Ok, so this is my first fanfiction for Inuyasha.
Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of its character.
A little side note here - Sesshomaru has both his arms in this story. Don't ask me why, he just does.
Here is:
Once in a Blue Moon
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Chapter One:
Bleeding Forest
The Western Lands has arrived at a time of peace after years of bloodshed that was brought forth by the wrath of the half-demon Naraku. But now, such a threat of evil had been eliminated, and, though the Lord of the Western Lands would never admit it, Inuyasha, his half-breed of a brother whom he refers to as an insufferable idiot, was a great ally in the battle to end the dark reign.
A swift form of white raced through the tree branches of the luscious forest. Dawn was breaking, and the light from the new day illuminated fine silver hair and turned it into gleaming beads of blanc.
It has been months since Sesshomaru had last been in the comforts of the dog demon fortress – his home. Naraku had set him on a wild chase throughout his own lands, but as the protector and hierarchy of the region, it is his duty to end the ailments of his people. And finally, it has been done.
As he continued to steadily progress towards his own castle, his pointed ears detected a noise – cries of dying demons.
'Demons. A massacre of demons.'
Blood suddenly roamed the air, its metallic essence so thick that it felt as though it could be tasted just by inhaling the suffocating scent of the surroundings. Death, lots of death was just up ahead.
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'Damn, they just won't go away!'
A young woman gritted her teeth as she assessed the situation before her. Corpses and parts of demons laid amok as blood tainted the green carpet of the forest floor.
'Okay,' she thought, 'Just five more left. Five more...'
She ran with as much speed as she had left and aimed one of her sais precisely at a demon bear's heart. Using her other sai, she sliced another of the beasts that charged at her. With a thud, both victims of her skill sprawled dead on the ground. With agility she retrieved the weapon perched on the demon's heart to stab one of the last three remaining.
"Two more."
Breathing hard, the woman expertly threw her sais at the heads of the pair left standing. And with that, the two demons fell just like the ones before them had under the hands of this demoness.
Exhausted, the petite figure dropped to her knees, her breaths coming at a ragged pace.
Instincts suddenly overwhelmed her as she rolled to escape a, what would have been, fatal blow to the the head.
"Gahhh," she cried as the sharp, foot long talons of the bird demon sliced its way to her left shoulder.
"Shit," she hissed through clenched teeth, feeling her own blood soaking through her lavender kimono. 'I was too careless to notice that there was one more left.'
Jumping just as the large lump of flying meat lunched forward, the woman landed on its back before using her claws to decapitating its head.
As she reached the ground, she clenched her teeth in pain as she placed pressure on the wound using her right hand to stop the bleeding. When she sensed something lurking in the nearby pushes, the female positioned herself into a fighting position, all the while calculating her chances of gathering her sais without whatever it is attacking her.
'Another one, dammit. This is not my day.'
Her ebony orbs traveled back and forth from her pair of sais about a dozen feet away and the trees she assumed the newcomer to be. She realized that her eyes were staring to become hazy. Shaking her head, she tried to focus and maintain consciousness.
'Ok, my chances right now are...not very good,' she thought, her lips setting into a deep frown.
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'The fool is actually planning to fight me.'
He usually wouldn't bother to witness such events that occur occasionally in his land, but this battle was in the direct path homeward. And his ego would not let him circumvent the area just because a fight was occurring. No. As lord of these lands, he would go through whichever way he decided, and anyone who dares challenge his decision would pay the price with their lives.
As a result of this pride, he had seen the last part of the struggle between this one demoness and the demons that she had slain.
Now, it was apparently his turn to face her.
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Once she heard the leaves rustle, the demoness sprinted quickly and grabbed both her sais that were protruding from the heads of the lifeless demons. Taking a defensive position, she observed the white form of a human male evoke itself from the curtains of the trees.
'No, it's a demon,' she realized upon seeing the violet markings on his face and the sharp claws of his hands.
