>_> Did I say I'd update this in a long time? Welp…I have very little homework this weekend, so I'm fitting this into my schedule >:]. It so far seems that few like this story, so I'm happy. Review responses are at the bottom ^-^

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Water and Blood


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"Inuyasha, I have to get home soon, you do know that, right?" Kagome asked as she looked at the hanyou with a glare. "I've been gone for three days! I need to get back to school to make up my tests!"

"The shards are more important, Kagome!" Inuyasha retorted, his arms crossed. "Besides, what are these 'tests' of your that makes getting the shards less important??"

Kagome sighed and put her hand on her forehead, Sango giving her a look of sympathy. The fact that she snickered wasn't much help to the miko reincarnation. She turned to Inuyasha, her eyes dull with anger. "Okay, Inuyasha." She gave in. "I'll stay for just a couple more days. Just two!" She turned around.

"You better, wench!" Inuyasha snorted angrily.

Kagome turned back to him and opened her mouth testily. "Osu—"

"Gah!" Inuyasha tried taking a step away from her.

"Hmph…" Kagome turned her back to him. "Come on guys, we have more shards to find."

"Wench…" Inuyasha muttered under his breath.

"You should have said it, Kagome!" Shippou yelled as he jumped on Kagome's shoulders. "Inuyasha just called you a wench again!"

Kagome turned back to Inuyasha again. "Don't test me, Inuyasha!" she yelled angrily, her voice quite intimidating. She turned forward again, then stomped off with Sango following closely behind.

"…Inuyasha…." Miroku muttered as he looked at Kagome storming off.

"What?!" Inuyasha asked angrily.

"I suggest you not get on Kagome-sama's bad side anymore today…"

"Damare, bozou…" Inuyasha muttered angrily, his ear twitching from the violent storm that boomed from Kagome's voice.

~*~

Jaken was angrily grumbling to himself about Rin's stupid suggestion, trying his best to stay on the youkai flying through the air. This was definitely not his day.

Rin was presently singing some stupid song that had all to do with her Lord. She was tightly hanging on to the reign of Ah'Un, and smiling to herself with the song flowing from her lips. Despite the tune she was singing, she was nervous about him being in another time, away from her. What could happen to him? No one would give him flowers! No one would cuddle with him if he got cold! He couldn't hit Jaken! At the last thought, Rin gave a full-fledged smile.

"Jaken-sama…" Rin started after a while.

"What is it, child?" Jaken mumbled, still thinking about how badly Sesshou-maru would abuse him, just for the fun of it, when—if—no, when—he got back.

"Do you think Sesshou-maru-sama is okay?" she asked.

"Of course he is, stupid child!" he said, bopping her on her head, and thus making her nearly lose her grip on the reign, and thus make Ah'Un growl in anger. He gave a glare to the demon.

"Good…" she said as she gave another smile as she steadied herself. She took one hand off the reign to pat Ah'Un on it's mane(s). "Find Sesshou-maru-sama's little half-brother's miko wench!"

The youkai gave a grunt of obedience.

"Whatever…" Jaken muttered.

~*~

Sesshou-maru was still staring upward, his eyebrows furrowed. To put words correctly, he was confused. Just an ounce. He could have sworn that it was just day, and he could have sworn that Rin was just here with him. Come to think of it...he looked down at his hand again, not believing that the two shards were gone.

He cursed under his breath. Well, too bad for the human child any way. Though there was a lack of any one or thing present, his grace allowed him to discreetly stand up from his sprawled condition. He looked up again, then lifted himself to get out of the well.

Surely he was shocked the second his eyes looked at his settings. First of all, it was still day, as he could see through the opened shoji door. But as he so remembered, there was no housing above the well before. Not only that, but things looked…old, as if they were there for at least fifty years or so.

Suprisingly shocking to himself, he didn't know what was going on. He stepped out of the well and looked at everything once more. A sudden sent came to him, making his eyebrows furrow. The scent of that human girl that was always around Inuyasha. This place reeked of it. Not only that, but there were also many scents in the air that smelled awful and sickening. He covered his nose with his sleeve for a few seconds before putting it down again.

