It was a week later since my father's attempt to kill me and so far...nothing. I waited every morning for my punishment but never got it. I kept wondering what on Earth might it be? I sighed heavily. I looked down at the ground where Kouga was sitting against the tree. He wouldn't leave me out of his sight for a second since I told him I wouldn't give up on trying to get my freedom.
I swung my leg back and forth from the branch while my hand rested on my arms against the tree. I stared up through the wholes in the branches thinking. If I did stay I would eventually have to take my father's rath and if I left, or tried, he'd kill me instantly. So I might as well stay. Not only for mine, but for Kouga's as well. He did care about me so the least I could do for him was not get into trouble and stay alive. That meant no trying to run off anytime soon. I sighed heavily, I'd be stuck here forever.
"Don't even think about it." Kouga said and I looked down. He wasn't looking at me but his arms were crossed. "You're not going anywhere Nakeya, sorry. I stuck my tongue out at him knowing he wouldn't see it and looked back up at the leaves. "Can I trust you long enough to go hunting? And I'll be by the river you try to escape over so I'll hear ya anyways." Kouga said. I looked down and he was standing staring at me.
"Yeah, yeah." I waved at him. "Just go, I'm too lazy today to run anyways." I sighed.
"Where the hell have I heard that before? Oh yeah, you." Kouga frowned.
"I'll be fine! Just go! I promise on mother's grave I won't run away Kouga." That convinced him.
"Fine, just be there at least so I don't have to search." Kouga said and he ran off all that I could see was his tornado and then it was gone.
I closed my eyes and listened around me. All I could hear was some animals russeling in the trees and grass nearby and the breeze. It blew past me and I opened my eyes slightly looking straight ahead and I saw something brown. I leaned forward squinting my eyes and it was some green animal but it was wearing a hat and cloth that was brown. "What the hell is that? And what the hell is it carrying? A staff...?" I mumbled to myself and decided to get a closer look. I jumped quickly to a nearby tree and leaned out as far as I could and still be hidden.
He was looking around and mumbling to himself. I had never seen anything like him before and I leaned closer so I could hear him.
"Where did he go now?" The toad looking thing said. "Oh I should've fallen asleep. Lord Sesshoumaru can be so very cruel to me. Rin could have at least woken me up! That useless girl." The toad grumbled still looking around. I wondered who were the people he spoke of. Were they toad people like him? I imagined a little swarm of toad people walking around and couldn't help but laugh. That would be an interesting site.
"Jaken? Jaken!" I heard a girl's voice call and I turned my head to see a young girl who couldn't be older than seven-years-old. Some of her dark brown hair was in a ponytail to the side which was kind of odd and she had an orange kimono on with bubble designs. I sniffed the air and recognized the smell.
"A human!" I whispered excitedly sort of wagging my tail. Without thinking I jumped out of the tree and landed in front of the girl and she looked at me wide-eyed. I waved my hands back and forth kneeling down carefully I could smell her fear. "Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you, I promise." I said and held out my hand carefully.
She stumbled backwards and I tried to help her but she screamed and I flinched backwards. She crawled backwards terrified as she started to cry.
I knelt down again, "Hey, hey please don't cry. I won't hurt you." I said gently and realized my voice was still a man's. Which did not help me convince her.
"Get away!" She screamed and tried to stand up but fell back again. "Master Jaken! Help!" She screeched and I flinched back again.
"Rin! Rin! What is it?" I turned and saw the toad running up to the scene. He gasped as raised his staff toward me. "Get away from her you wolf! Or I'll kill you!" I growled at him I didn't like to be threatened. Especially when I did nothing wrong. "That's it! Staff of two heads!" He shouted and a fire came out of the staff. I dodged easily but he circled around where I ran. I smirked if he wanted a fight he was going to get one.
"That's all ya got you mangy toad?" I demanded laughing as I jumped off a tree branch into the air. The fire couldn't reach me as long as I was up here and I smirked. "What's wrong? You're staff can't go any further?" I said and headed back down to the ground. Right as my foot touched the ground I ran around him as fast as possible. Soon I was creating a tornado around him.
