Title: Change of Heart
Chapter 1: Battle
Summary: He said that he hated humans and half-breeds. But he didn't know that it was possible to fall in love with what he hated. What happens when Sesshomaru finds an injured girl in a forest, and not just any girl?
Disclaimer: me: Oh my god! This is my first romantic Inuyasha fanfic.
Inuyasha: Right and?
me: I'm just saying.
Inuyasha: Can we just get on with the disclaimer and story?
me: Fine, you can do the disclaimer then...
Inuyasha: What!
me: You're the one who insisted on speeding up.
Inuyasha: Fine whatever. YWD doesn't own anything to do with Inuyasha which includes the tv show and manga and movies.
me: See that wasn't so bad.
Inuyasha: Hmph.
me: Anyway, lets start the show.
Story: During the middle of the night, at the base of a cliff near a forest, there's a battle. Wolf demons vs. shadow demons, which are fierce demons, all black, with razor sharp claws, red eyes, which if you look into them directly then who will see your own death by this creature. They also have sharp teeth and a very bad adittude. All they want to do is kill. The shadow demons had just attacked the wold demon tribes, blades clashed, along with claws and fangs, there are many cries of pain and death, and there's the smell of blood all over the place.
Among the wolf demons were three of the best warriors, Kouga who moved with such speed and power. Ayame who attacks with leaves and wind. And Hiroku who happens to be a half-demon. She is about fourteen years old, with a hair color of blue mixed with a light pink, it's held in a high ponytail and goes a little bit lower than her hips. Her eyes are an ice blue color mixed with silver, she has three wolf tails and wolf ears on her head, they are a greyish-white color along with her clothes which look very simalier to Ayame's, the only difference is in color. She also woar a very light brown small side bag around her waste. (what's in it, you'll find out soon)
"Are you guys ready?" Kouga asked the two of them. These three had been standing on a rock just as the two forces had collided.
"Of course." Ayame stepped up beside Kouga.
"Then let's do it..." Hiroku gripped her staff tight in her hand. Hiroku uses a staff that's about as tall as her and she's just a little shorter then Kouga. It's made from a hard wood called Diunk which is one of the strongest wood in the world, used for making an extremly dangerous weapon. But it's moslty made for those who have tremendous power. The top is a golden circular shape with a white crystal which is secured in the middle of it. She also has the power to control the eight elements, being, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Electricity, Ice, Dark and Light.
When she calls upon the power, she can transform her staff into certain weapons that wok with each element, all she has to do is throw the staff into the air and call out the weapon of choice. But there are secrets of her power that not even Hiroku knows about.
Ayame and Kouga both ran off the rock and started attacking the shadow demons, while Hiroku studied the area. "Hm... rocks are nearby but so is the forest, so fire won't work, other wise, I'll set the entire forest on fire..."
"Hiroku! Look out!" came the voice of Kouga pointing to a demon coming up behind her.
She noticed this and jumped off the rock and landed onto the ground. Then she threw her staff in the air and called out, "Thunder pyke!" then a flash appeared for a few seconds, once gone a pyke fell and she reached up and grabbed it tightly in her hand. The body of the pyke is dark brown wood and is smooth. The blade takes on the shape of a lighting bolt, along the handle is a carving of a thunder bolt going from the bottem of the actual weapon to the bottem of the blade. "Take this!" she shouted slashing the demon down the middle and it collapsed as the blood poured out from its body.
Kouga zipped by attacking every demon that he ran into, while Ayame stood on a nearby rock and attacked with her deadly leaves.
"Hey, half-breed? Getting tired yet?" asked one of the wolf-demons in a mocking kind of way.
"No way!" she yelled back attacking many demons, slashing them as she past them.
"Half-breed huh?" snickered one of the demons that Hiroku happened to be in battle with. "I never knew that I would have the pleasure of killing a worthless half-breed." it snickered once again.
"Don't call me a half-breed!" she jumped up and attacked the shadow demon but he moved so her pyke hit him in the shoulder, instead of his head. Thisyoukai seemed to be stronger than the other ones, was he their leader? Hiroku attacked once again but the demon continued dodging every attack.
"Is that all you got!" it continued to mock her as he brought his clawed hand down on her, hitting the young hanyou. The claws swipped her arm and moved across her chest, though her armor protected her chest, and it continued moving onto her other arm, letting blood stream down onto the ground darkening the dirt. The attack had pushed her away but she still managed to stand up.
Hiroku gripped the pyke in both her hands, then running towards the demon she managed to hit him in the arm tearing the skin open and letting the blood come out. She made a quick turn and headed back, jumping up into the air above the demons head, she brought down the thunder pyke for the final blow. Unfortunatly theshadow youkaisuspected this and moved aside, so when Hiroku came down infront of him, he took his other claw and slashed her again, cutting her legs, neck and face.
