The Falling rain
Chapter 1: The encounter
Written by: Mariah Mallad
~Time setting: Feudal Era~
"No! Stay away from me! Help someone Help!!" The young girl cried, "Don't hurt me please!" She cried as she fell to the floor and backed into a tree. A large demon had found his way to the girl and brought his claws down upon her slicing her face. As the blood drenched the ground the young girl cried, holding her cheek in her palms as she looked up once again but to see the demon coming for another blow. She lifted her hands up to protect herself and screamed, "NO!"
Kagome thrusted herself up screaming while throwing her arms protectively over her face. When her screams ceased to a end she cupped her cheek learning it was a dream, a horrible dream from the past. She pulled her knees to her chest and whimpered remembering that fateful day, when no one came to rescue her, she had no one to help her, as that demon sliced and diced her, letting her blood drench the grass.
She cried harshly and cursing at the demons all the demons, she hated every single last one of them she hated every single one of them. She despised them, the low life creatures of this planet
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Kagome woke up the next morning with a stretch and yawn, she worked her way out of her cot and placed on her thigh high kimono, it was completely black with a thick red cloth tied around her waist to keep it shut. It 'v'd' down giving a very nice look to her kimono. She placed on her black slip-on shoes and ran out of the door awaiting for the sunshine to hit her face and warmth her body. Kagome was like any other 15 year old girl in her village except she was a Miko and a very strong, and pure one. She practiced her powers with the head Miko Kaede. She taught her archery, controlling her powers and keeping the barrier around the village up.
Today she her mind set on learning how to create a certain medicine to stop blood clots; Kaede had drawn the pictures of what herbs she needed to gather to make the medicine. Kagome raced through the village hearing 'Hello Kagome!' or 'Good morning to you, young Miko.' With her wave's back and replies she raced towards the forest with her basket happily in her arms.
When she finally reached the forest she halted to a stop, and slowly worked her way through. She pulled out the paper of drawings and held it up to the herbs which looked like it until she finally found the right one, "Finally the hakana I've been looking for!" She smiled and sat down on her knees and picked away. The best thing to do right now was stock up, for winter was coming.
She started to hum a lullaby her mother used to sing to her before...before...She was killed by the demons. This was another reason she hated demons, they were cruel to mankind, and they felt they could kill as they please. She got madder and madder now that her mother was not with her! She pounded the ground which frightened the kitten that happened to walk besides her.
"Oh! I'm sorry little one." She gasped. She pulled out a piece of bread which was in her basket as well and fed the kitten some, "sweetie how would you like to come home with me?" she giggled as she lifted the kitten into her arms and set her in her basket.
She quickly went back to her humming only for a Hanyou to catch her sweet humming, drawing him in to her. His ears twitched a bit but soon he was under a trance by her humming, if she could hum this well he wondered how she good she could sing, so he followed her voice.
He came upon a patch of tall bushes and saw through them the girl who'd been humming; he was intended to see the person who hummed his mothers lullaby. He made his way through the brush of herbs and leaves until his face popped out at the top of the bush startling the girl.
He smiled at her radiating beauty, her hair was a deep black, straight at the top which flowed into big bouncy curls at the bottom, she was lean as what he could see and fit. Her top was well busted and her neck was long and bare, unmated. Her face is what drawn him in the most, her eyes were wide open staring in shock and fright, they were blue like topaz as he fixed more on her face details, he saw her plump rosy lips and beautiful faced head round and full, her cheeks without smiling were rosy to, her hair carefully slanted at the left side of her face covering half of her eye, He smiled baring his fangs. He then took in her scent and found she was human, but when he took another whiff he found a scent like no other, it smelt of rain and flowers, and beautiful scent it truly was, He was very pleased with the human he'd found
Kagome went wide eyed as soon as she saw him, not only did he scare her, but he was a demon, by her senses he was a Half-Demon. Her mouth gaped wide and she covered it with her hand, she backed away, crawling. She knew she had to get away, but she hadn't mastered her demon repel spells. So she panicked.
"G...G...Go away!" She screamed toward the half-demon, "Leave me alone! Don't hurt me!" She begged.
He looked confused he'd done nothing to her but yet she was afraid of him. He looked at her with hurt in his eyes and stood up bearing his red outfit, which was really outgoing. He looked at her at a great distance apart, him being tall and everything, he started to walk towards her.
She marveled at the Hanyou's beauty but was scared to death when he stood up, his long white hair whipped around at the air and she noticed the cute kitty ears which were placed up upon his head. He had deep golden orbs for eyes and his body was muscular from what she saw, very buff.
He wore red garments a jacket with separated sleeves, a kosode She Believed it was called.
And hakama's (pants) bloused at the ankles and with that an obi (belt) around his waist. The sleeves were separate from his body almost vest like and held on at the bottom. Since his jacket was tucked into his pants, and his white shirt clearly showed through the slits, perhaps it is a modified hitoe. However due to the length it may be more correctly a kariginu. The shoulders of his jackets body were wider than his; deliberately so that the shoulder of the jacket hung past his shoulders. The hitoe was shorter than the kimono, and is tucked into the hakama's. It is so short that the white shirt shows through the side The Hakama's slits instead of the jacket. The Jacket has a narrow collar, and a diagonal front, closing left over right. It was held shut with tied strips, like a Karate Gi top.
