Inuyasha crossover Saiunkoku Monogatari

Chapter 1: Recuperation

When he opened his eyes, the smell of bamboo waft through the air as he groggily looked at his surroundings. At first it was blurry, until his eyes started to focus on a bamboo table not too far from where he is lying.

Searching through his memories, there is really not much that he could remember after he had blacked out from the poison that he had taken. Though in recent memories he could remember hearing a female voice, one that does not belong to Shuurei.

"What a shroud of darkness you have about of you," a female voice said as she reached out to touch the side of the handsome man's face.

Returning his attention to the bamboo thatched roof as the smell of herbs and various other things waft through to air, it was an unfamiliar place to him, this house. Was it perhaps an enemy that had thought to make use of him to gain advantage, or was it a place in hell that he does not know of.

"You've been asleep for nearly 7 days," a female said from behind him as he tried getting up and turned his head in her direction sharply, only to feel nausea and a throbbing headache as bile rose to his mouth.

A spittoon was immediately brought to his mouth as a small and petite hand patted his back to help ease off the pain that he was feeling as he vomited out clear liquid mixed with the color of black and red blood. He was not dead, that is for sure, for if he were, Sakujun was sure that hell would not be as kind as to allow him this situation, but perhaps something much worse.

"Your medicine is about ready, it is to help nourish and get rid of the poison in your system," the girl with black hair told him as he felt a wet cloth was being used to wipe the sweat from his face.

"Just who is this girl and why had she saved me," Sakujun thought as he accepted a dry piece of cloth to wipe his mouth with.

She is a young girl, perhaps about the same age of Kou Shuurei with black hair that is tied up into a pony by a simple white piece of cloth. Her eyes they were the color of hazel, warm brown with the hints of red that reminds him of a hot bowl of red bean soup. The thought of that dish, once again brought the bile up to his mouth as he hurriedly reach for the spittoon once again to vomit into it.

"Rest, there is still some poison left in your body that have yet to be cleansed, I will wake you up when the medicine is ready for you," the girl told him as she took the spittoon away from him once he was done, as she helped he slide back into bed to rest.

This place it was not exactly the top of luxury, but to be able to survive with his life in tact, there is much for him to accomplish later once he has recovered, and this place, he might just let it slip by him and allow her to survive if that is the case. His eyes closed to rest, but felt a cold dry towel was used to clean his face gently again as he heard the sound of it being washed in a container, before the towel was placed upon his forehead and the sound of rustling fabric with the shuffle of feet left the room again.

Kagome nursed the male back to health soon enough, but hesitated at times when giving him the medication that Sakujun could see, was there perhaps another poison in the medicine, but to say 'to fight poison with poison', it was the best of solution, but there are other worries as to what poison was it that she had created to allow him to survive through this odd chance of living again.

"Rest, I will bring you some easy to stomach food for you to nourish your body," the girl told him as she left the room again, leaving him to rest alone.

There is something odd about the girl that was tending to him, the way that she speaks is with an odd accent, even more so was the way that her eyes would always look so dead, but when he looked into them, there are a few emotion that he saw that left a cold thrill in him. And even more odd about her was also the food that he would be given, though it may look like congee, the fragrance that comes from it was something out of this world.

"This Bird's Nest with Snow Lotus congee, will do your body a great deal of good," she told him, the taste of it was something that he had never once tasted before, even if he had eaten something similar to this.

Sakujun observed her for over a period of time when he is clearly awake, the oddness that he felt in her was something that he could not exactly explain himself, but it made her look ethereal, like a fairy from the Celestial Court. Silently reprimanding himself in his mind, Sakujun closed his eyes and concentrated on getting himself better.

Kagome had revived him with the help of her Teacher who endowed her with the knowledge and had nursed him back to health. Sitting on a swing hung on weeping cherry blossom tree, she leaned back on the backing of the seat swing in which she had created as she watched the calm serene lake ripple with the touch of dragonflies as they dance and hovered above the water.

It was really a picture perfect scene, and it brought her much peace in her soul as she let her mind cleared off and silently took in the nature around her. Sakujun came upon her in that manner as he looked at the curious structure of the swing, He neither approached her nor say anything, but stood at a far off safe distance as he watches her with curious eyes that did not understand as to why she saved him. Though either way it is good, he needed a place to recuperate and with the medical attention that she is providing him with, there is not much things in which he would need to worry about and could think of his next move whilst healing.

He had noticed through his duration, all the herbs and food that he was given, they are all priceless and rare to find, even the structure of her garden, a pool of crystal lotus, lay growing there, with carps that he had never seen before, shining brightly beneath the sun and moon as they glimmer like precious jewels.

There is too much here that leaves him interested for the time being to leave even, and more especially how she had come about to possess all these to the point to use them freely as though they are like grass or weeds growing along the road side.

Though one thing that bothered him is that before he had blackout from the poison that he had allowed Shuurei to give him, a voice had resounded in his head. And now he could not feel that presence or that it had ever existed, like it was all perhaps just an illusion of the drug that he had taken. And then again, the poison that he had taken there should not be many who would be able to get rid of, but this woman before him is able to do it, and seemingly easily too.

A/N:

Hello
A bit of another diversion, since this has been something that I wanted to try as well. Not sure how many of you out there have heard of this series, but I hope that you enjoy this crossover.