More blood dribbled down reddening her fur and dripping onto the ground. She had small cuts on her face and was breathing heavily. Hiroku stood in a defence stance with the pyke in front of her, both her hands tightly holding onto the body of the weapon.
"Hm... You're the leader am I right?" she said to it with some confidense though in reality she was a bit nervous and scared, but only a bit.
"You are correct half-breed... I've never lost any battle and have killed many of your comrades. And now I get the pleasure of killing a half-demon." he chuckled doing so. Once again he raised his claw in preparation of the attack.
"I have to help her..." Kouga glanced over to Hiroku. "As soon as I'm done here, I'll..." he thought worringly as he continued attacking demons and helping out other wolf demons take down bigger or stronger ones.
"Just let her go! She's only a half-demon!" said another wolf demon, who had just destroyed a shadow creature with one final kick to the head, which broke the demon's neck. "No one cares about her."
"You're wrong..." Kouga said with anger growing in his eyes. "Look out!" he attacked a demon who happened to come by.
"Shadow demon. Today you will die." she waited for her time. "I'll defeat you!"
"I'd like to see you try!" it ran towards her, both claws out in front. "Take this!" he attack with a deadly blow, Hiroku had ducked, though one of the claws had cut her throat/chest area letting more blood stain her fur.
"Neh..." little did the demon realize that she had plunged her pyke right into the stomach of the him.
"Wh-wh-wha-?" he shuttered as Hiroku pulled her weapon out and the demon backed away holding it's claw up to the wound. "You..." he quickly turned and ran into the nearby forest.
Hiroku followed him, killing any shadow demons who got in her way.
"Hiroku!" shouted Kouga.
"I'm going after him... he's the leader, and he's gonna pay for what he's done." she said angerily looking back at Kouga for a moment then chasing after the evil demon. But she wondered why they have attacked the wolf demon tribe. They've done nothing wrong to these cold blooded killers.
She chased it deep into the forest, as she moved every cut burned as pain shot through her body, but Hiroku wouldn't let that stop her. Then she met the 'cold blooded killer' as she put it in the middle of the forest in a small clearing.
"Why have you attacked us!" she asked growing mader by the second.
"Wouldn't you like to know you pathetic excuse for a half-breed!" the demon looked at her with it's red eyes.
Hiroku looked in its eyes and saw her own death, blood covered her entire body, her eyes wide with fear. They looked cold and empty, she looked pale, her skin white as snow, she's laying in a pool of her own blood. Hiroku gasped at the sight of her own death, but remaind aware of her surroundings.
"Ha! Now you know what your death will be like. And I must say that it will be painful." he lunged at her, and Hiroku wouldn't move, she couldn't figure out why, she wanted to but it was like she was frozen in time. He attacked her with great force cutting deep gashes into her legs and arms, her armor protected her well, it had scratches and dents. After this blow she fell to her knees.
"Come on... I can do this..." she told herself standing up finally able to move.
"What?" the demon looked surprised at the fact that she could move. Was it becauseof herpower or her will to live? Which ever one he didn't like it. "Why can you still move!" he growled at her.
"Because, I have the power that will allow me to defeat you." Hiroku ran towards him yelling the whole way, then jumping up and over the demon she thrusted the pyke into the back of the demon.
"GAH...!" he felt the entense sting of the pyke.
Holding the thunder pyke in the demon's back she called out to the power of Electricity. "Thunder Strike!" she called out as a strike of lighting hit the bottem of her weapon and sent energy surging through the body and into the demon.
"Why didn't Naraku warn us of this half-demon who weilded so much power!" was the last thing that he said, and then he exploded, pieces flying everywhere, as Hiroku landed onto the ground, kneeling she breathed in and out. The young hanyou wasen't sure how much more she could endure, she had to many injuries to her legs and arms, plus a few on her neck. Is this the end she wondered. And who is this Naraku?
Then she looked up at the trees in front of her, and had seen a demon walk out and stare at her. "Another one huh?" she stood up shaking a bit and put the pyke in front of her. The demon wore a white kimono with armor and a fluffy tail. He had long silver hair and golden eyes. He also had a bluecresent moon on his forhead and to maroon stripes on his cheecks."Why are you attacking us?" she asked him unaware that he has no idea of what she's taking about. "Who is Naraku and why did he send you here!" she asked once again holding her weapon up.
"I assure you that I, Lord Sesshomaru have nothing to do with Naraku." he told her a bit irritated, to him what she said was an insult.
