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Ojiisan: Grandfather
Obaasan: Grandmother
Youkai: demon
Inuyoukai: Dog demon
Jaki: dark spirit or aura
Taiyoukai: God demon
Konnichiwa: Good day
Miko: Shrine maiden
Oden: Japanese food (Kagome's favorite.)
Hai: Yes
I am adding a Character emphasis on the entire situation at the beginning of each new Chapter. So here it is.
I thought my brother would be like this saint, but assuming he would be was clearly a mistake. There were many things that you assume and make a complete idiot out of yourself when faced with the truth. The only problem with me and the truth is that I tend not to handle it to well.
Add the truth a few twists and turns and you get this blabbering moron, which I tend to call myself. I lose all regard for my safety along with anyone who might be under my care, and yes that includes small children. Why you ask? Well I like to think of that as my little mystery that will never be solved, not by me at least.
So you add me and these twists which you obviously guessed were danger rejection, than finally a really strong youkai, whom is hansom beyond belief and you get a teenage girl swooning with an unhappy ending…
… Or so that's what my little Elven brain thought
Elven Rain
Chapter Two: Sesshoumaru-sama.
She appeared in a clearing standing next to her father, he smelled like her father, but the young fair face would prove confusing if it weren't for his scent. He was tall, 6 feet or more, with waist length hair which also had the dark red streaks and gleamed like silk, and his face was a pale white with dark red eye markings. He was hansom and not like she remembered him, an old withered man who could barely walk on cool days. Now he had a strong stance and carried weapons at his sides, and he was the man he spoke of when he would tell her of his past. His armor was a clear blood red in places but in other it was black leather as dark as a night without stars.
He took time to drift in her beauty as well but he knew by her scent she truly was his daughter, and her looks were much like his. She was tall about shoulder height compared to him and her hair held the same black silk look with slight hints of a crimson red. Her face unlike his had one golden mark under each eye following the curve of her slanted cheek bones, her eyes markings were the same as his with a thin line of the gold lining them. "Never once in my years have I seen such a beautiful mixed breed… She really is an amazing creature to have been born from such dirty beings other than myself." He thought but was somehow grateful that his senile behavior in the future would have bestowed him the enchanting child that now stood beside him.
She was his daughter.
He looked at her clothing which was nontraditional to his families. She wore tight pants and a long open trench coat but her shirt was what made him question. It was a black ring tee that said simply in the center,
'If I am Lost
And you are a Sexy Male
Claim Me.'
This could not be his blood allowing anything or anybody to take that as an offer. 'Claim her, "I don't think so" he thought as he tore the shirt from her. There was a slight squeak for a reaction before she yanked the coat around her bare torso firmly holding back the profane outburst resting behind her pursed lips.
The sudden destruction of her shirt terrified her making it known that her father didn't stand for such outlandish bullshit and the fact that, he had told her once no man would claim her as their mate as long as he lived stood firm and strong before her.
She clearly thought that after his passing she could do as she wanted but he was alive standing beside her and able to enforce his 'Code of Honor' or that's how he had put it when he was alive in her time. She observed his form, strong, young, proud and honorable at this moment she knew he would not stand for her times sense of humor. She was still happy to be in his presence just his scent comforted her and the code was nothing more than a way of life for her; taught by the only real person she respected; her father.
She just stood there not knowing how to come about conversation when he broke the silence. "You are my child, from who did I mate to have…" He took a sniff of air to verify that he was correct about her heritage and scrunched his face in disgust before adding, "A mixed breed."
She shook her head thinking over what he had just said. She was a mixed breed but she was more his kind than any other. He had been the one who fought to mate her mother Nari because he was beginning to die. Her child was his last chance for a worthy offspring and she knew he loved her then but now she stood before him in his prime; younger and still a warrior. He no doubt hated both the human fourth she had within her along with the wood elf. "My mother was your last true chance to have an heir." She whispered not allowing the pain of his disgust toward her to show.
