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AN: This is the first story I've posted here, I hope you all like it. Please R/R! .
'Damn' I thought to myself. I could see that it was very late through the dark window. If I hadn't known exactly where the window was supposed to be, I couldn't have found it at all, that was how dark it was. Normally I wouldn't care how dark it was, but I had just woken up and knew there was no way I would be able to fall back asleep.
I pushed the blankets off me and winced as my bare feet were met by the cold floor. You don't realize how cold wood can get until you have felt it for yourself; everyone assumes wood floors are warm. The fact that it was still fall hinted that winter would be absolutely frigid. I tiptoed across the small room and pulled on my warmest wool dress. Maybe a short walk outside would help me go back to sleep. I grabbed a heavy shawl and wrapped it around myself as I walked out the door.
A small breath that I didn't know I had been holding left my mouth after I had silently pulled the door shut. Luckily, Sango didn't wake up when I was moving around. I came over to America without my family a few months ago, and when I got here, Sango offered to share her small hut with me. She had lived in America since she was born, but her parents had both passed on so she was living alone. When Sango was still young, she had been kidnapped by the Indians. After a few years, the Indians made a treaty with the town elders. We would stay out of their lands if they would give back all the people that had taken. Sango told me once how frightened she was to come back because she was so used to life with the Indians. Everyone else in our community talks about how terrifying they are, but Sango says they are actually very kind. They taught her how to use a bow and arrow, and she's working on teaching me. I'm not nearly as good as she is, but I hope one day I will be. While I was thinking about Sango, my feet took me down the main street and now I was standing at the edge of the deep forest.
"You shouldn't go in there. Them Savages are in that there forest." I jumped at the sudden voice and spun around to face the man it belonged to.
"Oh, Naraku. You scared me." He laughed his cold laugh. Something about him never felt quite right. He wasn't very active in the town so I didn't know much about him, but the feeling never went away.
"Don't be afraid of me. Here, I'll walk with you and protect you. Have you been in the forest before?" He was pretty well built, definitely capable of holding his own against a few Indians.
"No, they always told me to stay away from the forest."
"They just mean don't go in the forest without someone strong to protect you." His hand slowly came to rest on my shoulder.
"Okay." I smiled up at him even though I doubted he could see it in the darkness. We walked in silence for about ten minutes. The forest was scary at night, and I was glad Naraku was with me. I was beginning to get tired and was about to ask if we could turn around when suddenly he stopped.
"This should be far enough away." I heard him murmur to himself.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him, unsure of what he meant.
"I think we're far enough away from the village so they won't hear your screams." I began to back slowly away from him, he was beginning to scare me. He walked toward me, and I felt myself back into a tree.
"What are you going to do to me?" I felt my heart pounding.
"You'll see." He whispered huskily, he was only a few feet away from me. I felt his hands slink around my waist and pull me toward him and away from the tree.
"Please, no." I pathetically whispered. I squeezed my eyes tight, and knowing that no one would hear me I didn't even bother to yell. He lowered me to the ground. I put my hands against his chest in a futile effort to push him away. When I felt his hand at the hem of my dress, I knew what he was going to do. My heart sped up and my hands began to tremble. Just before his wandering hand reached my knee, I felt my hands grow warm. I opened my eyes and saw that my hands were beginning to glow a light pink color. There was a sudden burst of bright light from my palms and Naraku leapt off me.
"Witch!" He hollered at me before he ran back toward the town screaming 'witch' over and over again. I brought myself back onto my feet and attempted to examine my hands. They were no longer glowing, and didn't feel warm anymore. I had no idea what had just happened, but I did know what was about to happen.