Silver Sliver Chapter 1: Peasant, an inuyasha fanfic

Hey everyone! This is Silver Sliver. While I was writing Silver Slits I realized that I wrote things in there that are different in here. Instead of doing the smart thing and just changing it in Silver Slits, I'm changing them in here. :3 That also means that I'm editing this story and fixing some things.

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Silver Sliver

Peasant

When I was younger, I used to have this friend. He was seven years older then I was, but that didn't seem to make a difference. Sure, I was only seven at the time, but it didn't mean anything. We were still friends, and he was pretty much the only one I had. I missed him when he left because I didn't know why he had. I knew I was a girl, but I never acted as one. I would have rather been like a boy than a girl. I thought that was why we had become such great friends, but I suppose I was wrong.

It was a rainy day and I sat in the rain as I waited. I could have sat under the ledge of the gate, but I decided not to. We had agreed to meet rain or shine every other day, since I wasn't welcome where he grew up. I was a mere peasant in his family's eyes. I was worth nothing to them and for my age, I knew that.

"Where is he?" I whispered to myself as my short dark brown hair got drenched by the rain.

I had been waiting for half an hour, waiting patiently to see him walk out in his white hoari.

"You should not be waiting in the rain," a voice said from behind me.

This caused my blue eyes to widen and look back to see who was standing behind me. 'How did he get there without me noticing?'

"How did you-"

I was getting to my feet when he had cut me off by placing two fingers on my lips to silence me.

"There are guards near," he told me quietly, a stoic figure about him that had not been there before, "You should not be here."

Before I could protest, he grabbed my wrist and began running through the trees too fast for me to really keep up. 'What's going on? This isn't like him at all…' After a few minutes of running, he stopped in the middle of the forest before releasing my hand.

"What's going on?" I asked him with confusion.

"We can't be friends anymore."

Those words struck deep and he must have known that because he winced on his own.

"You're a girl, Nina. My parents have become suspicious on where I go from time to time," he told me rather sternly, "We can't be friends anymore."

That was it. There was no sorry, no real reason as to why we couldn't be friends anymore. Just 'you're a girl' and 'we'll get caught'...

- - - -

I'm just a normal boy

That sank when I fell overboard

My ship would leave the country

But I'd rather swim ashore

Without a life vest I'd be stuck again

Wish I was much more masculine

Maybe then I could learn to swim

Like 'fourteen miles away'

Now floating up and down

I spin, colliding into sound

Like whales beneath me diving down

I'm sinking to the bottom of my

Everything that freaks me out

The lighthouse beam has just run out

I'm cold as cold as cold can be

- - - -

Present

I sighed as I stared out over the ocean. I had always dreamed of it, but I always imagined having someone standing beside me, enjoying the same scenery.

"So much for that," I laughed slightly, stretching my arms above my head.

My long black hair hung down my back as the sun brought its light from the morning. It was still rather early as I watched the seabirds fly with my red eyes with slits for pupils.

"I wonder what it would be like to fly like that," I mused to myself as one bird dove into the sea for a fish.

'I think I like the ocean. There are no other demons looking for it and it's very pretty.'

It had taken me nine years to find the ocean since that day; the day my only friend abandoned me. Today was the anniversary of that and I could never get my mind off of it when the day came. 'Nine years exactly… Strange how I could find the ocean on today of all days.' My arms were propping me up as my legs hung over the cliff's edge.

"I can't believe this," I murmured, closing my eyes and feeling the breeze blow.

'If I was to be honest… I wish that I hadn't found this place alone…'

The waves were thrashing against the cliff and rocks below. The salt air was relaxing and the sound of the waves was as well. 'I really can't believe this… What was I thinking? Did I think that he would just be here after nine years?' What was wrong with me? How could I expect that of him when he was the one who decided to leave?

I heard some rocks moving along the cliff side which caused me to open my eyes. 'Is someone there?' My blood red orbs were drawn to someone standing a while away; standing and staring at the ocean. He had his arms crossed in his sleeves. His silver hair caught the light of the rising sun. His hoari was mostly white with light red on his shoulder and one sleeve. I couldn't see his face from where I was, but I knew that he was just watching the slowly moving waves.

"I wonder what he's thinking about," I murmured to myself before falling onto my back to stare at the sky.

