Sorry for not updating sooner! It took me a while to write this! please excuse any typos cause I finished this at 3 AM.
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Anyways thank you again and well here is chapter 1!
All OC's are mine everything else is not mine!
Chapter 1
"Master Jaken! Look at this lovely flower!"
"Blasted girl! There is no time to be looking at flowers! We are to be looking for Lord Sesshomaru!" A young girl with dark hair looked innocently from the flower to the toad.
"But master Jaken, Lord Sesshomaru said to wait here, not to go look for him." The toads green face turned red.
"INSOLENT GIRL! Our lord could be hurt! Maybe even killed in battle!"
"He is battling someone right now?"
"Um, well I don't know... But it's been three days and he has yet to return! What if he has died!? I never even got to say good bye! Oh my lord! How I will miss you so!" The young girl looked past Jaken toward the forest with a worried expression. A figure was approaching them from within the dark trees. When the sun caught the shine from the silver hair a smile spread upon the girls face.
"Lord Sesshomaru isn't dead master Jaken!"
"Nooooo he is! He has yet to return to us! His soul is now in the netherworld!" The toad wailed in agony until a large rock smacked into his head. "Why you..." He trailed off as he caught the amber glare from his lords eyes. "MY LORD YOU'RE ALIVE! See Rin I told you he wasn't dead!" The taiyoukai ignored and stepped over the toad as he made his way down the path.
"Rin, Ah-Un, Jaken come." The young girl smiled brightly at him and followed along with the two headed dragon.
"My lord please wait for me!" Sesshomaru ignored the toad and kept walking. He thought back to what happened these past three days. He growled at the thought of running into his younger half brother. In the midst of their battling the other hanyou, Naraku, came and managed to take two jewel shards from his brothers little priestess.
'Pathetic half-breed. He can't even take care of his woman and now has allowed Naraku to get stronger with the jewel shards.' He growled quietly to himself. 'How is it that my idiotic brother managed to take tetsaiga and cut off my arm? It's absolutely unacceptable.' He growled again.
Myoga, the flea, had shown up soon after the battle was over and advised Inuyasha to take his leave. His brothers woman and pack agreed with the flea and quickly left the scene. He had half the mind to follow them and finish his half brother off once and for all but instead decided to turn back and start making a long trip back to his ward. He hadn't intentionally wanted to come across his half brother but when he caught his scent, he figured he could try to steal the sword away again. And again he failed.
He only half listened to what his ward was saying at his side. Something about Jaken having an apple drop on his head earlier in the day. "Lord Sesshomaru, are you listening?" He looked down at Rin but remained silent.
"I asked if you would mind if we set up camp now, it's really late." He stared at her and nodded once then quietly made his way to a tree to sit under. "Hey master Jaken! He said we could set up camp!" Sesshomaru nearly rolled his eyes at the little girl, he had said no such thing he simply agreed to it. He turned his head away and took a small sniff of air. He swore he smelt humans nearby for a moment but couldn't catch the scent again.
Sesshomaru put it out of mind and glanced up again as he took in the sight of Jaken attempting to build a fire but instead of the sticks on the ground catching fire, his robe did. Rin had some water in a bucket she had gathered earlier in the day and quickly doused the screaming toad with water. Sesshomaru again nearly rolled his eyes and looked up to the stars. What a pack he had acquired.
"Hey Kagome would yah hurry it up? I'm starving!" Kagome glared at her dear friend.
"Inuyasha! I'm going as fast as I can! It's not my fault you decided to fight with your brother and get hurt!" He glared down at her menacingly as she finished tying up his bandage.
" I already told yah I would be fine, just start cooking woman!" She smacked him lightly in the head and stood up from her previous kneeling position with hands placed firmly on her hips.
"You had a hole through your stomach! Don't be stupid, and I already told you we've run out of food!" They both glared at each other darkly. Sango, Miroku, Kilala, and Shippo all stood back eyes wide. Myoga the flea was currently sitting atop of Kilalas head trying to find the perfect blood sucking spot.
"Why don't you all just stay in the village nearby?" All eyes turned to myoga.
