TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND ENOUGH TO READ MY FANFIC:
*Thank you for taking time out to read this story of mine (which is my first by the way, so please be kind).
*I have only seen five episodes of Inu Yasha (and the episodes I saw were out of order) and I barely know anything about the show except for the information that I gather from websites and stories that I've read.
*Inu Yasha does not belong to me nor does the characters that are mention in the story.
*Ajika (a name that I heard on Tenchi something) is my own little character.
*Ajika sounds like Ah-ji-ka.
Words in italics are thoughts by the character(s).
Words that are in bold are flashbacks by the character(s).
Words that are in parenthesis ( ) are my thoughts.
Have fun reading my fanfic!
CAN IT EVER BE? – Chapter Two ~ Found Them!
She was close, very close. Her scent was surrounded by what seem to by flowers and HIM. What would she do when she sees me? Would she run, would she hide, would she call him? My footsteps were quieter and slower until I completely stopped a few feet away from her.
What was I to say? She never even knew me, yet I come to take her back. I would probably frighten her. She is just a child who knew only pain: a child who grew up alone.
She looked lonely by herself. Although there was a smile on her face, her eyes showed me that inside her heart was a different story.
She is facing me, but cannot see me due to the darkness that surrounds the forest. I gaze around me and sniff the area to see if He was around. I found his scent a few miles away. He was probably hunting down other youkais' that posed a threat to the girl.
I scan my surroundings once again to find the toad. By his scent trail, it seems that he followed his master from a distances. Was he not supposed to be here to protect her?
I stood at this spot for minutes, yet the toad does not come back to attack?
As I was thinking of this, I hear a growl from where the girl sat. I smile, knowing that it was her stomach, not a youkai who was growling.
I walked slowly towards her. She does not look up from her spot. As I neared, I coughed to get the child's attention. She looks up at me. She is frightened, but it was probably due to the fact that she could not see me. I walked away, gathering sticks and wood to make a fire. As I lit it with my powers, the girl's fear of me disappeared. I looked up at her and was surprised to see that she was looking at me with knowing eyes.
She gets up from her spot on the ground and kneels beside me. "Does Rin know you, pretty lady?"
I shook my head. "We have never met, little one."
When I spook, she gave me a startled look. I did not know how to react to this. "Your voice. It sounds like the one Rin use to hear in Rin's dreams. The voice that always came to sooth Rin when Rin had nightmares."
How could I not remember those dreams? Those dreams that were of her family's death, her nightly beatings from the villagers and her fear of loneliness. I actually cried for her. I cried, knowing how she felt. We both had similar fears, yet the one thing that we feared the most was not physical pain, but emotional ones.
She was a copy of me. Her personality, her curiosity and her pain were all the same as mine. We both fear loneliness. We both fear being abandoned. We both fear not having loved. Maybe that is why I loved her so much. I wanted for her to have what I did not when I was alive in my first life. I wanted for her to love, and not end up like me…dead and abandon.
Her dreams were simple to ease. I created images of flowers and warmth for her to grab. I temporarily erase the horrid dreams that plagued her. I sent my warmth to her through her dreams, making myself an invisible being, holding her and singing to her so that she would calm down.
I looked up at her with a smile on my face. "Do you think that that voice belongs to me, child?"
She smiles and hugs me from my side. I realized what she was doing. She wanted to see if the warmth of my presences is the same as the dream. I raised my arms and hugged her tight. I can sense that she was smiling with her gap tooth mouth.
"And who might you be," said a masculine voice.
I turned and stared at the man who was taking care of Rin. I was shocked by his presences. From what I heard of him, I would think that his face would show the blackness of his soul, but from what I saw now, his face showed no signs of evil.
He had long, silver hair that reached the back of his thighs. He was dress in white with red designs with his boa draped over his shoulder. His face was emotionless, however, he showed no distaste about my presence.
