Sango sighed she had just gotten home at her new palace and went straight into her room; she went over the room divider. She grabbed a white robe that are used as night clothes, with that she brushed her hair to the side and then washed the makeup off her face and sat on her bed. She looked at her feet on the floor and sighed "What am I going to tell him?" She flew on her back and laid down flat on her back "Uh what am I gonna do what am I gonna do?"

A knock echoed on the wood of the door 'Knock, Knock.' Sango sat up quickly and looked proper "Yes?" A sweet voice like honey "I'm the head maid is there something I can do for you? You sound in distress." Sango smiled and opened the door, and smiled at the elderly maid. She had snow white hair with small amounts of grey and her old raisin face and sweet smile "Oh I'm just speaking to myself, just got things on my mind."

She smiled and covered her giggled with her old wrinkled hand and looked at Sango the picture of youth "You know if you keep doing that your fiancé might think your mad." Sango felt irritated and looked closer at the old woman "Hey wait your that priestess who helped my group before! That old lady who fought with Inuyasha all the time and made fun of me and Miroku! Madame Exorcist!"

"I have a real name you know."

"Oh I just didn't know it, you never told me it."

"Well It's Hanako."

"Hanako?"

"Yes, in my day I was complimented for being the beauty of the whole region. My parents must of know and called me child of the flowers, even in this old age I am considered a beauty. Many men wanted to marry me but I chose my job instead and married a young priest. He died when we were fighting demons, and I shortly found out I was carrying his child. I took time off and raised her until I could leave her at home when I went to resume my work. Enough of my boring life story, tell me what are you talking about?"

Sango smiled and waved her hands embarrassed "Oh well I guess I'm just stressed and confused."

"Well if you don't want to marry the poor guy tell him."

"Oh do you think I don't want to marry him?"

They went to the small table in the room and had some tea that was brought to the room after they began to talk for some time. Sango giggled a little and looked at the bewildered old maid "Oh, no I do. This would be a better life for me rather than living in that group I used to be in."

"Oh tell me what happened."

"Hold on I can't, I can hardly understand myself."

"Fine, I'm merely hear to listen. You and your group were a odd one at that thou, you guys kept saying something about the demon's aura when we destroyed a demon in a palace. I guess you guys were all really mad after all, and I never figured how a group such as your's could even last at all. You a demon slayer, a monk, a odd priestess, a half demon and two full demons you guys were all basically natural enemies. I mean humans hate demons vice versa and demons hate half demons again vice versa not including the humans in the groups jobs were all about killing demons …"

"Alright, alright already I'll tell you as long as you stop."

"Good I am never one lost for words just letting you know."

"Okay, well you see my group is falling apart and I was the second one who just had to get out. I-I understand why sh-she left… but… why did she ha-have to…" Sango cried burying her eyes filled with salt tears of sadness and confusion "All I ever loved has been taken from me!"

The old lady sat her tea cup down and felt sadness in her heart towards this poor woman who she remembered as happy, jealous of other girls toward the monk, funny and full of life now seemed to be broken.

"Please tell me more it will only weight your heart down more if you keep it all to yourself, you remind me so much of my daughter I want you to be happier than she was please." Sango looked up from her hands full of her tears as she looked up stunned at the elderly exorcist.

"What do you mean?"

"I'll tell you after you tell me your sorrows little demon slayer."

Sango wiped her tears with her sleeve and nodded choking back more tears of her never ending pain it seemed. "I have tried to be strong, I was a demon slayer not only because it was in my blood… but to show women aren't weak we can be strong. But I am weak, my whole village was destroyed and I could do anything to stop it. My brother was possessed and killed our father and our other slayers what did I do stand there in stock still fear and shock."

She looked up at her with tears never stopping in her words, not only was she pyshically crying her memories were coming back to her scratching at her mind "I lost my little brother and my village everyone I knew and loved. I then found out he had been resurrected with the Shikon jewel shard, and will die if it is pulled from his body."

The old woman's eyes grew big like saucers 'This poor little girl, she is a lone survivor of her whole village and her kind. I never heard of any other slayers besides her I thought they were all long dead. Now the last one stands before me.'

"My group seemed happy for nearly a year but then… Kagome the young priestess you met in our group ran away leaving all of us, the half demon claimed he loved her previous reincarnation and pointed our how Kagome's previous reincarnation Kikyo was better than her in every way possible and how he never loved Kagome only Kikyo. She ran away to her home, she is actually from the future and on her way to the portal to her home she met our enemy. Our enemy killed Kikyo many years ago and tried to kill everyone in our group even Kagome… yet she found him wounded, healed him, hid him, and mated with him. She now is a demon just like him, and she is also mated to Inuyasha's older half brother Sesshomaru. She now carries Naraku's child in her and is a demon herself along with another young girl who was under the age of ten but somehow grew into a woman and mated two both males and also carries a child and she too is a demon. Kagome claims she loves Naraku and Sesshomaru and she is happy… and my little brother is marrying one of Naraku's servants he keeps my brother under lock and key. And my group without Kagome is falling apart me and Miroku broke up, Inuyasha is scheming to get Kagome and Rin to save them and Shippo the kit who thinks Kagome is his mother is doing the same."

