Path to family

Lost and Found

Prologue

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Summary: I was abandoned, at the age of eight I was left to fend on my own. My mother the only family I've ever knew of had left me and never looked back. Ten years later when I turned 18, I met him, the one person, who as he stepped into my life changed it forever.

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Sesshomaru Takahashi is a business man. His life revolved around his work, and in his prime years at his company he was rolling in the money. His wife Kara Yamazaki was his high school sweetheart. After two years of marriage Kara had gotten pregnant and had twins. A boy and a girl, they were the light of their lives, but the years to come, for the family, were not as happy as they thought it would be…

"Kara I can't believe you, how dare you do this to me, to us!" said Sesshomaru sitting on his bed in his room with his wife standing in front of him unfazed. He looked up at his wife she was a sight of beauty, her long limbs displayed nicely in the short silver dress she was wearing. Her long brown hair was left loose falling over her shoulders. Those piercing grey eyes became as cold as steel as she glared back. Her angelic face; that he fell for, though he knew now that she was the farthest thing from an angel, more like the devil's incarnate.

"What are you talking about dear?" she asked with out even looking at him. She lost interest in him a long time ago, sure he was amazingly attractive with his stoic persona, beautiful silver hair and molten amber eyes but he wasn't around and she had needs, and if he couldn't supply them for her then she would just have to go somewhere else, or at least that was what she believed.

"Kara we have two kids together, and you're running around cheating on me, what did I do to you to make you do that?" he asked, his always perfect face had run hard. Dark bags had formed under his eyes from working long hours everyday and then worrying about where she was at night.

"What are you talking about me cheating on you? Sesshy, you know I'd never do that to you," said Kara as she walked over to him and sat in his lap. She started to unbutton his shirt.

"No, don't!" he said in a sharp tone as he smacked her hands away and pushed her off his lap.

"Why? Are you tired of me?!" she yelled getting angry; it had been months since they last did anything together.

"No I'm not tired of you, more like I'm disgusted, and I'm sure it's you that's tired of me. You sleep with a different man every night. What is wrong with you, what happened to the woman that I married?" he asked.

"That pathetic excuse for a girl was left in the past, this is who I am, so you better deal with it; now stop talking nonsense and let's just get under the sheets," she said.

"No, why don't you just pack your shit and get the hell out of my house, and out of our lives, I don't want my kids near you, hell you don't even take care of them. Mayu and Aiko are more mother figures to them than you are," said Sesshomaru as he stood up and walked out the door.

"What is wrong with you, you have no right to tell me what to do," said Kara as she walked to the door and watched him go towards the kids' room.

"Don't forget Kara this is my house, you spend my money and it is me who works in this house. Don't think that you can just do what you please in this house without me knowing, I know what you've been up to and it's the last straw I want a divorce and I will get the kids, you mark my words," said Sesshomaru as he walked into his kids' room and watched over them…

"So Sesshy what happened to 'I will get the kids, you mark my words,'?" Kara asked with a laugh as they exited the court room. A crying baby girl was in her arms. She was trying to get to Sesshomaru but Kara was not letting her go.

"I'm sorry baby, I'm really sorry," said Sesshomaru as he looked at his daughter. She looked just like her mother but with his eyes. She was such a sweet and innocent little girl, and was going to be brought up by such a horrible excuse for a mother.

"Papa, me go to papa!" she cried.

"Oh be quiet, you get to come with Mama," said Kara. "Well bye Sesshomaru, we'll see you around, bye son." She didn't even look back at her ex-husband or son and just kept on walking with her daughter in her arms. Sesshomaru had tears in his eyes as he watched Kara take his daughter away.

"Come on Sessh, Keita needs to get some rest and so do you. Well get her back, don't you worry about it," said Sesshomaru's younger brother, Inuyasha, as he put a supportive hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah I hope so, I can't let her keep my baby, she'll ruin her," said Sesshomaru.

"I know, that's why we'll fight again, take her to court," said Inuyasha.

"Yeah," said Sesshomaru as he took his two year old son from his sister-in-laws arms and carried him out of the court house.

