I Do Not Own InuYasha


Wasuremono

忘れ物

Forgotten or lost things;

An item left behind somewhere or forgotten at home


V: 1


20, February, 1994

Higurashi Shrine, Tokyo, Japan...

Higurashi Jun was surprised to have found an onna in his well house, but he was more surprised as she was was loaded up in the ambulance to see that it was Zaizen Rin. It was surprising because he had not seen the Zaizen family since they had left Tokyo, and today had been the first time in years he had seen Airi. Then he had watched them ride off in the ambulance, a young onna dressed in the most traditional of garbs, and her mother with her. He was surprised.

But now that the dawn was here and he had to go inspect his wellhouse in the light now, to see the damage the police and the girl had done to it.

"Chichi-ue!" a voice shouted.

"Hai," he called out as he started filling the bucket with soap and water. The police had left a while ago, after taking all those photos.

"We were so worried!" his son appeared then and he smiled a bit.

"No, it wasn't me," he assured his son.

"Then who was it?" Mayu appeared behind Kōki holding Sōta in her arms with Kagome following.

"It was Zaizen Rin," he answered.

"Nani?"

"Hai, I don't know how, but it was Zaizen Rin," Jun admitted.

"Do the police have any leads?" Mayu asked sitting down at the kitchen table.

"No, they do think it's that serial killer running around that did this," he admitted. "I was just going to go clean it up, police said I could."

"I'll help," Kōki decided as he grabbed the bucket. "Mayu, you stay here and lock the doors."

"Hai," she nodded as they walked out.

"Zaizen Rin?" Kōki asked as they walked towards the wellhouse.

"Hai, she seemed to be in bad shape too," he admitted. Suddenly Kōki stopped midstride and looked around. "Nani?"

"Did you hear that?"

"No."

"I could've sworn…" Kōki started.

There was suddenly a piercing wail in the frosty morning. Kōki dropped the bucket, he dropped his rag as they both rushed for the bushes around Goshinboku's roots. It didn't take him long at all to find the wailing bundle. The babe was thoroughly wrapped up in a downy white fur as well as a red and white quilt with some violet stitching.

"Good Kami! That's…!" Kōki gasped and reached for the wailing infant. Jun watched in shock as the babe settled in his son's arms, though the wailing didn't stop. "He must've been out here all night!"

There was blood on the baby's cheek and brow.

"This is a lot of blood!" he gasped.

"Kami, he's has to be half frozen!" Kōki gasped.

"Get him inside!" Jun barked as they both forgot their initial task and started hurrying towards the house. Kōki's doctor mode set in fast when they got inside, unfurling the fur and quilt that the babe was wrapped in. The baby howled louder and squirmed as they undid the wrappings, Jun held his breath, fearing the worst, there was so much blood on the quilt and fur, it was startling.

"Good Kami!" Mayu moved in, taking the blankets.

"The baby's…" Kōki started.

"Where'd all this blood come from!?"

"Not the baby!" Kōki gasped in relief as his head bowed.

"But he's probably starving!" Mayu stated. "And a soiled nappy," she decided as she muscled her way between them.

"I'll call that inspector," Jun decided. The inspector who had come after Zaizen Rin had been taken to the hospital, Inspector Fujimori Akimitsu and his partner, Iwata Yūdai had both left numbers they could be paged at. This baby was probably connected to whatever had happened to Zaizen Rin, or worse, this was Zaizen's child.

"Let's get you cleaned up," Mayu murmured to the sobbing baby.


General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan...

It had been a hell of a week for Inspector Iwata, he had been dealing with so much and then this Tokyo Butcher had made an unconfirmed kill in his jurisdiction which had him fighting with a taskforce, now there was the attempted murder of one Zaizen Rin. There was irony there because the disappearance of Zaizen Rin was what had inspired him to join the police and to try to make a difference in the world.