What was going on? That animal…something fat and fairly close to a feline, just ran past the shoji door without stopping at his presence. He cocked his eyebrow as he took a step forward. A few more steps forward and he was finally at the shoji door. He blinked emptilly as he looked at the surroundings. There was a very big…cage…of some sort.

And where did all the vegetation go?

He fought back a small sneeze. When was the last time he'd sneezed anyway? He cursed again. This was too bizarre. Her scent was still evident around here, more than it was in the shrine (which is what he supposed was the place he'd just stepped out of was).

He took a few steps toward the "cage", then turned his head quickly as he heard a squalling sound from far off. He furrowed his eyebrow again. He was curious.

Curious…

He walked toward a black, paved rode, stepping farther away from the shrine and the well. There were many of these giant "cages", actually. And—he cursed again—the scent of humans was far too strong around here. He couldn't smell a single demon.

It didn't take long for him to realize, though. It was as if…he was in a different time.

This was where that human female was from, wasn't it? This time, this place…this was the "future", or something like that.

He cocked his eyebrow again as he heard the squalling sound, then covered his nose from an intoxicating smell. This air…it wasn't fresh at all. It smelled like smoke and other substances he'd never smelled before. He took a step onto the black ground and looked forward for a few seconds. It didn't seem to end! Nor did the cages!

Was this even Japan? Was this even the Western Lands anymore? He willed to go back to the well, for he didn't know this time. He didn't know this time, nor did he like it. He cocked his eyebrow and turned around as he heard a shrill sound from behind him. What was this youkai approaching him with a human inside of it?

This was not amusing…at all.

"Oi! Get off the road, ya' freak!" yelled the human, sticking his head out the youkai and shaking his fist at the same time. What a different dialect of Japanese…

He cocked his eyebrow again. 'This human dares to use this tone with this Sesshou-maru?' he thought angrily.

"I said move! What are ya, suicidal or something?! Move out of the way, woman!" the human yelled after he got over his shock.

Sesshou-maru, instead, took a step towards the human and the demon. It had a very strange—reprehensible—scent lingering on it. It smelled like burned oil and a mixture of something else that he couldn't quite place. "Human…" Sesshou-maru opened his mouth to speak. The human's head reeled back, almost as if he was in shock. "Don't toil my time…"

The man furrowed his eyebrows. He then beeped his horn, content when the strange (and probably queer) person standing in the middle of the road outwardly twitched.

Sesshou-maru's ears ached after the sound dribbled through his ears and rang in his head for a few seconds. He twitched his ears, then held up his hand. He muttered something, his eyebrows furrowed in discontet, then sprayed the acid toward the human and the youkai.

"Wha?!" the human's eyes widened in shock. "What is this?!" he asked. He gasped as some of that black stuffed touched his skin and burned through! He let out a scream of horror.

Sesshou-maru took a few steps closer, then stood still until the youkai and human were fully enveloped in the acid. "Hm…foul human…" He turned in the other direction and started walking forward. He had…no clue…where he was going. But the scent of humans was becoming heavier.

~*~

Rin scouted the area carefully. Ah'Un had let out a grunt just a few minutes earlier, and she was supposing that he was starting to pick up on the scent of the people she was looking for. "Can you smell them, Ah'Un? Are they close?"

"It's no use talking to the youkai, stupid child," Jaken pointed out. "You can't understand what it's saying in the first place, the stubborn animal."

"Jaken-sama! Jaken-sama, look!" Rin beamed as she pointed in a certain direction. It, of course, compelled the toad youkai to turn in that direction.

"Na—nani?!" His eyes widened in shock as saw the stupid humans and that halfling that they were scouting the area for.

Rin blew a raspberry at him, making him snarl in disgust. "See, Jaken-sama! I told you Ah'Un would find them!"

"Whatever," he muttered. "Let's go."

"Hai," she muttered. Her stomache suddenly flared into her throat as she thought of talking to the "future" girl. She was worried about Sesshou-maru all of the sudden. What if they didn't like her? Who would protect her?

~*~

Inuyasha's nose twitched, as did his ears, as he stopped walking and looked around for a few seconds. He snarled as a familiar scent came to him.