They tried to fight back but Kara had basically vanished from their radar. She was no where to be found and because Kara was no where to be found, his daughter was also no where to be found. It was like she vanished from the face of the earth. The loss in the family was so grave, especially on Sesshomaru…

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Every morning I woke up to the rancid smells of decay and mould. I look at my surroundings and realize again that I wasn't in a bed. Sleep was the only time I was ever at peace because the second I wake up from those dreams I have to face the reality of my life. My entire life, or as far as I can remember it, has been a nightmare. At a young age my mother had abandoned me, I don't remember her but I still remember that morning when I woke up…

I was eight years old, adorned in a ratty old dress. I woke up in a park; I don't know where I was and so tears made their way into my eyes and fell down my face. Slowly I started calling for my mom, I was quiet but someone had heard me. That person came to me and tried to take me in an embrace to quiet me down. She was so scary though, I remember it clearly, she was dirty; her hair was plastered to her face and dirt smudged on her face. I started to scream and tried to run away but it was all futile. But once that lady touched me I didn't cry anymore, some how her touch calmed me and so I let her hold me as the tears fell.

She is now my provider; you could even call her my mother or sister for she was there for me when no one else was. Her name is Riya; she was 15 at the time when we first met. That day was the most horrifying and comforting day of my life. Though Riya scared the crap out of me that day, I stayed by her side. I had no where else to go and so I followed her. She took me to a huge fountain and the next thing I knew she walked right into it. She was washing herself. I watched as all the grime and dirt fell off her body.

She had amazing brown hair that looked really healthy after washing it and after looking closely seen that she had the most amazing brown eyes, because the brown had a tint of green in it. She entranced me and once she was clean I couldn't help but stare at her.

"Oh come here sweetheart you must be so scared" was the first thing she said to me. "I want to go home" was the only thing I muttered. She ignored it though, cause she knew that I was left all alone.

"So what's your name?" she asked.

"Um… my name is Keira, Keira Yamazaki," I said as I looked at her.

"Well then Keira how about we go get you some food?" Riya asked as she took a hold of my hand and dragged me away.

Riya took me with her, and honestly I could have sworn that she looked like she could be my sister. We had the same brown hair but I had an unusual shade of amber coloured eyes, while hers was brown with little specks of green. She kept dragging me with her. It took us a while but we soon came to this abandoned house. To an eight year old like me it was really scary, and I didn't want to go inside. She dragged me in anyways, and when I walked in I seen two boys sitting on the ground and another girl. One boy looked a lot like Riya except he had a more blond color to his hair and all brown eyes. I later found out his name was Ryu and that he was Riya's 11 year old brother. The other boy had jet black hair and really light blue eyes. His name was Hiroshi but I soon learned that he liked to be called Hiro. He was 18 years old at the time. The other girl was Hiro's twin sister. She had the same black hair and blue eyes. Her name was Hannah.

When I first walked into that house every pair of eyes were on me. I felt nervous and so hid behind Riya, my only comfort. When they seen me do that they all smiled well everyone besides Ryu. He just stared at me.

"Who is that behind you Riya?" asked Hannah.

"This here is Keira, I found her crying on the streets so I brought her over here," said Riya.

"Um Ri, did you ask her if she knew where she lived? What if her parents were around?" asked Hiro, looking at his Riya who I later found out was his girlfriend.

"Babe I obviously know that much, but I'll talk to you about it later, right now I want to get Keira some food," said Riya as she picked me up and carried me away.

That was how it all began. Riya took me in, even though she was short on money. I grew up admiring her. Hannah is also another person who to this day is like a mother to me. While we lived in that grungy abandoned house she would go to work at a diner as a waitress. Hiro also had a job, I think at that time he was construction worker. Neither of them went to school, dropping out two years before I met them because both their parents died leaving them all alone. After getting to know Riya and eventually Ryu I learned that they ran away from home because their mom was an unstable addict and their dad was an abusive drunk. They were abused for a lot of their childhood, and I felt really bad for them, but they are happier now. My friendship with all of them grew and through each year that I knew them. I became really close with Ryu, funny how the one person who was apprehensive of me coming became my closest friend.

Through the whole experience of growing up without parents and all the other normal things a child should get, I was still able to get some form of an education thanks to Hiro, Hannah and Riya. They taught me and I'm grateful for what they've done.

Because of those guys by my side I never felt abandoned and I never felt like I wasn't worth anything. Although in your eyes my childhood may have been horrible, and maybe it was seeing as I don't remember the first eight years of my life very much. But all I can say is that the rest of my life was nothing like what it was then. I found love and compassion I belonged and I knew that this was my family. And after ten years of being apart of this family I met someone, who as he stepped into my life totally changed it around. That was when all the pieces started to fit together. My name is Keira Yamazaki and this is my rags to riches story…

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A/N: So this is a story that I've had written down for a while, I know that I have other stories but this one just started to pop back into my head again. So I thought I'd put it up. Well tell me what you think. I've always wanted to write a story revolving around Sessh and now I finally got to do it!