Zaizen Rin was one of the most famous missing child cases in the Tokyo area, for the little girl had walked out of her house, to the local park and into the forest before everything about her vanished without a trace. Cadaver dogs hadn't been able to find her, security footage had revealed nothing, witnesses remembered nothing, and there had been no ransom demands of her family to receive her again. It was like the girl from the neighborhood had just vanished. Iwata Yūdai had been attending university, but he did know Zaizen Rin from the neighborhood, she was a bit of a novelty in the neighborhood; sweet but wild. Her disappearance had been a true shock and it had unsettled the neighborhood. The idea that she was found, and such a violent way, it was a shock.

He prepared himself for it not to be Zaizen Rin.

"What's with you!?" Akimitsu demanded.

"Zaizen Rin was a missing persons case in my neighborhood ten years ago. She got up, left her house, went to the local park near the small forest area, and disappeared without a trace," he explained. "I knew her, kind of, she was one of those faces you know. She was always trailing after her brothers, the other boys, she was just as fast, stubborn and tomboy as all the boys could be, it was sort of amusing. She was also fierce, she kicked one of the bullies in the knees and was renowned from then on."

"Mmm, and you think this girl isn't Zaizen Rin?"

"After ten years, no, Zaizen Rin is dead, no way whoever took her would risk keeping her alive this long," he sighed sadly.

"We shall see, doc's were kind enough to collect her prints for us, so we'll have the guys compare them," Akimitsu stated.

"Hai," he nodded.

"Just be professional, don't make accusations until we have more information. If this is some con-artist then we'll catch her," Akimitsu stated.

They walked into chaos, and he was stunned because that was the face of Zaizen Rin, and she was fighting three medical staff and security.

"Where's My Baby!" she screeched as she shoved a guard off with her legs, a nurse came running in with a needle as Rin escaped the grasp of two medical professionals. She caught the nurse's hand and shoved the needle into the other woman before shoving her away.

"Whoa there!" Akimitsu ducked one of Rin's fists before coming up to catch her.

"Careful of her stitches!" a doctor shouted.

The most feral sound came from the girl as she struggled against Akimitsu, and Yūdai leapt into action to grab her flailing legs before she could cause more damage to the people around her and herself. Her torso was bleeding heavily again and the wild, feral look in her eyes was startling. Another doctor surged forward, jabbing her with a needle which had her howling as she struggled but it acted swiftly and had her sagging in their grasp.

"My baby," she whispered meekly as he followed the doctor's leads and got her back on the bed.

"Damn that onna is a fighter," Akimitsu chuckled as the doctors got padded restraints for her. The doctors moved swiftly, changing her bandages, checking her wounds.

"That kind of fighting is training," he muttered. He had seen it in his brother who had been a martial arts enthusiast, that kind of fighting was skill, the difficulty restraining her was probably because she was weak and suffered a major injury.

"What can you tell us doc?" Akimitsu asked when they left Rin alone.

"Not a lot, she suffered a massive trauma to her upper body, her arms have defensive wounds, as do her palms, and her torso suffered a heavy attack. She has been sexually active, we do not know if it was rape or consensual, the moment she woke up and asked for her baby all hell broke loose," the doctor stated.

Akimitsu nodded as they both looked in on the girl. She was sedated, her chest was moving steadily and she was restrained, but still nothing looked meek about Zaizen Rin.

"I don't believe my eyes," he whispered in shock as her head rolled to look at him.

"Is that Zaizen Rin?"

"Prints will confirm it, but hai, that's Zaizen Rin," he muttered in disbelief.

Akimitsu's pager buzzed and he walked to the phone to dial the number, leaving Yūdai to stare in disbelief as Rin's parents huddled around her.

"This is Inspector Fujimori," his partner said into the phone. Yūdai looked back at Rin and was stunned again, the onna was clearly the little girl he had known, but she had grown. She was young, and it looked like she had survived a lot to get here, good Kami what had she been through?

"NANI! We're on our way!" Akimitsu shouted. "Come on kid, they found that baby at the Higurashi Shrine!"

"Nani!" he shouted as they both ran from the hospital.