"C-can't...breathe..." He said and fell to the ground. This was sadly too easy. Then I heard a scream from behind me and I stopped.
"Master Jaken! Please stop it!" The girl called Rin shouted at me. She was still crying and on the ground.
My eyes widened as I realized what I did and I looked back to the unconcious toad then back to the girl. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you. But he attacked me." I took a step forward.
"Stay back! Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin screamed. And I stopped, I didn't know how to calm her down and she didn't want me to get to close. "Lord Sesshoumaru help!" She screamed then I felt a quick breeze and something was behind me. The girl looked up behind me and smiled.
"Rin go into the forest where Ah-Un will be waiting." The man behind me said and she nodded running off. As quick as I could I jumped away into a tree and looked to where I just was but all I saw was the toad laying on the ground. "You're not fast enough." The voice said and I gasped jumping out of the tree and before I knew it he was in front of my face. Everything went slow again. I stared into his gold eyes that looked bored. He had markings on his face and silver hair that was all I made out before I hit the ground rolling until I stopped.
I pushed myself up and cough. There was smoke from the dirt and I couldn't see that well. "Damn sand." I growled and sniffed the air. I couldn't make out what it was but it was unfamiliar it had to be that man's scent. Just then I saw some kind of whip shoot out of the cloud of dust and I barely dodged it. I sat on the back of my feet and stared at the cloud growling. Slowly a figure appeared then he stepped out. I gasped when I saw him, I had never seen someone like him before.
He had long silver hair that went down to his knees. He wore armor around his torso and his hamata had a red flower design on the shoulder and sleeves. His right shoulder had something made of fur around it and his hand was up with his claws glowing green. I looked back at his face. His expression was emotionless which was rare to see on someone. His golden eyes looked bored like he didn't have to worry about this fight. He had a blue cresent moon marking on his forehead and two magenta stripes on each cheek which was also on his hand.
"Die." He said simply and moved his hand ever so carefully and a whip came out. I jumped in the air and spun landing on my feet again.
"Hey! I don't get what your problem is! I wasn't trying to hurt the girl. I didn't mean to upset her." I growled but he just whipped the whip at me again and I dodged. "Are you listening?!" I demanded.
"Shut up and die." He replied again in a monotone voice and I jumped out of the way of his attack.
"That's it." I growled and started to do circles around him creating a tornado around him. "Try talking now!" I spat and smirked. Then I watched him just stand there his eyes moving from the right to the left, was he actually watching me? No, no. That's impossible. Then out of nowhere the whip hit me and I tumbled on the ground. "Damnit." I mumbled and tried to get up. I froze when I felt a shadow over me.
"Die now." He said and I shut my eyes waiting for him to kill me but nothing happened. I opened my eyes and saw Kouga standing in front of me.
"Don't you dare try it Sesshoumaru." Kouga spat.
"So, he's part of your little pack." Sesshoumaru stated.
"That's right! So you better back the hell off before I take you down myself." Kouga spat.
Sesshoumaru just stared at him emotionless then he let his hand fall down. "I came to speak with your father. But I will not be commanded by you. I'll let the wolf live, for now." Sesshoumaru spoke and turned then he was gone.
I sat there unmoving. I don't think I was even breathing anymore. Kouga finally relaxed and kneeled down next to me taking deep breaths. "Can't you just for once, just once not get into trouble?!" Kouga growled.
I stared at him for a second then looked at the ground, "I-I'm sorry. It wasn't even my fault!" I growled. "I saw this toad thing and then there was this little human girl, you should of seen her! She was so unique and small." I furrowed my brows at the memory. "But she was also so scared..." I frowned. "Then the stupid toad started throwing around his staff so of course I fought back! Then that Sesshoumaru guy came and started fighting me!" I roared with rage.
Kouga sighed heavily and rubbed his temples, "Nakeya, Nakeya, Nakeya...haven't you ever heard curiousity killed the cat? That's what happened to you!" Kouga exclaimed.
"But satisfaction brought it back!" I stuck my tongue out at him and he groaned.
"You always have to argue...well we might as well head back. Father will definitely have your head for this one." Kouga frowned.
