Thirst

Hey Mina-san! I know you all have been waiting for another chapter and I apologize for the long wait…… well HERE YOU GO!

---------------------Ch. 3 – Birth of a Choukai

“Oh!” she gasped through gritted teeth. “My water just broke!” she exclaimed, her voice strained, sweat running down her brow, matting her bangs to her forehead, and soaking her nightgown and bedding. Slowly raising herself in the bed she called out for her father.

“Otousan! OTOUSAN!!!” she screamed as another stronger contraction hit her. Coincidentally he was passing by her room at the exact moment she screamed for him. He quickly came into the room from the hallway and immediately realized what was happening.

Reaching into his priest’s garb, he removed 4 sutras and placed them at the 4 points around her convulsing body. Exhaling slowly he reached out and removed the power sealing sutra. Nearly being blasted backwards by the tremendous power released, he was able to bear it only with the help of the sutras he had placed only moments earlier. Placing both hands flat on her belly he felt for her contractions. Realizing they were very close together, he immediately left the room to get the special priests midwife that arrived weeks earlier.

“She is ready for you. Please take care of her.” he said his face tense with worry and strain for his daughter.

She silently pushed a cart with a bowl of hot water and piled high with towels on it into the room. Before closing the door completely she replied, “I’ll do my best, try not to worry.” And with that she softly but firmly closed the door.

Pushing the cart beside the bed, she removed a wash cloth from the warm water in the bowl and wrung out the excess water. Moving closer to the bed she gently wiped the girls face and neck free of sweat trying to make her a little more comfortable, although she knew the sweat would be back in minutes. Placing the wash cloth back in the bowl, she placed both hands on the girl’s stomach and pressed to determine the position of the child.

For many silent moments she pressed and prodded the pregnant girl’s stomach. Finally determining everything to be fine, she grabbed a few towels from her cart. Pushing her nightgown up she placed a couple towels beneath her and began to speaking in soft undertones to the harshly panting girl.

“You’ve been doing really well so far, but now I’m going to need you to push okay, sweetheart? Push, Now!”

Watching the screaming, sweating girls opening she saw it begin to rip slightly as the baby’s head was slowly forced through the small opening. As blood began to flow the baby’s head fully came through. Grabbing another towel from the cart she supported the baby’s head.

“The head is out now you’re doing well. Now give me one more good push to get the shoulders out.” She said to the exhausted girl and with a final scream the girl gave a hard push. As the echoes of her scream faded the baby’s shoulders were forced from her already torn entrance. Supporting the baby’s head with one hand and grasping it’s back with the other, the midwife pulled the blood and fluid covered child free of the girls tired, torn body.

Quickly cutting the umbilical cord with a pair of sterilized scissors from her cart, she laid the baby down at the foot of the bed and proceeded to clean her with the same cloth used to wipe sweat from her mother’s brow. Taking another towel from her cart she wrapped the baby in said towel and handed the quiet child to its exhausted mother.

“You did a wonderful job and now you have a beautiful baby girl.” She stated in a soft soothing voice. Collecting her things back onto her cart she quietly began to exit the room, softly closing the door leaving mother and daughter alone.

Pushing the cart along the wall outside of the room, she quickly turned to the newly made grandfather.

“You have a granddaughter… and it’s as you thought.” She stated with deadly calm.

*~~~~~~~Time skip (11 years)~~~~~~*

Clear blue eyes sparkled with anger as they glared up into jet black eyes which glared back with intense dislike.

“Give me my backpack!” yelled a young Kagome as she jumped up arms outstretched toward the upheld backpack.

“Come get it, shorty” he taunted as he held the pack just out of reach, the hint of fangs briefly flashing behind his sneer. The crowd that had gathered around them yelled out taunts and encouragement equally, wanting to see what happened.

Eyes flashing from clear blue to a burning red, Kagome felt a tingling in her fingertips as she prepared to shove him away. Just before her hands reached his chest, Kagome found herself unable to move at all. Subconsciously feeling a spiritual energy nearby, she looked out the right corner of her eye and saw her grandfather standing just outside of the schools playground, his hands rapidly forming symbols.

“Jiro-kun!” their teacher called out her voice stern, “Give Kagome back her backpack, now!” she said as she marched towards them. “I can’t go inside for one minute without you causing trouble. Recess is over. Everyone back inside!”

As everyone filed back inside the building, including Kagome, her grandfather heaved a silent sigh of relief. Although he knew the suppression seal only kept Kagome in a kind of temporary sleepwalking state and he knew that if he didn’t give her the “protein” drink that she would revert back. Making his way to the front of the school building he went directly to the front office and asked that Kagome be called.

Distantly hearing her name being called over the intercom Kagome excused herself from the classroom and made her way to the front office. As she walked into the office she noticed distantly, as if she was looking through a long tunnel, that her grandfather was in the office. When he handed her a slender tube about the size of a small bottle of Tylenol and told her to drink it she didn’t question him. With the obedience of a well trained dog she drank everything in the container. All of her life they had given her what they called “protein” drinks and she had never really understood why, she just accepted it. Until, the day she came back from the feudal era.

After getting over all of the tears and I missed you she sat down at the kitchen table with her mother and grandfather and demanded explanations.

“Grandfather, Mother,” she said with dead seriousness in her voice, “What am I?” From the accepting looks on their faces she knew that they knew exactly what she was talking about.

“You are a Choukai.” Her mother stated usual calm soothing voice.

A questioning look came across Kagome’s face, “What is a Choukai?”

“When you were still in your mother’s womb you were an extremely powerful miko. So powerful in fact that your powers had begun to destroy your body. Somehow your body… adapted and transformed.” Her grandfather explained as he reached for the teapot to refill his now empty teacup.

“You became something more. More than a demon, more than a Miko, You became a blood demon. What that meant was your body had become stronger than a full blooded demons body and had become equally more powerful. There have only been 2 other documented cases of this happening and from those cases we had found a way of suppressing it.” he continued, “Also, although your body had transformed to better accommodate your power, your body still needs nourishment to sustain it.” He finished and took a long soothing sip of tea.

“And what would that nourishment be?” she asked already half knowing what would be said but needing conformation.

“Full demons blood.” her mother finally spoke again.

From then on her life was changed forever…

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Yume~

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