Year 684...

Tsuzuki Castle, Shikoku Clan Territories, Shikoku Island, Japan...

Kimi stood at the edge of her palace grounds and stared out at the realms she ruled over.

"Has he finally stopped chasing you?" a voice asked behind her which had her arching a brow as she turned to see her dearest of friends there. A smile played on her lips as she looked at the pair, a kami and a dragon.

"Not yet," she said. "The hunt does not end until I tear out that Westerner's throat."

"They aren't all bad," the kami chuckled as he walked towards her.

"Mmm, but they are," she chuckled as she tapped Tsukuyomi's chest. "What brings you here, Tsukuyomi-kami?" she asked with a slight inclination of her head.

"Can a kami not wish to gaze upon the purest of beauties?" he asked.

"No," she answered with a smile.

The dragon let out a booming laugh as he walked up to stand beside the kami. "Careful, Tsukuyomi-kami, she might think you want to hunt her next!"

"Preposterous, he's a kami, I am a daiyōkai, I would never degrade my kami with such a union," she dismissed.

"True," the dragon chuckled.

"How can I help you Watatsumi-sama?" she asked.

"We're here to see Shikoku-sama," Watatsumi stated.

"I see, well, my father is out on Clan business, I will be certain to relay the information you desire to reach him," she stated.

"No, Kimi-sama, we will have to deliver it ourselves," Tsukuyomi stated.

"Is my word not good enough?" she asked.

"It isn't that," Tsukuyomi sighed.

"Then, what is the problem?" she asked as she slid her hands up her sleeves to hide the growing anxiety. She had known both the kami and diayokai before her since her puphood, they were both family friends and dear not only to her father but her as well, and not merely good allies to have.

"It's a mortal," he stated.

"And that is a problem how? Mortals exist, they are born, they live, they die, in frequent succession," she reminded the kami.

"Hai, but this one is unique," Watatsumi said with a smile.

"How so?"

"This is a powerful miko, I think she's a Western kami reincarnated here," he admitted.

"Nani?" Kimi looked between the pair in confusion.

"Hai, occasionally the Western Kami decide to live as a mortal, I do not understand it fully myself, but they walk amongst men to guide them, to have compassion and understanding for the mortal life, I think somehow one of those kami made their way here, in our lands."

"Why do you think that?"

"The miko is unnaturally powerful, and I do not recognize the spiritual energy she displays," Watatsumi stated.

"And does this miko have a name?"

"The child is called Midoriko," Tsukuyomi stated. "And she's a mere babe for a human, we found her in Tosa Province, amongst the wreckage. Her human family is dead, drowned in the tsunami, I don't know how she could've survived."

"I see, and where is she now?"

"In my custody," Watatsumi revealed. "But I cannot keep her long, my brother will grow suspicious, Ryūkotsuse is seeking a war and this welp could give him the edge he needs if he could train the child."

"Which is why we are here to speak with Shikoku."


Year 1573...

Tsuzuki Castle, Shikoku Clan Territories, Shikoku Island, Japan...

Sesshōmaru watched Rin as she ran after the cubs his mother had agreed to care for. He was surprised at how well Tsukuyomaru's daughter and Rin got along, but it shouldn't have been so surprising with how well they had gotten on in the war.

"She is a rare gift, your beloved," his mother chuckled as she came to stand beside him. They watched as the thunder yōkai flittered about as a ball of lightning with her dragon following her as a cloud. He knew the pair would try to play a sneak attack on Rin and Shiori and was curious to see how it would work out.

"The humans demand custody of her," he stated.

"The humans?"

"InuYasha's pack," he clarified.

"Ah, I see," Kimi nodded as they watched. The laughter filled the air as Rin evaded the small lightning strikes and Shiori attempted to tackle the cloud which was shooting arrows at her. "Will they fight for her?"

He didn't answer.

