Author: Oh... Um... Hello! Are.. uhhh.. You reading My Fic! Wow this is a first! And to think No one ever read my other story's! *slaps the laughing Miroku* It's not funny! Just ask them! They think my writings good! *points at Nana-chan, Hoshiko-chan, and elle* They love me!
Miroku: *mumbles* Their the only ones...
Author: *Glares at him surrounded by flames* That's it little boy! I'll teach you!
Miroku: Yipe! o.O *runs from demented author*
Author: Let them decide if they like it! *points at readers* For I shall not post another chapter if I do not get reviews! *Stares at readers* Please review and I will reward you all with new chappies!
Disclaimer: *stares at computer screen* But I want to own InuYasha! But I don't even own my own socks oh wait... *stares at feet* That's right I'm not wearing socks right now... *looks at blue scrunchy lying on the computer* Nope I don't own either of them... they were given to me.... Wahhhhhhhh! *pouts* Oh well on to my story! ^_______^
~*Remember this story is rated R for a reason! For violence, Language, and a few (don't know right now still in the writing process of course) future Lemons! If that bugs someone please e-mail me at the_snow_pixie@yahoo.com just so ya know!*~
Chapter 1
Akiko's Pain
Akiko lingered in the darkened corner of her small room her light blue Kimono not hiding her body from the fight's that continued outside her home in the village. Akiko hated fighting despite all the fights she got into at school because of the way she looked. It wasn't her fault it was her mother's! She blamed everything on her mother. Screams coursed through the wind and the fresh scent of blood floated to her nose incising her to fight. No! She would stay put no matter what this time.
"Damn those wolf demons and my okasan to hell! They deserve what the y are going to get! They cause my pain all of them!" Akiko mumbled to herself fiddling with one of the small braids in her long black hair. Though she carried a weapon a long sword given to her by her mother for protection she could never wield it.
"You'll never be special Akiko. I just don't want you to die on me!" Her mother had told her. Akiko dug one of her claw like finger nails into the flesh of her palm watching the crimson blood with delight. It was growing increasingly darker in the room as night set in. Akiko began to hum a lullaby she had made u plong ago to pass the long dark hours that seamlessly passed by her deep blue eye's. Her eye's were all you could see of her face because she hid her hair and mouth from sight. la la la de de dum humm la de da de da... The door to her room was swung open to reveal a wolf youkai. Akiko closed her eye's and prayed to god that it wouldn't see her or smell her but then it grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up.
"Ahhh! I thought I herd you in hear you teenaged brat!" The demon spat at Akiko's face. A single tear spilled down her face as she got very angry.
"Leave me alone!" Akiko said glaring at the youkai with hatred and fear. She had her hand on the hilt of her sword ready to kill if she had to.
"Be silent! Die in piece like the rest!" It yelled dropping Akiko to the floor.
"Never!" Akiko yelled and pulled her sword from it's sheath. "I'll kill you first!" She ran forward and cut at it fiercely cutting a deep gash in it's cheek. It laughed and cut Akiko down with it's claws. Akiko gasped in pain. So this is it, I'm going to die finely after all these years. With what seemed like her last breath glimpses of what could have been her future came to her and she asked the demon, "Nazy?" and fell to the floor of her room blood pouring from her neck.
As the wolves left Sesshomaru walked into the village the scent of blood that drew him there plus something else. Some other scent was radiating from this place. He walked along content at finding what was different and came across a young teenage girl in a dark corner blood staining the floor around her. He was reminded somehow of Rin though the two looked nothing alike at all. Rin had died a few month's before and Sesshomaru couldn't help but feel responsible for Rin and for some reason this girl as well. Raising Tensaiga he killed the messengers and brought the young girl back.
Akiko awakened startled that she knew she had been dead but now was back. She saw a tall man standing over her and backed back into her corner frightened.
"Who are you and why aren't I dead?" Akiko yelled at him his face stayed calm as he put his sword back in it's sheath.
"No insist. Since I brought you back who are you?" The man asked sitting down on his knees.
"My name is Akiko." Her eye's shone from the sanctity of the scarf that hid her face.
"I am Sesshomaru. You are not dead because I wield the only sword that can bring things back to life Akiko. Does that help?" Sesshomaru said his golden eye's gazing into her blue ones.
"I guess so." Akiko said still confused as her scarf fell off of her head leaving her dog like ears now exposed. She quickly tried to pull it back on but Sesshomaru grabbed her wrist and Akiko immediately stopped for she knew what a Taiyoukai was she just didn't want to anger one.
