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Love, RinWolf08

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A great beam of white light shot into the sky from the Bone-Eaters well disrupting the stillness of the surrounding forest. Its brilliance lit up the night, catching the attention of the neighboring villages and its residences. The closest village to the active well was where a strange group of friends stopped for a few days' rest. They were all too familiar with the mysteries the well held and couldn't take this as if it were just an everyday occurrence.

"Inuyasha!" The strange time traveling miko Kagome called to her hanyou companion, "it's the well!"

An older miko and the head of the village Kaede squinted at the light with her one good eye, "something or someone must have come through it."

"But that's impossible," the demon slayer Sango interjected, "only Kagome and Inuyasha can go through it!" The cursed monk Miroku and Shippo, the young kitsune youkai hanging on his shoulder followed Sango out to witness the burst that light up the land. It was as if the sun was beginning to rise, chasing away the darkness in its wake.

The beam of light started to dissolve and fade its brightness dimming until it was completely gone. It left as suddenly as it came.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome with a look she knew all too well. She swiftly climbed atop his back and they took off towards the well, not giving the possible danger a second thought. "Ye be careful!" Kaede yelled as they left.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" A little girl called to her lord, "what was that great light?"

The Inu dai youkai and lord of the Western Lands looked back at his young ward Rin, giving her his usual intense gaze. She was sitting on his two headed dragon demon A-Uns back, her tiny feet tired from their long day of travel. His imp vassal Jaken began his usual scolding and rants about Rin's incessant questions she asked their lord and under developed human mind.

He tuned out Jakens annoying squawking and sniffed the air for any sign of trouble. His sharp nose picked up the scent of his half hanyou brother and his pack. They had not been too far from the well Inuyasha's miko traveled to and from every so often. There was no scent of Naraku or any of his detachments. He heard nothing unusual as the forests around him settled back into stillness. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, nothing worth worrying about in his opinion. That was until he caught something he couldn't place.

"Jaken," Sesshomaru said sternly, "watch Rin." Before the imp could complain he was gone, locked onto the scent. Curiosity burned deep within him as he headed toward where the beam of light had disappeared.

She felt weak. Her body felt like it had been slammed into something hard, every inch of her body aching. There was something she was holding onto, something stiff and leathered. She tried to move her fingers from around the object but her body wouldn't listen. Her eyes wouldn't open, keeping her in complete darkness as she tried to understand where she was. She could feel the dirt along her side and a cold stone wall against her back making her shiver all over.

She could not recall what took place before she had gone unconscious, all that seemed to pop into her mind was a bright light and pain. 'What happened to me...' She thought to herself. Nothing unusual ever happened to her before. Out of all the people she could think of when it came to unusual only one person came to mind, her cousin. 'This has to be some kind of weird dream I can't wake up from,' she tried to rationalize to herself. But the pain and the cold felt so real.

Her senses heightened as she tried to pick up on clues as to where she could possibly be. The smell of clean air hit her nose as she heard the faint whistle of a breeze somewhere above her. She tried again to open her eyes, her body protesting as she felt her eye lids separate ever so slightly. There was nothing but darkness. She gave into her weakened state and closed them again, 'please let this just be another bad dream.' Nightmares were normal for her and she hoped and prayed to Kami that this was just another one.

A rustling sound caught her attention and a soft voice. She could not hear what the voice was saying but she somehow recognized it all the same. She tried to speak but nothing seemed to want to come out. She cursed herself and tried again, all that came out was a soft moan that she highly doubted anyone could hear.

"Stay here," a male voice spoke so quietly she almost didn't hear it, "there's someone in there."

"Inuyasha..." The previous voice, a female voice, seemed to come closer as the rustling sound got louder "…be careful."

She had an odd feeling that she was being watched as the rustling suddenly stopped somewhere above her. "Kagome," the male voice spoke again, "it's..." But she didn't hear what 'it' was.

Sesshomaru found himself at the Bone-Eaters well where Inuyasha and the miko had gathered. Before the hanyou had time to speak he had looked down inside the well, the scent radiating from within it.

"What are you doing here you bastard?" Inuyasha growled at him.

Ignoring him, Sesshomaru jump down into the well and landed above a human girl. He looked down at the human; she was conscious but had yet to acknowledge his presence. She was backed up against the side of the well, her small form slightly curled into a fetal position. Her crimson hair was draped over her naked pale flesh and ended at the curve of her hip. Sesshomaru inhaled the scent that seemed to envelop the human, the smell of rose petals.

'How could this be...' He wondered, 'it's as if I know this scent but cannot place it.' In the entire half a millennia of life he lived never before had he drawn such a blank. The fact that Sesshomaru couldn't place such a simple thing made him feel uneasy, and yet the feeling of familiarity grew along with the unsettling. Something about it drew him in, wanting to keep it around him. It was almost the same feeling he felt when he became used to Rin following him but that took a while. How is it just the scent of rose petals could make him feel such a way so quickly.

"You get away from her Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha yelled down the well.

"Please don't hurt her!" Kagome pleaded, her desperation bouncing off the walls.

The ringing of voices broke the spell the scent had put him under. How could this human make him feel so uncomfortable and yet comfortable all by her scent alone? He hated it. Sesshomaru took one last look at the human girl before he swiftly removed himself from the well and took off again into the night without uttering a single word.

Kagome, her eyes cloudy from her tears, dropped to her knees. Her hands clenched the side of the well as Inuyasha jumped down to retrieve the girl, his anger subsiding as he landed in front of her. The demon slayer and their other friends broke through the forest and ran over to her as she watched Inuyasha.

"Kagome," the monk Miroku was the first to get to her, "what's going on?"

She wasn't paying attention to them as Inuyasha jumped out of the well with the girl wrapped in his red haori. He brought the girl to Kagome who stood up instantly, the girls body limp like a rag doll in his arms.

"Selene!" She cupped the girls face between her hands, tears blurring her vision and rolling down her cheeks.

The girl groaned as she slowly tried to open her eyes to look at Kagome. Cool blue eyes stared weakly at her under hooded lids. "Thank Kami," Kagome choked out, as she moved the red bangs away from the girls forehead.

"Inuyasha...?" Sango questioned him, not wanting to break the moment between the girls.

"This is Selene," he answered her unasked question, "she's Kagome's cousin."

'Selene...'

The name rang in Sesshomaru's mind as he watched the miko cry and fuss over the human. The wind passed over the group sending the scent of rose petals to him as he watched them from afar. He had yet to understand why this human would have such a distinct scent, a scent that brought on such odd feelings.

She was indeed a small human as she leaned against Inuyasha in an attempt to stay upright, his Robe of the Fire-Rat looking more like a dress around her. The fiery red of the haori complimented the crimson color of her long wavy hair that framed her soft face, her bangs touched just above her unusual blue eyes. She was just as visually captivating as the scent that danced off her.

'Selene. Hm.'

Taking one last glance at the human in the arms of the hanyou, he turned and left.


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