Overview:

A wandering girl, alone on her own, independent when no one was there for her; that has been her whole life. Memories long repressed, and the future, or rather past, now ahead, you survive in the forests of feudal Japan with nothing but your instincts and quick wits you’ve gained over the years spent in solitude. When a certain demon discovers you one night, what will happen to you then? What will happen when you are sucked into the world of Inuyasha, with the strangest encounter you’ve ever had?

 

Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of Inuyasha or pictures that I use unless I say so

 

 

Chapter 1: Bloody Human

 

        A late summer sunset spread like blooming fire across the horizon, signaling that night was almost upon the forested land of Japan. Wild animals scurried away into their homes, getting ready to settle down and sleep, away from the dangers of the outside. Village people went inside their own homes, and any wandering travelers either find an inn or start a fire, avoiding the dangers of night as well.

        Yet there are those who still prowl through the darkness. Demons, predators, and others alike, who stalk the shadows, and wait for just the right moment to strike the weak, and those who leave themselves unguarded. Few people would dare to walk the night and encounter such ferocious beings, even some of those creatures themselves would not risk such dangers. The creatures who are strong enough thrive at this time, but for some, staying up at night is not an option, especially if you have someone you want to protect.

        A group of individuals, a demon, his loyal imp, a little girl, and a two headed dragon, stop at a clearing in the middle of the woods. Their place of rest was no concern to them, for the demon was powerful, so much so that the night predators refused to go near him. The little girl led the two headed dragon to a tree and tied it up so it wouldn’t escape.

        “There you go Ah-Un.” She smiled as she pet Ah-Un’s heads. Once he was secure, the demon wandered off, leaving the imp alone with the girl, much to the imp’s displeasure.

        “Rin, go make yourself useful and get some firewood.” The imp ordered, waving his wooden staff around.

        “Yes, Master Jaken!” The girl cheerily replied back. She picked a random direction and ran off into the trees.

        “Why did Lord Sesshomaru even let her accompany us in the first place. Hmph! That girl is more a burden than anything else. What could possibly be worse than this?” Jaken mumbled to himself.

        Rin pranced through the forest, searching for branches that could be used for firewood, just like Jaken had ordered. She skipped through some bushes, but came to an abrupt stop, dropping the branches she had already gathered, out of surprise. The body of a girl, some years older than herself, covered in scratches, cuts, and bruises, was laying on the ground. She was on her stomach with the right side of her head turned up, her (H/L) (H/C) hair strewn about her neck and face, eyes closed tightly shut, arms layed limp by her side with her palms pressed down on the ground, and legs stretched out behind her. A black cape messily covered her upper body down to the middle of her calf, covering her other clothes and most of her legs from view. Although, Rin could still see the many gashes littered about her pale (S/C) skin, some small and some big, and she could smell the fresh blood all around her. The girl seemed dead. Memories of the wolf demons who had killed everyone in her village flashed in her mind, causing her to tremble in fear of those memories and the sight of the body who reminded her of them. She couldn’t take it, and let out an ear piercing scream.

        A sound echoed throughout the woods, making the demon looked to where it came from. He knew it was Rin, and she sounded distressed, but he didn’t know what caused this. There was no threatening smell, and he didn’t sense anyone else around but those in his group and some harmless woodland creatures. He grunted in irritation, and began walking in the direction of the scream to investigate.

        As soon as Jaken heard the scream, he immediately took off to Rin’s location. What kind of trouble has this human child found now? He didn’t care about her well being, but if she wasn’t well, he knew his lord would be furious. When he parted some bushes, he found the girl he was looking for quivering in fear.

