Far Longer Than Forever
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Inuyasha.
"What do you mean a bodyguard?" Kagome asked incredulously.
"I just get worried dear. I know Inuyasha says he will protect you but last time you came home you were injured. I don't want you hurt that's all."
Inuyasha is not going to like this. Kagome thought to herself.
"Who is it mom?"
"Her name is Sayuri. She is perfect for you. She won't get in the way unless you are in danger."
Kagome sighed. Now I'm going to have a shadow.
There was a knock at the front door.
"That should be her." Kagome's mother went to answer the door. Kagome heard a muffled exchange of words and then a minute later Kagome's mother entered the kitchen followed by-
Kagome did a double take. The girl that followed her mother was gorgeous; waist length chocolate brown hair with a slight curl throughout the locks, exotic and piercing eyes that were the perfect mixture of green, blue, and amber. The girl was slightly muscled and her skin was in between being pale and tan. Kagome noted freckles speckled across the girl's body as well.
"Kagome, dear, this is Sayuri. Sayuri this is my daughter Kagome."
Sayuri looked Kagome up and down. "I'll take the job. It'll be a piece of cake. I don't see much trouble in this assignment occurring."
Kagome's mother nodded happily. "Excellent. Kagome's all ready to go. She just finished packing. Are you prepared?"
"Yes." Sayuri said sharply. She turned her eyes to Kagome. "Let's go."
Kagome jumped slightly at the edginess of Sayuri's voice. Kagome's eyes quickly landed on the bracelet that Sayuri was wearing on her left wrist as it caught the light when Sayuri turned to exit the room and house.
The bracelet had crescent moon charms on it and the kanji symbols for love and eternity. It was a silver chain band with amber shaded charms dangling from it. It was beautiful.
Kagome quickly picked up her backpack and followed Sayuri throwing a quick goodbye back to her mother.
Sayuri was standing silently waiting for her outside the front door. Kagome walked past her and headed for the well house, Sayuri following carefully.
Kagome entered the well house and climbed down the steps and faced Sayuri who stood at the top of the stairs.
"Why are we in the well house?" Sayuri questioned.
Kagome gave a small smile and then started backing up. Sayuri raised an eyebrow at her action.
Kagome then felt the lip of the well against the back of her calves. Kagome locked her eyes with Sayuri as she tipped backwards and fell into the well.
Faster than she could blink, Kagome saw Sayuri no more than six inches from her own face and felt Sayuri catching her in her arms, however, Kagome felt the magic of the well work and knew by a glance upward that they were no longer in future Japan.
"I hardly think your mother would approve of you committing suicide my first day on the job." Sayuri stated and jumped out of the well and to the ground.
When Sayuri landed Kagome noted that Sayuri's eyes narrowed and the grip that Sayuri had on her tightened slightly.
"Higurashi, where are we?" Sayuri asked.
"We are in Feudal Japan." Kagome said.
Sayuri put Kagome on her feet and pushed her behind her as Inuyasha broke through the trees Tetsuiga drawn and transformed.
"KAGOME!!" Inuyasha yelled.
Sayuri growled slightly. "Who are you?" she demanded, pushing Kagome farther behind her.
"Me?!?! Who in the heck are you? Let Kagome go!" Inuyasha yelled.
"You act as if I am holding her against her will. I am her bodyguard you insolent brat. You are a threat and must be destroyed if you do not state who you are and your connection to my charge." Sayuri clarified.
Inuyasha growled. "Yea right! Like you could ever beat me! You're just a human! I'm a half demon you idiot!"
"We will see about that mutt." Sayuri said threateningly.
Inuyasha charged blindly, as usual.
Just as the Tetsuiga was going to hit Sayuri, she and Kagome disappeared.
"What the-" Inuyasha said, shocked.
"Looking for someone?" Sayuri said from behind Inuyasha. Inuyasha quickly turned around and saw Sayuri right behind him and Kagome at the edge of the forest watching warily.
Inuyasha was brought back into focus when Sayuri gave him a hard right hook to his face knocking him back and sliding him away from her slightly.
Inuyasha growled. "Ain't no way I'm gonna let some girl beat me." Inuyasha charged again.
Sayuri dodged and grabbed Tetsuiga by the hilt and swung it out of Inuyasha's grasp and then rushed at him and made him fall back. She pinned him and held Tetsuiga's still transformed tip of the blade at his throat.
"I'll give you one last chance. Who are you?" Sayuri ground out, pressing the blade closer to his neck, almost to the point of drawing a little blood.
Kagome started to step out into the clearing and stop the interaction when Sayuri stopped her. "Kagome if you move I will kill him, heed my word, stay where you are."
