I watched Inuyasha stare at his sword for a moment while the large dog just stared at him. I saw Jaken with his staff and quietly made my way from beside Kagome to get closer to him.
"Sesshomaru-sama! A worthless Hanyou like that… just eat him whole." I grabbed a skull and threw it at him, now standing behind one of Sesshomaru's paws.
"Inuyasha won't loose with Kagome depending on him to protect her." I said to myself. I turned back to the fight and watched as Sesshomaru tried to step on him again. Inuyasha help up his sword and, to the surprise of everyone, he sliced Sesshomaru's arm in half before separating it from the large dog's body making him fall to the ground. Inuyasha held up his sword and we all saw it was a large fang instead of the rusted piece of junk it was earlier. What happened? How did it change? I watched from behind Sesshomaru as he stood up and attacked his brother again.
"This is the end for you Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha shouted attacking him once more. Inuyasha swung his sword and sliced into Sesshomaru's chest, pushing him back into the ribcage of their father.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken called out for him. One thing they'd forgotten was that I was behind Sesshomaru… When Sesshomaru fell it pushed me out of the body cavity and I fell with the large Youkai, screaming. Suddenly I felt an arm wrap around my waist and saw a white light envelop me and my rescuer. I turned and saw Sesshomaru looking pained as we flew to safety. The light around us flew took us through the black hole the pearl had created into this world and away from the village I'd come to know so well. We finally landed by a river and Sesshomaru sat against a tree, his face now schooled not to show the pain he must have been in. I quickly moved to the river and collected some water before going back to him.
"Don't move or this might not work." I told him. He didn't say anything as I put one hand in the water and moved his sleeve with the other. I moved my wet hand to what was left of his bleeding arm and concentrated on the healing power the water provided. My grandmother had taught me the magic of healing water saying it would come in handy in my future. I never knew who right she was until now, but it begged the question of how she knew that particular information. "I won't be able to make your arm grow back, but I can heal the injury and s stop the bleeding." I told him.
"Why are you helping me?" He asked me.
"Would you rather I left you to bleed out?" I asked him. My reply was silence as he thought over my words and I felt his injury heal.
"You created fire." He said as I removed my hand from the now healed wound and washed his blood off it. I thought back to the fight when I had thought Kagome was killed by the very Youkai who saved my life.
"I was angry at the time. I thought you'd killed my friend." I reminded him. "I never created my own element before let alone forge it into a weapon." I said to myself knowing he'd hear it no matter how softly I'd said it. "Why did you save me?" I asked him as I grabbed the container with the bloody water in it.
"Do you wish to die?" He asked me and I shook my head.
"No. I just wasn't expecting to be saved by the Youkai who was trying to kill my friends." I replied. He didn't answer me and I sighed before going back to the river to empty the container of it contents and try to clean the blood from my armor. I removed the chest piece revealing the black short sleeved shirt I'd written underneath so the metal wouldn't touch my skin and dunked it in the water. I felt his eyes burning into the back of my head as he watched me intently as I finished my task. I put the armor back on before turning to him. "It's probably pointless to ask but would you be willing to take me back to the village you took me from? It's the only place I really know in this time."
"No." He said before standing and walking away.
"Why not?" I asked him as he continued to walk. I sighed before following him into the forest before I finally remembered something. "Where's your toad?"
"Jaken will find his way back." He told me and I nodded before continuing to follow him. We walked for hours and I was extremely grateful there were no heels on my boots and that my parents had insisted on me doing my elemental training. The hours I spent waking was nothing compared to the years I spent doing the same training my grandmother and her sister had done so many years ago. Years of not only strengthening my bond to the elements in my control but to strengthen my body for the harsh journey all my people must take. Some take revenge on the killers of their previous life if they still lived, while others found lost loves. I had no memory of my past life, so why was I reborn? Why was I drawn to the past with Kagome in the first place? To protect her? If so we wouldn't have been separated. To find my great aunt's old lover? Would he still be alive after over 60 years? To avenge her? I didn't know who'd killed her in the first place, no one did. So why was I here? Why did I decide to return to this time?