Chapter Two: Shadows of the Dawn
A/N: Thank you all bunches for reviewing!( Did I just write bunches? Oh whatever..anyway) To be quite honest I wasn't expecting them so quickly, but I'm not complaining. ^.^ Your reviews keep me going!
Nasai gazed up from the wells depths, her eyes being greeted by the twilight in which she treasured completely. Silence had encased about her, and she was wondering if she had made it through or not. Taking hold of the vines in which hung from above, she climbed up to see nothing but lush forest. A smile crept upon her lips, as she searched the ebony that now encircled her. She didn't know were to go, and stood to herself for a few moments, until voices arose from the well behind her. Almost unseen because of the twilight shroud that bathed it.
" Nasai!" A despite plea enclosed upon her hearing, knowing at once that it was her mother. She didn't want to be found, not now, and seemingly not ever. Taking a breath and whispering her goodbyes, she sprinted from the place she had once stood not knowing exactly where she was running to. A few tree braches grazing her as she passed by creating tiny crimson rivers to form about her. Her matted silver bangs draping heavily upon her golden eyes, tears stinging the diminutive cuts that presided upon her cheeks, only creating more tears to rise and fall. She knew Inuyasha would pick up her scent, and it was that once fear that drove her, perhaps beyond youkai limits. Dodging the tree warriors as best as she was able, she leapt into a river and dropped her head down below the surface. She couldn't hold her breath forever, and she knew that, but it would at least shield her scent for as long as needed.
Swift footprints rose from where she herself had been, noticing they had ceased. She placed a clawed hand over her mouth to cease any bubbles that would rise from her body trying to breathe. Taking her silver locks within her arms to prevent it from floating to the surface in which she now yearned. Though allowing herself to relax as the tracker dashed away from where she was now concealed. Throwing her head from the crystal waters she devoured the air about her, wiping her eyes of the residing water. She didn't dare progress back to her travels until the footsteps from before could no longer be sensed by her sensitive hearing. Allowing a sigh to escape from her lips she rested herself upon the bank for a few moments. Taking in deep breaths of heaven as if someone had asphyxiated her she rolled upon her back and closed her eyes. Now what was she going to do? Many times slumber crossed her thoughts, yet she knew she would have to find somewhere safe. She wasn't sure just how long she had been running, and at that time couldn't have cared, but the fact remained that she didn't know just how far the well was from her.
Tender zephyrs rocked her as if she were a babe in her mother's arms once again, loved beyond the very emotion. Though her exhaustion reminded her soon enough where she was and this ritual alone caused her slumbering to not capture her. Gazing through the canopy her golden orbs rested upon the heavens. The stars sated in undeniable glory, for the moment caused her to forget her miserable situation, stars she never took the time to gaze at. Seemingly tiny treasures pressed upon an ebony, velvet night. She felt her lips curve into a crescent knowing her sister Ania maybe looking up and gazing at the same exact star she was and wondering what had happened to her.
" I'm sorry, but I can't live this lie.." She whispered, almost as if she knew the words would reach her sister, wherever she was. Allowing darkness to engulf her closed eyes, she slipped thus into a profound dreamless slumber.
***
Nasai sensed the breathing of about two children as they hovered over her. Either out of instinct or habit she growled in annoyance, warning the children to stay away from her, though of coarse her murderous growls were left unheeded and she was then forced to open her eyes. Two pairs of brown eyes met her golden stare as their faces seemed to be pasted to hers, turning her body away.
" What do you want?" Nasai asked, a bit of her youkai self taking over her words.
" We found you here." Of course they smiled at her, a gesture Nasai didn't think to return. She huffed once and gazed back to the humans before her.
" Leave me alone." She ordered nefariously, standing from the place she had slumbered upon. " Didn't you hear me?" She asked, her iron barriers beginning to crumble due to the children's smiles.
