Chapter 2: Kishikaisei
-Revival
The world was spinning down ward towards earth, in her dream, as she hit the water her eyes flew open. But she did not see water, grass or anything from the outside world she had come to know so well. She noticed that she was inside staring at a beautiful tile ceiling. She felt someone on the bed with her, quickly she glanced down at the foot of the bed. Then just as quickly wished she hadn't because it made her body hurt all over and her head swim with pain and dizziness.
"oh your awake!" The little girl bubbled at her, "I am Rin. Who are you? Are you related to Sesshoumaru-sama? You look a lot like him. Your pretty. Where do you…"
"Rin" a cold voice came from the door, "I told you to live her alone. Tell Jaken to take you to pick flowers."
Rin squealed with joy as she jumped off the bed and ran to find Jaken, chanting about how she was going to bring the pretty girl lots of flowers. Maru could hear her footsteps head down the hall, and the lighter footsteps of this man named Sesshoumaru heading towards her. She turned her head and looked at him and allowed her eyes to focus on him, as she tried to sit up. As she did and hand firmly pushed her back down on to the bed.
"Stay down" the strange man told her but it didn't sound concerned for her or even look concerned. In fact she could not see emotion in his face. She did notice how ever that the little girl was right they did look similar. Her markings bore a different color, and the dark auburn streaks that framed her face where evidence of their differences.
She blinked at him sleepily, her body ached all over. Her body still not healed from the arrow that hit her yet.
"Who are you" he asked as he touched the stripes on her face. Slightly scratching her face.
"Maru," her voice sounded completely strange to her, "How long have I been here, and where am I?" she asked with great confusion in her eyes, not concerned with the scratch she just received. It would heal quickly enough.
"You are in my home in the western lands and you have been here going on three days now," Sesshoumaru wore his usual mask on his face which made it seem as if he didn't care for anything that she said.
Three days, Western lands had she found what she was looking for the past year. Wait three days!! The solstice! Now she had to leave and she had to leave now. She started to push herself up again to be forced back down but this time with more force behind it.
"You don't understand," panic now in her voice "I have to leave here before the sun sets, I need to…"
"The sun is already setting" he interrupted her.
"NO!" she started to struggle against him to get up but it was no use her powers were getting weaker and the injury that she had wasn't helping. Finally after a few minutes of trying she stopped knowing full well she would never be able to get away like this. She looked out to the window and watched the last light of the sun set behind the horizon, and she no longer had the will to stay awake.
Sesshoumaru watched the girl's struggles against him, franticly trying to get up and get way from him for someone reason. Her fear pleased him but he was quite sure it had nothing to do directly with him. Once the sun was set for the night he saw why she was trying to get away so badly.
The brilliant lines on her face where gone as where her pointed ears. Her hair was all the deep auburn color that had once just been around her face, her eyes changed from silted pupils, of gold to a brilliant green, her claws left and she laid there quite for now. Do today was the day she lost her youkai powers but she did not smell like a hanyou, she did not remind him of Inuyasha, it was more like his own scent that he smelled on her, before. This meant that she had to me more than half demon.
Questions ran through his mind about this girl her strange looks, and her marks. Granted no two youkai are completely alike but she bore one mark on her that drew his attention. He would have to wait now to find out more, because now she was asleep again, and this time she smelled completely human. Though the smell normally bothered him he found her's was more tolerable much like Rin's only sweeter.
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Maru stirred as the bright morning sun hit her eyes, she didn't want to wake up just yet. She was enjoying sleeping in a real bed for the first time in a year. She rolled over and covered her head trying to will the sun away, to let sleep just a little while longer. She felt something jumping on the bed, she peered out of the covers only enough to see it was that little girl named Rin.
"Why are you jumping on the bed little one," Maru asked in a half asleep haze.
"Cause is morning time silly and it's time to wake up." Rin said as she flopped down on the bed right next to Maru and looked at her dead in the face. "You feel better to day, yes?"
Maru though for a second and noted her body didn't ache quite so bad as it did the day before, though she was still quite still. The day before, she thought with dread that youkai man Sesshoumaru, he knew when she lost her powers now.
Maru sat up taking in her room for the first time. It was a nice room, not much to it though. There was her bed, wardrobe, a table in which a small candle was sitting on, and giant cloth scrolls that showed large white dogs in battle. There was a big window a cross from her bed that looked out on to a garden that was in full bloom. She sat there taking in the smells of the flower when Rin grabbed her hand and pulled at her to leave the bed.