"Oh you poor poor dear."

"I just am so confused and lost what am I to do?"

"Sorry that you went through all of that, but I too went through pain. I just pushed it all behind me and left my region I couldn't handle it, so I ran you need to just remember all that happened and live your life don't worry about their choices they chose their paths and you must do the same. I did when I was your age."

"What pain did you go through?!"

"I lost my love remember! I also never said it but I lost my daughter after she was just fifteen! She ran off and eloped with a man and had his child but when he left her alone for a minute in their hut on the outside of the village they were living in temperately she was killed by a demon as was the rest of the village he came back only in time to save his child which she had given birth to a week before she was killed. I was injured and wasn't able to help, I made my way to the village to visit, but when I got their about three hours after the attack I saw my daughter in pain and die in his arms as she choked on her own blood."

"I told him it was his fault and told him to take the child and how I never wanted to see him again, I heard he remarried and had another child and that wife died in birth… I felt bad that someone else's daughter died and that my grandchild had no mother… but I heard that he would never marry another that he could bear it a third time."

"Why didn't you help him raise them?"

"Because even though I loved my grandchild I hated him and I didn't understand why my daughter had to die. He was supposed to be someone who would protect her but he only got her killed."

"Where is he now?"

"I don't know but I heard he ran off with the children and swore to protect them and teach them to protect themselves."

"Do you know his name?"

"Yes, it is Mashiko Tanakio."

Sango's eyes grew large as be began to shake and tremble uncontrollably "W-what di-di you say?"

"Mashiko Tanaki, why do you know him?"

"He is Chief Mashiko Tanaki and was the chief of Yōkai Taijiya village."

"Was? Is he dead?"

"And did you know him?"

"Well."

"Is his children okay? Is the oldest okay?"

"She is I know her well."

"I thought you said you and your brother were the only survivors."

"We are, I am the daughter of Mashiko Tanaki."

The old ladies eyes grew large and she quivered with tears falling from her eyes as she looked at the girl and brought her wrinkled old hands to her mouth shaking. She looked at Sango why hadn't she realized it before she had the old exorcist's hair, and her mother's eyes her mother's smile and laugh she looked just like her mother but her mother had lighter hair it was actually blonde, her hair was a light brown rather than a dark brown.

"H-how can that be?"

"I'm surprised he was the chief and kept you."

"You may be my grandmother but how dare you talk like that about the man who raised me on his own!" She got up and waved her hands in defense as her tears dropped "No, you miss understand. I just don't understand how you look the way you do as a mortal."

"What the hell are you talking about?!"

"Don't you take that tone with me!"

"Sorry not my fault I never had a grandma before!"

"NO! I didn't want this I just thought you wouldn't live without your mother you see you aren't as normal as you believe but I can't figure out why you look as you do."

"What do you mean? I am normal."

"No you are not! Your mother was a demon."

"What the hell are you talking about?!"

"Your grandfather was a demon."

"Well for your story to even be logical I would have to be less than a half demon, and how can you even prove it! My mother would of have to have been a half demon not a demon unless you are one yourself."

"I am not, If I were do you think I would be old?"

"I suppose not so your lying."

"No your grandfather was a very very powerful demon from the main land but he gave much of his power to me during my pregnancy to make our child a full demon, so she would not be a lowly half demon hated by all."

Sango just stared not believing any of it.

"I may not be a demon and have grown old but I was kept very young for nearly a century thanks to my husband he gave me much of his energy and when he and I fought one of his enemies who came after our girl, he gave me more than enough energy and drained himself dry as a result he was easily killed I was kept young for about another century in that time my daughter grew and I hid her from the world to keep her safe until your father was hired to come and kill her. The village near use feared her but she was the daughter of a flower demon and grew many helpful herbs and beautiful flowers she didn't like villagers and only liked myself and her flowers. I was surprised when he wanted to marry her when I said no they ran off to do it and they did and had you. Your mother fed you much of her energy turning you into a demon but your father kept feeding her special remedies to try and make you mortal, she would throw it up whenever she could and feed herself herbs that would make you full not wanting you to suffer being a half demon."

"Prove it! All your doing is toying with me!"

"I hate demons and I am a slayer not a damn demon!"

"Well then tell me how is it you are so much stronger and rival that of a demon or half demon."

"Cuase I'm strong and trained long and hard."

"Nope. You are a demon my dear but your father has been telling you that you were sick and gave you special medicine and you have been taking it in secret for a long time right?"

Sango eyes shot open she was stronger but that was training but no one knew of her illness no one besides her father. Okay I cough up blood once and awhile, I'm not long for this world."

"No my dear you are, but your demon blood tries to take over your body and change your appearance and make you a full demon that you were born. But the medicine keeps you like a human other than your strength, but you bleed like a mortal, you look like one, you act like one … but you are a demon damn it now act like it!"

With that she threw a special blend of salt and other mixture of a demon's ashes and yelled "Be true to yourself, show the real you human be gone demon return!" Sango felt burning it her flesh and bit her lip to not scream as she did she made herself bleed allowing the mixture to enter her blood stream, she felt her blood heat up and boil she gasped and fell to the floor.

Then Hanako the old exorcist grabbed a hand mirror and showed Sango her true self "My dear…"