Blood Freely Given

Youkai no Miko

Tittle page: i m g . p h o t o b u c k e t . c o m / a l b u m s / v 2 0 0 / K i t s u n e A m a y a / s c a n 0 0 1 4 - C o l or . j p g ((take out the spaces))

Above is my own little piece of art work for the story. When you review, tell me what you think of that too, kay?? There will be a new pic for each chapter!!

Key

::IYG:: Inu-Yasha Gang View

::Kirei:: Kirei View

::Sess:: Sesshoumaru View

Time-lapse

Kirei walked down the trail, her hair and the light pink ribbon in it, as well as the sleeves to her kimono top blowing in the wind. She stopped, and her forest green eyes scanned the surroundings.

"I guess I better find a place to stay for the night," an elegant smile crossed her face, which soon gave way to curiosity, as voices soon reached her acute range of hearing.

"HENTAI HOUSHI!!" a woman's voice shouted angrily, followed by a loud SMACK.

Kirei giggled a bit at the humility of the situation she just overheard.

::IYG::

Inuyahsa's ears twitched at the sound of a lady's giggle, and he stopped, soon catching the scent of an unfamiliar being.

"What is it Inuyasha?" Kagome asked the hanyou-turned-Youkai.

"I smell another demon...or hanyou," Inuyasha said looking over the hill, in which Kirei had just stopped at the bottom of the other side of to listen to the group's conversation.

"A Hanyou, hmn?? Tell me Inuyasha, would this Hanyou happen to be a lady, by any chance??" Miroku chided into the conversation.

"Miroku..." Sango said through gritted teeth, and glared at the Monk.

"Only one way to find out!" Inuyasha said, running up the hill and jumping once at the top, in hopes to get sky born and find the owner of the scent, by-passing Kirei.

As Inuyasha landed her turned to face the Lady Hanyou,

Kirei stared, a little wide eyed at the white-haired demon, "You are 'Inuyasha'?"

"Umm...Yeah, How you know??" Inuyasha stared back confused.

"Curiosity killed the cat, y'know, but it never stopped the DOG from sniffing its carcass" Kirei smirked.

Inuyasha was still confused.

Kirei rolled her eyes and said, "The ears you dumbass! I heard yall easily!!"

The others stood on top of the hill, sweat drops and face faults abounds.

"You're a dog demon?" Sango asked, recovering from Inuyasha's little 'dumb dog' moment.

"I'm half" Kirei said, looking up the hill at the others, and then she turned to go into the forest.

"HEY!! Where you going!?" Inuyasha yelled.

She Paused "Weather or not you have noticed, it is getting dark, and I would like to find a place to stay the night, now if you will excuse me...I'll be on my way" Kirei continued on her way, only to be stopped again.

"Wait!" Kagome called, running down the hill to the place Kirei just entered, "Mind if we join you??"

"You may do what you like..." She paused then smirked, "Just make sure you keep the 'Hentai Houshi' away from me..."

Kirei stepped through the underbrush of the forest, now followed by the Inuyasha gang.

"Umm...so what's your name?" Kagome asked, trying to converse with the avoidant hanyou.

"Kirei" Kirei answered, starring ahead.

Sango gasped, "The Youkai Miko!?"

Kirei nodded, "One in the same..."

"Hugh? How can a Demon be a Priestess?" Inuyasha asked.

"My mother...was-was a......Priestess. My father was a well respected, powerful Youkai. However...he already had a daughter...one of full Youkai blood. When I was born, father treated my sister as if she was nothing but a servant...I had everything I wanted. Akuma, my sister, hated me, and she killed herself because of her envy...because of her hate," Kirei paused.

"How does this explain-" Inuyasha began, only to be interrupted by Miroku, Sango, and the now awake Shippo 'shushshing' him.

"Father could no longer stand to be around me and my mother...the sadness of losing Akuma, and realizing it was his entire fault, was killing him inside, till he too died. I was left alone to live with my mother, who taught me the ways of a priestess. That is the only ways I had ever known...'till she died of old age. It was then, that I took the management of the shrine in my own hands, and learned to fight. That was one thing my Mother, nor my Father, never got to teach me. However, being a Hanyou, I have realized my limits...and now wish to become full Youkai. I asked older, more knowledgeable Priestesses and Youkai how I could do this. The only way they told me that I could do so...was to take the blood of other demons stronger than I, so that it would destroy my human blood, and I would still keep my sanity..."

