Well, my last fic wasn't working very well with me. So I'm going to try a new type of fic. I hope all of you enjoy it, and don't kill me for not updating the other one. Well, let my new fic commence!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. If I did I would be driving about in a fancy car all day long. (As soon as I get a driver's license that is.)
Hypersarcasticinternetaddict I thank you!!! I love the title idea!!! Everyone, I was stuck on a name for this story, but said person points at name gave me the title "Tetsuda Touhou, Onigai" meaning "Help Me, Please." Thank you sssooo much!!!!!
Chapter 1:
"Nii-chan? Nii-chan... Onigai... he-help me..." the young boy whimpered. He was lost. Alone. In a dark forest. In the dead of winter. His whole form shook violently as the wind picked up again, chilling his blood even more. The small hanyou pup sat under a tree in the snow with his arms hugging himself tightly. His eyes were shut tight and his teeth were chattering. He had given up finding his way home. The fresh snowfall covered any tracks he might have made coming and he couldn't pick up his scent back.
"Where are you... Onii-chan... I ca-can't get ba-ba-back..." His eyes opened some. Soft, sad golden eyes. It had started snowing again. The wind blowing the tiny flakes every which way. A pure white abyss. A wondrous site to be seen if you were wrapped up in a blanket near the fire, watching through hazy steam as you drank hot cocoa But not if you're in the storm. Oh no.
The boy's puppy-like ears twitched on top of his head. He was sure he just heard a hiss, but not from the wind. He glanced around wearily, deathly afraid of what he just heard. The low hissing noise filled his ears again and he jumped up to his feet as a shadow appeared in front of him. The thing started getting closer and the boy let out a weak growl.
"Well if it isssn't the young lord. InuTaisssho's ssshund ssson..." a snake youkai curled up into a striking position. Curled like that with its head raised, it looked the boy straight in the eyes. Sharp blue against tired gold. The pup was scared. Scared stiff. His previous numb body now just refused to move, even though his life was on the line. "Wh-what do you want..." he asked in just above a whisper. The snake smiled a wicked smile, fangs dripping with poison. "Want? I want you dead so I don't go hungry. You're weak. Helpless even." The snake opened its mouth wider. "And you have no one to protect you!" The youkai snake lunged forward, planning to sink his fangs into the boy's frail body. But in a sudden burst of energy, the pup jumped into the tree above the both of them.
"Nii-chan!!!" He cried out, hoping his older brother would hear him and save him from becoming dinner. The snake looked up at the boy. "Your nii- chan isssn't coming for you whelp." It struck out again but the pup narrowly missed it. He leapt onto the snow and ran. As long and as fast as he could. Twigs and branches frozen over with ice were sharp and cut the boys face and tore at his clothes. But he wouldn't stop running. He didn't feel anything anymore. Until he came to a sudden drop. He tried to stop but slipped, falling over the edge. He reached out quickly and grabbed onto the side of the cliff. He held on tightly, he was too afraid of falling, so he didn't move at all.
The pup started to whimper. The sound was soft and sad, drowned out by the howl of the wind. Holding onto the rocky cliff so tightly cut his skin and a long scratch on his right cheek was slowly bleeding but then being frozen over. He stayed quiet and his whimpering faded yet still heard. He couldn't call out lest the snake heard him, and he couldn't let go or move to try to get back up in fear of falling. The pup was stuck, and had no way to get out of it. But he didn't have to do anything.
He heard the last thing he wanted to. He started breathing slower and stopped his whimpering. He heard the hiss again. That dreaded hiss. He stayed still. Even more then he had before. Where was his brother? Where was his onii-chan? He couldn't have left the young pup to fend for himself, had he? Nii-chan would never do that. He wouldn't let his younger brother die. This and many other thoughts were racing through the little hanyou's mind.
