Chapter One:
Blinded by the Nightmares
A/N: I just wanted to say thank you for reading this. This is my first Inuyasha story that I have posted on here. So, sorry if it's stupid or annoying. Don't review it if you don't like it. It irritates me when people only review it to tell me how much they hate it. But, if I missed some punctuation or if I have any spelling errors, please let me know. Don't be afraid to tell me. Anyway, I hope you enjoy! Oh, and if my character is a little too Mary-Sue for you, then you don't have to read it. Also, sorry if it all sounds lame...
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, it's characters, or it's locations. I only own Rayne Mitsunami, Kiba, and Rayne's swords.
"Don't be so naive, Wolf-Demon! There's more to her than just her combat skills. I need her to complete my heart." Naraku said during one of his weekly torments of the wolf-demon tribe.
"I'm not going to allow my daughter to join forces with you, villain. I don't care how much your heart desires her. Now, be gone!" Isamu, father to Rayne and husband to Aaralyn said angrily as he blocked Naraku from entering their shrine.
"Move aside, Wolf!" Naraku said angrily as he kicked the elder wolf-demon to the floor, knocking the wind out of him.
"Lets go, Kiba. We've got to get out of here." Rayne said as they snuck out the back, hoping to be unseen by the enemies.
A few seconds later, as Rayne and her wolf companion, Kiba, hid in the bushes, they heard crashing and glass shattering as screams and pleads followed.
Rayne had suddenly realized her parents were in trouble, so she hurried inside while Kiba followed.
"Stop! Leave them alone! If you spare their lives, you can take me!" Rayne said frantically as Naraku drew his sword and pointed it at her father's throat.
"Just as beautiful as always, Rayne. Unfortunately, your parents disrespected me, so I'll have to kill them." Naraku said as he held the blade of his sword in the attack position.
"No! Please!" Rayne pleaded to the half-demon.
But it was too late. First, he struck her father across the neck as his decapitated head rolled towards them. Then came her mother. He stabbed her in the stomach, then decapitated her as well.
"N-no!" Rayne yelled as tears began streaming down her face.
"Now that there's no more interference, come with me." Naraku said as he guided her towards the door.
"Not on your life, you monster!" Rayne said angrily as she slipped away from him and ran out the door and kept running, not daring to stop and catch her breath or turn around.
"Don't think you can you can hide from me, Rayne. Your scent and my saimyosho can track you down in a heartbeat." Naraku said, blocking Rayne from continuing.
Kiba suddenly jumped between them, growling and baring his fangs, trying to scare the half-demon off.
"No, Kiba! He'll kill you! Go hide!" Rayne told the wolf, frightened for his life.
But he didn't listen. He continued to growl and bare his fangs at the half-demon.
With a quick swing of his sword, Naraku slashed the wolf across the chest, causing him to slide across the ground quite a ways away.
"NO!" Rayne screamed as she suddenly woke up as her screams reverberated off the walls of the cave she lived in.
Drenched in sweat with all the images still playing freshly in her mind, Rayne looked around the cave, which had been slightly lit by the dying camp fire, to see a lump of fur sleeping soundly.
Good, it was only a dream. Except it was real. It happened four years ago, but I still have nightmares of it.
Letting Kiba sleep, Rayne decided to take a walk to get her mind off of everything except the mission ahead: to kill Naraku and avenge the death of her tribe. She wanted more than anything to take him down, but she hasn't been lucky so far.
Sitting on the edge of the cliff with her feet dangling over the side, Rayne kept picturing her parents and how their reactions would be if they saw how strong she has gotten. But all of that had disappeared when the images of her decapitated parents haunted her thoughts. All the blood splatteredon the walls along with the blood that dripped off Naraku's sword.
To control her anger, Rayne bit her hand until it bled and she watched it run down her arm and drip onto the ground. Before her parents had been killed, she had been afraid of blood and pain. But, after Naraku slaughtered them in front of her, she became immune to everything. She barely ever felt pain anymore.
"I will avenge your deaths and kill Naraku someday. That's a promise!" Rayne whispered towards the starry sky.
How can I make such a promise when Naraku is so hard to find? His scent has disappeared from the skies and he hasn't shown up in months. How can I find someone who doesn't want to be found?
Rayne's thoughts gradually consumed her as the sun had begun to rise, leaving her yet another sleepless night.
