Behind Amber Eyes

Chapter One: That Darn Scent

Summary: When the gang discover a sphinx and save a village that's being haunted by its riddle, they see Sesshomaru and another young demon girl… but she isn't his lover. She's his sister… so what does Inuyasha know about her! But then, suddenly, something threatens to kill ALL… and so Sesshomaru and Inuyasha team up to destroy that thing… but everything has a price. Supposed to be the third movie.

Author's note: I apologize if I get some facts wrong. I wrote this for a spelling story (hense some weird words), so yeah...

"Hey everybody, wait for me! …BUT I'M JUST A KID, WHY DO I HAVE TO GO!" yelled the fox-demon Shippo as his friends ran to join the fight. He paused in mid-stride, after shouting his rhetorical question. "Oh, what the heck!" He slid to join the others.

"Hiraikotsu!" shouted Sango, the demon-slayer who was part of the gang (even though there were demons in the group), releasing her weapon of choice – a giant boomerang.

The giant demon spider that they were fighting looked down at the leg that Sango's weapon had cut off. It roared its fury and sent out a web in their direction.

Inuyasha, the powerful half dog demon, ran with his choice of weapon (his father's fang – who was a full dog demon – forged into a sword, Tetsusaiga), at the web. He easily cut through it before rounding on the beast. "Kagome!" he shouted emphatically to the human girl who was the reincarnation of a powerful priestess. He readied to attack. "Where's the Jewel shard?"

"On its back!" shouted back Kagome Higurashi, the mortal girl of great spiritual powers.

Inuyasha charged in with a "WIND SCAR!" The demon broke into pieces.

"WIND TUNNEL!" shouted the monk Miroku, revealing the black hole that was in his hand. The demon was sucked it.

"We did it," said Sango, coming down from her demon friend Kirarra.

Kagome walked up to the glittering piece of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls and picked it up. The tainted shard immediately became pure again.

Kagome was a very special girl. She lived in present day Japan, with her family, which guarded a sacred well. One day, she found out that she could travel back in time five hundred years (it was a monarchy during this time, with the Emperor as the ruler; however, they did not have a matriarch because the Emperor was a man). Later, she found out that it was because of a sacred jewel of immeasurable power that had been in her body – called the Jewel of Four Souls, or Shikon Jewel. She possessed great spiritual powers because she was the reincarnation of the Priestess Kikyo, which, in the Feudal Era, fifty years previously (so really 550 years) had been the protector of the Jewel. She died and burned the Jewel with her body – which was how Kagome had it.

When she went back to the Feudal Era, Kagome awakened Inuyasha, a half demon with a human mother and a dog demon father (this was a great epoch because he was under a spell from fifty years before because of Kikyo, and now he was awake again). Put under a necklace that forced him to "sit" whenever Kagome said that word, he followed her to try and steal the Shikon Jewel for himself (his philosophy was to get the Jewel to become full demon). However, demons tried to steal the Jewel, and, in the process, Kagome accidentally shattered it into hundreds of pieces. Now she, Inuyasha, the orphaned fox-demon Shippo (who could not go to an orphanage because there weren't any back then), the monk Miroku, the demon-slayer Sango and her demon companion Kirarra all were searching to collect all of the Jewel fragments.

"Eek!" shrieked Kagome as she opened her backpack.

"What's wrong?" asked Inuyasha, rushing to her side.

"Do you have phobias of things in your bag?" asked Miroku, who had jumped up.

"No, it's not that," she said, slowly bringing out a pot of chrysanthemums. "It's just that these were in my backpack, and I never put them there!" As she examined the flowers, she saw a note attached. She pulled it off and read – I hope you think of these flowers when you think of the chlorophyll that helps make them food as you study for the next big test. Hopefully you'll be in school that day! –Hojo. She blushed. In all honesty, Hojo was her stalker. He always bought her stuff, especially to make her "feel better" (her grandfather would always come up with elaborate lies that she was sick every time she went to the Feudal Era), which embarrassed her, because she wasn't interested.

"Who're those from?" asked a jealous Inuyasha (who always got jealous when another man went after Kagome, for one reason or another…), snatching the flowers from her.

"This is anarchy!" she yelled. "I don't even get to have some privacy!" She turned around indignantly.

"Here it comes…" murmured Sango and Miroku together.

"Sit, boy." Inuyasha came crashing down to the ground. "You should go see a psychologist so that he can figure out how you think; that way I will know too!" Kagome walked away.

"Luckily she didn't say "sit" repeatedly," said Miroku. "Otherwise Inuyasha would have a hemorrhage or something."

"I wouldn't bleed!" he retorted, and sat up. "I don't get her."

"You're always in her business," said Sango. "She has a right to be annoyed."

Inuyasha "hmph"-ed and turned away.

Kagome came back soon enough. They all sat, quietly eating her cooking, listening to their rhythmic chewing. They heard the stomping of a pachyderm in the distance.

Inuyasha suddenly sat up.

"No… no, it couldn't be!" he said, and started to run.

"Inuyasha!" shouted Kagome, but it was no use. He was already speeding away.

The rest of them grabbed their stuff and jumped on Kirarra, who flew them overhead as Inuyasha ran. What was I thinking when I agreed to do this? thought Kagome to herself. I should have taken up psychiatry and deal with other people's mental problems or something.

Inuyasha stopped near a village that was saying their psalms while they worshiped. "Wait…" said Miroku softly. "This isn't the time for group worship…"

"Exactly." Inuyasha looked at the village. "I smelt the scent of an animal that was too odd to be real. It smelt of a lion and of a man. It didn't make sense."

"A lion and a man!" said Kagome. "A sphinx is an animal with a body of a lion and head of a man, but they're not supposed to be real!"

"With the Shikon Jewel, anything's possible," said Sango. "But how are we to know for certain."

They all turned to Shippo. "What! I'M JUST A KID!" he whined.

"Exactly," said Inuyasha, smirking. "A lot of villages love kids. If you go in, you might be able to find out about this sphinx."

"You can use the pseudonym Hojo," said Kagome, thinking once again of her stalker. "That way, if they've heard anything about you or our group, you can pretend that you're not associated with us."

With great rhapsody, Kirarra licked Shippo's face. "Please, Shippo?" said Kagome.

Shippo's face faulted. "Alright, alright!" Quietly, he muttered, "This will prove that I'm a man, and maybe Inuyasha will realize how much of a kid he is!"

"I HEARD THAT!" said Inuyasha, hitting Shippo on the head.

"OW!"

"INUYASHA!" Kagome always took Shippo's side when Inuyasha hit him. Inuyasha "hmph"-ed (again), and turned.

Shippo looked back at the town. "Wish me luck," he said with a gulp. He turned and walked towards the village.

TO BE CONTINUED…