=POV change (expect multiple POV changes per chaper)
=flashback
)(= dream sequence (there may or may not be any dream sequences or flash-backs).
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Of death and destiny
"If you think for one second I am taking you to Sesshoumaru you are mistaken. I don't want anything to do with the bastard." I hear the ranting of the Hanyou come from behind me; I turn to face him. You know for once I would like things to be simple. I furrow my eyebrows
"Inuyasha you are the only one who knows where his palace is can't you help?" Sango asks her dark brown eyes plead. The grip on her Hiraikotsu tightens unnoticed by everyone but me.
"NO! We have shards to collect and the western lands are dry of shards." Inuyasha huffed and I saw Kagome's eyes flame up. Do they really think I need his help? I can do it on my own. I am Ryoko...besides it will do me some good to be alone for a while. I stopped Kagome right before she 'sat' him to death.
"I don't need your help." I reply simply "I will find this Sesshoumaru guy on my own. I will come in contact with you later though." I didn't turn around to face them again. I don't want to see the look on their faces as I floated in the sky and drifted towards the western starlit sky. I don't want to look back into the faces of another family I have to leave behind. I don't want to know if they will mind me leaving or not...I don't know with Tenchi either.
I find myself lowering in the sky considerably after about three hours of flying. It is very late in the evening the moon is high in the sky. I am fueled with the hope that maybe if I fly a little more I can outrun the sorrow to come. It doesn't work. I am devoid of all energy I don't even float down to the ground; I just let myself fall. I plummet thirty feet to the grass below landing hard on my left side. The grass is already wet with dew. I manage to roll over onto my back and look up at the stars.
Blinking back tears, I try to look for familiar constellations. I used to do this all the time back at the Masaki Shrine, in the branches of the cherry blossom tree; looking upwards at the sky as if my future with Tenchi was engraved there for all time. Instead of crying, instead of more sadness; I just get mad. I stand up and charge up my ki, I don't give a flying fuck who comes by and sees! I don't care anymore!
Nothing matters.
I centralize the ki to my palms as the jewels in my wrists crackle dangerously. I unleash wave after wave of blasts obliterating the nearby trees into heaps of flame and ash. The sky is alight with the flaming trees, casting shadows on my face as I just let go. I feel my eyes burning as I teleport and kick and punch each tree down, the splinters from trees spray outward as I continue my tree onslaught.
Then I stood.
I stood in the epicenter of my wake. The flames dying down, the wooden carnage is starting to come to a slow end. I stand in the center and look up to the stars. With all the fading strength I have left, I clear my voice to shout to the laughing stars of fate.
"Is this what you had planned?! Is this the life I am supposed to live?! Tell me godamnit tell me! Was I supposed to be upstaged by a Princess? Was I supposed to loose my only love to a woman who devotes her whole life to make me miserable? IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN SHE SUCCEEDED! You win Ayeka crowned princess of Jurai! You stole everything sacred to me and now look where I am. I am in the middle of the fucking forest looking for a Youkai lord! You beat me...you beat me... are you happy now? Well I hope you are; the last thing I want to happen is for you to hurt Tenchi...even though he hurt me beyond fathomable reason. Now I am alone." I collapse down onto the charred black soil. I am too tired to cry, Too tired to feel any youkai presences. I am too tired to think.
All I want to do is fall asleep, so I can wake up from this nightmare.
My eyes shoot open unexpectedly. Someone is in my lands making quite a scene. I stand up to see Ah Un stomping the ground and growling loudly. Jaken is alert also I see, he is readying his staff of heads and trying to calm Ah Un. Who is this I sense? It is unlike any ki I have been witness to before. This ki, it seems so outraged, so desolate, so defeated. Bah, this Sesshoumaru does not care what this youkai feels. I shall extinguish the life of this unfortunate youkai immediately before it attracts any more attention. I swiftly jump into the air and bound from tree to tree.