Blue eyes looked over the cliff and it started to grin that sickening smile. The boys face must have been as white as the snow; he was so pale with fear. "You ssshouldn't have run away..." the snake murmured, fake sweetness laced in his voice. "But it wasss great fun, chassseing you. But you had to ssslip and fall. To bad for you. For it will mean your deattth." The snakes head shot down and his long sharp fangs sunk deep into the child's flesh. Downward on the side of his neck and into his shoulder the fangs pierced, pumping deadly poison into the pup's body.
Time froze for the kid. He let out a silent gasp of pain. He could feel the poison being pushed into him. A burning feeling coursed through his blood and he felt himself start to loose hold of the rock face. "Yesss... Give up, give in. Worttthlesss half-breed."
In the foggy corners of his mind, a small, lull voice spoke. Very soft and contemplating. I'm not worthless... Oka-san loves me... Onii- chan loves me... But where are they... Why aren't they helping me... Do they even know I'm gone...? Nii-chan... Oka-san... onigai... help me... I'm scared...
The pup started whimpering again as his fingers let go of the rock holding him up. Yet he didn't fall. The snake still has its fangs deep inside the young boy, keeping him from falling to his death. But you must wonder. To die quickly by smashing into the ground oh so far below, or a slow painful death from a deadly poison circulating through your veins. He struggled some, with the last of this strength, but cried out loudly for the fangs were being driven deeper into his flesh. The pup's vision was growing hazy as he was pulled back over the cliff. His body was dropped to the snow covered ground with a dull thump. His breathing was slowing and he could still feel the stinging sensation in his shoulder and neck.
The puncture wounds were surrounded with crusty red blood stuck to the skin and green puss oozed out of the would itself tinted some with red for fresh blood was mixing with the poison. The snake leaned down rubbing its head against the boy's chest. His forked tongue went in and out of its mouth, flicking at the boys face and the unhurt side of his neck. The boy shivered at the feeling. He choked out a sob and whispered, "Let me go..." The snake grinned, loving torturing the small child into his death. "And whyyy. Whyyy ssshould I let you go, lovvvely hanyou child?" The snake's cool, green, scaly skin against his wasn't favorable and his body was crushed into the snow once more. "I need to sssurvive alssso. I mussst eat to do sssooo. And sssomething asss eassy to catch as you I would never dream of releasssing..." The snakes tongue flicked at the boys silver puppy ears that were on top of his head.
He whimpered even louder then before, pressing his ears flat against his skull as he closed his eyes. He was getting increasingly dizzy and tired and his body ached with pain. He knew he wouldn't get out of this alive as he fought to stay conscious. The snake started to wrap around the child's body tightly. The pup started gasping for air his eyes snapping open. He tried struggling but the youkai's grip was to strong and he was too weak. "Iie... o... onii-chan..." he could barely talk with the snake squeezing him. He heard a sickening snap followed by another and another. His ribs were shattering under the pressure. The child cried out in pure pain. "Yesss... cry; ssscream. I want you to cry out again and again. No onesss going to sssave you hanyou." The pup's blood stained the crisp white snow, a sharp contrast of red against white. He was able to move his arms some, so in an attempt to free himself. He slashed out with his claws striking the youkai's face. The snake hissed loosening his hold on the child dropping him into the snow. He thrashed about, the young boy's claws has some of the venom from the bite on it and he was just struck along his face slicing his eye.
The pup got to his hands and knees and slunk away as the snake was distracted. He fell face down into the snow then rolled over onto his back wincing greatly as he felt his rib bones rub against each other. He was gasping, trying to get more air into his tattered and weak body. He whispered quietly, "Nii...chan... goman...ne..." His form was shaking violently from the cold and the poison had almost completely circulated through his blood stream. I'm not going to make it, he though. Nii- chan... I'm afraid... He stared up at the leaves of the tree, praying his older brother would somehow find and save him.
His vision started spinning again, as he fought back nausea. His brother would save him. His nii-chan would come. But when? The pup, fighting to stay awake, was loosing quickly. He felt his eyes start to droop and thoughts started becoming more hazy and unclear. His last though was that someone was standing over him, and a faint hiss sounding from all around him.