The clouds were still rather dark further back over the forest behind me. 'It's still rather dark… That means that the day has barely even started yet.' I groaned slightly and covered my face with my hands.

"Today's going to suck like it always does every year,"

The presence of the silver haired stranger made me a little more miserable than it should have. 'He had silver hair… he let me play with it once. Then he got upset because I braided it in a few places…' Lifting my head, I dropped it on the rocky cliff. I didn't want to think of that, not at all. I wanted to snap out of it, to forget about him and move on.

He was supposed to be a childhood friend and nothing more. I wasn't a child anymore, I was a teenager. I was a full grown… person now. I was an old enough demon to take care of myself, to have the ability to raise my own family if I chose. 'But you didn't choose, did you? You left home and decided to follow up on a foolish dream.'

I had not made a promise to return home; just left by telling my poor parents that I needed to leave. We had lived in a poor village with not much money or food. We were just there and did our best to survive. 'That was why we were considered peasants. Our family was worthless to them… I was worth nothing to everyone except him…' It was true, I had no other friends made and wasn't very close to my own family. When passing through a village, I never spoke to anyone, just passed through.

"Make it stop!" I growled, getting to my feet rather quickly.

'I don't care how cold it will be, it better make all this crap stop.' I walked away from the cliff's edge by a few steps. 'I know it's early spring, so the water should still be cold from winter… but I have to try this out…' Cold water always made everything better anyway.

"Here goes nothing," I told myself, getting ready to go.

My legs took off first and I jumped off the cliff before I could realize what was happening. All I knew was that I had drawn the attention of that stranger off to the side.

He stood there, looking out over the ocean. He had agreed to see it once when he was younger… such a simple promise. It had meant so much back then… so much that he believed that she might possibly come to the ocean as well. He knew it was a foolish thought, but it didn't stop him from secretly wondering. She had been his only friend and he had to leave her too abruptly.

"Nine years of waiting," he murmured to himself.

It didn't take him long to find the ocean after he had left her alone. He ignored her for two years, pretending not to notice when she went to the forest to see him anyway. Then at one point, she stopped coming and disappeared… Then his parents died after those two years. When he was able to go looking for her, she was gone. His first instinct was to go to search at the ocean, even if he had received his parents' inheritance. He had more important duties than to watch just some land. Duties like finding her.

He was surprised to see that when he arrived at the ocean cliff, there was a young girl sitting there; feet hanging over the edge. She seemed uplifted… happy even though she was completely alone. He assumed that she had been there since some time in the night, waiting for the sun to rise above the slow moving waves.

"How strange," he whispered as his golden eyes watched her closely.

He could hear her murmuring to herself and then a few minutes later she was growling at herself it seemed. She rose to her feet and stepped backward from the cliff. Was she going to jump? Did she plan on dying in the icy currents below? He assumed that if he watched, he would find out.

He watched as she ran toward the cliff, jumping over the edge with a grin on her face. His golden eyes widened with slight surprise. Her black hair was blown behind her and upward slightly with the updraft of the currents below. He didn't understand the expression on her face. Was she glad that she was jumping to her doom?

My feet were tucked underneath my legs as I leapt over the edge and began to fall. I could feel the adrenaline pulsing thought my veins – the rush – as my stomach felt like it was rising into my ribcage. The air was blowing upward as I was being pulled downward. 'This water's going to be cold.'

- - - -

I want to swim away but don't know how

Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean

Let the waves up take me down

Let the hurricane set in motion... yeah

Let the rain of what I feel right now... come down

Let the rain come down

Where is the coastguard

I keep looking each direction

For a spotlight, give me something

I need something for protection

Maybe flotsam junk will do just fine

The jetsam sunk, I'm left behind

I'm treading for my life believe me

How can I keep up this breathing

Not knowing how to think

I scream aloud, begin to sink

My legs and arms are broken down

With envy for the solid ground

I'm reaching for the life within me

How can one man stop this ending

I thought of just your face

Relaxed, and floating into space

- - - -

The water pushed around me as I plunged into the frozen water. Immediately, I felt the current pull me further under and away from the shore. I didn't try to fight against it as I held my breath. I never planned to commit suicide. I was just going to float under the water. Either way, it worked for me. If I did die, there would be no one to care. It didn't matter to me. 'At least those stupid thoughts are gone now.' I smiled slightly at the thought.

