Disclaimer: I still do not own Inu-yasha and co.
I do own Shizuka, Arashi, Shima, Senshi and Kurai.
Symbols: "talking", ***new place/time***
Chapter 1 Nightmares
Usually he felt comfortable in darkness. Usually silence made him relax. Usually loneliness was best for him. But now. . .
He stood on damp ground, but when he looked at his feet he saw nothing. He could feel how the earth gave up under him, but he saw nothing. He saw only blackness. He looked up around him seeing only blackness.
He saw nothing; he heard nothing and all he smelled was the damp earth. Moving his hands before him he walked forward. It felt like he would be walking all the time to softer ground, but he didn't stop.
He walked forward until he suddenly heard his own steps. It sounded like he would be walking on trough out wet moss. On every step it sounded wetter and soon when he continued he could hear a splash.
He stopped. It was like he would be standing in a pool. He felt how water started to gather into his shoes and how small waves hit against his ankles. But he didn't see. He saw nothing before him or behind him.
He sensed no one around him. He was alone in this pitch-black place standing in a pool. A lonely wind catch his long hair, but he couldn't see in the darkness his white strands of hair even thought he felt them against his face.
Suddenly small candles catch fire in distance. They were small candles but they lit the whole place. The small candles danced around.
He started to see reflections of the candles on surface of the pool where he was standing. The white strands of hair before his face started to shine like silver. His golden eyes stared at the lights dancing above the water.
From the candles emerged very light smoke into the air. But even thought it was light it was thick as a cloud and slowly but surely it started to cover the air above them.
He, who had felt lonely and uncomfortable, was now lit with the light as well. He was surrounded by the warm light of the candles and his long white hair shone even more like silver and his golden eyes competed with the shining hair.
Slowly the smoke from the candles started to take shape. Surrounded by light the cloud with a shape of woman fell on the pool's surface like it suddenly would have gotten a lot of weight.
In the middle of the candle lights stood a woman with long strands of curly blonde hair. Her sky blue eyes looked deep into him and he tried to get a step back, but something stopped his legs.
The woman whose body was shapeless just a moment ago now landed down from the light surrounding her. The smoke that had landed on the pool's surface surrounded her tall but slender body.
He was paralyzed when staring at the women. His golden eyes stared at her all-knowing blue eyes. When he fell into the beauty of those eyes he didn't realize the fact that this woman before him was a human.
The woman swung her hands strongly and so all the smoke around her fell on the surface of the pool again. Now she had clothes on her - clothes that shone more brightly than his silvery hair or golden eyes.
He couldn't move anywhere when the woman walked toward him holding her hand out for him to grab it. Her first so expressionless face turned into encouraging one with a slight smile.
He, who didn't know where he was, hesitated, but all his hesitation was gone by that smile and so he slowly took her hand. . .
***reality***
"Nothin' yet, Shizuka?" asked a human warrioress when walking into her dark hut. Before the door was a bamboo screen that left the little rays of sun out from the hut.
The hut was dark and split with a curtain in the middle. In the middle of the hut was a fire place. The warrioress took off her sandals when walking on the floor that was higher than the ground. From her back she took her two katanas down on the ground and with a strong pull she freed her red curly hair from a string that held it up.
She turned to look at her left side where one blonde woman with expressionless face sat beside a wounded man. The blonde woman shook her head when looking up at her chief with her blue eyes. Her long curls were wrapped into a band behind her back and she was dressed into a kimono with blue and white colors.
The warrioress sighed and sat beside the other woman staring at the wounded man. Both of the women like the whole village knew that this wounded man was no human. But neither of them sensed any demon powers from this man and thus so their fear was true.
"How long do you think he'll still sleep?" the warrioress asked from the blonde woman.
With his fingers Shizuka showed first two then three and then one finger. After that she added a shrug to it and made the warrioress sight. "So you don't know, huh" the warrioress sighed again.
They had been waiting for five days already for this man to wake up. They had found him from the forest surrounding their small village. He had fallen of tiredness on the ground just when they found him. They knew this demon was one of Kurai's preys.
