Be still my mate ch1

She had agreed to everything that Kagome had said. Dealing with walking for miles on end: easy

Fighting to stay alive: no sweat

Having to camp near an open flame... That she had issue with.

iz sat up in a tree watching the group as the burn marks across her chest from the day of her birth started to throb. She could hear the conversation the group had about the new addition. Iz could care less shifting in the tree before closing her eyes in a meditative state.

Flames flickered behind her eyes as it shocked her awake. Flailing her arms as she falls out of the tree awake and rolls to a stop not far from the tree. Everyone looks at her as she sits up sweating looking around. Everyone watched her as they stood guard. Iz shook her head as she stands dusting herself off before rejoining the group.

For the months that she traveled with the group she proved to be a valuable asset to the group. Whatever Kagome couldn't do by way of medical or culinary iz could do and she gladly did. Heck because of her Kagome grew in strength and stamina.

After only an hour of walking Iz stopped short and the east drew her gaze. Kagome saw that Iz took a dagger from her arm and held it in a defensive position. In a flash Kagome and Inuyasha both stood at the ready.

Who else but Naraku happened to appear. Only this time the puppet once gone emitted a gas. While everyone coughed it out Inuyasha who stood closer to Iz swung his blade at her. The streak of silver caught the corner of her eye as she lifted her right arm to block the attack.

The sword stopped at her arm and she had to jump away from him as he swung at her again. They continued there cat and mouse chase till he used the swords "special" attacks. Iz received enough wounds to render her unable to respond.

The gas knocked the Inu out as yet another one of Naraku's puppets took the girl off the ground and away from her team mates.

As the scent of blood grew near he picked his head up to look at the door to the cell. Two lower level demons dragged a female body between them. His hearing picked up on the woman's shallow breathing and her erratic heart beat. Slowly he grew closer to the cell door trying to figure out the girls scent.

One of the creatures banged on the cell door startling the demon causing him to jump back with a growl. His ears picked up a small feminine whimper from the cell next to his. The only thing that separated the two cells a short set of bars.

Now the light in the cells hardly made any difference at all but to the demon he could see as clear as day. Yes his hands and feet were shackled together but he could still make his way over to where his company laid near the bars.

Slowly he reached between the bars and uncovered her face, he watched her twitch with a moan as she opened her eyes.

Iz started growling the best she could when she opened her eyes and couldn't see. She tried to raise her body temp a little to warn off anything un welcoming around her... Only to get a jolt of electricity going through her.

She felt someone touch her and she made to bite at it. She heard a yip and the sound of chains.

"I mean you no harm." A shiver crept up her spine as she tried to sit up. His voice spoke of authority and power, yet it was also soft and gentle as well.

"Where are we?" She asked, letting out a hiss upon feeling the air on her many many wounds.

"In a cave being used as a cell. Your hurt." He looked at her as he spoke, seeing the gash on her arm and the other wounds as well. He watched her as she took her kimono off and tried to tear at it with her teeth. He gave a light chuckle as he watched her.

"Please alow me to help. I can cut it for you." He saw her pause.

"Who are you? And why are you being nice? Don't take it that I'm not grateful for the offer of your help, far from it. But I would like to know my cell mate. Your some kind of canine right?"

He gave a light chuckle at her words.

"Alow me to answer your question onna. I am called Touga, you need help and I'm sure that we have been left to our own devices seeing that the spider brought you here. I am a inu."

He watched her as she moved her head seemingly trying to see the male.

"Touga... You wouldn't happen to have two sons by the name of Sesshomaru and Inuyasha would you?" He looked at her in surprise.

"You know of my sons?"

He saw the small smile she gave him.

"Hai I do. I travel with your youngest in search of the aforementioned spider. Seems that he, the spider and the golem have a past."

She slid the kimono over to him and he saw that she wore a slayers uniform under it.

"Now little onna what about you?" He cut the sleeves off and into strips and placed them back on her side of the cell. She held her hand out to his side and he took it and placed her hands on the kimono and the strips of fabric.

"Thank you. People call me Iz. It's a shortened version of my name. I'm cursed, so if it gets really hot in here I do apologize."

She spoke while wrapping her arm with the gash, she didn't, couldn't see the look he gave her.

"How do you mean cursed?"

" the day I was born was the same day I got caught in a fire." She moved part of her top down at the shoulder so that he could see it. "I was burned from it but somehow the fire merged with my body and soul." She sighed and muttered "that and I died in a fire in my last life" she shook her head and continued.

"I can control and even generate my own fire but I don't like doing that."

Touga could hear the sleepiness in her voice and sat up against the bars.

"You need rest onna. I will guard you the best as I can."

She released a small whimper and she went to lay on her back.

"Thank you Touga-sama. Out of all the demons I know you have the most honor." She gave a yawn. "Why is that?"

Touga kept an ear out for anything or anyone that could approach the cave till the night turned into day allowing the cave to fill with its natural light. He himself got some rest all the while keeping an ear on his cell mate.

Out of nowhere he found himself in the back of his cell, due to his manacles. Growling at the top of his lungs. He watched in horror as the miko walked into the cell Iz occupied.

Iz woke up to the sound of Tougas growling she had time to sit halfway up before being kicked to the grown. Due to the nearness of the golem Iz could not think straight at all head spinning and all that. Her stomach turned as the golems foot kept making contact with her skin, all the while focusing on Tougas growls till the pain knocked her out.

Touga was still growling as he watched Iz slump to the grown but the miko did not let up. He had no idea how long she battered Iz. The miko grew tired of letting her aggression go and left. The manacles released the Inu from the wall and he rushed over to the bars separating the two cell.

"Iz! Iz!" He called out to her desperate to see some kind of response from her. Gripping the bars in his hands he pulled trying to get to the onna. He couldn't explain himself. The desperate ness to get to her. He watched as little rivulets of blood seeped from her mouth.

Had he been able to see himself he would be shocked to find his stripes going from smooth to jagged, his hair puffing up much like an angry cat. His eyes started to bleed red around the pupil. Both him and his beast roared willing to get to there mate. They knew her, her very soul cried out to them to help her, to heal her.

Touga became hyper focused on his mate that he didn't see the spider looking into his cell. He didn't see nor hear the cell door become unlocked nor the underlings come to drag him away.

He fought trying to get to his mate, calling, screaming her name at her all the while. As the underlings pulled him backwards he screamed her name one last time, unknowingly screaming her real name.

"IZAYOI"