DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA or any of the characters except my own characters.
This is my first Fanfiction ever so please be gentle and constructive criticism is welcomed.
She was standing outside of the school waiting for her friend to pick her up, holding up an umbrella that was sadly losing the battle of keeping her dry. Her gloved hand was stuffed in her pocket as she rocked back in forth to warm herself. Teeth chattering, she watched as people scurried about their business- the majority just trying to get out the rain. Her watch read 5:30 pm and it was already starting to become dark enough for people to start turning on their headlights as a sea of yellow taxi cabs hummed past her shivering form. She waited another ten minutes before she fumbled in her purse for her phone and began punching in numbers. After the third ring her friend finally picked up.
"Oh damn it! Sorry Mel. I'm on Washington Boulevard; I'll be there in 10 more minutes."
"Right, hopefully I won't be a frozen popsicle when you decide to show up." She gritted between clenched teeth.
"Sorry Mel, love ya to bits!" Click. Amelia sigh an exasperated and hung up. Another ten minutes translated into another thirty minutes when it came to her ditzy roommate, so Amelia trekked back up the school steps deciding she'd be better of waiting in the library.
Once she figured out where the lights were, the waterlogged girl swiftly began walking through the aisles skimming the titles. She was looking through a row of books when she came across book that was sticking out from the rest as is if someone was going to take it out or just failed at putting it back. Amelia made a small sound of annoyance, she just hated when people didn't books back in their correct position. Huffing, she took the book when the cover caught her eye; there were strange silver characters painted against a black backdrop with a flower she didn't recognize.
"What on earth…" The back of the book was plain with no images or any lettering except for some type of marking on the far bottom right corner. When she flipped through the first couple of pages the translator's notes caught her attention.
"The Inu's demon concubine." Amelia read aloud, turning the words around her head. She didn't have a clue what an "inu" was, but she figured that it was some sort of fiction novel. The pages were worn and stained with time; the girl could hardly decipher the words scrawled on the page and felt as if she was intruding on something she shouldn't have. She let out a tiny gasp when she turned to a portrait of a woman wearing a beautiful white kimono embroidered with peacocks and flowers on her sleeves. She was sitting down by a pond with a demure smile and color tinting her cheeks as she stared at whoever was painting her. Amelia found herself captivated by the woman's eyes; they were the strangest color of green that she ever saw. As she looked a little closer it appeared as if her eyes were glowing. It sent a shiver down Amelia's back. She didn't realize that she was crying until she saw the tear drop on the painting if not for the slight tilt of the women's eyes, Amelia could've sworn that she was looking at her own image
Amelia nearly jumped out of her skin when her cellphone began to vibrate and a cheesy pop song punctuated the library, causing her to drop the book and nick her finger on one of the pages.
"Shit!" She never remembered bleeding that much from a paper cut, a few drops seeped into the pages of the book. Amelia popped the digit in her mouth and gathered up her things before flipping her phone open.
"Hello?"
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?"
"Chill out, I'm in the library." Amelia replied smoothly as she sneaked a peek out the window and caught a glance of Zoe's bright Volkswagon and started walking towards the exit.
"Shit Mel! You scared the living day light out of me. When I didn't see you outside and then when I called you didn't pick up. I thought you had been kidnap or something!"
Amelia rolled her eyes at her friends over dramatic nature. How long had she been waiting anyway?
"Sorry, I didn't want to wait outside in case you forgot it was raining. Listen, Zoe I'm coming out right now so there is no need for you to worry. Yeah yeah I know. I'm coming sheesh."
When she stepped outside there was her friend Zoe standing outside with a pink umbrella tapping her feet irritably.
"Never let that happen again! God, sometimes I wonder about that thick skull you have screwed on your head."
"Calm down Zoe, this probably would've never happened if you hadn't taken so long to pick me up. It was either stand out here and catch pneumonia or stay in the school and not freeze to death." Amelia gave her friend a pointed look, daring Zoe to question her.
"Whatever." She said flipping her hair from her shoulder. "I hope you don't mind sitting in the back. My friend Eric is here." Zoe shot a wink towards the passenger's seat, and took a minute to reapply her lip-gloss before hopping into her car slamming the door shut.
"So that's why you were late. Spending some time with your new boy toy?"
"Shut up Mel! He isn't my boy toy!" The boy looked like he was only sixteen while she was a senior in college.
"Whatever you say grandma. What's up lover boy?" Mel couldn't stop grinning when the boy started blushing and averted his eyes to look out the window.
"Shy. Come on Zoe bring us home already. I'm starving."
After dropping off Eric, Amelia made a simple dinner of spaghetti oh's straight out the can. Throughout dinner Zoe spoke animatedly about herself and her day while Amelia smiled and commented but not as enthused.
"And you wouldn't believe what that pervert said to me!" Zoe continued, slamming down her cup to emphasize her indignation, paying no mind to her roommates' dismissive grunts. When Amelia finally had enough, she excused herself and headed straight for her bed. She was too tired to worry about anything but getting a good night's rest.
The word sliced tersely into her consciousness; run. The clothes she wore slowed her down causing her to trip and stumble as the branches swiped at her exposed skin, ripping through her once beautiful kimono. Her sandal was lost long ago. She was dirty, cold and slightly wet from falling into a huge puddle.
She pushed herself to run faster, she felt this overwhelming relief as she broke through the clearing to the rocky shore of the river. Pausing at her reflection, her confused eyes glinted like emerald in the waning moonlight. Her heart was pounding as she began splashing past the shallow end until she plunged beneath an icy current. She swam until her limbs ached, her chest burning as she breached the surface and greedily gasped for oxygen.
A dark shadow leaped out from the forest and took the shape of a massive white dog with glowing coals of red eyes rimmed with silver. Its bristling white fur was splattered with gore and deadly canines dripping with blood. She quickly ducked back under the water before the demon spotted her, praying for the currents to drag her under before it found her. When she breached the surface the second time the beast was gone but in its place was a man. She screamed when a glowing blue light engulfed her and then she was falling through a tunnel of white light.