What Lies Beneath Her: Chapter 2

Starting, exploring, and wandering through the forest, I quickly ran and looked for a shelter as quiet rain drops sheded softly from above and onto the ground, landing lightly, dripping, from the hard wood on the rough branches that is connected to the trees. You see, water is a vampire's weakness; meaning that someone like me can't stand near it, or even touch it, unless there were herbs mixed in with it.

As I finally found shelter, I quickly rushed inside it, not wanting to feel sick and pain, by getting drenched. I couldn't go back outside, so around the cave to find some wood for the fire, twigs into a soft comforting blanket to cover myself in the cold. I lied down, trying to avoid the storm.

I woke up to the sound of birds chirping. I fluttered open my eyes slightly as I felt a crack of light shimmer across my face, radiating warmth onto my cheek. I waited until my vision adjusted itself, before opening my eyes completely. I steadily stood up, trying to avoid the pain that was surging through my body, from laying on the hard, rocky ground. Ignoring the pain, I continued on in the forest. Everything around me seemed different. Too different. There were nothing but trees, rocks, and grass around me. No ordinary houses like I usually see. A growling sound was suddenly heard not too far from where I was standing. And it was extremely loud enough for me, or even anyone else to hear. I followed growling noise, that was leaving me a trail. It sounded loud, yet so faint. As the noise got louder to my ears, I trudged through the bushes to find a white, beautiful wolf before me. But it wasn't just any wolf, it was a big one. A really huge one, but not too big. She looked as if she could destroy the population of people with her big size. (AN: It's about the size of Kirara. And I'm just going to call it a she) She looked fatally injured from what I could tell as she licked her wounds, that were covered in blood. Cuts and burns were covered on her body as well as blood. I carefully sauntered towards her, but stopped when she bared her fangs at me, as if telling me to back off. However, I wasn't intimidated by her growl and how scary she looked. Either way, she didn't scare me.

Ignoring the fact that she was growling at me, I walked over towards her and put a hand softly at the end of her nose, not caring if she might bite my hand off, or not. As I softly caress her nose, the wolf's eyes glared at me. I didn't care if she attacked me, or not. I gently smiled at the wolf, letting her know that I meant her no harm. The growl slowly began to soften and suddenly a huge, large tongue came upon my cheek as if she was acknowledging me. I was suddenly thrown off track, when blue fire surrounded the wolf. As the fire finally subsided, I took a look at the wolf to see if her wounds were damaged any further. Unfortunately, I was wrong, since I was met with a small, white pup. I felt my heart swell up in sadness as I watched the little thing trying to at least crawl as she leU out soft whimpers. Not wanting to leave something that's so small, I carefully picked her up, not wanting to make her injuries worse.

Carrying her in my arms, I gently whispered to her. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I'll take care of you."

Once again, I found myself walking through the forest, searching for another place to shelter myself and the lone wolf.

"Quickly! We must get him to the village and get him treated, right away!" shouted a man's voice, not too far from me. Curious, I followed from where the noise was coming from. As I the noise came closer and closer to my ears, I trudged through a few bushes and was met with a few men and women, and few children standing around an older man, who looked injured. They must be villagers.

I walked towards the group and kneeled down on one knee. "What happened?" I asked the group, with concern on my face.

"We were just getting back from searching for a few things that might be useful to us, when out of nowhere we were attack by a strange demon." One of the men explained to me, not even bothering to notice my appearance and demanding my name. "We're really in hurry, would you mind helping us carry him back to the village, so he could get treated?"

I stared at them shocked and hesitant for a while, before giving a nod. "Yes." I always liked helping people, whether they ridiculed me, or not. I turned my attention towards a child, who turned out to be a little girl, who had a curious look on her face. "Would you mind holding her for a while?" I asked, with a soft smile. The little girl looked hesitant for a while, before giving a smile, gently taking the pup from my arms. I carefully lifted up the man and wrapped his arm around my shoulder, while my arm was around his waist. I willingly helped the man walk, with a little help from a few villagers.

After following the group to their destination, I followed one of the villagers, who instructed me to follow them to their huts. As I walked inside, I gently laid the man down on a futon, not wanting to make his injuries fatal. I looked around for anything that I could use, to stop him from getting worse, but I saw nothing. I opened my mouth to ask for the equipments to treat his wounds. "Would you like to treat his wounds?" asked a female voice, beating me to the punch. I saw the woman holding a bucket of water and few other things with a smile.

Taken aback by her offer, I gave a nod.

After finally finished with what I just did, I took a look at my surroundings. By the way the people wore their clothes and such, I definitely knew that I was far from home. 'What is this place and what am I doing in it?' I started to explore everything around me. Everything that I saw, was definitely not from the other world I live in: Kimonos, horses, huts, and different hairstyles you really don't see everyday. What actually shocked me, was that the people didn't judge me for what I looked like, nor did they cared. How can they not see that I'm different from them? "Hey! Pink lady! Wait!" cried a little girl's voice, which was obviously directed to me. I spun around to see the girl jogging up to me, with the wolf-pup in her hands. "Here you go. You forget something, Pink lady."

I watched as the pup piped up with happiness and hopped into my arms, licking my face. I gave a soft giggle as she licked my face. "You seem a lot better, than before. Aren't you?" I asked the pup, petting her fur, softly. I turned towards the girl, with a smile. "Thank you, so much for taking care of her. I don't know what I'd do, if she died from her injuries."

The girl put on a toothy grin. "It's no problem, Miss." she said. "Um...excuse me?"

"Yes?" I questioned, looking down at the girl.

"I know it may sound rude of me, but may I ask what your name is?" she asked, curious.

I could only give a slight chuckle. "Why of course. My name is Moka. What's yours?"

"My name is Amaya." she said with a cheery smile.

"Amaya..." I repeated with amazement. "That's a really pretty name."

"You really think so?" Amaya asked, double checking what I said.

"Of course I do. It means "Night Rain". I really think it's a pretty name. Honestly I do."

"Really?" I gave a nod. "Well, I think your name is pretty too.".

I could only give out a nervous laugh and a sweat-drop. Truth to be told, I didn't really like my name that much, because of its meaning; Chocolate-flavoured coffee. "Well...um...thank you."

"I wonder what her name is too." Amaya asked, obviously gesturing to the pup.

Come to think of it, she didn't have a name. "I'm afraid she doesn't have one." I told her, in thought. "Do you want name her?"

I watched as she nodded her head vigorously, with a big smile.

I'm just going to stop there for a while. Short chapter, I know. But I'll make a longer one next time. And those who want me to update on this story, follow my story and I will. By the way, Moka's family shows up later on in this story, it's slightly an AU fic. And no Moka isn't going to see Inuyasha pinned to a tree. I'm including Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and everyone else in this story.