That was until I felt something grab the back of my dark blue hoari. It was pulling me somewhere, pulling me backward. 'What's going on?' My eyebrows were furrowed with confusion. What was going on? Why was something ruining my falling plunge into the ocean? I was confused as I was being pulled back toward land. When my head reached the surface, I began to cough as my body was pulled onto the shore.

"What the hell?" I coughed with confusion, looking behind me.

It was the silver haired stranger that had been standing on the cliff a little ways away.

"Do you wish to kill yourself?" he asked emotionlessly, looking toward the waves.

"Does it look like I do?" I asked, glaring at him.

"Yes," he stated simply, returning my glare.

"I wasn't planning on it, but if it turned out that way then fine," I told him, spitting out some salt water that had dripped into my mouth, "It's not like anyone cares about it anyway."

'I wonder how many people have actually planned to kill themselves that way…'

The silver haired stranger looked at me intently with his golden eyes. I assumed that he was plotting something.

"So thanks, but I'm leaving now," I said with a bored tone.

"Some people would be more grateful for their life being spared; humans especially," he stated, rather annoyed by the ignorance.

"Sorry, but I'm not a human," I shrugged, "Never have been and never plan to be."

- - - -

I want to swim away but don't know how

Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean

Let the waves up and take me down

Let the hurricane set it motion... yeah

Let the rain of what I feel right now... come down

Let the rain come down

Now waking to the sun

I calculate what I had done

Like jumping from the bow yeah

Just to prove that I knew how yeah

It's midnight's late reminder of

The loss of her, the one I love

My will to quickly end it all

Set front row in my need to fall

Into the ocean, end it all

Into the ocean... end it all

- - - -

There was a rumble in the ocean that made me stop in my tracks. 'That's not a wave…' My red eyes were drawn out to look over the waves, watching for anything that might appear. He was watching as well, only his eyes were locked in one stop. He knew where it was coming from.

"YOU RUINED MY MEAL…" a dark voice said from under the cold water.

'A demon…' My eyes widened slightly at the chill in the voice. It sounded sinister.

"YOU SHALL PAY WITH YOUR LIVES," the voice growled.

A large dragon like sea creature jumped out of the dark waves, jaw opened wide. 'Oh crap…' I jumped to the side to dodge and the sea creature's face hit the rock face, knocking higher rocks off from above. 'There's no place for us to run… We could climb, but that would just give this thing time to jump at us…' If we started to climb, we would be sitting ducks.

Large boulders fell around us and I had to dodge a few as I slowly backed away from the large sea creature. 'It sort of looks like an eel or something…' Its teeth were razor sharp and there were a lot of them. It turned toward me and its dark eyes watched me intently.

"YOU SHALL BE FIRST," it stated, moving forward to me, ignoring the silver haired stranger almost completely.

'What the hell?' My blood red eyes narrowed into thinner slits as I glared at the ugly grey creature.

"I never really was one for cowardice either," I stated, cracking my knuckled and getting ready to strike.

"IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE HAD A FIGHTING MEAL."

The creature sounded amused as it slithered forward more, preparing to strike as well. 'Stupid eel thing…' I lunged at the creature and punched its head downward and jumping onto its back. My claw dug itself into the slimy flesh, causing blood to come from the wound.

The creature let out a scream of pain before flinging its worm like body against the cliff wall. My back collided with the cliff and the creature's body was pushing against my stomach, completely knocking the air out of me.

I could feel the crushing pressure almost crush my chest. I was trapped, and if I wasn't careful, in a few minutes I would be dead.

"I'll be taking that now," the silver haired stranger stated, slowly walking toward the scene.

My vision was slightly blurry as I tried to focus on his face. 'I don't think… I'm going to make it…' There was too much pressure on my lungs that made it so I couldn't breathe; there wasn't enough space to be filled in them.

"HOW DO YOU PLAN TO STOP ME?" the sea creature wondered; I could feel the rumble in its body as it spoke.

"Like this," the stranger mused, holding out his right claw as the index and middle finger began to glow.

'I'm sorry… for being so weak…' Everything went silent before going black.