Kagome froze.
Inuyasha growled. Sayuri just pressed the blade harder against his skin and drew a small trickle of blood.
"Last chance." Sayuri warned.
Inuyasha started to open his mouth when suddenly Sayuri disappeared and Inuyasha was hit by the recoil of a green whip.
Sayuri landed gracefully in front of Kagome, still holding Tetsuiga.
Kagome made a worried noise when she saw Sesshoumaru make his presence known.
Sayuri's eyes made the slightest widening movement at the sight of Sesshoumaru. Why does he seem so familiar?
Sayuri glared at him. "This keeps getting more and more interesting." Sayuri muttered.
"Um, Sayuri you need to give Inuyasha back the sword."
"Why is that? All he does is wildly and blindly slash this at his opponent hoping he hits his mark."
Kagome pointed to Inuyasha, whose eyes started to go red, his growling was becoming more and more feral.
"Very peculiar." Sayuri said, just standing there watching Inuyasha.
"Sayuri you don't understand, that sword was given to Inuyasha by his father and it helps him keep his demon side in check if he feels threatened." Kagome quickly explained.
Sayuri said nothing, just continued watching Inuyasha.
Inuyasha's eyes flashed between Sayuri and Sesshoumaru. He finally locked his eyes onto Sayuri and charged.
Sayuri didn't move an inch. Kagome was horrified. Why isn't she moving?.
"Sit boy!" Kagome exclaimed.
Inuyasha crashed into the ground, stopping his advance toward Sayuri.
Sayuri tilted her head in curiosity at Inuyasha's sudden collapse.
"Are you crazy!!! Why didn't you move or something!" Kagome yelled at Sayuri.
Sayuri faced Kagome. "That wouldn't have been intelligent. A demon who has lost control will convey the movement as an attempt to resist and thus it will change into a game of cat and mouse, which would just increase the danger of the situation." She paused and glance back at the form of Inuyasha. "Inuyasha would not have been able to touch me. You had nothing to worry about. You were not in harm's way."
Kagome gaped at her. "How-how did you know that?"
Sayuri blinked thoughtfully. "I don't know. This place it seems familiar and I just automatically think certain things. My senses are much sharper here due to the cleaner air. I just can't remember why I know all of this."
"That's impossible. You were born in my t-" she stopped and remembered Sesshoumaru was present. "...village. My village doesn't have this type of things. You're my age anyways. Plus, you're human."
Sayuri looked uncertain and kept her eyes on Inuyasha, who started to stir again.
"Sayuri." Sesshoumaru spoke.
Sayuri's head snapped up and she turned to look at Sesshoumaru. Suddenly she had a flash of the face of Sesshoumaru looking down lovingly at her. Her brows knitted together in confusion.
"Do I know you?" Sayuri asked sternly.
Sesshoumaru just kept his gaze on her. Sayuri couldn't explain it but she felt a pull toward this stranger, she didn't even know his name.
Sayuri's eyes slid over to Inuyasha who now stood growling. Sayuri relaxed some and faced Inuyasha. He seemed back to what he was before.
Sayuri tossed him his sword, it un-transforming in the air as it flipped toward Inuyasha. "You need to learn how to use that sword properly boy."
"Hmph, I use just fine." Inuyasha said, indignantly, while catching Tetsuiga by the hilt.
"If you say so." Sayuri said in a light voice.
Inuyasha sheathed his sword and glared at Sayuri.
"That is so cool." Kagome whispered.
Everyone turned to look at her and noticed her staring at Sayuri's left wrist.
Sayuri looked down at her wrist and examined it carefully. The charms on the wrist had switched to a royal blue color.
"Is it like a mood bracelet?" Kagome asked.
"I couldn't tell you."
Kagome raised her eyes to look at Sayuri's face.
"I just woke up from a coma about ten years ago and this was on my arm, I've never fell compelled to remove it so I keep it on my wrist. I never remove it, I don't think I want to anyway for some strange reason." Sayuri explained looking at Kagome.
"Wow, so…you woke up with amnesia?" Kagome said.
Sayuri nodded and turned her attention back to her wrist completely enchanted by the change in color of her charms.
"What's amnessa?" Inuyasha said confused.
"Amnesia. It's a neurological condition that is suffered by a victim when severe trauma is afflicted to their body, particularly the brain." Kagome explained. She focused back on Sayuri. "So much can you remember?"