The jacket appeared to be too large to even fit him. There was a black cord across the chest from the right shoulder to the left hip, tied in a simple bow. It is not a sword cord, but appears to be holding the excess fold of the jacket in place.
She quickly backed more away into a tree, and a Déjà vu hit her, She looked up into the Hanyou's eyes and in a instant they'd become the eyes of the demon which had hurt her so. She remembered because of that damned demon she was on mute for more than 2 years, she watched her mother and father get killed by that demon.
The boy watched as the girl looked at him, and then all of a sudden the smell of salt liquid quivered through his nose. He looked closely to see she was… Crying? He stepped closer only to hear another blow of being beg not to hurt her. He didn't understand why she was so afraid of him.
Kagome honestly had no clue what he was going to do; she could feel her life coming to an end.
He saw as the tears flaked off her face and dripped to the grassy floor of the forest. He came in front of her, propping himself on his toes and bended down, so that his legs were scrunched. She panicked even more; the thoughts were racing through her head.
He lifted his hand up but only to receive her wince.
Kagome saw the hand of her Hunter lift, fearing it was all going to end right here. She tightened up waiting for the blow to hit her, after a minute or two she pried her eyes open only to see the face of a sad Hanyou.
The boy brought his had down gently to her face and caressed her cheek, only to bring his face close to hers and lick her tears away. When he retrieved his face he finally spoke, "Please, please don't cry." He spoke with such a marveling voice it made her want to melt. His rough but calming voice was all she needed to stop crying.
She quivered a bit than finally spoke to him, "Who are you? What are you?" She asked, wondering if he was truly a evil sprit.
He smiled seeing he'd gotten her to speak to him, he cleared his throat and in a velvet voice his spoke quietly but proudly to her, "I'm glad to see you'd finally speak to me. My name is InuYasha Tashio, I am a half-demon. But your kind and the demons prefer to call me Half-breed." He looked down for a moment but only to return her gaze and ask, "And you, what is your name?"
Kagome didn't know how to respond it was a first time thing that a half-demon had talked to her kindly. She wanted to be nice so she tried to hide her some what still there fear, "Kagome!" She sped to fast. But his keen ears caught it.
"Mmmmm, Such a beautiful name, for such a beautiful girl." He tried to seduce her. She hid her face into her knees, trying to hide here blushing. He smiled and lifted her face to his, "Please, don't ever hide your face from me." He told her.
She did a quick nod, and at that very moment a smirk sneaked its way across his face. As he stood up, he extended his arm for hers. She looked at it for a minute and looked at him but only to receive a quick nod from him. She looked back at the hand and slowly but eagerly took the hand of the boy.
When he lifted her to her feet, she twisted her hand that was captivitly caught in his; she closely looked at his hand, His nails were long and extended a perfect killing machine. She gulped. When she heard his chuckle she looked at him with confusion.
"My dear Kagome, I promise you I will not lay a finger on you ever in a harmful manner." And with that he swung her closely to him. Never had he been like this, so seductive. There was just something about her that turned him on.
She felt okay; she didn't feel anything wrong with this. She'd never been held this way before, so she acted on instincts. She cuddled into his chest and stood there in the middle of the forest. Se enjoyed it very much; she could stay like this forever…..With him.
He felt her cuddle into him with a warm smile. He looked down at the face, which memorized him. He placed his head on top of hers as they stood there in the warmth of the sun. He dropped his hands lower to her waist, causing her to shiver.
She quickly remembered what she came to the forest to actually do. She slipped out from under his arms and raced to pick up her basket and stuttered, "Umm….You see… I came here for some…To get some….Herbs."
He laughed and spoke, "I'll help you Kagome. Just tell me what you need me to get, and I'll get it." He said while swiping his thumb across the top of his nose for a moment.
She laughed as she took out her list of herbs she needed, they spent hours looking for herbs because InuYasha wouldn't stop messing around, doing all he could to make her laugh. He'd pop out the trees she'd be sitting under and have handfuls of herbs and ask, "Is this what you're looking for?" She'd laugh then get back to work.
When they finally finished up they hooked arms and walked back to the village, both proud of all the herbs they'd found. InuYasha looked at her wonderful warm face, and with that a quick flash of her neck marked raced through his mind. He tried to get rid of it but another vision came it was of her bearing his children. The beautiful children they were. He started blushing; Kagome looked up and giggled asking, "Why are you blushing?"
He caught himself in the act and stopped. He quickly changed the subject, " Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"Do you believe in 'Love at first sight'?"
"Yes and no."
"What do you mean by that?" He asked.
"Well you can think you love someone through lust and confusion at first sight if they are beautiful to you, but to truly love someone well, is getting to know them."
"Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"I want to get to know you." He answered.
She blushed and nodded saying, "Okay, but I'm not that interesting InuYasha,"
She could tell easily that her life was going to change with this boy. She felt a sudden happiness again, something and by something she'd meant him, had warmth her heart once more.
End of Chapter 1
Chapter 2 Coming soon