        “Child, what is the matter with you?” At the sound of Jaken’s voice, Rin turned to him with tear filled eyes, and ran to the green imp, hugging him with all her might. Jaken was irritated to say the least, that she was touching him. He shoved her away and went to see what had made Rin scream, and almost get him in trouble with his lord. His feet then stopped in front of the body. Rin hid behind Jaken, still shaken up and crying, watching what the imp was doing over his shoulder. The smell of blood covered any scent of what could be death, so he poked the body with his staff, only to get no response. “It is just a dead human, nothing more, so stop making such a loud ruckus over a little-” Both Rin and Jaken felt a presence behind them, interrupting Jaken’s scolding. Rin turned around and gasped.

        “Lord Sesshomaru!” The little girl dashed behind the demon, who stared down at her in disinterest. His cold golden eyes looked back at Jaken, who was stunned to see his lord.

        “Jaken. What is all the commotion.” Sesshomaru spoke in a deep emotionless voice, one that terrified all who could hear it, especially his subordinate.

        “N-Nothing my lord! I-It was just the human brat screaming over a measly little thing! Nothing important here my-” Sesshomaru ignored the imp, and began taking slow steps past him. Rin ran behind Jaken, who didn’t care this time, wandering what his usually distant lord was doing. The little girl peeked over Jaken’s shoulder, curious as to what her lord was doing as well. Sesshomaru’s feet stopped at the human body, and his narrow golden eyes stared calculatedly at it. Just like with Jaken, the smell of blood was too strong to know if she was dead or not, even for his advanced sense of smell, although her apparent condition confirmed her decease. After all, no human could survive with such injuries as these. His eyes travelled back to Rin, who was looking at him with a questioning yet frightful gaze. Sesshomaru recalled her village’s demise, and how she had once looked like this body before him. He assumed Rin remembered as well.

        “This human is dead. It cannot be helped.” With one last look at the body, he started back towards the trees he had come through. As Sesshomaru’s feet moved further and further away, Jaken frowned, pushing Rin off of him, mumbling ‘filthy humans’ and dusting himself off afterwards. Rin ignored his rough actions, and stepped towards the body, not once taking her sad brown eyes off the girl’s unconscious face. Jaken watched Rin with irritation. He wished she would leave, since being stuck with practically babysitting her meant that he could not return to his Lord’s side until she did as well. Rin took no notice of his heated glare directed at her, and only continued to stare at the girl.

        Suddenly, the girl’s fingers twitched, and her eyelids fluttered slightly open, revealing slivers of (E/C). Rin gasped, too shocked to even move. The noise caused Sesshomaru to stop in his tracks, and his narrow eyes travelled behind him. Jaken crept closer to Rin to see what the problem was now, only to be surprised himself. The girl’s fingers now dug into the dirt, regaining her senses, and a groan escaped her lips.

        “Where am I?” You asked. None of the trio moved from their spots. The pounding in your head caused you to let out another groan. Your vision was blurry, but you could still make out at least two figures in front of you, a little girl and a little green imp, who you could tell was a demon, with some kind of stick. You used the little strength you had left to push yourself up, and that’s when you noticed the other demon a few yards away, surrounded by a blurry white, and analyzing you with what looked like rather blurry slit golden eyes. Your headache worsened as you propped yourself up more, so you put your hand over your forehead. As your vision cleared, you could see the scared expression of the girl and shocked one of the imp right in front of you. You could also see that the other demon was much closer now, standing a couple feet behind the girl. “What? What are you guys staring at?” You groaned out. All pairs of eyes remained locked on you, and you stared back with your own look of confusion, as well as pain.

        “How are you not dead?” The imp questioned. You rose a brow.

        “What are you talking about?”

        “You are covered in wounds that would normally kill humans.” You looked down at your body, and sure enough, there were cuts and gashes from your head to your feet, but you merely shrugged them off.

        “These? Ah they’re nothing, compared to what I’ve been through at least. They’ll be gone in the morning.”

        “What? It is impossible for wounds like that inflicted on a mere human such as yourself to heal that quickly.” You shrugged your shoulders.

        “Trust me, they will. I just need to rest is all.”

