Chapter 6
Passing tests and receive gifts,
meanwhile With miaka,
"Seriously," "I'm ashamed to be you," "you eat like there is no tomorrow," "such a disgusting fat pig you are," the real miaka make herself look dumb and asked,
"Who are you?" Her clone just smirked evilly and said,
"I am you," miaka looked at her dumbly,
"So if your me?" "then I'm your?" "Or am I me?" "But them you said your me?" "So who am I?" "huh?" The cloned miaka rolled her eyes at her real copy's idiocy, she can't
"believe that this is the side that the people know," "really how degrading," Outside they saw tamahome looking for them, or at least one of them, as miaka tried to reach out to tamahome, her clone stepped on her and walked out of the mirror world, looking back the clone said,
"I'll be taking things from here," "I can't understand for the life of me why you chose tamahome," "which hotohori is way much better," the clone pulled out a lipstick and tried to make herself look more attractive, the miaka in the mirror tried to do the same and tried to walk out of the mirror but the glass wouldn't allow it, starting to panic, she did the only thing she could do, she banged on the glass and yelled,
"Don't you dare touch hotohori!," "he's bella's!," "let me out of here!," the clone didn't even spear her a glance and said,
"No," "you are to stay there forever," "and I on the other hand would be enjoying being a empress," "something you will never understand," "as that navic of a cousin of ours," "she's being takin care as we speak," "now sit back and watch as they succumb to my dazzling act," the evil clone laughed and shrunk the mirror and draped the mirror over her shoulder and proceeded to walk forward,
Inside miaka was completely lounging towards the glass, trying her hardest to crack the glass but gave up eventually gave up and trying To catch her breath, then someone spoke,
"If you really are the priestess of suzaku try breaking out of my spell," "and save your friend's and family," "along with their's will be no more,"
"Who's there!," shouted miaka as she looked everywhere, but no one was around only her, shrugging it off, miaka thinking of what to do to get out of this place,
but the scent of the food was over powering her brain she crept over slowly to the table that was still full of food, she quickly gobbled it up, after she was done she started to think again,
"This girl is in a life and death situation and she still take time to eat," the figure's shook their head's and and sweat dropped and continued to watch the priestess of suzaku, in the mirror to their right, they looked to see the shikon miko struggling with her battle,
meanwhile With Bella
Bella felt a familiar ace creep into her heart but she brushed it off and scanned the area, it was the same as before, she turned to the people with her, she tried to get a grip, "she knew it was impossible that her friend's and family and her ex and his family," "whoever was behind this didn't put koga shippo shiori and her ice nekko and sango's fire nekko was no importance," "not to mention that there appearance was out of the blue," "she didn't Believe her eyes and she let it stay that way," she took a deep breath and looked at her father,
"Who are you?" Her voice hinted a bit of amusement of the sick disturbing joke that is being played on her, "and if midariko behind it she better have a good reason," "she made sure she was on her guard even though how hard it was," "that she was not going to be fooled by this charade," "and she will not be fooled by mere copies of her friends and family and ex boyfriend and his family members," The one who looked like Charlie only smirked and said,
"Your taking this pretty well and wondering how long it will last," he shrugged at his own comment, and spoke again
"I'm your father bells," "the one who died cause of you," "I shouldn't of never took you in after your mother didn't want you," "I want you to disappear like you should of before you came to me,"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep talking out of your filthy emposter mouth," "but I don't get is how did you and the other basically got cloned and turned to evil," well the edward was always a evil person," her father clapped and said
"Bravo," "you matured since the last time I saw you," "and for your question," "you just have to find that out," "oh and five of these people isn't dead as you so claim to be," "there here waiting for you," Bella didn't know if she should believe the clone of her father on what he just said,
"What do you mean?," Bella asked, the clone of her father snapped his fingers and she wasn't expecting what happened next, Edward punched her right in the stomach and a kick to her ribs, and says
"Your still that weak girl that I pretended to love," "I can't believe I even tried to touch you and kiss you," Edward had her arms behind her back with venom dripping down his face,
"Ow!" "Hey!" Shouted Bella, but she wanted to know what the will reveal to her in her captivity, she decided to play along with them and play helpless,
"Well then I'll leave you to it then," "I have a emperor to see," catching what her father had said, she wiped her head snapped toward's her father and growled,
