Time of Heaven and Hell
Chapter Eight
The day was cold and cloudy and the sky was dark and shadowed. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha were walking along a path deep in the forest, they had run for hours, trying to get themselves as far away from Naraku as possible, before stopping and taking a breather.
"Brother, where are we going?" Inuyasha asked.
Sesshomaru just looked down at his little brother and continued to walk.
"We're going somewhere far away." Sesshomaru replied after a couple minutes of silence.
"How far?"
Sesshomaru sighed.
45 minutes later, they could see the end to the path and the exit to the forest. Sesshomaru stopped which made Inuyasha stop as well.
"What's wrong brother?"
"Humans, I can smell them." Sesshomaru said.
Inuyasha proceeded to also sniff the air.
"There surrounding us."
Sesshomaru grunted in reply.
"Halt demons or we will kill you." A voice said from one of the bushes. Several men with different weapons came out of there hiding places, some jumping down from trees. Why didn't I smell them before? Sesshomaru thought to himself. The men had masks on their faces, and custom styled weapons.
"What do you want?" Sesshomaru asked.
"You are about to pass the borders into our village, turn back now and you will not be hurt."
Sesshomaru growled low in his throat, and made sure Inuyasha was safely behind him.
"We are not going to hurt anyone; we just want someplace to stay the night."
"There is a town a little while away, just south of here. Go there for the night." A voice said from behind one of the men. The man stepped aside allowing the one that had said this to pass and to show herself. She was of fair height, with black long hair that was up in a pony tail, and she wasn't bad looking at all to Sesshomaru. She had a large boomerang type weapon; it was slung behind her back which she was holding with her hand preparing for an attack if one was too occur.
"Do I know you?" She asked Sesshomaru.
"No, why do you ask?"
"You look like a demon that attacked me awhile back. He was a lot smaller though and wore a red kimono. Sesshomaru looked behind him and down at his little brother.
"Well it's not like I wanted to attack her, she was in MY territory." Inuyasha whispered in defiance up at Sesshomaru.
"Who's behind you?" She asked walking closer to Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha peeked his head out from behind Sesshomaru's leg, peering at the young woman.
"So it is you. You're the one that attacked me."
". . . uh . . . sorry?"
"He's quite tame now; I can assure you on that." Sesshomaru said to her. To Sesshomaru's amazement the young woman started to laugh, she covered her mouth with her hand in an attempt to muffle her laughter.
"What are you laughing at!" Inuyasha said stepping into full view.
"Inuyasha, behave."
"No I want to know what she's laughing about!"
The young girl stopped laughing long enough to look at Inuyasha.
"You're a small little guy, did you know that?"
Inuyasha just puffed out his chest, trying to look as manly as possible. "I am not small." Inuyasha said as he gritted his teeth and blew out his chest.
"Although your bite does hurt, but only a little bit." She said. "So what are your names?"
"I'm Sesshomaru, and this is . . ."
"My names Inuyasha." Inuyasha said interrupting Sesshomaru's introduction of them.
"Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, brothers I assume?"
"Yes we are."
"Okay, that's a start. Why are you out here? It's not like demons to behave themselves when humans are around."
Sesshomaru sighed aloud. "Woman . . . we've been running all day and we're very tired, so if we can skip the questions, and let us move on to the next village where ever the hell that is."
"First off, my name is Sango, and second you're welcome to stay with us for as long as you see fit."
"But Sango, they are demons, and we ARE demon slayers." One of the men pointed out.
"There not hurting anyone, or bothering anyone, except for the runt, but I do believe he's tame now." Inuyasha walked behind Sesshomaru, and began to lick his wounded pride, "I'm sure that they won't cause any trouble, am I correct Sesshomaru?" Sango asked him.
"No trouble at all . . . ma'am." Sesshomaru said, not sure of the status with the demon slayers.
"You can call me Sango. Alright follow us." Sango said tuning around and walking in the opposite direction from Sesshomaru, the men began to follow her out of the forest as well.
