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Sesshomau's Forbidden Bonds

First Impressions

Soun Yee woke up to find herself laying on bed of moss deep in the forest outside her village. The cloak that she left behind was around her to keep warm and her shoulder was bandaged up. Not far away was a steady flowing stream and across it was the warrior she helped yesterday.

"I see that you're awake." She heard him say in a very deep emotionless voice.

She nodded and slowly got up on her feet. "How long was I out?"

"A few hours, not long. Though I am surprised that you lasted so long before loosing consciousness."

The women looked at her shoulder again and starred in his eyes, "Did you do this?"

He turned his head to the steam, "Healed it if you mean."

Sesshomaru kept starring at his reflection on the stream, still shocked that he had indeed been turned into a human.

"Thank you." He heard the human girl say to him. The demon/man froze at her words. "She's 'thanking' me. I didn't 'mean' to help her is just happened. (sigh) This form is messing with my judgment. Still, I could use her until I find out how to regain my demon powers."

After a while they walked back to the village to see that it was burned to the ground. The fields had been torn up and the storehouses were robbed bare.

"Barbarians. Filthy scoundrel barbarians!" the women growled under her breath. She ventured into the destroyed orchard and gathered what food it had left and walked down the road with the warrior. Within a few hours of endless walking Sesshomaru began to question her.

"I suppose that those men in the village were bandits yes?"

She froze for a second and increased her speed, staying just a few steps ahead. "Not that it's any of your business but they're more than bandits. They're no good liars and betrayers."

"Is that so?" he asked in interest.

"Yes. They came to our village saying they'll protect the women, children and elders while the men went to fight in the wars that began to threaten us. But after they left they started treating us as nothing more than slaves. Forcing us to work endless hours and rounded us in tight groups like cattle. Then only a week ago I learned that the so called protectors had slaughtered our men just to get control of the village."

"I thought bandits destroyed everything within a day and left nothing behind."

"The reasons for that is none of your concern. But when I told the others they didn't believe me. So I decided to make them abandon the village, with the help of this." She said stopping and pulled out the small vile from her kimono.

Sesshomaru stepped next to her to get a closer look. "I've seen it before. What's in it?"

"A few herbs. Some juices of wild berries that cause delusions. I made it during all my times in detention."

"You must have been put in there often."

The human chuckled modestly, "Anyway is enhances the side effects of alcohol and causes painful hangovers in half the time it normally wound and makes them unable to move or react quickly. While they try to get themselves organized the people would escape while I killed their leader. If I had a little more time I would have made it into a poison to whip them all out for good."

"Your husband must be very proud of you, for devising such a scheme."

The woman paused for a second, placed the vile back in her robes and slowly walked away with her head hung low. "I'm not married."

Sesshomaru looked at her with slight surprise. "Really now. I thought men would like someone like you."

She then gave a sarcastic laugh, "Ha yeah right! They prefer the empty-headed braods and broth hole girls who think their lot in life is to be slaves. Don't even think about putting ME in their category!" Soun Yee then kicked a large log that was on the road back into the forest with one swoop.

Sesshomaru: "Hmm. She's strong."

Within another moment Sesshomaru was walking alongside her.

"Besides, I don't intend on getting married anyway. There's much more to life than marriage."

Sesshomaru: "This girl's an interesting creature. She seems soft and vulnerable but can be dangerous when provoked."

The woman then looked up at him. Her head was barely reaching the top of his shoulders. "Anyway the name's Soun Yee." she said with a sweet smile

He starred into her big green eyes, desperate to keep his stern expression. "Sesshomaru."

They both walked for nearly an hour afterward without another word. They stopped at a bridge outside a huge palace. (Japanese of course.) The sun was setting behind them as darkness began to overcast the sky.

"It would be wise if we stay here for the night." Sesshomaru said looking at the palace from afar.

Soun Yee turned to him in surprise, "Are you crazy?! That's the house of a king or a warlord. If we even step close to the grounds we'll be hacked to pieces by the guards."

Ignoring her Sesshomaru calmly walked across the bridge outside the castile gates.

