I Do Not Own Inuyasha

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The Blue Crescent Moon Night...

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Back in the wild days, the days without a Ruler of the Mountains and Great Forests He had come.

Where the Mighty Beast was from…well they could never say for they did not know.

All anyone knew was He Guardian of His Forest, and He was the Largest, White Predator to Claim the Country, and He Came From the West.

None Dared Dispute the Mighty Inu Daiyōkai's Claim though, He was their Defender and Protector For as Long as they Did Not Incur His Wrath.

Human and Yōkai alike bowed to His Claim to their Homeland, and they all Worshiped Him when He Graced them with His Terrifying and Distinguishing Presence.

And it was because they respected and Feared the Mighty Claimer of their Entire Homeland that they Sacrificed the Child Born Under the Crescant Blue Moon for That Was the Mark Upon the Inu Daiyōkai's Brow.

A Child Born to His Moon Was To Be Offered To Him…

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And Thus Had Been The Tradition For Centuries...

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A woman screamed in agony, from the loss of her child and from the birthing of her child. The blue crescent moon hung in the air and her screams pierced the air as she cried out in her pain as another contraction seized her.

"This is very good, there has not been an offering to the Inu Daiyōkai in over a century, if she has a son then there is good luck and prosperity to come our way," Tsubaki said happily.

"And if she has a daughter, she has doomed us if we do not offer up the shild," Ungai snapped and again her screams ripped through the air as she clutched her stomach and sobbed in her pain. It wouldn't leave her! And they sat there speaking of the loss of her child before she had even birthed the child. She screamed again as her body arched.

"Silence, a woman is in labor, now move," her healer Kaede ordered shoving her way past the priests and priestesses. It was futile to argue with Kaede as another scream slipped out of her lips and her body convulsed. The priests and priestess were shoved out of her birthing chamber then as she fought to bring the children into the world.

"Very good Kiyomi-sama, you have given birth to a daughter," Kaede announced as another pain wracked her body. Something was right.

"Hold on Kiyomi-sama, let me give thee daughter to Ungai-sama, Tsubaki-sama, and Kikyo-sama before I birth your second child in the light of a new day," Kaede whispered to her and tears filled her eyes before she screamed again as another pain wracked her body.

"Here is the child born under the Blue Crescent Moon the offering for the Inu Daiyōkai. Now if ye will pardon me, I will be birthing milady's second child born of the morning's light," Kaede said as she handed off the quiet daught who was so frail there was no way the child would last a night. Which was probably for the best because the child was the food of the Inu Daiyōkai Master of their Lands, and Keeper of their Homes, Defender of their Freedoms.

"Yes Kaede-sama, we will take the child to the mountain and to the temple. Tonight we will be preforming the ceremony, but now we will travel. Tonight the moon will still be a Blue Crescent Moon, and she will be left in the Inu Daiyōkai's forest. There will be no mercy for her this life, but perhaps, in the next life this child will find peace," Ungai whispered as he took the little, silent bundle with him and took her towards the temple where they would give the nameless child away.

"She's a daughter," Kikyo announced with disgust but Ungai said nothing.

"She is our savior, have respect for the child for she will not live in this life," Tsubaki chided the younger priestess. Ungai said nothing to the contrary as he carried the girl with him and mounted his steed.

Looking down at the nameless child he stared into wise, solemn brown eyes, a tuff of ebony hair, and a face which held promise of future beauty. Something which he felt was lost in the world. It was a true shame she was to go to the Inu Daiyōkai Protector of their Lands when she held the rare true beauty he had never seen.

"Tonight, you are to belong to the Mighty Inu Daiyōkai and tonight you will save us all." Ungai informed the child though he knew it was of no point to tell her when she was a new born who did not know any better. But tonight she would rescue them and continue to seal the Inu Daiyōkai to them as his prey. Ungai pitied and respected the girl who he held in his arms.

"Mother! Mother!" she cried out happily as she raced through halls in excitement to meet her newest sibling. Throwing open she saw her mother, and Lady of the Keep, Kiyomi-sama. But what Sango saw had her stopping in her tracks and faltering a few steps, her mother looked so sad and yet she was holding a babe.

"Mother!" Sango greeted again.

"Sango! Come meet your new baby brother, Kohaku," Kiyomi smiled slightly and she carefully approached her mother and the bundle in her mother's arms. Smiling Sango skipped over to her brother and grinned at his sleeping face. He was just so cute! And he would grow to be a handsome young man, still she did not know why her mother looked so forlorn and saddened. It was as if there was something amiss and she did not know about what was missing which hurt her. She did not like seeing her mother so hurt by this, but she was a taijiya, and she would not let her mother know of the pains she could see. She would just smile upon her new brother. Who was sleeping in their mother's arms.

Ungai, young Kikyo, and Tsubaki all preformed the ceremony before they left the child there in the cold of night. It was a great honor and sacrifice the newborn had given them, and they would not dishonor her memory, however they had to leave this night before the Inu Daiyōkai came upon the alter and old home to lay claim to his lands again. They could not lose the protection or the guidance of the Mighty Unknown Inu Daiyōkai whom had laid claim to their homelands.

"What is that wretched scent!?" Jaken cried out to his irritation as he walked past Jaken towards the scent of the blood, and looked down on something he had never wanted to see ever again. Bathed in the blue moon's light a human pup lay there, covered in dog's blood holding a magenta flower as the pup stared up at him with large dark brown eyes.

"Another, leave it," he ordered as he turned to leave the human pup to her fate. The fate the humans had given the pup. He could never understand how they could cast aside their own and leave the pup to a death when they could have lived a life.

A mewling sound had him turning around he stared at the mewling bundle. Carefully he walked over to the human pup again as he contemplated the meaning of a sound from a human pup which was not screams or cries. Carefully he leaned over to the pup as he examined the creature. He scented the pup past the blood and the flowers, the incents, and dirt to the pup's natural scent. It was human, and it was female.

Curiosity had his claw reaching down to the pup's cheek, a tiny hand reached out to grab his claw as she pulled her into mouth and eagerly sucked it. The pup was unaware of the venom which could melt her into nothing as she sucked his claw and stared at him with large solemn eyes. Carefully he disengaged his claw from her grasp.

"Milord, what is it?" Jaken demanded.

"A human pup," he answered as he lifted her up from the blood and the human stench as he pulled the naked pup into his mokomoko. She just seemed to smile at him as he warmed her small form. He did not know what to do now as he lifted his free clawed finger to her again. Again the pup grabbed his finger without fear of death and he just carried her.

"Milord what are we to do with the pup now?" Jaken asked as if he had never viewed the pup as an atrocity.

"We take her to Mu-on'na," he answered as he carried the pup in the direction of the yōkai mistress' home. Perhaps there could hope for this human pup yet. The pup whom did not fear him for being the Out Casted Prince of the West he was. He did not hate this child, but he hated everyone else.

"Yes Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken squeaked as he hurried after him.

"Rin," he murmured to the child. "Your name shall be Rin."

The girl smiled at him as she continued to stubbornly hold his finger in her tiny, weak but firm human grasp. The pup had spirit, and he liked that about the new human pup the humans had offered up for her death.

A Sample of the Coming Stories!

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Cast Adrift! =)