AbhorsenSabriel87: Hey loyal readers! I'm sorry about Nikki's Story being deleted, and unfortunately, none of my chapters were saved, so now I have to start over, but there are going to be a few changes to the story. First of all, I shall now only use my OC's, family, and/or friends as muses. There will be quote at the beginning of every chapter as well. Also, the rating has changed because there will be more detail and it's a slightly different storyline.
Chibi Jou: Like what?
Sabriel: --sighs-- Everyone meet Chibi Jou, my younger brother. You can find a humor fic about him and me on my bio page.
Chibi Jou: You didn't answer my question.
Sabriel: Introductions are necessary. Now, to answer my brother's question, this story will have more... adult themes implanted into it.
Chibi Jou: Like what?
Sabriel: --shoves him out of room-- Nothing a ten year old needs to be concerned with! --locks door-- Now that he's out of the room, I hope that all of you readers are mature enough (or at least old enough) to know what I'm talking about when I say "adult themes". Moving on... I need a disclaimer. --a brown haired, green eyed girl walks in-- Hey Anna! Will you do the disclaimer for me?
Anna: Sure. --walks over--
Sabriel: Anna is my first ever OC, before I even came on Her story is Twice Lost, Thrice Found, so read it if you want. I need reviews anyway.
Anna: --rolls eyes and smiles-- AbhorsenSabriel87 does not own any Inuyasha characters, so please don't sue her because you'll lose.
Sabriel: Yup. On with the fic!
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"Life is full of little surprises."
Pandora
----"So, where are we going this time?" A silver haired boy with golden eyes cast his gaze on the dark haired young women next to him. Both looked hardly over the age of seventeen, but here they were out in the middle of a small clearing miles from any village or town. The girl sighed and put down her book, the cover and pages littered with mathematical symbols, giving the boy a slight glare with her deep brown eyes. "I told you already Inuyasha," she said. "I just got back and I don't sense any Jewel Shards yet. And if I've told you once tonight, I've told you a hundred times, I need to study!" Her last words were shouted at the dog-eared boy, who flinched slightly, and glanced over to see that he had the attention of the two other adults in the camp as well. "What're you looking at?" he snapped at them. The two rolled their eyes and continued doing their separate tasks; the young monk reading a book, and the young lady sharpening her sword. Anger still present in the young man's system, Inuyasha got up and waked off into the woods, to no surprise of the rest of the group.
----The first girl sighed and put her book away after futilely trying to read it ten minutes later. "Why does he have to be like this?" she muttered to herself. The monk had also put away his book and now sat in the cradle of an old pine tree, looking at the young girl. "It's his nature, Kagome," he replied. "You know he doesn't take well to just wandering when he could be out fighting demons or capturing Jewel Shards."
----"Thankfully we've almost completed the Jewel," the other woman replied. "Then we won't have to worry about Naraku anymore." She smiled at the other girl and sheathed her sword expertly. "And don't worry about Inuyasha. He'll come back after he's cooled off a bit."
----Kagome nodded, but couldn't shake that feeling of guilt she had. He always did this, so why was she always guilty when he did? It wasn't her fault; he was just like that. She sighed and picked up her book again, determined to finish studying if it was the last thing she did.
----Inuyasha, however, was prowling through the wood, subconsciously begging for a demon to come so that he could rip it apart with his bare hands... well, clawed bare hands. His red haori hung loosely about his skinny and muscled frame as he walked, bare feet silent on the forest floor. The grass was damp with dew already, even though the full moon had only just risen in the starry night sky, but either he didn't notice or didn't care. Either way, he was pissed and needed some sort of outlet before he exploded.
----Somehow, he'd made his way back to the main road, a good mile or so from camp, and just stared out at the empty road. A flicker of movement caught his eyes about twenty yards away at the bend in the road. Even though the dirt trail was dark, even with the moonlight, Inuyasha could clearly see that the form was humanoid and walking his way at a slow pace. 'Probably just some human peasant going home after a visit to another town,' he thought, and so he just sat there on the roadside, not really bothered by it... that is, until he caught the scent of blood. His nose twitched as a calm breeze blew downhill from the figure, carrying the scent of blood, both human and demon. He stood up and looked out to the figure again, and could now see that they had closed the gap to about ten yards. They were roughly over five and a half feet tall, with long hair that had a copper shine to it from the full moon. They were dragging a sword on the ground and, as they got closer, he could see that the other arm was clutching their shoulder. They walked quickly with a limp, but tripped suddenly and fell to the ground. They didn't rise.
