This is my first fanfic here, so no flames please (except when your name is Roy Mustang or Hao Asakura ;D). I'm sorry if there are any grammar mistakes but I'm not a native speaker so bare with me OK?

I hope you like it. Enjoy

Disclaimer: Me no own Inuyasha, it belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. I only own a few dozen pics on my computer.


A girl, about the age of 12 and a boy, about the age of 10, stand in front of what once was their hometown. Now there was nothing more left than ruins and ash. Not only the town itself was gone but also its inhabitants. The boy and the girl were the only survivors of the ruthless attack from a big, bad, ugly youkai. The youkai stood in front of the two children, planning to kill them too. The girl grabbed the boy's hand.

"Come on Artan, we have to run!" shouted the girl to her brother as she tried to pull him with her.

"But what about mom an dad?" asked the boy.

"They're dead, Artan, and so will we be if we don't go."

Artan nodded and ran after his sister. They kept running and running until they could no more.

"Did we lose him?"

Assana sniffed the air. "Yes, he's gone."

Then they both started to cry.

"Sis, wake up."

Somebody shook Assana. She woke up to see Artan looking at her with his light-brown eyes.

"You had another nightmare again. You were crying in your sleep."

Assana sighed. She had this nightmare for the past 5 years. Ever since their village was destroyed and her parents killed by Yaru. Assana is an ookami (wolf) youkai, but she had hanyou ears, which she inherited from her mother, an ookami hanyou. Artan, her brother, is a kuma (bear) youkai. However, he's not a brother by blood. Assana's parents adopted him when he was 2.

The first ray's of sunshine shone through the trees of the forest they were currently in.

"I guess we'd better get a move on. Perhaps we'll find Yaru today." said Assana, and got up. Artan agreed.

They walked in silence for most of the morning, only to stop for a quick breakfast.

"I've been thinking…," started Artan, but got interrupted by his sister.

"You and thinking? You know that you and thinking don't go well in one sentence, right?" teased Assana.

Artan growled and continued. "If we split up we have a bigger chance of finding Yaru."

Assana's dark-grey eyes widened. "Split up? Even if you do find Yaru, you can't fight him on your own. You and I both know neither one of us is strong enough to defeat him alone." protested Assana.

"I still think we should try." said Artan.

"Fine, but if you end up dead don't say I didn't warn you." answered Assana, not in the mood to argue with her brother.

After a while, they came across a junction. One path to the right and one to the left.

"I think this is a good moment to split up."

"I guess."

"I'll be seeing ya sis. Take care." said Artan and took the left path.

"You too." Asana watched her brothers retreating form as he walked further away from her until he was gone.

'This is going to be so boring. Now I have nobody to annoy…' thought Assana and took the right path.


'Sigh. This is the fourth day after we split up and nothing interesting has happened. How boring. Where are those bad-ass youkai when you need them?'

Assana was sitting on top of a big rock looking over an open piece of forest. So far she had come across some woodland animals and a few ningens. The ningens fled the moment they saw her. Asana thought ningens were strange. She didn't hate them. How could she, with her mother's mother being one? She sniffed the air. Because she's an ookami youkai she has great hearing and smell.

'Speaking of the devil, I smell a ningen. And a youkai (insert evil laugh).'

Asana jumped of the rock, ready for some action. She didn't have to wait long, for a small ningen pup came running out from between the shrubs, followed by an ugly troll youkai holding a wooden club.

"Oi (hey), you."

The troll youkai shifted his attention from the little girl to Assana.

"Yeah, you. Why don't you pick on somebody your own species?"

The youkai forgot the little girl completely and started walking toward Assana. She motioned him to bring it on. He swung his club at her, which she easily dodged. Asana closed in on the youkai, dodged another blow and scratched open his face with her claws. This caused the youkai to drop his club. Assana picked it up and knocked out the youkai with it. Then she walked over to the ningen girl, who was currently hiding behind a tree.

"Daijoubu desu ka (are you alright)?" The girl nodded. "Is he…dead?"

"No, he isn't, but I'm sure he'll have a major headache when he wakes up." laughed Assana. The girl laughed too.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Rin."

"I'm Assana. Nice to meet you Rin"

"Thanks for saving me. Are you a hanyou?"

"No, I'm not, but my mother was one. I got her ears. Don't ask me how, because I don't know. A mistake of nature I guess." explained Assana.

Assana suddenly heard a low growl behind her and was afraid that the troll-youkai was awake already. But Rin smiled to whoever stood behind Assana, making her turn around too. A tall person in a white and red kimono with a yellow and blue obi and a big fluffy thing on his shoulder stood in front of her. He had two red stripes on both sides of his face and a blue crescent moon on his forehead. His pointed ears showed he was a youkai. However, the thing that stunned Assana most was his long, silver colored hair that gleamed in the sunlight and cold, amber colored eyes.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" said Rin and walked over to him, smiling.

'She's with him? What is a youkai doing with a ningen pup?' thought Assana.

"What are you doing here half-breed?" asked the youkai in a voice to match his cold eyes.

"I'm not a half-breed." said Assana, staring him straight into the eyes.

