A small girl around eight years old sits on her low bed playing with two rag dolls; one in each of her hands. A storm rages loudly outside of the castle walls pulling hard against the trees and gardens surrounding it. A bolt of thunder clashes and the girl jumps in terror. She jumps up from the bed and slides the door open rushed.
"Jaken-sama!" The girl shrieks as she half runs down the hallway with her hands swinging from side to side her fists clenched.
She quickly makes her way down the stairs after the hall and enters a large entrance room. The floorboards creak as the girl runs across them and through another hallway on the other end of the room. The entrance hall had been out fitted so that the floor boards purposely creaked incase of intruders. She runs through various hallways till at last another bolt strikes and the girl is paralyzed in fear. A cry echoes through the hallway and she curls up against the wall.
"Jaken-sama!" she screams again terrified, and there is another bolt and she winces.
Soft footsteps come down the hall, echoing silently, but they are quickly over come by the sounds of the storm. The girl cries softly clinging to her legs as she is curled up with her head in her knees. Another crack echoes through the halls and the girl wince again. The footsteps end next to the girl.
"Stand up Rin" A mans voice calls to the girl and she quickly obeys and her mood changes; she smiles and beams up at the man, wiping her tears.
The man just looks down at the child with a clear face, emotions dead. He had a purple moon on his forehead and two slashes of red on both cheeks starting at his ears. His ears were pointed labeling him as a youki. With long silver hair he was a lot more handsome than you would have expected.
Him and the young girl walked down the other hall without a word and around another corner to come into the entrance hall once again. The man paused at the middle of the room and calmly looked to the door.
"Sesshomaru-sama, what's wrong?" Rin asked sweetly from behind him as she noticed him pausing to look at the door.
He said nothing and took the final steps to stand in front of the door. The wind was still howling, but he was not fazed. Then Rin noticed it; there was a soft pounding of the door.
"What is that Se-"
Sesshomaru growled as he grasped the handle and flung the door open. Gusts of wind and rain poured in as a girl was pushed in through the open door by the sheer force of the wind and was thrown right into the man. He caught her and threw her to the floor. He turned and closed the door shut with ease through the harsh winds. Rin ran to the girl and kneeled at her side finding that she was unconscious.
"Sesshomaru-sama! We must help her" Rin cried and looked from the girl to her lord pleadingly.
Sesshomaru just narrowed his eyes slightly; he had wanted to question the wench on why she was trespassing. He probably would have killed her if Rin hadn't been there.
"Rin what is going on down-" an annoying voice called from the stairs but then paused seeing the lord. "Milord, what is that filthy human doing here?"
Rin looks pleadingly up at her lord as he keeps his face youki smooth. Jaken comes down the stairs and nearly trips of the last stair. He comes to waddle over to where Rin is sitting next to the girl on the ground.
"Move Rin." Sesshomaru says simply and the child obeys; he bends down on one knee to examine the human.
He flips her over to her back and checks her wounds over with a simple glance. She has long brunette hair and a slim tanned body. She's over all beautiful; Sesshomaru over looks that fact to the others eyes and stands up again. Rin looks up at him with cute questioning eyes.
"Sesshomaru-sama, may she stay here!" she said pleading and taking a simple step forward toward her lord.
"Jaken call some servant men to bring her into the extra room near Rin's." Sesshomaru says in a monotone voice and turns down the hallway him and Rin had came from.
"Arigatou, Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin says happily jumping where she stood, and she went over to the girl once again and knelt down. "we'll take care of you for now Onee-san."
You awake with piercing pains radiating from most or all parts of your body. Silk is cool against your damaged skin and sooths the pain if only a little. You open your eyes to find the room your in dark and finely furnished. The bed you sleep on is beautiful and of white and red silk. It was night out and the single window in the room was beautifully carved in a fine traditional way. Wind blew into the room and you could see the light of the moon shining in through the window.
