Disclaimer: As well as eveybody knows i don't own Inuyasha. If I did I would change the plot to be more around Sesshomaru.

(Note: Contest still going. Easy.)

Rescue

Soun Yee stomped her way to the back portions of the orchard to get away from the others. "Stupid jerks. How dare they criticize that I scare away men or don't fall for every samurai or warlord that comes to town. And the nerve of Ubaaba! Setting me up like that." She sat down by a small stream that had tiny fish swimming around freely.

"Someday I'll become a real warrior, than I can leave this village and work on my own destiny. I won't become a slave to any man."

At that moment half the contents in her basket were knocked over and fell into the stream. "Darn it!" Soun Yee tried to gather up the fallen fruit but a lot had flowed down stream to the forest. "Hey come back." She raced down the stream after the runaway peaches until an uproot caught her foot and tripped her. She fell flat on her face and fueled her rage. "Grrr, this has not been my day."

The girl shot back on her feet and caught a glimpse of a soldier. Immediately she ducked back in the tall grass in surprise. She peeked through the grass to get a better look at who was there.

Right underneath the moss-covered roots of a large old tree by the shore was a man with long flowing black hair and was dressed in an odd white robe. On his right shoulder was a white boa or fur scarf wrapped around him.

She approached him carefully keeping her distance but close enough to see if he's alive and safe.

There was an arrow sticking out of his chest with plain white feathers at the end, so a military man didn't shoot him.

His face was handsome enough though. There were two faint lines and each side of the face and a mark that looked like a crescent moon on his forehead. All of which looked no more than fading scars.

Soun Yee kept her distance but moved close enough to see if he was unarmed. He had a sword attached to his belt nothing else. "Well, let's see if he's alive." She grabbed a tall blade of grass from the river edge. She stepped closer till the fare end of the blade was an inch from his face. Slowly it moved toward and away from him. "He's alive but he's lost a lot of blood. I could help but he'll just die anyway." She gathered up the last of the food and began to walk away. Soun Yee then started to remember the classes she took when she was younger to learn about herbal medicine.

Ubaaba in memory: "Now remember girls that just applying the right herbs can save the patient even if he's a moment from death. But, if nothing works than you should stay with them so they won't feel lonley during their passing."

"Alright alright you old hag I'll do it, but just to get you out of my head."

Soun Yee walked to the wounded man and sat close to get a better look at his chest wound. Carefully she broke off part of the arrow to make it easier to remove the robes. He flinch a bit as she shifted the robes to one side and start to pull the arrow out. Once removed she took out some prepared herbs and lightly sprinkled them on the wound.

He hissed in pain and started to jerk further into the tangled roots. Soun Yee placed one hand around his shoulder and the other right on the wound. "Shh, it's alright now. No one's going to hurt you." He calmed a bit and she noticed that he was still asleep. "He heard me in his sleep?"

Soun Yee just shrugged it off and began to clean the wound of infection.

She looked back to face at how pale he was. His breathing sounded very dry and crackled. Soun Yee looked through her basket to find one of the fruit she was harvesting. With a short knife she cut the large peach in half and removed the pit. Soun Yee positioned herself above his head and tilted his chin up. Slowly she squeezed one half of the fruit at his lips. The juices and fluids quickly filled up the space where the pit was and poured easily down the soldier's throat, "Mihoshi would just love to hear about this."

As soon as the man's breathing was more fluent and easier Soun Yee continued to tend his wound.

Just as she was about to wrap some bandages around him the man suddenly woke up and slashed at her with his hands/claws.

She dodged out of the way and slapped him right across the face.

Smack!

"Hey! Just what's the big idea buddy?! I am trying to help you and you go around and try to take my head off! Unless you got an explanation for that stop moving and let me finish." She screamed with her cinched fist ready to strike again.

He just starred at her in a surprised/confused look in his eyes. Almost as if this was the first time someone talked to him in a long time. He looked lost and still dazed of what had happened to him.

"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue?"

The man blinked in confusion. Without another word she preceded with wrapping the bandages over the wound, with the patient watching her. When she finished she dragged him to a cave near the orchard and wrapped him in her overnight cloak.

"Now it's best if you stay here and be quiet till you've healed. I'll be back in a little while."

She then left and the man looked around the cave to get a bearing of where he was. His focus was coming back to him from a dreamy state. "Where am I? How did I get here? Why did I freeze like that when that girl was with me?"

He placed a hand on his head in frustration. He gasped when he noticed that the marks on his arms were gone and were only faint scars lighter than his skin. His hand had short nails barley passing the finger. He gripped some of his hair and pulled it toward him. The midnight black strands shimmered in the moonlight peering through the mouth of the cave. "It can't be. It's not possible. How could I, a full fledged demon, be turned into a human?!"

Meanwhile in Soun Yee's village a terrorizing group of bandits were gathering everyone for an evening assembly.

"Is everyone here?" asked a very smelly bandit watching all the farmers dump their harvest and being shoved into large corrals. Another thief stepped up to him and bowed, "Just as you ordered sir. All the women in area and the children in the other."

