: Started: April 22 2006 :
: Finished: April 22 2006 :
Sesshoumaru walked into an abandoned village, there was blood all over and a single girl was staring at the scene with wide eyes of shock. She was untouched by the blood so she couldn't have done it.
"Who are you?" Jaken's voice asked the girl.
"My name's Aki. Though why I'm here, how I came to be here, or anything else is lost." She said with an emotionless voice.
"Do you remember anything besides your name?" Jaken asked.
"No, who are you?" Aki asked.
"This is Lord Sesshoumaru of the Western Lands." Jaken answered. "You should address him as such as well." Jaken added.
"No offence intended." Aki turned and walked away to the other end of town, while Sesshoumaru turned the other way.
"We're leaving Jaken." Sesshoumaru said.
"Doesn't seem strange, Milord, that a demon doesn't remember who she is?" Jaken asked.
"It does. We're going to see an old friend who might know something about her." Sesshoumaru added. Jaken nodded and they walked in silence.
It's not normal for a demon to loose their memories…it's practically unheard of! Jaken thought. He had read several archives that said one demon lost their memories because they had taken a MAJOR hit to the head while in battle, other than that one he had never heard of it, much less met a demon without their memories. Soon Sesshoumaru was walking into the woods, and not bothering with the trails, since where he was going there were none.
"Are we going to see Bokusen'o?" Jaken asked. Sesshoumaru simply nodded. "Milord, Rin is going to start worrying because we're not back yet, don't you think we should go back just for a little while?" Sesshoumaru kicked him in the head and continued to walk on. "You're right." Jaken muttered.
"Ah…Sesshoumaru." Bokusen'o said. "What have you come for this time?"
"I want to know how a demon could loose their memories." Sesshoumaru said.
"Hmm…it's not very common as you know, a possible way is that they hit their head extremely hard on something hard. Another way is that someone's suppressed them so that they can only be accessed if the person who closed them off comes and takes the spell off." Sesshoumaru nodded and turned away. Jaken followed his lord back to the village.
"Why are we here?" Jaken asked.
"Quiet Jaken." Sesshoumaru said. Jaken closed him mouth and clamped on of his tiny hands over it, for he did not want to displease his lord.
"Back again?" the girl's voice asked.
"Yes." Sesshoumaru said dully.
"May I ask why, Sesshoumaru?"
"No. Come with me." Sesshoumaru added. Aki hopped down off the building she was standing on and landed 5 feet in front of him. Jaken looked at the girl and then back at Sesshoumaru.
"Why is she coming with us?" Jaken asked. Sesshoumaru kicked Jaken again and walked off with Aki following behind, eyes on the ground not looking up to see where Sesshoumaru was going. Now that Jaken looked she had dark blue hair that looked as if it was black and she had the same color eyes that showed nothing, much like Sesshoumaru's mask that he wore so no one knew what he was thinking or feeling.
"Where are we going?" Aki asked, Sesshoumaru didn't answer. "I asked you a question, Sesshoumaru, and I'd appreciate it if you would answer it."
"To my lands." Sesshoumaru answered dully, he didn't like the tone she used with him and if she used it again he was going to show her that he didn't like it. After a while of walking in silence Jaken spoke to Aki.
"You should be grateful to Lord Sesshoumaru for bringing you to his castle." Jaken said.
"I never said I wasn't, toad boy." Aki said with a smirk.
"I am not a toad! I am an imp!" Jaken yelled, Aki noticed the scent of water on the other side of the trail, she grabbed Jaken and threw him in.
"If you can't swim then you're a toad, they'd rather hop." Aki said as Jaken struggled to stay above the water, Aki pulled him out and shook him dry and she walked.
"Don't do that again!" Jaken yelled.
"I'll do what I want to." Aki growled at him. "I don't like being told what to do by someone who's lower on the food chain than myself." Aki added. She did have a point though, he was lower on the food chain than her.
"Jaken, make camp." Sesshoumaru said in a dull voice.
"Oh! I'll make the fire!" Aki said. She grabbed plenty of dry branches and laid them in a pattern so they'd ignite faster, then she put her hand on one of the branches and it ignited.
"How'd you do that?" Jaken asked.
"I dunno, I just did. I've always been able to do it…that much I know." Aki added.
Hmm… Sesshoumaru thought. She has more mysteries to herself then most people. Sesshoumaru walked into the woods to get food for Jaken since he was always hungry. He came back with a deer, it was easy game.