Confused to where you were your sat up in the bed and continued to check your surroundings. There was a low side table next to the bed, and you notice there is a small bowl of rice and a cup of water next to it sitting on it. Ignoring it for the moment you get up from the bed set low to the ground and head towards the door that was set to the left diagonal to the bed. You open the door and set off cautiously down the dark hall.
Down the hallway you find it opens up into a room and stairs. Being as quiet as you could you then tiptoe down the stairs intent on getting out of the castle. At the bottom of the stairs you find a large wooden door, which was obviously the exit, but once you take a step towards the door the floorboards creak and you freeze.
"Onna, where are you going" a voice says from behind you, and there is a sliding of a door and a closing.
You turn around to see a tall demon man. 'Probably the lord of this castle' you think to yourself silently. At a loss for words you are silent and you keep your footing. The lord comes closer from being twenty feet from you to almost ten. His face is calm and plain, and you do your best to keep your face the same.
"Answer my question human." He said demanding of it.
"Iie no!" you said quickly and turned for the door, but even before you could open the door even a crack a harsh hand wraps around your wrist.
You gasp in pain as your wrist strains from his grip and you stop your attempts.
"You will stay here onna." The lord says releasing your wrist with a push and you stumble and rub your wrist painfully.
His face is clear of anger, but you can clearly tell you frustrate him. There is a slide of a door at the top of the stairs and you turn your head to see what or who is was. A little girl came out of the hallway you had just been down moments before. She yawned, but as soon as she saw her lord her eyes opened fully. Then just before she was about to say something to the demon he spoke instead.
"Rin take the girl back to her room." He said clearly, and turned back around to the sliding door he had just come through as you saw him.
He left and Rin came hopping down the stairs to where you were still on the ground gripping your wrist. She smiled to you and held out a hand to you happily, but you just bypassed the hand and stood up knowing full well that if you had taken her hand she would probably have toppled over.
"Come on!" she said happily and headed back up the stairs half skipping.
'How can she be so optimistic' you think sighing to yourself as you begin to follow her up the stairs and down the hall. The two of you come up to the room you had found yourself sleeping in. The girl, Rin, slid open the door and you followed her in. The moon still shown through the window and the room smelled fresh and clean.
"Hey, Onee-san" Rin called turning around happily so that she faced you again.
" Yes?" you answer wondering why she was calling you sister; you don't recall knowing her from anywhere.
"What's your name?" Rin asked as she looked up at you sweetly and you couldn't help but to smile as you replied.
"Watashi no namae wa Narooma des. My name is Narooma" You answered smiling and Rin smiled back.
"My name is Rin, do you want to play with me?" Rin asked as she walked toward the door and started to open it, pausing to see what your answer would be.
'Its so late though' you think to yourself, 'but what would it hurt'
"Hai," you smile down at her and she goes to her room to fetch her dolls happily. She comes back and the two of you take a seat on your new bed and play dolls together. The little girl was just so fun loving and pure that you couldn't help but love her, and forget all about how late it was and why it was you were even in this castle.
You wake up the next day to Rin sleeping in the same bed as you. The two of you must have fallen asleep while you were playing, you concluded noticing her dolls scattered all over your bed. You get up careful no to wake her and find a brush in the dresser across from the bed. Managing to tame the mats in your hair you then eat the rice that was still sitting out, realizing how hungry you were. Then after swallowing the last of the water you turn back to Rin as she slept in your bed.
"Rin?" you shake her lightly a little to try to wake her up, but she doesn't wake up, just moan and roll over to her other side facing the wall opposite you. You sigh and go back to the dresser to see if there was anything to dress in. Luckily there was. You find a simple yukata and you pull it on.
You go out of the room, through the hall and down the stairs. Light shown through the windows in the entrance room and the place shown brightly. You saw it was simply furnished with a few tapestries. Continuing to explore you go through the sliding door that Sesshomaru had gone through the night before. It opened to a hall way and you followed it and started to wander. Finally you find it open into a garden.
You continue walking and spot a pond and you decide to sit there for a while. Picking a spot you take a seat, and instantly you start to think.
I What's happening to me? I've never felt like this... /i