Kagome stopped behind him, then asked, "What is it, Inuyasha?" She paused. "Youkai?"

"Sesshou-maru…" he muttered angrily. "What does he want now?!" he asked angrily.

"Sesshou-maru?!" Miroku asked. He put his hand around the prayer beads incase of anything.

"Why would he come here, now?" Sango asked. "He hasn't concerned us in anything since those neko youkai came by…"

"I can prepare for the worst," Inuyasha said, grabbing onto the handle of the sword and pulling it out. He looked toward the direction he saw that two headed monster coming, as ugly as it was. He cursed under his breath. They had no time for this.

He cocked his eyebrow. Sesshou-maru wasn't there.

It was just Jaken…and a…human?

What was this?! Sesshou-maru kidnapped a human? How low! He was probably holding her for a meal. "I'll kill that bastard!" he snarled.


Rin jumped off of Ah'Un before the youkai even landed on the ground. "Oi! Rin!" Jaken called angrily, jumping off and grabbing onto the back of her yukata.

"Let go!" Rin protested.

Jaken bopped her on her head with his staff. The next thing he knew, he was flung a few feet away.

"Hey, you," Inuyasha started as he stood in front of the toad youkai. He glared down at him. "What is this?" he asked.

Jaken fumbled for words as Inuyasha glared down at him. "Areh!" he screamed as Inuyasha grabbed him and held him up. "Put me down, you worthless hanyou!" he finally yelled.

"Why's there a human with you?" Inuyasha asked darkly. Jaken once again fumbled for words, angering Inuyasha. He shook the smaller youkai fiercely.


"Jaken-sama!" Rin yelled with wide eyes, being held back by Kagome and Sango.

Sama?


Inuyasha quickly turned around and looked at the girl with question. "Sama?" he asked under his breath. He turned back to Jaken. "Speak," he ordered.


Rin struggled against Kagome's grip, finally freeing herself, and ran toward Inuyasha. "You let go of Jaken-sama!" she yelled.

"Oi, shut up and go back to the others, brat!" Inuyasha yelled angrily, pointing his sword toward Kagome, making it look as if he was pointing the thing toward Rin.

She gasped and stopped running. "Put Jaken-sama down…" she pleaded.

"If you know what's good for you, get back there!" Inuyasha said angrily.

"Inuyasha! Osuwari!"

"Nani?! Gwah!!"

Rin cocked her head to the side as Sesshou-maru-sama's little half-brother fell to the ground rather ungracefully, dropping Jaken in the process. She ran over to Jaken. "Jaken-sama, daijobu ka?" she asked.

Jaken glared at Rin. "I'll kill you when Sesshou-maru-sama isn't looking one day, child," he muttered under his breath.

Kagome threw something at Jaken, then walked toward the three.

"Kagome! You wench! Why'd you say that!?" Inuyasha asked as he sat up and glared at her.

"Because you didn't give anyone time to explain themselves," she said as she glared at him. She then looked over at the little girl, whom she'd seen just two days before when Jaken had tried to steal Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga. She was curious as to why she was with him, though.

She finally saw the cuteness of the girl in such a close up view. "Kawaiiiii!" she squealed.

But this time, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou had walked over, trying to figure out what was going on.

Rin then turned to the girl in strange clothing, knowing that she was the future girl. "Aah," she said in happiness, turning away from Jaken. "Are you Sesshou-maru-sama's little half-brother's miko wench??" she asked innocently.

There was quiet for a few seconds as Kagome's smile turned downwards. "What?" she asked dully.

"Rin said, are you Sesshou-maru-sama's little half-brother's miko wench??" she repeated.

Kagome then turned to Jaken, then threw a rock at his head again.

"Areh!"

Kagome turned back to Rin. "No…my name is Kagome," she said, trying to smile again. She glared back at everyone else as they snickered. And the snickering ceased.

"Are you the one that can see the shards?" Rin asked.

"Hai!" Kagome said. "…Why?"

"Just who are you, anyway?" Inuyasha asked, now sitting up in his doggy fashion.

