A/N: Hello all! This is an elongated songfic. I've been listening to Sarah Brightman for about seven hour straight, and this is my favorite song of hers. I don't what possessed me to do this, but something did! It digresses from the song after a while, though.

GENERAL INFO

WARNING: This will contain OCs: Sesshoumaru's "mother", Lixue, and the Moon Goddess, Ilandere. The rest of the characters are canon, as far as I know. I expect this will be Naraku x Sesshoumaru. However, this is as much of a mystery to you as it is to me.

PAIRINGSs: OC (Lixue) x InuTaishou (not permanent), InuTaisho x Izayoi, Sesshoumaru x Naraku

CHAPTER INFO

CHAPTER WARNING: Just OC pairings. And REEEEEALLY bad Romanized Chinese.

CHAPTER PAIRINGS: InuTaishou x OC (Lixue)

DISCLAIMER: INUYASHA IS OWNED BY RUMIKO TAKAHASHI AND VIZ MEDIA. THE SONG "Hijo de la Luna" IS OWNED BY ARIOLA AND THE BAND MECANO. ALL UNRECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS/MYELF (Mai Darling Dearheart).

Hijo de la Luna

Chapter One: A Gypsy Woman's Wish

She was a foreigner, and there was no denying it. No one in the land looked like her, and she stood out like a sore thumb.

In a world of those with black hair, she was graced with long, delicately curled locks of silvery white. The other demons had scarce markings, or too many. She had delicate, thin, whisker like lines of magenta adorning her cheeks, and from her years of traveling, her skin had become slightly tanned.

She hated being different, being the only one of her kind. She left her homeland, thinking that there would be other dog demons like her in that Eastern country. She had traveled for years.

The moon was her only companion.

How often did she pray to the goddess of the moon? Much too much. She prayed for a lover, a man just like her. She had grown tired of her lonely migrant life.

She wanted to marry. She wanted to find herself a husband to love and adored her, a man to bestow gifts of love upon her. However, although she was only a girl of sixteen, filled with the vibrant beauty of youth, she was an orphan, and had no dowry to go along with her. Who would want a girl worth nothing but her looks?

She wanted to find that man who would be so enchanted with her, the dowry would mean nothing to him, and he would take his treasure in her presence.

She had assumed her prayers had fallen on deaf ears, until she reached a grassy hilltop. She was just passing over it, and decided to pray to her only friend again.

The next sequence of events startled her.

"What is your name?" the voice was carried by the wind, a feminine whisper.

The wind seemed to swirl its form into a woman with the sleekest hair of nighttime blue and eyes of brilliant yellow reds stars. She was dressed in a kimono of the highest quality, royal purple decorated with crescent moon and seven pointed stars.

The woman was aghast, and she stammered dumbly, "I, uhm… I- well…"

"Tell me your name, and I will grant your wish."

"M-my wish…?" she asked again and rather dumbly at that.

"Name." the wind blustered a bit faster.

"Ah, uhmm… Lixue."

"Lady Lixue… My name is the Goodess Ilandere." He lips curved slightly, "Now, do you truly want a husband?" the woman asked without her lips moving a twitch.

Lixue's blue eyes softened; "More than anything…" she clasped her hands together tightly, ringing them almost to the point of bruising them, "but who wants a woman without a dowry?" she fidgeted, her eyes brimming with tears.

"You shall have your wish." The blue eyes brightened, and the wind spoke for the goddess, "Under one condition."

Lixue was so thrilled the tears of sadness leaked from her eyes in joy, "Yes, yes! Anything you want!" she pleaded.

"I want your firstborn child. Male or female, it doesn't matter to me."

"Of course! My husband and I can make more children!" Lixue trilled, nodding feverently, "How do we make the pact?"

"Your pact was made by your words. It is written in the stars now." Ilandere gestured to an array of stars that had shifted their positions in the sky, "Go to the west. You will enter in the lands of Touga, the great InuTaisho. He is to be your mate, for he has been wishing for a wife, as well."

"Thank you, thank you!" Lixue dropped onto her hands and knees and bowed low, "I never expected a man of such high status!"

"I want my child to be of perfect breeding," the wind chimed, "Farewell, for now." She seemed to evaporate in the air, much less extravagantly than she appeared, but Lixue was far too happy to notice that.

She never stood, and knelt weeping tears of joy on the ground, "A husband… a husband! My, how the gods take mercy on this poor girl's soul!"

She stayed and rested on that hilltop for the rest of the night, and continued her journey in the morning.

She traveled for the months in snow and desert, and she was becoming weary. She crossed the stormy ocean, and braved the beasts of sea and land as she arrived at the island where her future husband was located.

