Jewel of Four Souls
By: Ronja Toss
Editor: Steve Wharton
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Liesel Toss
Chapter One
A tall figure looked off into the horizon. He gold eyes sparked with interest as he looked over his land. It seemed so long ago since his own father stood there telling him that soon all this would he his. Now….it was but even with all this power and glory something was missing. Every demon or human that would cross him path would tremble in fear at the site of him. His kingdom was the most powerful at its time and had good relations with other rulers. He was even lucky in looks. With his long white hair, long sharp claws, tall and lean in all the right places, and eyes that look like the sun. This lord and powerful demon was known as Sesshoumaru.
As the sun was setting the world was full of motion. Birds where going back to there nests to rest for the night and lower demons where looking for shelter in a cave or a fitting tree for them out of fear crossing the path of a much stronger demon hunting it's nightly prey. You could even smell the smoke from the nearby village starting there fires to keep warm.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!!" cried a sweet child's voice. He didn't have to look behind to know who it was. It was Rin, but it was not the same little girl he had met all those years ago. Her hair had grown and was now taller. She came up to Sesshoumaru's elbow which was impressive for a 13 year old girl. But something had not changed her eyes. She still had those innocent eyes. They where light brown with a spark of green. Sesshoumaru knew he would have problems in later years with the males.
"What is it Rin." He asked in a clam and emotionless voice. He would never tell a soul how he cared for Rin. In all these years of traveling she had grown of him. He saw her as a daughter. He had saved her numerous times from danger but as she grew she learned how to hunt like a pro and fight like a demon slayer.
"I was getting tired of Jaken wining and nagging about where you went so I decided to look for you." She said happily. "What are you doing up here?" she walked to his side as he kept looking out at his lands. The sun was almost gone and you could feel the night air on your skin. "Thinking" was all he said.
Rin looked up at him and realized he was deep in thought. He always came up here during this time of year. Right before the end of summer and when the air was beginning to cool. "Your thinking about your father aren't you?" she whispered. Sesshoumaru looked down at her with the same cold eyes but inside he was a bit surprised. She was the only one who had realized his movements and could read his eyes.
Yes, he was thinking about his father. His father said even the strongest rulers can be weak and fall to something called love. He didn't hate his father for dieing he hated him for being weak and not seeing what his people needed. They needed a strong ruler not one that goes and falls for a pitiful human woman and gives up his life to save her. Today it had been 75 year since his father's death and out of the two centuries he had lived he had not yet come to realize what pitiful emotion has brought his father to his death. But one thing he knew is that he never wanted to.
"Come Rin." Sesshoumaru said. As they walked down though the forest there was comfortable silence between them. When the forest broke into a clearing they where well come with a worried Jaken. Rin told him not to worry and they where fine. Sesshoumaru just kept walking toward a pair of large stone walls. In between these two walls was a tall wide door. The closer Sesshoumaru got to it the door opened like magic. "Come on Jaken the door might close on you." Rin giggled. When he realized this he ran towards them. "Wait for me M' lord!!" he yelled pitifully. Some things never change.