Chapter 5: Standing Tall
"I-I thought that you were a demon." The teen stated.
"Do I look like a demon to you?" Hikari demanded pointing her finger at herself.
"But you have a demonic aura around you..." The teen mumbled.
'Of course I have a demonic aura around me, I have the necklace off.' Hikari thought "No you don't say?" She smirked placing her hands on her hips.
"SHIT! HEY LOOK OUT!" The teen shouted as a giant boomerang came towards them.
"Damn that's a big boomerang." Hikari stated she jumped to avoid it.
Her right arm started to bleed. "Ah shit, now it's coming back." Hikari whined pulling out her sword and putting one hand on the back of the blade, keeping her left tightly gripping the handle. The boomerang slammed into the blade still rapidly spinning. The force of the boomerang was so great that Hikari's feet started to slide. Hikari put enough strength into pushing the blade that the boomerang finally rick-a-shaied back to its owner.
She groaned as she noticed the glowing papers she recognized as sacred sutras flying towards her "Oh come on!" She whined doing a back hand spring to get out of the way of the attack.
"STOP!" the teen yelled appearing in front of her.
"What the… why are you protecting me?" Hikari asked looking up at him.
"Rokuro what are you doing, get out of the way!" yelled the woman holding the huge boomerang.
"Your names Rokuro?" Hikari asked looking up at him again.
He turned his head enough to show one of his brown eyes and nodded.
"Rokuro your mother said move!" stated a man with black hair pulled back in to a small ponytail.
Hikari stepped out from behind Rokuro "Look I don't know what's going on here, but will you people stop throwing things at me." Then she realized that she was still holding her sword and put it away. Blood dripped down her arm and off her fingers.
"Could you watch where you're swinging that thing?" Rokuro asked.
"Well sorry next time I'll just let the damn thing hit me." Hikari said turning around to meet Rokuro's gaze. "And besides who said I needed your help any way?" She continued.
"If I didn't step in when I did they wound still be firing rounds off at you." Rokuro calmly replied looking down at her.
"Who said I wanted your help, and quit acting like just because you're taller than me means that you can over power me…" Hikari growled grabbing his collar.
"Ya know you're kind of cute when you're angry." Rokuro smirked, "Who are you anyways?" He asked putting his hands over hers, to get her to let go of his shirt.
"Hikari Tama." She answered "Now let go of my hands, unless you want to have blood all over you." Hikari stated looking down at her arm.
"R-right sorry." Rokuro stuttered letting go of her hands.
She walked over to her bag and pulled out a small first aid kit.
"Are you by any chance related to Iunyasha?" The man asked.
"Tell me your names and I'll tell you." Hikari answered wrapping her arm.
"My name is Miroku and this is my wife Sango." Miroku replied.
Hikari closed the first aid kit, put it back in her bag and stood up with her bag.
"If you must know I got here today and I'm looking for someone, end of story." Hikari said walking past Rokuro.
"Wait don't you want to come back to our house for the night?" Sango questioned watching her pass.
"No thanks I have places to go, things to do, people to find and…" Hikari was cut off by a hand rubbing her butt. Her eye started to twitch.
"I insist you stay with us." Miroku said.
"Miroku get your hand off of her!" Sango yelled smacking him across the face.
"Pervert, I'm only 14 for gods' sake!" Hikari said smacking him hard on the other check.
Red hand prints appeared on both sides of his face.
"I'm sorry Hikari." Sango stated getting in front of her. "Come on we'll take you back to our house and get your arm cleaned up." Sango continued getting on Kiara.
"Come on hop on." She said holding out her hand.
"That's ok I can run." Hikari stated looking over at him. "What about Rokuro?" She asked switching her gaze over to Rokuro.
She finally got a better look at him; he had short jet black hair and deep brown eyes. He wore a red shirt that stopped mid back, black pants, black fingerless gloves, and black sandals.
"It's ok I'll take Kyo." Rokuro explained putting a hand up, then a small demon cat transformed like Kiara and jumped on. "Come on you can ride with me." He continued.
"That's ok but can you take my bag?" She asked holding out her bag.
"Sure." He replied taking the bag.
"Okay then let's get going." Sango said as Kiara started flying.
"Wow she's almost as fast as her brother." Miroku whispered to Sango.
"Yeah she is." Sango replied watching Hikari run.
Hikari felt an arm wrap around her waist.
"Rokuro what are you doing?" Hikari asked as he pulled her up onto his demon cat.
"Please, like I was going to let you run all the way there." Rokuro replied smiling back at her.
"Thanks..." Hikari said.
A few minutes later Rokuro motioned towards as small house on the outskirt of a village. "Look we're here." Rokuro stated looking back at Hikari.