Counting all the heads in the women's side a scrawny little one nervously reported to the lutenant. "Uh sir, there appears to be one missing."

The first bandit glared at him in an outrage, "What?! Who is it?!"

A couple of heavily muscled guards trumped their way out of the fields to the village center. One of them was holding a rope with a captive tied at the other end. They approached their leader and threw her at his feet.

The Leader was standing in front of the doors of the largest tavern. He wore a dark black robe with a sword and whip tied at the belt. His black hair was tied up in a large ponytail and looked like a long knife. He walked toward the runaway and lifted her chin from the dirt, "Well well well, if it isn't the rebel Soun Yee again. Let me guess, you tried to run away after your assault on one of my men again didn't you little vixen."

She just leered at him.

"I know you remember the punishment for being late for assembly; an entire day trapped in the storehouse, or a night with me." He said eyeing her all over and grinning evilly.

Disgusted by his crude flattery she spit right in his face.

In disappointment he yanked her by the hair and tossed her back on the ground, her hands still tied together. "I hate to ruin such a pretty face, but you'll need to be taught a lesson. For now lock her in the storeroom."

The guards dragged Soun Yee to a large windowless storehouse and locked her inside.

At the edge of the forest the newly changed Sesshomaru watched her and the predicament she was in. "That girl, that was the one who helped me. Why did she do that? And why are her superiors locking her up. Is this how all humans act toward each other?"

Nearly an hour later a boy sneaked to the side of the storehouse. Out of a small hole Soun Yee passed him a bottle and he ran off. "Hn. I wonder what he's up to."

The bandits were overflowing the tavern with some of the women of the village serving them more food and sake.

The leader just stayed quiet while the others were quickly getting drunk.

"Hey captain hip," squeaked one bandit finishing his drink, "Can we go play with the kitty now?" "You know the feisty one?!" another chimed in eagerly.

"No you may not." He just said not bothering to look at his plastered comrades. The leader them paused and thought for a while. "Then again, that girl Soun Yee is becoming quite a bother. It'll be best if we teach her to have respect for us, permanently." He glared at the two minions who asked him earlier, "On second thought, bring the kitty here. We could use some entertainment."

They jumped up with excitement and ran toward the storehouse.

Soun Yee awoke to the overly ampliphied voices of several drunken bandits heading to the storehouse. "Hm, sounds like my potion worked. Now to get out of here." She drew out her weapon (a harvest tool (a curved blade attached to a short stick (kind of like Kohaku's weapon))) and positioned her self next to the door. The bandits unlocked it and came stumbling in.

"Here kitty kitty kitty."

"Meow, meow."

The more sober ones glanced around the entrance but the darkness made it hard to see, "Alright wench, the Chief wants to see you."

With a turn of a wrist she sliced a rope behind her with the blade.

Sesshomaru outside grasped his chest wound to stop the pain as he saw a couple of the bandits being thrown out of the house by a large log tied to the doorway. The girl jumped out and ran toward another house where the barbarians were holding the women captive. She ran out to one of the large huts and cut open the locks and swung open the doors. "Everyone get out of here." The occupants charged out to the other houses to free the children and older men. The same boy from before ran to her and handed her the bottle. "Thanks Sano, it worked. Now get out here while they're still in there."

One of the bandits stepped out of the tavern for some fresh air when he saw the villagers escaping, "Quick everyone, prisoners are getting away!"

Immediately half of the gang stormed out after them while tripping and falling over each other. When one grabbed a woman he was too hung over to hold on and ended with a knee where the sun doesn't shine. When a stronger willed thief grabbed a child a curved blade slashed clean through his back. The kid stepped away in fear to see his kidnapper's killer. Soun Yee. "Run Sano now!" he ran with the others into the woods, "Be careful Soun."

When all the villagers had disappeared into the forest when the leader grabbed Soun Yee by the arm and placed a dagger at her throat. She looked into his fiery red eyes which were burning with rage and alcohol, "You have really gone and done it wench. Now I'll have to teach you a lesson myself!" he knocked her weapon out of her hand and dragged her to another hut. Once inside he threw her to a wall scrapping his knife on her shoulder causing it to bleed quickly and pinned her with his body. Soun Yee felt his lips press against hers as she fought to get him away. The bandit chief threw her to the ground and climbed on top. "I'll show you how to give proper respect!"

Suddenly the wall in front of him was blown away. The man covered his face from the flying splinters and dust. Soun Yee tried to sit up and turn to see what had happened.

Right where the wall used to be stood a man with long flowing black hair with a fur boa over his shoulder. "Is that..? No, it couldn't be."

"Who do you think you are?!" screamed her attacker in a drunken rage. Without warning a knife was shot at the leader's head, killing him instantly.

Soun Yee laid there in shock as the stranger approached her. Her vision was fading from blood loss when the warrior picked her up (bridle style) and walked away from the hut. Fighting to remain conscious she heard the rest of the bandits setting the village a blaze. They were well into the woods when her injuries and exhaustion got the better of her.

Okay how was it? Not a bad way to meet someone isnt it?

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