"That's the intriguing part. As a whole I remember nothing, not where I live, who my parents were, where I am from, nothing. I have these flashes of people's faces, or spurts where I can remember smells I associated with people, or segments of what I think people sounded like but, not completely. I just remember bits and pieces. I didn't really feel like I recognized any of my surroundings until now." Sayuri trailed off looking about her at the wilderness.
Kagome was about to say something when a scream erupted from within the forest.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, help!!!" a little girl's voice screamed.
Sayuri watched the stranger who said her name earlier glance behind him and then turn and start to walk toward the source of the scream.
"Kagome! Inuyasha! We could use some help!" Sango exclaimed a slight distance.
"Keh!" Inuyasha said and then went to aid his friends.
Kagome started to walk after Inuyasha but stopped when she noticed Sayuri wasn't moving.
"Sayuri?" Kagome said.
"Kagome run to Inuyasha quickly. I can't move." Sayuri ground out.
Kagome's eyes widened and she started running toward Inuyasha. "Inuyasha!"
Sayuri sensed someone walk out of the forest behind her. Then she felt the cold edge of a blade slid softly against the skin of her neck.
"So we meet again," a voice said from behind her. She knew it was male, but the odd thing was, was that the voice sounded hauntingly familiar.
"Who are you?" Sayuri asked.
The man shifted into her sight and she saw what he looked like.
*Flashback*
Sayuri was in the gardens humming softly to herself. Today her fiancée would be coming home. She was excited to see him again, it had been a long year apart from him.
She looked up when she heard the guards shouting. She saw a man standing before her with a trail of dead bodies behind him. She immediately recognized him.
"You!" Sayuri gasped.
"Yes me."
Sayuri took a defensive pose. She was a little confused as to why this man was alive. She was told he was dead.
"You thought I was dead didn't you?" the man taunted, as if reading her mind.
Sayuri just locked her jaw.
"Let me guess your future mate told you I was taken care of didn't he?" Sayuri didn't say anything so he continued. "I'm sorry to disappoint, but I'm not done with you yet."
He attacked. She was unable to properly defend herself due to the required and restricting kimono she had to wear.
He beat her to a bloody pulp, biting her skin, bruising her, punching her. And just as he was about to defile her completely a loud howl was heard echoing towards them.
He growled and then her world went black.
*End Flashback*
"You beat me and then you tried to rape me." Sayuri growled lowly.
"Very good, it's nice to see you are starting to regain your memory." The man taunted.
"Why?" Sayuri bit out, her anger was starting to rise.
"Don't you remember princess? I was the one who killed your family. You escaped me before I had the chance to finish you off. That future mate of yours saved you in the nick of time. He tried to save you at the last meeting we encountered each other but I was too smart for him and he was unable to save you. Now, he has lost you, for you cannot remember him. He has turned cold and heartless. There is no one to save you now my princess. You are all mine."
A growl was heard and they both then took notice of the man from earlier that had stopped Sayuri from killing Inuyasha. His eyes were fading from white to red rapidly.
Sayuri looked down when she felt her wrist pulse. Her charms were now a blood red color, the same as the color that the eyes were changing back and forth to on the man in front of them. Something inside of her was telling her to run over to him and be in his arms so he could calm down she didn't know why.
Sayuri tested inconspicuously if she could move any. Her finger twitched. YES!
Sayuri carefully took in the situation around her. She had to plan this carefully.
"Manketsu." Said the man across from Sayuri.
Manketsu gave a feral grin and smirked. "Sesshoumaru." Manketsu's hand moved to grip Sayuri's neck from the back and gripped hard.
Sayuri's eye twitch in annoyance, at least now she knew the other man's name. She focused and her eyes started to glow an amber color.
Manketsu released his hand immediately and hissed in pain and anger.
Sayuri's eyes turned to an amber color, glowing brightly. A water droplet starburst formed on her forehead and glowed the same amber color. Power pulsated from around her body creating a windy current. Her hair whipped around her and then upwards.
Sayuri seemed to be in a trance now as she turned her head slightly to get a full look at Manketsu. She extended her arm and a ball of light formed into her palm.
"I belong to no one." She stated as the ball of light was released towards Manketsu.
The light collided with something and created an enormous blast.
When the smoke cleared Manketsu was no where to be seen, not even his remains were left.
Sayuri looked to the sky. "You have escaped for now."
Sayuri looked over at Sesshoumaru, who seemed to have calmed down and was just watching her silently with calm and cool amber eyes. Sayuri closed her eyes and then collapsed. Before she hit the ground and completely blacked out she felt someone catch her.
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A/N: Okay so here is my first chapter. I was going to make this a really long one-shot but I think I'm going to make it a few chapters. Let me know what you think!