"Ah so you are a hanyou?" Sesshomaru asked. Akiko nodded and tried once again to grab her scarf but Sesshomaru grabbed it and threw it out of her reach.
"Will you please leave me alone Lord Sesshomaru." Akiko said quickly wanting to leave this desolate place and all her horrid memories behind her. Sesshomaru was slightly taken aback by this but immediately let her go. Akiko quickly scrambled after her scarf and neatly placed it over her head leaving her eye's exposed as they had been before, grabbed her sword and began to make for the door. Sesshomaru was blocking her way out.
"Where are you going to go Akiko without knowing what you actually are?" Sesshomaru asked calmly.
"Lord Sesshomaru I know what I am. I am ashamed by it and if you came from a family such as mine you would hate the fact that you were different too." Akiko said trying to push him out of her way. He merely laughed at her and pushed her back but yanked her scarf off in the process and tore it to shreds. Akiko grumbled and sat folding her legs in her lap her arms stretched out in front of her. "I don't want to stay here!" She yelled at him and sprawled herself across the floor as if she would be bound to that spot forever. Sesshomaru moved from the door frame and muttered.
"Then leave." He began to walk away and Akiko silently followed him. For some small reason he intrigued her and she moved quickly but silently not letting on she was there. She followed him through a small forest until he stopped and turned around looking down at her.
"I knew you were following me but if you don't like me why follow me?" He asked leaning back against a tree. Akiko stood there for a moment then thought out how to say it.
"There is something about you that is very familiar Lord Sesshomaru and I am very much wanting to know what it is." Akiko said and playfully began to run about as Sesshomaru stood there in thought. 'How can I be familiar to her unless when I brought her back Rin's spirit came into her. But why?' Sesshomaru was broken from his thoughts by hearing Akiko's scream from not far ahead. Sesshomaru moved quickly through the tree's to find Akiko on her knee's crying in front of a strange women a sword held to Akiko's throat.
"I hate you!" Akiko yelled at her.
"I should have never given birth to you! Your Emotions are your only flaw! Your nothing!" The women shouted about to take her daughters life for the second time that day. Sesshomaru came forward and stood behind Akiko.
"Let her go." He said. The woman stared at him and then laughed coldly.
"Do you know what your protecting? Do you know this worthless heap of nothing your are standing behind is supposed to my daughter? Do you?" Akiko took this moment to grab the sword from her mother and place it at her mothers throat. Her mother immediately closed her mouth as Akiko opened her.
"I hate you! You have always been the cause of my pain! You and her! No more I can't take it anymore! You spent my child hood learning my one flaw and you torcher me the whole damn time! Damn you to hell for the pain you both have caused me tell her that when you see her!" Akiko said shoveling the blade into her mother's throat watching the blood spill across the grass then the scent tickling her senses making her want more. she dropped the sword and began to run but Sesshomaru caught her around the waist and turned her around to face him.
"Why did you kill your Mother?" He asked confused from hearing the words spoken from this small girl meant with such hate towards everyone. Akiko stared at him tears threatening to spill down her cheeks.
"Lord Sesshomaru what would you have done?" Akiko asked meeting the confusion in his gaze with her own.
"Probably the same." He said and let her go starting to walk away with Akiko trailing him. He finely spoke something meaning full to her.
"You'll never escape your pain Akiko if you can't over come your flaw." Akiko stopped and stared after him for a moment before running quickly out in front of him stopping him.
"Lord Sesshomaru what causes your pain? Not that it's any of my business but..." He silenced Akiko by opening his mouth to speak.
"He is a Hanyou by the name of Inuyasha but he just happens to be my brother." Sesshomaru said looking down at her. She smiled up at him.
"Will I get to meet Inuyasha?" Akiko asked jumping up and down along the trail they were following.
"All in good time Akiko. First I will help you if you will help me." Sesshomaru said moving on down the path.
"Help you with what my lord?" Akiko asked still bouncing around.
"I'll tell you later." He said a smirk playing across his lip's.
"Lord Sesshomaru this is not funny!" Akiko yelled struggling with the rope tied around her feet that was dangling her above the ground. She was blushing horribly trying to keep her Kimono from going over her head. She had woke u pthis morning tied like this Sesshomaru not any where to be seen.
"Somebody help me!" Akiko yelled. She began to wiggle back and forth causing a small silver chain to slip slightly over her head.
