"What do you mean?"

"He took out his heart, and hid it away, so no one can kill him…The mark over your heart is the same… someone took your heart out and made a detachment of yourself."

I stared into the child's eyes to see the truth, he wasn't bluffing. It was weird to hear such words from a baby, when it shouldn't be able to speak none the less. I thought it over, I gasped realizing. "So, there's a girl just like me?"

"She is part of you, the missing part of you, your heart."

I laughed a bit. "That explains a lot. Why I don't give much emotion, and when I do, I feel sick to my stomach…" I paused. "But what about love?"

"Love… You're not supposed to feel anything but fake emotions, while your heart is separated from your body."

I felt a twinge in my chest, feeling the pain in my lungs; it felt like someone was calling to me. I tried to take a deep breath, just ended up having a coughing fit. "What is this feeling?"

"That is the feeling you get when you finally come in range of your detachment after years of separation, it feels like death crawling on you, does it not?" He giggled, as I glared at him, my teeth bared at him, I felt like killing the insolent pup and stopping his obnoxious jabbering.

"What are your names?"

"Akago is mine, while this is Kanna." Kanna nodded, as she fixed the child closer to herself. "And you are Mika."

"I am." I looked at him, as I imagined his grave, as I carved out his name with my nails; it made me smile such a wicked smile. I felt another pull at my lungs, it must be really close.

"I apologize, but I must leave to catch something more important than this meaningless banter."

"Until next time." Akago showed this smile, which sent a brutal chill down my spine, worse than the first.

I jolted in the direction the twinge pulled at my lungs, I reached a small cottage. I noticed some children playing with a dog, a father cutting wood, and across the way making soup, was a young woman, her back was towards me. I walked closer, as the children gasped, running in fear to their father, he held his axe at me, I scoffed. "I'm not here to eat anyone or to destroy your home."

"Then why are you here, demon?" The father lowered his axe, just a smidge, still not trusting me, I could tell in his eyes and I understood. The young woman turned around to see the commotion, I gasped as I stared into the eyes I knew were my own.

"She is the reason." I stared at the girl, who looked just like me, before I came to this world, this era. She was my detachment, I could feel the tug on my lungs lessen, knowing I found my missing piece.

The man ran to her, as he wrapped his arms around her, thinking he could protect her from me. "Why my wife?"

"Your wife?" I couldn't believe it, as I stared at the children, they did not smell of my scent, so they were not born from her. These were orphans they must have taken in, as they travelled across the lands, till they became settled in this quiet forest. I could tell all this just by the look in the man's eyes, their whole life together and taking children in.

I looked into the woman's eyes to see, that she was an open book, her story simple. She was but a babe, when an old couple found upon her in a field, she was neither crying nor screaming, but cooing in the moonlight. They took the young girl and raised her to become a wonderful woman; she became the loveliest girl in their village. She fell in love with a man, found she was barren, took in children to fill the hole only motherhood could fill. Simple and to the point, but still it surprised me that all that happened in the last 18 years since I was once here. The real thing that puzzled me was why my heart was separated from me in the first place.

"Who are you?" The voice of the girl, sounded of singing birds, of heaven, it stopped all thought in my head. Her voice was different then mine, mine was usually covered in sarcasm and emotionless distaste.

"My name is Mika."

She walked from her husband's arms, he was worried, I just stared at her. "My name is Kima…Are you my mother?"

I covered my mouth, stifling my laugh, but I couldn't. I laughed so hard that my body hurt, it was so priceless. "No, I am not your mother."

"Then why do I feel we are the same?" Her husband, Jin, was shocked hearing that this demon could be related to his wife, his precious Kima.

"May we speak of this in a more private place, Kima?" I looked at her husband and the terrified children, and then at Kima, she nodded. We walked into the forest, we passed some animals some ran the other way at the sight of me and some stayed at the sight of Kima. She stopped in front of a waterfall and spring, as she turned around to me, her eyes filled with confusion but also glazed in love.

