"Do you really think you can fool Lord Sesshomaru with such cheap lies?! Tell us where Naraku really is, human!" The toad yelled this time.
"Are you calling me a liar?" I asked narrowing my eyes at him dangerously and it caused him to yelp and hide behind his lord's legs. "I'd suggest you actually go look for yourself before you go on complaining. The more you test my patience now, the worse it's going to get for you. If you can't find Naraku's castle, why don't you sniff for my scent and come find me and we'll see what to do about it then? I'm leaving now."
I said and walked past the wolf guy without even sparing him another glance. He watched me still surprised from my earlier and following outburst but scoffed before turning into a tornado and racing in the direction I had pointed out. The white haired lord and his toad though were yet to follow.
"Human, you are covered in blood, most of which is your own and fresh even, and yet I cannot see a single injury. How is that possible?" Sesshomaru asked making me stop walking for a moment.
"It's none of your business." I said curtly.
"Argh! You foolish human! How dare you constant disrespect Lord Sesshomaru! I'll have your head!!" Jaken shrieked.
I didn't bother with it and once again began to walk away from them. Soon, I was out of the clearing and out of their sight. Just like before, I could sense Sesshomaru's and the toad's presence for quite some time, even to the extent of being able to tell when he walked away from me and towards Naraku's castle. It was a little unsettling because I had never had such an ability before. Had my fall from the warehouse made me even stranger than I already was? It was hard enough trying to be normal despite my powers of matter transmutation; if I ended up with more weird powers, especially being able to tell people's presences when they were around me, my life was going to get too complicated.
Then again, the wolf guy did have some pretty interesting powers. He was a Superhuman too, I'm sure – perhaps he could control the wind and it gave him power and speed and the ability to create tornadoes. Sesshomaru too probably was a Superhuman and had some unique power so being somehow similar to each other, I was able to sense them.
But it still didn't make sense! No matter how I tried to look at it, I couldn't understand why I could sense them when I had never been able to sense other Superhumans before. I suppose I could ask Mayu Nee or Asami Nii if they had the ability to sense Superhumans too – perhaps they had gained the ability as time passed. But I could as them about this matter only after I get back home. I really had to pick up my pace in finding my way back. I could have asked the two, or rather, three people I came across for directions but they didn't actually come off as friendly. I didn't want to be around them for longer than necessary.
I let out another sigh, not in irritation but in exhaustion. The loss of blood, the pain my body had to go through and staying unconscious for two days had really drained me of energy. I wanted food and a good rest....when was I ever going to come across the city??
After a few more minutes of walking, I picked up on some noises. As I got closer to the trees beyond which I could hear the noise, I realized that it was voices of people talking. It was a ray of hope and I stepped out of the trees, waiting to be greeted by the busy streets of Tokyo city. However, I frowned when I saw a very primeval settlement with people in yukatas, haoris and hakamas walking through dirt roads and between wooden hay roofed houses. There were crop fields around the settlement where men and women were tilling at the crops manually.
"What the?" I mumbled and walked into the settlement. Well, there was no defined boundary but assuming that the outermost buildings were the boundary, I stepped into the settlement.
When the people in the settlement noticed me walking through, they gasped and stepped away from me in fear. I looked at them furrowing my brows in suspicion and slight annoyance for the responses I received but that only seemed to frighten them more.
"D-Demon!"
"A demon has come to our village! And she's covered in blood!"
"She's going to eat us!"
"No please! Spare us! We just want to live peacefully here! Spare us, we beg you!"
Just as they all shouted, they fell to their knees and bowed to me with their foreheads touching the ground. They were trembling too. I found what they had said really strange. They had called me a demon, which I have to say was really rude, and then had begged me not to harm them. Sure, I was covered in my blood – which they didn't know was mine and probably thought was someone else's – and I'm sure I looked a little unfriendly too. Mayu Nee always told me that I still had to improve my people skills and my occasional short temper. But the blood and the probably tense air around me wasn't any reason for them to call me a demon and think that I would eat or hurt them.
"Oi." I said making two of the men close to me flinch and look up at me.
"P-please spare us, oh great demon! Y-you can take anything you want f-from our village but please! Spare our lives! W-we only wish to live here peacefully! We bear no g-grudge against demons!" One of them whimpered and I clenched my jaw getting more and more irked by the moment.
I knew that if I stayed here any longer, I was really going to lose my cool. I had promised Mayu Nee and Asami Nii that I would control my temper at all times, that I would learn to be patient and ignore the rude comments people sent my way whether it was about my Superhuman powers or just out of the need to bully me. But this was the first time I had been called a demon and it was not sitting well with me. If these people kept calling me a demon, I was really going to lose self control and vent out my anger on them, perhaps painfully even.
"I can take whatever I want, right?" I asked looking ahead and away from the men so their trembling bowing figures wouldn't irritate me more than it already did.
"Y-yes! Take whatever you want! But just let us live!" He said and I took a deep breath to ease the anger that had built up inside me.
Since he was so kind to offer free services, I didn't hesitate. It was only right that I was allowed to take what I wanted after how they had insulted me. I was good to people but I had my limits too. And this particular situation seemed to go past my limit of tolerance. Whether these people knew I was a Superhuman and were being submissive or plain rude didn't matter – they had clearly pissed me off and I had no reason to show any courtesy to them.
Tilting my head up a little to only make myself seem superior, I strode into the market of the village not caring to even glance at the people who fell to their knees as I passed them.
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Well, Hisako is finding her surroundings strange as well as the people in it. You can't blame her for it though because she is yet to figure out that she has had her butt kicked to the feudal era of Japan.
As usual, Naraku is scheming on how to use Hisako - a human with unique powers - as one of his subordinates. I wonder if that is going to work though? What else does he have planned for her? Curious to know?
Stay tuned! ;P
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