He nodded his head taking a deep breath through his nose. He could smell it and knew she was half his race, one fourth dirty human and one fourth his most recent ally, a wood elf. "I have a son, he is my heir. Why would I need to mate with a half breed?"
He waited for the girls answer but only caught a faint smell of tears through her spicy scent. Had he touched on a tender memory, feeling or was she weak like the human blood that flowed through her. Her hands trembled slightly as she used both to push away stray tears and looked at him. "Your son is dead, my brother, my only brother died 300 years before I was born. I am your only and last child from where I come from."
"My son dies 300 years before she would become my sole heir, my last child, but than that meant I must have died as well." He pondered trying to figure if she was telling the truth.
It wasn't normal for someone to show up and have his blood but than so heartlessly break the news he would lose his son and the prince of his kingdom. "What year do I die child?" he questioned walking farther into the dark forest with the girl following him not far behind. The fear of being left alone with all the blood thirsty youkai that would tear her apart was a bit more over whelming then the mere fact that her father hated her blood and compelled her to follow.
She looked up at his back; his shoulders were wide, powerful like a king should look. Her mother was right her father was a great man before he lost his son; she could feel the power that he was radiating to confirm his greatness, but still she knew the power would not be enough to save their kind or her brother. "If I tell you that, will I not be changing my future? I just told you, you will lose a son, my brother is that not enough to cause my demise? But if you must know you died in the year 2037. What year is it now?"
The dark elf stopped turning to her, his eyes blazing a light grey. She remembered those eyes they were only that color when he told her he would die for her safety or that he would always be proud of her no matter her blood. He was showing her compassion something she did not expect from him in his younger form. "I know now that you are my child because those are the years when an old elf will do anything to pass on his blood to have an heir. Still I will protect you, even with your dirty blood."
Dirty blood, she was right he would not care for her mixed blood but he did know that she was his child. He turned not looking back at her as he lifted his hand saying, "Now you will meet my true heir… my son. This is your home and you will stay here and the time you spoke of you will never return to it again." Her jaw dropped as she looked at what he pointed to but it fell further when his words began to sink in. She would never see her mom or grandparents again; well missing her mom and gramps would hurt the most; grams was another story all together.
The sight of tremendous tree stood before them with black bark and in its highest branches rested a large building, dimly lit with a few sparkling lanterns scattered here or there. "I can't go back to my time?" she asked noticing of a tall man that looked almost identical to her father begin to descend down the spiral stairs that clutched what she assumed to be a god tree, coiling to the bottom. He was the brother her father had spoken of many a time when she could not sleep at night and he would tell her the stories about her brave sibling, who was simply…
…Amazing.
He followed his fathers gaze to a girl and took in her scent, "Spicy… and much like ours." He thought taking yet another look over her appearance. "She can't be, can she?" He questioned approaching his father and the strange girl. The fragrance that lingered around her was so much his own, his was a hot spicy and hers was candied and sweet.
A bad feeling swept over Angie when an iron odor of blood, human blood filled her lungs and she stepped away from her brother. His armor was clean with no signs of blood yet the scent came. She scanned him looking for any hint of the crimson that evaded her gaze. Her nose was answered with a view as the wind picked up blowing the locks of black down from his shoulder to his back. Her father raised an eyebrow finally shedding some light on the subject. "Honsu, did you get the youkai lords ward?"
"Yes father, she gave me a fight or shall I say that muse of his gave me a problem. She got hurt, but Elena is tending to her injuries." He answered wiping some of the blood from his shoulder. "The youkai was a lord and he had a human ward, a female human ward."
What was going on to cause her father to kidnap a human from a youkai lord, and from what she had sensed a strong youkai at that. Had he lost his mind or was he just crazy before he met her mother. He had told her so many times that youkai were not to be taken lightly and here he was holding ones ward captive for what seemed to her no reason at all. "He's lost his mind hasn't he? He's gonna get us all killed for this one. Wish I had gone to Disney land before this." Her mind mentally slapped her for not taking up the invitation her great uncle Souta had offered for her to go with his family to Disney Land in the US.
