Hello Ninja Burrito here.
Here is Part 1 of a new fanfic, it follows an OC and Sesshomaru through eons after being brought together by the Meido Stone before it is given to his mother for safe keeping. In this first part there is elements of
sexual assault and violence so proceed with caution.
(I do not own the rights to the thumbnail image used.)
-Ninja Burrito out
Part 1 (A Once Beautiful Child)
Snow settled down on the world in a thick smothering blanket, seeping between the large pine trees and obscuring the true banks of the icy river. The air was frozen with crystals that assaulted the lungs when one tried to breath to deeply. Three tall men stood on the banks of the frozen river, carful not to break the ice and fall into the deadly reaches of its waters. All three men were exceptionally pale to begin with, but their skin had slowly turned pink as the moister was sucked from them were long fur cloaks didn't protect them. If any human had happened by the picturesque scenery and the three beautiful men, they would have claimed to see the beauty of divine beings sent to the world.
These men were in fact not celestial beings, no they were not sent from the heavens or any other place of peace. These men were Inu Daiyokai, beautiful monsters from the great and powerful Dog Demon Clan and these men had their sights trained on the Palace a cross the river and its occupants. The human Lord of these lands had greatly offended the Demon Clan which shared a common boarder, the Forest of Plight which was to the backs of the three men.
"My Lord, the moon is covered, now would be the time to attack." One of the men said to another bowing his head showing respect. Like most of the Dog Demon Clan this man had long braided white hair with hints of blue like the marks on his face and around his golden eyes.
"No Uncle, we must wait for the wind to change direction. They might be humans but like many around here they may have contracted other demons to defended them. If they smell us before we reach the Palace, we lose the element of surprise." The youngest stated, his eyes watching the beings on the walls, too many of them moving in an inhuman like manner. He might look young and untested but the Dog Demon Lords son was not one to be trifled with.
The tallest of the three smiled down at his son Sesshomaru, that was the most he had ever heard his son speak at one time and of course it was completely correct. Toga looked at his mates' brother and smiled. Daisuke smile back as if to say he too was impressed by the military prowess of his nephew.
"Correct son, as soon as the winds change, we will strike." Toga was not pleased to be attacking a human Palace, it wasn't sporty for three of the most skilled and powerful men from his clan to attack such weak and unsuspecting mortals. The Lord of this land should have known better before stealing the Meido Stone form its resting place on Togas land and killing the Maidens that guarded it.
What worried him the most was how they had managed to sneak on to his lands and kill several Clan members in the matter of minutes then completely disappear without a trace. It had taken the three of them days to track down the culprits to this human Palace. He had thought the human lord that resided here smarter than pissing off his Demon neighbors.
The wind stopped moving for a heart beat then began to blow at the three men, bring the smell of several demons to their noses.
Sesshomaru wrinkled his nose "Panther demons." He bared his fangs, a growl escaping his throat as he breathed in the stench of his enemy.
"And others." Daisuke stated.
"Time to go, we hit hard in Yokai form and cause as much damage and panic as possible. Son you go in your humanoid form and search for the Meido Stone. As soon as you have it retreat to the randevu point. We will meet with you as soon as possible."
"How will I find it Father." His son questioned. The Meido Stone had no smell as it was not from this world.
"Take this, it will hear the song of the stone and show you the way." Toga handed him one of three swords he carried. His son glared at it and back at his father. He hated the Tenseiga, the most useless of his fathers' great swords. He slowly took it and tied it to his sash begrudgingly.
In an instant Toga and Daisuke began to transform, their white hair covering their body, faces stretching to reveal rows of sharp deadly fangs. Once they were both transformed into their true forms, Sesshomaru jumped to the back of the smaller one, his uncle, using his fur pelt cloak to blend in with him. Both of the powerful demons took to the air, great howls escaping from their mouths, shattering the sleepy winter night.
Daisuke crashed into one of the guard towers, shattering the building to splinters with the swipe of his mighty claws sending debris with the sent of dog demon all over the courtyard. If the panther demon tribe was here, then they wouldn't be able to smell a third person with Toga and Daisukes smell everywhere. Sesshomaru slipped from the back of his Uncle, one hand on the Tenseiga and began sprinting through the corridors of the Palace hoping the sword would pick up on the stone. Ignoring the human screams as the other two destroyed the building he ran at full speed, barley a blur to a mortal eye.
This is taking too long, Sesshomaru thought to himself as he ran lower and lower into the bowels of the human Palace. He must be underground now for he could barley here the sounds of the battle raging on the surface. He hadn't seen many people in his mad dash to find the stone. Its almost as if the humans avoided this part of the Palace, though it was cold and damp he didn't see any reason it should be abandoned. He began smelling the air for any signs of life, human or demon. At first all he could smell was mold and river water, if he listened hard enough, he could hear the river moving through the walls. He was really really far underground. He was about to turn back to look elsewhere when another smell each him, first the smell of the river overpowered everything but after a few seconds of concentrating he could distinguish between the two.