Maru wasn't quite sure she could stand yet, but she was going to try. She put her feet on the cool floor, and she started to push herself up. Rin backed away knowing that she could fall to the ground any time, as the little girl wondered slightly if it was a good idea.
She stood there holding the wall to steady herself and regain her balance, and her body groaned at her to lay back down. 'Shut up' she told the pain in the side of her back. 'I am going to do this. I am not so weak that I can't walk.' She took a breath in and picked up her left foot and placed it down in front of her, then she tried to so the same with her right foot. Promptly stumbling as she started to fall.
Rin covered her eyes as she said Maru's name in shock. When there was no thud of her hitting the floor, Rin peeked through her fingers to see that Sesshoumaru had caught her by the arm stopping her fall.
"hmm, Thank you," Maru whispered feeling the heat raise in her face at her embarrassment for having to be caught when she opened her eyes. She looked at him, his eyes where cold, and he took her over to the bed and sit her back down on it, being less than gentle.
"Rin, go tell Jaken to bring bread and soup." Sesshoumaru ordered
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama" Rin ran as quick as her little feet would allow to find the toad youkai.
All Maru could do was marvel as this great youkai that stood before her. Unsure what she should say or do if anything at all. She watched his golden eyes look at her, and could hear him take in her scent with his breath. But she didn't care if he would be able to smell the hint of human blood in her veins and be disgusted by it like most, right now. All she could think about was how handsome this youkai was, and how similar they looked.
In the middle of her thought a short green toad youkai, that had a distasteful smell walked into the room carrying a tray that had the food his lord had asked for. He went and set it on the table, then looked at his lord waiting to see if there was something else.
"Leave" was his only word spoke, and the toad youkai scuttled out of the room with a nod and shut the door.
Maru could smell the food quite well, and it made her stomach ache and growl. Then with out warning Sesshoumaru had picked her up and set her in the chair at the table. She thanked him for the help and the food and began to eat very quickly.
"You should slow down," he said as he watched her eat. He was slightly taken back by how she was eating, and wished she would use more manner, that was the only reason he had said any thing to the child.
She nodded and began to eat much more slowly. The soup warmed her from the inside as she ate it, and the bread filed the void in her stomach. After a few minutes the food was gone, to Maru's disappointment. She was starting to feel better, as she could feel strength returning to her body. She turned her eyes to meet Sesshoumaru's cold gaze.
She bowed her head to the youkai lord, "Thank you very much Sesshoumaru-sama for you help. I have troubled you enough I should leave." Her thoughts continued on where her words left off, 'I need to find someone in these lands.'
"Who are you? And where do you come from?" He had no intentions of sending this girl away with out knowing the answers to his questions, and if she refused to answer them then he would kill her.
Maru was a little dumbfounded by the first question, but after she looked at his face she was a little confused as to why he was asking he didn't seem to really care. "I am Maru. I come from the Northern lands."
"Why have you come here?" If she was from the north then way was she here. What caused her to stray so far from her home?
How was she supposed to explain to him that she was following a feeling, or more the dark voice that kept creeping into her mind? She knew she could find out why exactly he wanted to know but she learned long ago that peaking into a full youkai's thought was dangerous seeing as their developed senses allowed them to better sense her probing in their mind. Judging by his aura he would most likely know she was doing it because his aura was a constant swirl of green signaling annoyance and indifference.
"I am looking for someone." She wasn't sure who she was looking for just that the person was family and powerful.
"Who?"
'Great now we are playing 20 questions? What's next?' She sighed heavily, "I am not exactly sure who I am searching for. Just that they are powerful, and they are family."
"You are part human are you not?" Sesshoumaru was slightly interested in her story now. She was searching for someone in her family, yet she bore his family's crest. Something like that could only be bestowed by his father or himself. She was inu youkai that much he could smell off her, but the scent was slightly off, most likely because the human part of her.
She looked up and the tall male before her trying to puzzle out why he would care. She knew he that he had to have smelled it by now. She nodded to him. It was not like it concerned him any ways, but it wouldn't hurt to tell him.
Sesshoumaru's curiosity was getting the better of him as he tried to piece together this girl in front of him. Either she was a mate of his father, or a child of his or himself. He doubted that she was a mate seeing as she only looked to be about 14 human years old meaning that she would be no older that 45 if she was full youkai.
If she was a child of his father's why was she so young? He recalled a trip to the northern lands years ago, but he was quite sure that he did not bed any females on that trip. It was rare that he would allow himself to fall prey to desires of the flesh.
"How old are you girl?"
