There is no beginning. The past is in the past and is therefore
forgotten...until now.
I climb out of the well on the modern side and look around.
Something was wrong.
Sesshomaru jumps out and lands gracefully beside me. His face betrays nothing as he speaks, "The scent of death is in the air." Sniffing the air delicately, I nod, trying not to panic. I walk up the stairs of the well house and slide open the wooden doors. Suddenly a sobbing girl runs into me and looks up, brown eyes filled with fear.
It was Kagome.
'Cassiel!..." She clutches my sleeves and sobs into my shoulder. In a vain attempt to comfort her and get her to stop crying, I hug her to me. She is wearing one of her school uniforms and I notice some blood on the sleeve of her left arm. I lean over and sniff it carefully, hoping it wasn't hers. The scent of the blood held that of death. And it could only belong to one person.
"Where is Inuyasha?" Kagome looks up at me as tears continue to fall unheeded down her face. "It was awful!" She says, voice colored with grief. She tries to explain more, but her words are garbled as she is sobbing into my shirt. I turn and look at Sesshomaru, confusion in my dark amber eyes. Confusion turns into surprise when I see the look on his face.
Sesshomaru, Demon Lord of the Western Lands, is crying.
He wipes away his tears with a single finger and walks silently over to Kagome's house, his serene mask of indifference back in place. The front door is open and he enters. At seeing the scene before him, he raises an eyebrow.
The furniture is all over the place and there is numerous slashes on the walls. The sound of sobbing leads him into the living room. The door had been ripped off its hinges and now lays a few feet away in splinters. After walking through the door frame, he finally sees Inuyasha. Or, to be more precise, what is left of Inuyasha. (A/N: or, to be even more precise, what he can see of what is left of Inuyasha...;;)
A sobbing hanyou girl is bent over the body. A neko hanyou. Her large black ears are laid back against her light brown hair and her striped tail hangs limply behind her. (A/N: she has the markings of a tiger.)
Sesshomaru walks over to her and draws Tenseiga. "Move," he says in an emotionless voice. The girl looks up at him and is at first frightened because she sees his sword. Then she recognizes who he is and simply stares in disbelief. "Move," he says again, this time with a bit of annoyance in his voice. She scoots over a little, revealing Inuyasha's bloody corpse.
He has numerous deep cuts across his chest and face. He is also missing both legs and one of his hands looks ready to fall off. His blood is on the walls and floor as well as in a puddle beneath his body. Sesshomaru surveys the damage to his half brother and the turns his icy golden eyes upon the neko hanyou, Ravyn.
"Leave," he states simply. She doesn't want to leave her lover's side and conflicting emotions flash across her face. Then she makes up her mind and gets up to leave. Just as she is leaving, a voice calls her name and she turns, surprised. "Tell Cassiel to come in here," Sesshomaru says. She nods and walks swiftly from the room.
Her grief is momentarily overcome by curiosity, so when she exits the house, her expression is one of puzzlement, rather than sadness.
I look up from comforting Kagome at the sight of my neko friend covered in blood and walking across the courtyard. Eyes grim, I steel myself for the news and close the distance between us with long strides. Ravyn looks up at me and just stares. Her eyes are glazed over and it is obvious that she is in shock. My expression darkens as I take all of this in. Then, I place a gentle hand on the neko's shoulder. "What happened, Ravyn?" I ask quietly into the silence. Only the sound of Kagome's sobbing brakes the delicate calm.
Ravyn all of a sudden blinks and seems to register who's in front of her. Then she remembers what Sesshomaru told her and she places her hand on top of mine. "Sesshomaru requests your presence with him in the living room." Her voice is deceptively calm.
When she looks over my shoulder and meets Kagome's eyes, however, her face crumples and her knees give out, causing her to fall helplessly into my arms. Gently lowering her to the ground, I motion to Kagome to come over and help Ravyn. They needed each other. She stumbles over and falls to her knees before Ravyn.
The two girls, human and hanyou, embrace each other and shed tears of grief.
As I start to make my way to the house, I take in many different scents on the way. The first smell is that of death; so overpowering it almost makes me gag. After getting over that, I start to notice more subtle scents. I want to stay and sniff them out better, but Ravyn said Sesshomaru needs me. As I walk to the front door, I think about what he could possibly need me for.
All thoughts leave me as I step through the door.
The sight that greets me causes feelings of pity for Kagome to well up and reflect in my amber eyes. Her house is torn to shreds, and some of the walls look as if they'd need to be torn down to be fixed. And almost all of the furniture is wrecked as well. I shake my head and continue forward, heading to the living room; heading to the source of that overpowering scent of death.
(A/N: heh heh heh! Don't you just love cliffhangers? Ad don't you just want to know what happens to Inuyasha? I'm sire you know I can't just kill him off before he has time to make an a$$ of himself...and poor, poor Kagome...she should have admitted her feelings for Inuyasha. But instead, Ravyn got him! Now, the cooky story shall continue in the next chapter of...insert title here)
I climb out of the well on the modern side and look around.
