I own nothing, I had an idea while watching one of the episodes.
Although I did add in a character.
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!"
"What?"
"There's a wounded lady here… She's really hurt."
"Oh, that's a horrible wound!"
"Her eyes are moving!"
"Fuck that, she's bleeding to death, do something!"
The woman lying beneath them fluttered her eyes open slowly to see who was making such a horrible rucus. The headache along with the pain surgeing through her whole body was almost unbearable.
"Lady, what's happened to you?" A man in purple asks with wide eyes.
"N-Nar-"
"-Naraku?" The two women asked, eyes almost popped out of their faces.
"No, matter, we need t-" her eyes closed shut, and everything went silent, and painless.
When she awake again, she was lying inside an odd form of blankets infront of a campfire. She blinked multiple times trying to remember what happened.
She was traveling through the woods, shortly after escaping a mob of villagers along with preistesses who wanted to destroy the demon race. It didn't help that she was a hanyo, they dispized her even more… Upon which she stumbled on a little girl with the whitest complexion, and the darkest eyes, accomponied with a man who nearly made her want to vomit. His stench was horrible.
"Join us." He hisses trying to coax her. The little girl stood, motionless.
"Who are you?"
"My my, Cardelia chan, a little demanding, aren't we?" the sarcasm and spite in his voice was like venom being injected straight into her veins. For some reason she was just agitated with his presence. She wanted nothing to do with him. As soon as the thought had finished being made, she was bombarded with glass and tiny little glass people holding her down as they cut through her, and the man revealed himself as Naraku. Offered his proposition once more… She was so pathetic! She didn't even last 5 minutes!
"Your awake!" A voice made her shoot her eyes towards the owner of it. "Sorry if I startled you," her voice was soft, friendly. Cardelia smiled, "No, I should be sorry. I'm imposing."
"No, No, really. It's okay. We were stopping here today anyway. And we love meeting new people." She sat down beside her on the grass. The girl's outfit was rather strange, though. It was very short, and seemed so strange… Nothing she'd ever seen before.
"Oh, my name's Kagome. Sorry, I should have introduced myself sooner." She smiled again.
"I'm Cardelia."
"That's really pretty. What does it mean?" Kagome asked.
"Um... Cardelia, means either jewel of the sea, or warm hearted. Depends on the contexts, really."
"It doesn't sound japanese." Kagome thought out loud as another women and two small demons followed behind. One a fox child, and another a fox cat, perhaps?
"It's not. My father was a dog demon, and my mother was a human, from ireland? It's over seas."
"And your father was japanese?" The other woman asked. Cardelia nodded.
"You're a hanyo then, right?" Kagome asked. Cardelia nodded slowly, afraid of her new found haven to turn out awful, just like everytime she opened up to someone.
"Just like Inuyasha!" the little fluffy creature squeeled.
Cardelia sat up as the introductions began to wave through her, and the men joined the group. Her long black hair was moving against the wind, and she quickly grabbed it to keep it from her face.
"Like who, exaclty, little one?" Her voice was soft, but scared although you couldn't really tell. She was very good at hiding how she felt. Growing up, it was one of the things the people closest to her held against her.
"Like Inuyasha, he's the one in the red, beside him is Miroku, he's a monk. I'm shippo. This is Kirara. That's Kagome, and this is Sango." Everyone smiled.
"And this is Cardelia." Kagome finished.
"Thank you for helping me. Your all very kind. I'm sorry if I've put you through any trouble. I'll be out of your way, now."
"No, No, stay." Kagome smiled, "Your not in our way at all."
"You said something about Naraku?" Inuyasha says, ears twitching. She had a pair of ears like his too. But she usually hid them away, tucked under her raven black hair.
"Yes, h-he was the one who attacked me in the woods."
"What were you doing there? If you don't mind me asking. You don't look like from around here." Miroku asks. Cardelia nods, "I was running away, from my village, I guess, and I ran into Naraku with a small girl."
"Why were you running away? Your Hanyo are you not?"
Cardelia fidgeted with her hands, "T-they, they were doing, a form of ethnic cleansing. They got sick of all the attacks in the village, and blamed all the demons living there. My mother, said that I was one of the main demons who went out killing people. That's all it took for the havoc to unravel. They killed all my friends, all my demon cousins. My best friend died for trying to help me. And, I-I ju-" stray tears swiftly flew down her cheeks. Kagome hugged her, soothing her, letting her cry into her shoulder.
