Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha (duh), only two of the characters.

Summary: A nightmare comes into the peacful mind. After being startly awakened, the demon gets a vist from Naraku. Along with Naraku comes a long time friend.

Warnings: None

Miscellaneous: The story starts off slow.

Life Begins Again

I woke up in a cage, not remembering how or why. My heart dramatically increased, but steadily stopped as I took in my surroundings. In front of my eyes were the place I was born and raised in; my home, family, and friends. All of it was gone. Destroyed right before my eyes. I stood as still as I could in complete utter shock, until someone banged the cage; forcing my head to crash to the other side. A quick, small headache formed, but disappeared with a little rubbing. I looked up to be greeted by human eyes. "Aaawww, look. The little demons is confused." The man that bagged the cage, along with two others, laughed mockingly. My face formed into a snarl, and I tried to freeze everything around me, but it didn't work. Now I was really confused. I had learned how to freeze things around me quite sometime ago. "Come now, don't be mad at us. We weren't the ones that destroyed your pathetic little home; it was some demon known as Sesshoumaru. Heh, you just happened to be the only survivor of your kind." All of them laughed again. Once done doing whatever they were doing they started to drag me to their destination. When we got there, the humans set me with other demons that were in cages, surrounded by plants. After some moments had passed, I realized that I felt more and more weak. That is when one of the demons had told me that the plants were keeping out energy low, so that we couldn't break out.

Time had passed by and I had learned that the humans were thieves, and if they came across a weak or vulnerable demon, they would kidnap it, and sell it, along with other items they stole. A lot of humans had asked for me, but the thieves refused, stating that I was worth a lot for being the last of my kind, and being able to get more money from someone with more wealth. I also realized that I liked playing with invisible long hair. I couldn't understand why. I always kept my hair one inch about my shoulders. After shoving food down mine and the other demon's throats, the thieves celebrated because of getting the new items they got. As night came, for once I fell asleep.

The demon woke up to a shudder, and quickly gave the area a quick glance, only to see that he was alone in a forest. He sat up straight, while waking the dragon beside him. When the dragon became fully awake, he stared up at the demon with its big light blue eyes. "Are you ready?" The demon asked with a deep soothing voice. The dragon let out a happy sound, stating that it was. The pale demon stood up while pushing his long braided, icy blue (with a small fraction of the right side white) hair, that fell all the way down to his ankles. A crystal piece holding it together. He quickly straightened out his icy blue kimono and white hakama pants (looks like overalls). Once satisfied, the demon continued his search with the dragon, for the sacred shikon jewel.

Though he had the dragon accompanying him, the demon often felt alone. Jaken was killed by a demon, trying to protect Rin. Rin found a mate and died of old age. And Ah Un was let go, unless needed for something important, which wasn't going to happen any time soon. Lastly, the one that is missed the most, the great demon Lord, who was killed years before Jaken was killed. Now, the pale demon was searching for the sacred shikon jewel without any clues. He wasn't looking for the jewel for power. No; but to take it out of existence...permanently.

When he realized that the dragon was no longer by his side, the demon stopped and looked back to see him looking around, frantically sniffing. The demon closed his eyes, and felt everything around him, slowly scanning every part of the area. Just as he started to relax, he felt as though there were eyes on him. Which there was. A chuckle was soon able to be heard from a distance, surrounding him as if there was more than one of the thing that was making the sound.

"Ah, Aisu, you're still alive. Isn't that something?" The voice mocked. The now known demon, Aisu, snapped his eyes open and scanned the area trying to find where the voice was coming from.

"Naraku…how is it that you're alive?"

"Did you actually think that, that little explosion would have actually killed me?" He responded, mockingly. A growl was heard from Aisu.

"Show yourself." On command a man in a baboon pellet appeared.

"Naraku, I will send you back to your grave, permanently." Aisu growled the promise.

"It's funny, an ice demon with so much emotion that it makes him warm." The demon spoke with even more mock than usual.

Without warning Naraku's tentacles came into view, flying towards the demon. Aisu and his dragon split, dogging in separate directions, the demon running towards the man in white. Just as the tentacles turned to attack from behind, the running demon froze them, forcing them to shatter. Aisu went to touch the demon hidden under the pellet but missed, due to him dogging by jumping in the air. The ice demon was about to jump up and continue attacking, but a call forced him to stop and jump back instead.

"Dance of the Blades!" As blades of wind came close to scratching his chest. A women with a fan appeared.

"Kagura." The cold demon growled the name. The wind sorceress raised her arm in an attempt for another attack, but the white dragon quickly put itself in between its master and its enemy, and turned into a white, glowing ball, then forming into a huge dragon that was as long as and two times taller than a temple. The sorceress quickly grabbed a feather out of her hair, and was suspended in the air, barely dogging the giant sharp teeth that had just snapped at her. Now by Naraku's side, the dragon lifted its head to face them and opened its mouth wide. A white cold orb formed in its mouth, and a blast was shoot at them, making the air in the area of the attack, deathly cold. As the sun re-warmed the air around them, the fog slowly disappeared. 'Damn…he got a way.'

The ice demon stood alone, mixed with feeling of confusion, hatred, and surprisingly, a little happiness. Though Naraku was alive, a memory had flooded back into his head, remembering that someone had told him that when Naraku came back, so would they. Distracting the cold demon from his thoughts, a wind came bringing along another familiar scent. But one of that, that was more welcoming. The cold demon first stared off into the distance then looked up at his dragon to see him facing off in the same direction; telling the ice demon what he had thought was correct. Aisu jumped on the dragon's back, and the dragon flew off towards the west.

The dragon landed in a big open area. Aisu jumped off, and the dragon transformed back into its smaller form. There; before the ice demon was a grave that had a medium hole, looking like something pushed out. Aisu watched as his dragon curled up onto the grave. After a few moments of listening to the wind, he spoke; "We had put a barrier around here so that your remaining soul would not be disturbed. I hope that it worked, and your sleep was peaceful." He said kindly.

"Such feelings are wasted here." A cold, hard voice spoke up behind him. Aisu couldn't help but let a smile spread across his face. He turned around to face the demon behind him.

"Welcome back…Lord Sesshoumaru."

They had found a place to rest, for they both needed it. Once again the dragon went back into its smaller form. Sesshoumaru was leaning against a wall made of rock on one end of the area, while Aisu was desperately trying to make a fire in the middle of the area.

"Curse me and my ice race when it comes to building a fire." He said under his breath. But Sesshoumaru still heard.

"Don't bother. It's not needed."

"For me no, it's not. And as much as you won't admit, you and I both know that you need to stay warm, eat, and rest to regain your strength." Aisu said stubbornly. Sesshoumaru didn't bother with retorting. Instead he simply looked up at the stars and moon.

"Ha! Got it." The ice demon said more to himself. He stood up, and walked to the opposite side of the clearing of Sesshoumaru. When Aisu settled down, the dragon ran into his lap.

"Never left." Sesshoumaru said more of a statement than as a question.

"Who? Rei Rei, here? No, he never left." The little dragon quickly raised its head when it heard its name. Aisu started to pet it, slowly putting it to sleep. The rest of the night remained silent as the two demons slowly drifted off to sleep.

Aisu: Ice

Rei Rei: Cold/Cool (same word twice so either Cold Cold or Cool Cool)

Miscellaneous: Picture of my character at my homepage.