"Arashi" a man called from the doorway of the hut.
"What is it, Senshi?" the warrioress asked standing up when hearing her name. This man who came to get her was her younger brother. They both had greenish brown eyes, but when Arashi's hair was almost bright red Senshi's was reddish brown and not even wavy.
"The villagers are calling for you, their chief" Senshi said when pointing over his shoulder at all the people outside.
Arashi sighed and nodded. When Senshi left she put her hand on Shizuka's shoulder. "I'll come back when I can" she said silently and the blonde woman nodded.
Shizuka looked after Arashi who took her sandals and weapons before leaving the hut. She sighed and then took a small cloth and put it into a wooden bucket with water. When damping the cloth she placed it on the man's forehead.
She truly didn't know how long it would take before the man would open up his eyes. She was a healer of the village, but she was not someone who made miracles. And she didn't know what would be the best way to help a demon.
She sighed and looked at the doorway hearing the village people to gather outside.
***outside the hut***
"We have been patrolling by day and night, but we haven't found anything" a villager pointed out when Arashi was sitting on the ground before her people leaning on her two katanas. Her brother was standing besides her holding his javelin and her other side was standing a woman with long jet- black hair. She looked more Japanese than any one else of the three of them.
"I don't understand" the black haired woman muttered. "Why would a man... demon, even a demon, come into the Mists with only his robes!?" This woman had grey eyes that calmed some people and others made nervous.
Arashi herself sometime wonders what truly moves in this younger woman's mind. The chieftess stood up swinging her katanas on her shoulder. "Now" she said to get everyone's attention.
"Chieftess! Arashi!!" someone shout from the side interrupting the chieftess. Senshi turned around just like the black haired woman and his sister. There was running one man with three others toward them.
"We found something!" the man that run faster than the others shout having a peace of cloth in his hand.
Arashi stepped past her brother to see the cloth closer when the man stopped right before her. She took the cloth that was bloody. She sniffed it and then handed it to her brother.
"Smell of human... and that man" Senshi said silently after sniffing the cloth as well.
The black haired woman took the cloth from him and sniffed it as well. "Kurai" she whispered and made Arashi turn around to look at them.
The little cloth was white and red, smelled of human and this demon from her hut; it had the smell of Kurai and surely had something to do with their guest.
Suddenly a bell rang just behind them and when they turned around they saw Shizuka ringing a bell that hang outside Arashi's hut. When Shizuka had gotten everyone's attention she stopped and quickly gestured to Arashi. The chieftess should come and see something.
"Is he awake?" Arashi asked under her breath when with out another thought run into her hut.
***dream?***
The man was alone again... All alone. The blonde woman he had seen earlier was gone. He saw only blackness but now he didn't feel damp earth under him. Suddenly everything was lit up. He recognized the place to be a forest.
He knew he had been here earlier. He knew that he didn't want to come here again, but when he looked behind him he was surrounded by the forest.
The air was heavy and misty. You barely could see the trees trough the thick mist. It was silent. All you could here was the usual noises of small animals. That made it too silent, but somehow he knew what he had to fear in here.
He walked forward to find a way out. He walked taking big steps but the further he got the more it seemed like he wasn't moving at all. Not even a single tree was getting nearer.
Out of his nature he was starting to panic. This feeling he had would make anyone fear.
Suddenly he heard a shrilling scream and that made him panic more. He looked around and heard steps. Heavy steps showing that this creature he feared was coming nearer. He had seen him he knew but it felt like this would be the first time.
Suddenly from the middle of the shrilling scream you could hear a girls cry. He didn't think twice when turning to that direction. He tried to run, but something held up his feet. He looked down and the earth was starting to take his legs in.
He tried to get himself free, but the girl's cry made him remember again why he had tried free. He tried to get free again but it was no use. Suddenly the cry stopped and all he could hear the heavy steps again.
After a short moment before him stood a dog-like beast having a human girl in his mouth – dead.
***back***
"RIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!"