----Inuyasha ran over to the fallen figure almost silently, and stepped back slightly at the immense scent of blood all over them, the majority of it demonic. Carefully, he stepped forward and looked over the figure. Long copper curls flowed down to their hips, where a sliver sash tied a blood-stained white kimono together. Their left hand held an intricate sword case, black with indented symbols he couldn't decipher, that held a long, thin sword, but not a katana like his Tetsusaiga in its untransformed form. Instead, it was equal in length for almost five feet until it cut sharply to a point at the end. The handle was wrapped with a green sash trimmed with gold, but the bright colors were barely visible under all the blood. Their feet were bare, but seemed untouched at all. "Hey!" he half shouted at them while turning them over. "Are you all-" He stopped mid-sentence when he saw not only that he was dealing with a woman, but when he saw her wounds.
----This young woman couldn't possibly be any older than Kagome, but her facial structure was different, sporting high cheekbones, petite but full pink lips, and a sloping jaw that could be described as an elf's. Her right hand not only clutched her badly bleeding left shoulder, but blood red prayer beads. On her left arm was a sash of black material and around her neck was a small pendant made of a red stone and a silver chain. The stone was glowing dully as if it had been spattered with blood as well, but unlike most of her it was completely spotless. The kimono was open only slightly, but enough for him to see that she had a leather band around full breasts and that various gashes crossed her chest and abdomen. Her breath was shaky, and she was shaking as if cold, but her skin was fire hot. 'She has a fever,' Inuyasha thought. 'Some of her wounds must be infected...but who would do something like this?' He scooped up the young woman in his arms gently and ran back to his camp to tell the others of his encounter.
----"I'm fed up with waiting for him!" Kagome shouted at the other dark haired woman. "I'm going out to get him right-"
----"Kagome!" Inuyasha's voice cut out through the trees as he came into her view outside the firelight. He was holding a young woman in his arms, a young woman who was seriously hurt. "I found her on the main road. She just collapsed and she has a fever." He walked with Kagome back to the circle of light around their campfire, allowing the monk and the other young woman to see the unconscious girl. "Can you heal her Kagome?" he asked quietly.
----She nodded. "I'll do my best Inuyasha." She walked over to her pack and unrolled her sleeping bag onto the ground, then proceeded to dig through her pack again. "Put her on my sleeping bag Inuyasha," she said, voice muffled through the cotton lining of the bag. "Sango, if you and Miroku could fetch some water that would help a lot." The two elder humans nodded and ran quickly out of the camp, careful not disturb the small child and the twin-tailed cat sleeping next to each other by the fire. Kagome emerged from the bag holding a small white suitcase with a red cross on the front. After Inuyasha laid the girl on the sleeping bag, she opened the case and reached over to untie the sash around the girl's waist. She opened the kimono and gasped at all the wounds inflicted on her well built and slender body. "Why does she have so many wounds when her kimono is untouched?" she asked aloud.
----"Maybe she took it off," Inuyasha offered. Kagome gave him a look and gently tugged on the sword sheath; it didn't budge and inch. She frowned and tried sliding the sheath from the girl's hand and succeeded, the sheath being slippery with blood. "That's not only human blood," Inuyasha said. "That's got demon blood in it too. Whoever she was fighting took more of a beating than her." Kagome only nodded to show that she heard as she pried the young woman's hand off her shoulder. "Help me take her kimono off, Inuyasha," she said. "It'll only get in the way." The boy nodded and slid his hands over the kimono, hands on her back and knees, lifting her just enough so that Kagome could slide the kimono off and put it in a bloody heap near the giant yellow backpack. Inuyasha put her back down as the monk and the other young lady came back with two pots of water. The young lady put the first pot next to Kagome and the monk put the second on the hot embers of the fire. "Thanks you two," Kagome muttered absently as she soaked a hand towel in the cool water next to her and proceeded to clean up the young lady in front of her.