"That looks yummy." Aki muttered. She tore off a leg and held it over the fire, after it was done she took a bit, "Mmm…." She said. Soon the leg was gone and she was stuffed. "I'm a better cook than I thought." Aki said with a grin as she found a place to sleep. Jaken moved away from her for fear that if he fel asleep before her she would drown him in a puddle, or whatever source of water she could find. Soon Aki was snoring lightly, Jaken was the next one to sleep, Sesshoumaru drifted off into his thoughts waiting for daylight to come. He didn't know if but he had drifted off. Before dawn Aki got up and walked around, finding something to do since she was bored.
Isn't there anything to do around here! I mean this is the forest. Aki thought as she walked around. Under some brush something glinted at her.
"Huh…what's this?" she asked. Aki bent down and picked it up, it was covered with dirt and decay from the trees and dead plants that had fallen over it while it lie in wait of a traveler to come and pick it up. "It's an incredibly long sword." Aki said. She sniffed for a stream, it wasn't that far from where she was so she walked over to it and started cleaning it. "Ow!" she said, it's blade was still sharp. She washed her cut and then continued to clean the blade, staying away from the sharp edge.
"What're you doing?" Sesshoumaru asked. Aki jumped and looked up.
"I found a sword in the brush and I was cleaning it, the blades still sharp." Aki added as she held up the palm of her hand, it was still bleeding.
"Clumsy." Sesshoumaru muttered. He took the sword from her and looked at it. He realized who this sword used to belong to. "Where'd you find this?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"I'll show you." Aki got up and walked to where she found the blade. Sesshoumaru looked around and then he found it. It was a skeleton of a great lord. It was the lord of the North. "Who's that?"
"It was the lord of the North, he went missing years ago, leaving his wife to take after the lands. Now their son is ruling. We're taking this sword to them to signify that he's dead. Rin will wait." Sesshoumaru said. "Go wake Jaken." Sesshoumaru said. Aki nodded and walked into the clearing where Jaken was left sleeping.
"Jaken!" Aki yelled, starling Jaken awake.
"What wench!" Jaken growled. Aki kicked him in the head, throwing him across the clearing into the wall.
"Don't call me that." Aki growled. "Call me 'wench' again and the last thing you'll see is my claws going through your head." Aki spat out. Her claws extended showing that she was serious. Jaken nodded and got up. She lead him to Sesshoumaru. He dark glare towards Jaken was a fierce one.
"Yes Lord Sesshoumaru?" Jaken asked.
"We're going to the North." Sesshoumaru said. Jaken nodded. "You're going to go back." Sesshoumaru added.
"But Milord, don't you think that I should go?" Jaken asked.
"Are you questioning your lord?" Aki asked with an evil grin on her face.
"N-no!" Jaken said, he ran away towards Sesshoumaru's castle. Aki and Sesshoumaru walked towards the North, in silence. It didn't take them long to get there, since Sesshoumaru had called his cloud and they flew off to the Northern castle. Sesshoumaru and Aki walked up to the gates.
"What business do you have here?" a guard asked.
"We've come to give something to the lord of this land, it's rightfully his." Sesshoumaru added, holding up the previous lords sword. They nodded and opened the gates.
"Big place they have." Aki said as she looked around, she didn't seem surprised. They were lead into the entrance hall where the lord sat, waiting to greet his guests.
"What do I owe the pleasure, Sesshoumaru?" he asked.
"This," Sesshoumaru held up the sword. "is rightfully yours." His eyes widened as he ran over.
"My father's…dead?"
"Yes, I'm sorry." Aki said for Sesshoumaru. "I was the one who found the sword, gave me a cut to." Aki added.
"Yes, there was a spell put on the sword to make sure it's blade never dulled, it is a tradition for the lords of this land to get the spell put on."
"Well, the spell works!" Aki said with a smile. "Oh, the name's Aki by the way." Aki introduced herself with a bow.
"Sakiuma." He said.
"Here." Sesshoumaru handed the sword to him. "It's yours." Sesshoumaru added as he turned to leave.
"I don't want it, I've found what I've been wanting to know for the last 50 years. You keep it." Sakiuma said as he handed the sword to Aki.
"Wow but are you sure? I mean I was your fathers, don't you think you should put it in a shrine?" Aki asked.
"I insist. Please, take it." Aki nodded and took it, careful to stay away from the sharp part. She made it disappear. "What'd you do?" Sakiuma asked.
"I put it in a place that only I can get to so that no one may steal it." Aki answered. "It's the least I could do since it once belonged to a lord." Sakiuma smiled and turned to Sesshoumaru.
"She's one to keep." Aki blushed.
"She's not to be my lady." Sesshoumaru growled, there was a slight pink on his cheeks.
"Oh, sorry then." Sakiuma said. Sesshoumaru nodded and walked to the door, Aki followed.
"Well, that was interesting, don't you think?" she asked.
"No. Something's not right, no son of a lord would give their fathers sword away, that's why I have this." Sesshoumaru said.
