying of happiness
Kato stared at her and then he looked at the blue sky
"I'm sure you are watching her now Umi, she's going to be a great dragon Takuma. Umi… Takuma… I promise to look after her"
Marinako "I won't let you down… I promise to be as strong as you father and I promise both of you that I will protect my friends and the people that I love just like you did… Mother… Father… I love you"
Authors note:
Oh my I'm finally done with this chapter… It took me a while for all this testing going on school, if you think is hard think about how hard is for someone who is not a native English speaker!
Anyways Sesshomaru should appear in the next chapter and yeah so Review and enjoy it!
The Fire Dragon is going to be part of the story, but that's going to happen further in the story. So far you have to know that the Fire dragon is a man, a sexy red headed man (Just like some girls will say :P) that is going to be Marinako's worse enemy.