Summery: Four years after the defeat of Naraku, a stranger from Sesshomaaru's past shows up, her heart lost and clouded. Driven from her kingdom, she finds comfort in her old childhood friend... but old feelings surface into something more then just friendship.

Disclaimer: I do not own any Inuyasha Characters or their stories, they are to Rumiko Takahashi.


"My my, look at you!" Kouga said looking over the woman.

The only three females he had selected had apparently had their way with the dragon queen. But even he, a mated man, had a hard time taking his eyes from her as she stepped into the main house guest living quarters in the massive mansion in the village's center.

"Don't start with me wolf." She bit.

"Ha ha, can't help it, the girls turned you into a true lady. Right guys?" he said chiding the other ten males. He had brought good numbers of his brothers with a many more of his wolf subordinates.

He just couldn't take her for the terrifyingly powerful dragon warrior when she had her hair pulled up braid and a fancy style only seen in noble woman with a red ribbon and dressed like a lady with a blue and red kimono that was open at her thighs and swaying behind her with every step. His wolves were still staring and talking about her being good looking and all that. But, he saw it was about time to cool them off. The lady was getting a bit agitated, her fingers twitching to show it.

"Alright you horny dogs, out. Go and sniff around for our next trail. A fresh one this time!" he barked.

They didn't back talk so much as to whine about him making them leave. They bickered about it the whole way out and continued to talk about her being sexy until they faded down the hall. He looked at the princess with a knowing gaze.

"So, you let them do this?" he asked because the females had followed the males out to find the trail.

"I thought it a change that I had not seen in a while. They claimed it would be… fun for them." She said in a monotone voice.

He scoffed, not really buying it at all.

"The elder has spoken to me. He wants to know if you'll stay longer. Long enough for him to prepare his warriors to serve the dragons… or something lame like that." He said.

"I see. I cannot do something like that until I find my quarry." She told him walking by to sit in the window seal.

"That's what I told him you'd say. The way I see it, the human taggings along would be a burden to any demon unless they had something like…" he was stopped.

"They have strong abilities. Tamers of Demons. They could be useful, but they would have to wait because I need to continue on my own for the time being until I find Sesshomaru. I may seek them after if they are so intent of helping me." She said coolly.

Ok, so they had some powers to tame and control demons? That was a pretty interesting thought. But, he doubted they could control him, or any demon that took on a human form unless they were truly weak.

"Will you tell him this for me? I will return if he desires, but I will not be staying beyond morning." she asked.

"Well, that was weird. You humbled yourself enough to ask and not order. The girls did get to you." He chuckled.

"I ask you in respect of our mutual leadership roles wolf, do not make it sound as something more." She said, sliding him a side glare.

"Yeah, sure, whatever." He said walking toward her, hands on his hips, "Mind telling me the reason why you are looking for Sesshomaru?

"I will tell you the same as I told Yuka and her sisters. It's not any of your concern." She said watching him with those silver white eyes, like diamonds.

He stepped back dropping his arms with a sigh. He watched her eyes for a moment as she looked toward the sky and the lite village. To him, she seemed lost with no idea what she was doing here. Lost to time and lost to a force unknown. It was weird.

"Man, your very similar to him." He said.

He was expecting a look, but she did not move from her perch. He shifted and walked to the wall next to the window's frame, leaning on the wide ledge a foot or so from her. It was then he got a glance from her eyes before she moved them back to looking at something he could not see. Only village and sky was what he saw. Because she did not snap at him or deny it, he decided he would push a bit deeper. He wanted to see if he could find out why he had to obey this pact that was over centuries old. No, he knew why. What he wanted was to know what this female wanted with Sesshomaru. Why would anyone want to find someone who could tear your head off in two seconds flat?

"So similar and yet, so different. I mean, that guy would tear someone apart that gave him a dirty look or remark. You, I get the feeling would do the same thing with all the evil death stares you give out." He smirked.

"I would… but with a better reason than being disrespected. No one deserves to die for being ignorant." She said.

"Really? So maybe not so alike then. Your both cold and talk like you're on top of the world." He said sarcastically.

She looked at him with eyes that could kill him if they held any power like her weapon or claws, and he just laughed a bit.

"And that face, I have seen that more than once." he said stepping away to avoid her claws.

"One more word wolf! Ally or not, I will not stand by while you speak such words so casually!" she said sternly as she stood tall from her attempted attack.

He got the feeling she was just pissed and didn't really want to kill him. He just pushed his luck a bit to far. It was about time to back off and leave her alone before she did get her hands on him, and not in a good way.

"Alright, I got it. Chill out." He said raising his hands in surrender.

This took her from her looking at him like a snake ready to strike, to slowly turning away and sitting back down. He thought he saw her sigh by the raise in her chest. She glanced at him with a snarled 'leave me' before turning to let her loose tendrils of hair hide her face as she peered out the window again. Damn woman was something else. 'Really moody' he thought as he left, sliding the door shut behind him, only as soon as he did suddenly he turned an opened it again when he heard something break, loudly, and a rise of demonic aura with that.

