Allo all, I hope the first chappie of A Single Red Rose was worth reading. This is my first ever Inuyasha fic! *Cheers for herself* Ahem, anywho, I won't clutter the page with silly little author notes and delay the story any longer. Also, I'm sure all of you know what youkai means but if not it just means demon. On to the story!
A Single Red Rose
It's important to know whom you're attacking before you attack
A days worth of running had gotten her pretty far from the western lands. She would not, could not, go back. No matter what. This had been her decision and besides, how bad could the outside world be? Pretty bad the way Sesshoumaru made it out to be. But that's one reason she wanted to leave the castle. To have the adventure she was denied while inside the castles walls. This whole thing, the whole idea of escaping, she could place on Sesshoumaru's shoulders if she really wanted to. After all he was the one that made everything outside of the wall see like some sort of haven instead of a prison.
So now here she was, coming upon a village, with her pack hooked over one shoulder and her pant leggings covered in a dust from the speed she had been running at. That was only making this whole thing more fun, had she gotten her cloths dirty back home she would have been scolded but a very neat-freakish youkai lord. Shaking her head a bit her ears twitched slightly at the sound of men and women screaming. It was coming from the village she was nearing. Sniffing at the scents the wind brought her she growled softly. A youkai and, by the sounds of it, a bad one. She secured her bag and ran the rest of the way to the village, skidding to a halt at the rather large centipede youkai skimming along inches above the ground. Setting her bag in the crook of a tree she stretched, cracking her next slightly.
"Hey, ugly!" At her call the centipede paused mid destroying a hut. "Yeah, I'm talking to you!" she ignored the slight gasps from the bystanders and the calls of there being another youkai. Her tail was twitching in anticipation and a smirk curled the corners of her lips upwards. Her first real fight. It should be easy considering her toughest opponent was Sesshoumaru and this youkai was defiantly weaker than her brother.
She was prepared for the attack by the time the youkai had charged at her and she lunged head on towards it, her claws flexing. She wouldn't need do transform for this weak of a creature. She moved slightly to the side with her right arm out so that when the youkai skimmed past her, her claws cut deeply into its flesh. It shirked and hissed at her. So, it wasn't going to go down with out her actually trying. Good for it. Grinning she make a beckoning motion with her index finger while mouthing the words 'come on'. The centipede screeched and lunged for her but this time she had a different tactic. She dropped down when the youkai passed over her, thrusting her hand up so that her claws penetrated the soft flesh of the things underbelly, letting the movement of the youkai to split the thing open. Another stupid demon, doesn't know to stop moving forward when something that can rip it open it in it.
Shaking her hand off to get the green slime like substance, the youkai's blood, off her hand she wrinkled her nose. Something needed to be done about the body. Grasping the end of the centipede she dragged it outside of the village and tossed it into the forest around it. Let the other youkai feast off of that. Using some grass she whipped her hand off better and went back to the village to collect her bag. When she went to swing the pack on she yelped as a small shock of pain when through her shoulder, Shifting her bag down to her hand she covered the place that it hurt and blinked, amazed to see blood on her hand. When did that happen?
"Lady, you're hurt. Please let me take you to our healer. It is the least I can do for you since you save out village." She blinked and looked down to the small girl that had spoken. She just smiled and nodded, taking the girls hand when she held it out.
The village healer turned out to be an old woman whose hut reeked of different herbs all mixed together. Some of the herbs she could pic out smelt pretty good but there were others that were just over powering. So the putrid and pretty smell clashing was enough to make anyone, with a sensitive nose, gag. It took Kagome a moment to remember that she could tone down her sense of smell, as well as anything else, so she did and breathed a quick thank you to Kami for enabling her with that power.
"Ahhhh, ye must be the one who just rid our village of that youkai. Come, sit, and I will tend to ye wounds." Kagome would have protested with the fact that she would just heal over the period of an hour but the sticky feeling of blood dripping down her back, making her shirt stick to her back, was rather annoying. So she moved to where the old woman had motioned her to sit and proceeded to take off her shirt.
As soon as her shirt was off the small girl took it, to clean she guessed, a cold past like substance was plastered over the wound and it stung. "Gah!" Her shoulders snapped back and her ears pinned to her skull as she hissed. "You could have warned me that was going to sting!"
The old woman just chuckled, continuing to work the past over the wound. "Oh, child, this will sting a wee bit."
Kagome huffed, arms crossing over her chest, and slumped forward a bit. "Thanks for the warning." it was said sarcastically of course and with a hint of childishness to it. "By the way, I'm Kagome."
"It tis nice to meet you Kagome. I'm am Kaede and the village healer as you know." Kaede wrapped the wound with the stinging paste stuff still on it, much to Kagome's displeasure. "There. Now don't ye go and reopen that wound afore it can heal." Kaede handed a shirt to Kagome, much like her own, while hers was being washed. She pulled it on while she stood and her tail hooked over her shoulder again. If there was one thing she wished she could get rid of it was the fluffy tail she shared with her brother. It made a good pillow but other than that it was pretty much useless and just damn annoying.
The flap of the hut was suddenly pulled back and a boy that looked like her brother, minus the symbols on his body and with dog ears like her own, stormed into the place, sniffing. "I can smell him…there's woman on him but I can smell him." She lifted a brow at the boys growling then as his eyes narrowed on her. "Sesshoumaru."
This made Kagome blink. Since when did she look like her brother? She had no time to dwell on that subject before the boy lunged at her, hand extended. She eeped and leapt out of the way, dodging out of the hut, Kaedes' voice calling out something, the boys name perhaps. She didn't have time to catch it though before she had to dodge another strike. "Hey! What are you attacking me for!?" Her voice made the guy stumble and his eyes widened.
"Y-you're not Sesshoumaru!"
Quick one wasn't he? "No? Ya think? I'm a bit to female to be my brother." She felt a muscle in her eye start to twitch as the boy clad in red started to circle her, eyeing her up and down. "Oi! Keep you eyes, and hands," she slapped his hand away from her ears and tail, "to yourself bucko!"
"Inuyasha, it would help the village greatly if you used your brain, though Kami knows how small it is, to find out who your attacking -before- you attack!"