The Girl From My Past

Remembering

Natsuki's POV

Days passed, now it was already dark. Kagome and Miroku were playing with cards from our world while Sango and Shippo were admiring them, Inuyasha was asleep and I was studying for the next test I could have sooner if I don't review anything. Later, I could heard Kagome cheering while Miroku looked down, seems like Kagome had won the round, I let a small giggle and I got back to my study. Of course I then heard Inuyasha getting angry for whatever reason but I didn't payed a lot of attention, not until I heard Sango mention the shield created by Naraku. God how I hate talking about this guy...

Inuyasha was completely sure that he wasn't going to give up on the idea in destroying the shield, our friends questioned if he had some kind of way... and yes, he didn't, they seemed disappointed, but I couldn't stop letting a chuckle escape from my lips. "Don't worry, I can handle that!!" I heard Myoga's voice and the sound of how he was sucking his blood, but also his hand slapping him. "I can help you master Inuyasha!!" he said. "You know any method?" Inuyasha asked. "I ran with my small feet all the way here, and I found a way to increase your power" he said now recovered from the slap he got. "SAY IT!!! IF YOU TELL ME, I'LL LET YOU DRINK KAGOME'S BLOOD!!!" he said now upset. "AND WHY IT HAS TO BE ME?!?!?!" Kagome yelled. "Don't you joke master, you must go the cave of the bat men!!" Myoga said.

My attention from studying was now in what Myoga said. Who are the bat men?. "Exist a village at the west side, where there is located the cave of the bat men but it is protected by a powerful shield that no one has the courage to defeat them, exists descendants that have this role for generations and you, master Inuyasha, you must cut the one that creates the shield" he pointed out. So he must do that to be able of destroying the shields of Naraku?. "Then your sword will be covered with the blood of the one that have the power to create that shield" he added. "So the sword will absorb the powers" Miroku noticed. "Is that the only way the sword can be more stronger?" Sango asked. "It is" he answered.

I kept thinking about it, the sword covered in blood? That sounds kind of impulsive... but the ones that creates that shield should be one of the bat men, there shouldn't be any problem, right?

I was hoping that Kazuko could say something but she didn't, always making me worry... "Kazuko are you there?" I asked her in my mind. "Yes" she answered, but she seemed out of the conversation, what is she thinking about?. I narrowed my eyes. "Is something bothering you?." She seemed thoughtful, with her arms crossed, looking at the ground, what does she have on her mind?. "I feel something strange about this thing of the bat men..." she said, I narrowed my eyes again in confusion."What do you mean?" I asked. She thought again but later shook her head. "No, it's nothing, forget what I said..." but of course I couldn't, how would I forget something by telling me to do it? it never works!!! You feel more curious!!! But I can't ask directly, she could get upset. I will ask her later when everything about this is over...

The next morning, we tried to find this village Myoga talked about. Successfully, we found it but the first thing I saw was a woman being beaten by men near the ocean, how rude...

My instincts just reacted at the sound of her impact on the ground. I ran to where they were when everything turned black...

Kazuko's POV

Before they could continue hurting that woman, I stopped one of the men grabbing his tool with my hand. Thy looked at me shocked, I could even sense the woman having her sight directly to me. "Who the hell are you?!?!?" the man I stopped demanded. "You better stop beating this woman, or I'll be the one who beats you right now" I said giving him a death glare. He put his tool down and backed away.

Now that he was more calm, I could ask him some questions. "You mentioned the cave of the bat men, I want you to tell me where is it and lead me there".

My friends already came and checked in the woman to see if she was okay, while I was still dealing with those men. "And how are we suppose to know where is their cave?!?!" one of them yelled. "Why you don't ask that woman? in fact, even if she is a human, she made contact with one of them to have a monster that is used only to destroy our village!!!!" another man said.

For a moment, I passed out. Did he just said that she made... contact with one of them?! Does that mean?...

I started at her for a moment, and she seemed hurt and upset. It was true... "A demon child" I thought.

Later, we went to the woman's house to ask her questions about the cave and this demon child, my friends were talking with her and I couldn't concentrate in the conversation. A demon... child... Half demon, half human... "The bat men always had heir cave in this place, they are horrible creatures that feed themselves with human blood and animals, but Lord Tsukuyomaru, the father of my daughter Shiori, was different from the rest, he never wanted to kill humans, and since Shiori born, he tried to convince his specie to stop killing people from the village" she said.

His father sounded like a nice demon but I couldn't stop this feeling of hatred about it, why am I feeling like this?... and... if he was the protector, then where is he now?.

"There was peace in this place..." she looked down, disappointed. "Was?..." Miroku pointed out. "Yes because my lord died and since then, no one have ever stopped them". So this is how fate treat the one that wants two different species cooperate. "But... Taigokumaru, Shiori's grandfather, came to this village to continue with what was left, he told me that if I gave him my daughter, he would stop attacking the village". "Since they possessed powers, both have the mission of protecting them with a shield and since Shiori is his descendant, they need her to accomplish her fate" she concluded the story.

"And why Shiori should be the one with that mission? her grandfather could do it..." Sango said, yeah same question please!. "What matters is the power, once she gives her place to the next leader of the clan, she will lose her abilities completely" my body tense up with this kind of information, this little girl was obligated to do such important role?.

However, this wasn't the only thing that worried me, this girl reminded me of the past I wish I could forget.

Flashback

"Monster!!!!"

"What have we done to deserve this?!?!"

"You don't belong here!!!!"

These words... hurt me...

I shook my thoughts away, this wasn't time to think about it, but... Shiori... reminds me a lot of... myself.

"It was a lot of pain she was dealing with so I decided to give her to Taigokumaru". "Excuse myself but Shiori is human and demon?" Miroku asked, really?!? Is that a question or what?.

"You really think that a demon girl can have such powers?" Inuyasha added. "And as I can see, you... are the same, you must understand the ones from your own specie, demons don't accept you and neither humans" she turned to look at me.

"You too, you are half demon, plus a priestess?" she made an eyebrow looking at me from bottom to top. "I am, and I completely understand what you are saying, demons and humans never accepted us in the past, and they won't do it now" that thought caused me a lot of anger. I could feel how they were staring at me. I also felt something in my hand, I didn't noticed that I clenched my fists so hard that it make my hand bleed.

All the attention was in me, I felt uncomfortable and I had to get out of there...