Hello all! I just wanted to say from the beginning so I don't have to keep saying it in all of my chapters, I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY CHARACTERS AND PLOTS THAT DERIVE FROM INUYASHA. All of that wonderfulness belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Alivia and any random characters that may show up in the story belong to me. That is all. I hope you all enjoy this story, i have one other story on here that is not finished but I am currently working on this story so this one will be updated more often then the other one. Enjoy and Review! I LOVE feedback! ^-^ -A.

"Alivia! Give it back!" the girl with short red hair yelled to the long black haired girl who was running away laughing.

"You're gonna have to catch me first Lanie!" The black haired girl, Alivia, said.

Lanie blew her bangs out of her face, grumbling to herself as Alivia took off into the crowd. "Of course you would tell me that…" she grumbled shaking her head before jogging after her friend.

There is no way she's gonna catch up to me now. I thought to myself with a smirk as I weaved in and out of the heavy crowd. I may seem like a normal 18 year old college student, but life has definitely been different for me. You see, I'm a half-demon. Or at least that is what my parents tell me. Apparently my parents, who are not my biological parents by the way, found me in a basket in the sacred waterfall basin on their shrine as a baby 19 years ago. So to the human world, I am 18 years old. But in demon years, I am almost 190 years old. Now you may be thinking, demon? 'Demons don't exist, where is your proof?' Or, 'you sure look human to me.' My parents knew that with my demonic powers that they would have to hide them. I was born with silver white hair, purple eyes with golden specks in them. I also have demon markings all over my body. My markings would have been easy to hide, as well as my hair and eyes. But what would not have been easy to hide, is my white dog ears on top of my head. So my parents created a concealment charm for me to wear which makes me look and seem like a human, but does not cut off any of my senses. My concealment changes my white hair to black and my eyes to a dark blue, making me at least resemble my parents. Everyone believes that I am just a normal girl with spiritual powers. Oh yes that's right I almost forgot to tell you, my parents have spiritual powers making them a priest and priestess.

But in this time, that doesn't amount up to much. To the world, my "spiritual powers" mean I am naturally gifted with a bow, and that I have natural good luck and purity. Ha! If only that was it. My parents are quite baffled by the fact that I am a demon and I have holy powers. I don't understand it either but somehow my demonic energy and spiritual energy coincides with the other, making me a threat to both demons and humans.

I was so caught up in my thoughts that I had not sensed Lanie had caught up to me until right before she pounced. I easily side stepped her, making it seem convenient that I turned away.

"Alivia! Hand it back! You aren't supposed to open it yet! You promised me that you would wait until tomorrow!" Lanie pouted at me.

"Fine. Here take it back." I said, handing back the carefully wrapped gift. "It's mine anyways why do I have to wait?" I whined.

"Because! You know we want to celebrate at school too! You are going to be 19 tomorrow! And what better way to spend a weekend at the dorm than partying?" Lanie said mischievously.

"Lanie I am NOT doing that kind of partying for my birthday." I said giving her a look.

"What? Why? No one will know! Girl you are gonna be 19! Live a little." She said laughing.

"Look at the time! I have to go!" I said suddenly seeing how late it was. My parents have a dinner planned for tonight to celebrate.

I said goodbye to Lanie and took off down the road to my home. It was a big open land just on the outskirts of town. I ran down the country lane and past the natural small spring with a waterfall that was next to the well house. My parents tell me that the waterfall has special powers. I have been here for 18 years and nothing has happened.

"I'm home!" I called out as I walked in the door. "Mama? Dad? Liam?" I called when no one answered.

"We are in the kitchen dear!" I heard my mom say. I walked towards my mom's voice and as I rounded the corner my senses were engulfed by the food she was cooking.

"Wow Mama this smells great!" I said smiling as she turned to look at me.

"Alivia dear how was school?" she said coming over to me and pulling me into a warm hug.

"Oh it was fine. My psychology class was cancelled for the day." I said.

"YOUR psych class got cancelled? Man I wish mine had gotten cancelled." I heard my elder brother, Liam, say as he walked into the kitchen from the dining room.

"Oh don't even start bickering Liam you know tonight is special!" Mama said "scolding" my elder brother. "Dinner will be done soon Liv if you want to go wash up."

"Okay." I said and ran up the stairs to my room, "Hi Dad!" I said flying past him. I could hear him chuckling as he walked down the stairs.

I went into my bathroom and took off my turtle charm necklace, who has acquired the name Bunches over the years, this necklace serves as my concealment charm. As it came off I sighed contently as I felt my aura sore, and my ears form on my head. I twitched my ears around as I was fully in my true form. Running back down the stairs I saw my mom had finished putting food on the table.

"I would like to toast to the past 19 years. Ever since we discovered Alivia by the waterfall 19 years ago, we have been nothing but blessed." My dad said, as he, my brother, and mama held up glasses full of white wine. I held up my glass of my favorite drink, sparkling white grape juice.

"Cheers!" they all said as I sat there blushing. They did this every year but for some reason it made me blush at the attention.

After dinner was over my father left to grab something. It was custom for both my brother and myself to receive a special gift the night before our birthdays. He came back in holding a small box wrapped in what looked like old wrapping paper. "Geesh Dad how old is this present?" I said jokingly.

As he sat back down he gave it to me and said, "This gift is very special Alivia. For this was the only thing with you when we found you. The note that was with it instructed us not to give it to you until your 19th birthday."

"Oh wow…" I said as I gingerly took the box from him. I unwrapped the box and as I opened it I saw a pendant laying in the box. It was a silver chain with a maroon stone in the center. Around the stone was a silver spiral which came together at the top and created a wing. I pulled it out of the box and held it up. The chain was slightly longer than a normal necklace, much like my turtle necklace, it would rest just in between my breasts.

"When we found you, the note that was with it said 'whoever takes care of her, give this to her on her 19th year. This pendant holds her true power. Without it she will not understand who she really is. A word of caution though, only she will be able to use the pendant and once she puts it on, it will connect to her life, she must always have it with her at all times. When the time comes for her to wear it, she will understand. Tell her I am sorry that she never got the chance to meet me, but I do love her, with all of my heart" My mom said.

"Was it signed?" I said absently running my hands along the pendant, surprisingly it did not smell like metal, it had a musky, woodsy smell, one that I enjoyed very much and felt very safe and soothed by.

"No, it was not signed. But I imagine it was from one of your biological parents." She said silently.

"Thank you so much guys." I said getting up to hug them. "I think that I am going to go to bed now." I added before kissing them on the cheek and walking up to my room.

I put the pendant next to Bunches and decided to wait to wear it until tomorrow. Changing into my pajamas I crawled into bed and quickly fell asleep dreaming made up dreams of parents I never knew.