Chapter one:
A meeting
It was just before sunset and Sakura Yasami was, strangely, asleep. Her blue eyes were closed, blocking any light. Her Kimono, blue with waves, shone like a jewel in the beautiful orangey-red sunbeam that was pouring through the small window. Life-less as she looked, her heart was still beating. When she awoke, she heard noise. There was a commotion outside the bamboo curtain. Sakura got up and pushed the curtain aside. She was shocked to see what was going on outside. There was a crowd of villagers fighting something, of someone... she heard someone call her name. Katsumi, a village girl, ran up to her. "Lady Sakura, lady Sakura! Thank goodness you're awake! There are some nasty demons attacking the village!" Kayo wailed. "Please help us! You are the only demon with powers strong enough to kill this demon pack!" Katsumi begged.
"I suppose I could give it a shot" Sakura replied confidently. "Oh wow! Were definitely going to win this time!" Katsumi squealed. Sakura grabbed her sharpened sword and ran out of the hut. A man standing near the back, saw her, and exclaimed: "Make way for Lady Sakura, who will slay the demons!" The crowd parted and Sakura stepped forwards.
The battle began. Sakura had her Water powers on full as the young demoness fought of hordes of demons. "Dead! Heh Heh!" It was these thoughts that flashed through her head as she sliced the demons to bits. The demons pack was growing smaller by the minute. Sakura finally came to the head demon. She approached him, blood-stained and cut all over with a torn kimono and all; she blasted him with a water ray. Then she unsheathed her sword and cut him across his arm. Of course, the demon fought back, Sakura dodged, and then she was hit by a claw in her lower back. Pain pierced her back. Sakura was tough and embraced the pain, but found it was quite damaging to her quick movement. "Damn! How in the world am I supposed to win this battle with a back like this? Most of the men are already dead, and it wouldn't be at all considerate to ask the women to come fight!" Sakura thought as she dodged a strike. It was a near hit, but she was fine. Sakura charged and cut his neck. Sakura noticed something strange in that demon. From inside the cut, something was glowing! "A shard of the Sacred Shikon Jewel!" Sakura knew it! That had to be it! "if I can just hit there again and cut the shard out! Then he will become weak and I can defeat him!" Sakura had formed her plan. The demon was wailing in pain. He toughened up and striked again. He gashed her foot. It was bleeding hard and it stung like a million bee stings. She jumped on one foot, not very high, and swung her sword at the cut she had made before. Sakura felt the sword rip through the meat and hit the shard of the jewel. She closed her eyes as she fell and she landed in a heap of pain. She heard the demon disintegrate and blow off with the wind. Sakura couldn't move. It was too much pain, even for a half-demoness like herself. She fell unconscious and lay there, almost dead, bloody and torn.
