an: yo what's up guys. FYI this is a reboot of a fic i started a few years ago on another account here, just letting you know before you jump into it. most pairings stay the same in this, also, and i'll update as best i can and when i get time, ok? with that aside, please keep hands and feet inside the fic at all times and enjoy!
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[Prologue]
The round jewel glinted in the afternoon sun's light, dangling by the string of beads as it was clutched tight in his hand.
He loped away as fast as his bare feet could carry him, dodging the trapping nets hurled at him from the left and right sides of the shrine's steep stairwell.
Just a little bit further and he was free…
"InuYasha!" A very familiar female voice cried just as he dashed past the large oak before air sharply caught on the fired projectile.
A resounding 'thunk' ripped into the electrified air as the shining gem dropped from his grasp and he gave an involuntary growl of pain at being pinned to the large tree.
Confusion and hurt glimmered in his wide gold eyes that settled on the dark-haired woman who had shot him. "K-Kikyo...?"
[Meanwhile, far to the Northwest…]
A slight yelp of surprise sounded when her right boot sole slipped on uneasy slush-coated rock.
She turned to quickly grab onto the other female's left arm, her nails fastening in the soft flesh of her bicep; calm silver held surprised blue as the slightly-intensified air of the steep hillside calmed.
She nodded with a sheepish smile, "Sorry."
"Don't mention it…" She thought to scold her for being unawares of her footing but decided against it; she instead puffed a bit of air, "I think we need to take a break, there's a safe landing not far from here."
Both females soon found the flat landing mentioned a few minutes later.
She looked up at the bleak skied morning and exhaled loudly. "Think we got far enough away?" She wondered.
The other female let her legs dangle over the edge of their flat as she slightly reclined. "Yes… well enough for noone to track us up here, anyway." Like it was easy to climb the near-cliffside they had just accomplished. Many of their age-mates had been warned by their mothers to never climb the mountains in winter for it was a hazardous trial in and of itself.
Her pointed ear twitched at hearing shuffling, and she looked at her companion as she stood up to look out over the miles they had put between themselves and their old territory. "Nothing then." She didn't ask and didn't feel the need to.
Anyone with a lick of sense wouldn't dare cross them unless they sought a quick death.
"No," the younger woman replied absently, her blue eyes settling on where their home had once stood; her eyes tightened at the corners. "Nothing."
She grunted slightly as she straightened at her right, sparing the large forest a single look before she clapped a hand on her shoulder. "Come on, we should keep moving; even if it doesn't look it right now, the mountains aren't safe."
She wasn't inept towards what sorts of creatures resided around their former territory and nodded her head, shrugging her bow and quiver onto her left shoulder to give slack to her right, pausing as her pointed ears twitched. "Onee-chan, do you hear what I hear?" She looked at her companion.
She had also heard the familiar and soothing noise of running water, smiling at their stroke of luck. "Let's go!" She took off in the easternmost direction at a sprint with her sister at her heels.
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Since the incident weeks ago, the sisters had believed their luck was dismal if not nonexistent… At least before today.
"Don't hog all of it…" She chided as she had finished washing her face with a splash of water from the creek.
She wiped her mouth with the back of her left hand and tossed the sling to her, making a face, "Calm down, Mother Hen." She returned, blinking back water when she was sprinkled with it as her sister shook her ebony hair of melted flurries, pouting. "I thoughtI was the younger one!"
She ran her nails through the tousled locks framing her face and gave her an off-hand look. "Oh, forgot you were there." She replied with a serene smile that hid the smug light in her silver eyes.
"I swear by the moon…" The younger woman began to curse before the serene look faltered and her sister looked sharply to the other side of the creek into the thatch of wood with her ears perked. She started to ask what she sensed before she too felt it, and she stood with her bow in hand, bristling as she nocked an arrow in place while her sister stood at her side.
The older sister bristled as well, a soft 'clink' sounding when she drew the silvery blade of her katana out of its black scabbard by a few inches; her ears perked again at sensing their attacker come closer to the creek and she growled as she completely drew the sword out.
A sharp arc of blue-green energy streaked across the way, nearly hitting those in the brush before a blur of silver leapt at the sisters.
Silver clashed with gold.
"… You!" The younger woman gaped in surprise when recognizing their "attacker".
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