" I'm Sazuyen! And this is my brother Kohaku!" Nasai felt a smile kiss her lips, even when she had tried to suppress it. " Come met mother and father!" The little girl called, grasping Nasai's hand and leading her away.
' They're so quick to trust me. I wonder what would happen if.'
" What's your name?" The human boy asked, gazing up to Nasai as if he truly wanted to know.
" Nasai." She answered, gazing up to see the village that was just up ahead. The darkness from last night denying her eyes from seeing it. Nasai ceased before they were seen and knelt down to the children. " Listen to me. I don't think it's right for me to come here. I'm a youkai and I don't think your mother and father would want to see you with me." The two children just gazed upon her confused, awaiting for her to explain further.
" You go. I'll stay here." Nasai released them, but they grasped her hands once again.
" No! Come meet mother and father Nasai. It doesn't matter what you are!" The girl said tenderly, not knowing just how her words touched Nasai's heart. Nodding her head she began walking into the village, the people within it ceasing in their daily routines just to watch Nasai.
" Sango! Miroku!" One woman yelled, running to a near by home. There, a man and a woman emerged, fear striking their eyes. Nasai tightened her hold upon the two children. She knew they would react this way.
" Please, I mean you no harm. These children found me and.." Nasai ceased abruptly, watching as the woman and man approached her. Their eyes wide, in either fear, or just plain confusion Nasai couldn't decipher. The woman named Sango stopped before her and stared.
' Could she be.no.but.' Sango's thoughts danced unchained within her mind, her eyes creating a deep abyss within Nasai's frightened eyes.
" Tell me girl, who are your parents?" Nasai felt her face scrunch up in confusion, and being raised by Kagome the question was rude for a first meeting.
" I don't see why I should tell you human." Nasai emphasised the word human in her speech, hoping the woman would get nervous and leave her alone, but this wasn't the case.
" Do you know an Inuyasha?" The youkai princess almost murdered the woman for pinning that basterd on her as her father, but she calmly answered.
" Yes, I do." Nasai answered softly, trying her hardest not to let her youkai power overcome her emotions. " But before you ask I am not his daughter. I am merely his spare." The answer bemused Sango, not understanding quite what the youkai before her was saying. " I am Nasai, daughter of Kagome and." Her words faded into a shadow, something that had always happened when she was asked such a question. She didn't know who her father was, but she knew he was here in this time. " Well that I don't know, but.." The youkai exterminator nodded her head.
' So it is true.' Sango found herself whispering within her mind. She knew of the enchantment Kagome and Sesshoumaru were under, but could this young woman be the result of the damned curse? In truth in appearance the youkai seemed nothing like Kagome, and nothing about it hinted otherwise. She was, in fact, strictly Sesshoumaru's daughter. Yet if she was raised by Kagome and Inuyasha then Sango knew she couldn't have inherited the cold heart Sesshoumaru had. Confusion was washed over by immense sympathy for the girl. Plainly the youkai had come to this time to find Sesshoumaru, yet Sango knew he wouldn't accept her.
The moments of silence proved to be most uncomfortable for Nasai, and the impassioned stares the villagers were giving her didn't seem to aid it. Though she kept her hardened outer shell, for she didn't want the mere humans to think her weak.
" Stop staring at me human." Nasai commanded, a small smirk capturing her lips to signify that she was laughing at the mere fact that the woman was human. She didn't know just how much of her act as actually believable, yet it was her only cover. She had to get away before Inuyasha caught her scent. He probably was heading her away now. " Are you finished inspecting woman? I need to be somewhere." Nasai released the two children turning her head away, yet being caught by the children again, who were beginning to irritate her. " Leave me alone! Don't you understand!?" Nasai knew she sounded harsh, but at that moment she knew it was what she had to do, walking from the village.
" Nasai wait!" Sango yelled, causing the youkai to cease in her travels.
" I have no other business here." Nasai answered swiftly, not bothering to turn and face the crowd her mere appearance had drawn.