"What village? I would be able to smell it and I'm not catching any scent."
"Of course you wouldn't."
"Whets that suppose to mean old man?" Myoga gulped and smiled sheepishly at the angry teen.
" Well I mean…" he trailed off again. " Well It's a long story but I'll gladly tell it once we get there." Inuyasha looked at him skeptically but followed the fleas direction towards this so called village. After walking for a while the first lights cold be seen. The group made it to the entrance and stopped and stared in awe at the enormous destroyed castle that sat far behind the village.
"What is this place?" Miroku asked glancing at Myoga.
"The true name of this village was lost centuries ago and was actually called the land of great sorrow for the longest of times. Many humans refer to it now though as a land of safe haven, where all souls can come to find peace."
"And why is that exactly?"
"I'll explain everything once we get to the inn." As they walked through the village many looked upon the group with curious eyes and sleepy peaceful smiles greeting them as though they had been friends for years. The group quickly made their way towards the inn and was greeted by an elderly man.
"How may I help you my dear friends?" The monk stepped forward and asked for the room. "Yes of course, right this way please. We will deliver your dinner to your room in a few minutes." Without another word the old man led the group to a room and left quickly back to his post.
"Ok is it just me, or are these people weirdos?" Kagome asked wide eyed. The group all nodded in sync and began to unpack for the night.
"Well this is a place for those lost souls who seek peace. Many people from different backgrounds come here for that exact reason." Miroku glanced down to Myoga with confusion written on his face.
"I've never heard of this village before."
"Yes well that is because the village has somehow managed to deter demons away from here. They can't smell the humans that live here and can't find this place unless they are led here by someone who knows of it. They had to place a spell that protected the village and the people in it because the number of demon attacks were outrageous. For 50 long years the place was constantly under attack and the village being destroyed, until finally the palace and its inhabitants were destroyed. That was when the spell was cast by a unknown witch and the demons stopped coming around. That is why humans travel here for peace. In fact the only reason I know of this place because I have been here once before a very long time ago before the spell was ever cast. It is a long story as of why there were so many attacks and there was never a set cause…"
"Well, I still don't get it." Inuyasha announced loudly interrupting the small flea who was perched precariously on the tip of Kilalas ear..
"If you were to not interrupt me master Inuyasha then perhaps I could actually tell the story." The flea glowered at the annoyed hanyou.
" Any ways, long ago, a little over 300 years ago actually, this was a very prosperous kingdom ruled by a lord and lady. It was said they had a child together, a beautiful girl that eventually married a young man who became a war lord and she became the new lady of the land. But she wasn't the only child in the palace. You see, the lady of the land had a child a few years before she ever married the lord, nobody knew who the father was and it was rumored that the lady was, well… forced.."
Kagome gasped loudly, "You mean she was raped?" Inuyasha rolled his eyes at the girl and muttered quietly.
"Of course she was raped, that's what being forced means stupid."
She glared at him darkly, "How about I force you to SIT! Is that rape!?" Everyone sighed as the hanyou slammed to the floor and cried out in pain.
"..Why.."
"ANYWAYS, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, again might I add!" Everyone glared at the miko and hanyou. "It was rumored the lady was forced and ended up bearing a girl before her marriage to the lord. Despite the fact the girl was deemed a bastard, the lord allowed the young girl to live in the palace with her mother, and in a way raised her as his own. But unlike her younger sister, this girl cared grew to be mischievous. As a child the girl was often deemed as an angel or a cherub but as she began to grow older she was thought to be like a wild card temptress.
" She was rebellious and absolutely breath taking. She was so beautiful and exotic and nothing like anyone had ever seen before, people believed that her real father must have been from deep within the mainland. The village people both loved and hated her, many simply because of jealousy, but she was too young to understand why they disliked her. After a few uproars the girl was not allowed to leave the palace any longer. As I said she was young and didn't fully understand why they were keeping her locked up.
" So one year after her younger sister was born, on the eve of her birthday, she ran away. The whole kingdom went mad searching for her endlessly and her parents were heartbroken, her step father being the worse out of the two. He was absolutely frantic in trying to find her until finally after a few years he gave up. There was talk that she was swept away by a demon and murdered and rumors of her death spread through the kingdom and that was that, or so they thought."