When he looked in, he saw the window seal shattered with claw marks gouged all the way to the floor. The claw marks were spread apart like a giant demon did them, or her demon form. She was in a human form and if she took demon form… it would have torn the house down, so he knew she didn't do that. He then looked around the whole of the room, cautiously moving in, but Kintauri was nowhere to be seen.

Ok, he pissed her off and was suddenly happy he had left when he did. Then it hit him, and it hit him hard as his instincts rolled up where he had left them right under his nose during his little chat with the demoness, they warned him, sending a chill of dread down his spine that he did not like. It pushed him to suddenly realize that she might be even more dangerous than Sesshomaru himself.

She had lost control in that moment and that much was clear… that or a fit of rage to cool anger he had undoubtedly caused.


She needed to get away before she lost all her control. That damned wolf pushed one to many buttons that sent her world into a red blur of pained memories and the fact that all those were still there next to the good ones it bothered her more. It was Kouga's annoying words that put her in a place she felt weak and needed to deny everything she was. All she knew and yet, all she once was. She was afraid of that side returning. It was her weak side that let her trust only to have that trust betrayed.

The trust that even he betrayed by not believing her and instead the rumors escalated and started the war. Then she who had his trust she then betrayed by doing the same thing, turning against him based on her uncle whom claimed her father died by the hands of the western lord. She believed her uncle even though he had lied to her many times and Sesshomaru never did.

It hurt to know this and burned her eyes as she began to cry for the first time in so long. He was the last person to ever see her show such weakness and cry in pain knowing now that it was all a lie, her hatred for trusting a man who was the real cause for all the pain and misery of both her people and the West, but it was both their faults for not believing in one another.

She screamed out as she shut her eyes, but her scream sifted from human and it became a snarling roar in the air. She was losing it. She changed form and she didn't even know or care that she did not control it. She wasn't even sure when she made it into the forest and started shredding the trees. That realization made her stopped dead when she landed in a clearing of night moon lilies of purples, reds and whites. The moon shinning down on the grass and flowers almost making them glow in contrast.

She turned her head to the sky, leaving her jaws lightly open as she inhaled and exhaled somewhat roughly. Her eyes glaring blue on blood red as she felt tears stain her fur, she was even seeing red, and she felt stronger than ever under her emotional stress. Once long ago she harnessed that to her advantage, but now right at this moment, she didn't even care to control it. It felt good to let out her agony for all to feel under her claws. Even if her would be victims were the trees.

Looking with a mild glance to the flowers, she could not bring herself to take another step as their scent filled her nose. Who knows what compelled her to leave the flowers at peace. What was the cause for her torment for all these years that she felt like she had to destroy everything around her and yet she could not even step on a small flower… her heart was waning away in her inner turmoil.

Thinking on it now… she felt it was her desire to find him. The trauma of the past having taken advantage of her weakness and it slipped its way into her heart to make her never want to find him because she did not want to face the truth of not only her mistakes but that of her family, her uncle.

That's what she came up with as she let her eyes rest as she stood still in the field that rolled toward the southeast of the village about four miles away. At this point, she wanted something to find her so she could destroy them for thinking she would be an easy target. However, her body was not obeying her need to move and find something. She was planted still as the trees and still as the grass. Her fur blowing ruthlessly as the wind drew its breath, and on that wind…. the wolves… and something else.

Blood, from a human, and she knew the human's smell. The little girl whom had assisted her and she was not far

This made her start moving skyward in a single bound. It was coming from the general direction of the village Edo, but far closer. They must have been traveling somewhere. Now that she started moving faster, faster than any horse and she noted a village she had pasted at some point that she did not remember. And a new bit of blood on the wind, demon blood, and another human's blood. They were being attacked. She roared out and the sky began to darken from her call. Thunder and lightning rolled in until she was right on top of the demon.

To her fear, when its odor hit her nose, she almost froze up, but it was enough to cause her pain when the demon countered her claws, slamming her to the earth with a powerful arm. A dragon assassin, not bigger than the long dead Ryukotsusei, but he seemed larger because he had strong legs like her form but still a longer body. She felt her growl pour from her jaws as she stood up, stepping forward, her caws digging into the earth as she stepped hard into a leap. Her roar calling out like a lion as she drew her head, drawing in energy in a breath and releasing the power tenfold at the disgrace of a dragon's head.

It groaned out in pain as he fell to the ground from the sky. He likely did not expect her to carry power of that magnitude so having turned his back to her was a mistake and greatly disrespectful. As he slowly rose, she stepped to the sky in a snarl. She was not ready to listen to reason. Not when the three people below her were in danger, the miko taking the child and moving away from the area, the half-breed standing between her and the demon attacker. Her instincts to protect the child weighed strongly.

"Leave half-breed… protect your miko and the child." She growled, moving to the side to avoid an attack, only to strike back even harder, fangs digging into the dragon's neck before moving away to avoid the demon's claws.