***
Twilight once again engulfed the heavens, and Nasai knew she would have to find somewhere to sleep. She congratulated herself for not being found that day, but merely thinking of the next day caused shivers to rise from her spine. And hunger only added to her trials. Seeing a cave up ahead so ventured to it, caseing suddenly at its gapeing mouth. As if threating to devour her if she stepped within. The cave being completely devoid of any light, she crept inside and ventured into it. She wasn't far, for the could still see the fading light from the decaying sun, but she stepped on something furry. Leaping to the side she searched the darkness, yet her eyes had not become accustomed to the dead light as quickly as they had before.
" Ouch!" It was a young man's voice, and Nasai was caught of guard by hearing it.
" I'm sorry!" Nasai yelled as her foremost defense, hoping that whatever was inside with her was friendly, or at the very least bearable. Minutes passed, Nasai awaiting her eyes to adjust and as they did two emerald eyes stared back at her. Their eyes locked, uncertaintly and disclosure showing obviously through them.
" Hello.." The young man finally spoke, upon his hands and knees searching for wood to rekindle his earlier flame. Watching in silence as the blaze was reawakened, Nasai sat down, not meeting eyes with the handsome stranger. Golden-orange hair crowned his head, being pulled atop his head. By the look of him, Nasai knew he was some form of demon yet didn't ask.
" I'm sorry for.."
" Don't worry about it. I don't get company. By the way my name is Shippou." His gaze slitered to her, capturing her eyes swiftly.
" I'm Nasai." His eyes swam over her with bewilderment, her appearance stunned him. Silver locks, golden eyes she. " You don't mind if I stay here tonight..do you?"
" Not at all." He smiled, causing her to smle in his wake. " Wait.hear that?" He asked, gazing toward the entrance of the cave.
" Yes.." Nasai whispered, the first to her feet. " Just landed." She said in a hushed tone, getting on all fours and scoping out the entrace, hearing Shippou shuffle behind her. Poking her head out of the opening she felt her heart almost die. There, bathed in twilight's beauty, and the moon's embrace stood Sesshoumaru. He had sensed her come to his time and had been looking for her, following her scent to the spot he was standing in now. Nasai knew from the moment she laid eyes on him that..yes.he had to be. Before she could rush after him, Shippou grasped her arm.
" I wouldn't do that Nasai." Nasai pulled herself away from him, his pleas falling upon deaf ears. Casting her whoile body from the entrance of the cave, Sesshoumaru's eyes turned to her. For a moment he thought himself unable to breathe. Was this her? The daughter he had never known? Nasai began to trace evey line within his angelic features, the sapphire moon atop his head all the proof she needed, for surly that is were the golden moon upon her back came from. Thought most of her smealt purly of demon, there was still that one almost undetcable scent of human. The thought of her mother sickened him, yet why didn't he care? Wasn't his daughter a digrace upon youkai kind? No, of course not, Sesshoumaru would never allow anyone to blame her for something that wasn't her choice. Or was it merely the fact that she was his daughter, and that he.loved her?
" Father?" The sole word poured from her lips as if she had waited eternity to say it, dashing toward her father and embracing him. " I am so alone. At home I am nothing but an unwanted memory. And here I am only feared and discarded. I needed someone who could teach me about life, instead of shunning me from it. I needed.you." Tears spilt from her eyes yet it didn't matter as she felt his arms wrap around her, almost protectively. Burying her face deep within his chest she sobbed openly, tightening her hold as if she feared he was only a phantom of her tormenting dreams. Dreams in which had teased her endlessly, and always held her an arms length from his embrace. She wanted nothing more but to stay the way she was forever. Finally, someone could teach her to control her emotions, suppress her unchained power. But most of all merely someone to love her.
