InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Forbidden Prophecy ❯ Kaji, Karen, and Akuhei ( Chapter 4 )

:Chapter 5, Mamma's Been Keepin' Secrets:
:Kag's POV:

 

  "Kagome we need to talk."

 

I felt nervous all of a sudden. I sat down across from my mamma and stared at her, wondering what she was gonna say. I had a feeling I didn't want to hear this. I was half wishing 'The Blur' would blur his way into the kitchen.

"Kagome. I'm not your real mother." I stifled a gasp. "Wh..what?" She just closed her eyes."Your real mother died seventeen years ago. She stumbled her way up to the shrine one day..

 

:Flashback somewhat. Just what happened, Kag's 'mom' didn't know this happened.:

 

  The sky was clouded over, threatening the earth with rain. Over a crash of thunder, the sound of metal against metal could be heard ringing throughout the fiery forest. Looknig closer through the smoke, two figures could be seen battleing each other. A handsome man, around mid-twenties, with fiery red hair and sparkling blue eyes could be seen fighting a less good looking man with dingy gray hair and lavender eyes."Give her up now! She'll never lead a normal life! Youkai will hate her for being different! Humans will hate her just for the youkai blood pumping through her heart!" The fiery red head shook his head."No!" He dodged a swing in his direction and returned it with his own,"She's my daughter! You won't touch a hair on her head!"

 

  The lavender eyed man dropped to the ground in a mock bow."But Lord Kaji. You know as well as I do, the Youkai Councel will have her killed eventually." His gaze turned to a young woman trying to hide behind a smoldering bush. In her arms was a screaming bundle. The woman was desperately trying to hush the baby up."Lady Karen. You should have known something like this would happen eventually. You have the sight most others do not, you know what will happen next, do you not?" The lavender eyed man stared maniacally at Lady Karen. She nodded, letting out a choked sob and burying her head into her daughter, her shoulders heaving up and down.

 

  "Leave her alone Akuhei! It's me you have to deal with, leave her out of this!" Akuhei chuckled. "But it has everything to do with her. She gave birth the filthy mixed breed, did she not? Then again, you have just as an important role in that." Lord Kaji sprung at he man, his beautiful blue eyes bleeding crimson red."Now, now, now Lord Kaji. I don't want to have to dispose of you, too." Akuhei dodged a swipe to his head. "Fire and Ice. Not a really healthy combination if you ask me." Kaji growled and swiped at the foul man in front of him."Well good thing no ones asking you!" Kaji snarled. Akuhei struck out and managed to swipe the fire demon in the arm and across his chest. Kaji gasped and grabbed his bleeding arm, not noticing Akuhei was going after Karen.

 

  A shrill shriek brought Kaji to his senses. He looked over at his mate and he let out a pained gasp. Half of Karen's left arm was missing. He could hear his child screaming, his mate screaming, and Akuhei laughing as if this were entertaining."You beast!" Kaji sprung at him. Akuhei didn't have time to turn around, when a clawed hand was forced out the front of his face. Kaji grunted and lifted his mate and child into his arms and through the forest.

 

  Karen thought they were heading to the castle, she was grasping her arm and her child, stumbling with her mate supporting her. She was susprised when they stopped at an old well. "Karen, my love, I've seen a villager come to the place and jump into this well and when they came back they had strange objects in their arms. Go through and.." He but back a gasp when paint shot through his entire being,"Don't come back. I'm not going to make it." Karen let out a sob and embraced her husband as best as she could with one arm."No! I'm not leaving you!" She choked out. Kaji just smiled painfully."I love you with all my life. Go through and find help." He cast a loving glance at his daughter,"For both of you." Her hugged her one last time. He kissed her one last time, a kiss full of love and sadness, or pain and misery. When they broke apart Kaji was in tears himself. He took his daughter in his arms and kissed her on her forehead. He pulled a thin chain off his neck and placed it upon hers. It was a beautiful diamond encrusted necklace with the symbol for love hanging on it in gold. He handed the little bundle back to Karen. With a final loving glance, they looked at each other. Both choked back a sob as Karen fell into the darkness. Kaji whispered his last words as he turned into a fine dust."Be safe...my little Kagome.."