"Feh...wish I would have known that little option" Inuyasha said with his arms crossed, as he stared into the fire that they had started. Yes, that is right, all the while Kirei told her story, and they finally found a place to stay the night.

"It isn't as easy as you would think...the demon that I get the blood has to be both stronger than me and willing to give up his or her blood..."

"Oh...so you have had no luck?"

Kirei shook her head.

"Well...maybe someday you'll fall in love with a strong demon, and he will give you the blood you need to turn full Youkai," Kagome said with a smile.

Kirei blushed, "Maybe..." she paused, "anyone come to mind?"

"Kouga," offered Sango.

"He is an idiot, weakling Wolf..." said Inuyasha.

"What about..." everyone except Kirei and Inuyasha (not having any interest in this subject) thought for a while, around five minutes or more actually, every now and again, naming a demon that might be of some interest to Kirei.

"Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha said from the tree branch he was on...arms crossed behind his head.

"What about him??" Kagome asked.

"It was just a suggestion..."

"YOU WOULD FEED KIREI TO THAT SON OF A BITCH!?"

"Umm...you know Kagome...Sesshoumaru might take that as a compliment...after all...his mother WAS a dog demon too," Miroku Said.

Inuyasha started laughing hysterically, and fell out of the tree. Everyone else laughed too.

Kirei, having finally regained her composure asked, "Isn't Sesshoumaru your brother, Inuyasha?"

"Yeah, why d'you ask?"

"Well...I have heard that you used to be hanyou, and he hated you for that, among other things...and I was just wondering that...now that you are a full fledged demon...what does he think of you?"

"I haven't really met up with him since my change..." Inuyasha replied, also wondering, "Hey wait a minute, what do you mean 'among other things' what do you know about my brother's hate for me that I don't?"

Kirei smiled, "You both have different mothers. What do you think happened to his mother when The Great Lord Inutaishou fell in love with your mother?"

Kagome and Sango gasped at what Kirei was inquiring.

"You mean to say that..."

"Sesshoumaru's mother died of a broken heart," Kirei interrupted Miroku.

"How do you know so much about Sesshoumaru?" Shippo finally spoke up, now grasping the conversation.

"My father, as I said before, was a great dog demon...and the Lord Inutaishou's distant relative...someway or another. Though the relation is so distant that we are not considered direct family...not even fourth or fifth cousins even," Kirei explained.

"I don't get it," Sango said confused. The others nodded.

"Both the Great Lord and my father were close friends...They told each other everything."

::Sess::

Lucky for Sesshoumaru, the wind was on his side as he listened in on the conversation about him, his mother, and father. As much as it angered him to hear anything spoken about his mother, he did not-could not, show it...even in privacy. Sesshoumaru also heard the Lady Hanyou's tale about losing her father, and being left with only a mother...as much was the reverse for Sesshoumaru when he was but a pup.

'I am like Akuma...only I was not so weak as to kill myself because of my little brother...' he growled inwardly in the memory of how everything started back then...

Sesshoumaru was still an adolescent pup, and under parental care when his mother caught Inutaishou with the human Izyoui.

He had stood at his parent's room door, overhearing the conversation taking place. He could remember his mother's harsh yells, his father's cold growls, and the scent of his mother's tears and blood as se dashed out of the room, never to return. Ever since then he had hated the woman known as 'Izyoui'. Every breath, every movement and sound that she made, the only thought that could satisfy him then was the thought of hearing her bones cracking, her gasps, her last breath as he killed her.

And then Inuyasha was born. A new icon to take out his anger on as the Hanyou pup, and himself grew up.

Sesshoumaru then realized that his claws were dug deep into the branch he was perched upon...a nasty little showing of anger over his solemn memories.

