I know I don't own InuYasha and I probably never will…*sigh*
Hope this is better then the ones I wrote at two am… and sorry for the lack of caps and grammar, im also trying to do a research paper and this is a good brake! ^.^;;
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Chapter 4:
~~to the west~~
`Stupid, fucking wolf, making me hurt like that, now I know why I have no friends in the first place.' Dana stopped her jumping through the trees. `Where the heck am I?' She looked around noticing never-ending forest, pulling out a compass noticed she had gone to the west of the area in which the group was. She had traveled for most of the day and it was about mid-afternoon. `No matter how much I try I will never fit in, of all people InuYasha should have known that!' She heard someone coming and started to go in the same direction in which she had come. `I can make it back to the well within two days if I time it right, no need to stay where I am not wanted…I'm am such a baka! I should have never jumped into the well!'
But before she knew it she was being held by her neck in the air, "And you I presume are new to my territory? Who are you and what do you seek here?" she looked down and noticed amber colored eyes full of hatred and remorse staring back at her and emotionless face to match them.
Dana was able to choke out a few words to the inu youkai before she lost her breath. "None of your chiko(damn) business you oni(devil)!" The youkai's grip got tighter around Dana's neck.
"Such foul words for a hanyou that is about to shin-e (die), a mangy neko no less. Well, I will waste no time in snapping your neck, so shin-e now!" He gripped harder on her neck, Dana running out of air couldn't suppress her natural instincts any longer, `Not now, if I transform I don't know what I will do!' But without any warning, the youkai was flung against a nearby tree and given a stir. A great dark energy surged around Dana's aura.
Dana, with her youkai blood now suppressing the ningen blood in her leaped at the inu youkai. "I am not the one that will shin-e tonight, swine!" she told her victim. She swung her claws at him, "Iron reverse soul stealer!", and with that attack broke the youkai's armor, leaving him stunned.
`Is this what has been rumored to happen to my brother, it is unlike anything I have witnessed, surely she will be no match for me. I have seen my brother in his transformed state but never did he have this intensity...' The youkai drew his energy into a whip defending against Dana's second attack and advancing at her. Again she pounced at the youkai gashing his chest open and taking him to the ground, only to attack wiht a punch to his jaw, but the inu wouldn't give up that easily. He reached his one hand free and attacked Dana's shoulder, pumping poison into her blood, Dana pounced away to examine her wounds only to notice that her opponent had fled, everything went dark and Dana had passed out.
~~a couple miles away~~
`Where could she be? She doesn't know she is in my brother's territory!! I have to find her before Sesshomaru does!' InuYasha skimmed the trees having a hard time picking up the girl's scent. `She must be able to conceal it well, I'm not far behind her and she is already hard to pick up, she must have sensed me behind her.'
It didn't take long for InuYasha to pick up the scent of blood, and he knew who it belonged to, `I better hurry'. Not more then about a hour's time had passed and he came across a small clearing and a wounded girl laying to the side.
"Dana!!" InuYasha rushed over and sat her up into his lap. "Wake up Dana! C'mon wake up!" he lightly patted her face and then tried to slowly shake her. He looked at her shoulder, and the scar starting to heal as well as the smell of an all too familiar poison, `Chikuso Sesshomaru!'
He picked Dana up in his arms and carried her a good while before finding a small water source to wash her wounds with. `Oh Kami-sama help me over come what I am about to do!' He took off his outer yutaka and sat it aside and took off her shirt and under garment then draped his yutaka over her exposed chest. A small blush cam to his face while doing this task, even at the small glimpse he got thoughts spilled into his head, `She is built well and is very beautiful…AH! I can't believe I'm doing it again...What am I going to do?'
He proceeded to was the poison from her shoulder and then the cuts on her arms. After cleansing the wounds he washed her garments and let them to dry. It started to get late and so InuYasha decided to make camp for the night.
He had made a fire and rounded up food shortly after. Soon after eating his fill, Dana started to stir; she slowly woke up and gazed around her. She found 2 huge amber eyes staring at her with worry. "I...In...InuYasha? How did? Why are you here?" She reached up to his face and held his cheek giving him a reassuring smile that everything was going to be okay.
InuYasha turned to her hand and nuzzled into it, she blushed pulling her hand back quickly. Dana quickly sat up, unknowingly letting the yutaka fall to her lap exposing her chest. InuYasha looked at her blushed and turned away. When Dana noticed what the problem was she covered herself up. "What did you do?!?"