Hikari smiled gently as she looked over the fields, village, and his home. "It's nice..."
"Hikari… if you don't mind me asking… who are your parents?" Sango asked wrapping Hikari's arm.
"Kagome and Inuyasha Tama." She replied gently. She didn't notice Sango's eyes widen slightly as she looked down at her now bandaged arm.
"Well why don't you go with Rokuro and he'll show you around." Sango requested standing up and walking out of the room.
Hikari walked around for a little bit then she sat down letting her feet hang off the porch.
'Why am I doing this?... I'm looking for a person I've never met before…' She thought looking up at the light blue sky.
"Jiro, Yuri get back here!" yelled Rokuro's voice from around the corner.
An 8 year old boy and a 6 year old girl came running around the corner. The boy was holding a pouch and the little girl was holding Rokuro's black sandals.
"Who are you?" The 8 year old asked.
"I'm Hikari and you two must be Jiro and Yuri." Hikari replied.
"Yep." Yuri the 6 year old laughed.
"Well you better get going if you don't want Rokuro to catch you." Hikari smiled watching Rokuro swing around the corner.
"Why… didn't … you… stop… them?" Rokuro asked between breaths.
"I was supposed to stop them?" Hikari replied with a smirk.
"Yes!" Rokuro stated leaning against the pole for a break.
"Well it looked like they were having fun so I thought 'let the little tikes be'." Hikari laughed.
"You could have distracted them for me." Rokuro said looking down at her.
"Well if you wanted me to do that I'm sure I have something in my bag that will keep them busy." Hikari stated standing up and walked into the house.
She came out with some candy, paper, and crayons "Now all we have to do is wait for them to come back around the house." She continued sitting back down.
2 minuets later Jiro and Yuri came running around the corner.
"Hey I'll trade you two this stuff for Rokuro's sandals and his pouch." Hikari said showing them the things in her hands.
"What is it?" Yuri asked looking at it weird.
"It's candy and paper and crayons. Where I come from kids your age love to color and draw something for there parents." Hikari replied.
"Sure that sounds fun!" Jiro exclaimed handing over the pouch. Yuri did the same. Then they ran into the house.
"Wow..." Rokuro mumbled in amazement.
He went to take his things back when Hikari pulled them away. "What do you want them for?" She asked holding them behind her back.
"Come on Hikari… please give them back?" Rokuro begged trying to get his sandals and pouch back.
"Tell me what you're doing and maybe I'll give them back." She ateased.
He took a step closer to her and put his arms around her shoulders and brought her face up to his "Your cute did you know that?" Rokuro smirked.
"Nice try but you're not getting anything back until you tell me what you are doing." Hikari sighed getting out of his grip around her.
"Fine… I was going to go and practice for a while." Rokuro replied.
"Only if I can go with you." Hikari stated handing over his shoes and pouch.
"Sure why not." He replied putting on his sandals.
"Cool, I'll be right back." She stated running into the house and grabbing her shoes and putting them on.
"Follow me." Rokuro said turning around and walking to the back of the house.
"Mom, Dad, what are you doing back here?" Rokuro asked jumping off the porch.
Hikari did the same.
"Hey you two." Miroku said putting up a target.
"Hikari you said your mom was Kagome right?" Sango asked walking out of the shed.
"Yea why?" Hikari questioned walking over to Sango.
"Well then shouldn't you be priestess too?" Sango answered handing her a bow.
"I think, I'm not sure. My mom never told me she was a priestess. But I am skilled in archery." she replied taking the bow and the quiver full of arrows.
She walked over to where the line was in the dirt, pulled an arrow out of the quiver and pulled back on the string. "Come on." Hikari mumbled letting go of the arrow. It sliced threw the air as it went and the arrow hit dead center on the target.
"Bull's eye." Hikari said grabbing another arrow from the quiver.
"How long have you been doing this?" Rokuro asked throwing another suriken at another target.
"I've been doing this for a couple years now, but I like using a sword more." Hikari replied shooting the other arrow. It hit right above her first one.
At dinner
"Hikari how's your mom doing?" Miroku asked taking another bite of his rice.
"She's great I guess I just left her a note I didn't say good bye." Hikari answered staring down at her food.
"Are you ok Hikari?" Sango asked looking at her.
"What… oh yea just tired is all." She replied standing up and walked over to the door.
"Where are you going?" Yuri questioned with a playful grin.
"Just going out to get some air." She answered walking out the door.
'The suns going down.' she thought sitting down and leaning against the post.
The moon was starting to show it was in the last quarter phase.
"Hey Hikari do you… want… me… to…" Rokuro's voice faded as he watched Hikari's silver ends turned black. "Hikari… Mom!" Rokuro shouted picking up the unconscious Hikari and bringing her back into the house.
