Seasons

Taywoo - Spring
Wental - Summer
Raseth - Autumn
Dragen - Winter

Years (Take place in threes)

EY Ectora Year (first year)
TG Talon Generation (second year)
SE Satir Era (third year)

Dates are written in Season, Year, and Sector (45 at the moment)

The first entry is the time that the one part of the story takes place. You don't really have to worry about all the dates at the moment, soon they'll only be a memory.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha

Chasing Butterflies

Chapter 2: Withering Part 1
Changes

Dragen TG 94

More people coming in, I was now old enough to make my own choices but now they're actually being thought about. Being a sibling was… not as refreshing as I thought it would be. In fact, I hate it; I've learned to hate it and grown to hate it. All having a brother is is another pain in the ass.

-Arseth-

I had to get myself clean. I had to wipe off all the mistakes I had made in the first place. Now, I was in our bathroom, a place I forgot to mention. It's located outside in a small little… I call it shack, my mom calls it an outside part of the house.

Anyway I'm sitting in the tub filled with water, it was hot water. I remembered hearing if the water was hotter, it could get dirt and grime off faster. Well, I was scrubbing every inch of my skin, every piece that I could get. All the while I would scrub my hair dragging my nails threw it to get any piece of scum OFF!

After awhile my skin started to burn, probably from the harsh scrubbing I was doing. I could see the blood beneath my skin darken; I was turning into a tomato, or more like a red-scaled demon. Remembering what was said about me I continued to scrub harder. The washcloth I was using was rough, so while scrubbing with a firm hand, It felt like my skin was about to be ripped off. Then the door opened.

It was my brother he was in the doorway, and he didn't seem happy.

She was taking way too long for her own good. My father mumbled something about it was what girls do. I had a mind to go in and throw open the door in hopes of scaring her half to death. So that's just what I planned to do.

Anyway it's what she deserved for making me look bad in front of company. And my company, Liana… She was something special. And the way she looked at me after what Sango said, it hurt. It also hurt since, never in my whole entire life have I ever heard Sango say to me! Kohaku, her older brother, I never heard her say she hated me until that night.

It took me about an hour to get Liana to feel better about it all.

I walked outside to the back of the house. I didn't even decide on knocking, so I just threw open the door.

Steam hit my face as the door opened. There she was sitting in the tub, a deep crimson red. What in the world was she doing? She could bleed from washing herself like that! Or at least she could get bruised or something.

So like the brother I was I walked closer going to take her out of the tub when the most unexpected thing happened. She screamed. I mean she yelled so everyone within a couple miles heard. She threw things at me, lots of things; heavy objects consisting of things suchs as bottles, cups, … rocks.

I was confused as to why she was doing all this, but it didn't really matter to me at the moment. She was getting out whether she liked it or not.

I can't believe now he'd invade my privacy. After all this! He was the one who wanted a girl, so why wasn't he treating me like one?

He looked in on me while I was bathing. My arm was grabbed and I was pulled out of the tub quickly and fiercely. So I beat him with my other arm. This wasn't being treted like a lady at all.

Now I was outside, outside! No clotehs whatsoever were on me. I started to wipe the tears from my eyes that were starting to form.

"What in the world were you thinking?" He yelled at me, once again he didn't listen to me.

"Why do you care?" I yelled back. Wait that wasn't being lady like, that was my first thought.

His grip tightened, and his one hand went taught at his side. His hand rose up and I stopped just letting the tears fall. I thought he was going to hit me; he was going to hit me.

I tried to squirm away, "No, no…" I cried out. The cool air, brushing across my burning skin, the way it touched burned. The sunlight spraying down into my eyes, the way he touched my skin… it burned. Everything seemed to be so overwhelming. I couldn't think of anything else to do, so I guess it was only natural that I just fainted.

Before I knew it I was in bed, I had a dress picked out and I was on my way to become what most would call a lady, or at least a lady at first glance.
"Sango now, come back with ALL the groceries in the shape you bought them!" A voice yelled from inside the house.

A young girl ran out, long auburn hair trailing behind her. It was tied in a low ponytail, and the woman herself was wearing a dress, a dark green dress.

She turned around and gave a small wave inside the house, "Alright mom, I will!"

Sango, was now a 12 year old girl, learning about the world around her. Nothing made perfect sense, but then, what did. From the day with the boy, she never remembered seeing him again.

Skipping threw Gail was like heaven once again. People waved to her and she waved back. The fish man, Mr. Hank said She was becoming a lovely young woman. It was like life started over for her, and everything was perfect.

Go get fish, vegetables, fruits, bread… what else was there… nothing else it seems. So I walked home, more like skipped home. Everything was great today.

Finally I finished the groceries for today. I started to walk home taking the long way., holding this stupid grocery basket. This wouldn't have happened if they weren't conducting some stupid tournament on the short walk home. I hated walking past those things the people were like animals, no, worse than animals sometimes.

On my way there I heard something behind me. Taking a small glance back I saw nothing, so I continued on my way. That's when I heard it again and this time it seemed o be getting louder. I started to run, or at least taking bigger strides in this dress.

Finally the thing closed in on me and I swung my basket around and slammed it right into the person, I didn't care what happened. So with that I ran the rest of the way home.

Before making my way into the house I had to tidy myself up, you know to keep my ladylike appearance.

And with that I walked into the house.

That night it seemed things changed drastically. Kohaku got a job. But he got it in a whole different district. A district far away from Gail, yet the only good thing I heard about this was that it was still in Arseth.

The light district of Ridge, that's where he was going. He said something about making a lot of money and such. It could help us out in our problems; he wasn't making any sense. What problems did we have? How come I didn't know about these?

The next morning he left, yet I stole an extra hug when my parents weren't looking. I tried to stay strong during it all I really did. I showed them all. I didn't cry one bit.

That night I cried like a baby. I covered the sound up with my pillow. I hadn't changed out of my clothes yet, and I just kept on wailing. Everything was disappearing in my life.

Life is like a flower, it starts as a small seed, it grows, and it becomes beautiful. It's something everyone wants, something everyone loves, and then they can look at it till it withers and dies.

That was what my mother told me. And at the moment I believed her. My life was in the withering stage. Soon I'd die.

A Dragen flower is an odd thing though. They aren't born room normal seeds. In fact you might not be able to call them seeds at all when you think about it. It's highly controlled, never allowed to break free out of the limits; they all look the same, but are very much different.

A Dragen 'seed' is a petal from the flower, carefully picked, and carefully planted. It soon grows, and has to be held so some of its dangerous components can't be let loose.

And then, I saw him again.

Chapter 2: Withering Part 2:
How they meet.