Shuri's Past

"It all started, on that fateful day. I was just a few weeks away from graduation and becoming an official Shrine maiden. It was early morning and as a routine, I was sweeping the compound.

In that shrine we had a small overgrown, where trees were left to grow as they like and I used to enjoy that scene, so like always, after completing my routine, I went inside that overgrow to feed birds that would always come to me when I go in that small overgrow.

But this time, the area was too quiet. So I started to search around while calling them in birds' voices, but for quite sometimes nothing happened. finally, understanding something was wrong, I threw the grains, that I would always carry on me, at the regular spot and was moving out, but as I was just about exit the overgrown, I heard, I heard the call of someone who was asking for help.

As I was just a naive maiden at that time, I started to move towards the voice with a little caution. But when I reach that place I only found a very seriously injured unconscious person.

At first, I thought, he was just a normal person. So I took him on my shoulder and moved him out of that place and placed him on a bed in one of the rooms in the compound, calling someone who could do the first aid, I started to learn the basic from the person.

It was kind of a mutual understanding during that time, that whoever gets the work would need to do it. So I started to take care of him during the time he was unconscious for some days and finally, after a few days, he became conscious and thanked me for the care that I had shown him while still on the bed.

As he, still wasn't able to get up, I would usually go and take care of him. How nieve I was, I never even thought that the injuries that he sustained were too severe for a normal human and with the current speed he would be up and about in no time.

During that time, I would usually boast about how I was able to make him stand on his feet between my friends and they would usually praise me and some would be jealous that I found such a handsome man, that too in woods.

Oh, how I wish now that they would have taken him from me at that time. Generally, angels could not conceive without the blessing of God and Fallen angel need a special type of drug to make a child and only some drugs will work on someone.

It was raining that night. It was the last day for him to remain in that place and he would be moving the very next day as his injuries were almost healed. So I went one last time to change his bandage, now this is the time when everything went out of hand. He was preparing tea, as usual, it has almost become a routine for me to receive tea whenever I go for changing his bandage.

So, without care, after I changed his bandage I took the tea and drank it then I fell unconscious. I don't really remember what happened that night, but the next morning I was naked and in the same room as him.

Not understanding what really happened, I started to look around in a daze. I tried to stand up but, it was impossible. Whenever I tried to stand there would a sharp pain in my abdomen and I wasn't able to understand what really happened.

As I was trying to stand, I felt something below my feet so, removing the cover, the first thing I saw was a red patch below and a paper just beside it.

After seeing this scene, I finally understood what happened, with a shaking hand I slowly lifted the paper, so that it could provide some kind of explanation, but to my horror, there were just about 11 words on it.

"Thank you", "Take care" and if you are pregnant call me.

With his number at the end, at that time I was devastated. Innocence is the most precious object of all women, which was very true for a Shrine maiden.

Slowly, somehow I moved to my room and asked for food to be delivered into the room with the excuse of not feeling well.

After that every day I would wish that it was just a dream, but seeing the red patch that I kept as a reminder would remind me that it was all true. Slowly the time passed and I again started to become worried as my periods didn't come and I just reminded my self that it could be late.

But finally, after five weeks from that day, it was confirmed that I was pregnant. I didn't even know how to tell my parents about this. I took a few days off and made my way to the Himejima Shrine. I was welcomed with all the love and care, even my parents came to receive me.

That night I told them about everything and they were unable to even give a reaction. My father broke the table and my mother went to console him.

Finally, after a few days, Father came to talk to me and started to see the baby with his powers and he was happy to find that it was a girl and after that, I was able to give him the contact number that the person left.

That person when he heard that I was pregnant he was happy too and was coming to have a look at the child.

At that moment, I thought it was ok since I can't change the fact, I accepted it. but when that person came, I came to know what hell really was he came with his fallen angel wings out and I was thrown out of the house almost immediately without any type of explanation at that time, I was frustrated, so frustrated that I wanted to kill myself, but I didn't have the strength to kill the innocent life that was inside me.

He took me to the poor district and to that house that I was living in before you came. He would sometimes vanish for a few days but would always come back.

Finally, when Akeno was born, I thought that everything would be over and I would forget about the past and live in the present. I started to take care of my little girl and after that one time, I never allowed him to touch me again.

After Akeno was born he would be gone for a few days, then it stretched to weeks then it stretched to months, this all happened within four years of the event.

Do you know Dexter? How I felt, a lonely woman without any type of support, I started to raise Akeno with all my heart. In the second year that I was with him, I found some torture instrument but then he told me they were a pleasure instrument and taught me how to use them. So from that day forward, I would torture him with them but he would feel pleasure, the more painful I made the process the more he enjoyed it and I too started to enjoy the process of giving pain.

Our power was just too far apart no matter what I did, he would just feel pleasure. This thing became the source where I would relive all of my built-up stress.

Slowly the time passed and finally, that day came when he told me that he would be leaving me for some work, but at that moment I just knew it, call it a woman's intuition, that he was leaving us. I waited for more than two years for him to come back and never received his news. If you didn't turn up when you did I would have left for the forest with little Akeno, as it was really becoming difficult to live in the town.

So Dexter, what did you think about me now. Do you still think I am a characterless woman as you had thought during the night?