Rin looked over at Inuyasha, then inched away from him. "Rin," she muttered. She then turned to Kagome again. "Kagome-sama," she started. "Rin-chan requests your help," she said meekly.

There was silence, once again.

"Why are you traveling with Sesshou-maru…?" Miroku spoke up, raising an eyebrow. He finally asked the one question that was roaming in everyone's mind (and that included Jaken).

"Sesshou-maru brought Rin-chan back to life when—" she was muzzled as Jaken placed a hand over her mouth after bopping her head.

"He what?!" Inuyasha asked.

Rin bit on Jaken's hand and the toad youkai let out a shrill yelp before he turned away to nurse his throbbing hand.

"—and now Rin-chan travels with Sesshou-maru-sama!" she finished off with a cute smile.

Everyone stared at her in shock. What was this cute girl, too cute, doing, traveling with Sesshou-maru? He was murderous! Wait…nothing made sense. See…Sesshou-maru despised humans…

"Wait…start all over…?" Sango asked as she stuck her finger out in the air.

"Rin-chan said, Sesshou-maru-sama brought—"

"That isn't why we're here, humans!" Jaken said angrily, stomping his foot in anger. There was a matter at hand that he required the wench and the hanyou aid him in!

"What are you doing here, Jaken?" Inuyasha muttered angrily.

"Sesshou-maru-sama is lost in a well!" Rin wailed as her eyes watered.

"And…?" Inuyasha asked.

"Rin-chan wants Sesshou-maru-sama to come back!" she wailed again.

Inuyasha's ears twitched. "So what? Why should we care?"

Rin suddenly looked over at Inuyasha as her eyes further watered. She then turned toward Kagome and made her pupils dilate. "Kagome-sama! Please get Sesshou-maru-sama!" she pleaded.

Kagome looked at her, then at Inuyasha. She agreed with him fully as he shook his head. "Rin-chan…Sesshou-maru isn't a good youkai. It's best that you forget about him and go to a human village where someone can take care of you the way a guardian should."

"That's what I've been trying to tell the stupid child, too," Jaken muttered under his breath.

Rin let out a gasp. "No! Rin-chan loves Sesshou-maru-sama, and Rin-chan doesn't want to leave Sesshou-maru-sama alone!"

Once again…the silence was quite startling.

She wanted to be with him?

Inuyasha stared in shock as the girl started crying. He cursed under his breath. He hated it when girls started crying! Wait!

"What well?!" Inuyasha asked quickly.

Rin looked at him, then sniffled. "It's a big well near a village! Rin-chan fell in the well and Rin-chan was crying because Rin-chan was hurt. And Sesshou-maru-sama went in the well to get Rin-chan, but Sesshou-maru-sama fell through the bottom and Sesshou-maru-sama left two pink shards that Kagura-sama gave to him at that bottom."

Well…village…shards…'falling through the bottom'…it didn't take much to realize what happened.

"Sesshou-maru what?!" Inuyasha suddenly asked, breaking the silence.

"I think she's trying to say…that Sesshou-maru's in my time…" Kagome muttered.

"How is that possible, Kagome-sama, when no one else but you and Inuyasha can go to your time?" Miroku asked.

"…I don't know," Kagome said, thinking deeply. "Maybe through…relation?"

"That's not the point, humans!" Jaken yelled. "I order you to get Sesshou-maru back here, this instant!"

Kagome glared at Jaken. She wanted to throw something else at Jaken, that was for sure. "I don't have to listen to you, frog!" Kagome said angrily.

"Kagome…" Sango started. She looked at Kagome. "…I…think that Jaken's decree is wise. I don't think…that Sesshou-maru would do well in the future…you know…with all of those humans…"

Kagome saw much truth in the statement. She then looked down at Rin, who tugged on her clothing. "Please, Kagome-sama!" Rin begged. "Rin-chan is scared for Sesshou-maru-sama!"

Her plea didn't go to pitiless ears.

Besides, Sesshou-maru in the future was not good…at all. The possibilities of things that could happen to people, her family, made her shiver.

"Well…" Kagome muttered, "we should. But…it all rests on Inuyasha's shoulders." Everyone then turned to the hanyou.

