"Wh-wh-what do you mean?" Garasu stammered. "I planted the Garasu no Tama in him, there was no way he could have escaped! It was INSIDE him!"

"Silence." Sesshomaru said simply. "You have failed to accomplish what I needed, and now it seems that I have no more use for you." Sesshomaru began to walk away.

"Please! Don't go! I'll do anything you ask! You wanted me to weaken Inuyasha so that you could take your sword, right? Well, leave it to me! I'll defeat him myself, with the help of the life energy from this hanyou!" She pointed towards Danny. "Please Sesshomaru-sama, don't leave me, we could have such a wonderful life together!" The woman, who was feared for all her beauty and majesty was now on the floor in tears. She had loved Sesshomaru from afar for so long. She couldn't just give up her hopes and dreams now, could she? She remembered approaching Sesshomaru for the first time, nearly one-hundred years ago.

----flashback----

Sesshomaru looked behind him. That girl was still there, hiding behind a tree. She knew he knew she was there, so why didn't she just come right out? "Why are you following me?" he called over his shoulder. "Surely you have something better to do."

A young Garasu stepped out from behind the tree where she had been hiding. "I-I just wanted to know more about L-Lord Sesshomaru" She stammered.

Sesshomaru cocked his head to the side, and turned to face this woman who obviously had more than just a passing interest in him. "And why is that? Most other youkai fear me. Why is it that you, a devastatingly weak hanyou, want to learn about me?" He narrowed his eyes at the woman.

"I-I just, well you see, I've been alone pretty much my entire life, and I just, I wanted to be with someone. I know you've been alone a lot too, I thought maybe we could be friends…"

"This Sesshomaru has no friends!" He boomed. He began walking again.

"W-wait!" Garasu called out to him. She began running from her position behind the tree until she was smack-dab in front of him. "Please don't go…" She said, bowing before him, "You don't know how long I've been alone! I'll do anything, ANYTHING, if we can just…if you'll just…be my friend" She lowered her head as far to the ground as was possible, showing the deepest respect.

Sesshomaru kicked her. "Filthy hanyou! Don't you dare show respect towards me again!" He yelled. Garasu sobbed on the ground as he walked past. "If you want to do something for me, get rid of another hanyou, the one called Inuyasha. If you can bring yourself to get rid of one of your kind. I may speak with you again"

As he walked into the distance Garasu thought to herself. She couldn't kill someone else. Although she had never known her father, and her mother had died in childbirth, she still had an idea of respect for life. The village where she was born had cast her out immediately, leaving her in her infancy to die in the middle of a forest. She would have died if it wasn't for an old woman who had mistakenly taken her in. However the woman died when Garasu was only seven, and she barely remembered her even now. She had been alone since then. She had wandered the world, looking for a companion, someone to at least accept her for who she was. That was when she started following Sesshomaru. He, like her, always traveled alone, and she thought maybe he needed someone to talk to as well.

Several years went by, and Garasu began looking for ways to hone her skills as a jewel-making hanyou to carry out Sesshomaru's request. She had known since she was very young how to make jewels, she supposed that the ability to fashion them was the gift her youkai father had given her. She didn't know however, that she could use them to manipulate the world around her until a black miko found her making rubies. The miko took her in and taught her how to make jewels that she could use to control her surroundings, other people, and finally, absorb energy. She started off slowly, of course, but then, as she became more powerful, the black miko began to use her for her own purposes. She would bring her to different villages and have her use her jewels to suck all the energy from the villagers. She would then ask Garasu to put the energy in a jewel form and use it to cast spells. She taught Garasu not to pay attention to the villagers' dying faces, just to focus on the warm feeling of the energy flooding her body. Garasu paid attention to this lesson, and learned to live for the feeling. However, she quickly grew tired of the warm feeling of the human energy, and thirsted for something stronger, something she knew would make Sesshomaru proud. One day she finally worked up the courage to ask the miko how to suck energy from a hanyou. The miko looked at her.

"You! Another hanyou, and you want to take energy from one of your own kind?" She glared at her. "If I didn't know better, I'd say you have some mind to leave me! I will not allow this!" And with that the miko slapped her across the face. "Remember you do as I tell you! You will continue to work for ME!" With that the miko stormed out of the room. That night, however, when the miko returned, she met her fate when Garasu used the energy that she had been saving for herself to animate the remains of the last village they had terrorized together. The villagers came at her and devoured her flesh before Garasu put them back in the ground. She collected the energy that the bodies of the villagers had collected from her, put it in a jewel and took off.

Garasu spent the next sixty-five years honing her craft by herself in the mountains. She began to use her manipulative crystals to breed weak youkai with humans and create hanyous for her to test her skill. She became ruthless, separating the human and youkai sides from the babies and devouring their energy. And then the time came. She went back to Sesshomaru.

However this time the man she saw was different, and he was no longer alone. He had a little youkai who waddled along after him, and he also had a human girl with him. Garasu didn't understand this. She walked in front of him.

"Have you gotten rid of my little brother yet?" He asked simply.

"No," said Garasu, "but I'm going to go to do it right now, and I wanted you to know that in one week's time, he'll be completely separated, and I can destroy him"

"Good." Sesshomaru said "But don't destroy him, I want get my sword back from him. I'll be waiting for you a week from now."

He didn't specify when or where he'd be, but Garasu knew he'd find her. And now that it was done, and she'd failed. She began to wonder what all this was for. Had she taken the wrong path? What had she become? Garasu snapped out of her trance when she heard the sound of people entering her domain.

"So you're the one who tried to separate me!" A male voice cried. It was Inuyasha.

EDIT: 10-13-05: Fixed some inconsistencies

The Return of Fanty's Notes! The Chapter 9-10-11 Edition

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