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**** Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the Inuyasha characters
from the anime series, Kodashie and Moshi are characters I made up so they
do not exist in any way out of this story****
The Music of a Broken Heart
Chapter three:
The First Fight
Inuyasha and the gang arrived at the village before Sesshoumaru; a snake yoaki was attacking the village. It was all puke green with glowing black eyes. It was maybe 30 feet long and 8 feet wide. With fangs that were dripping with venom, and there were four shards with in it, one in each eye, one imbedded in its sickle, and the other in its venom gland. On its tail it had a sickle looking like claw that was also dripping in venom, making the job of slaying the demon even harder.
"God dam it! I can't use the tetsusaiga!" Inuyasha growled as Miroku knocked the snake's sickle away than leapt away from the head as it lunged for Miroku.
Sango went to use her hiratsu but as she was about to throw it when the sickle came up from behind her and was about to get her right in the back of her neck if it waist for Kodashie who leapt right in there and jumped out of the way. The sickle nicked her right in the side; the dripping venom on the sickle was immediately sucked into Kodashies blood stream. Depositing Sango on Kirara, Kodashie jumped back into the fight and started slashing at the middle of the snake trying to distract it enough so that one of the others could deal the killing blow. As the snake hissed angrily in pain and lunged for Kodashie, both the tail and the head were aiming for Kodashie knowing either way it would get her, Kodashies claws started glowing red like a flame, with each strike from Kodashies claws a little flame seemed to appear on the snakes wound. Sango threw her hiratsu at the tail and Inuyasha aimed for the head with his iron reaver soul stealer. It seemed like both attacks hit at the same time but Kodashie didn't mind as long as the stupid yoaki was dead.
Jumping off the body in time as it was consumed by flames by her attack that she didn't even know she had, Kodashie held her arm to her side to hide the wound she received from the yoaki. Since she was covered by the snake's blood it masked the scent of her own blood.
"I'm going to go and get washed, it feels like this stuff if already drying," Kodashie said lifting the sleeve of her miko outfit, the sound of the cloth resisting being pulled up was heard, she had to fight to keep all signs that she was wounded and the fact that the venom was taking effect quicker than imagined.
"Umm, Kodashie, I wanted to thank you for what you did back there, helping me and all, but I was wondering didn't you get hit by the sickle?" Sango asked,
"No what makes you think that?" Kodashie asked picking up her small pack, slung it over her shoulder and walked towards the slow moving stream that the town relies on for its water supply.
Kodashie was walking towards the stream, she smelt that some yoaki was near, but Kodashie just thought that it was the markings of Inuyasha's half brother Sesshoumaru. She heard something to her left and turned her head to see what it was, but saw nothing. Turning back around just as a girl about 16 ran straight into her. Kodashie grabbed the girl's wrist so that she wouldn't fall.
"DEMON! IT'S A DEMON! A DEMON IS ATTACKING ME!" The girl shrieked, all the villagers looked up and started surrounding Kodashie each one held a weapon.
~~ "DEMON! IT'S A DEMON! A DEMON IS ATTACKING ME!" a girls voice shrieked, Sesshoumaru quickened his pace towards the sound thinking it was his half- breed brother since his scent was nearby. He came to the villagers surrounding a female inu yoaki, the yoaki had a girl in her grasp. Sesshoumaru looking at the scene wrong lashed out with his whip getting the yoaki right across the back. The yoaki let go of the girl and turned around to face Sesshoumaru. To Sesshoumaru she looked like any ordinary black inu yoaki, but on closer inspection this yoaki looked a lot like Moshi. Her eyes flashed with anger as she lunged for Sesshoumaru; still confused on why this yoaki looked so much like Moshi's younger sister Kodashie Sesshoumaru punched her across the face than disappearing. But before he disappeared he heard one of the villagers whisper,
"She's from that group of strange people that had slain that snake demon that has been attacking our village, why did out Lord Sesshoumaru and her start fighting? It makes no sense,"
As Sesshoumaru made his journey back to his castle he pondered about his encounter with the yoaki female that looked remarkably like Kodashie. 'I thought she went training with her father and little brother, and they were caught off guard and were killed by yoaki exterminators?'
***Flash Back***
"Moshi? Where is your sister Kodashie?" Sesshoumaru asked stepping through the willows branches, the scent of Kodashie was strong here. As if she were just here.
"Oh Lord Sesshoumaru!" Moshi exclaimed getting on her hands and knees and touching her forehead to the ground, "please forgive my younger sister Kodashie, she is so rude sometimes."