Day and night she trudged on, ignoring the pains of hunger and thirst with cold indifference.

Finally she arrived on the outskirts of the Western lands. She was tired, hungry, smelly, and the once beautiful Chinese gown she wore was threadbare and tattered. Her vision blurred regularly, and she found her equilibrium out of order.

Now was one of those times.

She stumbled along, and caught the sight of someone ahead, calling out to her. Dizziness had left her wordless, and she could only see the blurry silhouette of the person speaking.

"Miss, are you well?" the deep voice called to her.

Her fading spirits lifted deliriously, "At last, my husband!" she muttered gleefully before collapsing to the ground in a heap of silver hair and blue silk.

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Lord Touga stared at the foreigner, who was swooning violently, who had muttered something in her own language before falling to the ground unconscious.

"Dào le, lǎo bàn!"

How strange. What could that have meant? Probably something the lines of "help me". He quickly walked over the woman, whom he noted was remarkably beautiful.

She was a rather leggy girl, and wore her dress short to show the long, tanned legs. Her face, however tired as it was, was lovely. She had a thin, delicate nose, plump lips, and eyes framed by long, silver lashes. He stared upon that beautiful face adorned with the markings of the Mainland inuyoukai.

He gathered her up in his arms and lifted her from the ground. She was surprisingly light, but bony and uncomfortable to hold. He carefully shifted her in his arms and took her back to his palace.

It was a lavishly decorated place, and obviously, no expense was spared. Servants bustled about the house, cleaning and perfecting the colorful tapestries, rugs, and carpets, waxing the wood to a brilliant, glassy sheen, making sure there wasn't a speck of dust on the regal furnishings.

Touga cleared his throat, and about seventeen heads turned to him. They looked questioning at the bundle in his arms.

He answered the questions in their gazes, "I can tell by her clothing she is royalty from the mainland," he answered, and then added, "She must have gotten lost. Attend to her as you will."

Several woman nodded, and a rather husky one with ebony skin and hair and eyes of the most fearsome yellow took the foreign woman, who, despite the tanned skin, looked pale and sickly in comparison.

She took her away in a flash, flanked by six younger, more attractive girls.

He sighed. Why was such a beautiful creature wandering alone like such?

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Days passed, and Lixue eventually woke up in a warm bed with the smell of food filling her nostrils. She opened her eyes, feeling much less fatigued than before. There was a strange, yet comforting warmth on her left hand. She moved her head slightly to see what it was.

A very attractive young man was holding her hand and stroking it gently. His long, silver tresses were tired by a ribbon behind his head, and his eyes, unlike her soft blue, were a piercing gold. His hands were calloused, as a warrior's usually are. Could this be the man…?

"You're awake?" he asked, his deep voice reverberating softly in her eardrums.

"Yes, my lord." She struggled to keep the accent out of her voice. Although she had knowledge of the Japanese language, she could not rid herself of her natural tendency to twang her words, "May I inquire your name?"

The man chuckled at this, "InuTaishou Touga." He replied, "And you name?"

"Lady Lixue. I have nothing to add on, no titles to speak of." She frowned. She wasn't exactly a peasant; however, she was not of a terribly well-known lineage.

"Are you married, Lady Lixue?" he asked abruptly, but cleared his throat and continued, "I would like to inform your mate of your well-being, for he must be missing a beautiful creature as yourself."

Lixue grinned inwardly, but kept her cool, stony appearance in tact, "No sir, I am not married, nor have I ever been."

Touga's eyes twinkled mischieviously, "Where is your family located?"

"I have no family to speak of, my lord." She replied, "That is most likely the cause of the former, my lord. I have no parents, and therefore, no dowry to offer."

The lord's golden hues softened, "As you see, I am in no want of money." He began, and Lixue's heart raced with excitement, "If you will allow me to court you, I will act as a suitor after you. I would not rush you into an unwanted marriage."

Lixue resisted her urge to let out a girlish squeal, "My lord, that is not necessary. I may prove to be more of a hindrance than an asset." She hated the words as they left her mouth, but was joyful at the response in the older's eyes.

"I have been searching for a mate for a long time," he replied in his silken baritone, "However, dog demons are not a very common type of species, especially," he paused, and gold met blue for a moment, "ones as lovely as yourself."

She blushed a dusty pink, "Thank you, kind Lord Touga." She smiled.

So, the courting began, and merely a month after it had begun, they were mated. Her promise to Ilandere was far in the back of her mind. The only things that consumed the young girl's thoughts were those ideas of her dearest husband.

TBC

A/N: I didn't want to get too in detail with the parents courtship and such. This isn't an OC fic, and I want to get to see Sessho-chan! (thank god he doesn't exist, or I would be dead.)

Please review, it's sure to get better!