Based On: InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Disclaimer: I am a fan of InuYasha. I do not own this manga/anime or it's characters.

Spoilers: none

POV: Rin

Character Appearances: Rin, Sesshomaru, Jaken, others, Ginkotsu mentioned/not seen

Summary: Sesshomaru is injured, Rin must find help.

Author's Notes: Set after Kagura abducted and Kohaku tried to kill Rin, but before the appearance of The Band of Seven. No idea how many chapters this will be. Enjoy! EK

The Demon Whom No One Loved

Chapter One:

The Burning Village

The explosion ripped through the village. Clouds of black smoke filled the air. The village had been the home of many weapon smiths. Samurai often came here to buy weapons. Lately they had come here seeking the new fangled invention: the rifle. With demand for rifles growing, more and more weapon smiths began building them. Nearly every house in the village had a store of gun powder. It seemed logical. The villagers all wanted in on this business venture, but most had not the means or ability to build weapons. Gun powder on the other hand was quite simple to make once they had learned how, and the samurai needed to keep buying it after they had purchased the rifles. The villagers had big dreams of the wealth that would soon be theirs. Rin stood on the hill and watched in horror as those dreams went up in smoke. She knew nothing of the dreams of the villagers, nor did she know anything about guns and explosives. The only thing Rin knew was that her Lord had only moments earlier gone down into that village, sensing that Kohaku was there.

Rin stood beside Ah and Un and watched and waited. She heard a loud clattering noise in the valley. It was the sound of Ginkotsu leaving the village. Just one more village blown up in his path of destruction. The little girl had no way of knowing this though. Explosion after explosion went off throughout the village as the chain reaction of the first explosion, set other houses on fire. In a matter of minutes every house that had stored gunpowder in it was now engulfed in flames as was every other house in the village. Rin watched as the fires continued to burn throughout the rest of the day.

The moon was rising over head. The flames in the village below were dieing down and wefts of black smoke swirled up high into the sky above. Rin sat beside Ah and Un, still watching and waiting, but now worrying as well. Her Lord Sesshomaru and Master Jaken had yet to return. They had been gone all day. Lord Sesshomaru had instructed her to wait here, and she was waiting here as patiently as could be expected of an eight year old girl, but it was boring waiting here on this hill, where there were no flowers for her to pick, only craggy rock outcroppings. Besides being bored, however, she was becoming increasingly worried.

"I wonder what happened to the village?" she said to Ah and Un. From here she could see the roof tops of the village hidden in the trees in the valley below, but she could not clearly see into the village. She could remember it though. They had walked through it earlier that morning. It was than that her Lord had sensed Kohaku's presence and took Rin out of the village and hid her on this cliff. He had than returned to the village, with Jaken scampering after him. But now, Rin could see nothing but black smoke. Both the roof tops and the trees were hidden beneath it. Her Lord had left for longer spaces of time than this, but the explosions had scared her and now all that black smoke was worrying her, and Rin found that she could wait on this cliff no longer.

Ah-Un landed just outside of the village. Rin jumped from his back and looked around. This was nothing like the village she had seen earlier. This morning it had been bright and clean and neat. People had been happy. The villagers talking and laughing with one another as they worked. Now it was black and messy. The buildings lay in ruble heaps, the black smoke drifting up from the remains. The people who had been so alive and happy, now lay dead in the streets. Rin shuddered at such destruction. Had her Lord done this to the village? She did not doubt that he could, though, she also did not think that he would.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin called out. Her voice echoed through the village. No one answered her call. "Master Jaken!"

The village was silent. No dogs barking. No people talking. No chickens clacking. No songbirds singing. Everything was dead. Only the sound of the last few fires crackling, could be heard. Rin walked forward into the village. Ah-Un followed. Rin continued to call out for her Lord and her Master, but her voice only echoed through the dead streets. It was like reliving a nightmare. Rin had seen this kind of destruction before. First on the day her family was killed and than again on the day the wolf demons attacked. Two times before everything she knew and everyone she loved had vanished in a matter of minutes. This village was like reliving a memory that she had tried so hard to forget. Suddenly she saw something up ahead.

"Master Jaken!" she called out as she ran forward. The tiny green toad lay on the ground not moving. Rin scooped him up in her arms. "Master Jaken! Are you alright?"

Jaken opened his yellow froggy eyes and looked up at Rin. "I'm not dead?" he asked.

"No, Master Jaken. Rin and Ah-Un have found you, but what happened? Where is Lord Sesshomaru? I can not find him."

Jaken looked around, he was too weak to try to get up, but a wild panicked look grew across his face. "I don't know." The last thing he could remember was a strange sound coming from overhead, followed by a massive explosion.

Author's End Note:

Thank you for reading this chapter! I hope you enjoyed it!

I would love to hear what you have to say about this chapter. So, tell me, what's your take on this? What did you like about it? What did you not like about it? I try to keep my characters in character with the originals, I hope I succeeded. I'm trying to keep the events in this story in keeping with the events of the manga/anime. Did you see any mistakes I missed, O.O let me know so I can go back and fix them! Think this needs another chapter, a sequel, or a prequel, let me know and I'll think about adding more. Please review and leave a comment to share your views!

Thanks millions!

EK

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