Shizuka was surprised by the sudden scream from the man. Arashi was standing beside her having her eyes wide open.
Shizuka put her hands on the man's shoulders trying to find his eyes. The man was breathing heavily holding his only hand on his chest. He didn't look up. He didn't notice Shizuka's warm hands. He only saw Rin bitten by a demon.
Shizuka looked at the man with calm eyes and moved some strands of white hair away from his face. She had called the chieftess here to see him cause he was sweating so much. He had seen nightmares, she knew.
Nightmares are horrible to demons and human. When seeing nightmare – despite how cold and feelingless you are – your biggest fears and the most unwelcome feelings comes to you. Maybe that is why many say they don't dream.
But in truth. . . If you don't dream, you don't have any wishes for future. You have no memories to cherish and you have nothing that would be important to you. Memories, feelings and wishes make our dreams.
This is at least how Shizuka thought when she silently brought the man's head against her chest to calm him down. It didn't matter were you a demon or humans. The fear and feeling was same for both when seeing a nightmare.
Arashi sighed deep when calming herself down. The demon they had in her hut seemed to calm in Shizuka's arms. That was what was so wonderful in this blonde human who's origin is a mystery. Only her presence and wordless care for life made anyone calm. Was it human or demon, it didn't matter.
The aura around Shizuka was calming for both. Her understanding and gentle touch soothed your heart.
Arashi sighed again deep slightly smiling. Now it didn't matter what was this man's origin, why was he here. Now what mattered was his well being and Shizuka seemed to be again the one to take care of that.
Arashi stood up and silently left the hut. When leaving the hut she could hear some muttering from inside. She knew it wasn't their silent healer and so it had to be this man there.
He was getting well. She was sure about that!
A/N: I hope you liked it ^_^ I kinda liked to write it and now when I have been working other stories that Tear of a ghost I have gotten new inspirations.
I also noticed that I first had a wrong name for this story. Somehow 'Cursed moments of Fate' was stuck into my head thought I had decided not to talk about fate but trust. Now it's corrected anyhow. Just don't get confused by it.
See ya! Ja ne!
Symbols: "talking", ***new place/time***
Chapter 1 Nightmares
Usually he felt comfortable in darkness. Usually silence made him relax. Usually loneliness was best for him. But now. . .
He stood on damp ground, but when he looked at his feet he saw nothing. He could feel how the earth gave up under him, but he saw nothing. He saw only blackness. He looked up around him seeing only blackness.
He saw nothing; he heard nothing and all he smelled was the damp earth. Moving his hands before him he walked forward. It felt like he would be walking all the time to softer ground, but he didn't stop.
He walked forward until he suddenly heard his own steps. It sounded like he would be walking on trough out wet moss. On every step it sounded wetter and soon when he continued he could hear a splash.
He stopped. It was like he would be standing in a pool. He felt how water started to gather into his shoes and how small waves hit against his ankles. But he didn't see. He saw nothing before him or behind him.
He sensed no one around him. He was alone in this pitch-black place standing in a pool. A lonely wind catch his long hair, but he couldn't see in the darkness his white strands of hair even thought he felt them against his face.
Suddenly small candles catch fire in distance. They were small candles but they lit the whole place. The small candles danced around.
He started to see reflections of the candles on surface of the pool where he was standing. The white strands of hair before his face started to shine like silver. His golden eyes stared at the lights dancing above the water.
From the candles emerged very light smoke into the air. But even thought it was light it was thick as a cloud and slowly but surely it started to cover the air above them.
He, who had felt lonely and uncomfortable, was now lit with the light as well. He was surrounded by the warm light of the candles and his long white hair shone even more like silver and his golden eyes competed with the shining hair.
Slowly the smoke from the candles started to take shape. Surrounded by light the cloud with a shape of woman fell on the pool's surface like it suddenly would have gotten a lot of weight.
In the middle of the candle lights stood a woman with long strands of curly blonde hair. Her sky blue eyes looked deep into him and he tried to get a step back, but something stopped his legs.
