A Modern Day Fairy Horror by Nekette

How It All Began

Disclaimer: I no own, yes?

Nekette: So, I don't know anything, really, about Japanese schools...If you wanna enlighten me, please do. I'm just using the American school times that I know of for now.

"AAAAAHHH!!!" The scream echoed through the hospital, an anguished cry of last effort to bring the babes into the world. Yes, babes, twin girls. Collapsing weakly back onto her gourney, Miamoka Higurashi listens with a smug sense of self accomplishment to the wails of her two daughters, she already knew what she would name them; Kagome and Kikyo. Kikyo, her first born, would follow the tradition of a shrine maiden, heiress to the Higurashi Shrine and its line of mikos. Kagome, on the other hand, would be trained with her sister, but be allowed to lead her own life, as it was for Miamoka's twin sister Usagi. As it had been for countless generations since the shrine's construction.

Today was October sixth, two thousand twenty, in Tokyo, Japan. The day her two mircales were finally born. It would be nice to not look like a derigible anymore.

"Mommy, do you get to come with us?" Little Kagome, only four years old still, questioned almost fearfully, her right hand clasped tightly with Kikyo's left. The twins wore matching outfits; Kikyo in a miniature miko's garb of red and white, while Kagome's tiny hakamas were a baby blue to accentuate her sparkling left eye. The girls were somewhat odd in appearance, their eye colors mixed and matched to produce two children with the exact same features and hair styles, yet with a blue and brown eye each; Kikyo's blue eye on the right, and Kagome's on the left.

"Don't be silly 'Gome, Mama said we'll be just fine if we stick together on the bus." Little Kikyo answered for their beautiful mother with her chocolate brown orbs shimmering with love.

"That's right girls," Miamoka whispered, kneeling down to embrace her children a tad awkwardly, her stomach already starting to swell with her third child, "You'll be just fine. Remember what I taught you if any of the demon cubs get too excited; just enough of a shock to bring them back to their senses, and barriers if they can't control themselves. Never ever result to unnecessary violence. I love you." Tightening the embrace, she kisses them both on the cheeks before waving solemnly goodbye as they scramble together onto the bright yellow bus.

"'Kyo, I'm scared." Kagome whispers as she stares down the aisle of the bus, looking almost frantically for an open bench. Their ID bracelets clanked together as they wobbled along the path, their feet unsteady over the moving vehicle.

"It's alright, 'Gome. Look, there's two seats right there. We can face eachother even." Kikyo soothed, leading her baby sister -- by fifteen minutes -- down to the partially occupied bench seats.

Settlingin, the twins look curiously at their respective seat mates; Kagome's a dark haired red eyed child, who could pass for human save the color of his irises, and Kikyo's a silver haired, dog eared, golden eyed bouncy child.

"Hi, my name's Kagome/Kikyo. What's yours?" The identical beauties asked simultaneously, giggling quietly at eachother across the two foot gap.

"Onigumo Naraku." The dark haired child answered, staring directly into Kagome's mismatched eyes. "Nice to meet you, Naraku." Kagome answered, a vague far away feeling shrouding her mind as she stared, unblinkingly, into those hauntingly crimson orbs. A sense of doom settled upon her shoulders, causing her to whimper internally before a whispered voice soothed her fears, a side affect of it casting a nearly unnoticable haze over her lovely eyes.

Meanwhile, ignorant of the unfolding danger -- no, not danger, just a meeting -- with her twin, Kikyo giggled at the hanyou's twitching ears. "Feh, name's Tashio InuYasha." He answered with a gruffness beyond his years, acting tough in front of the pretty girl sitting next to him. "Pleased to meet you." Kikyo cooed, reaching, on impluse, to pet at the velvet coating of the dog demon's ears, "So soft!"

"Don't do that!" The boy snapped, jerking Kagome from her reverie, yet leaving her, still, with a shiver running down her spine, "Don't yell at my sister!" She countered, a spit fire to the very end as she raised a fist mock threateningly at her new aquaintance.

"Now now, let's not fight." The other hanyou, a spider, soothed, his voice holding a strange echo to Kagome's ears, "Alright." She muttered rather rebelliously, slumping back in her seat, "Besides, we shouldn't start the school year with a fight." She added a bit more cheerfully.

Kikyo looked at her twin somewhat oddly, head canted to one side as her inner eye stares at the fog obscuring her sister's thoughts. Glancing to Naraku, Kikyo blinked, a strange niggling in her mind telling her that she's forgetting something. What was it? Something to do with her sister? Must be how much she loves her, yes, that's it...

"We're here!" The bus driver announced, pulling to a gentle stop before shuttering open the doors to release her load of new kindergardeners. Watching their eager faces fondly, the eagle demon frowns slightly at the flicker of red in one of the children's aura, a contamination, before she shrugs it off. Must have been her imagination, she hasn't been sleeping right in a while.

Shuffling obediently into the classroom, the new almost friends sit together at the same table with two other children, a kitsune youkai and a half bat demon, Shippo and Shiori respectively. Kagome sat with Shippo on her left and Naraku on her right, Kikyo with InuYasha on her right and Shiori on her left. The two girls chatted amiably with eachother, including InuYasha in their conversations when he seemed too put out about being overlooked so much.

"My name's Kagome," the girl whispered conspiratorily to Shippo, "what's yours?"

"Shippo, Kuragase Shippo." The kitsune answered in the same half whisper before starting guiltiy and staring at the front of the room when the teacher called for their attention. "Let's be friends, Shippo." Kagome whispered again, an impish smile curling her lips, "Okay." The kit answered with a giggle, "Lets."

Nekette: It seems a rather superficial prolouge, but there's hints of things to come. And, the other's will be mentioned next chapter. Oh...And if you notice the not so secret secret, this -will- be Sesshy/'Gome, just, not right away. I loves me some drama.

Uh, tha's 'bout it. Gimme a review? As soon as I get my other story's first chapter done, I'll get back to work on this. I'll try a schedule of every other day I'm not working on Leash. [Leash should be posted tomorrow afternoon or so, I need to hit the hay for my psychology class in the morning.]