A sight of the Hanyou Priestess was all he could think about now...someone who knew and understood his long-time pain-and so he got it. As she stood the fire shone brilliantly on Kirei's fine skin. Her dark brown hair, pulled back by a thin light pink sash, and the fire sparkling in jade orbs of the unholy-Miko. The name "Kirei" did not begin to explain the beauty he saw. However he refused to admit to himself that she was, indeed, beautiful.

Sesshoumaru turned away as the conversation seemed to draw to an end, and the group began to find their places to rest.

Jaken stood up as Lord Sesshoumaru finally returned. His screeching of welcomes soon stopped when he saw the distant, thoughtful look upon Sesshoumaru's features-try as the western lord might to not appear so solemn.

"What troubles you, Lord Sesshoumaru?" Rin asked, her hair in a, somewhat, beautiful disarray, and her cinnamon eyes a' sparkle in the light of their own camp.

Sesshoumaru did not answer. "We will be cutting our patrol short, Jaken"

"Yes, Lord Sesshoumaru, But...may I ask why?"

Sesshoumaru glared at the low-class servant.

"OH! STUPID Jaken to question Lord Sesshoumaru!! I am stupid! Please forgive my, Milord!"

Sesshoumaru ignored Jaken's mercy pleas, and looked up at the stars instead, "We are leaving because this Sesshoumaru wishes to go home,..." he turned to Rin, "Now you shall go to sleep so that we can get home by noon tomorrow at the least,..." he turned back to Jaken, "that goes for you too,...now this Sesshoumaru will return shortly,...Do not question my destination."

And with that Sesshoumaru was off to find somewhere he could concentrate on his thoughts, and hopefully turn his thoughts away from Kirei.

'Her name does her no justice...'lovely' is just an understatement. Why am I thinking such thoughts!? I could never fill compassion for anyone with even a speck of human blood!!! But she understands...........'

Sesshoumaru soon found himself at his destination-the hot springs. First stripping himself of the pelt he wore over his shoulder, then his armor, he already felt less stressed. A few seconds later he was fully striped of all clothing, and into the springs, where he could think (although I can't ::drools::) minutes after his bathing he could hear the faint sound of singing.

It made Sesshoumaru remember back when he was little, when he would sing-when he would sing for his mother his songs of the moon, the forest, lost souls that would one day find their way. The times when he didn't have to be so secluded and locked within him.

He got out of the springs, dried, dressed, and began walking towards the melodious voice that had seemed to enchant his ears.

::Kirei::

"When I was alone,

I did not notice the blue skies above.

When I was alone,

I did not hear the sound of the wind that chilled my heart.

When I was alone,

I did not understand the true meaning of loneliness.

When I was alone,

I could not look for a reason to wait for the break of dawn.

When I am drenched in the overflowing sunlight,

Two hands draw me close, and hold me as tightly as possible.

You and I, Showing the wear of our burdens.

You and I, Illuminating each other's path,

Shoulder to shoulder, together..."

Kirei 'finished' her song with a sigh. The song of her lonely life and her hopes of companionship...

"Anata no kodou...kajinagara,

Omoiegaita wa hohoemi kawashi...

dasareta te o tomadotte...

tsunaide iri no futari..." Sesshoumaru sang as he came out from behind a couple of trees, inwardly smiling-he had sung again.

Kirei turned around to face the Western Lord with a bit of a surprised squeal, barely inches between them, when just a second ago there were yards apart. Kirei stepped back a few steps.

"Who are you?" she asked, noting the faint resemblance to Inuyasha that this demon had.

"I...am Lord Sesshoumaru...and you would be Kirei...the Youkai Miko..."

Kirei nodded, "And you would know this how?"

"This Sesshoumaru has ways..."

"Of course you do," She said turning away, "You sing well, Milord I-" Kirei turned around, but to find Sesshoumaru gone.

::Sess::

Sesshoumaru was on his way back to his campsite. That small rendezvous with the Lady Hanyou was enough for the Lord for tonight. He would never lay eyes on this special hanyou again, he told himself...over and over again...

((To Be Continued))

Disclaimer: The lyrics to the song Kirei sang, are not mine, they were just something a friend handed me, I do not know if theyare original or not,...anywho,...REVIEW! give me ideas for the next chapter too, kay?? I wanna know what YALL want to see happen .