"Keh… Don't worry I didn't claim you or anything, your not worth it, I just was cleaning you up from the beating you got from my brother." He looked around to her and then to where her clothes were, I covered you with my yutaka until they dried, they were covered in blood.
Dana blushed again, realizing her foolishness. Wrapping the yutaka around her, she proceeded to sit closer to the fire. "You said that youkai was your brother?"
"Yea, well…we are half brothers, same father, and different mothers. He is the lord of the western lands, which is probably why he attacked you." He gazed at her in the fire light, her eyes reflecting sadness. "Daijoubu?"
Dana blushed again, "Nothing, I just know what it's like… with family problems. I was adopted by ningei (humans) when I was six. After mn grandmother died and I had to leave everything I knew, my mother left me when I was young and my father died after I was born, my mother's mother took me in, taught me to live…" tears started to form in her eyes. "I never knew family, I had to conceal who I really was, from everyone to fit in…one day my adopted parents found out and I was again left alone." She started to cry, knowing what it was like; InuYasha felt his heart sink low, until he suppressed his pride enough to give her his shoulder. "There was never a place for me, I had to make one for myself, and it was the only way I knew how to live…"
Hearing these words, made InuYasha have someone finally know what it was like for him all those years when he was growing up. "I understand…" he raised he face to look at his, she blushed at his stare, "I went through my whole life alone, and without anyone, I understand what it's like to go around day by day not knowing your worth." He looked away for a moment, before looking back.
Dana was caught by surprise as InuYasha's lips touched hers, his tongue asking for entrance into her mouth, but she denied it. She pulled back out of the kiss. "We can't do this..." she felt her heart brake but knew it best to leave it this way. "We can't…"
"I know…" InuYasha responded. "But it just felt right,"
"I know it did, but Kagome loves you, she needs you more then I do, besides we need our sleep we can make it back to the group by sun down tomorrow..." forcing a grin, hiding what she felt, "If you can keep up InuYasha-sama!" giving him a wink.
"Any day neko!" and with that InuYasha brushed the tears away from Dana's eyes. "Now let's get some sleep." He said touching his forehead with hers and then laying her down. 'Did she say Kagome loved me? She couldn't mean it, her loving a freak ike me...' his thoughts rambled as he sat against a tree listening tot he forest
Dana fell asleep under the watchful eye of InuYasha, during the first quarter of the new cycle, both with minor heartbreak but a lot of understanding.
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Hope this is better then the ones I wrote at two am… and sorry for the lack of caps and grammar, im also trying to do a research paper and this is a good brake! ^.^;;
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Chapter 4:
~~to the west~~
`Stupid, fucking wolf, making me hurt like that, now I know why I have no friends in the first place.' Dana stopped her jumping through the trees. `Where the heck am I?' She looked around noticing never-ending forest, pulling out a compass noticed she had gone to the west of the area in which the group was. She had traveled for most of the day and it was about mid-afternoon. `No matter how much I try I will never fit in, of all people InuYasha should have known that!' She heard someone coming and started to go in the same direction in which she had come. `I can make it back to the well within two days if I time it right, no need to stay where I am not wanted…I'm am such a baka! I should have never jumped into the well!'
But before she knew it she was being held by her neck in the air, "And you I presume are new to my territory? Who are you and what do you seek here?" she looked down and noticed amber colored eyes full of hatred and remorse staring back at her and emotionless face to match them.
Dana was able to choke out a few words to the inu youkai before she lost her breath. "None of your chiko(damn) business you oni(devil)!" The youkai's grip got tighter around Dana's neck.
"Such foul words for a hanyou that is about to shin-e (die), a mangy neko no less. Well, I will waste no time in snapping your neck, so shin-e now!" He gripped harder on her neck, Dana running out of air couldn't suppress her natural instincts any longer, `Not now, if I transform I don't know what I will do!' But without any warning, the youkai was flung against a nearby tree and given a stir. A great dark energy surged around Dana's aura.
Dana, with her youkai blood now suppressing the ningen blood in her leaped at the inu youkai. "I am not the one that will shin-e tonight, swine!" she told her victim. She swung her claws at him, "Iron reverse soul stealer!", and with that attack broke the youkai's armor, leaving him stunned.
`Is this what has been rumored to happen to my brother, it is unlike anything I have witnessed, surely she will be no match for me. I have seen my brother in his transformed state but never did he have this intensity...' The youkai drew his energy into a whip defending against Dana's second attack and advancing at her. Again she pounced at the youkai gashing his chest open and taking him to the ground, only to attack wiht a punch to his jaw, but the inu wouldn't give up that easily. He reached his one hand free and attacked Dana's shoulder, pumping poison into her blood, Dana pounced away to examine her wounds only to notice that her opponent had fled, everything went dark and Dana had passed out.