" Years later the girl was found in the outskirts of the village by a few men, now a young woman dressed in gold with fabrics and clothing no one had seen before. It was said she was drop dead beautiful, and in fact one old man literally dropped dead when he saw her. It was then rumored she had been consorting with demons and was pregnant with a demonic child which was why she was so unnaturally beautiful. Of course that was false since she never had a child. Anyways I'm getting off track let me get back to the story."
"Sounds like my kind of woman." A large smack was heard and Miroku fell forward. Sango glared at him muttering something that sounded a lot like hentai.
"Anyways, after that whole incident she was secretly taken back to the palace by her step father and was kept a secret from her mother and sister for two weeks until finally word from the village got to her mother that her child was home. Nobody really knows what went on between the girl and her step father during those two weeks but she rarely left the palace after, and when she did, she always wore a veil to hide half of her face. Some say it was because her and her step father secretly fell in love and she had become his mistress and didn't want any other man to see her face."
"That's disgusting." The group nodded at Kagome and Myoga rolled his eyes.
"They weren't actually related, but it doesn't matter it was just a rumor. Anyways years passed and eventually the youngest daughter was engaged and ready to be married to the son of a neighboring lord. It only fueled the affair rumors more, after all why wouldn't he allow the eldest daughter to marry the man."
"Anyways on the wedding night, it is said that the girl and her step father got into a lovers spat when he tried to finally end their affair, claiming that he could only ever truly be with her mother and they would never work out. In a rage she broke a table in half with one single dagger and came close to killing the other people in the room and then ran from the room in a fit of fury. The step father took the dagger and ran after his beloved in an effort to calm her, but she had already fled the palace grounds."
Inuyasha interrupted again, "I thought you said the affair was just a rumor? And why would her supposed lover run after her with a dagger? And how could she break a table? And… " He trailed off as he took in Myoga's red face and flat glare.
"It was, the fight was just a rumor as well but the lord claimed it was true to those who said the rumor. I don't know why he was chasing her with a dagger and I don't know how she broke the table."
"Could have been the adrenaline, if she was that upset." Everyone looked at Kagome with a confused look on their faces. "Never mind.." she trailed off with a sigh. Myoga rolled his eyes and continued.
"Anyways, a month passed and there was still no sign of the girl other than a small ripped material made of only the material the girl wore and she was then declared dead."
"Yeah her dad with the dagger probably killed her." Myoga ignored Inuyasha and continued his story as if he wasn't interrupted.
"A few weeks later a witch came around spouting riddles and creating chaos. She had been driven mad with guilt claiming she was evil and defiled and what not. She was crazy. So the lord and lady had her executed thinking she was the one who may have killed the beloved girl. But right before the guards could cut her head she said something that confused the villagers so greatly that they still think of to this day. She said ' upon the maidens breast lies a cold hard seal. ripped from her chest many secrets reveal. Should she awaken from the humans releasing might. Her heart will be taken, and for the human she will always fight.'"
"Like a prophecy?" Myoga nodded to Shippo who was currently climbing into Kagomes lap.
"A year or two passed and the demon attacks began, and the step father was then said to have committed suicide because of his unending grief. Everyone was in mourning over the fallen lord but there were some who suspected he was killed."
"Why?" the group asked.
"Because a cat demon came into the village wreaking havoc, claiming that they had stolen his most beloved on the night before his death. It was thought he was referring to the girl, and when people told him she had died, he destroyed half the village and then left without a trace. Other demons after him came and began destroying the village but none mentioned the girl like the first one. But I know for a fact it wasn't the cat demon who had killed her step father. Just like I know for a fact that she wasn't just consorting with the cat demon."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes at Myogas attempt in dramatics, "Really, who killed him since it wasn't the crazy enraged demon?" At that moment the old man that owned the Inn came in carrying food and began passing it out among the group of friends. He left again silently as Myoga situated himself onto Kilalas forehead.
"Well, who killed him Myoga? Are you gonna tell us or just leave us hanging?"
