Author's Note: Hiya! This is my very first fanfic and I hope you all enjoy it! I love writing and I hope you like my work!

Disclaimer: InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Any other characters are created by me and you must have permission to use them. If any events in the story seem similar it's purely coincidental.


Title: Sanctuary of Broken Dreams

Chapter One: Red Snow

It was a snowy night. InuYasha was surrounded by trees and beautiful, white snow. He slowly began to walk. T hen he began to come to a clearing.

It was like a winter wonderland.

The trees were blanketed in pure,white snow. Crystal clear icicles were hanging from various tree branches. Everything was just too breathtaking. Then, a gust of wins and snow spiraled towards him. Temporarily blinded, InuYasha began rubbing his eyes. As quickly as it had came, the spiral quickly left.

That's when he opened his eyes to the most gorgeous thing he had ever laid eyes on. However, the thing was actually a girl. A girl, whose beauty was not of this world.

She sat in the snow,wearing a simple,plain silver gown. Her raven hair flowed over her shoulders and down her back, as the moonlight created blue highlights. Her skin was creamy and seemed to be as smooth as silk. Just looking at it he craved to caress it. That's when she opened her eyes. They were so...so...well, they would never be words to describe them. She gazed at him through her grey-blue orbs, and smiled.

He swore his heart skipped a beat, when she did.

And that's when all hell broke loose.

Suddenly, the ground around them began to shake. InuYasha looked over at the girl as she looked over at him. "Help me, please." Her voice was light and soothing, but covered in fear.

For some reason, he had an urge to help her. "Hold on, I'm coming," he told her.

By then, it was too late. The ground around her began to crack and blasts of lava spurred out! Where InuYasha stood had begun to drift away. "Help me! Please!" He looked over to see her trembling and her face overflowing with tears. She looked helpless, or so helpless.

There was nothing he could do. Absolutely nothing. He shook his head! What was he thinking! He was so caught up in the moment, he forgot he was a half-demon!

Estimating the distance between him and her, he ran back preparing for his jump. " Well, here goes nothing!" he yelled as he sprinted towards her.

However, before he could jump, the small island she sat on descended! He watched in horror as the raven haired girl plummeted into the lava. Although, before she fell into the hot liquid, her body fizzled into snowflakes.

Her last words to him were," Save me,...InuYasha. Please."

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InuYasha woke up in a cold sweat. He found himself wrapped up in his thin,red sheets. He tweaked his ears to see if anyone was in the room with him. No one.

'That dream was way too intense. Could it be a message...? Or maybe a sign? After all, it is January and outside is snowy. The way freaky part is...how did she know my name? And who is she?'

He shook his head.

He didn't need this now. He looked at the clock. 2:06 am. "Man, I need to sleep..." he mumbled as he went back to sleep. Or tried to.

Two hours later he was up again.

He sighed.

"Damn. Well, Dead or Alive 4, here I come."

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InuYasha yawned .He hadn't gotten a wink of sleep, at least after that dream. ' That girl...'

"InuYasha, do you find this trip too boring?" his professor, Mr. Kimizuki asked.

The class snickered.

"No,not all sir," he replied.

With that, Mr. Kimizuki continued talking about tomorrow's trip. They were going to some stupid theater for a play!

For the love of...! They were in high school, not elementary! Well, the only good point was that they missed school and it was free.

"DDDDIIIINNNGGGG!"

"Thank god," he mumbled as he grabbed his sack.

"Thank god, for what InuYasha?" his best friend, Miroku, asked as they met up to go to the cafeteria.

"Don't you think this whole trip is too "kiddish"?" he asked him.

Miroku looked over at him astonished. "How do you think going to the forest to protect lovely damsels in distress, too "kiddish"?"

InuYasha sighed. ' How could I forget? Miroku is such a pervert, he wouldn't mind going to a sandbox as long as their were ladies. He's so hopeless...'

Their conversation wondered to Miroku's obsession to women, then to InuYasha's attitude problem, and other wacky topics. By the time they reached the table with their lunches, the topic was on dreams.

InuYasha suddenly seemed unsure if he should tell Miroku about his dream. However, Miroku was a descendant of a line of great monks. He,himself, was a monk-in-training.

'Here goes nothing...' he thought.

"Miroku?" he asked.

"Hmn," Miroku responded, since his mouth was full of his club chicken sandwich.

"I had a dream that I think could be a call for help," InuYasha continued.

He told Miroku everything, from the beginning to the end.

"Hmm..."he mumbled to himself.

Miroku looked over at InuYasha through his violet-blue eyes. He could see that his amber-eyed friend was very anxious. He also seemed,...panicky? It shook his head. InuYasha? Panicky? There must've been something in the sandwich to make him believe that.