"Don't you dare touch a hair on them you evil clone!" She kicked Edward and ran towards, her fathers clone and pined in down to the ground and placed a barrier up as her eyes turned pink and she tuned into her half demon form, and said,
"you will not touch any of them as long as i live!," "and you will answer what I want to know now!" The clone of her father smirked and spoke,
"Fine," "and to your answers," "if you defeat us and defeat the spell you will have five people your thought that was lost to you," "and they will never leave again,"
Bella only smirked, and she blasted a pink energy blast at the clone of her father and turned him into ash, She let a growl of rage out and faired her aura to show she means business, the other clones where scared of her, edward was the first one to attract, when Edward got close enough Bella grabbed his neck and she blasted him with a little more,
"curse you all of you!" Bella let out a scream of rage for the sick joke, the shikon responded to her pain the pink light purifed everyone's clone in the area, Bella fell to her knees hurt, until a familiar person appeared before her,
"Hello Bella," midariko said, Bella looked at her in shock and then anger,
Midariko stopped her before she said anything,
"it was a test for you and miaka of showing who you are and what your capable of," "but in miaka's case she not getting nothing out of hers," "but you are," Bella looke at her and asked,
"I don't get what you mean," Bella looked at her in confusion, midariko smiled and said,
"The clone was right five of your friend's were still alive," "and two of them are close to you and two of them where close to kagome," "before kagome passed she wanted you to take shippo with you if he lived," "and the final one is a surprise and wished for you to adopt as your own as well," and so here is your gift,
midarikos hand shined brightly and five figures appears before them, once the light died down, Bella covered her mouth and tear's came to her eyes as she crawled over to her pup rin and her nekko shippo and kirara,
"Thank you midariko," "will they stay forever or they will leave,"
"yes they are here to stay," "i'm still searching for more survivers" midariko smiled at her,
"when miaka get's home she will meet her first vampire's," "I just had a meeting with the voltrori," "and with Marcus bond sight," "he saw you as his daughter and aro as the same," "and caius is your uncal," "their not pleased on the edward front, the other cullen's don't know either," "but there going to be waiting at the appartment for miaka," "they have gift's to welcome you guy's into their family," "and your aunt miakas mother had passed," "just don't say anything," "they will have your bags packed and your we ponds ready for you," "Bella even though your my rencarnation I look on as my own daughter," Bella looked a midariko and smiled and cruised and thanked her over and over again and she left,
With the others on there search,
Tamahome approached hotohori and nuriko, hotohori looked at tamahome hopefully and asked,
"Did you find them?" Tamahome sighed and shook his head, that was not the awaited reply of his companions but it was expected, sighing, hotohori was about to order them to split up and search some more until a figure emerged from the shadows of the trees stopped him,
"Miaka," they all *gasped,* hotohori smiled but them let it dropped and asked,
"Were glade your safe," "but where's Bella?" Miaka fought the urge to roll her eyes but she settled with giving him a smile before turning to tamahome and asked him,
"Where you worried about me?" "Tamahome?" He looked at her like she was crazy but replied,
"No," "not really," hotohori *sighed* again and stated,
"We must continue our search for Bella," "out of no where," miaka latched herself on to him and cried,
"Darling!" All three of them where surprised at her out burst, and nuriko was just just fine with it,
Inside the mirror
Miaka watching every little bit of this and it did not make her happy one bit, bagging on the glass, she screamed,
"Let me out of here!" "ahhhh!," "don't do that to hotohori!" "He's Bella's!,"miaka panicked as she watched her clone embrace the emperor, she had to escape this damn prison or else they will be all tricked,
Out side of the mirror with her clone and the others,
Nuriko was looking angry and flaim's shot up behind him, as miaka lunged toward's hotohori and embraced him, he started the chew at his lip and the thought, "that he still know's the emperor still had feeling's for the priestess of suzaku," "but she was stabbing a knife into her cousins back," "even though that would mean bella would come to hime now,"
miaka spoke up, while still holding on to hotohori,
"Forgive me for worrying you," she said solemnly, hotohori was speechless at her odd behavior, miaka never acted like this there something odd about her,
tamahome look at them both with a blank look and averting his eyes, "he knew it was to good to be true that hotohori would forget his feeling for miaka," tamahome thought, Bella was getting close to him with *sigh* never mind,