"No way I'm leaving after it hurt Kagome!" he called.

She just grinned in a growl, charging the dragon as he flew for him. She drew her claws back and sliced forward, down his side. The only power he had going for him was size. He chose size thinking it made him stronger. Size was nothing compared to true skill and true ability.

She slammed down in a crouch after turning in midflight, her form hovering over the second son of the west as she cast a shadow over him. She heard him complain, asking if she was trying to kill him for no reason and bringing back her knowledge of the Tessaiga when she came up with a plan to end this fight now.

"Can you use your father's Backlash Wave?" she asked holding her ground as she opened her jaws to clamp down of the dragon's tail blocking it from hitting she or the half-breed before he pulled it away, "Speak half-breed!"

"What does that have to do with this!" he snapped.

"I'll take that as a yes." She said drawing her head back and drawing in the energy.

He seemed to get the picture as soon as she let the lightening fire fly from her jaws. She jumped back behind him and stayed low as he slashed the Tessaiga through her attack, sending it faster into a whirlwind of blue and purple twisters slicing the dragon assassin into pieces until there was nothing left.

"How the hell do you know about the Backlash Wave Lady?" he snapped just as she looked at him.

She did not answer; instead she turned toward the direction of the child and the miko, a cloud of pink purple demonic aura flashing blindly as she returned to a human form. Her red and purple kimono, snuggle covering her shoulders only showing her upper chest around her collar bone.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" he said following her.

When she stepped into a clearing in the trees, the miko had her bow aimed at her, but dropped her guard when the child asked her to. The child spoke up for her and even remembered her in order to do so.

"You never told me your name Lady Demon." She said excitedly.

Even after the attack, she was able to smile at her. Even after having hurt her leg, not from a demon, it smelled like she feel. It was likely her blood that excited the assassin that was probably looking for her, into a frenzy to have a little fun, so typical of the assassin reared by her uncle. So yet again it was her presence here that caused trouble to others.

"Rin stop!" the miko yelled.

The girl ran past the miko and toward her, stopping within hands reach. She had mildly limped, so it was clear she did not get hurt badly. Kintauri knelt down slowly, reaching for the girl's kimono, lifting the base to her knee. She was simply scratched, a long mark about 3 inches, but a deep enough one to easily be painful and possibly become infected. Kintauri found herself placing her other hand over the wound applying light pressure, the girl winced making the half-breed freaked out.

"Hey, let her go!" he snapped.

"Wait, Inuyasha, look." The miko said.

When she removed her hand, the girl's kimono dropped, but she pulled it up to reveal a healed scar-less leg. She was already walking away from them. She didn't feel the need to stay when she was not trusted and she had done what she set out to do, even if it was on a whim. However, the child stopped her.

Looking down, the girl had her kimono sleeve and pulled lightly. "Don't go." She had said somewhat saddened.

Kintauri looked to the child's protectors for any sign of defense on the girl's request. The half-breed, Inuyasha, was next to his miko with an untrusting glare when she stepped toward her with a light smile.

"Rin… let her go." She said looking at her from behind the child, "But, before you leave, will you please answer some questions for us?"

"Questions?" she questioned as she turned to face the miko.

"Yes, it is becoming a worry to many of us that something is going on. The demons' activity in areas you have been is becoming a concern. People are in danger. Are you in trouble?" she asked.

Kintauri sent her a stern glance. Trouble, maybe, but she did not know how to answer that question, and it felt that by her silence that they understood. Even if the misinterpreted it as the wrong thing to ask.

"Or rather, why are you being followed? We might be able to help." The miko said sincerely, her half-breed not liking it at all by his expression of distrust.

"There is nothing you can do. I am a Queen without a kingdom and they want me dead to make sure I don't take it back." She said starting to walk away again.

"Wait! You never told me your name Lady demon!" the child chimed as she ran toward her again, stopping half way when she looked at her. "I'm Rin."

Kintauri looked at the girl, 'Rin…' she thought. A truth that humans could overcome the hole between fearing what you don't understand and running blinding into what they think they know about demons and humans alike. She would grow into a great woman full of understanding of all. Even for demons like her.

"Kintauri…" she said letting a smile grace her lips.

"Bye Lady Kintauri, see you soon!" Rin said.

She couldn't help but walk away with a smile, even if she left the miko unsure of what to say. But, she was left speechless with the knowledge she was just given about their mystery demon. She was a fallen queen trying to gain the power to take back her home. She would find a way to go into hell its self and take the Sounga from its depths. Being the descendant of the dragon in which the blade was forged, he would obey her, by a bond of blood. Sounga would willing bow to his successor, thus is his curse.

The blade was originally promised to her by the western lord, but he met his demise and she was far from those who knew his wish. So, the sword fell, lost in time, when it woke, it reign havoc until the brothers sealed it away in hell.

She would find a way to get it back, even if she had to face Sesshomaru to do so, but that was a road that was full of unknown and she was not sure if she wanted to face that unknown.


Credits: Kintarui (c) Freyashepherd (Also on DA)