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Miaera turned around to see Sesshomaru's retreating back. She scowled.
"That's right, Lord Fluffy-Butt, say that and leave why don't you? You only leave because you know no one wants to hear what you have to say!" Miaera said, well screamed, to him. He stopped, but before he could say anything, a small voice from the bushes beside him spoke.
"That's not true, pretty- lady-san! Rin likes to hear everything Sesshy-sama says! Rin likes it when he speaks, because it is so rare!" a little girl popped out of the bushes, named Rin, apparently. Miaera looked taken aback at the girl.
"Rin, child, do you travel with this demon? Do you not know he is dangerous?" Miaera asked her, motioning for the girl to come to her. The girl came over hesitantly, nodding.
"Rin knows, but Sesshomaru-sama is not mean, he does not hurt Rin. I find him no threat."
Miaera nodded, and looked in her pocket for something. "Ah-ha, found it!" she pulled out a charm and a chain and placed it around Rin's neck. Rin looked at it, surprised. "Rin, this charm will protect you from any demon trying to hurt you. Promise, no demon with a bad intent will touch you."
Rin nodded, and bowed for her thanks. Then she ran to Sesshomaru and showed him. Now for the moment of truth, Miaera thought, holding her breath. She watched as Rin held onto Sesshomaru's leg, and began pulling on his kimono. She released her breath, and hung her head. So he really wasn't going to hurt her, he wasn't blown backward when she touched him. I guess she will be alright, for now if she doesn't make him angry.
Miaera walked back to the village after saying bye to the tree, and thanking it again for saving her that day many years ago.
Flashback:
Miaera was running, looking behind her as she did, occasionally throwing knifes at the demon chasing her, wishing she had brought her bag with her: it held the charm to be rid of ill mannered demons.
I need to find a safe place to hide! I won't survive if I fight for my life, I'm so low on power, and I have got to recuperate! The well, I'll hide in it!! She looked inside it and found that it was too far of a drop, and that even though she was a demon, she could not survive this. She began to look for another place to hide around there, hoping the other demon wasn't too fast. Miaera jumped when she heard a voice.
"Come here, girl, I shall hide you, and protect you. I will not harm you. I am here, this tree with the spirit markings." The tree said. Miaera hesitantly approached, moving a little faster when she heard the demon's voice.
"H-how do you help me? How are you a tree, how are you a spirit?" Miaera asked, once she was safely inside, with the way out closed, and her aurora hidden.
"I am the spirit of a great priest, and at one point, I was dying. My village sealed me in here to let me survive, and to protect those that may be attacked in the forest, anywhere. I can protect them anywhere because my roots are all over this forest, covering it all. I help all who need help, and hiding all that needs hiding. It is my job as the great guardian of the forest." He said, and then told her his name. "It seems your demon is dead now, I will release you, but first, who are you, for you do not belong here."
"I am Miaera Higurashi. You are correct, I don't belong here, and I am from another time. I am looking for my sister, Kagome, for we are both lost in time. I know she's in this area, but I'm not sure what time it is she is in. me and her are really close siblings. I think you'd like her, she is a lot like me, but a little bit more, umm… temperamental." She said laughing.
"I would like to meet her when you find her, please, she sounds very interesting. You are very nice to talk to, promise me you will come back to talk to me again, some day? But not a day before you find your sister, alright?" The tree responded.
"Alright," she said, bowing to the tree as the hole reopened, and she left, deciding that she was recuperated enough to time travel again.
Before she left, using her power to go to the next time stop, she looked at the demon. It was a bloody mass, of cuts and bruises. Blood was everywhere and the gashes in the demon were obviously made by a sword. It was obviously done by an excellent fighter, a great fencer. She hoped that she never was on the receiving end of that sword, noting that there was great power left from the sword cuts, using her small spiritual energy, she saw it was green-ish. She made a mental note to thank the person that killed the demon.
[End Flashback
Miaera looked up from the ground, sensing a strong demonic presence coming to them, fast. Evidentially, Sesshomaru sensed it too, for he stood up straighter, and sent Jaken and Rin off somewhere with Ah-Un. He took out his sword, and Miaera followed suit, and both went into their fighting stance, waiting.
Then the demon, a tiger demon, ran out of the bushes, and pounced upon Miaera. Her sword was flung out of her hand, and she struggled to reach for it as the tiger demon ripped at her skin and clothes, causing her to bleed a lot. She felt a stabbing in her side, and she remembered the kunai knives in her pocket. She slid her hand down the ground, put her hand in her pocket, and withdrew a kunai.
She stabbed the tiger demon in the stomach, trying to get it off of her. She screamed as it bit into her shoulder, and its claws dug into her legs and arms. She began to lose consciousness, everything going blurry from loss of blood. She wasn't sure if the blurriness was from tears, or her passing out. Just as she was about to totally lose consciousness, she seen Sesshomaru's for above her as he attacked the demon, saving her, and pulled it off of her.
Sesshomaru's POV:
I looked down after pulling the tiger demon off of the girl, whom I believe she said her name was My-air-ah, or something like that. She was wounded, almost everything was fatal. A human could never survive that, but why is she still breathing? Could she be a demon that has an extraordinary ability to hide their power, and aurora? I must help her, then I will learn who she is.
Normal POV:
Sesshomaru bent over and picked her up, bridal style. Her head fell onto his chest, and he couldn't help but feel pride that he alone was the one that was carrying her, and helping the beautiful girl. He quickly pushed away that thought, and carried her over to where he had told Ah-Un and the others to hide.