"What do you mean?" Sesshoumaru demanded,
"You mean she didn't tell you! Oh Sesshoumaru-sama," Moshi exclaimed jumping up and hugging Sesshoumaru, after a while she let him go and took a few steps away and looked down, "my sister Kodashie left with our father to go training,"
***End of Flash Back***
~~ "Will she be ok?" Kagome's voice asked, to Kodashie it seemed far away. Everything was dark, Kodashie tried to open her eyes but her eyelids seemed too heavy for her to open.
"Yes, she will be fine," came the reply of an old lady, her voice reminded Kodashie of a bubbling spring, it was very relaxing to hear, "some rest and she will be up and about in no time, since she is a yoaki, the venom that entered her system was easily destroyed before it did any serious damage. I should advise you people to get her something different to wear, with her in a true miko dress people will come to her asking for help, thinking she is really a miko."
"Well we tried getting her to wear a kimono, but she wouldn't have it, she never did like wearing them," Kagome, "couldn't we just get a miko dress in a different color?"
"Ah, I see what you mean, yes we can do that while your friend sleeps, there was a yoaki that use to live around here, and she wore a black miko dress, don't know what happened to her. She use to come to this village and buy her things from us, she was such a gentle yoaki to us unlike her sister.. Oops sorry for me rambling like that, it happens when you get old you know," the lady apologized, than there was a shuffling as someone got up, "I shall go to the weavers home and see if he still has any of those black miko outfits,"
"Thank you," came Kagome's reply
"No need to thank us my dear, it's the least we could do since you did get rid of that snake demon for us," The lady replied before leaving.
Kodashie stirred slightly, she tried opening her eyes again and this time she was able to open them only to close them again because of the bright sunlight that was coming through the window,
"Kodashie, you awake good!" Kagome said as she bent over and hugged Kodashie, Kodashie opened her eyes as a squint until her eyes adjusted and hugged Kagome back,
"Thank you Kagome," Kodashie replied, her throat was dry and Kagome handed her a bowl filled with water. The water was sour and was about to spit it out but Kagome wouldn't let her,
"Don't, its bitter because it has herbs in it to make sure no venom is left in your body," Kodashie swallowed the sour water, Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango came in, by the look on Inuyasha's face told Kodashie he was going to start complaining because of what happened.
"You stupid girl, why didn't you just tell us you were wounded?" Inuyasha demanded sitting down with his back to the wall,
"Why else I just love hearing you complain like a little girl," I said sarcastically receiving a giggle from Kagome and smirks from Miroku and Sango,
"But why did you say nothing, just wondering?" Sango asked sitting down across from Kagome,
"I thought it wasn't anything big, if it wasn't for some girl shrieking that I was attacking her when she bumped into me some Inu yoaki wouldn't have whipped me on my back, I wouldn't have then jumped at him ready to fight, than he wouldn't have knocked me out, than I would have been down at a secluded spot cleaning that snakes blood off of me," Kodashie replied,
"And picking a fight with Sesshoumaru! How stupid could you be?!" Inuyasha demanded once again,
"Inuyasha, I don't think that it is fair yelling as Kodashie for that, she didn't know what Sesshoumaru looked like before hand," Miroku said,
"Well still, it was stupid of her," Inuyasha grumbled,
"Inuyasha please, don't start, just because you can get away with your insulting with us, doesn't mean you can get away with it to my sister, we know you only do that because you care, she doesn't," Kagome said
"I DO NOT CARE!!" Inuyasha shouted, that sent everyone into a fit of laughter. Even Inuyasha smirked.
When the lady came back she was carrying two black miko outfits, after she shooed everyone out of the room Kodashie got up and changed into the miko dress. The old lady gave her a bowl of stew and Kodashie started eating it realizing just how hungry she was.
"You know I know all of your companions names, except yours," the old lady said brushing the snarls out of Kodashies hair,
"Its Kodashie, thank you mam for all that you have done," Kodashie replied sitting as still as possible as the lady put her hair up into a high pony tail,
"You know you have the same name and you look very much like a female inu yoaki that use to live near by," the old lady gave her hair one final brush before getting up,
"Really?" Kodashie got up and followed the old lady into another room,
"Yes, she was a wonderful yoaki, always kind and gently, but when ever a time came to fight, she would be there. Some people called her the Black Rose. I called her my songbird yoaki," the lady laughed in amusement as she remembers some funny memory, "she would come sometimes and spend a whole day with the children playing with them, sometimes she sang for them, and a few days before she disappeared from us she almost killed a man from our village. She was fighting with a demon that was attacking our village, he was being held inside the demon, like many others his soul was being sucked out. Since she almost killed him she came to me and gave me her weapons, saying she didn't want to make the same mistake,"
"Seeing that you don't have a weapon, I think it is best for you to take hers." The lady said holding out a sickle and chain, with a katana.