Nuriko started to freak out as he watched his friend interact with Hotohori, miaka looked at nuriko with a dead panned look and said,
"Why are you so upset nuriko?," still clinging to Hotohori,
"Upset,... You little," nuriko was about to charge in after her until miakas next words stopped him in his tracks,
"Isn't it about time you gave up," "and tell my beloved cousin that your a man nuriko," "so she wont think she is gay," nurikos world fell apart as thunder and lightning could be seen in his background as hotohori and tamahome looked at him weirdly, tamahome couldn't help but ask,
"a Man, your...a...man?," "hotohori couldn't feel a bit disgusted at the mere thought of it," "and to think of it that this man is in love with bella how revolting,"
"Are you saying that," He trailed off, nurikos eyes widened and tears started to form in his eyes and threaten to burst, feeling ashamed and stupid, nuriko ran while tears down his face, and said,
"Miaka you traitor!" He yelled while knocking down trees as he ran, Hotohori , miaka and tamahome looked at him in shock, hotohori just shook his head and said,
"I can't believe it," "there is another man alive that almost as beautiful as I am," tamahome sweat dropped and *sighed*,
Inside of the mirror world,
Miaka watched the whole thing and felt bad for nuriko, she begged hotohori and tamahome that the clone is not her,
"Please figure it out, if you don't," she pressed her face to the glass,
"if you don't then everyone will start hating each other," But of course, no one could hear her yell's and pleas,
With the clone and the others
Miaka turned back to hotohori and spoke in a soft way, and said,
"Come with me hotohori," "I have something to tell you in private," she dragged hotohori by the hand and led him into a different direction, She ignored the look that tamahome shot him in his direction,
Hotohori was about to protest he was already there, "and he couldn't muster the courage to say no to the girl that he loved," "but that was it," "he didn't feel anything for the girl in front of him," "he did not know where his heart is now but he knew it wasn't with miaka," "deciding to get over it," he stated,
"What did you want to say to me," "Miaka,?" "Was there something wrong?" Miaka looked at him with some sort of longing but didn't apply to him, and spoke
"Hotohori," "let's forget it," she embraced him again and continued,
"Let's stop looking for taiitsuku," hotohori was surprised,
"he thought she wanted to go home," "she was depressed about not seeing her mother and brother," 'even though her cousin is here with her," "and now she is asking them to stop," "it's a bit odd,"
"Why?" Miaka mumbled into his chest,
"I don't wanna go back there if I have to live with out you," 'you do love me don't you?" "And I love you so much," "darling," miaka stood on her tip toe's, and started to kiss him,hotohori suspected from her statement, it's not the miaka they all know and care for,
In the mirror with miaka,
Miaka screamed in horror, and started pounding on the glass again and started yelling,
"That's not me hotohori it's a fake!" "let me out of here!" "Hey!"
With yui in the library
"Let me out of here!" 'Hey!"
Miakas voice echoed through out the room which made yui jump a bit,
"Miaka?," no one answered,
"I was sure I heard miakas voice," yui went back to reading,
Back in the book world
Miaka was a hairs breath away from hotohori lip's, she thought she had succeeded in her plan in seducing him, but she was surprised to see his sword next to her face, startled, miaka backed away in slight fear, hotohori decided to stop this nonsense and spoke,
"Tell me who you are," "right now", the cloned miaka tried to regained her composure and acted as if she didn't know anything,
"What do you mean," "who am I?,"
"The priestess of suzaku I know would never act like that," "now reveal your true form," tamahome who had been fallowing them stood behind hotohori, he also felt that there was something was off about miaka, ever since she came back but only now that hotohori confirmed his suspicions,
The cloned miaka smiked evilly and started to laugh, hotohori gripped his sword tighter and called over his shoulder to tamahome,
"Watch yourself tamahome," after receiving a nod, hotohori turned back to the clone,
"What did you do to the real miaka?," his voice laced with anger, he did not know who this person is but if she miaka she will pay, the clone crossed her arms and smirked evilly, and said in a smug voice,
"She's right in front of you," "i'm just her reflection," "her shadow," "the part of her she doesn't even know about,"
Inside the mirror world with miaka
Miaka *gasped* in realization and surprise,
Miaka couldn't believe all this but the clone of her made something click in her head, "I must do something!"
Searching the room for something useful items that she can use anything that would give her an idea, she was only left with empty dishes,
"If I harmed myself my clone will feel it, too!" "That's it!"
Miaka neared the table and smashed the table and smashed a dish, holding the sharp piece of the plate, she put on a serious look and took a deep breath,
"here go's nothing!"