  Karen was amazed, though still aware of what was going on. What had happend. She sobbed as she struggled to pull herself out of the well. She had just come from a world of blue and black, swirly and sparkly. She noticed she was in a little hut of some sort. Sh paid no heed to this minor detailand stumble out of it. There was a huge shrine in front of her, where just moments before was a burning forest. She was paintfully aware that now wasn't the time. She managed to get to the front of the shrine and to the front door. She fell against it with a gasp and sob.

 

  Mrs.Higurashi heard a thump from in the kitchen and ran to the front door. She gasped at what she saw. A beautiful young woman was slumped down against her door way. What was probably soft and shiny, bouncy, sky blue hair, was now blue caked and matted down. Crimson eyes blinked slowly, falling in and out of focus. What caught Mrs.Higurashi's gaze was the woman had a bleeding stump where her right arm used to be, that and a baby bawling it's eyes out in the woman's good arm. Kun-Loon (Mrs.Higurashi. I've read stories that told this is her name. ::shrugs:: Oh well.) bent down and helped the wounded woman up. She noticed the woman was wearing an old style, traditional, royalty kimono. The woman was brought into the upstairs bath room and sat on the toilet.

 

  "Are you ok?" Kun-Loon asked, it was a rhetorical question, she knew that, but it was an almost instinct to ask that. The bloodied woman shook her head."I'm going to help you ok? Can you hand me the child?" Kun-Loon asked kindly and softly. The woman shook her head quickly."No..Where..Where am I? I remember..Kaji...fire...forest..blood..falling down the well...Kagome.." The woman gasped and hugged her child closley to her."Human, I..thank you for helping, but I'm won't last much longer..please..take Kagome and take care of her as your own. Kaji would've wanted it like this." Karen asked her. Kun-Loon nodded."Can I ask yuor name?" Kaen nodded and smiled, her eyes now permanently out of focus."Lady Karen of the Eastern lands. I don't know where I am. What this place is. But please take care of my little girl. Don't let anyone know what she is..I beg of you! Don't tell anyone.." Kun-Loon nodded."What is she?" Karen blinked."Fire and ice. Forbidden among all races. Human and Youkai." Karen looked down at her daughter and smiled. She whispered a fewwords and Kagome's blue hair turned black, crimson eyes brown. All the normal features of a human baby girl."Don't try to remove the spell..only a powerful force can do it. It will happen when the time is right."

 

  Karen looked up at Kun-Loon. "Thank you, for taking care of my baby. She's princess of the Eastern lands you know..looks just like her father, excpet the hair and eyes, of which she got from me.." Karen babbled on about Kagome and Kaji. Knowing this was her last day on earth."Her father. A handsome fire youkai he was. Long silky fire red hair, the most beautiful blue eyes you'd ever see.." Kun-Loon picked up a rag and started to wipe away some of the blood. The woman was beautiful, once the blood was cleared away."She has my nose, my eyes, her fathers fiery personality and strength. I loved them both...until he killed them....Kaji..Kagome..I lvoe you both.." And thus Karent took her final breaths and froze. Being an ice maiden gave her a slight advantage after death. She didn't dust way.

  Kun-Loon did as she was told. She never told anyone f Kagome's origin. She made sure Karen had a proper burial. She now lays in front of the God tree. A pretty white gravestone read, 'Karen, a loving mother and wife.'

:End Flashback Thingy:

 

  I burst into tears after my 'mom' finished."So..so thats my mother grave out there." My mother nodded, tears running down her face silently. This was a total shock. i stood up and headed off to my room. I fell onto my bed and fell asleep crying and thinknig over thesotyr my mother told me.

::Cries even more:: Wahhh!!!!! ::sniffles:: If your wondering what Kaji looks like, think of Hiten and a Bankotsu mix. Anywho. R&R. I'll tell yall the resulrs when I post the next chapter.