Sanctuary

Summary: Inuyasha characters wander around in the worlds that exist only in their minds. Thirteen Chapters. MirSan InuKag SesshKag

A/N- Here's how things are: Every chapter is going to be kind of cryptic, but written as though someone is taking a walk through their own head. Like it'll talk about them taking a left, and moving upward and stuff. Also, to make sure you keep reading, I'm not going to tell you who is wandering in that chapter. It's supposed to make it all cool and mysterious, but it might turn out being annoying. Plus I think it's going to be pretty obvious. Sorry if it does.

This is sorta a ficlet collection. Just sorta.

Once again, being the brilliant person that I am (Just remember you can't hear me. That comment is dripping with sarcasm), I started another fic I can't possibly update on time. Sorry that it is you who have to suffer due to my stupidity. Well, enjoy!

A quiet moment at last. The bickering has finally quieted the demon attacks have finally stopped. I have blood all over me, but I'm just too stiff to get up and bathe, especially if it meant having to watch my back every step I took. I just need to think for a little while...I just need to think...

At last I enter a place, something different than this earth could ever provide. It's quiet and loud, peaceful and chaotic, dark and glistening. I start down a path, it's still and lonely. It doesn't' have to be so lonesome, or maybe it does. If I wasn't secluded things could never work out.

I keep them away; I never let them get near me until it's too late. One day that's going to cause my death, I think. That should upset me, but death is just a part of life, or that's what everyone tells me.

I look up from the road, leaves and sakura petals fly through the air, they catch in my hair, and stick to my skin. Finally. Some peace and quiet.

Or so I think. Things are never truly peaceful here, I try to catch a bit of rest and then the rain starts to fall. The water thunders on to the ground and the path turns to mud, and the air becomes thick with fog. Damn. Not this again.

I see that monster of a thing coming. Its roar thunders through the air, tears down trees, the ground splits around me...Once again the thing bites, jaws clamping on to my flesh which becomes mysteriously tender in its presence. It twists, tearing away a part of me, and I scream...scream...scream. The sound tears through the air and breaks the fog away, the rain becomes a storm.

The storm becomes salty, it runs into my eyes, hurts like hell but there's no sound left in me.

"I'm so so sorry..."

I could banish the monster myself, it wouldn't be hard. But something within let's it live on, it will never truly die. While the monster only bites and tears at me, those are wounds that will heal, even though scars will always taint my skin. Even though few can see them...

The feelings that would be created by his death would destroy me. Not even leaving a shell behind.

"Hush...hush. It isn't your fault. You never meant to hurt anyone. I know you."

Gleaming tears, gleaming tears, I want to go away.

I run the other way, deep into the woods. I want to leave these memories; I visit them in my sleep. I want to visit a happier time.

I slow down, lungs stinging and breathe short. I always try to avoid that place, always, I mean always. Somehow, if I don't find it, it finds me. Damned be the ways of the mortal mind.

Finally, I'm here. There's something bright and warm that flickers. My life and fire. The smell coming off of the food is excellent. I sit down and chomp on a fish, the ground comfortably firm beneath me.

I look up at each of my companions, and in each of them see the spirit of a friend. I sigh and make myself more comfortable. This is where I should be. This is, without a doubt, where I belong.

"Oi! Time to go!" My eyes snap open and I nod. For a little while, I have a small smile on my face.