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Title: One less tear

Chapter: Not a warm welcome, Ch. 1

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Beaten raw to the bone, sit in the dark, left alone. no cherry blossoms here, Only smears of blood and tears. Wishing soul away on the stars. no one the play. a glass figure shattered, never glued back together, left to mirror images of dust and grime. Reasons left; Thoughts unsaid, then forgotten. Don't leave me here.

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Su Finally got to her safe house, Bone eater's well, she use to play here after school as well. She took off her sandals and stepped though the old wooden door. Su remembered when she played house with her one eyed stuffed animals. Rocking the torn teddy bears back and forth, singing lullabys. She would never hit her children and she would never leave them or get drunk and make them cry.

Sitting down on the old planks of the floor she starred the well, as tears formed in her eyes, and whispered the old lullabys that she use to sing. Su crawled over to the side of the well and peaked into the darkness, 'I could end it all here, all of this pain.' her morbid thoughts made Su sob loud. She pushed her self up to the side of the well and wiped her eyes with the backs of her dirty hands. Her feet dangled in the air, she grabbed the sides of the well tightly and began to count to ten, 'I can't do it. I'm a purposeless coward!' she started to crawl back over the edge of the well. Her foot brushed something on the other side of the well; Su screamed and fell over, hitting the ground hard.

After a while of scrambling to get back up Su slowly walked back over to the edge of the well, 'who knows what kind of stuff could be on the sides of this thing!'. Peaking over she saw a ladder! "How did I miss that?" she said out loud, rushing over to the side the ladder was on to take a closer look at it, she noticed it was defiantly newer than the well.

Su's curiosity took over her body and before she knew it she had mounted the ladder and was beginning to climb down. "This is so sugio!" she exclaimed and continued to chatter to her self as she until she noticed that she was now traveling up, instead of climbing down. "What the hell!?" she questioned, 'I guess I'm way more tired than I thought I was...." She didn't stop climbing though her muscles were getting sore and she was already aching from her father.

By the time she had gotten up the ladder her eyes were fluttering and she was too sleepy to care weather there was no building over the well, how there were no wooden floors, and how there were trees and grass every where. She stumbled as she fell from the side of the well and her eyes closed even before she hit the ground.

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Sesshomaru Sama stirred the fire coaxing the coals to bring some heat into the cold night. Rin (who was near by some where) had commented on the freezing weather they had been having lately. "Mee lord?" said Jaken in his usual timid tone; Sesshomaru didn't answer hoping the toad demon would stop while he was at it. Jaken moved closer to tug on Sesshomaru's sleeve, "Mee lord?" Jaken questioned in a more urgent voice.

Sesshomaru glared at Jaken, and he continued "Mee Lord, I sense a dying being some where!" Sesshomaru interrupted with a loud sigh and snapped, "What makes you think that I care about a mediocre thing like that!?". Jaken moved closer unable to contain his excitement any longer, "Mee lord, it has a jewel shard, more than one!". Sesshomaru stood up and muttering under his breath he began walking towards where he sensed the dying creature also. "Watch Rin." Was all he called back to Jaken, who now looked disappointed at the fact that he wasn't joining.

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Su looked up to see an unfamiliar night sky and the fact that there was no Bone eater's well. Looking over she found that she was lying next to a fire, and across from the fire was another unfamiliar thing. A man, with long silver hair and amber eyes, he had markings on his face, two lines on his cheeks and a sliver of a moon on his fore head. The man had a serious look about him and was starring at Su studying her reaction. She realized that she was wide eyed and her mouth was hanging wide open.

Quickly she snapped her mouth shut and gave the man a weak smile, "Hi there...." She said with a tone that you only used when meeting a particularly cute but mysterious guy. Not answering the man picked up a piece of meat and threw it at Su, "Here, you're very weak, eat then leave." He looked over to a strange creature. It was green and looked a bit like a toad- human with a robe. "Jaken, you didn't tell me that the thing was a human. You'll be punished later." The man said sternly to the creature, called Jaken.

"Excuse me Sesshomaru?" said a voice from behind Su. She jumped then turned her head to see what was talking now. "Who is your new friend?" a little girl no more than seven said in a meek voice. The man looked at Su then back to the girl, "I changed my mind human. You will be Rin's nanny from now on. You owe me for saving your pitiful life." he didn't seem to like Su very much.

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