Shining

After a girl is captured by Bankotsu for ransom of a shikon shard, she must try

to keep on her captor's good side so she can live to see her home another day …BankotsuxOC

Disclaimer: You know the dealio. Well, only Aeko's mine. And the plot, but that's it! The rest doesn't belong to me.

Chapter One – Him

Aeko stared as her village burned to the ground.

"Grandpa!" she yelled as she ran towards the flames. When she neared the town, she saw no one in the streets. Some demon must've come while she was gone…

She slumped to her knees and began to silently cry. She brought her hands to her face and let the tears flow freely. But all of a sudden, she heard a loud scream. And it was near her too. She picked her head up and glanced around. She couldn't see anything but the burning village before her.

But out of the flames walked a figure…a young man with a long black braid that hung from the back of his head.

Aeko couldn't decide what was scarier, the look he had on his face, or the gigantic sword thing he held over his shoulder.

It was then that she saw blood on it, and it was then that she began to run.

"Hey!" he heard call out, but there was no way in hell she was going to turn around.

So she ran into the forest as deep as she could go. She ran past the river that led to the town and the meadow where she used to pick flowers for her grandfather.

She kept running until she jumped over a fallen tree and hid behind it. She waited for a few minutes until she began to hear the sound of footsteps come from behind her.

"Now why am I here again?" she heard the man speak as she pulled her legs closer to her chest, "Oh right, that girl…" he finished.

After a couple of moments, he didn't hear anything so she let her guard down for a moment.

But that was a mistake.

Out of nowhere, a tree fell right in front of her and she couldn't help from screaming, "There you are," she heard the young man say as he popped out fro over the log in which she was hiding. She gasped lightly and looked up to see who he was. He had a tan complexion and these blue eyes that made her believe she was staring at the ocean. His black braid hung over his shoulder as he leaned over more and asked, "I knew if I startled you, you'd come out. So why did you think you could get away from me?"

"What do you want from me?" she asked as she turned around.

He chuckled for a moment before he said, "That's none of your business. All you need to know is that you are coming with me."

He reached over and picked her up as she kicked and screamed, "LET ME DOWN!"

As she continued to fight him back, he threw her over his shoulder as he sighed, "The more you fight the more annoyed I get. So I suggest you stop." It took a couple seconds for what he said to sink in. But once it did, she stopped fighting back and he smiled, "That's a good little girl…"

"I'm not a little girl."

"You look like one."

She sighed to herself…he was kind of right. She was fairly short, around 5'4, and she hadn't really developed in certain areas…she had normal black hair like every other girl in town. The only thing that separated her from everyone else was that she would rather the quiet sereneness of nature than the town life.

Most of the trip Aeko tried not to look at her kidnapper. It was pretty hard though since, well…he was really good looking. But every one in a while her line of vision would wander to the giant sword he wore over his back, "You aren't going to…you know…"

He looked at her and then back at his Banryuu, "I would but I was ordered not to. Besides it's covered in blood and it's a little dull."

She gasped at this, "B-bloody? You mean you killed…"

He rolled his eyes, "Would you shut it? I only killed people with my Banryuu who got in my way but my main job was to find you."

"Why?"

The man glared at her and sighed, "Just be quiet for now. All you need to know is I'm not going to kill you for a while."

Aeko gulped for a moment and glanced around. The forest was so quiet and so peaceful, but deep down inside of her heart, she was fearing for her life.

But during their whole trip, Aeko couldn't help but wonder what the young man's name was.

It was only at an old house did he set her down and lock the door behind him. Once she was on the ground, she scrambled back to the wall and buried her head in her hands, "What are you doing?" he asked.

"Stay away from me!" She whimpered as she continued to cry.

All he could do was stare at her. She looked so small and so helpless. Also she looked ready to kill.

After a few more moments of just staring at her sorry form, he said, "Stay here. And don't you even think about moving."

She was amazed of how a person could be so cruel. How a person could be so heartless. She didn't really cry anymore, she just sat against the wall until she finally drifted off to sleep…

End.

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So how'd you guys like it? I was watching Inuyasha on Adult Swim and I was just like, 'Bankotsu's is such a sadly great bad guy!' Cause you know how he can't like write that letter but then he just kills everyone? I thought that was so sad. But in a kind of good way. But it was still sad. Anyways I know this one was a little short but this was just the prologue-ish so yeah! It was also a little fast moving but I really wanted to just get to the point…you know what I'm saying? Ah whatever…

And just to let you know, I'm promising you now that this story does have a better plot and it will be getting better and longer and not as rushed. So…yeah. Oh, and not all of it is going to be death and bloody. There is some romance in there too! But I don't really know the difference between angst and drama so if anyone could help me out with that one, that would be a lot of help. I'll just make it drama for now…

And just to let you know, Aeko is pronounced ey-ko…just to clarify things. Ey-ko, A-ko, Aeko!

Enjoy!

NaiLAUG!