As Rayne went down to the river to catch some fish for breakfast, she continued to think about the past and how she could avenge her parents' death. But as she gathered the fish she had caught, she noticed a little girl further up the river trying to catch fish.
"Pathetic." Rayne snarled as she watched the human girl attempt to grab the fish with her bare hands, but failed since the fish were too slippery.
Unfortunately, the human girl caught sight of Rayne and headed straight for her, causing Rayne to head back to her cave earlier than she had planned.
"What's wrong, Rin?" Lord Sesshomaru, a dog yokai, asked in his low, soft voice.
"I saw someone. Just down the river, Lord Sesshomaru." Rin said, pointing towards the spot where Rayne had been standing.
Rin is an orphan girl who had survived while her family was slain by thieves. She, too, had been slain once, but by another wolf-demon tribe led by Koga. But Rin had been given a second chance at life when Lord Sesshomaru used Tenseiga to bring her back from the underworld. Since then, Rin had been tagging along side Lord Sesshomaru and his Imp servant, Jaken.
"Did you know them?" Sesshomaru asked curiously.
"No I didn't. She looked like a wolf-demon, though." Rin said.
"A female wolf-demon?" Sesshomaru asked, more to himself than Rin or Jaken, as he headed to the spot that Rin pointed to.
"What do you sense, M'lord?" Jaken asked when he followed Sesshomaru.
But Sesshomaru didn't answer him. He continued to look off in the distance towards the forest where the scent seemed to be coming from.
"What should we do, Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin asked curiously.
When Rayne reached the cave, she had been completely out of breath. As soon as she rested, she began to cook the fish that she had caught, the smell waking Kiba up.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to wake you." Rayne said to the wolf, who looked happily back at her.
Why are you out of breath? Did you run back or something?
The voice had made Rayne jump, causing one of the fish to topple over.
"Who-who's there?" Rayne asked to the darkness.
It's me, my dear Rayne. I've told you before that you can't escape my saimyosho. I can easily find you whenever I want. It's been a while, hasn't it? Yet, you're just as attractive as always.
"So, you're brave enough to speak to me, yet...you're too cowardly to show your face? Playing dirty, I see." Rayne said angrily.
Oh, it's not you that I'm hiding from. Lord Sesshomaru is in the vicinity and it's something I'm not willing to risk.
"What, are you intimidated by him? I doubt he's a person who'd be intimidating." Rayne said to the darkness.
How can you defend him when you don't even know who he is?
"I know that he's a dog demon. I can smell that, plus, I've heard that he walks around with a little Imp named Jaken." Rayne said as she sat down upon the ground as she continued to cook the fish.
So, you don't know much about him, do you? If you had come with me the day your parents were killed, you'd know more about your enemies.
"You mean the day you killed my parents. I can't judge someone just by their scent and companions, so I can't call them my enemies." Rayne said as she handed three of the fish to Kiba.
Well then, I'll be seeing you again someday.
It had appeared that he left. Realizing this, Rayne sighed a satisfied sigh.
"Pathetic." Rayne said as she took a bite of her fish.
But, that's when she noticed it, the smell of the dog yokai. It was strong enough to overpower the fish. It appeared to be getting stronger as well as the smell of human.
Kiba could smell it too, which caused him to start growling as soon as it got strong enough for them to realize that they were approaching the cave.
"Let's go." Rayne said as they quickly slipped out, leaving the rest of their fish behind.
"The smell of wolf is still strong in the air over here." Sesshomaru said softly as they entered the cave.
"Hey look, Lord Sesshomaru! Already cooked fish!" Rin said excitedly as she ran over to the fire pit.
"Ish shtill hot too!" Jaken said through a mouthful of fish.
"Which means they were here just recently." Sesshomaru said quietly.
"Who, M'lord?" Jaken asked curiously as he continued to stuff his face.
But as usual, Sesshomaru ignored him and exited the cave swiftly as he continued to follow the scent of the wolves.
"Jaken." Sesshomaru said when he reentered the cave.
"Yes, M'lord?" Jaken asked.
"Stay here with Rin." Sesshomaru said.
"But, where are you going?" Jaken asked, but Lord Sesshomaru had already left.
Where are you? Why have you disappeared again?
