A/N: One, I do not own the Inuyasha world. Two, this is going to be divided between AU and Cannon because I will be going back and forth between telling Kianie's(pronounced Key-ani) story in the future, and then switching to canon as Sesshomaru remembers.
Originally I had this and another story planned for a contest I was going to enter but decided just to post it because I couldn't seem to get it to cooperate with me and be a one shot, so here it is and I hope you enjoy. I admit, it starts a little slow in the beginning but hang on and read it through, and hopefully you will get more excited about Chapter 2.
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Kianie was dreaming, somehow she knew she was dreaming. Perhaps the dead give away was the way her dream world continually flashed from place to place, almost as if she were flipping through a variety of pictures on a camera.
Somewhere in her dream world there was a phone ringing and she found herself constantly trying to find it, mainly to get it to stop the insistent ringing. It took a while for her to realize that the ringing was not part of her dream world, but existed in the reality she was dreading to get back to.
She reluctantly opened her eyes and glanced at her alarm clock, "Are you kidding me?"
The clock read five am in the morning. On her only day off in two weeks, who would be calling her at this hour?
She reached over and grabbed her cell phone, "Hello?"
"Did I wake you?" asked the familiar voice of her colleague, Ryo.
"What do you think?" she asked sarcastically.
"Yes, but when you hear this, you'll be glad I called," Ryo pointed out.
"Fine, continue," Kianie urged, sitting up on her bed.
"I found something, it's going to make us famous Kianie," Ryo stated excitably.
Kianie stayed quiet for a moment absorbing the information, "Are you sure?"
"I'm looking right at it Kianie, amazing," Ryo breathed in awe.
That got Kianie into action; she grabbed a pair of Khaki shorts and pulled them on, "I'll be there in a half hour."
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Kianie parked her car at the base of the mountain beside Ryo's truck and practically ran the rest of the way to the dig site. The smell of dirt assaulted her nose as she made her way through the ruins of what she believed was a temple that had existed long ago, almost five hundred years ago.
She spotted Ryo next to the spot they had been digging at for over two weeks, as she got closer she called out, "Ryo?"
He turned and grinned, "Wait until you see this, it's almost unbelievable. "
He pulled on her arm, urging her along. As they approached she held her breath, this could be the break they were looking for, the thing that would get them in the door. When they got to their destination, Kianie couldn't believe her eyes.
"Didn't I tell you?" Ryo asked.
Kianie could only nod her head, standing in front of them, fully incased in a block of ice was a fully intact body. Not just any body, it was a body of a species that was believed to only exist in myth, it was a demon.
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"It's simply unbelievable," stated Kianie.
"But you have seen it with your own eyes," Ryo argued.
"Yes, but who will believe us. It's a thing of stories, something that shouldn't even exist," Kianie argued back.
"But we have proof, they will believe us. We'll be rich, famous, and then we won't have to worry about where our next funding will come from," Ryo said.
Kianie knew he was right, but her gut was telling her that something was wrong about this whole situation. When she didn't speak Ryo continued.
"If the big wigs don't believe us, even after we present them with the truth, then we go to the media. Get some publicity, gain interest, and bam, we are instant stars. People will want to know us, write books about us, maybe even movies. We could even get our own reality show," The glint in Ryo's eyes scared Kianie.
She wasn't just in this for fame and glory; she loved extracting history from the dirt. She loved to find new discoveries that gained understanding of a past long forgotten.
She turned to Ryo, "Alright, here's what we can do. I'll stay here and study the demon a little, go over some of the notes we have and try to figure out just who this thing was. You go home and get some rest, later we can call the find in and see where we go from there."
Ryo embraced her, "This is it, Kianie. I know it, no more digging for us."
He gave her a quick kiss that startled her and winked before turning and jogging towards his vehicle. Kianie turned to a table that had papers scattered over its top and began reading.
From the information collected, the carbon dating done on human bones in the region gave the date of approximately five hundred years ago. So the demon could be anywhere around that age. She grabbed her notebook and recorder and walked over to the frozen body.
"Find #55 could possibly be over five hundred years old," Kianie walked closer, noting what she saw, "Body is incased in a block of ice approximately a foot thick, dressed in traditional clothes of what royalty would have worn in those times. There seems to be some type of armor covering the chest and shoulder, suggesting he was a warrior of some sort. A long white fur pelt adorns the shoulder as well. Hair is long and silvery-white, there seems to be some weird marks on his face. One is in the shape of a crescent moon on the forehead, and then there are two sharp magenta lines that cross the cheeks. These were probably shown as warrior markings or the markings of royalty."
Kianie pushed stop on the recording, something seemed off. Everything suggested the being was a warrior creature, yet she could not spot a weapon. She pulled a chair closer to the ice to stand on so she could look directly into the face of the being.
"Who are you?" she questioned.
She leaned closer to get a better look at the face markings of the creature when the eyelids opened to expose golden eyes that seemed to glare back. Kianie screamed as her heart tried to fight its way out of her chest, she was so scared she tried to step away but ended up knocking the chair over in her confusion and fell flat on her back.
She lay there for a second trying to get the air back in her lungs when she heard a cracking noise coming from the ice. She lifted her head and stared as a bright green light emulated from with in. With a loud explosion, the ice burst into a million pieces, flying every which way.
Kianie twisted into a fetal position and covered her head as she was pelted with multiple chunks of ice. She screamed as she was grabbed by the throat and hoisted in the air.
"Where is she!" it was an accusation and demand all in one. The voice was deep and smooth and despite the harshness in the words, it was a beautiful voice.
"Who?" Kianie croaked.
"My mate, wench!"
Kianie shook her head as much as she could, "I don't know."
She was dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes, "Worthless."
The pain in her throat was unbearable, she tried sucking in more air but it only made her cough. She crawled as far away from the creature as possible. Currently the demon was looking for something, giving her a few moments to think on what had just happened. What had just happened? Was this all a dream? No, it clearly wasn't a dream but this was definitely out of her realm of normal and being nearly killed by a creature that was supposed to be fiction was not listed under occupational hazards. The moment of reprieve didn't last however and the demon came at her again. Kianie tried running but he was on her before she even got a few feet away.
He pinned her up against a wall of rock, "What time is this?"
"2011," replied Kianie.
"It's been over five hundred years but she would still live, as do I," the creature said as if contemplating something.
"Who, your mate?" Kianie asked.
"Hnn, "he said releasing her, "Her betrayal will not go unpunished."
She didn't know if she should push this creature further but curiosity was getting the better of her, "What was your mate's name?"
The creature had the nerve to smirk, "Kagome Higurashi."