"I. I. I thank you greatly for these weapons I promise to treat them with great care," Kodashie said bowing her head as she took the weapons.
Stepping outside of the hut wile tying the blue sash the old lady gave to Kodashie to hold her sword to her waist Kodashie felt bad for coming out right then and there, seeing Kagome and Inuyasha kissing. Quickly Kodashie dropped her head and finished tying the sash. Since her sickle was already in its holster on her back Kodashie looked up to see that Inuyasha had let go of Kagome and was walking away,
"Sorry about that one sis," Kodashie said walking up to a sad looking Kagome.
~~ "Jakken! Go get Moshi, I know she didn't leave like I ordered her to so bring her here now!" Sesshoumaru demanded right once he came in his castle,
"Right away Lord Sesshoumaru," Jakken said as he hurried off in search for Moshi, it didn't take long finding her; she was in Sesshoumaru's chambers yet again.
"Yes Sesshoumaru-sama?" Moshi asked innocently
"Tell me again, what happened to your sister and father," Sesshoumaru said taking her by the arm and leading her to his study,
"I've told you a million times, she died along with my father and little brother when they were attacked by demon exterminators," Moshi replied with annoyance, "I don't know why you keep bringing it up? She died a long time ago! Give her up! Move on!"
"Why weren't you even upset when the news came in that your sister, father and brother died?" He asked not bothering to answer her
"Why can't you move on? She was just a stupid weak brat, she was no great beauty," Sesshoumaru clenched his hand in anger but refrained from hitting her,
"I can't move on until I know what really happened to her," Sesshoumaru lied
"Fine! If it means so much to you I will tell you, I sent her away to a time and place where she could never get back! There happy?" Moshi demanded
"No, for I just saw her, you treacherous snake! This time head my words get off my land!" Sesshoumaru yelled, Moshi this time knew she lost and ran out of the study, out of the castle and towards her family's castle.
'Now that I know she is alive, what am I going to do?'
Inuyasha and the gang arrived at the village before Sesshoumaru; a snake yoaki was attacking the village. It was all puke green with glowing black eyes. It was maybe 30 feet long and 8 feet wide. With fangs that were dripping with venom, and there were four shards with in it, one in each eye, one imbedded in its sickle, and the other in its venom gland. On its tail it had a sickle looking like claw that was also dripping in venom, making the job of slaying the demon even harder.
"God dam it! I can't use the tetsusaiga!" Inuyasha growled as Miroku knocked the snake's sickle away than leapt away from the head as it lunged for Miroku.
Sango went to use her hiratsu but as she was about to throw it when the sickle came up from behind her and was about to get her right in the back of her neck if it waist for Kodashie who leapt right in there and jumped out of the way. The sickle nicked her right in the side; the dripping venom on the sickle was immediately sucked into Kodashies blood stream. Depositing Sango on Kirara, Kodashie jumped back into the fight and started slashing at the middle of the snake trying to distract it enough so that one of the others could deal the killing blow. As the snake hissed angrily in pain and lunged for Kodashie, both the tail and the head were aiming for Kodashie knowing either way it would get her, Kodashies claws started glowing red like a flame, with each strike from Kodashies claws a little flame seemed to appear on the snakes wound. Sango threw her hiratsu at the tail and Inuyasha aimed for the head with his iron reaver soul stealer. It seemed like both attacks hit at the same time but Kodashie didn't mind as long as the stupid yoaki was dead.
Jumping off the body in time as it was consumed by flames by her attack that she didn't even know she had, Kodashie held her arm to her side to hide the wound she received from the yoaki. Since she was covered by the snake's blood it masked the scent of her own blood.
"I'm going to go and get washed, it feels like this stuff if already drying," Kodashie said lifting the sleeve of her miko outfit, the sound of the cloth resisting being pulled up was heard, she had to fight to keep all signs that she was wounded and the fact that the venom was taking effect quicker than imagined.
"Umm, Kodashie, I wanted to thank you for what you did back there, helping me and all, but I was wondering didn't you get hit by the sickle?" Sango asked,
"No what makes you think that?" Kodashie asked picking up her small pack, slung it over her shoulder and walked towards the slow moving stream that the town relies on for its water supply.
