INU-YASHA & the Ryuuookami

Chapter one

A/N: Okay, sry it took so long. Lazyness. And it won't stop their, so if you wanna be let know about when I finally get around to updating it. Leave me your e-mail add. And I'll send you a notice. Enjoy the story! Oh and J-maru will be in this one later on.

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Rin sat quietly in the back of the small cave in which she and Kagura were now staying. Her back pressed up against the cold dirty wall, Rin watched the frustrated wind youkai pace back and forth at the cave's open mouth. The little girl had no idea why the pretty wind demon had took her or why she was so worked up, but thought it wise to keep her mouth shut and watch. At lest wait till the woman had calmed down anyways.

Kagura paced back and forth thinking hard, she was trying to think of a way to get Lord Sesshoumaru to help her get Kanna and kill Naraku…….it was hard. Any messenger she might send he would only kill, she doubt very much that he would take the time to read a letter. Kagura growled this wasn't one of her better ideas. She stopped and looked at the little girl she had taken. Rin looked back. Kagura huffed and started pacing again. 'Are you okay?' Rin asked hesitantly.

Kagura stopped pacing and looked at the girl surprised. 'What do you care?' She huffed out.

'Well, you seem upset.' Rin replied.

Kagura snorted. 'There's an understatement.' Kagura turned her back to Rin and tapped her forefinger on her chin thinking.

"Hmmmm….Perhaps Lord Sesshoumaru's lackey could be of some help. Surely he would not kill that toad servant of his. That retched thing is always getting into trouble and still manages to stay alive. Yes! That's it! I shall go and have and chat with this..."

Kagura turned back towards the little girl. 'Girl! What's the name of that toad youkai that you're always traveling with?'

'You mean Jaken?' Rin asked.

Kagura nodded. 'Jaken is its name, hmmm?'

Rin nodded. 'Why did you take me away from Sesshoumaru-sama?'

'Because I need him to help me with something. And I'm going to use you as leverage.' Kagura replied.

'Why didn't you just ask him?'

Kagura looked at the little girl as though she had grown another head. 'Ask him?! Are you mad?! He'd rather kill me than listen to what I have to say! Never mind help me! Pah! Ask him. Stupid girl.' Kagura waved herself with her fan and stared out at the scenery. Now how to get in touch with this worthless little toad…

Sesshoumaru was in a royal huff.

Three weeks and still no sign of that idiotic wind witch and his Rin.

"How dare she take something belonging to this Sesshoumaru!"

Sesshoumaru growled menacingly at nothing. That wind witch would regret the day she crossed paths with him.

On the other side of the small camp, Jaken sat huddled against a tree trying his hardest to go un-noticed by his lord. The taiyoukai of the west had been furious enough when Rin was first kidnapped, and was steadily growing angrier by the minute.

Even Ah-Un was keeping well out of Sesshoumaru-sama's way.

Jaken watched as Sesshoumaru let out another growl and stomped off.

About an hour after Lord Sesshoumaru left the wind started picking up in an un-natural way. Jaken stood up uneasily and looked around trying to locate the source of the wind. Suddenly dozens of razor sharp wind blades thundered into camp cutting up trees and anything else that got in it's way. Jaken and Ah-Un narrowly dodged the sharp winds getting minor cuts in the process. After the winds had dissipated Kagura stepped into the clearing, glazing around casually.

'Where's your master, toad?'

Jaken puffed up. 'I'm not a toad, you ugly witch!'

Kagura's eyes narrowed at the little imp, she opened her fan and waved it threatening. 'Would you like another taste of my wind blades?'

Jaken gulped. 'He's not here.'

Kagura gave a mock sigh as if disappointed. 'Pity. Well then I guess I'll have to give you the message. I have Rin. If Lord Sesshoumaru wants her back he will have to go and get my sister Kanna back from Naraku. Only then will I give the little girl back.' With that said Kagura whipped out a feather from her hair and sailed off into the night.

Jaken glared after her form, turning back to the camp he sat down again to wait for his lord's return. Ah-Un settled down as well licking carefully at a wound.

Sesshoumaru was a few miles away, returning from a stress-reliving run, when he smell Ah-Un's blood and Kagura's scent. He quickly broke into a run and arrived back at the camp in a few seconds.

'What happened here?' Sesshoumaru demanded in an icy voice.

'My…my lord! That foolish wind witch came here to see you. She said that she would only return Rin if you got Kanna from Naraku. A trade.'