"Master, Master! My Lord! Another demon beaten, no-" Jaken began saying before seeing Miaera in his arms. "My Lord, why do you bring such filth as a human into our group?" Sesshomaru glared at him, showing he did not have to explain himself to his vassal.
"She is no human, and we are going to help her. Rin, stay near Jaken and Ah-Un, don't get behind. Jaken, you will travel to the palace with the group, keep them safe." After saying this, Sesshomaru made his cloud-thingy and flew home, with Miaera in his arms.
He became shocked as her scent changed to that of a half-demon, but yet a very powerful one. That's odd, she smells of a half-demon, but she has more power than the power of a full-demon, such as I, strange… Sesshomaru thought, as they neared the castle.
He landed, and went through the gates, the guards' agape at the sight before them. The girl was cut up, and bruised, with tear stains on her face, and there was their master, carrying her!
"Here, my lord, let me carry her, you will get you kimono stained with half-breed blood. I will carry her, and send her to the village nearby's doctor, he will treat her, and send her on her way with her tail between her legs!" a maid said.
"No, Tirana, she will be treated here, by our doctor. She is no ordinary half-demon, and I intend to find out why that is, and who she is. You will treat her better than you would treat a visiting noble. Alright? I will carry her to the bed chamber she will be sleeping in." Sesshomaru told the girl, Tirana, and she bowed to him, and left.
He carried her down many hallways, and finally they wound up at a large, oak door. He opened it with his other hand [A/N yes, Sesshy has both arms. He walked in to find a fire blazing in the fireplace, the bed had been warmed by a warming iron[if u don't know what that is, it's a thing that servants would put warm coals in, and then they would run it throughout the bed to make it warm.
He pulled back the covers, and laid her in the bed, as the doctor came in to examine her, and treat her wounds. As he pulled back the covers, he gasped at how rapidly the child's wounds were healing. "Though her wounds are healing fast, I'm going to have to look at the wounds under her kimono to see if any of her internal organs are badly injured. If so, then I will have to heal them myself." The doctor said.
Sesshomaru nodded, and helped remove the black kimono from her. What they both saw made the doctor gasp, and Sesshomaru blush. She had a perfect shaped body, and her breasts were only just hidden by a bra, but still seen enough to determine they were perfect.
Sesshomaru recovered quickly, and cleared his throat, causing the doctor to jump, and snap back to reality. The doctor hovered his hands above Miaera's stomach and chest, searching for fatal wounds to the internal organs. A small gasp was heard, then a moan as they discovered Miaera was awake.
Miaera's POV:
I woke up, looking for the tiger demon, wondering why I wasn't dead. What I found around me, instead of a cave, was a well lit, warm room. Standing beside the bed I was in, was no other than Sesshomaru, and a demon doctor. Demon doctor, both threatening, and helping, such an oxymoron! I watched them for a moment, before it registered exactly what was going on. It WAS NOT A DREAM!!!!! Sesshomaru really was standing there, I really was in a random bedroom, probably in his house. I gasped, without realizing that they heard me, then groaned as she wondered whether Kagome knew where she was or not.
Normal POV:
"Calm down, girl, we are only trying to help you. We were just trying to look at your wounds, and assess the damage. We were not trying to take advantage of you while you were unconscious." The doctor said, and Sesshomaru just stared at the demon. Didn't he realize that she hadn't yet realized that she was almost nude, except for her shoulders?
Miaera again gasped as she looked down and discovered why he had said that. She looked up and glared. "If you had let me rest, when I woke again, I would have healed myself! It's rather simple, I can do it, you needn't bother with that, I'm perfectly fine, I'll show you." She tried to stand up, but ended up falling to the floor. Just as she was about to meet the floor, Sesshomaru caught her. She looked into his eyes, silently thanking him, knowing that he was the one that had saved her.
As if reading her mind, he nodded his silent your welcome, eyes remaining cold and emotionless the whole time. He watched in amazement as she drew in a large breath, blew on her hands, and ran them up and down her legs as a white light came out, healing her.
After healing her legs, she stood up and looked at Sesshomaru. "Why did you help me? I tried to fight you, I called you Lord Fluffy-Butt."
"You are different than other half-demons." Sesshomaru said, watching as Miaera looked down, blushing. So he knows. I guess when I passed out, my scent and aurora blocking power failed, because I was no longer able to concentrate on it. "I wanted to see exactly why you had the scent of a half-demon, yet the power of a full-demon. I want you to fight me on fair grounds. It is fair, even though it is my grounds, because I never fight on my grounds."
"I do not accept, I do not want to fight you. I want to find my father, Tsubandi. I refuse to fight you." Miaera stated, noticing the hint of recognition. "What, do you know him?"
Sesshomaru wasn't quite sure how she knew that, but decided not to tell her the truth. "Heal yourself quickly, you will fight me. It doesn't matter if you do heal yourself, I'm not holding back either way. But, either way, it would be best if you were healed."
Miaera growled, eyes tinting black because she was mad. "Fine, whatever, I'll fight you," as she said this, Miaera had two fingers crossed behind her back.
Both the doctor and Sesshomaru left the room, leaving her to heal herself. As she did heal, she cooked up a plan in her mind to escape without the fight. When she was finished, with planning and healing, she stepped out the door to find a maid there to lead her outside to the fighting grounds.