"No!" Akiko yelled as it fully left her neck. Her instincts clicked in and as fast lightening she cut the rope with her sword and grabbed her necklace before hitting the ground. She didn't have enough time to slide the necklace over her head and clashed her sword against the one coming down on her from above and rolled out underneath it to and onto her feet to meet the one who had pulled the sword on her.
"Very good Akiko. You pass my little test." Sesshomaru said putting his sword back in it's sheath. Akiko growled angrily at him. She kept breathing heavily, anger over coming her.
"What test! You almost made me lose my necklace!" Akiko yelled getting ready t ocharge at him with her sword.
"What would you rather lose, your life or your necklace?" He asked calmly. Akiko stopped glaring at him and stood up straight putting her sword in it's sheath and her necklace over her head the skeleton key that he had not seen before rested on her chest.
"I thought you would know the answer already. My life is not worth anything if I can not find the reason I found this necklace to begin with Lord Sesshomaru. Does that answer your question or is this another test?" Akiko asked regaining her composure.
"Why does that key matter to you so much?" He asked staring at her. Akiko looked down at the key.
"I found it when I was two when I was playing. Then I stole the chain from... well it's mine. So what was this test about any way?" Akiko said changing the subject.
"I wanted to test your wit's. Soon you will become a true demon Akiko." Sesshomaru said and turned quickly leaving Akiko to follow.
"Lord Sesshomaru when is the next full moon?" Akiko asked running to catch up with him.
"A week from now. Why?" He asked not stopping to even look at her.
"No reason." Akiko said skipping around. "Where are we going?"
"You shall see." He said and Akiko nodded. For some reason she felt much happier around Sesshomaru and her emotions didn't seem to bother her as much. He barely talked to her for the rest of the day which made her a bit jumpy anytime she herd something move around her anywhere. It was soon night fall and Akiko was tired.
"Can we stop yet?" Akiko asked hopelessly.
"No." Sesshomaru said walking faster.
"Ohhhhhhhhhh! But I'm sleepy!" Akiko said and then clumsily tripped over a tree root. "Opppphhhhhhh!" Akiko lay there motionless before getting her breath back. She flipped over onto her side and put her hands under her head. "Please!"
"Fine. Go to sleep." Sesshomaru said and sat down beside a tree watching her mouth curve into a small smile.
"Thank you!" Akiko said and fell to sleep almost instantly. Sesshomaru watched her sleep for awhile then fell to sleep himself.
"Get up! Get up!" Akiko said hyperly. Sesshomaru opened his eye's Akiko was running around with unbelievably fast agility. Suddenly Akiko stopped in front of him holding out a small cooked bird. "Eat! I already had mine! I've been up for at least two hours! You sleep like the dead you know!" Akiko said sitting down in front of him when he took the bird from her. 'She is way to happy.' Sesshomaru thought to himself. "Come on I didn't cook it for you to just stare at it!" Akiko said staring at him curiously. Sesshomaru slowly handed her back the bird. Akiko looked slightly hurt but took it and began to eat it herself. Sesshomaru lifted her chin to make her look at him.
"I don't eat human food." He said and Akiko smiled thoughtfully.
"You should have said so my lord! I would not have cooked for you if I would have known! Why are you staring at me like that? What did I do?" Akiko said eating the rest of the bird a smile on her almost child like face.
"You remind me of someone. A young girl called Rin. She died two months ago I couldn't stop it. It seems you have part of Rin's spirit Akiko." Sesshomaru said watching her eat.
"Why do you say that my lord?" Akiko asked putting down what she could not finish of the bird.
"You act like her." He said. Akiko got up and started going about her work as quick as she could again. She cleaned up the fire she had made and then sat down in thought. 'How can I be two girl's at once? Why me? I mean I don't feel any different. Lord Sesshomaru is probably messing with my head. Ha ha what a funny trick!' She started laughing her thoughts away and collapsed onto the forest floor laughing.
"Akiko that's enough." Sesshomaru said standing up and walking around the small clearing. Akiko immediately stood up and turned at attention.
"Is it time to leave?" She asked picking up a pair of dark blue half gloves putting them on.
"Yes it is." He said and began to walk off with her following quickly behind him.
"Do I get to know where we are going yet?" Akiko asked twiddling with her key.
"No." Sesshomaru said looking down at her smiling face.
"Ok it works for me!" Akiko said starting to hum her lullaby again.