The woman whose body was shapeless just a moment ago now landed down from the light surrounding her. The smoke that had landed on the pool's surface surrounded her tall but slender body.
He was paralyzed when staring at the women. His golden eyes stared at her all-knowing blue eyes. When he fell into the beauty of those eyes he didn't realize the fact that this woman before him was a human.
The woman swung her hands strongly and so all the smoke around her fell on the surface of the pool again. Now she had clothes on her - clothes that shone more brightly than his silvery hair or golden eyes.
He couldn't move anywhere when the woman walked toward him holding her hand out for him to grab it. Her first so expressionless face turned into encouraging one with a slight smile.
He, who didn't know where he was, hesitated, but all his hesitation was gone by that smile and so he slowly took her hand. . .
***reality***
"Nothin' yet, Shizuka?" asked a human warrioress when walking into her dark hut. Before the door was a bamboo screen that left the little rays of sun out from the hut.
The hut was dark and split with a curtain in the middle. In the middle of the hut was a fire place. The warrioress took off her sandals when walking on the floor that was higher than the ground. From her back she took her two katanas down on the ground and with a strong pull she freed her red curly hair from a string that held it up.
She turned to look at her left side where one blonde woman with expressionless face sat beside a wounded man. The blonde woman shook her head when looking up at her chief with her blue eyes. Her long curls were wrapped into a band behind her back and she was dressed into a kimono with blue and white colors.
The warrioress sighed and sat beside the other woman staring at the wounded man. Both of the women like the whole village knew that this wounded man was no human. But neither of them sensed any demon powers from this man and thus so their fear was true.
"How long do you think he'll still sleep?" the warrioress asked from the blonde woman.
With his fingers Shizuka showed first two then three and then one finger. After that she added a shrug to it and made the warrioress sight. "So you don't know, huh" the warrioress sighed again.
They had been waiting for five days already for this man to wake up. They had found him from the forest surrounding their small village. He had fallen of tiredness on the ground just when they found him. They knew this demon was one of Kurai's preys.
"Arashi" a man called from the doorway of the hut.
"What is it, Senshi?" the warrioress asked standing up when hearing her name. This man who came to get her was her younger brother. They both had greenish brown eyes, but when Arashi's hair was almost bright red Senshi's was reddish brown and not even wavy.
"The villagers are calling for you, their chief" Senshi said when pointing over his shoulder at all the people outside.
Arashi sighed and nodded. When Senshi left she put her hand on Shizuka's shoulder. "I'll come back when I can" she said silently and the blonde woman nodded.
Shizuka looked after Arashi who took her sandals and weapons before leaving the hut. She sighed and then took a small cloth and put it into a wooden bucket with water. When damping the cloth she placed it on the man's forehead.
She truly didn't know how long it would take before the man would open up his eyes. She was a healer of the village, but she was not someone who made miracles. And she didn't know what would be the best way to help a demon.
She sighed and looked at the doorway hearing the village people to gather outside.
***outside the hut***
"We have been patrolling by day and night, but we haven't found anything" a villager pointed out when Arashi was sitting on the ground before her people leaning on her two katanas. Her brother was standing besides her holding his javelin and her other side was standing a woman with long jet- black hair. She looked more Japanese than any one else of the three of them.
"I don't understand" the black haired woman muttered. "Why would a man... demon, even a demon, come into the Mists with only his robes!?" This woman had grey eyes that calmed some people and others made nervous.
Arashi herself sometime wonders what truly moves in this younger woman's mind. The chieftess stood up swinging her katanas on her shoulder. "Now" she said to get everyone's attention.
"Chieftess! Arashi!!" someone shout from the side interrupting the chieftess. Senshi turned around just like the black haired woman and his sister. There was running one man with three others toward them.
"We found something!" the man that run faster than the others shout having a peace of cloth in his hand.
Arashi stepped past her brother to see the cloth closer when the man stopped right before her. She took the cloth that was bloody. She sniffed it and then handed it to her brother.
"Smell of human... and that man" Senshi said silently after sniffing the cloth as well.
