InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Half Demon Child ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, the show InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. I don't own any of the characters. However, the characters I made up like Tani and Larina belong to me.

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While InuYasha and his friends were already set on foot to go out and search for Naraku or to find any leads of Naraku, far away, through the forest, outside a village down by the riverside, there was a little girl sitting infront of the large pond, playing her instrument called an ocarina. She had been playing her ocarina for sometime and continued playing her ocarina until…

“Ah, darn it!” She cursed, “I can never get that note right!” She continued. She then sighed to calm herself down and then played her little melody once more. Only this time, it was interrupted by a group of kids that were about her age, but seemed to be a little older than her.

“That's where that awful sound is coming from! It's that freak of nature who's playing that cursed instrument! She's the one playing it!” A boy called out as he and his friends about two-three ran up to the white haired demon child. “Who do you think you are playing that trashy instrument? This is a no demon zone! It's monsters like you that killed my older brother during the war!”

“It's demons like you that cause havoc upon villages.” A village girl said.

“Infact,” The leader of the group stole the ocarina that the demon child was playing and started to look at it. “I bet you were going to summon your demon friends with this.”

The demon child got up from where she sat and tried to get it. “No I wasn't! Honest! Give it back!” She said struggling to get it back the boy threw it to his other friend and the he threw it. She tried to get it back from one boy but was then pushed by the boy very aggressively which caused her to land with a great thud.

“Ew! Tani don't touch me!” He said still holding onto the ocarina. “Don't you ever touch me again!” He threatened as he then smirked and looked at the ocarina. “Huh, here, take your stupid thing back, that's if you can swim!” He then threw the ocarina in the pond.

Tani, who still had dirt on her face from the ground, had watched her precious instrument, her ocarina sink to the bottom of the pond which she sat infront of.

“Heh, let's go guys…” The leader said with a smirk as him and his friends walked away leaving Tani alone.

Tears began to well up in her eyes. She didn't know what hurt the most the fact that the village kids treated her so badly or the fact that when the kids pushed her she hit the ground hard. Tani had then blinked which caused tears to come out her eyes. This has happened before the village kids bullying her because she was different. She could've beaten them up if she wanted to. But then it would convince the villages that she really was a monster.

Tani then wiped her eyes as she went into the pond and dove to the bottom of the pond to collect her ocarina. Once Tani had gotten a hold of her ocarina she then reached to the surface to hear her mother's voice calling her name.

“Tani? Tani? Where are you?” Tani heard her mother, Larina call from the forest which lead to the pond.

Larina was one of the reasons why Tani still lived in the village, infact; she was the only reason why Tani still lived in the village. Larina was a priestess. She wasn't the strongest priestess but she was a wise one. As a priestess, Larina protected the village that they lived in. Even though Larina was a priestess, she still managed to fall in love a demon which was how Tani was born.

Before Larina found Tani, Tani had wiped her face, “h-hello, mother…” She said.

“Tani what were you doing? You're going to get sick! You're drenched!” Larina ordered.

Tani looked down at her drenched clothes and squeezed out the water which was still lingering in her hair that used to be and braided pigtails, “…I'm n-not that wet…” she said her voice still shaky from earlier.

“You were in the pond, weren't you? What made you into the water in the first place?” Larina asked her daughter going to Tani's level. Larina placed her hand on Tani's forehead bringing back her bangs that hid her grey eyes. As a mother, Larina knew right away that someone was wrong, her frown softened, “have… you been crying?”

“N-no, I went into the water because I dropped my ocarina…” Tani lied quickly.

Larina just shook her head; she could tell that the village kids were picking on her, again. There was a reason why Tani preferred going out into this private pond instead of in the village. Not many people stayed there. Larina just stared at her daughter and hugged her tightly as she tried to hold back her own tears. This just wasn't fair for Tani. You can't just pick on someone just because Tani was a half demon.

None the less, the sun had slowly begun to set and Tani and her mother were heading their way back to their hut. Once they had gotten home, Tani soon then gotten out of her wet clothes and went into her night gown. Her mother Larina was preparing her dinner.

While Tani was waiting for her dinner to be cooked, she just sat there infront of the fire and stared at her ocarina. Tani tried to blow into her ocarina but the sound got screeched. Only water came out of the instrument.

Larina watched her daughter as she continued to stare at her ocarina as she poured in the soup into the bowls for her and her daughter to eat out of. Larina then brought out something from her kimono and polished it with a cloth, “your necklace,” Larina said, presenting it. It had a half moon and half the sun. Tani looked at her mother while tucking her damp hair behind her small, yet pointy ears and then put it around her neck, the necklace shimmered.

Once Tani finished putting on her necklace, she then resumed back to her original problem, “it's all ruined.” Tani said trying to dump out the remaining of water from her ocarina.

Larina smiled, “here, let me take a look at it.” She said taking her ocarina away from Tani. Larina managed to get out all of water as she wiped it with a near by cloth and then started to play Tani's lullaby.

Tani's sad face grew bright with delight. “You fixed it! How did you do that?” Tani asked getting her ocarina back and looking at it.

“I have my ways. That ocarina is very special, it can never be broken. It's like there is a spirit inside the ocarina that keeps it strong.” Larina explained. “At least, that's what your father told me before his passing. But he still lives within you; as long as you never forget.” She said playfully tickling her daughter.

Tani giggled from her mother's tickles as she picked up her ocarina and looked at it in awe “Wow…” Tani whispered with the remainder of her giggles, “Can you play that song for me?” she asked normally, “please? Before I go to bed?”

Larina smiled as she gently took the ocarina from Tani's small hands and then soon started to play. Tani's eyes grew timid slowly as she fell under the ocarina's spell and fell asleep. Larina had then stopped playing and realized that their food hadn't been touched; she then chuckled to herself quietly.

“I guess we're not going to have dinner tonight,” Larina thought watching her daughter sleep so peacefully. She then leaned over and kissed Tani softly on the cheek and stroked her soft white hair gently. “Stay strong, my Tani,” Larina whispered, “stay strong…”

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