Chapter One: The Black Inu
A new fallen snow met the winter dawn, and so did sobs of mourning. The trees carried the voice out, and many wondered the source of the voice that carried the sad tale of death and despair.
Not that far away, was a small hut. The hut was nestled between the edge of the forest and the river. It was a small river, and despite the cold, it still flowed. About 20 feet into the woods, was a woman. This woman was the origin of the sad voice that haunted the forest. She filled the sky with her personal song of death. The woman had raven hair, a thin build, and fair skin. Her Kimono was white as the snow she walked on, and faded to red towards the bottom. But this deep red was not from dye. No, it was from blood. She had given birth to two stillborn pups, and she was out in the cold weather giving them release back into the heavens. A fire was building, and when it was large enough, she knelt down, swaddled her pups each in a soft white blanket, kissed them on the forehead, and lovingly placed them in the fire. The woman sang a song as the wind picked up their ashes and spread them through the sky. The song was sad, but upbeat. She would one day see her pups again. Her song ended, and two orbs, their souls emerged from the fire. They floated around their mother momentarily, before floating to the tree line and disappearing.
"Sayounara" she cried to the sky, and collapsed in a heap on the forest floor...
A month later, the woman was in a village. To a normal person, this would look like an average trading village along a river. But this was no ordinary village. This village was of demons, where demons of different origins lived peacefully alongside one another. And this woman was no ordinary human. She was a black Inu demon.
Upon reaching the village, she was badgered by sellers to buy products that were homemade or otherwise. Black magic, white magic, clothes that gave you powers. You name it, they had it. But what really got to her was that she kept seeing demon children play and run freely without a care in the world. The nearest building to her was a bathhouse, and so she ducked inside to escape the memories of a month prior.
~meanwhile~
"Lord Sesshoumaru!" a green imp called after a tall figure clad in white, but didn't receive a reply. He sighed, and turned to a two headed dragon and a human girl.
"Master Jaken, are we going to wait for Sesshoumaru-sama down by the river?"
"No, insolent child! I am to take you to Inuyasha's village, once again. How many times do I have to tell you?" He cried, waving his staff of two heads around. Rin and Jaken scurried on the dragon, and they instantly took to the sky.
Sesshoumaru, the Taiyoukai of the western lands, has just smelled a female inu. This was an inu whose scent did not register with him, and so he decided to follow the scent towards the village at the base of the hill.
Stepping into the village, he was able to catch a stronger scent of the inu. It was lilac, with a hint of cinnamon. A peaceful and tantalizing scent to the nose, but with a slight kick. As he walked through a street behind the market, he caught sight of her, the black haired woman that had been plaguing his nose. But she saw him quicken his pace, and she began to run out of the village. Sesshoumaru quickly followed, but lost sight and scent of her. He still ran after her, or rather he ran in the same direction. About 50 feet into the forest, he saw movement, and decided to move through the trees.
The woman reached the forest, covered her scent, and burst through the forest, ducking under low branches and jumping over thorny bushes. Her bloody kimono kept getting caught, so she discarded it, leaving only her bindings to cover her intimate areas. Granted, she was more visible now, with the blood that was absorbed, moving through the waking forest from the long winter. Thinking she had lost the Taiyoukai, She jumped into a large oak tree, and waited for a scent to pass her nostrils.
Unfortunately for her, she did not expand her senses to see where he was. When she figured she had lost him, she jumped down from the tree, and relaxed a bit. Only then did she realize her mistake, as Sesshoumaru jumped on top of her, and wrestled her to the ground. He straddled her, and pinned her arms above her head, making an escape quite improbable.
He was finally able to get a good look at this inu that he didn't recognize. Her face was adorned with a stripe along each cheek, a cloudy grey. She was struggling against him, and only after he growled did she stop moving to stare into his eyes. Her eyes were a shockingly bright purple, and her face held a scar that went across the left eye. It was from a claw, he deduced. As he studied this female's face, his mask covering his emotions dropped, as his mouth began to gape.
"Kagome? Is that you?" He asked in disbelief.
~End Chapter 1~
F.P.-Hello my fanfiction readers! It's me again, and yes, this is a new story. How is it so far? I'd like to have comments. The characters are speaking to me, and hopefully by the time I am able to decode their conversation(they speak in code in my head) and I start to write Chapter 2, maybe I'll sneak in some Japanese phrases. Don't worry I'll put the translations so you do not have to google it. Trust me, Google translations are not very good. Maybe words, but not full phrases and sentances.
Sess:True, FP.
Kagome: It seems that all I am is a depressed runaway… Why is that? And what's with me being a demon? Where did I get a scar from? When did I get pregnant? Where are the rest of my friends?(continues to babble, though nobody is listening)
F.P.—Calm down kagome! I'm pretty sure that everybody is asking that. I'll post a chapter(but it won't be ch. 2… probly 3 or 4) as a flashback so everybody can get on the same page. But I can tell you this: Inuyasha is married to a human, not Kagome, and Shippou died from some demon disease I'm sorry, but that is the way it must be. I am not going to go into detail, or the info chapter would not be necessary! MMMMWWWHAHAHAHAHAH
Japanese words for the week:
Konnichiwa: Hello
Sayounara*: Good-bye
Child: Ko
Learn: Manabu
No: iie
Yes: Hai
River: Kawa
One word for each day of the week. I'm only starting out, so if you want to know a Japanese word/phrase, If I know it I will let you know you're (correct) word in Japanese.
Sayounara!