Hey! New IY story! WOOOOOOOOT! I've been so ready to start this, it isn't even funny. For those of you hoping that this has something to do with Tomoyo from Under the New Moon and Beneath a Twilight Star...sorry to disappoint. This is an entirely new girl, in an entirely new situation. Also, I wrote this one in third-person rather than first, considering this time around we need to be able to hear Sesshoumaru's thoughts.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha. If I did, the anime wouldn't end where it did!
He felt heavy. He couldn't think clearly. It vaguly reminded him of his youth, back when he first tried sake, and the morning after. Because of this, he kept his eyes closed; his hearing alone was making his headache worse. The sounds around him were familiar, but strange. He heard the wind passing through the trees, though it didn't sound as loud as it should. The birds were in the trees, but he couldn't figure out what birds they were. Nearby was the sound of rushing water...
The sound of the river is what made him remember. His retainers, his ward, and he had stayed beside a river. When he didn't make an offering to the river's guardian, she appeared to give Sesshoumaru a tirade. In response, he had simply destroyed her with his poison whip.
"Ouch... What did you do? Haname must have been really upset with you..." the familiar voice of the river's guardian came to him.
Snapping his eyes open, he started to growl, but it stopped deep in his throat. This was not the same guardian. That one had been blue-skinned, with silver in her dark blue hair and dressed in a kimono befitting a hime. While this one had the same dark blue hair, it had a green tint to it, matching her skin. There was gold touches in her hair, and rather than a kimono, she was dressed in an indecent dress that showed her collarbone neck, with long billowing sleeves and matching skirt that stopped just short of her knees. Other than these slight differences, she was identical.
"Hello there!" she said cheerfully. "My name's Hitomi. This is my river."
"If you seek an offering, I refuse." he tried to say. All that came out was a deep throated snarl. Stunned, he thought, What is the matter with my voice?
"That would be Haname's doing, hun." the guardian said sympathetically. She floated down to where she was sitting just beside his head. "Haname is my twin sister. She lives in the Feudal Era of Japan, or Nippon as I suppose you call it. I chose to live in what is known as the Modern Era, on the opposite side of the world, in a place called Texas."
Such talk of time... The ability to read thoughts... Dread, for the first time since he was a pup, filled him as he thought, These two river guardians are twin goddesses.
"That's right." Hitomi said with a sigh. "So what exactly did you do to Haname?" Briefly, he let his memory of last night flash through his head. She gasped and said, "Oh you poor thing! No wonder she sent you to me in such a shape!"
Shape? He had a headache, for sure, but otherwise... He tried to stand, only to find that his build had changed. He looked down to find that he had paws... So he was in true shape; stunning, since he hadn't been able to take this form since his arm was gone, though the goddess Haname seemed to have replaced it, but not too surprising. But the goddess Hitomi, if she was the same size as her sister, was a head shorter than his humanoid form, yet his head was only even with her waist; he should be making a dwarf of her. With growing horror and outrage, he realized what this meant.
This Sesshoumaru has been changed into a common dog!
Wow, I am so evil... That's it for the prologue!
