A Wound Left Behind

By Fantasy Cat

Part One

On the road to Nuremberg, September 1947

They sat in the darkness feeling nothing but the jerking of the van. They had survived a couple of years in POW camps in the east but the worst was yet to come. Their fate was sealed, yet they knew they were guilty. There was no escape from the responsibility that had for slaughtering innocent lives by the millions.

"You should've seen me with this one wench. I took her all the way to Ustka and we were just about to do when the Allies broke in and dragged me off."

"A likely story. Now fork up your cigarettes."

Kouga only had a few left. He handed one requested by Sesshomaru and then offered the other to the woman in the van.

"Didn't know there were women Einsatzgruppens," said Kouga.

"I just happened to be their best spy," she said taking a smoke. "I knew where all of the resistant ones gathered and their silly plans. I could easily deceived. But my best thrill came out of working at the Dachau camp. I was the best at catching the women along corners, and keeping them in line. Those were the days of paradise for me."

"Well, Kagura, maybe you can get a lighter sentence if you're a woman."

"Ha! Bullshit! I'd rather be dead now then have one more lecture by these damn Allies. It makes me sick to my stomach so see a Jew in the streets walking around free."

"And what about you, Sesshomaru?" said Kouga. "You say that you didn't have many missions to do these past few years. I bet all you got to do was lay around on your ass while the rest of us are breaking our backs worshiping you."

"That is the sad part. I'm too well known throughout Germany to not be able to escape the death penalty. You however, seem quite nervous. You should take things like a man, Kouga. It's either death or life imprisonment."

"Damn, I never got to have one last laid." Then Kouga set his sights on Kagura.

"Don't even think about it!" she growled.

………

"Sesshomaru Taisho, this tribunal finds you guilty of civilian genocide. As it stands, for this moment, your sentence is death."

From there, Sesshomaru was jammed into a dark cell. Unlike most of the prisoners here, Sesshomaru welcomed the darkness and the end.

A short time after being in that cell, and old doctor came and approached the Nuremberg Tribunal.

"If you have the time to talk," said the doctor to the council. "I have some records to show that Sesshomaru is clearly labeled insane."

Long Island, 1953. It is now six years later.

The weather was never perfect for Inuyasha. Nothing seemed to be. He knew better than to trust Miroku's beliefs that this was the land of dream. He had to switch jobs several times. His paychecks were always low. The double house itself was falling apart. That is why he was occasionally up on the roof trying to fix whatever problem was screwing the two families over.

"Shippo! This is the last time I'm calling you! I refuse to be late to school again!"

"Then don't go!"

"Stop being immature! I have to walk you to school or both of our parents will kill me!"

Inuyasha sighed. He could not believe how loud these kids got, especially his neighbors daughter. He began to think that maybe it wasn't a good idea to put Rin in charge of Shippo all the time, just because he was very young.

The two "kids" were now rushing to the elementary school. "Why in the world were you taking so long?" Rin asked.

"I was going to get my mom's camera, but I couldn't reach the closet shelf so I gave up."

"Then it probably meant that it's off limits to you."

"But I needed it," said Shippo. "We're going to the harbor today and I want to make sure I catch the Nazi Lunatic."

"I think you are the one who's being a lunatic," Rin sighed. "Nazi whack or whatnot."

"Believe all you want to Rin. But I like going to places where there are scary people like him to out for. It's make things all the more exciting."

The two finally arrived at Shippo's school.

"Alright, behave on your field trip. And for goodness sake don't wander off."

"Yes, mommy!" Shippo said mockingly.

"Or else I'll tell your friends about the last time you got lost and ended up crying for hours."

"NO!!!"

Rin gave a quick laugh before she had to hurry over to the high school. It was luckily only a few hours away but having to walk Shippo to school and then pick him up almost took as much time as her homework.

