The Demon Bride
By Crystal Arrow
Prologue: First Appearance of a long Forgotten Memory
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the other character from that story; they belong to someone else who actually has talent.
Deep in a forest Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru fought yet another battle against each other. Kagome stood on the sidelines, horrified. Shippo is on the ground cheering Inuyasha on. Myoga was on top of Shippo's head, anxiously watching the battle. On the other side, Jaken stood with his extremely ugly stick waiting the right moment. Hiding a distance off from the battlefield was Rin, wondering why Sesshoumaru left her there.
The battle between the brothers had been going on for a few hours now. Yet again, Sesshoumaru had come trying to take the Tetsusaiga away from his little brother. The sword now lies on the sidelines, forgotten by the demons on their rampage for the other's blood.
Inuyasha fell to the ground after a hard blow to the back of the head by his half brother. With eyes wide, he crashed into the ground from the force of the blow. Kagome gasps as Sesshoumaru gets out of the way as Jaken hits Inuyasha with a large fireball. Inuyasha manages to get out of the way just before getting hit by the blast, but is badly burned. The Dog demons glare their hatred at each other. Hidden within a tree near the clearing made by the demons' fight, a dark feminine figure shifted into a better position to jump from her place when the time came. You are able to see her eyes only, under bangs and leaves. They are a deep golden yellow, which show anxiety and worry masked over by long-lived sadness.
Inuyasha tries to rise but he is unable to for the long toll of battle began to wear down on him. Kagome runs forward to stop him from stubbornly trying to rise and continue to fight though to do so would be his death. She turns to Sesshoumaru and begs for him to spare Inuyasha. He says nothing, yet Jaken fires an even larger fireball at the couple on the ground s he tries to finish his job of getting rid of his mater's pests. Kagome turns and hugs Inuyasha to her, hoping to shield him from the blast. Amazingly, the fireball never hits them.
The fireball collides with something, causing it to implode. Dust and lose dirt and rubble flew about the air from the force of the explosion. Kagome squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to block out the future she knew would be ahead of her when the fire hit her, it would be her death. Yet it never hit her. Kagome could feel fire against her skin and small sticks and twigs come flying at her from ahead, only giving her a few minor cuts and bruises from their impact upon her. Upon opening her eyes, she found herself in a cloud of smoke and dust. Looking up, she could only see the figure of a woman, no a girl braced against a now depleted force.
As the smoke clears, the scene becomes visible to those outside of the dust cloud, revealing what has happened. Inuyasha is barely conscious and Kagome only mildly burned. Myoga and Sesshoumaru both gasp as they see another dog demon. She looks younger than Kagome, but has a mature air to her. Long wavy black hair billows in response to the force of the blow from Jaken's stick (whatever you call that ugly thing, heck if I know). Also slightly shorter than Kagome, she wore a very pretty Kimono that appeared to be made of the same material as the outfit Inuyasha always wore, only hers was dyed green. She would have looked human, were it not that she had two gray doglike ears and a gray tail that made you think twice about calling her human.
Sesshoumaru stood speechless. Atop of Shippo's head, Myoga whispered, "Milady Michera…" Everything seemed to freeze as the dust settled completely. The girl had eyes almost identical to Inuyasha's or Sesshoumaru's. In Sesshoumaru's eyes, time froze completely as a memory from the past that he had tried desperately to forget resurfaced at the appearance of this gray dog demoness, enough to disperse his emotionless mask he always wore so he could widen his eyes in shock at the appearance of what he thought he had lost so long ago.
Author's note: Okay, so this is the new story. Please tell me what you think. It's my first Inuyasha fanfic. I already know what I'll write next, I just have to write it, so bear with me until I get to that.
~Crystal Arrow
