Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any of the characters-as much as I wish I did. All original characters are mine and I make no money off of this.
Sesshomaru was barely one hundred the first time he saw her. It was out of the corner of his eye that he caught a glimpse of a young girl. What caught his attention was the fact that she was crying and he couldn't hear it at all. She was easily close enough for him to hear her and he couldn't.
Quickly he made up his mind to approach her and demand answers. But as Sesshomaru turned to confront her, she vanished. He spent a short while pondering the conundrum she presented, but it and the girl were soon forgotten.
The next time he saw her was perhaps fifty years later. It was at one of the grand parties his mother often hosted. In amongst the dancing yokai Sesshomaru caught glimpses of the same girl, now older, dancing. Every time he thought he had a clear view of her, a pair of yokai would spin into the way. He frowned. Why was he so curious about that girl?
Time slowed as she danced forward. Finally she was before his throne, dancing for him and him alone. She danced for a moment that seemed to last forever. Then she vanished once more from his sight.
Sesshomaru felt his eyes widen in shock. How had she done that? He hadn't sensed a flair of yoki or any spirit power. She had just… disappeared.
Over the next few centuries Sesshomaru saw her nearly every day. She became a normal part of his life. He never spoke of her to anyone and she never appeared when anyone else was around again. Slowly as the years passed, he found he could finally hear her and smell her scent. For the most part he heard her sing strange songs in a tongue he didn't understand. He often found himself studying her when she was there and missing her presence when she was absent.
She was perhaps half a foot shorter than his six feet with hair the color of rose gold and eyes the color of the sea. She smelled like white jasmine and rosemary. She bore no yokai markings that he could see, leading him to believe her human. Surprisingly, he could find no disdain for her in his heart or mind. She was special. He couldn't say why she was special, she simply was.
Then one day as suddenly as she had first begun appearing, she vanished once again from his life.
Sesshomaru's mood grew foul. He found himself sorely missing her presence, voice and scent. Especially her nonsense songs. Never one to deny himself that which he desired, he began searching for her. But his efforts were interrupted by the West's war with the dragon clans led by Ryukotsusei. As Sesshomaru defended his father's castle, his father battled the dragon lord alone before rushing to defend his human female and hanyou son.
After his father's death, Sesshomaru found himself Lord of the West with a mother who was most insistent that he find a mate.
So he took to wandering Japan. He completed his duties regularly, returning to the castle for a night of work then escaping back to the wild. But his main objective, his secret objective, was to find his mate. For that was clearly who she was meant to be. And he would have no other.
And so Sesshomaru searched.