        “How did you get such injuries. What business do you have in these woods.” The taller demon asked, more like stated, in a deep monotonous voice. With your vision clearing up some, you could make out long silver hair, a colorful outfit with a pauldron over his left shoulder, and lots of fluff on his right side.

        “I just let my guard down while fighting this one demon is all. Damn creature was attacking a village. Stupid thing, but it put up more of a fight than I thought.” You looked up at the silver haired demon, and smiled sheepishly. “No offense. You two seem okay.”

        “Do not speak to Lord Sesshomaru with such disrespect!” The imp yelled. You tilted your head.

        “Never heard of him. And besides, imp.” You leaned down to his eye level and smirked. “I can talk however I want.”

        “First of all, my name is not imp, it is Jaken. And second, he is a highly powerful lord and should be treated as such.”

        “Well, Jaken, it’s not like he’s my lord, so I don’t really care.” ‘Jaken’ was absolutely fuming at this point, and you swore you could see steam coming out of him.

        “Insolent human.” He mumbled.

        “Make that only one of you seems okay now.”

        “What was that!?” You chuckled, and that’s when you noticed the little girl staring at you intently, as if she just saw a ghost.

        “Aw hey there, what’s your name?” That seemed to snap her out of her daze, and she shyly looked away from you. However, you could still hear a little squeak come from her.

        “M-My name is R-Rin.” You smiled, which made her blush.

        “That name’s pretty cool. Mine’s (Y/N), nice to meetcha Rin.” The little girl blushed some more and shied away.

        “Nice to meet you too.” She whispered.

        “Well, I best be on my way.” You planted your foot on the ground and shakily stood up, your legs trembling from the excruciating pain. You noticed the white haired demon, ‘lord’ Sesshomaru, follow your every movement with his cold calculative eyes, but it didn’t bother you.

        “Are you okay miss (Y/N)?” You grunted, pushing yourself up further.

        “I’m fine. I just need to get up a tree.” When you were standing up as much as you could, you limped towards a big tree behind you. Getting there proved to be harder than you thought, due to the constant pain shooting up your legs, and when you were close to the tree you tripped. Rin reached her hand out about to try and help catch you, but you caught yourself by putting your hands on the tree’s trunk and using it for support. Once you made sure you were balanced, you used your remaining strength and jumped up, landing on the branch that was above you. You did so again and again until you were a good height up, despite how much your aching muscles cried out. Your body collapsed on the final branch you landed on, and you leaned your back against the trunk, finally able to rest.

        A few minutes passed, and the trio still stood their ground. As Jaken grew more impatient, and since you didn’t seem to be doing anything else now of interest, he tugged on the sleeve of Rin’s kimono, though he despised doing so. However, he would rather touch her than stay around here with you, since to him you were worse and more annoying and mouthy than Rin could ever be. Besides, he assumed his lord wouldn’t want to stick around either, and would want to return to the campsite as soon as possible.

        “Come on child. Let’s leave this human and go finish setting up camp.” He tugged on Rin again, but she was hesitant to leave. She was still curious about this girl, but she didn’t exactly have a choice with Jaken’s constant pulling, and disappeared with him into the bushes. Sesshomaru, however, didn’t move from his spot, even when the other two left, and continued to stare at you.

        Once some of the pain began to dissipate, you wrapped yourself up in your cape, using it like a blanket, and faced towards the moon, away from the demon, and slowly began to fall asleep. Sesshomaru’s eyes didn’t leave your form, until he saw that you were no longer awake. He finally turned away, and began walking back the same way Jaken and Rin had gone, disappearing through the bushes, leaving you alone once more.        

 

        (A/N: Hey guys! A Sesshomaru story, I know right? He’s one of my favorites! And he’s a dog demon! I love dogs in general, demon or not, they’re one of my five favorite animals ((Yes I have five! I love all animals but I consider those five favorites of my favorites))! So, with that, I’ll see y’all laters! -p-)