He stepped forward and could sense the contentment of the creature. How dare it not believe that he was a threat! He found it insulting that such a minor demon even dare think about there being no threat. Everything that did… usually died two seconds after.

Swinging his right arm gracefully, a bright green whip appeared that sliced through random parts of the creature. At one point, it narrowly missed the trapped unconscious girl. With the last stroke, the creature's head fell to the ground – unmoving – with its body in pieces. His golden eyes were drawn to the girl lying motionless on the rocky ground. She was breathing slowly, but it was better than nothing.

He didn't know why, but he felt compelled to save her. When she was in trouble, there was something inside telling him to rescue her even though he didn't know her. Was this to make up for his childhood friend? He assumed not, but whatever the reason, he didn't really like it.

This girl reminded him far too much of her. No one could fill that void within himself… no one but her. That small little peasant girl had meant so much to him and he abandoned her just like that. He didn't want this older strange girl to try to take her place. He wasn't about to rest on coming here every day until he saw her waiting, watching the ocean like he always had.

"I-I'm sorry," he heard the girl cough slightly, "We had… fun though… didn't we?"

He cocked a brow at her. The girl was talking in her unconsciousness… how she did that slightly made him curious.

"Too much fun," he stated, watching her with golden eyes.

"I-I thought so..." she mused before going back into silence.

"Those words… she used to say them," he murmured to himself as she lifted the unconscious girl into his arms.

I opened my eyes to a darkened sky and the light of a fire burning a few feet away. Cocking an eyebrow, I sat up slowly to see where I was. 'What's going on? The last thing I remember was…' At that moment, a clear image of the eel, dragon like sea creature crushing me against the cliff face.

"Then… how?" I questioned, looking down at my clawed hand.

There was no blood on it, it was perfectly clean.

"That's twice now," the silver haired stranger stated emotionlessly, "You owe me your life."

"I don't do debts," I told him coldly, looking away from him.

'He's right… That is twice now that he should have let me die but chose against it… Why should I matter?'

I knew I didn't matter. I was only a peasant girl from a poor village… I meant nothing.

"You're just choosing to not get close to anyone," the stranger stated, "You chose to push everyone else away."

My blood red eyes were drawn to him with a glare. 'What the hell does he know?'

"They don't get close to me and I don't get close to them. It goes both ways," I stated with agitation.

This stranger… there was something about him that bothered me… a familiarity about him. I had never seen anyone with a blue crescent moon on his forehead and four raspberry marks on his cheeks. 'He's probably from around this area and has always been here. I bet he's never traveled a day in his life.'

"Good, because I have no intention of getting close to you," he stated simply, throwing a log onto the fire.

"Good," I laughed with a slight shrug, "I didn't really plan on sticking around here for very long anymore."

'I know he's not here… He's probably as far away as possible…' My expression became solemn at the thought. I shouldn't miss that childhood friend… but I did with a burning desire.

- - - -

(Zayra)

Into the ocean goodbye end it all goodbye

I want to swim away but don't know how

Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean

Let the waves up and take me down

Let the hurricane set in motion yeah

Let the rain of what I feel right now... come down

Let the rain come down

Into the ocean goodbye end it all goodbye

In to space

Into the ocean goodbye end it all goodbye

I thought of just your face

Into the ocean goodbye end it all goodbye

- - - -

The stranger looked at me and his golden eyes seemed to be slightly longing. I coughed slightly and put a hand around my ribs. They were in pain and I was annoyed by that fact. 'Damn it… I'm so weak compared to other demons. I'm rather pathetic.'

"What did you come here for?" he asked, voice slightly curious.

"I came looking for someone… and it's taken me nine years to get here. They're not here, so why should I stay here?" I wondered quietly, staring at the fire as it engulfed a new log.

There were a few moments of silence before I decided to continue.

"He… abandoned me when I was younger and I was still hoping that maybe he would honor our dream to see the ocean together… but I guess not," I explained quietly with a small smile on my face.

Why was I telling this to a complete stranger of all people? My own parents didn't even know.

"It was nothing but a childish dream… but I can't help but wish that I could see him again."

'I want to forget about him, yet at the same time… I never was to let him go.'

End of Chapter 1

There you have it, all fixed up and nice. :3 I hope that you all liked the first chapter.

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