It was not long before I smell smoke and the youkai's scent, cherry blossoms and spice. I see through my golden eyes a ring of fire with smoke flowing upwards into the once perfect night. I glide down to the surface and sprint to the center of the devastation. I flex my claws and poison seeps from them turning the finger tips fluorescent green. I pause in my stride as I faintly hear, through the crackling of smoke and flame, a female voice ringing out despairingly.
"...Now I'm stuck looking for a youkai Lord...you beat me...the last thing I want you to do is hurt Tenchi...Now I am alone." I finally come the incinerated clearing and am almost surprised, because this Sesshoumaru is never surprised, see a crumpled form of a female youkai lying in the clearing. The sensitive wind blows her scent to me once more, cherry blossoms and spice, as I walk towards the mysterious cyan haired youkai.
I stand above her imperially, looking down at her trying to figure out how such a small, vulnerable youkai could do this much damage. I look about my scarred land, easily 500 acres of land was incinerated over a period of seconds. I also notice her cracked and bleeding knuckles and her delicate lips and long lashed eyes. However, no one, no matter how mysterious, burns my lands and gets away with it.
"You, youkai, arise in the presence of Lord Sesshoumaru." I speak in a harsh clipped voice as her amber eyes flutter open and she looks up at me. Immediately her eyes brighten the smallest bit as she does something rather extraordinary; she levitates up in the air. I did not mean arise in that fashion. I narrow my eyes the slightest bit at the audacity of this cyan haired youkai.
"So you are Sesshoumaru...I have been looking for you." She grins slightly. I frown immediately; she thinks she can just 'find' me whenever she feels like it? Humph I am the youkai lord of the West, not a youkai just to be 'met' with. I reach out and grab her throat with my hand. The skin of her neck is soft and unprotected to my claws. I see the surprise in her eyes and right when I am about to squeeze, she disappears. My eyes widen a fraction of a millimeter as she appears a few meters away from me, angry.
"Hey that was uncalled for, I just want to ask you something." She frowned; she put her hands on her hips and shifted her weight on one long revealed leg. The audacity of this Youkai! Not only is her attitude repelling but the condition of her clothing is almost inexcusable. I suppose that her kimono had to have gotten ripped in a battle of some sort…yes I suppose that would explain it
"This Sesshoumaru will hear your last request before you die." My expression is borderline, but something about me is intrigued by her, how did she escape from me? She must be incredibly fast, but of course not as fast as I.
"Sorry Sesshoumaru-sama, but I am not dying anytime soon, fortunately or unfortunately. So just hear me out. I need help to defeat this evil bastard named Naraku and I have gotten reports that you are the strongest youkai around...so I came to you for help. Will you help me defeat him?" Her striking, dark lashed, amber eyes are filled with determination and hope, even though they are clearly overcast with the sorrow exhibited not too long ago.
For a youkai, she knows no discipline or self control of physical or emotional outbursts. She is an untamed youkai, one that does not deserve to be in my presence. However, unlike the run-of-the mill types, she is unique in some obscure way I have yet to quite figure out, And it is making me angry.
"And you think just because you need the help I will help you? You are a fool. Even if I agreed to such a ridiculous request, what will I get as compensation?" I see the uneasiness in her amber eyes as her hopes were shattered quickly. She regained her composure and cleared her throat.
"Well, um I guess I could um…help you out." She blurted out of her hesitant mouth, revealing small fangs. But I, Sesshoumaru, need no help. She shall die now, with her mysteries, I don't care.
"Wrong answer." I charge at her drawing my Tokijin. I see the surprise distill in her eyes as she vanishes and reappears behind me. How dare she make this Sesshoumaru look like a fool! The red around my irises begins to seep, but I remain in control, I have defeated many stronger Youkai than her before.
