There he was standing in the shadows of the forest, watching me as an ever present guardian to me. Always seeing me, but never saying a word to me, until that day that fate full day, that seems so long ago. Even though now, he worries and shouldn't I know he trusts noone, but himself to guard me after what happened. What you ask happened? Well sit down and I'll tell you the story.
I was 20, a lady that was sitting on a fortune, no suitors in sight, beautiful as any of thedebutantes that were coming out every year since my coming out. I knew that I needed to find that special someone. For he would be the one that was destined to spend eternity with me.Father, had passed away long before, and his generals watched me like hawks and taught me everything that they had taught my brother before an untimely death. I was the only one left inthe family that could keep the traditions alive, I needed to go back to the old country to find him. For that summer during he nights HE would come to me, and fill me with dreams and hopes and everything I could want, but during the day I would long for him unsure of where he was and who he was. He never told me his name, he said I know him in my heart and that is all that mattered and that I would not have to leave for the old country as long as he was here...but I knew that wouldn't last not if my uncle knew. My uncles the great tai no youkai, and the angry hanyou as everyone refers to them now as would not put up with this. Even though they are not biological uncles they always have been my adoptive uncles and cared for me when my parents were gone, which even it was for a few weeks they were there. Neither of them trusted the generals, and neither did I, something from that night when we first met changed everything.The question though that bothered us the most was where did he come from.This was my last season for a long time, and I knew that something was going to be different this summer, but I had no clue on what. Until my mate is found I am stuck wandering the world over, until then. I had many suitors, but none of them were the right one. I knew I would bestuck wandering the world and time for him, but as the head of my family I didn't have the time to waste searching for him.
I walked out onto the grand staircase because I was the one holding the ball this night in an elegant silk blue dress. I look out at the guest that have arrived see the debutantes staring at me like I was there competition that would never go away. I guess in a way they were correct, because I was there competition if they got in the way of my mate and I. No matter what happened he and I had could not do things without proper protocol in the society that I came from and so it would be known throughout the lands that I now ruled over. Until I had a male child and then when he was old enough and capable he would become the tai no youkai. I knew the best place to start would be with my Uncles after this season was through, but the thought of returning to the old country where my father tried so hard to get away from made me quiver with worry, as I walked down the staircase towards my guest. Saying hellos to those that I knew I must, and speaking with family friends, watching the generals out of the corner of my eye, feeling as though they are plotting against me. As if sensing my gaze the generals all split up and wander around the room as if though nothing were going on. As though sensing someone's gaze on me I turn and look in the direction that it was coming, and there in the corner of the room I see two deep red eyes staring at me, watching me, piercing into my soul.
I make an excuse to go outside and stand out on the veranda. I looked up at the stars feeling as if they held secrets far greater than what I knew. The wind pulling my raven black tresses out of the style it was in, not that it mattered to me, because before the night was through like any other night it would be down laying in curls down my back all the way to my waist, everyone that knew me knew that. It never occurred to them or to me that I was toying with fate that way giving part of myself away to the night. I remember standing on the veranda watching the stars thinking, I wish my mate would find me, never in my wildest dreams did I expect to find him that night.
Blanket of Disclaimer I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.