Myoga smirked lightly, "Why Inuyasha, it was your father."
"Rin! You blasted girl! You are completely covered in mud!"
"I'm sorry master Jaken, but the best flowers were in that field over there." Rin's little hand pointed to a nice meadow beyond the trees that lined their camp. "And it rained yesterday so the ground melted."
"The ground didn't melt you foolish girl!"
"Then why is the ground all runny?"
"I don't have to explain things to you!" Sesshomaru glanced up at the two and sighed loudly as he watched the toad turn red in frustration. Honestly, Jaken acted like a pup sometimes and it never ceased to amaze him when Rin outsmarted him. He constantly had to remind himself that the toad had about a 1000 years on the little girl.
"Is it because you don't know master Jaken?"
"Why you!"
"Jaken, show Rin to the nearest spring to bathe and quit behaving foolishly. Then come back and set up camp." Jaken fell to the floor and wailed.
"Yes my lord! It is my honor and duty to serve you.." Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow as the toad went off on a tangent and kicked a stone, that was of course conveniently by his foot, straight at Jaken's head.
"Leave Jaken."
"Of course my Lord!" The toad rubbed his head lightly. " Come Rin, follow me." The girl quickly obliged and ran after the little imp. He showed her to a lovely little spring that was close enough to the camp where they would be able to hear her in case something went wrong.
"Do you remember the way back?" Rin nodded with a bright smile.
"Yes, and I know to scream loudly should something happen." The imp sniffed and turned away practically running back to camp were his beloved lord waited.
Rin looked at the pretty little spring. It had a small sort of hill on one end that had a cliff behind it. It was almost sunset and Rin knew better than to be out alone in the dark, so she quickly undressed and jumped into the warm spring.
She washed quickly and even played a little, diving in and out of the water giggling to herself. After about 10 minutes she was just about ready to get out, when she heard a sort a small whisper. Had she not been quiet in that moment she wouldn't have heard it.
She paused for a second waiting to see if she would here it again, and after a few moments she did. She could feel her heart hammering and quickly got out of the water and put her yukata back on.
"Maybe perhaps I should scream.." The girl trailed off as she heard another whisper, it was asking for help. The bright eyed child listened closely to the soft voice and followed it around the spring and over the small hill. The chilling voice grew louder till it sounded like multiple people and Rin, being the hero that she is, sucked in a deep breath of courage and trotted quietly after the voices towards the cliff.
She followed the voices, which slowly started to sound like the raging wind, until she reached a small hidden cave within the side of the cliff. The whispered voices were extremely loud now, begging for help.
'Who knew a whisper could be so loud! It sounds like a lot of people are trapped in this cave, maybe I should go get lord…' As if the voices knew what she was thinking, it began to cry out more urgently until finally, little Rin forced herself to go into the dark cave, but the moment she did everything went quiet.
The cave was dark, aside from the small sliver of fading sunlight that peaked through the cave entrance. She took another small step in and held her breath, eyes searching for something they could see. Out of the corner of her eye something shiny caught the sun and glared brightly. Rin couldn't see exactly what it was but she slowly approached it when her eyes began adjusting.
There, on a stone in the center of the room, laid the corpse of a young woman. Even with the lack of sunlight, Rin could see the grey coloring of her skin and the dried blood that covered her chest. She appeared to be fairly fresh but also looked as if she were made of stone. Had the blood not been there, Rin would have thought she had found a very strange and realistic statue.
She was just about ready to turn and leave, till she saw the shiny object that drew her attention to the woman in the first place. It was a dagger with a hard crystal like handle and thing silver strips designed to look like vines that were loosely wrapped around the handle and closed around a dark obsidian stone on the hilt.
It was buried deep inside the woman's chest, right above her heart, and for whatever reason Rin couldn't help but be hypnotized by the lovely blade. It twinkled dangerously but Rin slowly approached, wide eyed looking at only the dagger, it wasn't until she was standing right next to the dead woman did realize what she was about to do. She squeezed her eyes shut tightly and shook her head, trying to get the blade out of mind. Slowly she opened her eyes and looked at the dead woman's face.