Knowing that she needed to end this fast for the sake of her failing stamina, she launched one sai towards the male. But as she did, her white target vanished before reappearing right in front of her. Using her remaining sai, she executed a slice to the neck, but found she couldn't. She was worn out and too weak to fight any longer. Her legs buckled and the next thing she knew, she was on her knees.
"Dammit," she whispered. 'I can't die here.'
Sesshomaru was slightly amused as he watched the woman kneeling before him use her only weapon to get back up to her feet, staggering greatly from, what he knew, to be immense pain from the long battle she endured.
Her petite body fell once more, this time landing on the white silk covering his chest. She pushed away to stand again, but couldn't. She couldn't move anymore. Her body was at its limit, and she knew it for she stopped struggling and embraced her fate, which, she believed would be death by this male demon.
Her lids shut close expecting to feel the blow that would take her life. Nothing. It didn't come. Instead, a cold baritone voice called to her.
"I'm not here to kill you."
That was all she heard before looking up to see beautiful amber eyes gazing back into her black ones. But they were harsh. Unemotional. Yet, they meant no harm. Then her body went limp, and everything went dark.
Her long, curly hair - the color of the palest shade of blue - cascaded past the hand that supported her head.
After seeing the little endeavor between the girl in his arm and the demons dead before him, he was a bit impressed.
'This demoness had managed to fend or kill what appears to be at least a hundred demons,' he analyzed from the large population of lifeless bodies surrounding him, 'She must have been fighting for a long period against this horde.'
He let his gaze wander down to the small figure in his grasp, noticing the blood that still leaked through her shoulder and the endless cuts on the her skin.
"And even in her weakened state, she managed to sense my presence and launch a counterattack. But even though her mind still had the strength to fight, her body wasn't as enduring."
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"Lower the bridge, and open the gates. It's Lord Sesshomaru!"
Large iron gates shielding a vast fortress behind an immense stone wall creaked open to welcome its master.
Once the wooden bridge fell open to allow passage through the deep moat surrounding the estate, Sesshomaru sauntered casually into his home. The woman in his arms had been unconscious during the whole duration of his run.
"Jaken!" he barked.
A small, green toad holding a staff with two heads immediately came forward.
"Yes, my lord," he answered, gawking at the thing in his master's arms.
"Summon the healers at once."
"As you wish, sire."
The toad ran ahead to fulfill his lord's orders, for, what he guessed, was due to the wounded demoness he was carrying.
Sesshomaru headed towards the medical vicinity of the palace after seeing Jaken run off to inform the medics. Everywhere around him, heads bowed and stared curiously at the bundle in his arms. Whispers erupted about the scene with deep regards to the strange sight in front of them. It was odd to see their cold lord in the company of a female demon, especially when said demon was laying bridal style in his arms for all to see.
After reaching the healers' room, the dog demon placed the girl on a thick mat. As soon as he did, the medics of the palace gathered about to diagnose and cure the injured woman.
The Lord of the Western Lands took on the girls tattered look. Her waist-length hair was dulled with the color of red life liquid, and her faced scrunched in pain. The knee-length lavender kimono she wore was torn, and the smear of blood added an unwelcome design next to the random pattern of six-pointed stars. The see-through white sash wrapped around her arms and shoulders was removed by one of the doctors to gain better access to her ailments.
"After she is tended to, bring her to one of the available quarters closest to my mine. Make sure she is looked after, and alert me when she regains her consciousness."
"As you wish, Lord Sesshomaru," answered one of the elder medics present.
With that, the demon lord withdrew to his own chambers.
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Golden orbs gazed down the balcony of his bed chamber and blankly absorbed the green scenery around his dominion. He had been thinking for a while. It was strange to have a demoness, whom had tried to kill him, under his roof. And what's more, after watching her fight a battle that he would have predicted for her to lose, his interest as to who she was augmented.
'She's from a strong bloodline, that is certain.'
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Well, here is the first chapter. Sorry it's so slow, but it'll get moving.
Hope you enjoy it and please review. Thank you.