There was a silent moment while Honsu looked over his sister grafting her unusual scent into his mind. She wasn't his kind but nonetheless he would protect what bloodline there was left. "You're my sister?" he asked bowing his head slightly with respect.
She shook away any floating thoughts and nodded bowing at the waist to show her respect for her brother, and prince. "Hai, I am you sister." She softly replied taking in his scent one last time to mentally note it was his. "Wow, is his aroma a lot stronger than mine."
"Honsu, take your sister to one of the royal chambers and assign a servant to her. Tell them to find her some appropriate attire. What she is wearing sickens me." He ordered before agilely walking up the spiral staircase followed by both his son and daughter. They parted two separate directions the king to his study and his offspring to the royal wing of the castle.
"First off mixed breed you will listen to everything I say to you now. Understood?" Her brother snapped a cold demeanor poised in his voice.
"Hai." She answered trying not to stir the disgust she could hear in his tone.
"First off do not venture where you can not see, that includes this castle and the forest that lay around it. Second do not question myself or father, consequences will be dire. Third you are a Dark Elf and nothing else I do not want you to be shunned for you dirty blood nor would father. Fourth and last, do not ever trust a youkai young, old, injured, even if they claim they are trustable. They all are blood thirsty animals who can not handle their instincts. Now what did I tell you in order?" He demanded annoyance clearly laced into his last sentence.
Angie stopped walking putting up a hand to count them off as she said them. "Um, first, no wandering the castle in places I can not see that includes the forest around us…. Yeah right second, no asking dumb questions from you or dad or I will be punished. Third…." She placed her hand on her hip tilting her gaze to the ceiling to think. On the hand she was counting the ring finger twiddled about lost on what it was suppose to be. She stiffened and her eyes lit up. "Oh yeah, Third, I am a Dark Elf and nothing else… Fourth is easy," "Dad drummed it into me long before now so here goes." She thought and finished, "Youkai are not to be trusted no matter their situation or mine they are blood thirsty animals who can not control their instincts." She flung her hand out in front of her thumb up as congratulations for her self.
Her brother's eye twitched at that. Not only was he embarrassed for her but he pitied the fact that he was related. "Yes, well that was lucky, but we will see if you can keep your ideals and the rules without screwing up." He growled flinging open the door they had stopped next to. "Your room, sister. The elf I spoke of dealing with the youkai's ward will be by later to take her duties as your servant." He bit shoving her inside and slamming the door behind her.
"How rude." She giggled out trying not to laugh at his completely arrogant attitude. "Must be hard being an ass." She drawled on looking around the room, and it wasn't a tiny room either. "Wow." She mentally awed impressed with the room.
A huge bed covered in white linen sheets was set center with a canopy top and draperies hung around it to keep light out. On the far left side back toward the door of the room was a vanity with make up, and a brush set strewn about it. On the right was a desk next to a book shelf and white lounge chair probably for casual reading. The last thing was a wardrobe on the left wall and a face washing station which she remembered was clearly used way before her time.
She walked around before throwing her hands out like a birds wings before flight and dropped backwards onto her bed and exhaled. "Now this is luxury."
She lay there for a moment taking in the silence of the castle but sat up abruptly when she heard a child… crying. It was quiet but she knew better than let her great hearing trick her. It was easy to misinterpret the distance of someone counting on the loudness of their voice. The cry was coming from near by she realized when she couldn't hear any echoing of the sound. It was close like in the next room close.
She slid off the bed heading to the door, cracked it and peeked to see if anyone was there. A servant passed by murmuring a few profane words before she disappeared into the darkness of the long hallway. This was her chance and she took it, sliding out of her room and to the room adjacent from hers where she heard the cries drifting from. She opened the door peeking. There on a bed sat a girl around 8 sobbing quietly into her hands. Angie who felt a bit guiltily slipped in slowly sure not to frighten the girl any further than she already was.