He didn't know if the humans of InuYasha's pack would fight for Rin, he had purposely kept her away from them, and they from her, though there were times it was impossible to keep the groups separated. Naraku had seen to that and seen to the exposure of Rin to InuYasha's pack.

"She should be with them," Kimi declared, and he stiffened. There was a molten weight of lead in his gut at her declaration.

His mother pursed her lips. "You don't have anything to say to this?"

He didn't say anything to her inquiry.

"I do not think it is wise to leave her with them, but she's human and there are things about humans that we yōkai do not know about these aspects," Kimi started. "She will grow, and her anatomy is something that we don't know, she should at least be around them some of the time. I do not think that she will receive the best education with them though."

"You believe that she will not receive an education with them?" he asked.

"Not with the peasants that comprise InuYasha's pack," Kimi continued. "She will be viewed as a peasant, she will be treated and educated as such. Even if she were trained by the miko as a miko, though she will not be, she does not possess an ounce of spiritual power. She's more yōkai than spiritual, she will have skills that humans cannot teach her because of the yōkai claims on her blood."

"Humans will restrict her," he pointed out.

"Hai, they will try, but she is legally a ward of the Shikoku InuYōkai Pack, not the Clan, she is a member of my pack, and as such they will teach her how I say," Kimi firmly said. "She will study what she is interested in, but with humans we will direct what she will study. If I must I will dictate to the humans what she will study."

"They will argue they have priority to custody because she is human," he countered.

"They can try, but she was neglected by her village, orphaned by humans, her family slaughtered by humans, and her own death could be argued to have only happened because of human neglect. Hai, the ookami were the weapon which did kill her, and hai, the humans in her village probably could not have protected her from the assault of the ookami, but their neglect lead to her being weak and exposed and vulnerable to the ookami's assault. Furthermore, humans did not raise her for the past year, that has been you, you provide her food, you provide her protection, you provide her shelter, you provide her with a necessary stipend and a dowry. That is yōkai caring for a human, not human caring for a human pup. A pup that no human claimed interest in until InuYasha's pack lost their strange miko."

"You think they are attempting to substitute Rin for the loss of Kagome?" he asked icily. He would not be surprised if that was their intent, but at the same time this was not an idea he had examined.

"It would not be a stretch, the miko will need an apprentice, though Rin holds no spiritual power she possesses a strategic value. Rin is intimate with the yōkai, she's familiar with our kind and our ways, she could be a dangerous opponent if properly utilized, however, your beloved does not have a proclivity for human companionship."

"You think she could be dangerous?"

"Hai, very, in the wrong hands your beloved could be very dangerous, in ours she is an equal and a member of my pack and will lead my Clan when your time to lead comes. She will be a fine alpha and lady when the time comes."

He glared at her.

"If she should decide that," he growled lowly. He would not allow anyone to think he had groomed or tamed Rin. She was Rin, she was the most important person in his life, he would not groom her for what everyone thought she should or would become.

"If she should decide that. Rin is ours though, we will permit the humans to teach her, but she will return here. What the arrangement we come to will be in the best interest of Rin's education and upbringing," Kimi promised.

He nodded.

"I'm glad you agree," Kimi mused. "She is a lovely little thing, your beloved, and we will ensure she remains that way. Also, this will be good for both you and her, as this will give you time apart, no one can claim you are grooming her if you two have so much time apart."

"I can't stay away," he grumbled.

"Hazard of a Claim, but you will find things to occupy your time," Kimi said knowingly as she looked at his chest and then him. "You will also be resuming your duties as Inu no Taishō."

He raised a brow.

"The pack leaders within the Clan desire you to be Inu no Taishō again, your defeat of Naraku with InuYasha has made you a renewed alpha in their eyes, and the return of Rin has excited them. Hai, they are aware she is a pup, but they are excited about her return."

He inclined his head in understanding then.

"Don't worry, I am still Alpha of the Clan and the Pack," she chuckled. "When the times comes I will retire, but for now, just focus on becoming the renown Inu no Taishō again. You have two hundred years of responsibilities to make up for."