Author's note: Hello all I'm Kat. Sadly Kit and I no longer live in the same town, let alone province, so we have had to put our privious story on hold for the time being. Anyways, I decided to wright a little something on my own. Hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or anything to do with him. Although, I do own my OC's. Thanks.
PROLOGUE
Ever still, cold, and unable to make a sound, Rain remains in the same place she has stood for over 150 years. Unable to be claimed by death, unable to live, she stands, never aging holding her pierced heart and braving the elements. Over the many years the natural foliage wound its way around her, almost hiding her image for all eyes but there is one person who never forgot where she stood and every year year he would visit her. Although he had no way to tell if she was even alive, he stood for a full day by her side, telling her all that had come to pass in her absence. His last visit had not been more than a few moons ago and she was already wishing for his return. She felt short changed in a way for he stayed less than an hour rather than the usual full day. He seemed stern and alert as if someone might be following him, she also noticed that one of his sleeves looked rather...empty But he said nothing of it. He said little of anything really. Rain reminded herself.
Why Kimkoko? Why did you do this to me, I thought we were friends, I even went so far as to call you sister. Why would you leave in this world if i am not to interact in it?
He wanted nothing more than to go and see her again, sit by her side and clear the over grown weeds from her view, but he knew it was for the best that he stay away. It was vital that her existence not be know by anyone other than himself and that...discrace whether she be alive or dececed.Also he had the sneaking suspicion that someone was watching him, just waiting for him to slip up and reveal a weakness and that could not be tolerated. Having to leave her after so soon was enough to break his heart but he had to stay strong, she was counting on him, she needed him to save her and he wasn't going to fail because of pointless emotions. Curse that wretched miko! He scowled. He despised humans and in his mind for good reason. It was a human that stilled her, it was a human that betrayed her, a human and a miko no less. He stopped in his tracks and absently stroked his fur pelt as his mind reverted back to the night that she was taken from him.
He had asked her not to go, asked her to stay for another night to wait out the storm "Perhaps Rain you should say for one more night at least, a storm this frightful is a sign from the gods that something bad is going to happen." She just smiled that smile of hers and held his hands in hers.
"You act so old, when you are so young. Do not worry yourself with my safety, I will be fine, besides, its not like I'm going to be alone, you know that." She giggled and let his hands drop as she made her way to the exit. "Kimkoko will be traveling with me remember?" She then tied her cloak around her frail body, pulling up her hood and tucked in her long ebony mass of hair.
"When will you learn Rain that Mikos and Demons do not mix?" he asked in a stern but concerned voice. For a slight moment he saw her frown but, quick as a flash, it was gone and he smile was back in place.
"Kimkoko and I are just different I guess." she answered simply. After a quick hug , he watched as she walked through the storm with the miko to visit the neighboring village. That was the last time he saw her alive.
If only I made her stay, if only I went with her, if only...
A traveling merchant had been on the road that very night and it was he that told everyone what had happened. As he stopped to check his mule he heard an argument, being curious he followed what was obviously female voices. From what he saw the miko, Kimkoko, held an arrow arched aiming at Rain. The miko had tricked Rain in traveling with her to kill her, when she was done, she planed to head back and kill "others like her". She was an extremest against demons and wanted to cleanse the earth of "evil spirits not worthy of breath" as she said. The merchant then told of how Rain, staying calm but hurt that her "friend" would do something like this, tried to convince Kimkoko to lower the arrow, that by now was glowing with spiritual power. At that moment an enormous flash of lighting stuck the ground frightening the miko so that she lost her fingering and fired the arrow. With no time to react, Rain was struck in the heart, sealing her rather than killing her. Kimkoko than fled the scene, and all that was left of Rain was a stone statue with the look of pure sorrow on her face, the merchant recalled.
When he found her, his heart hardened instantly, and his immense hatred for humans and mikos alike were formed. She looked so sad, so hurt, not by pain but the know that her friend that she trusted so could do something like this. Her stone figure has stood there ever since with the arrow still deep in her heart. He searched, after that for her betrayer, but was despaired to find that during the night she shot Rain, she had been captured by group of rouag demons, killed, and eaten, lucky for her they got to her first.
I would give anything to see you smile again, I would give anything my sister.
Smirking, he lent back into his chair, thinking that he finally might have found something. "Show me Kanna, show him to me again."
"Yes master,"
The young girl's mirror swirled into a fog of colors before re-focusing on a forested clearing. Naraku watched from his dark castle as Sesshomaru paced uncharacteristically upon the forest floor. Something was getting to him and Naraku was determined to know what.
"Tell me Kanna, where is our lord Sesshomaru?" he asked couriously.
"He is in the weeping woods milord." she answered absently. The Weeping Woods?
"And why are they called the Weeping Woods?"
"It is based on a myth that the elder humans tell they're young. Many many years ago a young demon was apparently deceived by a priestess and turned into stone. They say that in the night you can hear the crying woman." The young girl replied in a monotone voice. I weeping woman eh? Maybe there's more to this than I thought before.
"Tell Kagura that she is to find Kikiyo and bring her here, I am curious as to why Sesshomaru would be residing in such a wood with no other purpose than to pace and act disgruntled." He then waved his hand to excuse her and send her on her task. Smiling to himself, he let his imagination run wild as to what all this new information could mean and how it could help him defeat those infuriating Inu brats.