"Lady, are you ok?" My light amber eyes opened slowly, and I glanced up at the owner of the voice that had just been sounded with curiosity. A human, why would one, even at such a young age, be speaking to the existance of that of a demon?
"W-who are you?" I growled whiping a strand of my red air from my line of vision. The position I was in was far from good, so near death, if the human wished could easily destroy me in moments. "My name is Rin!" She exclaimed happily, and if things weren't odd enough she touched my ear slightly with a questioning motive.
"What kind of demon are you? I haven't seen anything like you around here." I blinked, then tried to raise to my feet only to cough and fall back down to the ground, spitting up a small amount of blood.
"Are you not, scared of me?" She shook her head in response, the simple 'no' left me dazzled and shocked. It was soon replaced by a slight smile, "And if you must know, I'm a southren fox demoness, call me Meira."
"Rin! Oh Rin where are- There you are Rin! I've been looking everywhere for you! Wait, Rin who is that?" The two of us glanced over, what we both saw was a small green imp creature who carried a staff with two heads on it. Of course, that must have been why the child 'Rin' was not frightened of me, she traveled with creatures such as I.
"Oh, Jaken! This is Mei-Chan!" I frowned at the unwelcomed nickname, then gave the imp 'Jaken' a glare.
"But something such as yourself will adress to me as Meira if you wish to keep your head!" I snarled in a distastefull tone. Waddling over to me the imp lowered his stick quickly and harshly onto my back, silencing and earning a grunt and flinch of pain from me.
"Insolent demon! Respect those of greater power than yours!"
"Jaken don't do that to her, she's hurt can't you see?" The younger child yelled sternly at the imp, to slight shock Jaken responded, halting his actions immidiately.
"Please," I started quietly, with all my will power I hoisted my body to the stance of my hands and knees, then to sit backwards and upstraight to normal level. "I need not your concern Human, I can care for myself quite easily." My breath came out ragged and sharp, countering my words. I collapsed once more, blood ran into my mouth, dripping onto the ground as I breathed heavily.
"Don't worry Mei-Chan, we'll help you get better." Rin said softly kneeling down beside me. "We will?" I heard the imp question as he stared at Rin. The girl ripped a small peice of the cloth of her kimono and tied it tightly around one of my still bleeding cuts, keeping a good amount of pressure against it. I scoffed unhappily, but id nothing to stop her actions.
"Look at me..." I started in a low mutter. "being tended to by the likes of a human." I then turned my head away frm the child who bussily continued with her simple actions in attempt to help my chances of survival.
"Tell me, Rin, why is it that you have decided to help one such as I? We barely have just met and your treating me as if I was your own kin or something..." I breathed, I could hear the small imp mutter under his breath unhappily.
"What was that Imp? If you have something to say then speak up." Jaken looked slightly surprised that I adressed to him about his muttering, but instead of answering me turned to Rin and spoke.
"Lord Sesshomaru will be unhappy with this Rin, we best return to him as quickly as possible!" I flickered my tail towards Jaken in annoyance, I almost pitied the poor 'Lord' Sesshomaru for having to put up with such an annoying creature.
"Oh please, let the girl do her work for goodness sake, if this 'Lord' of yours is going to be in such a state due to your absence then he should come looking for you." I snarled, only to have a small yip follow while the girl bondaged my waist. The imp seemed to be refusing to talk to me, and thus turned away from Rin and I and stared off in the opposite direction.
"Mei-Chan, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get these wounds?" I sighed, not really feeling like re-telling what happened, but began anyways.
"I was travelling around here while on my way back to the south from the north, and on my way I could sense commotion coming from this village. I quickly ran here to find a group of demons raiding it, killing all they saw in sight. I destroyed a majority of them but then a group of humans and demons alike came along. A girl, a monk, a half breed with silver hair and a mighty sword, a demon slayer, and a small purebred fox demon only he was just a simple kit. Anyways, they claimed I held something that I was looking for and also accused me of killing the villagers since their was no traces of other demons. I denied all claims, and thus the half demon chose to fight me. Being what he was I stupidly mislead with my opinion on his power. I soon found though that if I followed the battle out completely I would surely die, so I ran. They caught up quickly though and attempted to kill me once again, and with a last effort I changed to my Vixen form and fled yet again, this time confusing them and backtracking to this village. I lost them after that and then you found me laying here only a day later..." This perked more the imp's attention then Rin's.