"Explain yourself." demanded Sesshomaru.

Assana growled. 'Who does this guy think he is? Ordering me around like he owns me. Feh!'

"Don't make me repeat myself wench."

Assana's eye twitched. "What. did. you. just. call. me.? She growled louder and deeper and bared her sharp canines.

"Don't speak to Lord Sesshomaru like that, half-breed." came the comment from a green imp, whom Assana hadn't noticed until now.

"Master Jaken, she's not a hanyou. She explained it to me." said Rin.

"If that wench isn't a half-breed than I'm the Easter Bunny."

"That's enough Jaken." Sesshomaru shot his servant a glare.

"I got my ears from my mother who is… was a hanyou. Like I said to Rin, don't ask me how. I just got them. Period." said Assana who was tired of the discussion whether she was a hanyou or not.

She turned on her heels, making her dark-grey, waist-length hair flow around her, and started to walk away from the arrogant youkai and his annoying imp servant.

"Where are you going Assana? Can't you stay with us?" asked Rin.

"I'd like to stay with you Rin, but I'm not sure if I like to be with 'Lord Fluff' and his frog." answered Assana.

A deep growl came from Sesshomaru and the next moment Assana is pinned to a tree by her neck, face to face with a very angry youkai.

'Oops, I think I struck a nerve…'

"Nobody calls this Sesshomaru like that, wench."

Assana wanted to say something, but that was made impossible because Sesshomaru was squeezing her throat shut. Breathing was a problem too.

"Don't hurt her Lord Sesshomaru, she saved me from that big troll youkai." Rin pointed to the unconscious youkai a few meters away.

Sesshomaru looked at it briefly before releasing Assana, who happily inhaled the cool air surrounding them.

Rin walked over to Assana and hugged her. "Can she stay with us Lord Sesshomaru? Onegai (please)?"

Sesshomaru wasn't planning on taking Assana with him but when he saw Rin's pleading face he gave in.

"Fine, she can stay."

"Arigato (thank you) Lord Sesshomaru." exclaimed Rin and grabbed Assana's hand. "Come on, I'll show you Ah-Un."

Rin led Assana trough a few shrubs, went behind a big rock and dragged Ah-Un back with her. It was a two-headed dragon walked on all fours.

Assana patted his two heads. "He's really nice."

Rin climbed on his back with a little help from Assana and then they joined Sesshomaru and Jaken again. Sesshomaru announced it was time to move on.

Sesshomaru, Rin and Ah-Un walked in front, closely followed by Jaken. Assana closed the line. This went on until it was time to set up camp for the night. While Jaken was busy getting diner for Rin, Assana was sitting on a tree branch, thinking about her brother.

Sesshomaru watched her sitting on the branch. He knew for sure that he was going to regret his decision sooner or later.

Assana felt somebody watching her and looked around to see who it was. Her light-grey eyes locked with Sesshomaru's amber eyes. Assana didn't plan on looking away though. Sesshomaru gave her a 'don't push, it or else…' growl.

Assana gave him a smirk in return. "What's the matter Sesshy? Can't handle a girl staring at you?"

Nobody in his entire life had spoken to him like that. Well, perhaps his annoying little half-brother, but that was a completely different matter. Normally he would just ignore it but this wench made his blood boil.

Sesshomaru gave her a 'now you have gone too far' growl, drew Tokijin and swung it at her. Assana gave a small laugh and jumped to a higher branch.

"Did I make the great Lord Sesshomaru angry?" asked Assana innocently.

'Why did I even agree to go with him? The imp is annoying and Sesshomaru is like an ice cube with a big fluffy tail. I guess Rin was the reason. I have no clue how she can stand to be in his presence all the time. '

She ducked just in time to avoid being decapitated by Tokijin.

"It's time for you to learn your place wench." growled Sesshomaru.

"I have a name you know. Do you want me to spell it for you?" said Assana, tired of being called a wench all the time.

She jumped out of the tree and landed on the ground without loosing her balance. She passed by Rin's sleeping form. Then she saw a blur of green and was hit on the head by something solid. The blow wasn't hard enough to knock her out instantly but it did stop her from moving any further.

"Behave yourself in front of Lord Sesshomaru." demanded Jaken.

Assana bared her canines and growled. Jaken took a few steps back, just to be sure.

"I could've handled her on my own, Jaken. When I need your help I'll give you a call."

"Yes milord."

Assana got up from the moist forest floor, but as soon as she was standing a wave of dizziness swept over her. She fell again but a pair of strong arms (yes, in my fic Sesshy has two arms) caught her before she reached the ground.

"You won't be so lucky next time." whispered Sesshomaru in Assana's ear.

"Neither will you." promised Assana before she blacked out.

Sesshomaru laid her down next to the campfire to keep her warm. "Why do you allow her to travel with us milord? She has done nothing but insult you." asked Jaken.

"She can take care of Rin. I'm sure you find that a positive thing." Sesshomaru closed his eyes, signaling the end of the 'conversation'. Jaken went to sleep too.


Well, this is the first chapter. I hope you enjoyed reading it. R&R people!!

-Lady Of Summer Haze