Maru was two steps short of losing it. This youkai was hard to read, and it was annoying her to no end. What did her age, where she was from, or if she had the damned human blood in her matter when all she wanted to do was thank him for his help and leave? But Maru had learned long ago that her rage was something that clouded her mind.
"Thirty years." She looked down to the floor away from his gaze debating if she would be rude enough to ask him the question that was on her mind. She looked back up to his face and watched his cold stare harden at her. She decided that was it, she want to why he cared. She figured that she would opt for asking before dipping into his mind for the answers. "Umm, Why do you care about this stuff?" She inwardly winced at her choice of words and scolded herself for not choosing them better.
"Why I care is my own concern. Who are your parents girl?"
She never thought his gaze could have got any colder but it did. His golden eyes seemed to be burning holds through her. She was reconsidering poking through his mind at this moment he didn't seem like the type that would let you keep your head if you went poking about where you were not wanted.
She decided that she would answer his questions for now. But wasn't entirely to sure if he would be happy with some of the answers that he would be receiving seeing as some answers she did not have.
Taking in a deep breath she began, "My mother was a Kitsune that lived in a small valley in the northern lands. She is the one I got my human blood from. My father on the other hand I have no idea who he was. All, my mother told me about him was that he was strong and that he wouldn't remember having mated with a female so not to bother hoping to find him. The only information I ever got out of her when she was alive was that he was not from the Northern lands and held a position of some power."
Sesshoumaru stood there staring at the girl if she was lying she was a very good liar. He could pick up no trace that she didn't believe was she was saying. "How did she manage to mate with a powerful youkai, considering that most would have nothing to do with her?"
'If he wanted my whole life's story why the hell not just be direct and ask me to rattle it off. *sigh* He did save my life so I guess I will humor this right now.' "How do I explain this simply? It was a trait of many females where I was raised. See many possessed some form of telepathic ability. Some that had exceptional power in it were able to cause people to black out or bend them to their will. Now it was rare for youkai to be targeted because a youkai's will is so strong and they are sensitive to that, and having it done to strong youkai was unheard of until my mother pulled it off."
"My guess is that she over loaded his senses with some form of herb blend or something that weakened him, and then, for lack of a better word, took advantage of him."
She took Sesshoumaru's silence as he was considering what she said. She looked up at him in quiet contemplation. He was the first Inu youkai that she had seen. She might not have the answers to her past but she was sure of what she was. Then there was the fact of their similar appearances, there had to be a connection between this and the reason why he was asking her all these questions.
"I think you have been lied to girl. There are no inu youkai other than myself that hold any type of power. Go home girl forget these stupid feelings you have. I would not have allowed myself to be taken advantage of in the manner in which you speak." He wanted to get rid of her some how. She was a mistake that should not have happened a moment of weakness that should not have been allowed. He should be killing her right now but he was feeling merciful today so he would give her a chance to leave and forget this search she was on.
"You… are… the only one left or the only… one period?" She needed some type of answers her. She didn't care what the answer was just that she got it.
"The only one period." His voice was unchanged from how it had been earlier. She was getting pissed off, and the amusement in his eyes told her that he knew.
"You mean you are just going to send me away? Don't you even care about family? And how do you know that I am your family and not someone else's?" Maru stopped when she saw his eyes flash dangerously at her. 'Now you have done it Maru. You went and pissed the bastard off.'
"You bare my families' mark. I don't need any other weak members to be added to my family. I have enough trouble with my stupid half brother that I don't need you." His voice had an edge to it that told her she was dreading on dangerous ground, but she stood her ground.
"I am NOT WEAK. I got careless of the girl. She wouldn't have had a chance to touch me if that hanyou or that fire cat had not been helping her! I. let.. my.. guard… down." She bowed her head allowing her hair to hide her face from his view.
She realized during her ranting that he was right she was weak. If she had not been weak then her clan family would still be alive. If she had not been weak she would not have gotten careless and under estimated the people who were chasing her the other day. He was right she was weak.
She knew nothing about the true nature of her youkai blood. She had been raised as a hanyou the same as everyone else in her group. She came hoping to find answers not really hoping to find a family from a full youkai, or anyone else in this land.
She let out a long shaking breath not looking up from the floor, "Forgive me. I lost my temper, it was uncalled for. You are right. I will leave her now. You don't need someone like me to be here. Thank you for you help and hospitality Western Lord. I will be leaving now."
He watched as the fire in her eyes had slowly died down as she realized that she was confirming her weakness with what she was saying. Sesshoumaru watched and she spoke her words in a defeated tone. She was very lucky that she had spoken when she did because she was moments away from death as she apologized for them.