Inuyasha's eyes widened as everyone looked at him. "Na—nani?! Me?!" he asked. "No! And I mean no! I can care less about Sesshou-maru!"

"Please, Inuyasha-sama!" Rin begged as she threw herself onto Inuyasha. "Please, get Sesshou-maru-sama!" her eyes were full of tears.

Inuyasha looked at her, his ears twitching in anger. He cursed under his breath. Why did Sesshou-maru matter so much to Rin, anyway? And why would she want him back? He looked at her again, only to look away. Why did she care for that heartless bastard…? He wanted answers. "Why?" he asked, testing her. Why was he testing her?!

It wasn't as if he needed reassurance that she really wanted her Lord to come back! He didn't care!

"Rin-chan loves Sesshou-maru-sama and Rin-chan wants Sesshou-maru-sama to come back. Sesshou-maru-sama brought Rin-chan back to life and Rin-chan never wants to leave Sesshou-maru-sama, ever!"

Wow…that said it. She was definitely devoted to him. Strange indeed.

Inuyasha gave an angered sigh. "Fine," he muttered.

"Arigatou, Inuyasha-sama!" Rin said as she engulfed him in a fine hug.

Was this the reason why Sesshou-maru was so tolerant lately?

~*~

Sesshou-maru continued walking down the paved road, now on the sidewalk. After getting rid of four humans now, he was quite tired of their blaring youkai that the humans were using to attack his ears.

He ignored the stares that the petty humans gave him as he continued walking amongst them. Of course they should be looking at him! He was a great lord and youkai! He was definitely different, though…The way he dressed was different, he was far taller than any of them, and the sight of the humans disgusted him. He'd began to turn back so that he could get back to the shrine before, but his scent intermingled with so many other scents was hard to trace.

The youkai was lost…

"Heeey, lady."

A human male had stopped in front of him. The human…had called him a woman. He was becoming less patient with these humans.

"What's a fine woman like you doing walking in the streets?"

Sesshou-maru cocked his eyebrow up at the human. What respect…

"Lookin' for love?"

Sesshou-maru's patience wore very, very thin. The man didn't know what hit him, but the next thing he knew, he was in the air, feet off the ground, and the "woman" was holding him by the neck. "Stand down, human…" Sesshou-maru said.

So it wasn't a woman.

"Put me down, you freak!" the man said.

Sesshou-maru muttered something, unaware of the stares that he was getting, unaware of the mutters. The acid seeped from his hand onto the humans neck, making the human sputter in terror and struggle against the iron grip.

A scream, a few screams actually, erupted from the humans, which only pushed Sesshou-maru's anger to the top. He dropped the twitching body of the dead human and turned to the other humans, his knuckles crackling. He was ready to kill more.

And more he did.


There was a commotion around the corner, the police noticed, as they saw some people running from something. One of them jumped out of his vehicle, then motioned for the other to follow him. They calmly walked around the corner, then gasped in shock to see a multitude of dead people with a lone…person standing in the midst of them all.

"Get back-up!" the police screamed into the walky-talky…thingy… "There's been a mass murder!"

"Back-up coming!" the walky-talky…thingy, yelled back.

Sesshou-maru turned to the two humans, a very disconcerned look on his face. He slid his sword back in the sheath and cocked his eyebrow at the two humans. More of them? They were like roaches.

"Get a lot of back-up and—gwah!!"

"Nani?! Hello? Takashi? Takashi?!"

A chortled scream was left in his wake.

Sesshou-maru surveyed the scene indifferently. There still more of those humans…but they were obviously getting the picture to stay out of his way. He looked around for quite a while. Such impudent, low life beasts…

A loud sound ached his ears, making him turn in the direction it came from. More of those blasted youkai? He thought he got rid of them. These ones were different, though. Large and black.

He cocked his eyebrow as humans piled out of the youkai, all in black. They all pointed some…thing at him. He growled in anger. They pestered him! He jumped in the air before landing on the black youkai and 'killing' it with the spew of his acid.

"What the—" one of the men looked in shock. No one could jump that high…and far. And why…did acid come out of his hand?!