"I don't want to fight you!" Then she does something rather peculiar, her hands begin to glow a bright crimson as do her eyes. She holds her hands above her head and in a flash of white and red light a large black and purple scorpion Youkai appears from no where at all. Did she call upon this youkai to help her? The scorpion is smaller than I am in my true form. The front pinchers of the scorpion are razor sharp and the tail stinger is seeping fluorescent green poison, The same poison that excretes from my claws. This woman as somehow figured out an adversary that is immune to my poison claw. No matter I will dispatch of this foul creature soon enough.
I charge to dispatch of this Youkai quickly; insect Youkai are fairly stupid and slow. This will be my entertainment for the night. I feel my gold eyes glow with the oncoming blow as I swing Tokijin back and with a mighty slash foreword.
Swwwwwooooooooshhh
No contact, nothing. The hissing scorpion dodged my blow, its stinger dripping poison on the ground making craters in the charred dirt. There is no usual way that a scorpion youkai can percept my attacks so easily. I dodged the youkai's pinchers and tail effortlessly enough, although again I can tell this youkai is not average. Then I look up at the cyan haired female youkai…
Could she be…possibly controlling the scorpion youkai? I have had enough. I jump in the air with a swift, deadly grace and from the air impale the scorpion youkai with Tokijin. The scorpion youkai squeals and hisses in pain as its legs collapse from beneath it and its carcass hits the ground with a sickening thud. Instead of rotting there, the corpse disappears as effortlessly as it had appeared. I lick the dark youkai blood from my fingertips as I turn my gaze to the female, who is trembling slightly.
"You are next youkai no baka." I warn dryly as I swiftly close the distance between us drawing my newly bloodied Katana, it is still dripping with the dark coagulating blood of the scorpion. I see her dark lashed amber eyes widen in apprehension as she begins to fly lowly from the sky line. She is a foolish youkai if she thinks she can outrun this Sesshoumaru.
"Please I just want your help I don't want to hurt you." I hear her plead foolishly, like she could hurt the great youkai lord of the west. I sidestepped left with rapidity as I prepared to strike her in the side between the third and fourth rib, severing her in two. I am amused, again, however, she parries my attack with her own glowing sword, trying hopelessly to defend herself.
Her sword's ki and Tokijin's ki merge and result in a small explosion that pushes me back a few feet. I feel the scarlet seep into my eyes as I recover from the explosion quicker than she does and before she can react I take my claws, instead of tokijin, and rip through her torso violently. My fingers ooze the fatal poison as her blood spurts from her porcelain body. Her dark lashed amber eyes widen and her pink lipped mouth exerts a final plea to the night air.
"I love you Tenchi." Her back hits the dirt and her cyan hair splays untamed on the scorched earth. I look down at her and feel no triumphant victory, I feel no superiority. I feel as if it was a cheated victory. And who is this Tenchi? I feel my teeth grit together, did I miscalculate? Nonsense, This Sesshoumaru is never wrong, I always act with the best course of action towards every decision. I lick the blood off of my still glowing claws, it tastes different. The scent of cherry blossoms and spice still linger in the air along with the blood. I almost shutter.
I suddenly feel as if my brain as been split in two and I feel a great pressure. I grab my coral-pink hair as I scream out in pain to the chorus of Ryo-oki. Ryo-oki plummets to the ground. I hear yelling and thumping along side me, but I can feel only pain. I feel a great burning sensation across my torso, I feel as if I have been cut in half.
I can almost feel the blood spurt from my body as I scream out in agony. I feel hands all around me as I double over and pant vigorously. I hear Ryo-oki scream in pain as well. Then it all clicked…I am feeling Ryoko's pain. Ryoko, my little Ryoko is badly hurt. The tears flow down my cheeks as I come to the most logical conclusion. Then all of the sudden words flow from my mouth that are not my own
"I love you Tenchi." The pain then suddenly stops, my Ryoko, My perfect Ryoko, my daughter has just died. There is no other explanation…I am sure of it.
I stand up, immediately realizing that I do not feel her reassuring presence in the back of my mind. I feel as if a piece of me has been lost…a piece that I might have taken for granted, the piece has been there so long. Tears stream down my cheeks as Ryo-oki transforms back into her cabbit form and lies on ground motionless, tears of her eyes flowing like a small stream.