*Thrust*
Outside with the clone and with the others,
The clone continued as she looked tauntingly at hotohori,
"Your so selfish," "I just confessed my love and after all your pleading," she was cut off by hotohori,
"Nonsense!" Hotohori charged at her, he had his sword at the read to cut the clone in the heart, "the insult thrown at him was more than he could take," "it clouded his senses,"
making him miss the sudden appearance of Another person in between them, he only took notice when he felt his sword unmoving, looking at the person who stopped him, he couldn't believe his eyes,
"Bella?,"
Tamahome was in shock, there was bella, "stopping his highness blade with one finger," "she wasn't even paying attention to them," "she was only looking at miaka," "he was pondering on so much that he was snapped out of his daze by bella laughter," "it was strange though," "he usually liked her laugh but now," "something made him uneasy,"
"Your just as stupid as the other one," "I told you not to run off with out me," "and you thought you were strong enough to handle them," "and now here you are," "nearly sliced in two by him," she nodded her head toward hotohori, hotohori jumped back next to tamahome, shock was clearly shone on his face but replace by anger,
"Where is Bella?," the clone that look like Bella turn toward him and said
"Well your quit smart aren't you," "it took you long enough to figure it out wasn't it?" "but to your question about balla she with some old friends and family," "I snuck out before I was seen," the cloned Bella smirked evilly,
"Oh come on bells," "let me kill them," begged the clone miaka, suddenly the cloned miaka felt a pain right from her chest, she felt some strange liquid substance, looking down she saw her own blood, the cloned miaka's image started to show the ugly demon inside of her,
Bella stared at the scene before laughing her head off,
"You think you can control them even when you can't even control your counterpart!" "Hahahahaha!" "What a laugh!"
Tamahome and hotohori stared and looked disgusted and angry, they could not Believe this craziness Bella was laughing her head off while miaka is disfigured and blood gushing out of her chest,
"what in the seven layers of hell is happening!," tamahome had enough of this and and decided to beat the demon up, he flew right at it and kicked the vile thing in the chest, hotohori came right from behind and cut the demon in half killing it instantly,
Nodding to each other, they turned to the one that looked like Bella as she continued to laugh, tamahome eye twitched and yelled at the clone,
"Cut it out already!" "Your starting to annoy me!" Bella's giggles died down as she looked at them and smirked evilly,
"Oh," "are you jealous that I'm not paying attention to you?"
"Cease this nonsense at once," "and return the real Bella to us at once and the real miaka," ordered hotohori, the clone looked at them teasingly,
"Now why would I do such a Liam and dumb thing like that?" "You don't me at all do ya," "sweet heart!" Hotohori grinned his teeth and started to prepare to attack the clone but,
"How long are you going to pretend to be me," All eyes turned to the figure that was emerging from the bushes, bella's cloths were tattered and bloody and she had markings had a megenta crecent moon along with two pink orbs on either side of it on her forhead, with blue stripes, on her face alone her wrists, her ears where pointed,
"those foo'ls put up a good enough fight," "but she figured out there weaknesses quickly," "all she had to do was study her memory,"
"What are you talking about you filthy demon," "I'm not portending to be you I am you," Bella could hear the fear in her voice,
"Oh really?" "If you really were my shadow you wouldn't needed the help of those weaklings of yours," "and you would be able to transform into this form," "if you were my shadow you wouldn't be standing there talking," in a flash Bella was in front of her clone and thrust her poison claws right through her clone,
"you would be doing this to me," she finished, Bella felt her poison and the hole as well, but she ignored it, instead she pulled her hand out, and watched hotohori and tamahome as the thing the same thing happen to miakas clone, About to kill it, they were shocked to see a huge bolder come down a smash the thing, looking up the cliff, they saw nuriko dusting off his hands and jumping down to them,
"I knew something was strange but I didn't expect this," hotohori and tamahome let a *sigh* of relief, *Groan*, they turned to the the real miaka with a nasty injury on her chest lying on the ground unconscious, and not to mention bleeding, Bella was once again carrying the five bundles and smiled tiredly at them,
"I guess I must of over done it a little", as her human form tranfromed back, trailing off, she fainted but lucky a certain emperor was there to catch her before she hit the ground, he was worried about her he looked her over and then took her over to the others, hoping she will be fine along with miaka, he saw three little kids and two cats in her arms but he put those matters aside for latter, right now they needed treatment and fast,
To be continued