~~a couple miles away~~
`Where could she be? She doesn't know she is in my brother's territory!! I have to find her before Sesshomaru does!' InuYasha skimmed the trees having a hard time picking up the girl's scent. `She must be able to conceal it well, I'm not far behind her and she is already hard to pick up, she must have sensed me behind her.'
It didn't take long for InuYasha to pick up the scent of blood, and he knew who it belonged to, `I better hurry'. Not more then about a hour's time had passed and he came across a small clearing and a wounded girl laying to the side.
"Dana!!" InuYasha rushed over and sat her up into his lap. "Wake up Dana! C'mon wake up!" he lightly patted her face and then tried to slowly shake her. He looked at her shoulder, and the scar starting to heal as well as the smell of an all too familiar poison, `Chikuso Sesshomaru!'
He picked Dana up in his arms and carried her a good while before finding a small water source to wash her wounds with. `Oh Kami-sama help me over come what I am about to do!' He took off his outer yutaka and sat it aside and took off her shirt and under garment then draped his yutaka over her exposed chest. A small blush cam to his face while doing this task, even at the small glimpse he got thoughts spilled into his head, `She is built well and is very beautiful…AH! I can't believe I'm doing it again...What am I going to do?'
He proceeded to was the poison from her shoulder and then the cuts on her arms. After cleansing the wounds he washed her garments and let them to dry. It started to get late and so InuYasha decided to make camp for the night.
He had made a fire and rounded up food shortly after. Soon after eating his fill, Dana started to stir; she slowly woke up and gazed around her. She found 2 huge amber eyes staring at her with worry. "I...In...InuYasha? How did? Why are you here?" She reached up to his face and held his cheek giving him a reassuring smile that everything was going to be okay.
InuYasha turned to her hand and nuzzled into it, she blushed pulling her hand back quickly. Dana quickly sat up, unknowingly letting the yutaka fall to her lap exposing her chest. InuYasha looked at her blushed and turned away. When Dana noticed what the problem was she covered herself up. "What did you do?!?"
"Keh… Don't worry I didn't claim you or anything, your not worth it, I just was cleaning you up from the beating you got from my brother." He looked around to her and then to where her clothes were, I covered you with my yutaka until they dried, they were covered in blood.
Dana blushed again, realizing her foolishness. Wrapping the yutaka around her, she proceeded to sit closer to the fire. "You said that youkai was your brother?"
"Yea, well…we are half brothers, same father, and different mothers. He is the lord of the western lands, which is probably why he attacked you." He gazed at her in the fire light, her eyes reflecting sadness. "Daijoubu?"
Dana blushed again, "Nothing, I just know what it's like… with family problems. I was adopted by ningei (humans) when I was six. After mn grandmother died and I had to leave everything I knew, my mother left me when I was young and my father died after I was born, my mother's mother took me in, taught me to live…" tears started to form in her eyes. "I never knew family, I had to conceal who I really was, from everyone to fit in…one day my adopted parents found out and I was again left alone." She started to cry, knowing what it was like; InuYasha felt his heart sink low, until he suppressed his pride enough to give her his shoulder. "There was never a place for me, I had to make one for myself, and it was the only way I knew how to live…"
Hearing these words, made InuYasha have someone finally know what it was like for him all those years when he was growing up. "I understand…" he raised he face to look at his, she blushed at his stare, "I went through my whole life alone, and without anyone, I understand what it's like to go around day by day not knowing your worth." He looked away for a moment, before looking back.
Dana was caught by surprise as InuYasha's lips touched hers, his tongue asking for entrance into her mouth, but she denied it. She pulled back out of the kiss. "We can't do this..." she felt her heart brake but knew it best to leave it this way. "We can't…"
"I know…" InuYasha responded. "But it just felt right,"
"I know it did, but Kagome loves you, she needs you more then I do, besides we need our sleep we can make it back to the group by sun down tomorrow..." forcing a grin, hiding what she felt, "If you can keep up InuYasha-sama!" giving him a wink.
"Any day neko!" and with that InuYasha brushed the tears away from Dana's eyes. "Now let's get some sleep." He said touching his forehead with hers and then laying her down. 'Did she say Kagome loved me? She couldn't mean it, her loving a freak ike me...' his thoughts rambled as he sat against a tree listening tot he forest
Dana fell asleep under the watchful eye of InuYasha, during the first quarter of the new cycle, both with minor heartbreak but a lot of understanding.
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