"Hi." She softy interjected to get the girls attention. She was small and teary about being here no doubt. Her brother had done a number on her. She was shaking and covered in her own blood.
Angie took a whiff to see if she was still bleeding, but was reassured when she could smell no fresh blood or injury. Elven healing was a life saver no doubt but it wasn't easily given. The girl had been taken care of by a very strong healer and Angie would have her as her servant. "Boy am I lucky." She thought edging closer to the girl until she was sitting on the bed next to her.
"I'm Angie, you don't have to be afraid that youkai will never see you again you'll be safe with us." She said only to cause the little girl to whale louder. "Great going Bozo." She thought psychologically kicking herself.
"Calm down please." She begged putting an arm around her trying to comfort her and keep anyone from hearing. It was her ass if she were caught in here with her father's prisoner.
She stopped almost instantly and put a smile on her face while looking up at Angie. "I'm Rin." "Rin what a weird name." Angie deliberated. She flung out a hand and they shook.
"So Rin, who is this youkai who my father stole you from?" Angie asked quizzically wide eyed and somewhat astonished that the only thing she could come up with was to ask who a youkai was. "What do I care about some stupid youkai anyway?" She grumbled incoherently and mostly in her head.
"He's saved Rin, and he is Sesshoumaru-sama. He takes care of me and lets me pick flowers all day. Oh and there's Jaken, Rin doesn't really like him much but he is always with Rin. He makes Rin's food and helps her dress too. But Jaken is weird sometimes. He talks to himself a lot…abuc" She was cut short when Angie shoved a hand over her mouth.
"Yeah I get it." She whispered trying to keep her voice down.
Rin pulled her hand down and her smile brightened before she started talking again. "Why is Angie here?" She asked dumbfounding Angie and causing her to almost tip off the bed in bewilderment.
"Dar… Uh… I'm the princess if that's how you want to put it here, but between us nether of them, my dad or brother have a clue what my name is. And I really get the feeling they don't care. They kind of forced me here because I am blood and told me I can't go home. It's really a bummer we got the short end of the stick, eh?" She grinned sensing Rin was no longer trembling from her presence.
Hours pasted letting the two talk and get to know one another but it was short lived when the door swung open.
Angie's brother stormed in eyes blazing with anger, and instinctively she picked Rin up into her embrace protecting her. "What are you doing in here?" he growled slamming his fist into the bed post. Splinters flew allover the place causing her to turn to shield the child from them. A few pieces lodged into her back but she still didn't reply. "This will end in punishment. Did you not listen to what I said about not going to places you can not see, you stupid mixed breed? What is that dirty blood in control?" he yelled slapping her.
"No, its not. Unlike you I can not hurt a child and leave them to cry in the dark." She yelled back with enough intensity to cause a human man to cower.
"Get out of here and go back to your room. This is none of you concern." He barked trying to pull the child from her grasp. She didn't let him, and she wasn't going to.
She yanked Rin back away from him running out of the room and down the corridor, down the stairs to the front hall through the doors and down the spiral staircase. Her brother could not rectify the fact that he had just called her an idiot because of her blood and at that moment it didn't matter what he had said, it was what he had done. He slapped her hurting her pride in him and in herself for thinking he was a real hero.
Rin could feel tears falling onto her while she watched the trees pass them by as Angie ran. She could smell cinnamon on her and knew that she was like Sesshoumaru-sama. The only difference was that her lord's scent was so much stronger and smelled like snow and a winter breeze when the snow would begin to melt. "Are you like Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin asked looking up from her tucked position in Angie's arms.
Angie stopped looking around and answered. "I am a mixed breed Elf not a dirty youkai." Her voice held her pride in being an elf not wavering even in her current situation. Damn if she couldn't be accepted by her kind than at least she could be proud she was of her own mixed heritage.