Kodashie was walking towards the stream, she smelt that some yoaki was near, but Kodashie just thought that it was the markings of Inuyasha's half brother Sesshoumaru. She heard something to her left and turned her head to see what it was, but saw nothing. Turning back around just as a girl about 16 ran straight into her. Kodashie grabbed the girl's wrist so that she wouldn't fall.
"DEMON! IT'S A DEMON! A DEMON IS ATTACKING ME!" The girl shrieked, all the villagers looked up and started surrounding Kodashie each one held a weapon.
~~ "DEMON! IT'S A DEMON! A DEMON IS ATTACKING ME!" a girls voice shrieked, Sesshoumaru quickened his pace towards the sound thinking it was his half- breed brother since his scent was nearby. He came to the villagers surrounding a female inu yoaki, the yoaki had a girl in her grasp. Sesshoumaru looking at the scene wrong lashed out with his whip getting the yoaki right across the back. The yoaki let go of the girl and turned around to face Sesshoumaru. To Sesshoumaru she looked like any ordinary black inu yoaki, but on closer inspection this yoaki looked a lot like Moshi. Her eyes flashed with anger as she lunged for Sesshoumaru; still confused on why this yoaki looked so much like Moshi's younger sister Kodashie Sesshoumaru punched her across the face than disappearing. But before he disappeared he heard one of the villagers whisper,
"She's from that group of strange people that had slain that snake demon that has been attacking our village, why did out Lord Sesshoumaru and her start fighting? It makes no sense,"
As Sesshoumaru made his journey back to his castle he pondered about his encounter with the yoaki female that looked remarkably like Kodashie. 'I thought she went training with her father and little brother, and they were caught off guard and were killed by yoaki exterminators?'
***Flash Back***
"Moshi? Where is your sister Kodashie?" Sesshoumaru asked stepping through the willows branches, the scent of Kodashie was strong here. As if she were just here.
"Oh Lord Sesshoumaru!" Moshi exclaimed getting on her hands and knees and touching her forehead to the ground, "please forgive my younger sister Kodashie, she is so rude sometimes."
"What do you mean?" Sesshoumaru demanded,
"You mean she didn't tell you! Oh Sesshoumaru-sama," Moshi exclaimed jumping up and hugging Sesshoumaru, after a while she let him go and took a few steps away and looked down, "my sister Kodashie left with our father to go training,"
***End of Flash Back***
~~ "Will she be ok?" Kagome's voice asked, to Kodashie it seemed far away. Everything was dark, Kodashie tried to open her eyes but her eyelids seemed too heavy for her to open.
"Yes, she will be fine," came the reply of an old lady, her voice reminded Kodashie of a bubbling spring, it was very relaxing to hear, "some rest and she will be up and about in no time, since she is a yoaki, the venom that entered her system was easily destroyed before it did any serious damage. I should advise you people to get her something different to wear, with her in a true miko dress people will come to her asking for help, thinking she is really a miko."
"Well we tried getting her to wear a kimono, but she wouldn't have it, she never did like wearing them," Kagome, "couldn't we just get a miko dress in a different color?"
"Ah, I see what you mean, yes we can do that while your friend sleeps, there was a yoaki that use to live around here, and she wore a black miko dress, don't know what happened to her. She use to come to this village and buy her things from us, she was such a gentle yoaki to us unlike her sister.. Oops sorry for me rambling like that, it happens when you get old you know," the lady apologized, than there was a shuffling as someone got up, "I shall go to the weavers home and see if he still has any of those black miko outfits,"
"Thank you," came Kagome's reply
"No need to thank us my dear, it's the least we could do since you did get rid of that snake demon for us," The lady replied before leaving.
Kodashie stirred slightly, she tried opening her eyes again and this time she was able to open them only to close them again because of the bright sunlight that was coming through the window,
"Kodashie, you awake good!" Kagome said as she bent over and hugged Kodashie, Kodashie opened her eyes as a squint until her eyes adjusted and hugged Kagome back,
"Thank you Kagome," Kodashie replied, her throat was dry and Kagome handed her a bowl filled with water. The water was sour and was about to spit it out but Kagome wouldn't let her,
"Don't, its bitter because it has herbs in it to make sure no venom is left in your body," Kodashie swallowed the sour water, Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango came in, by the look on Inuyasha's face told Kodashie he was going to start complaining because of what happened.