Cardelia had never received such kindess from anyone before, she didn't know how to react. She sat stiff, letting the tears flow out.
Suddenly inuyasha sniffed the air, groaning.
"HANYO!!" a loud, husky voice barked.
Cardelia's ears popped out of her hair without her notice, and she went into a defensive mode.
"Sesshomaru." Inuyasha sighed.
"Draw your sword-" Sesshomaru stopped mid-sentence. Noticing the girl sitting with Inuyasha's friends.
"Who are you?" The voice asked targetted to her.
"Cardelia, we found her today. Naraku attacked her."
"Hn" he walked past Inuyasha, past kagome and to Cardelia. Everyone watched silenty unknowing of what to do.
"Your very weak now, aren't you? You are hanyo too?" Sesshomaru took a shameless glance to her ears. Cardelia's eyes were glazed over, unknowing of what to expect.
"I am. What of it?" Sesshomaru smiled. Causeing some green demon to start screaming, only to be jabbed by a little girl, riding a two headed demon.
"Nothing, there's just not many of you." His smile still hadn't faded.
"Jaken, get Rin and Kohaku comfortable, we're staying with Inuyasha tonight."
"KEH? What?"
"Didn't you hear me? I said we were staying with you tonight. Is there a problem, Inuyasha?"
Sesshomaru's eyes stiled and hardend towards his brother. Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Fine, what do I care. Just stay out of my way, or I'll-"
"I'm sesshomaru. You'll have to excuse my incompetent brother." Cardelia giggled as the two brothers began bickering. Everyone else seemed a bit exasperated.
"Inuyasha, come, lets get some fire wood,"
"We'll go get some fish for food, Rin, you wanna come along?"
The two were left alone, but cardelia was feeling rather rude, she didn't know this man's name. And here he was, staring into her eyes, half smiling. "What's your name?" She asked, not bothering to beat around the bush.
"Sesshomaru. I'm Inuyasha's older half brother." She nodded. This was a lot to take right now. There were many of them. But there was something about this Sesshomaru character, he was different. She could feel it. "Oh!" she quickly tucked her ears away, realizing that that was how he knew what she was.
Sesshomaru watched this action with an amused expression splayed across his face.
In the morning Kagome explained that they always traveled around in groups, and that Cardelia was more than welcome to join them. "Please come with us, we're all going the same way after all"
"I- I couldn't-"
"I don't want to sound rude, miss Cardelia, but where else will you go?" Sango asks. "Please come with us." Cardelia was helping the girls pack up, and they were trying to get her to come along.
"we're just a group of friends, working together towards our one goal of defeating Naraku, we could use your help-" Cardelia's thoughts came to a sudden hault. Friends? They want to be my friend? Me? A mut of a Hanyo? My friend?
"W-why?" She whispered, shaken. "Why do you want to be my friend? What have I ever done for you-"
"Nothing Cardelia, I just know, you're a good person." Kagome smiled again, a warm welcoming smile. Sango matched the warmth, "And we'd love to be your friend because we know you'll be a good one. It's a form of extreme selfishness." Sango let out a light hearted laugh. Cardelia found herself smiling back.
"Uh-oh, don't look now, but looks like someone just can't keep their eyes off of you, Miss Cardelia." Cardelia turned around, and found herself looking into a pair of luxurious golden eyes. His gaze didn't falter, he watched her trace the gaze back to him. But he didn't care. He was shameless.
Cardelia blushed and turned around quickly. His gaze was too much. His eyes seemed to burn her whole being, and shook it with a firey passion that was beginning to light inside her. "Don't be silly," she breathed, "we don't even know eachother."
She walked past the girls and towards the pond to wash up. Shippo skipped over to her.
"Hello."
"Hello little one." She smiled.
"Are you coming with us?"
"I, erm, I-"
"-Yes, she is." She looked up, and found herself staring up at sesshomaru again.
"Oh yay!" shippo scampers off.
Cardelia stood up slowly. Sesshomaru stares at her again, but then noticing her discomfort from the silence, he decided to break it. "You must come. Inuyasha told me the predicament you are in, you can't be left alone, it's better people like us, travel in packs." And with that, he walked away.