She never expected to open up to people, but then she started school in America and learned the honest truth. She started elementary school as an alien. Rin only knew how to speak Polish and what was worse was that she spoke so little. Instead of spending time with friends or getting homework done on time, Rin had to spend a lot of time with a social worker having to learn English and she had to do it from the very beginning. She remembered as a child in Poland not saying anything but she would remember how t0o say her name in case someone needed to know what it was.

Rin was now in the seventh grade and things began to slowly improve. Now that she knew English, it was all she spoke. Sometimes she spoke very loudly because she thought that was how you got the attention of American peers. She also thought it was normal to be selfish and spoiled. Now Rin had grown up from a very silent child to a loud selfish brat.

And her least favorite thing in the world: playing Shippo's babysitter!

She had no after school commitments. A part of her believed that she would scare off possible friends. It made no sense to her though. People thought she was annoying when she talked very loud, but she knew it would've been much worse to be the quiet one, much much worse.

So every morning, she would take Shippo to his school, and every afternoon, she would pick him up.

And then she would spend all night babysitting.

Why? Because both parents in that double house had to work just to be able to live in it.

Shippo seemed to have no worries. He was brought to America when he was 2 so he had better chances at functioning in American society better. Maybe Rin was always mad at Shippo because she was jealous of him.

Rin senses told her that Shippo was running around worryingly as she struggled to do Algebra, a class she knew she was bound to fail.

"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM SHIPPO?!" Rin yelled making her neighbor jump.

"Jeez, Rin don't go crazy or mad, okay? I think I left my lunch box at the harbor."

"Oh great!" said Rin.

"I'm gonna be in big trouble with mommy and daddy. I don't want to get into trouble!" Shippo began to lie on the floor crying loudly.

"Shippo! Stop it! I'll go look for your stupid lunch box!"

Shippo stopped crying. "YAY!"

Rin was forced to stop her homework and took Shippo up to his room.

"But I don't wanna go to bed early!" Shippo cried again.

"You better go to bed now, because no one is going to be home for a couple of hours. And just because I'm leaving you home alone doesn't mean you cant run around."

Rin took a while trying to get Shippo to finally sleep.

Then she got on her bike and began to travel across the island.

'If mom and dad find out I left Shippo home alone so I could his get stupid lunch box, they are going to kill me,' Rin thought.

It had gotten really dark for eight o'clock. But Rin was well prepared. She tied a flashlight onto her bike to show her the way to the harbor. She had a feeling she knew where this place was because she had been on the same fieldtrip before.

She biked around the many sections of the harbor. All the seagulls disappeared at night. There were no boats coming in or people walking around.

And this somewhat scared her. Then the thought of the Nazi Lunatic came to mind.

'Ridiculous,' she thought. If something like that didn't scare Shippo then it shouldn't scare her in the least.

Besides, she hadn't the slightest idea what a "Nazi" was.

She was searching frantically knowing that time was against her. She did not want to get grounded for something this ridiculous. The ordeal was stressing her. The flashlight wasn't of much help.

Rin finally caught sight of the metal lunch box at the edge of one of many piers she looked through twice. She sighed as she parked her bike and began walking to the edge to pick it up.

She felt cranky and sleepyas she threw the lunch box in the bike basket. She biked down the pier until she swerved a corner. One of the planks got loose causing the front wheel of the bike to get trap. And Rin, who was to startled to realize what was going on fell over, on the pier side fortunately.

But once the pain in her side went away, she tried to get up.

'Oh no,' Rin thought. She tried to massage her twisted ankle, hoping to heal it quicker.

She heard the sound of booming and looked up at the sky. It seemed very clear, but she kept hearing more of that booming. Rin looked around. Everything was too dark to see but the booms began to get louder.

And then it occurred to Rin, that was the sound of booming footsteps.

God, I'm so sorry people. This story is already turning out to be crap! I mean for one thing I was hoping you would get the idea that Rin became a completely different person, loud and abnoxious, when she gre up. But I know I'm being way too fast pace with this one. But my head hurts and I wanted to get this update done. If we're lucky, things will get better!!!!