I didn't bring my ipod or my speakers since we didn't need it. "Why aren't you bringing your music?" Bankotsu asked me.
"Because we won't need it till you have the moves." I told him.
"Then why did you bring it the first time?" He asked me.
"Because I needed to hear the music to get the beat because I learned both parts recently." I explained to him. He nodded his head. I continued to teach him the male part. We praticed each part step by step. We were a quarter of the way through the routine. "This is coming along great." I told him.
"You think?" He asked me.
"Of course I know it better than you do." I playfully told him. He smiled at me. He then got up in my face and pushed me against the tree. He kissed me passionately. He gave my tongue access to his mouth after I bit his lower lip. Our tongues explored every inch of our mouths as they went back and forth between mouths. He then moved to my neck. He started kissing in his way down to my collarbone. I let out a soft moan. He then bit my collar bone. I let out another soft moan. 'I love this too much but I know where this will end up if I don't stop. But why must it feel so good? argh! I'm not ready yet.' I thought as he pressed himself up against my body. "Bankotsu." I said as he bit my neck.
"Hmm?" He said as he started to kiss my neck.
"Please stop I-I-I'm not ready for this." I told him. He backed off of me and took my hand. He smiled at me understanding. He led me back to the camp and we fell asleep together.
~Dream~
I walked through the door of my house to find my parents there. "And where were you?" My mother asked bitterly "I had to stay after." I told her. "You didn't call?" My father asked. "I told you yesterday I was staying after for something." I told him. "Why were you staying after?" My mother asked. "For a class." I told her. "That's bull. You were doing drugs with your friends." My father told me. "Dad I don't do drugs!" I yelled at him. "Talking back to me?" He yelled at me. He got up and smacked me. "N-n-n-no sir." I told him as I started to continued to hit me. He pushed me to the stairs when he was done with me. " I don't want to see you. You disgust me." My father spat at me. My mother didn't even stop him. I ran up the stairs crying and went into my room and locked the door. I was sick and tired of this. I called my grandama Essie. She told me that she would come pick me up and we'd celebrate my thirteenth birthday. I grabbed my suitcase and started packing. After twenty minutes of packing the phone rang. I went downstairs and answered it.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Hello is this Mrs. Judy Thompson?" The unfamilar voice asked.
"No this is her daughter, Emily Thompson." I told te voice.
"Well please tell your mother that your grandmother got into a horrible accident and is at the hospital." The voice told me. As he told me I started to feel pain in my heart.
"I'll be there as soon as possible." I told the personand then hung up. I started to run out the door. My parents didn't care where I was going. I was running to the hospital in the pouring rain. I soon got there within twenty minutes of nonstop running. I went up to the receptionist soaking wet asking for my grandmother. She told me the room and I walked fast to the room. Once I got there I saw my grandmother hooked up to machines. I went to sit at the chair beside the hospital bed and started crying. "This is all my fault." I kept sayign to myself over and over."Essie, this isn't your fault. You didn't cause the accident." She told me. I looked up at her. "It is. If I didn't call you and asked you to come get me you would of never of gotten in that accident." I told her.
"It wasn't your fault. Now smile for me." She told me.
"What will I do now?" I asked her.
"My dear Essie,If I don't make it when you are seventeen I want you to run away and live with my friend and one of your relatives who will be living in my house." She told me.
"Don't talk like that!" I told her.
"Essie there is a greater power in you. You will discover it and help save humanity like your ancestor." She told me .Her heart monitor then went flat. Nurses came rushing in trying to revive her as I just watched. After ten minutes of trying they stopped. She was now dead. I started to cry so hard. I kissed her head and left the hospital in tears. I came back home soaking wet. I was beat some more and was sent up to my room.
~End of dream~
I soon awoke from the dream. I was sweating and crying. Everyone was still asleep so I grabbed my weapons and equipped them as I went for a walk. As I went into the woods I could hear muffled voices. As I got closer I could hear the voices clearly.
"Master Jaken when is Lord Sesshourmaru coming back?" a girl asked.
"I don't know Rin but Lord Sesshourmaru is doing something very important and he doesn't need you to slow him down by getting into trouble." the person who must be Jaken said. I continued toward the voices. I hid behind some bushes and looked at the two people. It was a young girl, a demon toad of some kind with a staff that had two heads and a two headed dragon of some sort. I crept a little closer and the demon frog's head shot up in my direction.
"Show yourself!" He yelled. I stood up and looked at the two. I didn't understand why these two would be up at a time like this. "You better leave before Lord Sesshoumaru comes back and kills you." He told him.
"Now Master Jaken that isn't nice. She could be lost." The girl said.
"Now Rin she could be a demon or one of Naraku's people." Jaken told her.
"Now to reassure you I'm not one of Naraku's people and I'm not a demon. I'm the ancestor of Michiko, the famous priestess demon slayer. This is her equipment and necklace that I have with me." I told Jaken. His eyes grew wide in disbelief that I was Michiko's ancestor.
"Y-y-you can't be! She died long ago and didn't have any children!" He told me.
"She did have a child before she died and I can prove it." I told him. I got out my bow and arrow and hit a tree with it that had a purple light to it.
"A sacred arrow! It must be real." Jaken said.
"Would you like to wait with us until Lord Sessourmaru gets back?" Rina asked me.
"Well, I was going for a walk but I guess I could sit with you guys." I told Rin as I put my bow and arrow back. I started to walk towards them. I sat down next to Rin. "I'm Emily, so who is this Lord Sesshoumaru?" I asked.
"You don't know who Lord Sesshoumaru is?" Jaken asked.
"No I don't." I told him.
"Lord Sesshoumaru is the son of the great dog demon. He has a brother who is a half demon. His name is InuYasha." Jaken explained.
"So is Lord Sesshourmaru powerful?" I asked him.
"Why would you ask a question like that? Of course Lord Sesshourmaru is powerful!" Jaken told me.
"Ok then. So what do you guys do while you wait for Lord Sesshourmaru?" I asked them.
"Well we sit or sleep or look at flowers in the area. Don't we Ah Un? (sp?)" Rin asked Ah Un (sp?). He just made a noise. It was soon getting lighter. 'Hopefully Bankotsu and the others won't worry about me. I left my everything except my equipment so I hope they realize that I ran away.' I thought to myself.

