A/n got this idea after I started reading Inuyasha fanfiction again...dont know just felt I had to try and get it down.

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> telepathic speach.

Please RR...hope you like my feeble attempt of a fanfic. I know there arent much of the Inuyasha crew yet, except for a hint to one but they will show up soon dont worry. Natsuko and her mother is my own creation. Just up ahead, I am no poet so forgive me my week attemp to make a real sounding profecy.

Disclaimer: Just be sure I will say from the start that I dont any one the lovely Inuyasha characters sigh Do I really have write this everytime I add a new chapter? It is so depressing.

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The pearl breaks as the heart of the miko rages
Now miko and knight must search
Through fire, hate and love
and finally the spider will make his appearance

The spider and his minions will spin a silken web
he will split the miko and her knight
tell them lies of deceit and hatred
But they will overcome and rip apart the silken veil

In love the will pearl once more be complete
the evil ones will die by a hateful hand
a promised will be broken and a child born
and once more a period of peace will come

One day Fire and ice will meet
and from that union a child will be bourn
bound by fate this child will scorch all
and all lands will be reigned by the flame

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The last rays of the sun light up the village. Around the small houses children were playing, enjoying the short time before diner would be ready and they would be confined to their homes with their families. Near one of the house two men were playing a board game, while a small group of others looked on and cheered for their favourite player.

Time seemed to stand still for them, after a hard days work in the fields this was their time to rest and play. But time never does stand still and soon the wives and mothers of the village came out of the houses calling in their loved ones for diner. After diner the evening was spent talking, sewing and telling old myths and legends, to remind the children (and them selves) of their great history and imbue them with the proper respect for the higher lord and ladies. They also taught the young ones to fear the youkai and hanyou that roamed that land, some didn't care for the humans and left them to them selves, other were more interested in the food, values and other pleasures they could extract from them, and not all of them did so in a friendly manner. Therefore the parents had to teach their kids to be careful and not wander out side at night unless it was important.

As the streets became empty and silent Natsuko moved from her spot at the open door, where she had been watching the children, it was her favourite time of the day where she could watch them play and laugh. She was almost 17 now some of the children could have been hers if someone had wanted to marry her. She made a face 'like anybody would want to marry a scrawny too tall girl, who on top of that is so poor she has no dowry' she sighed and went over to her small fire where her diner was getting ready. Not that there was very much of it but it was enough to keep her from dieing of hunger. Natsuko was a tall girl compared to the other girls at her age, her eyes were violet and her long hair was black. Because of lack of food she was very thin and that along with her height gave her the look of a scarecrow.

Once more she thought back to her life before, when her mother had been alive. Her father she had never known but she knew that her mother and father had been married. Her mother had carried a necklace that was a wedding gift from her husband, who ever he was.

But Natsuko's happy life had been destroyed on the night of her 10th birthday.

- Flashback-

"Nat honey, get up" her mother whispered in her ear. Natsuko opened her eyes and knew from the tone of her mother's voice that this was no birthday surprise. "Quickly get some clothes on, hurry" her mother urged. Natsuko got up and put on her clothes as fast as she could. As soon as she had the clothes on she was dragged out the door towards the woods. Her mother looked around afraid, like the shadows would come after them.

"Mama what is wrong?" she asked. Her mother looked down at her with fear in her eyes "bad men are coming, you must hide. I will go back and warn the others once I know you are safe" That was all the explanations she would give and she started dragging the child further into the forest, away from the village.

Soon they came to a small clearing where they had lunch just earlier that day. It was at the same time they had discovered an abandoned fox den. "Hide in there" her mother said and pointed towards the den "don't come out until I or Rika comes and get you understood?" Natsuko nodded her small hands clutching her doll. Her mother gave her a small skin of water, bending down she gave her a kiss on the forehead before Natsuko crawled into the den. Then she turned and ran towards the village.

Natsuko waited as she was told, she could hear screams and shouts from the village. Natsuko clinged to her doll her heart racing, filled with fear of the attackers and the fate of her village. He mouth and throat twisted and dried, and she remembered the water her mother had given her. Pulling out the cork and took a sip from the skin to wet her mouth. It didn't take long before the sleeping drug took over and she fell asleep. Her dreams filled with horrid pictures of the villages getting killed by large monsters while the houses burned. Natsuko look around and found Rika running toward her, as Natsuko reached up her hands to Rika the tip of a sword suddenly appeared in Rika's chest. Blood oozed from the wound and Rika's mouth, her now dull eyes looked a Natsuko before sliding of the sword to reveal her attacker. A man with black hair, red eyes and an evil grin. She looked up at him and before her eyes he turned into a giant spider. Natsuko screamed and tried to run. The spider came skittering after her, his large hairy legs gracing her as he toyed with her. Suddenly she could feel herself flying in the air before she hit the earth face down. She turned around and scampered backwards the best she could to get away from the monster. He towered over her laughing hysterically. She heard a dump sound from behind and she turned around. On the ground behind her mother's mangled body lay and from the shadows a large snake made it way towards her. She could see the poison drip from its large fangs. Another hysterical laughter joined the spiders and she put her hand over her ears in a feeble attempt to shut out the terrible sound, but still the laughter of the snake and spider resounded in her head through the night.

