"Inuyasha!" Mid leap the satisfactory grin was wiped from his face as a stone arrow head pierced his shoulder. Flung backwards his prize was taken from his hands in the swiftest of motions. His eyes followed to the bloodied woman with her bow drawn, and the foulest of looks on her face.
"Ki..kyo…" His voice strained against the pain the spread through his veins, straight to his heart. The pain of death did not come to him. A spell casted upon the poor half demon who just wanted to be seen as an equal to other demons. She wanted nothing but a human companion. Deep down, he just wanted to be equal.
"No! You can't do that to him!" Red eyes watched as he was pinned to the tree, arm still reaching out, longing for something he didn't have. He had only one promise to keep, to that red eye'd little rat. A rat he'd made a promise to always be there for no matter what, a rat of a little girl that was just like him.
"Akemi! Damnit you little wolf rat get back here!" The dog eared half demon fled after the red eyed "rat" named Akemi. A half breed just like himself that had been left for dead on the rivers edge after her pack had killed her mother for betraying them to a human. Inuyasha would never made a promise such as this to anyone else. He saw himself when he was small. But at least he had the comfort of his mother's embrace.
"Inuyasha! C'mon! Faster faster!" She was only about ten years in age, but had always explained it to have felt much longer than that. Inuyasha understood as such. While only a half demon he was still as such; a demon. Their years lasted much longer than that of humans, extending their lives ten fold. This was possibly what the girl had meant, but no one ever knew what was going on in her sporadic head.
The two ran, playing a graceful game of tag as a black haired women watched with her own sister. Her jealously raised in her chest as she hugged the fabric of her kimono just over her heart.
"Kikyo, what is wrong?" Chimed in the young girl with a face covered in bandages.
"I love a man not meant for me Kaede. I yearn to see him human. When one who truly loves him would not change him. If only that small girl was more his age." The priestess face never wavered in her sorrow. All while her wise words confused her younger sister. Kikyo held disdain for something she had no control over. She could see the love the girl held for a man far too old for her, a love untainted.
"Why did you hurt him! Inuyasha!" Wiggling from the grasp of the cruel man she shook the now limp lifeless body of Inuyasha. No reply at all, eyes swelled with tears as she clung to his red kimono. Mumbling with her sobs of sadness.
"You promised not to leave, you said you'd protect me!" The last yells were join by a chorus of wolves who joined in her sadness. Just like Inuyasha. Half demon or not the blood still ran through her veins. The wolves would still listen to her. But before any command could be given the same cruel man grabbed her again.
"What's to say she won't turn out just like him?! Kill her as well!"
"No...no harm will come to the girl!" Kikyo protested as she fell to her knees. Kaede not to far behind in worry for her sister. "Burn my body Kaede, the jewel as well. You are now this village's priestess." And her body fell limp to the ground. Cold and dead; Kaede cried, Akemi cried. Two girls left with no family. Yet, here in a world where anything can happen. The story was just beginning.