"Damn it! In our hurry to get out of there, I left my damn sword. Sorry Kiba, but I have to go back." Rayne said as she suddenly stopped, then turned around and headed back.
"What's that, Master Jaken?" Rin asked the imp who had picked up some kind of sword.
"Some kind of sword. None that I've ever seen before. I wonder what it does?" Jaken wondered loudly.
Swinging the sword to the side, Jaken had decided to test it, only to witness a ball of light shoot out of it, hitting the side of the cave wall, causing it to start to crumble.
"Uh-oh." Rin said as the entrance collapsed before they had a chance to escape.
"Next time I see a suspicious looking sword, I'll know then to never touch it or even touch it." Jaken said.
"Help! Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin yelled loudly as it echoed through the darkness of the cave.
"I don't think anyone can hear us, Rin. We're trapped! We're going to die!" Jaken said dramatically.
"No, we're not! Lord Sesshomaru will come and save us. He always does, so don't give up hope Master Jaken!" Rin said confidentally.
"What the--" Rayne began once she saw the entrance to the cave.
"Did you hear that, Rin? Someone's outside the cave!" Jaken said excitedly.
"HELP! HELP US!" Rin yelled towards the collapsed entrance.
Someone's inside.
"HEEELPPP USSSS!" Jaken said loudly.
"Stand back! I'm going to blast a hole in these rocks!" Rayne said loudly as she pulled out her sword and raised it.
"Okay, we're ready!" Rin hollered back.
Stabbing her sword into the middle of the rocks, Rayne activated the disintegrator, causing all the rocks blocking the cave entrance to disappear without a trace.
"Y-you saved us! Thank you!" Rin said excitedly.
"Why did you save us?" Jaken asked, curiously.
"I only came back for my sword. I didn't intentionally save you." Rayne said.
"Oh, you mean this?" Jaken asked as he held it out for her to take.
"You used it, didn't you? You caused the cave to collapse! This isn't a toy, little imp. You could've killed your companion!" Rayne yelled at the imp angrily.
"S-sorry." Jaken stuttered.
What? The scent of the wolves have shifted directions. It's leading back towards the cave.
Turning around, Sesshomaru headed back towards the cave where Rin and Jaken had been hiding, hoping that nothing had happened to them.
"You're the wolf-demon I saw down at the river earlier, aren't you?" Rin asked curiously.
"I don't know what you're talking about, girl." Rayne said as she turned to leave, but Rin stopped her.
"Please don't go. You should join us. Help us catch this Naraku guy." Rin pleaded.
"No. The only people I'm fighting for is myself and my tribe. You'll just be a burden to me." Rayne said.
Suddenly, out of the blue, Kiba started growling as he stared off towards the forest.
"I smell it too. A dog demon's headed this way. Let's go, Kiba." Rayne said, and in a flash, they were gone.
"Wait! Dog demon?" Rin asked curiously.
"Lord Sesshomaru! Where have you been?" Jaken asked once Sesshomaru approached them.
"Jaken, where'd she go?" Sesshomaru asked bluntly.
"Rin? She's over there." Jaken said, pointing to the orphan girl.
"Not her. The wolf-demon." Sesshomaru said sharply.
"She headed off that way." Jaken said, pointing towards the direction Rayne went.
"You should ask her to join us, Lord Sesshomaru. She saved us when the cave entrance collapsed!" Rin pleaded.
"Why would you make such a suggestion, silly girl? The wolf-demon already said she didn't want to join us." Jaken said.
"You talked to her?" Sesshomaru asked curiously.
"Yes we did, M'lord. But she left once she sensed you coming." Jaken said.
Why did you take off? Are you afraid of me?
"What are we going to do, Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin asked curiously as Sesshomaru stared off into the distance.
Her scent is growing weaker by the minute. The further she goes into the forest, the more her scent disappears.
"Lord Sesshomaru, are you going to go after her?" Jaken asked curiously.
She showed Jaken and Rin some compassion by saving them. Why would she go to such great lengths by saving someone else's companions?
"Let's go." Sesshomaru said as he took off towards the forest.
'I wonder what his intentions are.' Jaken thought as he followed Sesshomaru into the forest.
A/N: There...There's the first chapter. I hope y'all like it. Sorry if it sounds so lame, but...I hope you like it anyway. Anywho...more to come later.