Sesshoumaru let out a dignified snort. 'That stupid wench. Does she truly believe that she can control this Sesshoumaru? Foolish wench.' Sesshoumaru sniffed the air searching for Kagura's scent but found none. "She has hidden it from me again I see." Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes. "I'll never find Rin this way, that wind witch is very clever shifting the wind so that I cannot find her scent. It seems I will have to find assistants, perhaps among the Ryuuookami. They are great trackers. Even the wind cannot hide from them." Sesshoumaru smirked evilly and started heading towards the East.

Jaken followed quietly, quite disturbed by his master's evil smile.

Rin sat quietly in the cave, Kagura had left a few minutes before leaving a lower youkai outside to guard the entrance. Rin sighed. She wished she could escape from here, she sat carefully watching the snake youkai. She could see that it was slowly becoming bored with it's job and it's eyes keep flickering open and shut as the warm sunlight flickered in and out of the tree branches. "Maybe soon he'll go to sleep so that I can get out of here and find Sesshoumaru-sama."

An hour or so later the Snake youkai finally shut it's eyes, unable to fend off the tempting sunlight any longer. Rin slowly and quietly got to her feet and tip-toed out of the cave and around the sleeping snake. Then quietly made her way into the forest beyond.

[A little distance away]

Akugi walked through the forest randomly kicking at a pine cone or a rock, throwing a stick or slashing at a tree as he passed by. The almost a year old Ryuuookami pup was more than a little upset, not only was he lost but his cousins had gotten him lost on purpose! Akugi glared at a near by bush. "Man, when I get back those guys are gonna get it!"

Akugi paused as his nosed picked up an unusual scent. Not so unusual as its smell but it's location, as far as Akugi knew there were no ningen villages around here. But he could smell the scent of a young female child just to the west of him. "What's a ningen kid doing out here all by herself?" Akugi wondered heading in that direction.

Before he could reach her though he was met with a youkai barrier. Akugi stopped and stared at the flimsy barrier, snorted and walked right through. A few minutes walking later and he met up with the little ningen girl he had smelled, she was sitting on the ground next to a tree her head supported by her fists looking as though she was thinking very hard about something.

"I wonder if she's lost like I am."

'Konnichiha.'

Rin's head shot up at the sound, she was half afraid that either Kagura or the snake youkai had finally found her. She relaxed when she was a youkai pup about her age standing not to far away from her. 'Konnichiha.'

'What'cha doing out here all by yourself?' The white haired, white eared pup asked. He looked a little like Sesshoumaru's half brother Inuyasha.

'I'm a little lost.' Rin replied.

'Me to.' The pup answered back.

'Oh.' Rin was disappointed, she had hopped maybe he could help her.

Akugi sniffed the air there were two youkai near by, he looked over at the little girl. Do you know those two youkai over that way?' He asked pointing the direction in which she had just come.

Rin nodded yes. 'I'm hiding from them.'

'Your not hiding very well.' Akugi remarked.

'You got a better place?' Rin shot back.

Akugi stuck out his tongue at her. 'As a matter of fact I do!'

Rin's face lit up. 'Where is it?'

'This way.' Akugi turned and walk back the way he'd come. Rin jumped to her feet and quickly followed after him.

As they came up to the barrier Akugi took hold of Rin's hand so that his powers could help her get through the barrier as well, then they made for a area where there were three or four fallen logs and hid in one of them. The log was big enough so that they could lay next to each other.

'Is she coming?' Rin asked.

Akugi nodded. I can hid our scents so she can't find us but you have to be quiet, kay?'

Rin nodded yes, and the two of them waited in silence as the wind demoness came closer to their hiding place.

Kagura was furious, that stupid snake had lost her prize! The wind youkai stomped angrily through the forest, the wind whipping around her just as angrily. "Where in the world could that little girl have gone? She couldn't be that had to find could she?" Yet Kagura couldn't find her scent anywhere's. It had stopped right before she got to the barrier Kagura had put up. "Little brat! Where is she?!"

Inside their log Akugi & Rin snickered quietly as they watched Kagura stomp about in a huff mutter this and that. Finally after a while she moved on and the two scrambled out of their dirty hiding place.

'What now?' Rin asked.

'Um….that way.' Akugi pointed in the other direction from where Kagura had gone.

'Where does that go?'

Akugi shrugged. 'I dunno.'

Rin shrugged and followed along behind her new friend happily.

'You know I never asked your name.'

'Akugi. And you?'

'Rin.'

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Japanese:

Konnichiha: Hello

Ningen: Human