"(Sigh) I just hope he's good with that sword."

Within a moment they were at the front gate. Soun Yee gathered up her nerve and knock hard on the thick wooden doors of the gate. One side opened up slightly as a woman peered out to see who was there. "Who are you? State you business here and be on your way."

Resisting all the urge to beat the snobbish woman up Soun Yee put on an innocent face and asked politely, "Pardon us madam but we've been traveling for some time and would like to ask your lord if we could spend the night here."

The person (who appears to be the head woman) scrunched herself closer to the door, "The lord of this manner is out on important business right now. But even if he WAS here you're not aloud to enter these grounds. You can beg for help somewhere else."

Soun Yee was about to knock her block off when Sesshomaru placed a hand on her shoulder, making him noticeable to the Head Woman, "Perhaps it'll be best if we find somewhere else to stay for the night."

The Head Woman watch in awe of the young man as they turned out of sight from the gates.

Soun Yee flashed him an annoyed look, "First you ignore my advice and insist in coming here, and now you're letting that selfish wench just throw us off like that!? What's the matter with you?"

Sesshomaru hushed her to be quiet, "Walk slower."

She moved his hand away and grew irritated figuring out what this stranger was up to, but as soon as the head woman came rushing up to them it all became clear.

"Wait! Forgive my rudeness sir, perhaps we might have a room you could stay in for the night." she said bowing to Sesshomaru

He grinned raised an eyebrow to the offer, "Very well then."

Soun Yee then heard a loud shrieking from behind the castile walls.

"Oh my god he's staying!?"

"Yes and she's right Botan, he's really cute."

"Tall, dark, handsome, sexy voice. Haaa I'm in love!"

"Are my ears fooling me!? Those numbskulls think this guys cute. Come on he not THAT attractive."

As they were being lead into the courtyards some of the lady servants surrounded Soun Yee cutting her off from Sesshomaru.

Karou: "Now go prepare the new lord's meal."

Soun Yee: "What?!"

Botan: "He'll need a hot bath afterward so get to it."

Soun Yee: "No way!"

Mai: "Oh and see to it that there're fresh robes for him."

Soun Yee: "You have got to be crazy! I'm not serving him!"

They continued to pester her when a deep, emotionless voice rose from the crowd. "Stop it."

The girls fell silent and parted to reveal Sesshomaru glaring at them with indifference, "You will show my sister proper respect."

The women gaze back at her in surprise, "What? This thing?"

He nodded slightly.

With all of them still stonewalled she took the opportunity to make them squirm, "You've heard him, now get to work."

Immediately they race in all directions out of the courtyard.

Sesshomaru dipped himself in the hot spring near the castile and spread his arms on the rock borderline. The hot water eased his tense human muscles as he breathed in relaxation. "This is very strange. Normally things such as food, rest, and these warming waters were minor if not unnecessary to me. Now it seems that they're all I need the most. This body wears down fast and I can't seem to stop eating. The chills in the air is more harsh to this skin and I can't sense the slightest ora of a demon." He gazed into his mortal hand in a cruel lingering moment. Concentrating what energy he had to form an energy ball. But nothing came. Then he gazed to a fresh (men's style) kimono provided by the vassals and his sword next to them. "This human form will do me no good in a serious battle. I could only hope that the Tenseiga would help me in this form until I change back; whenever that'll be."

At that moment he heard a low humming heading his way from the main castile. (Lets say, 'Deep Deep Forest'.)

"Grr. I thought I told you ladies to leave me alone."

A woman stepped out from behind the rocks in a bathing robe. He turned his head to see a young elegant woman. He widened his eyes in surprise.

Her hair flowed down her back like an ebony waterfall and the tight robes fitted her every curve. He didn't notice it all before cause her hair was hidden in her work scarf and her cloths normally gave her a boyish figure. Now she appeared to be a goddess against the glowing reflections off the water with the moonlight shining down. Sesshomaru worked for every breath he could take. "Is that Soun Yee? No it couldn't be. It can't be even human."