Black veins stemmed from the wound branched off all around her body, even climbing up and around her neck and face. The woman's dark hair waved gently around her grey face and traveled down to her hips. Her eyes were closed yet were slightly crinkled on the edges as if she were amused or smiling, and had Rin been able to see the girls mouth, she would have seen a mischievous smile. Half of her face was covered by a sheer veil but even like that, Rin could tell that when she had been alive, she was lovely.
She took off her eyes off the woman slightly tempted to rip off the veil, but something told her not too. Rin's wandering eyes went back to the gleaming dagger in the girls chest and was once again enchanted by it, except this time she couldn't look away.
Ever so slowly, Rin reached out with her hand and took the handle in her hand. She took a deep breath as she could practically here a small voice in the back of her head cheering her on. Silent little "Do it! Do it!" cheering was in her head and Rin was then a little worried that the whispers and the voices she had been hearing were actually signs that she was going insane.
Another sharp intake and Rin ripped the dagger free from the girls chest. The blade was also made of the same obsidian stone as the small stone on the hilt of the handle. It sparkled dangerously, and Rin couldn't help but gulp at the sight of the sharp edge. She glanced back at the woman just to make sure her form was unchanged.
She calmed herself at the sight of the peaceful corpse and quickly made a dash out of the cave and back to the spring. Maybe had she stayed a little longer, she would have noticed the small twitch in the woman's toe or maybe even the blood being soaked back into the body. But alas, she did not.
Rin hurried back to the spring and carefully cleaned the daggers dark edge in the water, trying to get the woman's dried blood off. The moment she finished she heard Jaken calling her loudly from the camp.
"I'm coming Master Jaken!" She hid the dagger in her yukata, wary of the sharp edge, and hastily ran back to camp.
Now back and safe, the young girl couldn't help but worry that she never did find the source of the whispering, but quickly put it out of mind as she approached her lord and master Jaken and sat down quietly by the fire, eating the fish Jaken had caught.
Lord Sesshomaru couldn't help but find it odd that his usually hyper active ward went down for the night without so much of a peep. Perhaps she was feeling ill or something, he put out of mind as he rested quietly under the tree. He watched her curl up beside the sleeping Ah-Un and slowly drifted off, after a while he slowly closed his eyes and he too drifted off, but was alert enough to be able to sense any danger.
Rin breathed quietly and waited to see her lord close his eyes to sleep. She slowly slipped the dagger out of her yukata and looked it over with a small smile. Ever so gently, she lifted the flap to the satchel strapped onto Ah- Un, and carefully placed the dagger inside keeping watch of her sleeping comrades. When none of them woke she laid herself back down and smiled lightly.
'No one will find you in there.' With that the girl shut her eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
*back in the cave*
A finger twitched, as the blood from the woman's chest soaked back into her body. The veins covering her skin receded back towards the wound and the grey hue of the corpses skin slowly returned back to normal.
The deep hole in her chest from the daggers wound slowly closed, and the bone of her broken sternum could be heard crunching back into place. The black veins had now disappeared and all was quiet.
First heart beat.
The heart filled heavily as the dried blood became fresh and began to run again. Blood rushed through the dried cracked veins and arteries.
Second heart beat.
Nerves began to wake up and senses slowly came back. The bodies back arched deeply with a loud gasp of the first lung full of air. Slowly it relaxed again and the corpse was once again still.
Everything is silent as the body settled into a consciousness. The smell and sound of a gurgling spring could be heard drifting into the silent room. Everything is dark, everything is cold.
Waiting, waiting. The warmth is coming into the limbs as the blood rushes. Waiting, waiting. Deep breaths could be heard in the room. Waiting, waiting. No more darkness.
Third heart beat
Two lovely green eyes from a 300 years ago snap open.
Fourth heart beat.
A smile.
All systems go, the sun hasn't died
Deep in my bones, straight from inside
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough to make my systems blow
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive
(Imagine Dragons- Radioactive)
So we finally have Mari awake ( I thought the song kinda fit)! I plan to write Chapter 2 ASAP!
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