The black haired woman took the cloth from him and sniffed it as well. "Kurai" she whispered and made Arashi turn around to look at them.
The little cloth was white and red, smelled of human and this demon from her hut; it had the smell of Kurai and surely had something to do with their guest.
Suddenly a bell rang just behind them and when they turned around they saw Shizuka ringing a bell that hang outside Arashi's hut. When Shizuka had gotten everyone's attention she stopped and quickly gestured to Arashi. The chieftess should come and see something.
"Is he awake?" Arashi asked under her breath when with out another thought run into her hut.
***dream?***
The man was alone again... All alone. The blonde woman he had seen earlier was gone. He saw only blackness but now he didn't feel damp earth under him. Suddenly everything was lit up. He recognized the place to be a forest.
He knew he had been here earlier. He knew that he didn't want to come here again, but when he looked behind him he was surrounded by the forest.
The air was heavy and misty. You barely could see the trees trough the thick mist. It was silent. All you could here was the usual noises of small animals. That made it too silent, but somehow he knew what he had to fear in here.
He walked forward to find a way out. He walked taking big steps but the further he got the more it seemed like he wasn't moving at all. Not even a single tree was getting nearer.
Out of his nature he was starting to panic. This feeling he had would make anyone fear.
Suddenly he heard a shrilling scream and that made him panic more. He looked around and heard steps. Heavy steps showing that this creature he feared was coming nearer. He had seen him he knew but it felt like this would be the first time.
Suddenly from the middle of the shrilling scream you could hear a girls cry. He didn't think twice when turning to that direction. He tried to run, but something held up his feet. He looked down and the earth was starting to take his legs in.
He tried to get himself free, but the girl's cry made him remember again why he had tried free. He tried to get free again but it was no use. Suddenly the cry stopped and all he could hear the heavy steps again.
After a short moment before him stood a dog-like beast having a human girl in his mouth – dead.
***back***
"RIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!"
Shizuka was surprised by the sudden scream from the man. Arashi was standing beside her having her eyes wide open.
Shizuka put her hands on the man's shoulders trying to find his eyes. The man was breathing heavily holding his only hand on his chest. He didn't look up. He didn't notice Shizuka's warm hands. He only saw Rin bitten by a demon.
Shizuka looked at the man with calm eyes and moved some strands of white hair away from his face. She had called the chieftess here to see him cause he was sweating so much. He had seen nightmares, she knew.
Nightmares are horrible to demons and human. When seeing nightmare – despite how cold and feelingless you are – your biggest fears and the most unwelcome feelings comes to you. Maybe that is why many say they don't dream.
But in truth. . . If you don't dream, you don't have any wishes for future. You have no memories to cherish and you have nothing that would be important to you. Memories, feelings and wishes make our dreams.
This is at least how Shizuka thought when she silently brought the man's head against her chest to calm him down. It didn't matter were you a demon or humans. The fear and feeling was same for both when seeing a nightmare.
Arashi sighed deep when calming herself down. The demon they had in her hut seemed to calm in Shizuka's arms. That was what was so wonderful in this blonde human who's origin is a mystery. Only her presence and wordless care for life made anyone calm. Was it human or demon, it didn't matter.
The aura around Shizuka was calming for both. Her understanding and gentle touch soothed your heart.
Arashi sighed again deep slightly smiling. Now it didn't matter what was this man's origin, why was he here. Now what mattered was his well being and Shizuka seemed to be again the one to take care of that.
Arashi stood up and silently left the hut. When leaving the hut she could hear some muttering from inside. She knew it wasn't their silent healer and so it had to be this man there.
He was getting well. She was sure about that!
A/N: I hope you liked it ^_^ I kinda liked to write it and now when I have been working other stories that Tear of a ghost I have gotten new inspirations.
I also noticed that I first had a wrong name for this story. Somehow 'Cursed moments of Fate' was stuck into my head thought I had decided not to talk about fate but trust. Now it's corrected anyhow. Just don't get confused by it.
See ya! Ja ne!