He gasped in shock as the man's — woman's…man's…feet delicately touched the ground. Before he could even blink, the 'man' took down 6 of the other men!

What was this?!

He fired a shot at the man, shocked an angered as he missed and got down one of his own men.


Sesshou-maru cocked his eyebrow as he barely dodged that small…thing. He looked at the human who'd fired it, then went for him.

He heard a booming sound and something stung his chest, and by the time he'd stopped looked down…there was a very small hole in his armour. He could feel his blood seeping through his haori.

This wasn't humourous at all…

He looked back at the human, then glared angrily before he let out another growl. He went for the human again before he heard another boom, and then felt another sting. This time in his leg. He turned around to look at the human that did this to him. There were so many of them that he didn't know.

He really didn't care, though. He let out his toxic flower whip, killing just a few more before he heard the booms a numerous amount of times.

Wait…

This was…painful.

He was bleeding in various places now. He let out an angered growl. His muscles and bones…ached. How dare these humans?! Something suddenly stung him in his neck, which compelled him to place his hand there before pulling away. There was a small…thing in his hand, sharp and pointed with a fuzzy end.

What was this?

He cursed under his breath. His senses…were starting to flare. This situation…wasn't right at all. Something was very, very wrong.

He would have jumped high enough into the air, or even flown off, but his eyes blurred as soon as he was at a certain elevation, and his body felt extremely heavy on him.

He was tired?

Impossible. This Sesshou-maru was never tired.

The ground suddenly came closer to him. Too quickly.

And he slammed into the ground, unceremoniously to add. He tried to pick himself up off the ground as diginified as possible. But with only on arm, and feeling weak, made getting up very difficult. He let out a growl before hitting the ground again. Everything around him blackened. The last he even heard were the patterting of the human's feet around him and some muttering.


"He killed all of these people!" one of the men yelled. "He can't be human!"

"What do you mean, he can't be human?! What do you expect him to be, a dog?!"

"Did you see how high he jumped?! And how long he lasted with all these bullets in him?!"

"He's carrying a sword…"

"He's carrying two swords!"

"He's dangerous!"

"It's like he's some sort of genetically advanced human! Look at the color of his hair! And what's this fur thing?!"

"Let's take him to the investigation labs…"

"Let's take him to the secret labs…" one of them whispered. "You know…find out what it is…"

"You're right…this is an interesting find…"

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*o* SESSHOU-MARU-SAMA HAS FALLEN AND HE CAN'T GET UP XDXD!! Hmm…Sesshou-maru torture is in full swing :D I'm sorry if anyone seemed out of character. I'm trying to keep them IN character…but it's kind of difficult. And be happy, this is the longest chapter I've written in a LONG time!! *shakes fist* Review responses:


atlas-86: Yes…muahaha~~ Sesshou-maru is trapped in the future, and his torture is soon to come. *cries* And yes, I'm making a comic. If I had a website, I'd post it there, then again, I'd never update because I'd have no time :P

jess who go oro: Yah, he'll be experimented on and uber-tortured XDXD I dunno…hmm…I'm really trying to figure out who will be his rescuer, and it can only be THREE people, as of now, and I'm not telling who XD

Crystal Jewel: Kaykay, it's been updated ^-^ And my other story has been updated too. Now to update AEFOT. As of now, it is only three people on my mind who will rescue Sess…

Ember Firecat: 'Twas done. And yes, Fluffy is good. Yes…good fluffy *pets* XDXD

Mizu-Crystal: Hola! Did you see Wakadori Ramen yet?? ^-^ J/K. Um…I try to update when possible, see? ^-^

MageofDarkness: ^-^THANKS FOR REVIEWING!! Yes, no pairings…See what happened to Sessy in this chappie? It get's worse >_>

Yun Fei: Your name is so prettiful, really it is ^-^. Yah, Jaken is a baka, but I love him ^-^. He's so funny, and the way Sesshy abuses him (like how he steps on him like he isn't there) is quite amusing ^-^ I've continued ^-^


Kay, that's it. Please go read my other stories, and even my one shot. And don't forget to review XDXD Ja ne, minna~~~