Blood, more specifically Inu Daiyokai blood was welling up from the stone beneath him at the same time he recognized the sent the sword began to hum and shake in its sheath. These humans were smart and prepared, storing the Stone in a place near the river so the superior demon senses couldn't hear or smell while in the area. Now that he was focused, he could smell several humans in a room below him but couldn't see any stairwell or door that might take him to it. Well there was only one thing to do now, he told himself, drawing out his poison claws and slowly melting a hole in the floor big enough for him to pass through.
He jumped through the hole he created and landed on the floor. He seemed to have jumped into a prison of some sorts, walls on both sides of him lined with cell doors. Some of the cells contained sad and emaciated people laying on the floors in rags. Some contain corpses in various stages of decompose. The smell was almost overpowering as he brought the sleeve of his kimono to cover his nose.
He walked slowly through the halls looking in on the different cells waiting for the sword to react again. He reached the end of the hall where a large iron and wood door stood, again the smell of death and decay oozing through the boards. The sword hummed again as he touched the lock and melted it.
Rage, pure blinding rage, a feeling that Sesshomaru was unfamiliar with swept through his being, sharp and cold like steal. He couldn't believe the scene that lay before his eyes when the door opened. An Inu Daiyokai women, or girl really, was chained with her hands above her head to the opposite wall of the door. Her long snowy hair was matted with blood, dirt and leaves, her skin and lips gray and ashen. She was clad in only a dirty and bloodied robe that reveal a good bit of her cleavage and barley covered her hips.
Even in the long-life spans of demons this girl couldn't be more then twenty years old, basically a child by the clans' standards. She had bruises and whip lash marks, a cracked lip with dried blood on her neck and several other lacerations marring her skin. All this set Sesshomaru on edge but the thing that pushed him over the wasn't the smell of feces, piss and blood or the salty smell of male… excitement that covered her. No what forced him into the blind rage was the dried blood that coated the girl's thighs and feet. She must have been one of the Maidens that protected the Stone which safely swung from her neck, Maidens that swore off men and lived their long lives as virgins.
The girl hearing him open the door looked up and lock eyes with the young male demon. Relief visibly flooded through her as she took in the son of the Dog demon leader. "My lord." Her voice was dry from dehydration and raw from screaming. "I wouldn't let them have it my Lord, it's still safe. I used the spell Mother Superior taught us so it couldn't be removed."
"How did they manage to overpower you and your sisters?" He asked. The Maidens weren't just pretty faces, they were deadly worriers in their own right, trained to care for and protect the stone.
"I don't know, they covered themselves with something, we couldn't smell them or hear them. They just appeared like ghosts. All I know is they were hired by this lord specifically to get the stone for someone else. I don't know who." She was winded and having a hard time forming words around her cracked, bleeding lip.
He couldn't speak again for a moment, he could barley hear her over the roar of his blood rushing through his ears. These disgusting human swine raped and beat a child for three days. He and his father and uncle hadn't even known that she had been taken, if they had would they have worked harder to find her faster? This is our fault. He told himself.
"My Lord, please take the stone and leave." Her small voice barley reaching him.
He shook his head. "No child, I will not leave you behind." He was finally able to move, walking completely into the room and kneeling down before her. "I will not leave you here to suffer."
Her face was emotionless and eyes completely empty of any will to live. "They took everything from me. I can never go back to being a Maiden of the Meido Stone Shrine. I might as well die here."
He heard the door to the Prison open and men yelling and calling out about and intruder. Soon this narrow place would be full of armed guards, or even other demons. He wasn't going to be able to take his time slowly killing the human scum that would dare to this to a child, but he could vent his spleen a little by killing every other human down here.
The young lord broke the chains free from the wall, she whimpered quietly as he wrapped her in his fur pelt, trying to save what little humility was left to her. He lifted her in his arms and whispered in her ear, "Whatever you hear don't come out of the furs, do you understand?" He heard what sounded like a confirmation and lifted her into his arms.
The underground prison was filled to the brim now with human guards, at least there were no demons amongst them. All had their blades drawn and angled towards Sesshomaru when he walked out of the torture room.
"Filthy mongrel, how dare you break into the Palace of Lord Gyru." One of the humans spat at him. "Learn your place demon."
He bent down to the bundle of furs in his arms. "Remember, stay in there till I tell you otherwise." He looked up at the guards and smiled a soul chilling smile. "Human pigs." The room began to fill with poison fumes from the acid dripping from his claws and fangs. His face was slightly transformed to that of a monstress dog.
