Crescent Moon

AN: New story! I haven't watched Inuyasha in ever, so some characters, personalities, and descriptions might be off or wrong. Pleas understand as Inuyasha was the first anime I watched, and I still haven't finished it cause I didn't know there was Final Act…

Also, ignore my overuse of dialogue in the beginning. I need to get into it before I can describe much.

Anyways, enjoy! And Show me some love and actually let me know you are reading instead of going right to my story traffic!

"Jaken, take Rin and go on ahead."

"But milord-"

"Jaken."

"Going milord! Rin, c'mon!" The small green demon ran ahead, the small girl ran after him, pulling the horse-serpent, Ah-Un, behind her.

"Who's he?" I asked the girl with the large boomerang. She looked at me for a second, then remembered I was new to the group.

"That's Inuyasha's older half-brother, Sesshomaru. You'll see in a minute that they don't get along very well." She described the other silver haired demon standing in front of us. Her small twin-tailed cat, Kirara, popped up on my shoulder, mewing at me before jumping over into Sango's arms.

"Brother." His voice was cold and stoic. I took a deep breath and registered that he was also a full-fledged dog demon.

"Sesshomaru." Inuyasha snarled, pulling the scrawny sword from its sheath. A glowing light enhanced it, adding a tuft of fur to the gigantic sword. He rushed his older brother, being blocked by another sword, this one not so magnificent and overdone. His emotion didn't change, he moved as if he was only practicing, watching himself in a mirror to make sure the moves were as graceful as possible.

"Should we assist him?" I asked, only trying to pay back the half-demon for allowing me to join the five-person/demon group.

"We let them fight it out. Sesshomaru never wins." I would realize what the tiny fox demon said was true in a few minutes, even though the demon seemed much stronger than the younger brother.

One of the other two in our group was standing just outside the 'battlefield,' looking extremely worried. The last, Miroku the monk, was standing on the other side of Sango, watching the fight and ignoring our conversation.

When Sesshomaru finally let up on his younger brother, he mentioned something to the half-demon before walking off, silver hair flowing as he moved away. I moved to the back, allowing Inuyasha to boast about his win, messing with Shippo, the fox demon, while Kagome, Sango, and Miroku chatted. I could still smell the remnants of pure scent of Sesshomaru mixed with the muddy fumes of the half demon. I shifted the metal I wore over my shoulder, trailing behind.

I stood up from where I had been laying, listening to make sure all the breaths were even and slow. I pulled myself up onto a branch, jumping from bough to bough, making my way to where the battle had taken earlier. I admired the long scars made by the Tetsusaiga's Wind Scar, walking to where the older brother had stood the longest. A whiff of his scent still remained. I was too refined to get down on the ground like I had seen Inuyasha do, instead, I walked forward, following the strongest scent.

I had already walked quite a while before the scent became considerably stronger. I picked up my pace, running along on the ground in the same direction I had been for a while. Suddenly, it disappeared. I took a few steps back and followed it more closely, finding that it did almost just evaporate, but when I took a deeper breath, I found that it had lifted up into the air. Cautious now, I pulled flames to my feet and pulled myself upward, finding the scent with a little more difficulty.

When it finally began to descend, I found that three other scents had joined the first, and a large clawed foot print led the way. Instead of overusing my nose, I trailed these, finding that the trail had become much fresher whenever I took a breath.

"Who are you?" The demon asked me, his face calm and-almost-peaceful.

"I-I'm Kuro. You're Sesshomaru, right?" He didn't answer my question, yet stated his own.

"You were with that half-demon earlier."

"Yes. Isn't he your brother?"

"That disgraceful, revolting half-demon is not my brother." A small green demon ran up beside the demon, holding a staff four times his size.

"I'll handle her, milord!"

"Jaken, she is no harm to me. She doesn't even wield a weapon." I barely stifled a smile at his rejection of his servant.

"No, I can protect myself, but I choose not to provoke any unneeded battles." I defended myself, but tried to do it without sounding annoyed.

"Sesshomaru-sama, she had hair like yours!" A young girl ran out from behind him. I was surprised to find her scent human, though a full-fledged demon like this, who hates even a half-demon, wouldn't stand for a complete mortal, would he?

"Rin, come back here." Sesshomaru ordered, a slight scent of fear reached me. He isn't afraid of me hurting the little girl, it he?

"It's alright, I don't mind." I knelt down to the small girl, allowing her to examine my long silver braid before twisting her own hair. I whispered to her, "It's long enough to braid, if you'd like." Her face lit up at this, though I considered adding something else, "If 'Sesshomaru-sama' doesn't mind." I looked up at him a flashed a small smile, but the girl was out of my arms in a moment and broke his look of slight surprise, pleading to allow me to stay. He didn't say anything though, but the small girl-Rin- ordered the green demon to lead Ah-Un as she grabbed my hand and pulled me along behind. I stumbled at first, then walked behind her fluidly, half-listening to her explain everything about how Sesshomaru-sama saved her from a wolf attack. The other half of me was busy staring at Sesshomaru, who was striding along confidently ahead.

AN: Wouldn't Rin be the one to care more about hair styles than possible danger?

Next chapter might take awhile. I need to rewatch some episodes of Inuyasha and work on Triple Threat. Next chapter of TT is probably going to pop up on Saturday, unless you guys show some sign of reading it!

CM won't be up until I watch enough episodes to get back into the Fuedal Era.

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