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Chapter 5: Sesshoumaru's Business
He couldn't believe she had humilated him like that! In front of his brother too! Questions filled Sesshoumaru's head as he sped towards his mansion. 'Who was her father...?'
The one question she wouldn't answer. As if he would go find dragon and kill him before he could mate with the miko. Sesshoumaru mentally paused.
"That's it!" He had figured out why she wouldn't tell them who the dragon was. It was smart, actually, she wanted him to live long enough to mate her mother. If he died now, she would never have been whelped. She was an awesome fighter, though, and he would never want to destroy a great challenge like that.
However, it wasn't in the personality of Sesshoumaru to leave a mystery unsolved. Especially one that had just humilated him on the battle field.
He paused mentally again as another thought popped into his mind. 'How did she transform into dragon form!'
How, indeed? Inuyasha had never been able to fully transform into youkai form when he had been a hanyou. She had changed without the scent of her blood changing, unlike Inuyasha whose scent had changed when his demon blood ran strong.
Many possibilities loomed in front of him. Her father must have been a very powerful dragon. Or perhaps having a miko for a mother made her more powerful. He would have to meditate on this mystery girl from the future.
"My father was a dragon that fell in love with my mother here..." her words came back to him suddenly. If she was telling the truth, then youkai had survived centuries into the future. He or Inuyasha could be alive in her own time. But, one thought nagged at his mind. If Inuyasha had lived through the ages to Kagome's time, wouldn't he have found her and claimed her as his mate?
He had many questions that he had no answers to, and that made Sesshoumaru restless...
"The well is called the Bone Eaters Well," Inuyasha said as he showed her around the forest named after him.
"What happened to Kikyou?" Saphira asked.
Inuyasha narrowed his golden eyes. "She went back to the afterlife...after I transformed."
They walked in silence for sometime.
"How can you move so fast?" Inuyasha asked breaking the silence.
Saphira grinned. "With these."
Her clothing moved aside to allow her wings a free range of motion. They were smaller than the wings
she possessed in dragon form. They were the same brilliant blue color of her eyes.
Her eyes twinkled with laughter, "My father taught me how to control the dragon within me. In my mother's time, I had to suppress my dragon to such an extent that neither my tail nor my wings showed."
"When I was hanyou, I didn't have the ability to transform," Inuyasha frowned not understanding why
she had such power.
"Ah, but you were part inuyoukai," Saphira said flippantly. "I am a dragon halfblood and have much more power. I told you my father was very powerful."
"Do you fully transform into your human form once a month?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"Now Inuyasha, would you tell anyone that you transformed?" Saphira asked cleverly.
"Well, no," he admitted.
"No, I don't transform," Saphira said surprising him. "The dragon in my blood is too strong."
Inuyasha still didn't understand, but he supposed she would explain further when she was comfortable with him.
"Tell me what my mother was like," Saphira asked suddenly. "When she came here."
Inuyasha thought for a few moments before answering. "She was very brave, and kind."
Saphira sighed softly.
"Why do you ask? Surely, you know what your own mother was like?" Inuyasha said.
"I...I didn't spend a lot of time with her," Saphira admitted quietly. "My father allowed her to take care of me until I was weaned, then I traveled with him most of my life."
"Do all people from your time have your accent?" Inuyasha asked remembering that Kagome didn't sound like Saphira.
"No, I wasn't born in Japan," Saphira laughed. "I was born in a place called America."
"Where's that?"
She pointed east towards the ocean. "Across the sea, thousands and thousands of miles from here."
They walked in silence until they came upon the God Tree.
"Is this where you were trapped by Kikyou's arrow?" She asked putting a hand on the bark.
Inuyasha's eyes softened, "Yes, and your mother freed me."
He put a hand on her shoulder. She tensed, and, before Inuyasha could blink, had her semaikatana blade against his throat.
He blinked as the sun landed on the blue blade, temporarily blinding him.
"Do not ever confuse me with my mother," Saphira hissed. "I may have human in me, but I have more dragon then even you would believe."
"S...Sorry..." he stuttered. She removed her blade from his throat just as fast as she had put it there.
"The woman you once knew as 'brave and kind'," Saphira growled, "has become a weak coward."
"Surely, you don't mean..." he began.
"I could always smell the fear on her," Saphira spat cutting him off. "She had nothing to be afraid of, my father would have protected her from anything that threatened her."
"You have to remember that she is human, and cannot help being afraid," Inuyasha said soothingly.
"I'm sure she worried about her family, husband and daughter."
"Perhaps," Saphira said letting go of her anger for the moment.
"What was the name again, Lord Sesshoumaru?" asked the servant as he dusted off a large book.
"Saphira," came the cool answer.
"Saphira...Saphira...so familiar..." the old servant muttered to himself. "Ryuu."
Sesshoumaru waited for the old man to continue, but when he said nothing...
"What? What about ryuu?" Sesshoumaru demanded.
"No...no, not ryuu as in dragon. Ryuu as in Lord Ryuu," explained the servant. "Very powerful tairyuu. His family came from the east, near the sea. Sea dragons, actually, ocean blue scales, fiery spine...very powerful bloodline. It seems to me, my Lord, that Saphira has descended from this bloodline."
"She is a halfbood," Sesshoumaru said cooly.
"No matter," said the old man briskly. "If she were indeed of Ryuu's line, she would be far more
powerful than any hanyou or halfblood."
"How do I find Ryuu?" Asked Sesshoumaru.
"Oh, my," the man sighed. "He has been missing for many years, my Lord. I believe the last time he was seen was, oh, thirty years ago."
Sesshoumaru's eyebrows rose at this comment. The miko had disappeared back into the well thirty
years ago. Then, Saphira had appeared.
"Very well then, I want to know everything about this bloodline," Sesshoumaru said cooly. "You may use any resources that are necessary. And I must have the information within three days time."
"Yes, my Lord," the servant murmered returning to the book.
The dragon on the page painfully reminded Sesshoumaru of Saphira.
"My Lord?"
"Yes?" Sesshoumaru turned to look back at the old man from the doorway.
"There is a prophecy, my Lord, about a dragon of Ryuu's bloodline, and..."
"Well?" Sesshoumaru asked slightly annoyed.
The old servant looked up to make eye contact. "And a inuyoukai...of...of your family's line."