InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Songs About Rain ❯ Wolves, Memories, and Demands ( Chapter 7 )

I looked up as someone called my name. My short hair swung around my forehead and I grinned at my sister. “Hello Kanika. What is going on?”

“Mother wants us. Let's go Jamila.” Kanika said giving me a toothy smile before walking off. Her hair was spiked straight up as if she was angry.

I nodded and stood from the papyrus reeds I had been kneeling in. “Coming.” I took off at a run, my ears twitching as it picked up the sounds of Kanika behind me. I laughed and ran faster quickly reaching the limestone temple. “Mother?”

A glowing form came out from one of the rooms and the cat smiled at them. “Hello my children.”

Kanika and I bowed before coming to sit in front of her altar where she had seated herself. “What would you like us to do Mother?”

She gazed lovingly down at us and swished her tail. “You are now a century my children. Now fully adult demons but yet you stay here.”

I sat up and bowed, “Mother we love it here. Do you wish us to leave?”

She shook her head, “No I enjoy having your company but…a time is coming when I will no longer be allowed to stay with you like this.”

“Why Mother?” Kanika asked.

“The time for our people is ending and with it my family will lose power. Though we shall be around, we shall not be able to show ourselves to you. I will always watch over you though.” Mother looked at me as she said the last thing and it startled me. She seemed to be saying that she would only watch over me. But that couldn't be true…could it? Kanika's head bowed and her fists clenched but she said nothing. Mother waved her paw in the air then nodded at me. “Kanika will stay with me for awhile. I have gifts for you both. Return to me at supper for your gifts Jamila and then we shall dine.”

I bowed and left the inner temple and went to my room. Why would Mother only tell me that she'd look over me? Does she believe I need more looking after than Kanika? I sighed, Probably. Kanika has always been the stronger one. I sighed again and went into my room. I gently touched papyrus that lay beside my bed and my fingers traced the lines of hieroglyphs. Dearest Daughter, Life is hard and for you it shall be harder than most. You are one of the few demons left in the land. A man who is roaming about the land is slaughtering demons as quickly as he can. To protect you and your sister we are placing you in Bastet's Temple. I hope that we will see you one day in the future but I am afraid that your father and I are not long for this world. We wish you love and happiness. Goodbye my Beautiful child.

A tear leaked from my eye as I read the only thing I had from my mother. Life was hard but…Bastet had raised us well, she had brought a member of the Pharaohs bodyguards to teach Kanika and I fighting skills. Kanika had caught on faster than I did, the guard had even called her ruthless and powerful. I had always won every tactic battle we had done, the guard praised my planning skills, and lately I had been winning every other bout with her.

I heard Kanika enter her room and the wall crack as she kicked it. I heard her cursing but I couldn't understand the words. I headed to mothers room and she smiled at me with her cat smile and I bowed deeply. “Hello Mother.”

“Hello Jamila. I have three gifts for you.” She pointed her tail at a chain with a moon at the end beside her and I reverently picked it up and tied it to my shirt. “This will guide you to your mate. I give it to you as well as immortality and the ability to understand all languages.”

“Why such gifts mother?” I asked clasping the moon.

“You will need them. Darkness is coming my daughter. Your ultimate goal is in the west. Go slow; learn what you can on the road.” She said and jumped from the altar to sit in front of me and I ran my hand down her head and scratched her ears. “You are a good daughter Jamila, and I love you as if you were my own.”

“I love you mother.” I said and the two of us spent dinner talking and discussing things. Kanika never came to dinner, she left the two of us to ourselves but mother just looked at me sadly when I asked why she had been upset.

Weeks passed and Kanika avoided me as much as she could. Mother visited less and less often and slowly her priestesses began to disappear. It finally ended when Kanika came to my room and swept her dress back from her body. “Get ready. They are coming.”

I stood and picked up the knives by my bed and ran the tip of one down my cheek. “Who are they?” I asked meeting her cold eyes.

“Rebels. Bandits searching for food.” Kanika said. “They are entering the outer temple.”

“Lets get to work then.”

Jamila leapt to her feet when she felt the demon come into the camp and she had her hands around his throat before she fully came to her senses. Inuyasha began laughing and even Kagome giggled. Jamila looked around her, she had been so deep in dreams of her memories that she had been the last one to wake and the others were standing around the fire looking at the intruder she had grabbed.

Blue eyes glared at her under long brown hair held in a pony tail. “Let me go.”

Jamila looked back at him squeezed his throat a little tighter smiling. “Say please.”

The demon, wolf by the smell and the pelts, moved to try to kick her away and Jamila jumped onto the foot he swung at her and then behind him all without letting go of his neck. She then put her heel into the back of his knee forcing him to kneel. Inuyasha fell onto the ground laughing so hard and Kagome laid a hand on Jamila's shoulder, she was even smiling slightly. Miroku and Sango were chuckling under their breathes. “Jamila this is Kouga. He's a friend.”

“No friend of mine.” Inuyasha muttered standing up and gripping his sword.

Jamila let Kouga go and stepped away. He jumped to his feet and looked as if he would try for revenge but whatever he saw in Jamila's eyes stopped him. Kagome brought his attention back to her by asking a question. “So what brings you by Kouga?”

“Naraku has a mate.” He said and puffed up proudly at his knowledge.

“We already know that you dumb wolf.” Inuyasha said scowling.

Kouga looked surprised. “She's a cat demon.”

“Know that too.” Shippo said from Kagome's shoulder.

Jamila crouched down and jumped up landing in the tree behind them all. She settled down and looked out to the east. “Sesshomaru is on his way here.”

Kouga growled. “I need to leave then. He does not like me.”

Kagome's brow darkened with memory and Inuyasha frowned. “Get out of here wolf. None of us will save you from him.”

Kouga darted off and Jamila leapt to the ground and walked to the edge of the clearing. “What did he do?”

“The little girl who travels with Sesshomaru was killed by Kouga's wolves before Sesshomaru brought her back to life.”

Jamila growled in her throat. “I wish I had killed him.”

Inuyasha started laughing again. “If only you could have seen his face! It was priceless!”

Rin and Jaken entered the clearing with Sesshomaru right behind them. He studied everyone around the clearing then his eyes locked onto Jamila. “You are going to come and be my mate.”