Stratos
Chapter 1: Discovery
Inuyasha was walking through the forest with his two daughters, Kagome, and Kurama. "Why are we chasing these imperial soldiers anyway?" asked Inuyasha angrily.
"because they know about us, and if the rest of the empire finds out about us they will come and destroy us." stated Kagome sharply.
"Well then what are we waiting for?" asked Kurama breaking into a run.
"come on everyone." said Inuyasha.
After that they all started running at a break neck pace. After an hour They all stopped dead in their tracks taking a breath. The scent of blood soaked the air. There was a clearing about 100 yards ahead. The group crept closer step by step. When they got to the clearing blood covered everything. A few outlying trees were smashed, soldiers riddled with sword marks and blood, and soldiers missing heads.
"What the hell happened here." exclaimed Inuyasha.
"Look." said Sakura pointing to a nearby tree.
"Oh my……….." whispered Kurama.
Against the tree lay a young man with a sword at his side. He had slightly long spiky silver hair. They could not tell whether he was unconscious or asleep. On his arms were visible cuts and bruises.
"He can't be older than 16." said Kagome still bewildered.
"So what do we do?" asked Kakura.
"I say we take him with us back to the village so we can question him when he wakes up." declared Kurama.
They all agreed and Inuyasha picked him up and slung him on his back. They ran back towards the village at twice the speed that they had come at. It took them three hours to get back. When they got back they lay him on a small cot and examined his wounds.
"We'll have to clean up all of these cuts before we do anything else." said Kagome.
Sakura handed her a wet washcloth. Kagome started cleaning arms, wiping off a lot of dirt and blood. She took off his leather armor leaving a bloodied undershirt. She took off that too, exposing his bare chest. After she finished cleaning him up she started mending the wounds with bandages and herbal remedies.
Later on she started talking to the rest of the group.
"I've finally finished." she said with a heavy sigh.
"So now what?" asked Inuyasha.
"We wait for him to wake up." said Kurama.
"I don't know if the rest of you noticed, but somehow this kid managed to execute 20 imperial soldiers and live." said Inuyasha sounding a bit irritated.
"Well we can't get any answers until he wakes up." said Kurama.
"I guess we'll have to wait then." sighed Sakura.
After the discussion Inuyasha went into the room where the boy was. He walked over to the bed. He looked at the boy's face and thought, (who are you………and where did you come from?)