Demon Nightmares, Demon Dreams
Chapter 1: The Demon's Nightmares
"Damn it, Akina!" Came a womans voice from a room in the large Japanese Castle.
Laughter and the pitter-patter of foot steps on the hard wood floor was fallowed by the cry of anger.
Akina's long black hair flowed behind her as she rounded a corner. (Well, the color of her hair was more of a really dark gray.)
"What's the matter Rin? Are you angry because your nipples are hard enough to cut diamonds?"
Rin, who was dressed in silk pajamas was running after Akina. The chest of her night shirt was wet. "When I get a hold of you, your ganna wish you HADN'T put snow down my shirt."
"I doubt that!" Akina yelled between spurts of laughter, while looking back at Rin.
With a loud, "UF!" Akina ran into something solid.
This was fallowed by roaring laughter from Rin.
Akina rubbed her forehead with a groan as Rin walked up to her. "I'm sorry, did I forget to mention that your not a ghost, and you can't walk through walls?"
"Ha ha ha, very funny Rin. So...I noticed that your lactating...when is the baby do."
Rin grinned and reached down her shirt, and pulled out a small ball of snow, before throwing it at her.The two girls started laughing, but it was interrupted by a chilling voice.
"What is all this commotion about?"
Akina's gold eyes looked up to meet Sesshomaru's.
"Oh nothing Father!" Akina said scrambling to her feet.
"Yeah dad!" Rin responded grabbing her sisters wrist and pulling her passed the annoyed Sesshomaru. "We were just going to go play out in the snow."
And before Sesshomaru could say anything, the two girls were running down the hall towards the courtyard.
A growl emitted from the dog demon's throat but soon stopped when he felt arms embrace him from behind.
"Aww, don't go to hard on them, they're just having a little fun."
"Yes, outside of the meeting hall."
Kagome moved in front of him so she could see his face. "Don't get so upset, okay? They didn't intentionally do it." She said with a smile that always calmed Sesshomaru's nerves.
Sesshomaru gave a slight smile and hugged her tightly.
"That's better. Now get in there and show them what your made of!" Kagome shouted with sudden vigor.
Sesshomaru, gave a heavy sigh and walked towards the meeting hall.
"Oh! Sorry Honey! I didn't mean too!" Kagome said apologetically.
Rin hadn't let go of Akina until they go out side, and once she had let her go, Rin pushed her into the snow covered ground.
"KYAH!!! That's cold!" Akina shouted jumping up as fast as her muscles would allow her.
Rin smiled. "That was so close! He was totally going to let you have it!"
"What ever." Akina said brushing off the snow. "You were the one screaming at the top of your lungs."
"Yeah, well, let's see how well your able to keep quiet, when I stick a snow ball down your shirt when your half asleep." Rin said picking up a good amount of snow to make a snow ball.
"You wouldn't dare." Akina hissed.
"Oh I dare...want to have a snow battle?" Rin asked. She smiled brightly, "It'll be fun!"
"Snow battle?" Akina asked. "You mean like...use the skills we learned in combat training?"
"Yeah!" Rin said happily.
"Yeah, okay! Let's go get changed, and get our weapons and stuff!"
And with that, they ran off to go get ready for their battle.
A few minutes later, the sisters were on opposite ends of the courtyard, weapons in hand, staring at each other with serious faces. Of course, Akina had a slight smirk on her lips, and Rin who had admired Sesshomaru, (maybe more than as a father), had adopted his serious face that was like armor.
Rin had take up the sword, and Akina, a spear. Although, kagome had almost commanded her daughter to take up the bow and arrow, Akina much prefered the spear. Sesshomaru had convinced Kagome to let their daughter take up the spear when he said: "The person doesn't choose the weapon, the weapon chooses you."
Even Akina thought it was a corny saying, but if it would convince her mother, then... "The WEAPON CHOOSE ME!" She would say.
Rin being human trained very hard to get where she was at, Sesshomaru had helped her with her training, so that every sense would be honed, and would be just as good as a demons. Although, it was nearly impossible to have the sense of smell or instinct that a demon had.
Though Rin was somewhat at an advantage, Akina had her mother's priestess powers, which she pushed forth into her spearing.
Rin has taken up the sword, but instead of traditional swords, she uses hand swords, which require her to get up close to her opponents. This is what she prefers.
These two weapons can be an advantage to one, and a disadvantage to the other, depending on the circumstance. If Rin is kept at a distance, Akina has the advantage, but if Rin manages to get close, it's her advantage.
People that were walking through the court yard, began to stop and watch what was about to unfold, and the crowd around the perimeter began to increase.
Akina smiled and the attention. "Let's begin."
"As you wish." Rin said, before starting towards Akina.
Before Akina went into her fighting stance, the tip of her spear began to glow a pinkish color. She smiled and made a circle around her.
When Rin got close enough, she slashed, but to no avail. Her weapon went fly out of her hand. She hadn't even got near Akina.
Rin watched her weapon go flying with anger.
"A barrier?" She asked through gritted teeth. "You wanna play like that huh?"
Akina started laughing. "What's wrong."
Rin glared at her. "You know they're nothing I can do about a barrier."
"yeah I know...I just wanted you to know who has the advantage." Akina said with a grin.