"Hai." Rin nodded placing her head back down on Angie's shoulder, while the older girl took in their surroundings.
Sesshoumaru returned Jakken at his heels to the place where Rin was abducted. Jaken's form began to quake; he had failed his lord by not protecting Rin, not that it mattered to him, but failure was not an option with his lord. "A second tree parasite attacked us. He was stronger than me milord. Please don't punish me. There was nothing I could do." Jaken's shrill voice squeaked.
"Hn." The taller youkai lifted his head taking in Rin's scent, but it tailed off and became to faint to follow. He had heard once that the Dark elves trickery was stronger than that of a youkai's and he knew his own senses were not strong enough alone. He'd have to wait for their next move and he didn't have to wait long for it.
He could smell the human stink he had grown weary of. It was hers and that filthy elf woman he had run into earlier after the male one had lured him away from Rin. He could hear them coming closer but there was only one set of foot steps moving fast. They ended abruptly not to far from him. "And to think this Sesshoumaru was going to hunt down that elf and here she is coming to me." He thought turning in the direction of the two female's blended scents.
He took a deep breath through his nose following Rin's scent which had changed drastically from adrenaline pumping to frozen fear. He stood there long enough to compel tensaiga to pulse out a warning to go to her and he did as fast as he could get there. Jaken jumped at his sudden departure and screamed running after his master, "Sesshoumaru-sama, wait for me!"
"Trees, trees and great more trees, yep I'm lost." Angie thought setting her young companion down. In a matter of minutes she had run into a tight knit maze of trees, and gotten herself and Rin lost and in danger without even a blatant thought. "Rin, you know your lord, you can call for him now."
Rin looked at her like she had lost her mind but Angie's reasons were coming closer and were probably hungry or worse. She could smell at least ten different youkai around them, and several of their auras were getting stronger with every second that passed.
Her Elven powers of protection began to pulsate and fight to erect a barrier for her young companion, Rin. The barrier was almost complete around both of them when a low class youkai bounded out from behind a tree. Its green eyes were plastered on them and slime dripped out of its mouth where a few yellow teeth hung out. She stepped back but her power held her from running and leaving the child. "Protect Rin." Her subconscious yelled and as if it were in control making the barrier compress around Rin.
The red barrier held as the blue ogre came closer its yellow teeth bared. The impending danger grew closer and closer taking slow steps as if testing to see if she would fight back. Slime from its mouth dripped down onto her cheek and Angie kept her footing not faltering. 'Ewe.' She mentally yelped trying to focus and keep the barrier up. There was no way in hell that she would allow some stupid youkai who couldn't even keep itself from drooling beat her.
It stood not even 5 feet from her drooling over his intended dinner. It lurched back getting ready to have at her and she braced for the fierce and painful collision, but it never came.
It was replaced by a shifting wind and the slicing sound of sword meeting flesh, followed by a excruciating howl. "Sesshoumaru-sama." Rin yelled making Angie crack an eye open.
There inches from her stood the youkai that she had encountered earlier that day clad in white, with Rin clenched tightly to his leg. He looked at that moment like an angel sent down from the heavens to save her and with that idea fondling her thoughts she sighed. "Rin, he's your stunni… I mean he's your lord?" Angie's gasped feeling a bit dizzy. "Not now." She mumbled trying to hold back the on coming faintness.
Stance faltering along with consciousness, she fell into the darkness that enveloped her mind and someone's embrace.
Bet you guys thought I was fibbing with Inuyasha fic stuff because it took so long to introduce a character. Yeah well shut up if you thought that. I'm kidding. Review and I Know you know where that button is so hit it and tell me your thoughts Flames appreciated. Review I don't care what you send it makes me want to type more. Plot will thicken. Don't get mad cause she didn't use her swords she was scared and well a barrier was what she thought of first. (It's that motherly instinct all women have. Gotta love it.)
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