A/N: Here's chapter two! Are you still with me? Hate it? Love it? Tell me what ya think. I think it'll take me some time for the next chapter, I'm trying to think about *stuff* but not that long so dun worry.^.^
A/N: Thank you all bunches for reviewing!( Did I just write bunches? Oh whatever..anyway) To be quite honest I wasn't expecting them so quickly, but I'm not complaining. ^.^ Your reviews keep me going!
Nasai gazed up from the wells depths, her eyes being greeted by the twilight in which she treasured completely. Silence had encased about her, and she was wondering if she had made it through or not. Taking hold of the vines in which hung from above, she climbed up to see nothing but lush forest. A smile crept upon her lips, as she searched the ebony that now encircled her. She didn't know were to go, and stood to herself for a few moments, until voices arose from the well behind her. Almost unseen because of the twilight shroud that bathed it.
" Nasai!" A despite plea enclosed upon her hearing, knowing at once that it was her mother. She didn't want to be found, not now, and seemingly not ever. Taking a breath and whispering her goodbyes, she sprinted from the place she had once stood not knowing exactly where she was running to. A few tree braches grazing her as she passed by creating tiny crimson rivers to form about her. Her matted silver bangs draping heavily upon her golden eyes, tears stinging the diminutive cuts that presided upon her cheeks, only creating more tears to rise and fall. She knew Inuyasha would pick up her scent, and it was that once fear that drove her, perhaps beyond youkai limits. Dodging the tree warriors as best as she was able, she leapt into a river and dropped her head down below the surface. She couldn't hold her breath forever, and she knew that, but it would at least shield her scent for as long as needed.
Swift footprints rose from where she herself had been, noticing they had ceased. She placed a clawed hand over her mouth to cease any bubbles that would rise from her body trying to breathe. Taking her silver locks within her arms to prevent it from floating to the surface in which she now yearned. Though allowing herself to relax as the tracker dashed away from where she was now concealed. Throwing her head from the crystal waters she devoured the air about her, wiping her eyes of the residing water. She didn't dare progress back to her travels until the footsteps from before could no longer be sensed by her sensitive hearing. Allowing a sigh to escape from her lips she rested herself upon the bank for a few moments. Taking in deep breaths of heaven as if someone had asphyxiated her she rolled upon her back and closed her eyes. Now what was she going to do? Many times slumber crossed her thoughts, yet she knew she would have to find somewhere safe. She wasn't sure just how long she had been running, and at that time couldn't have cared, but the fact remained that she didn't know just how far the well was from her.
Tender zephyrs rocked her as if she were a babe in her mother's arms once again, loved beyond the very emotion. Though her exhaustion reminded her soon enough where she was and this ritual alone caused her slumbering to not capture her. Gazing through the canopy her golden orbs rested upon the heavens. The stars sated in undeniable glory, for the moment caused her to forget her miserable situation, stars she never took the time to gaze at. Seemingly tiny treasures pressed upon an ebony, velvet night. She felt her lips curve into a crescent knowing her sister Ania maybe looking up and gazing at the same exact star she was and wondering what had happened to her.
" I'm sorry, but I can't live this lie.." She whispered, almost as if she knew the words would reach her sister, wherever she was. Allowing darkness to engulf her closed eyes, she slipped thus into a profound dreamless slumber.
***
Nasai sensed the breathing of about two children as they hovered over her. Either out of instinct or habit she growled in annoyance, warning the children to stay away from her, though of coarse her murderous growls were left unheeded and she was then forced to open her eyes. Two pairs of brown eyes met her golden stare as their faces seemed to be pasted to hers, turning her body away.
" What do you want?" Nasai asked, a bit of her youkai self taking over her words.
" We found you here." Of course they smiled at her, a gesture Nasai didn't think to return. She huffed once and gazed back to the humans before her.
" Leave me alone." She ordered nefariously, standing from the place she had slumbered upon. " Didn't you hear me?" She asked, her iron barriers beginning to crumble due to the children's smiles.