The men dropped their swords and began to scream as the noxious cloud passed through them, their skin began to melt from their bones and lung filled with poison. With the girl safely tucked into his chest wrapped in his pelt Sesshomaru began to walk through the dying men to the door they entered from, a wicked smile on his hideously transformed face. Every human in the underground Prison would be dead by morning.
"You can come out now." The girl poked her face from the furs and immediately closed her eyes. The sun was just beginning to light up the horizon, but all the snow magnified the dim rays giving a sense of full dawn. Through silted eyes she looked at her rescuer, memorizing every line of his face. "What's your name?" He asked as he continue to follow the river to the place his father and uncle agreed to meet at.
"Akari from the Sky Cloud family." Her voice was so weak that even Sesshomarus sharp ears could barely hear her. The Sky Cloud family was a cousin family of his mothers and uncles Moon Fang family. Of course, the term cousin was loosely used between families since all in the Dog Demon Clan were related somehow.
The morning was quiet save for the occasional shlump of snow falling from a tree branch and his feet breaking the frozen layer of snow on the ground. She was going to die soon if he didn't do something for her, but he didn't know what to do in a delicate situation like this. He walked to a log near the bank of the river and set her down, arranging the pelt around her to keep her somewhat covered and comfortable.
"Is it ok if I touch you?" He asked not looking at her, dipping a handkerchief in the water watching his footing in the icy bank careful not to fall in.
Akari gave a sardonic chuckle from the folds of the fur. "I asked you to let me die, now your worried about what I want?" He knew she didn't mean it; he couldn't even begin to understand what she felt or had been through. When he didn't say anything she finally said yes and refused to look at him.
He first gave her water from the cloth, squeezing it between her parch lips, repeatedly returning to the river for more till she had had enough, then he began to clean her skin as best as he could. Most of the wounds had festered in the damp humid prison cell, he wasn't sure what they had given her, but it had kept her from naturally healing. Once her face, hand and chest were cleaned to the best of his ability with cold river water he turned the dried blood between her legs. Akari looked away from him again as he carefully cleaned the blood, shame and sadness battling on her beautiful face. He could only imagine how she could look when healthy and vibrant. It was quiet for a moment as he worked, careful not to touch her bare skin with his own or to clean to far between her thighs. She either completely trusted him or was so far beyond caring that it wouldn't matter what he did at this point.
The young lord stood and threw the rag in the river to carry the smell of human male excitement away from them once he was done cleaning what he could. He motioned for her to give him the soiled robe she wore and traded it of the top layer of his kimono. It was massive on her but thankfully covered her from neck to beyond her toes.
"Thank you." A sob cracked her voice and she swallowed, tears spilling down her young face.
"I'm sorry we didn't find you sooner." Was all he could say as he allowed her to cry into his chest once he sat on the log. She didn't cry for long, her sobs falling off into nothing as her body began to relax. Her breathing slowed, the fluttering of her heart slowing to nothing then her body went limp and a last breath escaped from her gray cracked lips. Sesshomaru continued to hold her as her body turned cold watching ice chunks float passed him in the river.
He heard his uncle and father long before they entered the clearing next to the river where the two sat. Toga looked at his son and the newly dead child in his arms. Toga was intelligent with a keen sense of smell that surpassed even that of his son, it didn't take him long to discern what had happened.
He could see the stone peaking from his son's kimono top, its sapphire brilliance dancing in the morning sun illuminating the shallow skin of the girl underneath. "We need to get her medical attention as soon as possible. Daisuke run ahead and have your sister meet us." His mates brother looked confused and exhausted but did as his lord commanded with out question.
Once he was gone the younger man looked at his father. "It's too late, she dead father."
Toga walked to them and gripped his sons' shoulder. "I'm going to show you something that only your mother and I know regarding my most powerful sword." His voice was deep and calming, soothing to his sons' ears. Many people believed that Sesshomaru was unfeeling or uncaring, but his father knew in reality his son cared more than most. He had learned at a young age to lock his feeling away and to never allow his emotions to show.
The younger man looked at the other two swords on his fathers back. "No son, these two are not my most powerful swords, they pale in comparison to the power of the one at your waist." He had forgotten the sword his father gave him to find the stone, the sword that couldn't cut or kill. In one swift motion Toga pulled Tenseiga from the sheath, its blade glowing and pulsing, reacting to the stone at the girl's throat. The Great Dog demon slashed the sword a cross the corpse in his sons' arms, a blinding light shining from a nonexistent wound on her chest. The light shone for a moment more then slowly sank into her body then disappearing all together.
Sesshomaru watched for a second before casting a confused look to his father. "Just wait son." It wasn't long before a new sound filled the clearing, the sound of a third heartbeat then a shuttering breath from the girl as life overtook her once more.
"Keep her warm son, your mother will be here soon."