She woke up the next day bathed in sweat. Confused and scared she listened for the sound of battle or screams. But the forest was silent. Slowly she made her way out the den and walked toward the village.

Hiding in a bush she looked down on the village to see if any bad men were around, but none was to be seen. The villages were beginning the hard work of identifying and burying the dead. There was no miko in this village so the wounded was treated as best could with the basic knowledge their families had. Most of what they knew about treating wounds and curing the sick was taught to them by Natsuko's mother. Natsuko ran to her home, sure that her mother would be there waiting for her. But the small house was empty, the only sign that her mother had been there after leaving Natsuko in the woods was one floor board has ripped up and something removed from a hidden compartment underneath.

'Maybe she is down treating the wounded, yes that must be where she is' Natsuko ran to the town centre where all the wounded were gathered. She looked over the women who were walking among the wounded men and women, none looked like her mother. Natsuko started to wander between the hurt, was she one of those? Panic griped her heart 'Okaasan, don't leave me' she cried as she franticly search the square for her mother. my little baby…shhh, I am here honey Natsuko looked around for her mother, she was sure she had heard her voice just now. "Mama where are you" she asked. Look inside yourself honey…like I taught you, follow the glowing thread

Natsuko nodded and did as so many times before, she looked inside herself; there was the once calm lake of blue, now it was in a uproar. Waves rose, broke and fell mirroring Natsuko's chaotic feelings. Soon she saw the familiar ice blue thread she knew connected her to her mother. She followed it as her mother had taught her to do if they got separated.

It led her to the opposite side of the village and into the forest far away from where she had been hidden.

As she neared she could see the line become weaker and thinner, her small heart cringed in pain and fear for her mother's life. She ran the last way and found her mother lying in the middle of a small clearing surrounded by the corpses of a group of bandits.

"Mama" she ran over and threw her arms around her mother's neck, hugging her fiercely while crying. "shhh honey...my brave little girl" her mother coughed and blood dyed her lips, Natsuko sat up and looked at her mother. Until now she hadn't noticed the gaping wounds that marked her mother. "Listen to me honey, I cant stay much longer" her mother started before cringing in pain, Natsuko cried and shook her head "no don't go, stay mama stay" she cried "I am sorry my dear I cannot, your father is waiting for me on the other side, but I will miss you, my little flower" she coughed again and blood tickled down her cheek from her mouth. "Listen now my dear, you must never let them know. You are not what you seem, you know that….remember what I taught you….never let them know" she looked to her side and grabbed something. Natsuko watched as her mother handed her the sword and scabbard "this is yours now, honey. Your father wanted you to have it, use it only in emergencies. I am sorry…" Natsuko felt her mother's fingers caress her small cheek before they went limp. Her eyes widened in horror as she stared at her mothers dead body, then it dawned on her, tears rimmed her eyes and started running down her cheeks before she threw her head on her mothers chest and cried and cried.

-End flashback-

Natsuko fought the tears that always came when she thought about her mother. For almost 7 years she had been alone, fate would it that Rika had died under the attack too. In the beginning the villages had helped her, giving her food and clothing as a sign of gratitude that her mother had killed so many of the bandits before chasing their leaders into the forest. It had comforted Natsuko that her mother's death had not been a slaughter but that she had fought with everything to protect the village and her daughter. But as the years past the villages forgot about the great sacrifice her mother had made and the help stopped. A few of the elders still helped her now and then, but they didn't have much to give, and the others were more concerned with getting their own daughters a good dowry and supplying their sons with the best equipment.

After her 15th birthday she practically left alone to tend for herself.

'I wonder what it would be like other places than here' she thought 'will they just chase me away on sight. Times are dark many are afraid of the youkai and humans that have been pillaging and killing through out the land, since the lord's death' she sighed 'at least here they let me stay'

She ate her diner slowly, cleaned up after her and went to bed. She would have to get up early to help the families in the fields, so she could get food in return.

She didn't get to sleep long before the village bell sounded. Natsuko sat up fast her heart racing with fear 'They have returned!'