" I'm Sazuyen! And this is my brother Kohaku!" Nasai felt a smile kiss her lips, even when she had tried to suppress it. " Come met mother and father!" The little girl called, grasping Nasai's hand and leading her away.
' They're so quick to trust me. I wonder what would happen if.'
" What's your name?" The human boy asked, gazing up to Nasai as if he truly wanted to know.
" Nasai." She answered, gazing up to see the village that was just up ahead. The darkness from last night denying her eyes from seeing it. Nasai ceased before they were seen and knelt down to the children. " Listen to me. I don't think it's right for me to come here. I'm a youkai and I don't think your mother and father would want to see you with me." The two children just gazed upon her confused, awaiting for her to explain further.
" You go. I'll stay here." Nasai released them, but they grasped her hands once again.
" No! Come meet mother and father Nasai. It doesn't matter what you are!" The girl said tenderly, not knowing just how her words touched Nasai's heart. Nodding her head she began walking into the village, the people within it ceasing in their daily routines just to watch Nasai.
" Sango! Miroku!" One woman yelled, running to a near by home. There, a man and a woman emerged, fear striking their eyes. Nasai tightened her hold upon the two children. She knew they would react this way.
" Please, I mean you no harm. These children found me and.." Nasai ceased abruptly, watching as the woman and man approached her. Their eyes wide, in either fear, or just plain confusion Nasai couldn't decipher. The woman named Sango stopped before her and stared.
' Could she be.no.but.' Sango's thoughts danced unchained within her mind, her eyes creating a deep abyss within Nasai's frightened eyes.
" Tell me girl, who are your parents?" Nasai felt her face scrunch up in confusion, and being raised by Kagome the question was rude for a first meeting.
" I don't see why I should tell you human." Nasai emphasised the word human in her speech, hoping the woman would get nervous and leave her alone, but this wasn't the case.
" Do you know an Inuyasha?" The youkai princess almost murdered the woman for pinning that basterd on her as her father, but she calmly answered.
" Yes, I do." Nasai answered softly, trying her hardest not to let her youkai power overcome her emotions. " But before you ask I am not his daughter. I am merely his spare." The answer bemused Sango, not understanding quite what the youkai before her was saying. " I am Nasai, daughter of Kagome and." Her words faded into a shadow, something that had always happened when she was asked such a question. She didn't know who her father was, but she knew he was here in this time. " Well that I don't know, but.." The youkai exterminator nodded her head.
' So it is true.' Sango found herself whispering within her mind. She knew of the enchantment Kagome and Sesshoumaru were under, but could this young woman be the result of the damned curse? In truth in appearance the youkai seemed nothing like Kagome, and nothing about it hinted otherwise. She was, in fact, strictly Sesshoumaru's daughter. Yet if she was raised by Kagome and Inuyasha then Sango knew she couldn't have inherited the cold heart Sesshoumaru had. Confusion was washed over by immense sympathy for the girl. Plainly the youkai had come to this time to find Sesshoumaru, yet Sango knew he wouldn't accept her.
The moments of silence proved to be most uncomfortable for Nasai, and the impassioned stares the villagers were giving her didn't seem to aid it. Though she kept her hardened outer shell, for she didn't want the mere humans to think her weak.
" Stop staring at me human." Nasai commanded, a small smirk capturing her lips to signify that she was laughing at the mere fact that the woman was human. She didn't know just how much of her act as actually believable, yet it was her only cover. She had to get away before Inuyasha caught her scent. He probably was heading her away now. " Are you finished inspecting woman? I need to be somewhere." Nasai released the two children turning her head away, yet being caught by the children again, who were beginning to irritate her. " Leave me alone! Don't you understand!?" Nasai knew she sounded harsh, but at that moment she knew it was what she had to do, walking from the village.
" Nasai wait!" Sango yelled, causing the youkai to cease in her travels.
" I have no other business here." Nasai answered swiftly, not bothering to turn and face the crowd her mere appearance had drawn.
