A noise from above awoke me. It sounded like footsteps, and it smelt of demon, a spider demon specifically. Yet, it smelled of human also. Perhaps it was a hanyo. How did anyone find me, and better yet how was I awake? I'd been sleeping for at least 100 years, I was pretty sure anyway. I'd been hiding myself from the world, but in reality I was hiding from…him. Who dared awake me from my slumber? Suddenly a hand reached through the soil and grabbed me by my neck breaking me away from my thoughts. Something small and sharp was slammed into my throat as the hand began to squeeze hard until I once again fell asleep.
When I awoke I was in a dark room, I realized I was bound by chains and shackles. Of course these couldn't hold me back. I was one of the most powerful demons in existence. I heard a male voice call out to me from the darkness.
"So you're finally awake, Shiori." The male voice called. I looked over to my left to see a male demon with long black hair and blood-red eyes, wearing a blue and purple kimono, sitting against a wall. He smelt of both demon blood and human blood, a hanyo.
"Who are you and why have you awakened me?" I asked him. He smiled at me; it was a devilishly evil smile.
"I need your assistance, with a certain half demon and his friends. My name is Naraku." He replied.
"Naraku, why should I help you?" I asked, not very much caring what his reply would be. I had no interest in assisting a half demon with such an evil demonic aura.
"I don't expect you to assist me, willingly." He explained. I gave him an odd look. "Inside your neck is a shard of the Shikon Jewel, and with its power, you will do anything I ask of you." He held out his hand, in it was a large shard of the Jewel. He closed his hand around it and I felt a sharp pain in my neck. I flinched very slightly, narrowing my eyes. It was then that I decided to strike him down, but my body wouldn't move. I wanted to ask what he'd done but I could no longer speak. Naraku laughed manically. "Now, go and do my bidding, kill the half demon and all that accompany him!" He exclaimed.
I ripped off the shackles, stood, began walking out of the room, then out of the castle and into a deep forest. My body began to run south of the castle. I ran for a long while, unknowing of where I was headed. After about an hour of running I could smell a half demon dog, a kitsune, a neko youkai, and 3 humans. I slowed down and began to walk and as I approached an opening in the forest I heard a woman's voice.
"I sense a Jewel Shard approaching." The voice said as I reached the edge of the forest and finally saw my target. If I could control my body I would have gasped, then probably have run off. It was his…brother…the man I was sent to kill. Not only was he his brother, but he was once the boy I had promised to look after, Inuyasha.
The group jumped back and stood in positions to strike. Inuyasha was the half demon I smelled and accompanying him was a Kitsune, a miko, a monk, a demon exterminator, and a neko demon. I felt a smile run across my face as I stared over them. Inuyasha had his hand on the hilt of his sword. I heard a faint growl coming from him.
"Who the hell are you!" Inuyasha shouted.
"My name is Shiori, I've been sent here to kill you, Inuyasha." My body replied. Inuyasha pulled out his sword, and I gazed upon it, Tetsusaiga.
"Well then I'll have to kill you first!" He exclaimed as he charged toward me swinging the blade in my direction I dodged it with ease.
"She's a wolf demon!" I heard the Kitsune exclaim.
"Do you think she belongs to Kouga's clan?" The miko asked as I dodged another attack from the angered Inuyasha.
"No, she's different from them." The exterminator replied. I jumped into mid air to dodge another attack.
"I think she's more like Inuyasha than Kouga." The monk said. I dove down and attacked missing Inuyasha by barely an inch. He swung back at me I jumped up again and landed on his sword holding myself up upside down by my hand. I didn't want to fight anymore. I screamed inside my head. I jumped off the sword. He swung and cut across my chest. My body jumped up and landed a safe distance away from Inuyasha. I screamed even more. My body keeled over hands on my head.
"What the hell's with you!" Inuyasha exclaimed. My body screamed.
"Help me…please!" I exclaimed, finally getting a word out. The shard tried to gain control again.
"She has a jewel shard!" The miko exclaimed.
"Where is it?"Inuyasha asked, annoyed.
"In her neck I think it's controlling her!" She shouted back. I lost control again. Then my body rushed at Inuyasha with full force. I swung my arm back to attack but before I could swing his sword had been stabbed through me. I spat out some blood and grabbed the sword pulling it out of me. I regained control for a minute and looked up at him. He looked shocked, like he didn't mean to do it.
"Na…Naraku." I said. His eyes widened in shock. "He used the jewel shard to make me attack you." I said. I lost myself and swing my claws at him ripping his kimono open and his chest. He got really angry and attempted to swing at me again. This time the miko called out to him, stopping him. She ran between us.
"She needs our help!" She shouted. I raised my claws to cut her down.
"Kagome, get away from her!" Inuyasha shouted. I regained control and instead of killing Kagome, ripped the shard out of my throat. Luckily it wasn't too deep. Kagome turned around and stared at me in shock. I coughed up more blood.
"Damn it all…" I muttered before I passed out from the loss of blood.
