Sesshoumaru is cool.
I wanted to make a cool story.
I also wanted the story to be somewhat original, so I decided to make one about an adventure in his past.
I do not own Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, or any part of them, -uh, I meant I do not own any of the characters of the Inuyasha story, for those of you who took that the wrong way.
Chapter One
This is way before Inuyasha & Kagome so they or the gang won't be in the story
Sesshoumaru is young, although he still has his personality, there are slight changes.
Since he is still young, he isn't as powerful as he will be in the future, but he still has all of his attacks
Sesshoumaru was on guard duty, he was sent to patrol the western wall of the castle by his father, although both knew that he didn't deserve to be doing the duty of common soldiers, his father had commanded him to as part of his training.
He surveyed the lands before him at even intervals of an hour, within that time he kept his mind on other things, he knew he wouldn't go to sleep, he had only been on duty for a few hours, so he tried to keep himself occupied with other things that had happened that day, nothing but physical conditioning, mental studies, social and politics sessions with the castle advisors, all boring and done with minimal useful information and irrelevant facts.
He drifted into a calm, relaxed state that was almost sleeping, except his amber eyes constantly surveyed the lands around him. All his demonic senses were open and tuned to find any artificial sound made by a creature that didn't belong in the natural rhythm of nature.
It was in this state when he noticed that the rhythm, although still there had grown faint in certain areas, no alarms were sounded, but the absence of certain sounds were dead giveaway that some creature was coming near, his lean body stiffened and he considered raising an alarm, but if he did, the creature would run and none of the guards would be able to catch it as it was still to far away.
Instead he remained motionless, listening for more clues about the intruder, intruders, he realized as there were several of them.
As they neared he silently motioned for the youkai around him to prepare for an assault, they threw questioning glances at each other but they obeyed.
The winds were at his back so he couldn't do much but listen to their coming, he had lessoned his scent earlier so as not to give himself away, but if they kept up coming closer they would be able to see him on the battlements as they were obviously not human, he began calculating what types of demons they could be, most demons had the ability to move nearly silently, and those who didn't could easily learn it. As he listened to their approach he noticed that they were bipedal, so they had to be in a semi-high demon type to have the ability to transform into the smaller humanoid shape.
"Guard, bring me two troops, one of runners, the other of rangers, come silently" he ordered the nearest soldier in a calm and quiet voice that betrayed the slightest sound of interest. Runners and rangers, youkai who either sent messages rapidly or were used to fast, missions over far distances, they should be quite capable of the tasks he had for them.
As they reached the castle walls three of them began to effortlessly climb them, the remaining two transformed partway into their full demon form, he saw they were some type of arachnid demon, a mix between scorpion and spider, with eight legs, a spider like body, but with a pair of stingers on scorpion tails near the end of their elongated abdomen, and two large scorpion like front pincers.
He wondered why they continued to climb and advance toward the castle, had they not seen him, were they not expecting any guard? He ran through several possibilities of why these demons weren't expecting to be seen on such an obvious and easily seen intrusion. He came up with three semi-plausible reasons:
They were at the wrong castle, no, then they wouldn't of advanced so carefully.
They weren't expecting any opposition, this is the manor of the Lord of the Western Lands, why wouldn't they be expecting any?
They were burglars, they knew that there were going to be guards, and had prepared for them, they did have weapons on them, but why would they of advanced in such a easily detectable manor, true they were nearly silent, but easily seen.
Which meant that the second reason was involved, they knew who they were up against and had prepared in such a way that they were expecting no one to see them.
Maybe this day won't be so boring after all he thought as he kept on his calculations against these mysterious intruders.
The two troops he had sent for arrived, silently as he had ordered. He motioned them to advance to the battlements, still behind eyesight, and prepare to jump.
It was a 70 foot drop, but any self-respecting youkai could easily make it. He pointed at the walls and motioned that there were three intruders climbing up the wall and where they were climbing.
As he saw similar reaction to his, a break in the boredom of routine patrol spread as smiles and sneers among the troops, he quickly ran through the possible outcomes of his and his men's attacks, and caught himself just in time, he was almost enjoying himself, and that had nearly cost him a mistake. With demonic speed he raced to the nearest tower on the wall, when he got there he found the youkai stationed there alive and healthy, so that error was fine. He realized he could have easily been distracted and invaded and made a mental note not to make that mistake again, now for the second, he wrote down an order and gave it to one of the soldiers, "take this to the trackers" he ordered in his curt and emotionless voice. The soldier nodded and raced off…
He returned to the western wall, he had kept track of the invaders progress and they were almost to the top, he gave the signal to jump, and all of them leapt over and down, right on top of the three climbers. They leapt in perfect formation, with the only sound in the night being the rustle of clothes.
One of the climbers, obviously the leader, heard the sound, and dropped, transforming into his own demonic shape as he did so, the other two were too preoccupied with their climbing and didn't notice they had been seen until multiple blades from the youkai's swords shredded them apart.
Sesshoumaru, having leapt slightly before the others, and being in the center, was dropping right on top of the leader, when as he finished his transformation into full youkai form, snaked out all his legs, grabbed the wall, and seemed to become a blur as he ran along the walls of the castle.
He reacted with little difference to his original plan, a calm and controlled fall, the two demons on ground saw him and began to run in the same direction as their leader, Sesshoumaru formed his whip and sliced it across the body of one of them, drew it back in as he landed, and began his hunt.
The Spider Demon moved quickly but not as quickly as its leader, or Sesshoumaru, he easily began to gain ground on it, with the runners and rangers running in unison behind him. The spider realized this and veered to the left, where it could climb up the walls of the castle and temporarily escape the onslaught of the white nemesis behind him.
Sesshoumaru saw this maneuver and reacted by swiftly leaping on an intercept course to the demonic spider, he calmly formed his whip again and rapidly swept it across the spider repeatedly. For a moment it continued its frantic running, but then it fell apart and blood spurted across the castle walls.
The leader hadn't been caught yet, and Sesshoumaru couldn't catch up to it now, especially with its incredible speed and agility it had demonstrated as it turned a fall into a sideways scuttle in a split second.
During the fight he had realized that these were the elites of a separate army, and that the reason for them advancing so carelessly was that they had expected to be let in.
The castle was under a silent invasion, with these spider-like demons being messengers
I know that demons and youkai are roughly the same thing, but I mainly use the demon term to describe features, such as demonic senses, and for evil youkai, such as the demons advanced. Youkai is mainly used to describe the good one, such as Sesshoumaru's troops. These will occasionally be switched to show they are the same.
What was in the letter that Sesshoumaru had ordered be sent to the trackers?
What are the trackers?
Why did Sesshoumaru let the leader escape without even trying to chase or track it?
I know that these question sort of answer each other but keep on reading 'cause its going to get real interesting soon…