I scoffed, "He'll probably have my head for just breathing for crine out loud! So it's not really a surprise as you can tell, well to me it isn't. And who the hell was that guy anways!" I growled looking in the direction he left.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, he's the Lord of the West Lands." Kouga stated. "His father was Inutaishou, who was the most powerful demon of all the lands. After trying to save his human mate Izayoi, he died from a battle with Ryukotsusei. So then Sesshoumaru became the Lord of the West Lands. He's pretty much concidered one of the most powerful demons alive. The only reason I know him is because he's after Naraku as well and he's actually the mutt's brother." Kouga said.
I stared at him and blinked a few times. "Wow...there's people like that..."
Kouga sighed, "Maybe father should have let you out once in awhile. You've never heard of Inutaishou? Not once?"
I shook my head, "Nope the only inu name I've ever heard is the supposed 'mutt' Inuyasha and they're actually related?!" I said pointing my finger back and forth at nothing in particular.
Kouga nodded, "I've noticed that they're not really close. Everytime they're together it's fighting back and forth. If they didn't have similar looks you'd never guess they were related."
"They look alike...?" I asked and squinted my eyes toward the ground trying to remember what Inuyasha looked like. "All I remember is silver hair and dog ears and he wore the fire rat thing."
"Yep, that's Inuyasha." Kouga growled. "As you can see Sesshoumaru looks different and acts completely different. He rarely talks, never smiles or laughs, and he's one of the coldest youkai alive." Kouga stated. "And I got that from just seeing him once before. He's also a fierce fighter. Sesshoumaru only uses his Tokijin, I believe is the name, with Naraku or his brother. Otherwise he uses his natural abilities not seeing the point of an actual fight."
"Oh, so I was pretty much not worth the effort?" I growled. How dare that man, I didn't care if he was the Lord of all the lands.
"Pretty much. I've never battled with him but he'd probably treat me the same. The only reason he even bothered with you is he was protecting the young human girl. But one time Inuyasha told me that Sesshoumaru hates humans. Which I don't understand in the least. Why would he have one, especially a child, traveling with him when he hates them so much? Even Inuyasha couldn't tell me the answer, he was confused on the thing as well." Kouga looked towards the ground confused.
"That man is confused most likely. Just doesn't show it so everyone can think he's all powerful and mysterious." I growled.
"Like you do?" Kouga smirked.
"I never said that!" I spat and Kouga laughed.
"Su-u-u-ure you didn't." Kouga snickered and I stood up.
"I'm outta here, I'm not taking this from you!" I growled.
"Aw, already missing him? So you're running after him?" Kouga laughed.
"What are you talking about?! I'm going back home to the caves you know where we live! I'm not going to run off after some...some asshole!" I growled furiously.
"Right, so you didn't happen to hear that he's here to talk to our father? So he'll be at the caves by now." Kouga retorted and I frowned.
"No actually I didn't. I don't want to see that bastard anyways, I can't stand him already!" I growled "People like that who...who think everyone and everything should just bow down to them! You've got to be kidding me!" I roared and Kouga raised a brow at me.
"Right...so wouldn't you hate father then?" Kouga asked and I gaped at him. "You know it's said that males fall for someone that reminds them of their mother and females fall for someone who reminds them as their father. Weird huh?" Kouga said.
"Ha, ha very funny. That's very rare Kouga. My father hates me oh yeah let me find someone who hates me so I can fall deeply in love with them and suffer!" I replied sarcasticly.
"You know what I mean," Kouga said dryly. "Besides I'm just messing with you calm down. I can tell you don't like that dog as much as I don't like his brother."
I growled, "You can be so annoying..." Then I turned my back to him. "I'm heading back now and I'm taking the long way, hopefully the stupid dog won't be there tomorrow." I said and ran off.
Kouga sighed, "I hate the long way..." And he followed after me.
Author's Note:
So now they're heading back to the caves, oh joy. Ha, ha. Oh and the long way is instead of going straight they run through the whole forest pretty much. Yeah I wouldn't like the long way either it probably takes and hour or two. Ugh. Instead of five minutes going straight...yeah I don't think so. Thanks for reading though, I decided to give you guys two chapters to start with so I hope that's good. xD Well enjoy! Have any questions? Just ask.