He looked annoyed for a while, and that is when I realized that I did not answer his question. As I was about to open my mouth to reply, Rin ran quickly to him and grabbed his legs.
"Welcome back, Sesshoumaru-sama!"
He patted her head as a reply. He looked at Rin as if asking her who I was, since he knew that I was not going to attack them.
She looked at him to reply, but then she looked confused.
I just remembered that I did not tell her what my name was.
"My name is Ajika. I was just talking to the child, noting more."
Rin smiled at my name. "Ajika. Rin likes that name. Can Rin call you Okasan (mother)?"
I notice that Sesshoumaru raise his eyebrow at Rin's question.
I had to grin for her innocent question. I would have said the same thing if I was in her shoes.
As I was going to reply, Sesshoumaru cut me off.
"Do you know this woman, Rin?"
"Hai! She is Rin's angel!"
I didn't think it would be possible, but Sesshoumaru's eyebrow went even higher than before.
"Angel is she? Why do you say that, Rin?"
"Cause she was there for Rin in all of her bad dreams! She protected Rin when Rin couldn't stop the dreams from hurting Rin!"
He stares at me and walked to where I stood. He sniffs and sniffs until he could label my scent into his mind. He looked at me for what seemed like years and stood with his arms cross.
"You are the one that kept on trying to track this Sesshoumaru."
"…Hai," I said quietly.
"I was beginning to wonder when you would catch up to me. That is quite impressive, since no one is able to catch my scent until I have left for weeks from his or her territory. You, however, caught my scent minutes from when I left the area. "
He stared at me for a while. I was surprised to she that he was not glaring at me. He moved away from me and stood near the fire that I made. "Did you build the fire?"
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"I ask because I wish to know, wench. You nor anyone else are to question me," he said in a growling voice.
"Forgive me. I just wanted to know because you seem shock that I made the fire."
He turned his head and looked at me once again. "You are not human, yet you are not a hanyou or a youkai. What are you?"
I'm surprised that he knew that I was not any of those beings. His skills are phenomenal if he can detect that I am different from those he is use to. "You are correct, Lord Sesshoumaru. I am the goddess of all goddesses…among other things (it's in the first chapter in case you forgot)."
"I see. You are attach to the girl, aren't you?"
I stared at him. How did he know of how I felt. All I did was hug her when he came.
"Yes, I am."
He glanced at the moon and then he stared at me. He leaned down and grabbed a clump of dirt and threw it at the fire to put it out.
The forest was now completely dark, however, Ajika and Sesshoumaru could see their surroundings clearly due to their special abilities.
"Come. You are to pick up the girl and walk with me."
I was stunned. He asked me to follow him and he knows nothing about me. As I was about to reply, he cut me off once again.
"Do not ask questions about insignificant things. Do as I say and come with me, no questions ask."
He walked to some trees and left us both behind. It was not difficult for me to find him. His scent was quite different from other youkais' and hanyous. He smelled of…he smelled of…masculinity. It was...the scent that can only be describe as "Sesshoumaru."
As we neared his home, he turned to me and stared. I felt uneasy for a couple of minutes, but it left when he turned back. We walked on his lawn and headed straight for his castle. It was then that I notice that the toad was nowhere to be found.
"Lord Sesshoumaru?"
"…Hai?"
"Where is that toad that follows you?"
"I…put him to "sleep" in the forest after he didn't obey my command."
I knew by "sleep," that he meant kill since the toad did not stay to protect the little girl. I sighed and glanced at my surroundings. His castle is truly breathtaking. There were flowers everywhere and his home was absolutely clean.
"Okasan? Are you staying with Rin and Sesshoumaru-sama?"
I turn to stare at Sesshoumaru, but he was not paying any attention to his adopted daughter or me. What was I to say to her? I did not know why I was in the castle. I was supposed to hide in the darkness of night and try to communicate with her, not stay at their home!
"For now I will stay with you, Rin." I stare at his back and see him leave the entrance floor. "We will just have to see for how long."
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