She starred at him awkwardly for a second then narrowed her eyes, "What are to looking at?" annoyed.

Quickly he regained his composer and shut his eyes. "Nothing." "It's her."

Soun Yee tightened her robes and step toward the women's side of the spring. A wooden wall was separating the two sides setting just past the water's surface. "I... I just want to thank you for helping me out earlier. You know not making me do all those things."

"It's not of any real importance, I just thought they were acting foolish risking their lives messing with you." keeping his head the other way.

"Oh."

"Is that how every stranger treats you?" Sesshomaru ask glancing slightly in her direction.

Soun Yee turned away and brushed some of her hair from her face, "Pretty much. Once someone sees a woman traveling alone they instantly think she's a vassal looking for work." She then looked back to him with a new curiosity, "Could I ask you something Sessh?"

Sesshomaru sighed maintained his emotionless stature. "If you must. And the name's Sesshomaru."

"Whatever Sessh. I didn't get to ask you before but I was wondering how you ended up near my village? There weren't any battles of armies for miles so who was it who shot you?" Soun Yee said waiting impatiently for an answer.

"That information is of my business alone."

Irritated by his stubborn behavior Soun Yee sauntered over to his sword and cloths, grabbed them up, and walked past the border wall. "We'll see about that."

Sesshomaru was about to get up when he heard the cheerful giggles of the servant girls hiding behind the rocks. His new human instincts forced him to stay in the murky water. "Defiantly her."

Soun Yee removed the gray robes and slipped herself in the warm water. She wrapped her arms around herself protectively and gazed at the blurry stones at the bottom. "At last I'm on my own, but then why do I feel depressed? Is it because of the way I escaped? And why do I feel so close to this man? Oh pinch yourself Soun, he's only with you because you helped him in the woods."

"Soun Yee?" called a voice behind the wall.

"You can either tell me your secret Sessh, or you can just walk back to the palace yourself." She said with a grin looking at the cloths she stole from him. She pressed her ear close to a crack in the wall so she could hear Sesshomaru better. "Enough of this foolishness and return my things."

"Na ah ah. I told you my little sad story the LEAST you could do is tell me how you got into my village and who you are."

"Even if I told you there's no way you would believe me." He said plainly.

"Try me."

She then heard him give a deep sigh, "Alright."

(Pause for suspense)

"The truth is that I'm actually a powerful canine demon. The Lord of the Eastern Lands to be more precise. Two nights ago I was in battle with a spider golem of flesh and defeated it, but, it's creator cast a spell on me and turned me into a human."

Her eyes widened in disbelief at his words.

"That sword that you hold captive is the Tenseiga. A sword forged from the fang of my father, the lord of the west. It can't cut any foe but it does seem to have the power to protect its user from injury in battle."

Soun Yee pulled from the wall and leaned against it, "If what you say is true then how will you change back?"

"I don't know. I can only hope it won't be long."

Then she shrugged in amusement, and tossed his kimono over the wall. She passed the sword back to him when they were finished bathing.

"Well that's an interesting story but it's a little farfetched." Soun Yee told Sesshomaru passed the wall between the spare rooms they were provided with.

"How so?" He asked with interest.

"Well," she sat down on the futon bed and pulled her hair back into a bun, "I always thought the demons were either disconvigured worms or snakes and living shadows."

"It's true, for miner demons at least. But some strong demons can invest or create a human form to lure victims. Others on the other hand have a human-like form and a demonic form they turn to only when the battle requires it."

Soun Yee: "And let me guess you're the third one."

Sesshomaru: "Yes. But thanks to this spell I can't change. Soun Yee, I have to asked you something."

She gazed at his shadow through the thin paper wall. "Okay."

"I am, unfamiliar with many or your human customs, and I would need some, assistance, until the curse is lifted. Would you be interested in the job?"

The girl laid down on the bed and pulled the blanket o herself, "Well, I still don't believe your story, but I'll help with what I can."

"Very well."

Soun Yee blew out the oil lamp next to the futon, "Goodnight Sessh."

"Sesshomaru."

"Whatever."

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