Something was wrong.
Sesshomaru jumps out and lands gracefully beside me. His face betrays nothing as he speaks, "The scent of death is in the air." Sniffing the air delicately, I nod, trying not to panic. I walk up the stairs of the well house and slide open the wooden doors. Suddenly a sobbing girl runs into me and looks up, brown eyes filled with fear.
It was Kagome.
'Cassiel!..." She clutches my sleeves and sobs into my shoulder. In a vain attempt to comfort her and get her to stop crying, I hug her to me. She is wearing one of her school uniforms and I notice some blood on the sleeve of her left arm. I lean over and sniff it carefully, hoping it wasn't hers. The scent of the blood held that of death. And it could only belong to one person.
"Where is Inuyasha?" Kagome looks up at me as tears continue to fall unheeded down her face. "It was awful!" She says, voice colored with grief. She tries to explain more, but her words are garbled as she is sobbing into my shirt. I turn and look at Sesshomaru, confusion in my dark amber eyes. Confusion turns into surprise when I see the look on his face.
Sesshomaru, Demon Lord of the Western Lands, is crying.
He wipes away his tears with a single finger and walks silently over to Kagome's house, his serene mask of indifference back in place. The front door is open and he enters. At seeing the scene before him, he raises an eyebrow.
The furniture is all over the place and there is numerous slashes on the walls. The sound of sobbing leads him into the living room. The door had been ripped off its hinges and now lays a few feet away in splinters. After walking through the door frame, he finally sees Inuyasha. Or, to be more precise, what is left of Inuyasha. (A/N: or, to be even more precise, what he can see of what is left of Inuyasha...;;)
A sobbing hanyou girl is bent over the body. A neko hanyou. Her large black ears are laid back against her light brown hair and her striped tail hangs limply behind her. (A/N: she has the markings of a tiger.)
Sesshomaru walks over to her and draws Tenseiga. "Move," he says in an emotionless voice. The girl looks up at him and is at first frightened because she sees his sword. Then she recognizes who he is and simply stares in disbelief. "Move," he says again, this time with a bit of annoyance in his voice. She scoots over a little, revealing Inuyasha's bloody corpse.
He has numerous deep cuts across his chest and face. He is also missing both legs and one of his hands looks ready to fall off. His blood is on the walls and floor as well as in a puddle beneath his body. Sesshomaru surveys the damage to his half brother and the turns his icy golden eyes upon the neko hanyou, Ravyn.
"Leave," he states simply. She doesn't want to leave her lover's side and conflicting emotions flash across her face. Then she makes up her mind and gets up to leave. Just as she is leaving, a voice calls her name and she turns, surprised. "Tell Cassiel to come in here," Sesshomaru says. She nods and walks swiftly from the room.
Her grief is momentarily overcome by curiosity, so when she exits the house, her expression is one of puzzlement, rather than sadness.
I look up from comforting Kagome at the sight of my neko friend covered in blood and walking across the courtyard. Eyes grim, I steel myself for the news and close the distance between us with long strides. Ravyn looks up at me and just stares. Her eyes are glazed over and it is obvious that she is in shock. My expression darkens as I take all of this in. Then, I place a gentle hand on the neko's shoulder. "What happened, Ravyn?" I ask quietly into the silence. Only the sound of Kagome's sobbing brakes the delicate calm.
Ravyn all of a sudden blinks and seems to register who's in front of her. Then she remembers what Sesshomaru told her and she places her hand on top of mine. "Sesshomaru requests your presence with him in the living room." Her voice is deceptively calm.
When she looks over my shoulder and meets Kagome's eyes, however, her face crumples and her knees give out, causing her to fall helplessly into my arms. Gently lowering her to the ground, I motion to Kagome to come over and help Ravyn. They needed each other. She stumbles over and falls to her knees before Ravyn.
The two girls, human and hanyou, embrace each other and shed tears of grief.
As I start to make my way to the house, I take in many different scents on the way. The first smell is that of death; so overpowering it almost makes me gag. After getting over that, I start to notice more subtle scents. I want to stay and sniff them out better, but Ravyn said Sesshomaru needs me. As I walk to the front door, I think about what he could possibly need me for.
All thoughts leave me as I step through the door.
The sight that greets me causes feelings of pity for Kagome to well up and reflect in my amber eyes. Her house is torn to shreds, and some of the walls look as if they'd need to be torn down to be fixed. And almost all of the furniture is wrecked as well. I shake my head and continue forward, heading to the living room; heading to the source of that overpowering scent of death.
(A/N: heh heh heh! Don't you just love cliffhangers? Ad don't you just want to know what happens to Inuyasha? I'm sire you know I can't just kill him off before he has time to make an a$$ of himself...and poor, poor Kagome...she should have admitted her feelings for Inuyasha. But instead, Ravyn got him! Now, the cooky story shall continue in the next chapter of...insert title here)