"What are you?"

I sighed, trying to figure a way to say it. "I am where you came from, you are my heart."

Kima looked at me weird, as her stare didn't lessen in love or kindness, which is what made me feel even weirder. "Your heart? How?"

"When I was a baby, someone took you from my chest and made you. They took me to a different place. I lived a life without true emotions and love, while you lived with them in this life of yours, this counterfeit life."

Tears ran down her face, I felt a twinge in my lungs, as if I could feel her pain, my pain against my own words. "My life can't be just counterfeit, I have Jin, Loni, Mayumi, Sakura, and Fuji. They are my family…"

"A family that doesn't even know what you truly are. Do you honestly think that if they knew you were just the heart of a demon, they would accept you?" I glared at her, I was getting tired of her sadness, I wanted to finally figure out what to do with these so called emotions about Sesshomaru. I wanted to understand how I could feel the emotions I have been since I came to this world, but then it stoke me, as if I was an idiot. My emotions opened when I was in the same time as my heart, but that still did not answer all my questions.

"What are you going to do to me?" She looked at me, her face red from tears, her eyes puffy, it all sickened me, my demon side.

"I was planning on taking you back into me."

"But my family…"

"What do you want me to do?" I looked at her, hoping she would have some idea to shut her sadness and begin to understand how much I needed my heart back, how much I needed her.

She looked around, and then at me. "Copy me."

I stared at her weird. "What?"

"Use your powers to copy me, without your heart, so that my family can still have their loving mother and wife. Then you can have me."

I sighed. 'I don't even know if I have that kind of power…' "Fine, I will try." I thought over how I could copy powers, maybe I could copy people, if I tried hard enough. I closed my eyes, envisioning her, seeing her having a twin with all her memories, her copy. I started to feel weak, as I fell to my knees but I didn't stop thinking, I started to lose my breath.

"STOP!" Her voice made me fall to the ground, trying to gasp for air, I felt as if I lost all my energy in that one task. I looked up at her, as I saw, to my amazement, her copy. They were doing that mirror act, I tried to sit up.

"Um, can I get some help here?"

Kima ran over to my side, helping me up, her copy grabbed a leaf and got some water from the spring, trying to give it to me. "You did it."

"Painfully, I did." I looked at her as she leaned me against a tree, I drank the water. "Now will you return to me?" I stared into Kima's eyes, putting the leaf aside, I could tell she didn't want to go but she made a promise she had to keep.

"Yes, I will." She took my hand, she closed her eyes, and in a blur, she disappeared and her copy ran off to her family, knowing she was needed at home. I felt my heart beat, it wasn't artificial, it wasn't my imagination, and it was my own heart.

I gasped in pain, as my head filled with emotions and realizations. I finally felt my love for my family and how much I truly missed them, even though I was lied to for all my life. I understood why I was lied to, and I didn't care anymore, it was in the past. I started to feel my heart begin to grow warm, I already knew it was my love for Sesshomaru that made it so. I knew that I loved him with every fiber of my body, my complete body, but there was still pain from knowing of Akiko. A tear ran down my face, as I touched it, it was cold. When I did cry, it was never cold. It didn't even feel like anything, it just felt like room temperature water. I was sad, over how Sesshomaru lost his first love, but I wanted to melt his ice and make him realize I would be by his side. I don't plan to leave his side, once I gain all I need to know of myself and the truths that need to be uncovered, and then I would be by his side once again.

I took a deep breath, as I started to stand up. 'I need to know everything about my birth and all that happened…The only person to know that would be Mizuki…'

I started to walk out of the forest, as I kept trying to figure how I'd find her, let alone reach the moon. But in the second of doubt, I heard a bellow from beyond far off from the trees. I ran faster to reach what it was it. I smelled something weird, something familiar.

Author Note

Hello, peons. Yes, its Mika. And now, since I'm complete for the first time since I was born. I have so much to learn and so much to do. You'll just have to wait another week or so to see what happens next. Review and alert! Later Readers!