Something she said puzzled him. She called him the Western Lord yet he had not revealed his position to her, so how did she know? He sniffed the air seeing if he could detect any hits from her scent yet all he found was sadness and regret.
She had turned way from him and gathered what few things of hers where sitting on the bed. She placed her hands on the seal of the window and prepared to jump out when Sesshoumaru latched on to her arm and spun her around to face him.
"What did you call me girl?" He was un amused with her knowledge. He watched her face go from being confused to angry at his question, and as he wrenched her arm un comfortably in his grip.
She had not thought about what she called him. Well at least not till now. She hadn't realized that some how she had slipped into his mind and heard him say his title several times. So she just used it with out thinking.
"I heard you say it." She knew that was not enough of an answer when his claws began to dig into her arm painfully drawing blood. "I heard you say it in your mind."
Before she knew what hit her she was dangling by her neck with his claw flexing slightly against her pulse point.
"Do you often make a habit of invading people's minds?" He snarled at her, baring his fangs.
"I… Well… NO…. I DON"T make it a habit of invading youkai's minds. I didn't realize that I had somehow slipped in to your mind. I had thought about trying and decided not to but it seems like I did anyway unconsciously."
He could tell she was angry right now but whether at him or herself he was unsure, but if she could learn to tap into that power she could be useful to him in many ways. A low growl escaped his throat as he thought of the ways he could use this girl. "Can you repeat this action?"
The question was slightly shocking, "Maybe, with practice. It is hard with youkai, I am sure I could learn."
Sesshoumaru looked down at her, she could be useful but where did her combat skills lay. He didn't want to have to protect her. He would have to test her; if she couldn't stay alive then she wasn't worth the trouble. He puzzled in his mind over something that would be an adequate challenge. When the thought finally came to his mind he allowed a small smirk to cross his face.
"Let's test how strong you are shall we?" He released her turning to leave the room. "There are clothes in there." He motioned to the wardrobe as he left the room.
She sat there and stared at the closed door for a minute before she went and opened the wardrobe. She frowned; there were only formal kimonos in here. If it resulted in a battle then she would not be able to move well at all. She fingered the material, they were made out of the finest silk she had ever felt.
Signing heavily she chose a black kimono that had red dragons embroidered on the sleeves. She moved towards the door and almost fell when the near floor length outfit stopped her from making a full step.
Deciding that she had enough she took her first claw on each hand. After a second it glowed with a blue hue. Then she made a slit on each side from mid thigh down. She smiled when she saw that her energy had made it look like it had been there the entire time. Pleased with the results she left.
-Revival
The world was spinning down ward towards earth, in her dream, as she hit the water her eyes flew open. But she did not see water, grass or anything from the outside world she had come to know so well. She noticed that she was inside staring at a beautiful tile ceiling. She felt someone on the bed with her, quickly she glanced down at the foot of the bed. Then just as quickly wished she hadn't because it made her body hurt all over and her head swim with pain and dizziness.
"oh your awake!" The little girl bubbled at her, "I am Rin. Who are you? Are you related to Sesshoumaru-sama? You look a lot like him. Your pretty. Where do you…"
"Rin" a cold voice came from the door, "I told you to live her alone. Tell Jaken to take you to pick flowers."
Rin squealed with joy as she jumped off the bed and ran to find Jaken, chanting about how she was going to bring the pretty girl lots of flowers. Maru could hear her footsteps head down the hall, and the lighter footsteps of this man named Sesshoumaru heading towards her. She turned her head and looked at him and allowed her eyes to focus on him, as she tried to sit up. As she did and hand firmly pushed her back down on to the bed.
"Stay down" the strange man told her but it didn't sound concerned for her or even look concerned. In fact she could not see emotion in his face. She did notice how ever that the little girl was right they did look similar. Her markings bore a different color, and the dark auburn streaks that framed her face where evidence of their differences.
She blinked at him sleepily, her body ached all over. Her body still not healed from the arrow that hit her yet.
"Who are you" he asked as he touched the stripes on her face. Slightly scratching her face.
"Maru," her voice sounded completely strange to her, "How long have I been here, and where am I?" she asked with great confusion in her eyes, not concerned with the scratch she just received. It would heal quickly enough.
"You are in my home in the western lands and you have been here going on three days now," Sesshoumaru wore his usual mask on his face which made it seem as if he didn't care for anything that she said.
