Tainted Souls
Chapter III
Dropping Hints; The Demon And The Flower Girl
I don't own Inuyasha or Final Fantasy 7
Several weeks had passed since Sesshomaru had said that he was going to investigate a strange demonic aura. Rin sat on a rock outside the cave where Sesshomaru had told her to wait for him.
"Where is Lord Sesshomaru? He should have been back days ago," Jaken stated leaving the cave to survey the horizon for his master's return.
Rin came out of the cave and stood by Jaken's side. Both of them worried about there master, he hadn't returned in such a long time and they started to fear that he had abandoned them.
"Where are we going, Sesshomaru?" Aeris asked trying to keep up with the demon.
"I sense a demonic aura to the west, it's very similar to the one that I followed to this land." Sesshomaru replied, looking up at the sky.
"I have a question I've been meaning to ask, What…are you? " she asked hesitantly.
"That is none of your concern," he snapped at the flower girl.
"But I really want to know, please tell me!" She begged.
He was quite for several minutes, when they left the woods Sesshomaru walked to the end of a cliff edge and stared out across the strange land he had found himself in.
"I am a demon." he said looking up once more.
"What about your arm?" Aeris asked looking at the arm that she had reattached.
Once again Sesshomaru paused, Aeris walked to his side and saw that he had a grave look on his face as his gaze fell upon a small town that lay in the middle of the mountains. Sesshomaru grabed her and held her tight as he leaped from the cliff.
"What are you doing?" She screamed pounding on the demon's chest. "Are you crazy?"
The demon paid no attention to Aeris's screams as they fell from the mountains into the forest below. They hit the ground silently and softly, Sesshomaru let Aeris go and set her down on the ground. Aeris collapsed to the ground, gasping for air.
"What were you thinking? Are you mad?" she said screaming at Sesshomaru, who unfazed from the fall, began walking towards a small town built in the middle of the mountains.
"What is the name of this town?" he asked looking back at the girl.
"Nibelham, I think. I've heard strange stories about this place. Apparently it was burnt down to the ground several years ago and very few buildings survived the fire. Let's find a place to stay. Maybe we should find an inn." she said as they walked through the gates to the city., Sesshomaru already far ahead of her.
Sesshomaru felt a little awkward as they walked through the small town. Everyone stared and pointed at him as he walked by. It took every ounce of patience in his body to not slay everyone of the Mortals where they stood. Finally they came to a small inn in the center of the city, Sesshomaru stopped and stared at a large mansion that over the rest of the small town.
"Hey are you okay?" Aries asked waving her hand in front of Sesshomaru's face.
"Yes, I'm fine." he said, turning his gaze from the old mansion to the dreary little inn.
They walked to the front desk and rung a small bell, as soon Aries' hand left the bell an old man with a long beard and a large nose popped up from under the table.
"Yes, how may I help you?" He asked in a cheerful voice.
"We'd like a room, please, are there any available?" Aries asked the man with a smile on her face.
"Only one, Would you like it?" he said looking through a rack of key.
"Yes, please." She paid the man and took the key.
"Thank you, very much." the small man said smiling. "Enjoy your stay."
Sesshomaru and Aries made their way up to the room, they placed their things in a small closet next to the door and went down to the door and went downstairs to get something to eat. They sat down at a small table in the corner of the room.
"Well, it's still early what do you want to do?" Aeris asked Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru looked out the window, the sun would be setting, that would be the perfect time. He looked Aeris over, he examined her physique. She was more of a beauty queen then a fighter.
"Hey," Aeris waved a hand in front of Sesshomaru's face to get his attention, "Eyes up here."
They ordered their food, Aeris shifted in her seat uncomfortably.
"How long are you going to be traveling with me?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"Well, I guess that's up to you really." She looked at the demon, his ears twitched.
"If your going to travel with me you'll have to learn how to fight."
"Huh!" She almost jumped out of her seat, "I thought the point of you being my body guard was that you do all the fighting."
"You can't depend on one thing for too long, I won't always be around to protect you, you have to learn how to protect yourself."
Their food arrived and the two ate their meals in silence, Aeris was worried about sparing with Sesshomaru, she constantly looked up at him and wondered what he was going to teach her.
When they finished their meals, the sun had begun to set. The now orange-red sky was exactly what Sesshomaru was waiting for. Their was a beach behind the Inn. This was the perfect spot.
"Fighting is just as much mental as it is physical, you have to adapt and take in huge amounts of information and react in a split second. The first step to fighting is to know your limitations, then forget you even had them. You have to believe you can do anything. Now, come at me."
Aeris charged at Sesshomaru, she nervously threw a few punches, all of them dodged by the demon. She reared back and with all her might threw one last punch. Sesshomaru grabbed her fist and twisted her arm putting it into a lock.
"OWW, let go!" she demanded.
"No, you will be in this situation one of these days, Mortal, and will need to be able to get out of this situation." He tightened his grip in her arm, twisting more. She tried for several minutes to get her arm free from the Demon's grasp but to no avail.
"Okay I give up, now let me go!" She screamed. Sesshomaru released her.
Aeris walked away nursing holding her arm. In an instant she turned around and with a speed that Sesshomaru had rarely seen from any Mortal, placed her fist squarely in his left eye, leaving a bruise.
"Impossible!" Sesshomaru backed off, touching the swollen flesh.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry." She walked over to him and looked at where she hit him.
After a minute the two walked back to the Inn and went up to their room.
Aeris immediately went to the shower and cleaned up, she was covered from head to toe with sand. Sesshomaru looked around and tinkered with the electronic devices in the room trying to figure out what they were for.
Moments later, Aeris came out of the shower dressed in a red silk nightgown. She walked over to Sesshomaru and spun around so he could see her entire body.
"Well, what do you think? I just bought it. Do you like it?" She placed her hands on her knees and bent over so she was eye level with the Demon, who was now sitting in one of the two chair placed near the window.
Sesshomaru looked at her and almost immediately looked away trying to hide something, Aeris giggled a little, she knew the answer.
"Come on, let's go to sleep." She grabbed his arm and pulled him toward the bedroom, unaware of the surprise that waited for them behind the door.
She opened the door and hit the light switch to light up the room, as she walked inside, her jaw dropped in surprise. There was only one bed.
"Well, I guess we'll have to share the bed, there's no other option, but if you even think of…" she started.
"Don't worry, I know what you are going to say." he lied, he didn't have a clue what she was going to say. What was she so angry about? Rin had slept by Sesshomaru's side plenty of times and she didn't got this angry.
As the two lay in bed together, Aries rolled over and faced Sesshomaru.
"Sesshomaru can I ask you a question?" she looked at him embarrassed.
"You already have." he replied looking towards to ceiling.
"Are there Demon women? I mean…ohh." she threw her face into her pillow to hide her blushing face.
"Yes, there are demon women, why?" he asked turning towards her.
"Well, do you know any?" she asked leaning closer towards him.
"No." he said, turning back towards the ceiling.
Aries placed her hand on Sesshomaru's chest and rested her head on his shoulder. Aries began to feel strange, she never felt like this before. At last she felt complete, She felt as if she found the one person she could relay on to always be by her side. Sesshomaru was that man.
He let me hit him.