Rin raised an eyebrow. "You can't do anything while your in the barrier."
"Yes, but I'm not in it now, and your without your WEAPON!"
On weapon, Akina lunged. Rin managed to move out of the way in time, but ended up with her side scratched. Akina Lunged again, but Rin back flipped out of the way.
Akina tried for a side swipe, but Rin rolled under neath her attack, and ended up rolling between Akina legs. As Rin rolled, she brought her blade along Akina's leg, before ending up behind her.
Akina let out a cry of pain, before Rin kicked her forward.
This earned an "Oh!" and a slight applaud from the crowed.
When Akina regained her self, and Rin stood, Rin smiled at her condescendingly.
"Who has the advantage?"
Akina glare. "Hn!" Akina responded looking away. She stabbed her spear into the ground, and held onto the end of it. With a quick movement of her arm, she brought the spear out of the ground, and swung wide. This caused the middle of the handle, to collide with Rin's head.
"Don't play games." Akina said suddenly serious. She didn't like to be shown up in front of a crowd like that. "If were going to do this then lets do it."
"Fine then." Rin said glaring, as she rubbed the side of her head which was bleeding.
This fun little snow battle, which didn't even involve snow, suddenly turned serious.
They stood a good distance away from each other.
Akina suddenly felt a chill crawl down her spine, and she looked towards the trees.
'It's always moments like this, when I'm outside that I always feel like someone's watching me.' She thought.
Akina felt a shock of surprise go through her stomach as she heard the crunching of snow as, Rin ran at her.
Without thinking, she plunged her spear into Rin's stomach.
Akina gasped at what she had just done, and Rin fell to her knees coughing.
"Oh! RIN! Are you okay! Oh Rin! I'm so sorry I didn't mean to!"
Rin stayed on her knees gasping for breath.
"You demon bitch." Rin manged to say between gasping breaths. "Your lucky, that was the wrong end of the spear."
Akina looked down, and saw that, in fact, the blunt end of the spear was in fact, nestled in Rin's stomach.
"Idiot." Rin mumbled.
"WELL! Good thing your so chubby, other wise, you could have ended up with internal bleeding." Akina said, feeling a wave of relief wash over her. "Your fat cushioned the blow."
The people around them began to laugh and shortly dispersed.
Rin stood in a huff, or at least as fast as she could.
" I am NOT fat by any means!" Rin yelled
Of course she wasn't...Akina just liked to bother Rin about it.
The girls started arguing when they were interupted.
"Would you mind to stop being so loud and annoying."
The girls turned to look at an older boy that had very long white hair with a bluish tint to it, and golden eyes.
"I wouldn't mind doing anything you asked if you weren't so rude." Akina snapped, glaring at the dog demon.
"Sorry to bother you Ryoko." Rin responded glaring at Akina.
Ryoko was Sesshomaru's heir, and was about year older than Akina, which made him seventeen.
A few months after the incident, when the people of Sesshomaru's clan found out he was to be married to a Human, the told him he must produce an heir that was of 'pure blood.'
Of course Kagome didn't like this idea very much, but knew that it was only fair. And so along came Ryoku, whose mother, was a VERY hate-able person.
Akina sighed and picked up her spear from the ground. "Well I'm glad your alright, Rin, I'm going inside."
And as Akina went inside, she still had the feeling, that someone was watching her.
And there was...
Inuyasha's POV
About three months after Kagome had gotten married to Sesshomaru. Inuyasha had been watching her.
Could he be called a stalker? Yes he could. But he didn't feel like he was in the wrong. After all, he loved Kagome and let his brother have her. It hurt, to watch her...
He could tell, even after three months, that it was hard for her, dealing with what had happened to him. But as he watched her over the years, she slowly got over him. They even had a daughter.
Inuyasha was growing angrier and angrier, but..the good side of it was that he was getting better at being a full demon.
But no matter how much he changed himself, he couldn't forget Kagome, and couldn't stop watching the family.
Even now. He watched Rin, and Kagome's daughter fight. He's watched them before, of course but it seemed recently, she was starting to notice that he was watching her.
When she went inside, he stayed there a little bit before he left.
The Ryoku kid, he concluded long ago, was almost exactly like Sesshomaru. He always acted high and mighty, as if everyone was beneath him. And he hated Sesshomaru for being week and succumbing to a lowly human.
Inuyasha was even surprised that his half brother had ended up with a human. Maybe while Sesshomaru was joined with Kagome, he realized how foolish he was being...
Either way, from the very beginning he thought it was a bad idea, not that he had a choice in the matter.
Inuyasha sighed. His red eyes looking down at his long claws. No matter how cleaned they looked, he could still feel the blood that had spilled on his hands so many times.
He missed Kagome and the others so much. What could he do now..seventeen years later, and turned into a beast, that everyone was afraid of?
He gave one last look towards the door that Akina went through, and then hopped down from the tree.
The once red, fire rat haori, was a different color now. Now it was black, with red sripes on it. It was from the fur of a Fire Tiger demon.
'How could this happen to him.' It's something he thought every day, since then.
He went from a loner, to having so much love around him. The love of friendship, the warmth of knowing that someone would always be there for you, even though you didn't want to admit it, To having nothing, or anyone.
This knew way a life, (that wasn't even new!) was a nightmare the he could never wake up from...
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