Cardelia stood dumbfounded. She didn't know how long, but when the monk Miroku walked up to her, he grinned at her. "He's not usually like this. None of us know how to react. But it's a good thing. And we'd all love to have you come along with us." He smiled at her warmly.
They were all so nice. Cardelia really didn't know how to act with them. "Thank you. I, I think I will come with you all. After all, I've nowhere else to go." He smiled nodding.
When they begun their journey, Sesshomaru's group walked alongside her, because sesshomaru was behind her, and apparently, he'd prefer to have the two humans and green demon infront of him, so that they not in any danger.
"Cardelia-sama?"
"Oh, yes?"
"I'm Rin, this is Kohaku, he's Sango's little brother. This idiot here, is Jaken"
"Rin-chan! I'm not an idi-"
"Yes you are." The boy grinned smacking him upside the head.
"Ohhhh…. You two are way too much!"
Cardelia laughed lightly, watching the uttermost innocence in the group. She liked it.
"Cardelia-sama?" Rin started again.
"You can just call me Cardelia. The whole sama, chan, kun thing I'm not very used to. So you can just call me by my name." Rin's face lit up, and she nodded energetically.
She begun talking about sweet nothings. Flowers that we walked past, what kind she liked, what kind Cardelia preferred, what fruits she saw, what fruits she liked, what fruits cardelia liked. She talked and talked and talked untill sesshomaru walked alongside Cardelia. "Rin, give her a break. Your talking up a storm."
"Sorry. It's just nice to have another girl around. I'm sick of being the only girl, and Cardelia is just so nice!"
Cardelia smiled at the compliment. But she really was getting rather exhausted from the little girl's questions. She liked Rin, but she was draining her energy.
Sesshomaru ordered the two headed demon to fly faster, so that Sesshomaru and Cardelia were now trailing behind them.
"Please excuse Rin, when she's excited she really can't controll it."
"It's alright. I don't mind at all. She reminds me of my little sister."
"Oh, where is she?"
"Th-the villagers killed her." Sesshomaru mentally slapped himself.
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"That's alright. It's not your fault." Cardelia forced a smile.
Sesshomaru tilts his head, she was so… So different. Something about her drew him near her. Pulled something out of him, to her. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't bypass it all.
He didn't know what to say now, it was akward now. He beat himself up again mentally.
"Do you always call your brother 'Hanyo'?"
"Hmn?"
"Inuyasha, do you always call him Hanyo?" She repeated herself. Sesshomaru had heard her, just didn't know how to reply to this. She was a hanyo too, he could tell. She smelled like one.
"Kind of. I mean, I've grown accustomed to it." Cardelia nodded slowly.
"Do you take offense to it?" Their eyes met for a moment, and he could tell that she was hurt by it. "I see."
"HANYO!" Cardelia stiffened. She hadn't noticed how far away they had lagged behind the group. Sesshomaru seemed to have just noticed aswell.
"Where do you think your going? We're not through with you! You cannot run away from us!"
Cardelia drew her sword, "Go away! I don't want to see you!"
Laughter surrounded them, and then they finally showed themselves. Cardelia nearly shook with renewed anger. Lina lunged toward her, only to be sliced in half in a split second. Cardelia's eyes nearly bulged out of her eyes. "Don't you dare come anywhere near her, I'll rip all of you apart."
Lina's body fell to the floor and the rest of the villagers stared "DEMON! IT'S A FULL FLEDGED DEMON!"
"hahah, so you couldn't fend for yourself, and you went out to find yourself a real demon. How brave, Cardelia. Your just like your father; Weak."
"DON'T YOU SPEAK OF MY FATHER! YOU DON'T KNOW HIM!"
"Know him? Why Would anyone have to know him, to know how much of a failure he was? I mean, falling in love with a human, producing HANYOS?" A cackled rippled though, and she noticed that the laugh was so inhumane… She smelled – "Naraku" Sesshomaru hissed.
"Well, hello to you too, Sesshomaru." Cardelia recognized the voice immedeatly and instinctively stepped closer to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru glanced at her, her eyes were aflame. Half in fear, half in anger. "What do you want?" Sesshomaru asked, unmoved.