"Hm." Hiroku didn't think about this much. She never really did, when she gets mad, she usually won't think about the important details. "You..." she charged at him, the thunder pyke out in front of her. But by the time that Hiroku had reached the spot that Sesshomaru had been occuping, he had already moved. "What the-?" once behind her he used his whip of light which in turn, hit her in the back.
She noticed that he was fast, but she remaind confident. He continued hitting her with his whip, she used the pyke and blocked the attacks. "I can't get close enough, so..." once Sesshomaru stopped whipping, Hiroku took this as her chance. Pointing the blade of the pyke to the dark sky, she held it up in one hand and closed her eyes. "Lighting bolt!" then many small bolts of lighting came crashing down onto different spots. "This should get him." but to her dislike, the demon lord managed to dodge every hit then within seconds came up close and grabbed her throat. He threw Hiroku along with her weapon to the ground a few feet away from him.
Landing on her side she tried to get up. She looked over to her thunder pyke sitting beside her as it glowed for a second and turned back into a staff. And Hiroku knew that meant that she had very little power left. Blood had dripped all over the place. Sesshomaru looked at her. What power she had. He had to admit that she wasn't half bad.
"Lord Sesshomaru." Hiroku had noticed a small green toad like demon walk out of the forest followed by a little girl with browny-blacky hair and kept some of it in a messy side ponytail. "What is that?" asked Jaken looking over to Hiroku.
"Huh..." then little girl known as Rin ran behind Sesshomaru. "She's a..." Rin couldn't even say it. After watching what happened to the villagers who were attacked by wolves, seeing a wolf demon in front of her frightened her abit.
"A wolf demon." said Jaken observingly.
"Hmph. I'm not a full wolf demon." she said not looking at any of them. Hiroku was never really afriad to admitt to being a half-demon, she just hated it when people would continie calling her that instead of using her name.
"Huh? You're a half demon then?"
"Couldn't you tell."she made a quiet snicker.
"How dare you attack Lord Sesshomaru!"
"I could barely smell the human blood because she's covered in so much blood already." thought Sesshomaru.
"You should be killed you little-"
"Jaken, step away." the demon lord spoke with a deep voice, and Jaken stepped aside.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin called to him as he walked over to Hiroku. He looked down at the injured hanyou and the staff beside her.
"So you're not with Naraku?" she asked tilting her head up a bit as she attempted to sit up but got no where.
"Don't insult me."
"Why don't you kill me then... I, a half-demon attacked you." she couldn't move. "I don't have the energy any more anyway." she said. "But, I want to defeat him..."
Sesshomaru knelt down and cupped her chin in his hand. There was something about this girl. Hirkou looked at him, his eyes are hard to read. To her it looked like he was scanning her or something. He looked into her eyes, and discovered what power she had, also why she spoke the way she did. It was because she's different.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken looked a bit confiued as to what was going on.
Sesshomaru stood up. She's so close to death, and yet he can sense her will to keep on living. Then he noticed that she was trying to get up. Hiroku managed to kneel and she continued to push herself. "I will defeat this Naraku" she knew that she couldn't die until he was destroyed.
The great demon lord continued to watch her, until he felt the Tenseiga pulsing within the sheathe. He pulled it out and held in front of him, stairing at it as it continued pulsing. Could Tenseiga want him to save the half-breed laying so close to death in front of him? Hiroku titled her head up slightly her vision blurred but she could still see the sword.
"Does he plan to kill me?" she wondered, but then as she continued looking at the sword, she noticed a white light, an aura surrounding the blade. And then, for some reason, Hiroku believed that this sword was no threat. Closing her eyes, she layed back down onto the ground, as if waiting for something.
"Hm... Tenseiga, do you wish that I save this girl?" he didn't think about it long, he didn't know why but, Sesshomaru had decided to save her. Bringing the sword up, almost above his head, he brought it down with a quick slash. Hiroku could feel her wounds healing, her strength began coming back to her, she felt stronger than ever.
Sheathing the Tenseiga, Sesshomaru walked past her.
"Sire," Jaken walked up beside him as did Rin. "do you think it wise to revive that half-demon?" Jaken questioned but didn't get any answer from the Inu youkai. The three of them walked into the forest and disappeared from sight, leaving Hiroku on the ground sleeping.
me: Hey people! Sorry if this chapter seems a little short, but it was just the begining. The next chapter should be longer.
Inuyasha: That's what everyone says, and what happens? You get, yet another short chapter.
me: Don't jinx me!
Inuyasha: I don't have to, you can do that yourself!
me: Watch it! Or, are you just mad that you won't get matched up with Hiroku?
Inuyasha: I'm not mad because of that!
Kagome: You had better not be!
me: Sorry about that everyone. But this chapter was to explain about Hiroku and what's going on. So, see you in the next chapter!