"Washu what is going on?" Tenchi asks concerned, Sasami picks up Ryo-oki and tries to make her respond. I can't even find words to say. My lungs are swollen.
"Do you actually love Tenchi?" Ayeka asks in a confused and slightly annoyed tone. Ayeka is not making my situation any better, I feel my emerald eyes welling up with overflowing tears once more as I stand up and look into Tenchi's eyes.
"Those words from my mouth were not my own. They were Ryoko's last words. My little Ryoko is dead, she was murdered!" I yell at Tenchi and breakdown. Ryo-oki still doesn't move, Ryo-oki just moves her eyes to me and there is a hidden understanding.
My Sesshoumaru-sama…did my Sesshoumaru-sama just kill that girl youkai? No that can't be right…The girl youkai did not even want to fight. Sesshoumaru-sama would not just kill a youkai if they refuse to fight back, right? Then I gasped. I held my hand to my mouth as I saw my Sesshoumaru-sama just drank her blood. How could he? How could my Sesshoumaru-sama be so mean? He looks so scary right now his eyes are all red; he looks like he could just eat me… Ah Un are afraid too, they are scared too. I cant hold back my tears anymore. I promised not to cry…I really did, but I can't help it.
If he could do that to a really powerful youkai would he do the same to me? Would he eat Rin's blood too? Tears flow down my cheeks as I wail loudly. I see Sesshoumaru-sama turn his head and look towards Ah Un and I. I am too scared and confused to look. He runs towards me really fast and all the air in my lungs gets caught there. My face is sticky with my hot tears, My eyes widen lot as I run to Ah Un for cover, but I know not even Ah Un can stand up to Sesshoumaru-sama.
"Rin did you see me kill that youkai?" he asks me in his normal voice, he doesn't sound crazy or mean, his eyes aren't red anymore. He looks regular, but still…I gulp and tried to calm down as I stepped towards Sesshoumaru-sama, biting on my kimono sleeve. Will he punish me for taking Ah Un to follow him?
"Hai Sesshoumaru-sa—ma I kinda hiccupped during sama I didn't mean too.
"Will it please you resurrect this youkai?" he asked in his normal voice again…he isn't mad.
"Hai Sesshoumaru-sama!" I smile.I hope he will bring her back to life like he did me. Then I can have a friend! She can be my big sister and I don' have to play with mean old Jaken anymore! I see Sesshoumaru-sama walk towards the youkai, I put my fingers to my eyes so that I can only see him and not the pretty dead youkai. I gasp when he takes out his other sword, Tensaiga, and slashes at her revealing a blue light. I smile even bigger when I see the female youkai stand up and immediately look around and at her bloody kimono.
"I was dead-how?" I heard her mumble, I like her hair; it's a pretty green. It's like the petals on a flower. Maybe she will pick flowers with me!
"I resurrected you. You stated before you would be my servant in return I will help you with the menace Naraku." Huh? She doesn't like Naraku either. I heard things about him, he is a bad man, I heard he fooled Sesshoumaru-sama on purpose. What a mean man! That fan-lady also kidnapped me, but she seemed really sad…I bet Naraku tricked her too!
"Yes, that is of course, er um. You want my help…yes." She bit her bottom lip in anticipation. Her eyes remind me of Sesshoumaru-sama's, hers are pretty and gold too, but different. Her are softer and easy to see into. His eyes are not soft and are harder to see into. But still the same.
"Very well, you may be my guest and servant and in return I will help you with Naraku." I saw her eyes bright up and she floated! Wow my new sister can fly like Sesshoumaru; only without a cloud, she is like a pretty bird.
"Wow really?! Well I guess you should know my name it is Ryoko." Her name is cool too! She grins pretty too. I like my new sister. I scramble out of my hiding place as fast as my legs could let me go.