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----When Kagome woke up the next morning, Inuyasha was still watching over the young girl through half closed eyes. The girl was still unconscious, but now clean and bandaged with a blanket over her sleeping form and a wet towel on her forehead. Her shaking had ceased overnight and now she just lay resting, breath coming at regular intervals in the heavy way that sleep has it. Kagome had left the prayer beads in her hand to the monk's suggestion, but everything else besides her undergarments, however immodest and Amazonian, had been removed and placed in a small pile by Kagome's backpack. When Kagome sat up, from her sleeping place on the soft grass, Inuyasha's eyes opened all the way and looked at her simultaneously, question and concern within their golden depths. Kagome stood, straightened her sailor fuku, and walked over to the girl to check on her, smiling reassuringly at Inuyasha after taking her temperature.
----"She's fine," she said quietly to him, noticing that it was only sunrise and that her four other companions were not yet awake. "Her fever's gone and her wounds don't seem infected. I think she'll even wake up today."
----"What are we going to do with her if she doesn't?" he asked, blunt and tough like always. "We can't exactly carry her because it'll slow us down and her wounds'll reopen, but we can't leave her here to fend for herself if she's unconscious."
----"We'll wait for her to wake up." Inuyasha face-faulted and glared at the miko next to him. "Are you insane?" he half yelled at her. "We've got to find those remaining Jewel Shards soon!"
----"Calm down Inuyasha," was the response from the monk, who had just woken up due to Inuyasha's volume. Inuyasha transferred his glare to him and snarled, "What do you know Miroku? We have to get going or else we're sitting ducks!" The monk sighed as the other young woman sat up, rubbing her head in a sleepy manner. The little boy and the cat also woke up, the young one removing his head from his fluffy fox's tail and rubbing his eyes. "Hey, what's all the noise?" he asked sleepily. He glanced toward Kagome, saw the girl, and then popped up, instantly awake. "Who's that? Is she okay? When did she come by? What happened?" All of the fox-boy's questions came out in a rush as Kagome picked him up and put him in her lap. "Calm down Shippo," she said softly. "She needs rest." The little cat walked up to the girl and sniffed her before licking the side of her face and laying down next to her head, head on the girl's right shoulder.
----"What's with Kirara, Sango?" The dark haired young woman shook her head and looked at her cat again. "I don't know," she replied. "She usually doesn't act like this around strangers."
----"How about we start on breakfast?" Kagome asked, abruptly changing the subject. The others nodded and began their usual morning routine. After breakfast was made, the group sat down and began eating; now talking about their plans for the road. "We still can't do anything until the young miss awakens," Miroku pointed out. "And even then we have to take her with us until we arrive safely at the next town."
----"Well how long exactly do we have to wait until she wakes up?" Inuyasha snapped. "We can't wait forever ya know."
----"No need to wait any longer, I'm awake now."
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AbhorsenSabriel87: There we go! --evil laughter-- An evil cliff-hanger!
Anna: --sighs-- Where do you get the time to write this Sabriel?
Sabriel: At around three in the morning on a Saturday night.
Anna: Technically isn't it Sunday morning?
Sabriel: Whatever. Anywho, this is the end of chapter one and now for another of my changes...
Anna:......
Sabriel:......
Anna:......Well, what is it?
Sabriel: The polls!
Anna: Polls? You mean, like a survey?
Sabriel: Yup. At the end of every chapter there will be three questions for you readers to answer (if you wish, of course) in your reviews. At least one will pertain to the story, and any leftover will be completely random.
Anna: So what are the questions?
Sabriel: I thought you would never ask!
Anna: -.-U
Sabriel: Okay, the questions are as follows: 1) Who is this new OC? 2)Why does Kirara act that way around her, and 3).....
Anna: What's number three?
Sabriel: Who said "All's well that ends well"?
Anna: -.-U
Sabriel: Anyone who answers all three questions correctly will receive a special prize!
Anna: This is getting a little long....
Sabriel: Bye readers! Please review!