***
Twilight once again engulfed the heavens, and Nasai knew she would have to find somewhere to sleep. She congratulated herself for not being found that day, but merely thinking of the next day caused shivers to rise from her spine. And hunger only added to her trials. Seeing a cave up ahead so ventured to it, caseing suddenly at its gapeing mouth. As if threating to devour her if she stepped within. The cave being completely devoid of any light, she crept inside and ventured into it. She wasn't far, for the could still see the fading light from the decaying sun, but she stepped on something furry. Leaping to the side she searched the darkness, yet her eyes had not become accustomed to the dead light as quickly as they had before.
" Ouch!" It was a young man's voice, and Nasai was caught of guard by hearing it.
" I'm sorry!" Nasai yelled as her foremost defense, hoping that whatever was inside with her was friendly, or at the very least bearable. Minutes passed, Nasai awaiting her eyes to adjust and as they did two emerald eyes stared back at her. Their eyes locked, uncertaintly and disclosure showing obviously through them.
" Hello.." The young man finally spoke, upon his hands and knees searching for wood to rekindle his earlier flame. Watching in silence as the blaze was reawakened, Nasai sat down, not meeting eyes with the handsome stranger. Golden-orange hair crowned his head, being pulled atop his head. By the look of him, Nasai knew he was some form of demon yet didn't ask.
" I'm sorry for.."
" Don't worry about it. I don't get company. By the way my name is Shippou." His gaze slitered to her, capturing her eyes swiftly.
" I'm Nasai." His eyes swam over her with bewilderment, her appearance stunned him. Silver locks, golden eyes she. " You don't mind if I stay here tonight..do you?"
" Not at all." He smiled, causing her to smle in his wake. " Wait.hear that?" He asked, gazing toward the entrance of the cave.
" Yes.." Nasai whispered, the first to her feet. " Just landed." She said in a hushed tone, getting on all fours and scoping out the entrace, hearing Shippou shuffle behind her. Poking her head out of the opening she felt her heart almost die. There, bathed in twilight's beauty, and the moon's embrace stood Sesshoumaru. He had sensed her come to his time and had been looking for her, following her scent to the spot he was standing in now. Nasai knew from the moment she laid eyes on him that..yes.he had to be. Before she could rush after him, Shippou grasped her arm.
" I wouldn't do that Nasai." Nasai pulled herself away from him, his pleas falling upon deaf ears. Casting her whoile body from the entrance of the cave, Sesshoumaru's eyes turned to her. For a moment he thought himself unable to breathe. Was this her? The daughter he had never known? Nasai began to trace evey line within his angelic features, the sapphire moon atop his head all the proof she needed, for surly that is were the golden moon upon her back came from. Thought most of her smealt purly of demon, there was still that one almost undetcable scent of human. The thought of her mother sickened him, yet why didn't he care? Wasn't his daughter a digrace upon youkai kind? No, of course not, Sesshoumaru would never allow anyone to blame her for something that wasn't her choice. Or was it merely the fact that she was his daughter, and that he.loved her?
" Father?" The sole word poured from her lips as if she had waited eternity to say it, dashing toward her father and embracing him. " I am so alone. At home I am nothing but an unwanted memory. And here I am only feared and discarded. I needed someone who could teach me about life, instead of shunning me from it. I needed.you." Tears spilt from her eyes yet it didn't matter as she felt his arms wrap around her, almost protectively. Burying her face deep within his chest she sobbed openly, tightening her hold as if she feared he was only a phantom of her tormenting dreams. Dreams in which had teased her endlessly, and always held her an arms length from his embrace. She wanted nothing more but to stay the way she was forever. Finally, someone could teach her to control her emotions, suppress her unchained power. But most of all merely someone to love her.
A/N: Here's chapter two! Are you still with me? Hate it? Love it? Tell me what ya think. I think it'll take me some time for the next chapter, I'm trying to think about *stuff* but not that long so dun worry.^.^