AU: Hey! Okay, Well Just wanted to say thanks for reading! I'm in the zone (lol stupid sounding) right now, so chapter 2 might be up tonight! R&R please! -Leah
~Strangers Like Me~
Chapter 1: NYAH!
"NYAHH!" Leah roared in frustration as she attempted, again to prepare dinner for Lady Kaede.
'Cooking is NOT my thing…' She thought wryly. The elderly Miko, Lady Kaede, who was like a mother to Leah, had not been feeling well as of late. Yesterday, she had bade Leah to come help her prepare dinner and she had agreed.
"Damn rice…Why wont you cook?!" Leah snarled in irritation, throwing the bag of rice down, and proceeding to beat it. (AU: LOL! =])
Lady Kaede chose this moment to appear, pausing in the doorway to take in her surroundings, and raising an eyebrow when she saw the smug looking young Miko-Hanyou on the floor next to a pulverized bag of rice.
"Child, If ye couldn't cook, why did ye not say something, instead of punishing the poor rice?" The older Miko questioned, looking at the younger girl in amusement.
"……"
With a sigh, Kaede retrieved another, smaller bag of rice and proceeded to prepare it correctly, causing Leah to look away in embarrassment. The dog-like ears atop her head twitching in irritation and embarrassment, along with an agitated swishing of her tail.
"Lady Leah…" Kaede began, as she stirred meat and vegetables into the now steaming pot, "What troubles ye? I sense a very…ominous aura about ye."
Leah glanced up, startled. 'Ominous…?' She wondered.
"I do? But…why?"
"Hmm…It is subconscious then. Perhaps your inner Miko is trying to warn you of something." Lady Kaede reasoned wisely.
Leah was puzzled. 'What could there be to warn me from?' She wondered.
Unless…No! He was dead! Shehad killed him!
But before she could reassure herself further, a long forgotten scent hit her nose, sending chills down her spine. She quickly ran outside, praying to Kami she was wrong. But no, her nose doesn't lie.
It was him.
'Him, You mean the sadistic BASTARD?!' Her inner voice said viciously.
Him, the one who had killed them. The only two people in the world who saw her as a person, and not a, "filthy half-breed." They had accepted her, and loved her, in spite of her being an…abomination.
She looked, up, into his red eyes, with a glare that would put the Western Lord to shame, spitting out his name as if it were vermin.
"Naraku."