Disclaimer: This is the first, last, and only time that I will say this: All characters from the series Inu Yasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale, do not belong to me.

Author: And so begins another.... ::: :::

Summary: Legacy of the Western Lands: The Power of Weakness.
The story begins with Enya Taisho, Inu Taisho's father, and it will end with Sesshoumaru Taisho. This story is one of my theories of the Western Lands.

::: Enya Taisho :::

"Midoriko! Are you okay?" Asked the Silver Haired demon. His face lit up with worry, he kneeled down to get a better look. His tall slender body tired yet restless.
"I'm fine, Enya.... Please, go take care of those people over there." Replied the priestess, she was quite a powerful priestess, with a tattoo across her forehead, opposite of the Sun tattoo on the demons cheek, she had a Red Moon.
"Don't even try to lie to me, do not forget, I am a demon, I can smell that you have a fresh wound, that is still leaking blood." Turning around, his eyes scanned the field "Kirara! Quick, get over here. I need you to take Midoriko to that village, while I take care of the wounded townsfolk" Receiving a nod from the Young Cat demon, he picked Midoriko up gently, and placed her onto the large structure of the Cat.
'I hope Midoriko has enough strength to get to the healer's, house and ask for help.... But now I must help these people'

He watched her as the White cat demon took her away... Her robes were covered with blood, her long black hair stained, she was not quite as tall as him, but nonetheless, quite tall for human standards. He himself was about Seven feet tall, towering above most humans, he wore a dark blue cloak most of the time, and he had more than mastered the art of concealing his demon form. To most, he appeared as a pale adult, in his mid-twenties, his cloak covering most of his body, the most distinguishable part of him was his long silver-white hair and his 'short' sword at his side, though when released by him, it would change to double the length, it was one of the most powerful swords of his time.

The two demons and the priestess had fought off a hoard of Giant Frog Demons, only to find out later that they were capable of deadly venom. They were doing fine, until a band of traveling youths had come by, and the Frog Demons, instantly gave up on the three and started attacking the troupe. Enya, Midoriko, and Kirara had tried to intervene, but there were too many Frog Demons and too many of the frightened teenagers to protect, he remembered the faces of each one, too scared to move, as soon as they saw the priestess, their eyes had lightened up, but when they saw me and Kirara, they gave us glares of hatred....

"Get away from me Demon!"
"Please, I'm only trying to help."
"Sou, Sakura really needs some help, and this demon doesn't look like he'll hurt us..."
"Fine, but I don't trust him!"
Giving a nod of thanks to the girl, he started studying the wounds of the so called Sakura. He had never really been much of a healer, but Midoriko had taught him quite a few things. He studied the strange lime texture of the poison, and a crescent shaped tooth bite of the Frog. Most of the kids were fine, some had gotten a little wounded, but only two had actually gotten bitten and poisoned.
' I don't recognize this poison... Come on Enya, think!'

::: Young Enya :::

"Watcha doin Maddy?"
"Here let me show you. This is a herb garden, theres a LOT of herbs and Lady Sathe has taught me a lot about healing, Ill try to show you some okay, but be quiet, if anyone sees you, they'll get really mad."

Enya always snuck in here to be with Midoriko, she was his only friend, ever since his Father died, his mother had cared for nothing, only taking the food that Enya hunted daily. He listened intently.

"...- And this here, is the Anabochi herb, its REALLY rare and can cure all sorts of poison, you can tell that its different because of the orange spores under the leaves, the very similar Bona herb will only aid poison, so look for the differences. "

::: Enya Taisho :::

' Anabochi herb...' He fished around his pouch, and grabbed the Six Leaf Petal herb and checked under the leaf, this was Anabochi all right.
Enya crushed the dried leaves of Anabochi and added a little bit of water from his pouch, he stirred the mixture for a minute and quickly finished the antidote.

"What are you doing Demon?! Your taking too long, at this rate, she'll die!"

He tried to ignore the constant protests of the teenager, and finished his pasty red antidote. Enya quickly applied it to both of the poisoned ones and gave the troupe instructions.

"I know you don't trust me, but listen up. You will have to carry these two to the nearest healer possible, I applied some antidote, but I'm afraid that it might not work, so just in case, take them to the village to the north, it will take you til sunset to get there so get going, I'll scout around and take care of any of those pests left."

"Yes, thank you. We'll do that. Come on guys, lets go!" Said the girl who had previously helped him.

::: Midoriko Hanashi :::

' Seriously, the wounds she had were quite small, Enya was so careful about anything dangerous when it came to her, but he never knew that this is what she was trained to do, fight demons and protect people...' Midoriko smiled at the thought of Enya leaning down with his silky smooth silver hair, looking into her eyes questioning her to see if she was okay, his tender soft blue eyes....'

Kirara landed, disturbing Midoriko's thoughts.

"Well, I might as well go to get this wound cleansed and checked out" She said to the ever silent cat demon. Walking down to what looked like the local healers house, she knocked, but as she did, she realized that her arm was in a lot of pain.... And only then did she realize she really was wounded. Thus she fainted.

::: Enya Taisho :::

After killing off rest of the rest of the Frog Demons with his Demon sword, the Tanija, he had raced with his demon speed until he reached the Group he had previously saved, he followed them slowly, making sure they were okay, though he couldn't wait until he got to the town himself, he already missed Midoriko, and it had only been a few hours... He and she had never been separated after Midoriko had finally been let out to battle the demons as a Honored Priestess. Many had frowned and shook their heads when they saw the powerful priestess with a Mononoke, no matter how good looking he was. They saw him as a threat, as an enemy.

...

As soon as the children had arrived at their destination, Enya quickly hid his demonic features and followed the beautiful scent of Midoriko...

He saw the now-tiny form of Kirara, purring at him, outside a door. Picking Kirara up, he knocked the door to be greeted by a old lady.

"Excuse me? Would you have happened to see my friend, a priestess who had a large injury near her hips and her left arm?"

"Oh, her. I'm afraid she's passed out at the moment, but you can come see the little darling" The old lady smiled.

' Passed Out?! Not even he had known she was so intensely injured... Midoriko was powerful and strong, she had survived much worse before...But still.'

He followed the old healer and came to a room, he opened the door and walked inside, the old lady quietly shut the door and let him have some privacy with Midoriko.

"I'm sorry I let you get wounded...." He said, gently stroking the black hair of the unconscious priestess.

...

"Excuse me sir?" Enya noticed that he had fallen asleep on Midoriko while sitting in his chair, he didn't even know how exhausted he was. That clan of Frog demons were powerful.

"Yes?"

"I brought you some things to cleanse your wounds with. I noticed that you have quite a few."

' Wounds...?' He looked down at himself and saw that there were quite a few places his armor was covered with blood, he must have forgotten.

"Yes, thank you very much." He said, as he followed the healer to his own room, he handed some money that should have been more than enough for two rooms, the medicine, and her taking care of them.
The lady looked as if she was about to refuse the money, so Enya quickly shoved it into her hand and smiled.

She left after she had applied the medicine. Enya didn't really need medicine, his demon blood would've healed his wounds by the next morning anyways, but the old lady was too generous, and he felt like he couldn't refuse. And with thoughts of Midoriko, he lay on his bed and fell asleep.

Author: Yes, I HAD to use the name Enya, I couldn't think of anything else anyways...