"Have what?" Sesshoumaru pulled Tenseiga out of it's sheath. "Oh, that sword. Well you have two so it's kinda hard to figure out you know." Aki said. Sesshoumaru ignored her.
"What do you want?" Sesshoumaru asked a group of guards that were blocking their way.
"We've been banished by a false lord. We want the sword she was given." They answered.
"I was given it. I will not give something that belonged to a lord away simply because you say that it's a false lord who gave it to me." Aki growled.
"Then we'll take it by force." They all drew their weapons and started attacking Aki, leaving Sesshoumaru to watch.
"Then you're never going to get it because it's in a place that only I know about!" Aki growled as she cut through several demons with one swing of her claws, she moved out of the way of the blood path. Sesshoumaru's eyes momentarily widened. It took years of practice to move out of the way of the blood.
Many more mysteries that normal. Sesshoumaru thought.
"Leave!" Aki growled as she cut through more of the demons. Soon there were none standing and Aki only had blood on her claws from the people she killed. "Idiots." She spat on the generals head.
"You've many mysteries to you." Sesshoumaru said. Aki looked over.
"Why do you say that?" she asked.
"You can start a fire with only your hand, you can move out of the path of the blood from multiple opponents and you don't have any memories from anything, and demons don't loose their memories often." Sesshoumaru explained.
"Well if I knew why I could do any of that, I'd tell you." Aki said. "Now are we going or what? I don't wanna be here when more people come to see what happened." Aki added. Sesshoumaru nodded and they left. They continued walking to the west.
"Well be at the junction of my lands and these lands soon." Sesshoumaru said an hour later, Aki was looking behind them.
"There's someone who's been following us for quiet some time." Aki said.
"I know. It's Naraku, or one of Naraku's shades." Sesshoumaru said.
"Who're they?" Aki asked.
"You'll find out soon enough." Sesshoumaru answered, Aki nodded and they kept walking until they were in Sesshoumaru's lands where he turned to face who ever it was that was following him. "Come out." Sesshoumaru growled, a man in a monkey pelt stepped out of the shadows.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, you and I have not finished our battle." Naraku said.
"He's a monkey!" Aki said as she burst out laughing, Sesshoumaru ignored her.
"You travel with odd people." Naraku said.
"If we're going to finish, let's." Sesshoumaru said as he drew Tokijin. Naraku shed his baboon pelt. Aki stopped laughing, her eyes wide.
"Come to me, my shade." Naraku said to Aki.
"No!" Aki growled. "I'll never go back to you! I do as I choose! I've even found a way to shed myself from your disgusting smell!" Aki added. "Now I remember who Naraku is. The person who created me."
"Heheheheheh, you'd do better to come back to me now, rather then I force you to." Naraku said.
"I will never!" Aki growled as Naraku burst into flame. "The autumn has the most fires, hence I have the power of fire." Aki said to Sesshoumaru, instead of dark blue hair and eyes they both were the color of fire.
"Wench!" Naraku growled. Aki glared at him as the fire increased in heat. Suddenly the wind changed and blew the fire out.
"As much as I'd like to see Naraku die he still holds his heart in my hands, he made a mistake giving you yours, thinking that you'd kill all who you met." Kagura said. Sesshoumaru watched the 'sisters' exchange words.
"When were you created?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"About 3 months ago, though he used another's body and infused my soul and my heart into it. That's why I have dark hair and dark eyes, when they're supposed to be dark red." Aki answered.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, this is not over." Naraku said to Sesshoumaru, he turned to Aki. "I will have you back my shade. Kagura, stay here and fight her, I want to evaluate the strength of her heart." Naraku added to Kagura.
"Sesshoumaru, this fight is between me and my sister." Kagura said. Sesshoumaru put his sword away and stepped away from the women.
"I'll make a deal with you." Aki said. "If I win it means that I kill you so you don't have to deal with Naraku, and if I loose you kill me." Aki said.
"Deal." Kagura agreed. Aki smiled and she created a sword of flame. Kagura put her fan away and made a similar one of air.
"And also, no hard feelings." Aki said as she ran at Kagura.
"Yes." Kagura agreed, as she felt Aki's sword across her arm, she was faster than Kagura had anticipated.
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Oddone: This is for a friend of mine, she's on FanFic. And I thought I'd make her this since she LOVES Sesshoumaru.
Aki: YAY! I'm happy now! But you do know that I still have a while for my B-Day right?
Oddone: Yeah well, I wanna have this done by your birthday so I'm starting it now.
Aki: Oh! She doesn't own InuYasha. But we're both plotting to find a way to own it!
Oddone: Correction YOU are.
Aki innocent smile Ok, ya go me there.
Oddone: Anyways please review, I'd appreciate it!
Aki: BYE BYE!