"Nothing from you, just Cardelia's assistance. I asked her so nicely, but she preferred to fight, and being as weak as she was, and still is…. She wasn't much of a fight." Sesshomaru took a glance around them. They were surrounded by Naraku's stupid henchmen. All villagers. Weak, pathetic, humans. Sesshomaru wouldn't even have to draw his sword to get rid of them… Just a flick of his fingers… "Shut up, Naraku. She doesn't want to help you." And with that, he whipped his hand and slaughtered them all. Naraku laughed, slowly dissapearing. The voice becoming fainter and fainter as time passed.
They caught up to the rest of the group in silence.
Cardelia felt miserable, and weak. Mentally and physically. She'd had to be rescued again.
But Lina was her sister. She new there was something wrong… She had seen Lina killed right in front of her eyes. Naraku was such a foul player, Cardelia's heart ached, and she couldn't conrtol the tears spilling through her. Sesshomaru noticed, but didn't know how to console her.
He hadn't ever really consoled anyone before. "C-Cardelia?" She sniffled in response bending her head further so that her hair fell over her face, creating a barrier.
Sesshomaru wasn't hurt at all by this, just more determined to tear that barrier apart.
He stopped, standing in front of Cardelia. She rammed straight into his chest. Apologizing immedeatly. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I, I hadn't noticed- I'm sorry" she cut herself off, unable to speak clearly. "It's okay." He whispered, aware of the pairs of eyes watching them, but he really could care less. "Cadelia,"
She looked up slowly, frantically trying to push the tears away with her hands. He smiled down at her, full of warmth, and admiration, fused with sorrow. He caught her face between his hands, "It's alright to feel weak sometimes. It's alright to seek help, it's alright. Everything is going to be fine. We'll avenge their deaths. I promise. And nothing will happen to you. I won't allow it. I'll protect you untill the day I'm dragged down to hell. Understand?" cardelia stared at him. His golden eyes were glowing with warmth, and something else she couldn't really figure out. "Understand?" He repeated, noticing that he was loosing her attention. She nodded slowly.
That night, when everyone was asleep, the guys were talking to Sesshomaru.
who wasn't being rude, he seemed to have left his guard down. Miroku and Inuyasha exchanged silent confused looks. "Hey, sesshomaru?"
"Hmmn?"
"Are you feeling okay? You seemed a bit aloof today."
"Aloof?"
"Yeah, like, totally not like you." Sesshomaru sighed.
"It's difficult to explain." Sesshomaru closed his eyes, trying to gain his composure which he'd obviously lost. When he opened his eyes, the two men watched, and waited patiently for an explanation. "She's hanyo, right? I'm full demon. There's this thing, that demons can't control, they're somewhat like soul-mates. They bring the best out of you, make you feel like your worth something, without even trying, or knowing that your doing it. It's a special bond that, we can't really control. And, I-I think she's my soul mate."
The shock of it all almost made the two double over in laugh. They waited, watching to make sure that sesshomaru wasn't jokeing. "But she's hanyo." Inuyasha pointed out.
"Yes, she is. She's part demon. The pull isn't that strong on her, but it exists. She knows its there, just doesn't know what to do with it, or why its there. I know what signs to look for, what to expect, she's no idea. Just like you have no idea."
"HEY!" Sesshomaru shrugged indifferently at Inuyasha. Stealing a quick glance at Cadelia's sleeping body.
"Wait a second, does this happen with everyone?" Sesshomaru nodded.
"So, she's she's your?"
"Yes, will you please keep up?"
"What do you plan on doing?"
"Right now? Nothing. I don't want to rush her into it. And plus, this culture is all new to her. I'll have to do the old fashioned swooning and flirting, and all that."
"is that a grin I see?" Miroku asked, baffled. Sesshomaru's grin got wider, almost to the point where it was scarey. "Okay, stop that," Sesshomaru laughed.
Everyone stilled. Waiting for it to pass. No one new what to do.
Jaken was sweating bowling balls, and Rin's little voice seemed to giggle little rainbows in the night sky. But all the adults where scared shitless.
Once sesshomaru was finally asleep. His dreams were plagued by Cardelia. Yet another sign of a soul mate. He tried to force himself awake, but he couldn't.
He didn't want to scare her off. He wanted to earn her. Have her by his side.
He needed her, he wanted her, and he knew he was destined to have her. But the question was, would she have him?
First fan-fic.
sorry if its no good, but i'm open for any suggestions! i'll put up part two as soon as i figure the rest of it out. i just needed to start the idea before it went to waste.
Thank you!