When I finally woke up it was midday. I was in a small house in a bed. I pulled the covers off me and realized that my wounds were bandaged up under my kimono. I struggled to sit up and then slowly walked toward the door. I had to use the door to hold myself up and to calm myself down before continuing, the pain was unbearable. I looked around and saw the demon slayer, neko demon and the monk sitting down under a tree a bit away staring at me strangely. The miko, Kagome and Inuyasha were nowhere to be found. I saw the kitsune sitting under a tree near me playing with something. I walked over to him and kneeled down next to him. He looked at me like he was scared of me. I smiled at him and he calmed down a bit.
"Hello, my name's Shiori, what's yours?" I asked.
"My name's Shippo." He said not too enthused.
"You're a fox demon, right?" I asked.
"Yes!" He said happily. "You're a wolf demon?"
"Yes, I'm from the mountains, actually not too far from here. What is that you're playing with?" I asked changing the topic.
"Oh!" He held out his hand, he was holding a top. "It's my smashing top! Want to see!" He asked.
"Sure." I said smiling happily. At least the awkwardness was gone with someone. He jumped up and threw the top.
"Smashing Top!" He shouted. The top hit the ground five times its usual size.
"Wow, that's amazing Shippo!" I exclaimed.
"You're awake!" Kagome shouted from behind me.
"Yea." I said as she ran over to me looking panicked.
"You shouldn't be moving around! You might reopen those wounds." She explained.
"You're probably right," I told her, "I just wanted to get outside for a little bit. I didn't really know what happened to me or where I was."
"Oh sorry, I didn't think you would wake up this soon. Then again you are a demon, so maybe I should have expected you'd recover quickly." She looked a bit dumb as she spoke, but I just smiled. "My name's Kagome by the way. What's yours?"
"Mine's Shiori." I told her as Inuyasha walked up from behind her looking like he wanted me to leave.
"Are you even a demon?" He asked butting into our conversation.
"Yes, I am a demon. Why would you ask such a stupid question? I know you can smell my demon blood." I asked him angrily.
"When you were unconscious you smelled a bit like a human. It made me wonder if maybe you were a half demon." He said annoyed with my attitude. Kagome kept looking back and forth at us very confused. I looked away for a moment thinking hard whether or not I should tell him the truth. I looked back at him calmly.
"Yea, I'm not a full fledged demon, as you guessed, but I am not a half demon either." I began to explain. The monk, neko demon, and the demon exterminator walked over to us looking very intrigued over our conversation. "I am one of a kind as far as I know. I am 3/4ths demon and 1/4ths human." I laughed lightly at their confused looks; they were probably all thinking, 'How is that even possible?' "Let me clarify, my mother was a half demon and my father was a full fledged demon." I explained. I watched the confused looks slowly disappear from their faces.
"Heh, you are a weird one then, but how come I can't smell your human blood now?" Inuyasha asked annoyed again.
"Inuyasha, don't be rude!" Kagome yelled.
"Yea, I can't smell it either." Shippo confirmed distracting Kagome's anger for a moment.
"I can conceal the smell of my human blood or my demon blood whenever I choose. A perk of what I am." I smiled proud of my bloodline.
"Whatever makes no difference to me." Inuyasha said walking away looking still quite annoyed with me. Kagome looked over at me kindly.
"Ignore him." She said laughing a little. "Since Inuyasha was the one who hurt you we figured we would take care of you until your wounds heal. Especially since it wasn't your fault."
"That damned Naraku. Pathetic hanyo using me for his petty fights. I'll kill him." I said half heartedly. I didn't care too much though, actually if it had not been Inuyasha he wanted me to kill I wouldn't have cared at all. "Anyway, thank you for helping me." I replied.
"Not a problem." Kagome replied she glanced over her shoulder to see the other two humans and the small demon cat. "Oh, I never introduced you!" She said excited. She pointed to the monk as she began to speak, "This is Miroku."
"Why hello there." He said sounding a bit like an old perverted man. Making me already not like him too much.
"And this is Sango and her partner Kirara." Kagome finished pointing to the exterminator and her neko demon. Sango smiled at me and Kirara mewed softly.
"Hello, it's nice to finally meet you." Sango said.
"Same here, my name's Shiori." I said for the third and hopefully last time. Kagome grabbed my hand and started pulling my back to the house.
"Now you need to get some more rest! I don't want you opening your wounds again." She said. I could have forced her to let go, but I let it slide even though she was pissing me off a bit. She was right though, I really shouldn't have gotten up. We walked in and I laid back down on the bed. "I'll wake you when dinner is ready." She told me and headed out the door almost hitting Inuyasha, who stopped her by holding her arms. "Sorry!" She said.
"It's fine." He said and walked further into the house and sat cross-legged on the floor. Kagome smiled at him and walked out, leaving the two of us alone. He stared at me for I don't even know how long. I ignored him for awhile but it started to get old real fast. I turned to look at him and he just stared harder.
"Keep doing that and your eyes might fall out." I told him. He gave me a very idiotic look.
"Whatever, like I'd care." He said looking away and crossing his arms like a child.
"How's your chest?" I asked now remembering that I had struck him.
"Fine I guess, it'll heal in about a day or so." He replied still not looking at me. I giggled and he looked at me. "What's so funny?" He asked getting pissy again.
"You haven't changed much, and yet your attitude has changed completely." I explained.
"We have met before then. You looked kind of familiar." He replied nicely this time.
"I'm surprised you remembered. It was very long ago." I told him.