~Meanwhile~

Bankotsu awoke from his sleep without Emily in his arms. He opened his eyes to see that her weapons was gone but she had left her bag behind. He was contemplating whether he should go looking for her 'She should be back soon. Plus she has her weapons. Unless somebody kidnapped her and brought her weapons with them.' Bankotsu thought. He looked at the others sleeping soundly. 'If she doesn't come back by the time they wake up I have to go looking for her.' Bankotsu thought.

~~

"So who are you traveling with?" Jaken asked me.
"The Band of Seven." I told him.
"Why would you travel with the band of seven?" Jaken asked me.
"They kidnapped me." I told him. I then heard rustling in the bushes. I got up and aimed my bow and arrow to where the rustling was coming from. "Show yourself!" I said. Then a bunch of figures came out from behind the bushes. It was a bunch of people from an army. "Rin get far away from here!" Jaken yelled to Rin. Rin got on Ah Un he was going to protect her. I shot my arrow at the gut and killed one. Then Jaken's staff had fire coming out of it. He killed all of them except one and that was the general. I pulled out my sword and started to fight with him. I almost got to getting him but he cut my arm. I winced as the blade cut through my skin causing blood to come out. I continued to fight until I killed him. I didn't enjoy this feeling of killing. I looked at my arm and the blood coming out. It hurt but I had to suck it up. I riped the bottom of my shirt taking an inch around the bottom and I gave it to Rin. "You think you could wrap it for me?" I asked her. She nodded and wrapped the cloth around the wound.
"That's a pretty cool weapon of yours." I told Jaken. He nodded.

~Meanwhile~

Everyone was up and Emily had still not returned. Bankotsu was worried that Emily had been kidnapped. He looked around and stood up. "I'm going to look for Emily. Just don't wander off." He said as he picked up Banryuu and headed off into the forest in search for Emily.

It was about noontime when Sesshourmaru came back. "Lord Sesshourmaru!" Rin and Jaken said simultaneously. "Lord Sesshourmaru, Master Jaken and Emily killed all the mercenaries." Rin told Sesshourmaru. He looked at me and I smiled. He didn't smile back. I just shrugged. "Lord Sesshourmaru this is the ancestor of Michiko." Rin added. "Michiko..." He said quietly.
"Well I better get going. Bye Rin and Jaken nice meeting you two. I hope to see you two again!" I said. as I started to walk away from the path I came. As I was about a couple of feet away from Rin, Jaken and Sesshoumaru I saw Bankotsu.
"Hey Bankotsu!" I yelled. He looked at me with pure happiness. He ran running up to me and gave me a big hug. I winced as he slightly touched my injured arm. "I thought you were kidnapped." He told me with relief in his voice.
"I'm fine. Plus if I was kidnapped I would be screaming and I don't give up that easliy." I told him as he let go of me. I looked at him and noticed he was slightly crying. I wiped away his tears and smiled at him. He then noticed the drenched cloth. "What happened to your arm?" He asked me. I looked down at it and looked back at him.
"I was fighting a General and as I tried to go for an opening his blade cut me." I explained.
He sighed. "Did you kill him?" He asked. I nodded "I didn't like that." I told him.
"It's ok. It was for self defense." He told him. He gave me a long passionate kiss. I smiled as he put his arm around my waist. Before we got to camp he returned his hand to his side.
"Emily your ok!" Jakotsu said as he came to give me a big hug. He squeezed my arms too, which caused me pain. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know!" He told me.
"Jakotsu it's fine. I'll live besides I've had worse injuries." I told him as I returned to camp.
"We'll travel to the village tomorrow?" I asked as I sat next to Bankotsu.
"Yes since you have inured yourself and you have cost us most of he day there is no sense in going now." Renkotsu told me.
"Well I'm sorry if I needed to go for a walk and had to figt some mercenaries!" I yelled at him. Bankotsu looked at me. "It's not your fault. In fact it's nobody's fault. Let's enjoy this day of resting because there might be able to rest like this again." Bankotsu told the group. Amai's eyes were full of happiness and joy. "I get to spend another day with my Suikotsu!" She said with joy.

I leaned over to Bankotsu's ear "We won't be able to dance for a while because I don't want to hurt my arm anymore so we will have to wait for a while." I whispered to him. He nodded at me. At least we would get to spend some alone time together.