Ch.1 Alone
Blood flowed down her slender back, plopping into the virgin snow in dime-sized drops, soiling the pure whiteness. Her lips were tinted blue, and her skin was pale and fragile, she ran silently, her raven mane matted with blood and snow. Her ears flicked and lay flat against her skull; her tail was limp, and her eyes were dull.
She wondered where she would go when she healed the scars of the hell she had been imprisoned in, where she would belong; one of her legs gave out with a small sound. She felt her head hit the frozen ground, and she realized that she would never belong- she was alone- and it would stay that way. 'Maybe...I can die, right here... What a beautiful place.... For death...', she closed her fireless eyes and felt everything slip away. She never felt the chains wrap around her body, and she never heard the muttering of people.
Sesshomaru sat watching Rin load up on snow, he wondered what she needed it for, but whenever he asked, she had shrugged and kept gathering the substance. He heard a pile of flying snow cut someone racing towards him, "Lord Sessh-"; Jakken was cut off by a pile of flying snow colliding with his mouth. Sesshomaru snickered, 'Stupid little toad.' he said inwardly, as Rin pelted more snow at the imp, while the toad screamed and bitched. The seven year-old girl soon ran out of ammunition, stopping the assault, "MiLord", Jakken panted, "One of the guards found an ugly creature near the border of your lands, and he wants you to see it!" he beckoned for his master to follow. Sesshomaru turned to Rin, "Go inside." He said, "But Rin wants to see the monster too!" she whined, "Inside...Now!" the lord snapped, making the little girl run for the house. When Sesshomaru reached the courtyard, he paused by a trail of blood, then he flowed toward where his other servants were crowded around something on the ground, when they parted to show the cause of the uproar, he became agitated. A woman lie on the ground her hair was raven to the alabaster snow; her back was bleeding, and she was covered in filth, she was pale and her lips were a sky blue. A shrill scream made him whirl to look at Rin, who was staring at the figure in the snow, "Lord Sesshomaru... Please help the lady." She was begging, her eyes watery. 'Not the face!' he snarled silently, Rin was like his own pup, she was now nearly in tears. "Alright!" he boomed "You idiots, stop staring and GET BACK TO WORK!" he roared the last part as everyone scattered. With a frustrated snarl he picked up the skeletal frame, he then stormed sulkily to the castle, thinking, 'First Rin.... Now an ugly woman!'