"Hi Ryoko-chan I am Rin will you be my older sister please?" I smile really big and I feel my eyes sparkle. I see her look at me and smiles.
"Rin." I close my mouth then he turns back to Ryoko-chan "Your name is 'Youkai Caller'…You summoned the great scorpion youkai correct." Sesshoumaru-sama is sounding all tough, I wish she could be my big sister sooo badly, maybe if I get Sesshoumaru more flowers he will let her.
"Yea-yes. Yes I summon Youkai. And Rin is really kawaii my I pick her up?" My heart sinks a little when Sesshoumaru glares his 'I am in charge and I say no' glare at her. I don't like that glare, it looks as if he will just leave you standing there and walk away.
"You shall be doing laundry with a few other youkai in my castle. However, you are a powerful youkai, and you are doing business with me so I will treat you like a guest in all aspects except the laundry." I see Ryoko go white before Sesshoumaru turns away from her and walks towards Ah Un. My Sesshoumaru-sama didn't mean killing Ryoko–chan. It must have been an accident. Like the time I accidentally picked flowers too close to the beehive and Jaken got stung by bees. I laughed though, he was all lumpy.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, will Ryoko-chan be playing with Rin?" I ask smiling as big as I could.
"No." I sadden more that means I will be stuck playing with stupid old Jaken. I scrunch my nose up, but then I realize that I will just pick more flowers for Sesshoumaru-sama and then he will have to change his mind! Flowers are just so pretty, once I pick the biggest most colorful one he won't be able to say no!
"Um Sesshoumaru….san…I am not very good at laundry." I turned my head around to see my new friend sweatdrop a little. She is pretty in a different way; she is not stiff and snotty like the other two suitors that came to Sesshoumaru-sama's castle. I don't think they like me very much, they always glare at me like they want to take Sesshoumaru-sama away from me. Ryoko-chan is not like that, she looks way too cool.
"You will obey this Sesshoumaru or you will see the same fate once more." Why doesn't Sesshoumaru like Ryoko? Oh yeah…he doesn't like the other youkai girls….but she isn't like them. She has a nice face and eyes that glow when she is happy and darken when she isn't. She will be happy though, once we get back to the castle.
I mean who wouldn't be happy living with Lord Sesshoumaru? You know just because he is shy and doesn't talk much doesn't mean he is a bad guy…he makes mistakes like everyone else you know. He made a mistake by killing Ryoko-chan, he revived her. My Sesshoumaru is so cool!
"Rin, get on Ah Un, we shall be departing for the castle tonight. I shall collect Jaken." He looks at Ryoko. "Be sure that you follow Ah Un or your life shall be mine." I sometimes find myself wishing that someday I will get to ride on Sesshoumaru's cloud…but it's ok with me on Ah Un! I see Sesshoumaru take off on his fluffy cloud and fly to where Ah Un pinned Jaken's haori under a large rock. Ah's neck lowers as I climb onto his back and he takes off flying towards the West. I look back behind me to see Ryoko-chan flying after us, she looks so confused and sad and happy…I wonder what happened to make her that way…was it that Tenchi guy?
XD so…how did you like it? One reviewer told me to tell you when they changed POV, well I'm not going to introduce the new first person speaker, but I am going to inform you with .
Anyway, I had such a fun time doing Rin's POV that I decided to keep her as one of the POV people, so far the people with first person POV are from most frequent to less: Ryoko, Sesshoumaru, Kagura, Kagome, Washu, Rin. The three main are: Ryoko, Sesshoumaru and Kagura.
I have decided that there will be no kagu/kouga pairing….i want the main focus to me on Sesshoumaru and Ryoko. The other secondary pairings, are Inu/Kago, Tenchi/Ayeka, and a bit of Sango/Miro. I usually do not like Inu/kag pairings, but they are good as a secondary pair. Expect some OCs and kouga to come along….well I hope you liked the chapter, please review and tell me what you think about my first Inu fic!!!!! I love all of your reviews!
R&Rs are next chapter!!!!
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