"You stupid girl, why didn't you just tell us you were wounded?" Inuyasha demanded sitting down with his back to the wall,
"Why else I just love hearing you complain like a little girl," I said sarcastically receiving a giggle from Kagome and smirks from Miroku and Sango,
"But why did you say nothing, just wondering?" Sango asked sitting down across from Kagome,
"I thought it wasn't anything big, if it wasn't for some girl shrieking that I was attacking her when she bumped into me some Inu yoaki wouldn't have whipped me on my back, I wouldn't have then jumped at him ready to fight, than he wouldn't have knocked me out, than I would have been down at a secluded spot cleaning that snakes blood off of me," Kodashie replied,
"And picking a fight with Sesshoumaru! How stupid could you be?!" Inuyasha demanded once again,
"Inuyasha, I don't think that it is fair yelling as Kodashie for that, she didn't know what Sesshoumaru looked like before hand," Miroku said,
"Well still, it was stupid of her," Inuyasha grumbled,
"Inuyasha please, don't start, just because you can get away with your insulting with us, doesn't mean you can get away with it to my sister, we know you only do that because you care, she doesn't," Kagome said
"I DO NOT CARE!!" Inuyasha shouted, that sent everyone into a fit of laughter. Even Inuyasha smirked.
When the lady came back she was carrying two black miko outfits, after she shooed everyone out of the room Kodashie got up and changed into the miko dress. The old lady gave her a bowl of stew and Kodashie started eating it realizing just how hungry she was.
"You know I know all of your companions names, except yours," the old lady said brushing the snarls out of Kodashies hair,
"Its Kodashie, thank you mam for all that you have done," Kodashie replied sitting as still as possible as the lady put her hair up into a high pony tail,
"You know you have the same name and you look very much like a female inu yoaki that use to live near by," the old lady gave her hair one final brush before getting up,
"Really?" Kodashie got up and followed the old lady into another room,
"Yes, she was a wonderful yoaki, always kind and gently, but when ever a time came to fight, she would be there. Some people called her the Black Rose. I called her my songbird yoaki," the lady laughed in amusement as she remembers some funny memory, "she would come sometimes and spend a whole day with the children playing with them, sometimes she sang for them, and a few days before she disappeared from us she almost killed a man from our village. She was fighting with a demon that was attacking our village, he was being held inside the demon, like many others his soul was being sucked out. Since she almost killed him she came to me and gave me her weapons, saying she didn't want to make the same mistake,"
"Seeing that you don't have a weapon, I think it is best for you to take hers." The lady said holding out a sickle and chain, with a katana.
"I. I. I thank you greatly for these weapons I promise to treat them with great care," Kodashie said bowing her head as she took the weapons.
Stepping outside of the hut wile tying the blue sash the old lady gave to Kodashie to hold her sword to her waist Kodashie felt bad for coming out right then and there, seeing Kagome and Inuyasha kissing. Quickly Kodashie dropped her head and finished tying the sash. Since her sickle was already in its holster on her back Kodashie looked up to see that Inuyasha had let go of Kagome and was walking away,
"Sorry about that one sis," Kodashie said walking up to a sad looking Kagome.
~~ "Jakken! Go get Moshi, I know she didn't leave like I ordered her to so bring her here now!" Sesshoumaru demanded right once he came in his castle,
"Right away Lord Sesshoumaru," Jakken said as he hurried off in search for Moshi, it didn't take long finding her; she was in Sesshoumaru's chambers yet again.
"Yes Sesshoumaru-sama?" Moshi asked innocently
"Tell me again, what happened to your sister and father," Sesshoumaru said taking her by the arm and leading her to his study,
"I've told you a million times, she died along with my father and little brother when they were attacked by demon exterminators," Moshi replied with annoyance, "I don't know why you keep bringing it up? She died a long time ago! Give her up! Move on!"
"Why weren't you even upset when the news came in that your sister, father and brother died?" He asked not bothering to answer her
"Why can't you move on? She was just a stupid weak brat, she was no great beauty," Sesshoumaru clenched his hand in anger but refrained from hitting her,
"I can't move on until I know what really happened to her," Sesshoumaru lied
"Fine! If it means so much to you I will tell you, I sent her away to a time and place where she could never get back! There happy?" Moshi demanded
"No, for I just saw her, you treacherous snake! This time head my words get off my land!" Sesshoumaru yelled, Moshi this time knew she lost and ran out of the study, out of the castle and towards her family's castle.
'Now that I know she is alive, what am I going to do?'