"Miroku...?"

He blinked as he was interrupted out of his train of thought. "Oh, yes,well then," he stuttered.

"InuYasha, what are you?" he said.

InuYasha looked dumbfounded. "What!"

"Let me rephrase that," Miroku said as he stifled a laugh at his best friend's reaction.

"What I meant was what kind a species are you?"

InuYasha continued to look dumbfounded. "Miroku do you ever look at the school's website? "Shikon High School, a place where demons and mortals can come together." Helloo! Anyone, in there! I'm a half-demon!"

Miroku rubbed his temples. "Yes, I know that, but I never actually asked you what kind of demon you were?"

"Oh. But isn't it obvious! Can't you see the freakin' ears?"

The monk's eyes widen."You're a cat demon!"

InuYasha's silver ears twitched. His eyes had a what-the-hell-was-that-I-heard look.

"MIROKU! I'M NO FREAKING CAT! I'M A DOG DEMON!"

He rolled his eyes. "InuYasha, no need to get tense. Jeez."

"Anyways. As you were saying."

Miroku cleared his throat. "Since, you're a dog demon, or at least half of one, you hold the power of "fortune-telling dreams." However, since you're only half a demon, you might mix up events."

InuYasha thought about the monk's words. "So, I could've seen 2 future events?"

"Well,yeah."

"Holy crap."

Miroku looked at him like he was nuts. "Are you crazy! That lady you saw in your dreams must be beyond hot! All you have too say is holy crap!"

InuYasha glanced at him. "Miroku...? Why did you choose to become a monk?"

"Because, I want to learn the ways of the Buddha in his superior purity and righteousness."

InuYasha stared at him through half-opened eyes lids.

"Notice, how you said,'his superior purity and not his superior perverty."

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Finally, school was done. He said goodbye to Miroku and made his way across the street. InuYasha pulled his navy blue parka closer to him as a cold chill blew by. He couldn't wait to get back home to his cozy,little one room apartment. Sadly, before he could get there, he had to survive this walk. After

all, his street hadn't been salted yet and even a half demon has to watch himself.

He sighed.

Readjusting, his mp3's earphones, he listened to "Rakuen" by Do As Infinity. He practical knew the song by heart. He loved how he could relate to it so much.

He sighed again.

"Who could she be?" he mumbled softly to himself.

He continued to walk down street, when he stumbled upon a...forest? He rubbed his eyes and checked to see if he was seeing things. After all, maybe there was something in his lunch. It was a school lunch, he ate today.

However, even after rubbing his eyes, it was still there.

Through the light snowfall, he could make out trees, covered in a blanket of snow.

"Wait a second, a blanket of...snow?"

That's when the dream came back to him. "Holy crap." He couldn't believe it. Miroku was right.

"So, I could've seen 2 future events?"

"Well,yeah."

"Holy crap."

He...what...WHAT THE HELL WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO!Here he was, walking home and WHAM! Some forest from his dream appears in front of him! All he could do was stand there and look bewildered. That is until he heard it.

It was a voice. Yet, he heard it in his head. It had been so clear, like someone was talking to him.

It had said, in a familiar voice,"Help me."

"Help me, please."

His eyes widen.

The voice.

It was her voice. She sounded just like in the dream. Frightened and helpless. Not only that. She sounded weak , fragile,like she was in pain!

Once again, he had a sudden urge to save her. His face glowed with determination. This time he would rescue her.

He burst into the forest with inhuman speed. With his keen,amber eyes, he scanned the forest, high and low. 'Where could she be?'

'L-look...ugh! Look for the place in your dreams...a-and please hurry...'

She spoke to him, again! Although, it wasn't clear like the first time. It was like she was fading away! With renewed speed, he searched for a clearing like in his dreams. After all, this whole time he had been dodging tree after tree.

That's when something caught his attention.

The smell of blood.

Quickly, following the scent, he came upon a trail of red snow which lead him to a clearing. Just like his dream.

It was like a winter wonderland.

The trees were blanketed in pure,white snow. Crystal clear icicles were hanging from various tree branches. Everything was just too breathtaking. Then, a gust of wind and snow spiraled towards him. Temporarily blinded, InuYasha began rubbing his eyes. As quickly as it had came, the spiral quickly left.

And that's when he saw her.

The girl lay unconscious in the blood filled snow. She wore the same simple,plain silver gown, only it was stained in crimson splotches. Her blue highlighted, raven hair sprawled around her silky,cream skin.

Walking towards her, he gasped at his discovery.

They had camouflaged against the snow and the blood stains,but were visible now.

Stretched out around the raven haired girl...

...were crimson stained wings.

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