"A name, did you happen to catch any names?" I stared at it blankly for a few moments, attempting to remember this small detail of information, I never really had been the best at remembering names.
"The girl, with the bow, I remember her saying, 'Inuyasha'. Why do you ask imp, are they of importance to you?" Anger perked through the imp, and I could tell it was burning deeply through him by his eyes. Instead of answering me Jaken instead rambled on about something in fustration. Turning my attention to the setting sun I noted how close it was to becoming night. In such a vulnerable location neither the child or I would be safe, of course I didn't worry for the Imp, I already had a strong dislike for the imp, and that lead me to not really care if he was killed by some stupid demon that decided to eat him.
"Rin," I said looking at the small child, she finished the final ajustments to one of my injuries and then looked straight at me with her dull eyes, it provoked me to almost shiver as I continued. "Night will befall us very soon, so best finish what your doing quickly then take refugee in the rubble that has been left from the attack." Rin nodded, then rised to her feet running off. For a split second I actually felt the urge to yell, 'don't stray too far' after her, but shook my head in order to clear it unhappily.
"That human child is not Ayra..." I thought to myself with a slight frown.
"Meira, I have to ask, how on earth did you survive a blow from Inuyasha's sword?" My ears twitched as Jaken spoke, and my eyes went dull and soft when I looked at his curious expression.
"Jaken, I ask that you not repeat what I am about to tell you to Rin, please, but her efforts are in vein. I might have survived fighting Inuyasha, as he appears to be called, but I can sense that I shall be loosing a life due to my injuries, tonight in fact. Since this is only my first out of three I should be in perfect condition tomorrow once the sun has risen into te sky. Thus I would like for Rin to believe that she has saved me. Understand?" The imp nodded, but then looked shocked and puzzled again.
"Wait, you couldn't be her-" I nodded at Jaken's confusion, and smiled meekly.
"Yes, and it marks me to be heir to the temple Izuashi and it's tainted shrine." He gasped as I confirmed his suspicions, then beamed.
"You really are the daughter of Kayrai, Kitsune Demoness of the three tailed gift!" The three tailed gift, although I wouldn't call it much of a gift. Kayrai, my demoness mother had given me every last one she could spare. Two of her lives rested nestled deep inside my soul along with my own, and I had just foolishly wasted one, leaving me only two final deaths. In result though she died, orphaning me and leaving me to the villagers. That was the thing about my kin and family, we trusted the humans that had lived near us, and never dared harm them. My father tried to devour one once though, which resuted in his death.
"Yes, and my father was Derouka, Demon tamer of hell." I added with a droopy yawn. My time was quickly approacing, and I could sense my rapid weakening.
"Rin child, return over here if you would." I yelled at the young girl, like an obedient puppy she came bounding back, a few herbs nestled in her hands. I scoffed mentally in my mind as I used most of my remaining energy in order to turn back into my true form, that of a large red fox with a black tipped tail instead of white.
"Here, I brought these for you to eat, I'm pretty sure that they'll help!" I laughed slightly, such a adorable child. Rin dropped the plants in front of me on the ground, and to satisfy her request I quickly lapped them up, swallowing them without chewing.
"Thank-you Rin, and now if you wouldn't mind please use my fur to keep you warm as you sleep..." At least that way I would have some ease of mind while I slept, knowing Rin was safe with her scent hidden by mine. Jaken was outraged at the child laid down beside me, mostly concerned I would probably do something to her.
"Jaken, you fool. If I was going to do anything to this child then I would have done it already, and if I do harm her, which I assure you I won't, feel free to let your master remove every life I have." This calmed the green one quickly, but he still seemed unhappy. Thinking nothing of it I rested my head on my paws, then curled my tail inwards to assure that young Rin was hidden. Closing my eyes I stayed there still, a twitch only coming from the tip of my tail as I listened to my final two breaths fade away with my heartbeat to silence.