Three days, Western lands had she found what she was looking for the past year. Wait three days!! The solstice! Now she had to leave and she had to leave now. She started to push herself up again to be forced back down but this time with more force behind it.
"You don't understand," panic now in her voice "I have to leave here before the sun sets, I need to…"
"The sun is already setting" he interrupted her.
"NO!" she started to struggle against him to get up but it was no use her powers were getting weaker and the injury that she had wasn't helping. Finally after a few minutes of trying she stopped knowing full well she would never be able to get away like this. She looked out to the window and watched the last light of the sun set behind the horizon, and she no longer had the will to stay awake.
Sesshoumaru watched the girl's struggles against him, franticly trying to get up and get way from him for someone reason. Her fear pleased him but he was quite sure it had nothing to do directly with him. Once the sun was set for the night he saw why she was trying to get away so badly.
The brilliant lines on her face where gone as where her pointed ears. Her hair was all the deep auburn color that had once just been around her face, her eyes changed from silted pupils, of gold to a brilliant green, her claws left and she laid there quite for now. Do today was the day she lost her youkai powers but she did not smell like a hanyou, she did not remind him of Inuyasha, it was more like his own scent that he smelled on her, before. This meant that she had to me more than half demon.
Questions ran through his mind about this girl her strange looks, and her marks. Granted no two youkai are completely alike but she bore one mark on her that drew his attention. He would have to wait now to find out more, because now she was asleep again, and this time she smelled completely human. Though the smell normally bothered him he found her's was more tolerable much like Rin's only sweeter.
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Maru stirred as the bright morning sun hit her eyes, she didn't want to wake up just yet. She was enjoying sleeping in a real bed for the first time in a year. She rolled over and covered her head trying to will the sun away, to let sleep just a little while longer. She felt something jumping on the bed, she peered out of the covers only enough to see it was that little girl named Rin.
"Why are you jumping on the bed little one," Maru asked in a half asleep haze.
"Cause is morning time silly and it's time to wake up." Rin said as she flopped down on the bed right next to Maru and looked at her dead in the face. "You feel better to day, yes?"
Maru though for a second and noted her body didn't ache quite so bad as it did the day before, though she was still quite still. The day before, she thought with dread that youkai man Sesshoumaru, he knew when she lost her powers now.
Maru sat up taking in her room for the first time. It was a nice room, not much to it though. There was her bed, wardrobe, a table in which a small candle was sitting on, and giant cloth scrolls that showed large white dogs in battle. There was a big window a cross from her bed that looked out on to a garden that was in full bloom. She sat there taking in the smells of the flower when Rin grabbed her hand and pulled at her to leave the bed.
Maru wasn't quite sure she could stand yet, but she was going to try. She put her feet on the cool floor, and she started to push herself up. Rin backed away knowing that she could fall to the ground any time, as the little girl wondered slightly if it was a good idea.
She stood there holding the wall to steady herself and regain her balance, and her body groaned at her to lay back down. 'Shut up' she told the pain in the side of her back. 'I am going to do this. I am not so weak that I can't walk.' She took a breath in and picked up her left foot and placed it down in front of her, then she tried to so the same with her right foot. Promptly stumbling as she started to fall.
Rin covered her eyes as she said Maru's name in shock. When there was no thud of her hitting the floor, Rin peeked through her fingers to see that Sesshoumaru had caught her by the arm stopping her fall.
"hmm, Thank you," Maru whispered feeling the heat raise in her face at her embarrassment for having to be caught when she opened her eyes. She looked at him, his eyes where cold, and he took her over to the bed and sit her back down on it, being less than gentle.
"Rin, go tell Jaken to bring bread and soup." Sesshoumaru ordered
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama" Rin ran as quick as her little feet would allow to find the toad youkai.
All Maru could do was marvel as this great youkai that stood before her. Unsure what she should say or do if anything at all. She watched his golden eyes look at her, and could hear him take in her scent with his breath. But she didn't care if he would be able to smell the hint of human blood in her veins and be disgusted by it like most, right now. All she could think about was how handsome this youkai was, and how similar they looked.
In the middle of her thought a short green toad youkai, that had a distasteful smell walked into the room carrying a tray that had the food his lord had asked for. He went and set it on the table, then looked at his lord waiting to see if there was something else.
"Leave" was his only word spoke, and the toad youkai scuttled out of the room with a nod and shut the door.
Maru could smell the food quite well, and it made her stomach ache and growl. Then with out warning Sesshoumaru had picked her up and set her in the chair at the table. She thanked him for the help and the food and began to eat very quickly.
"You should slow down," he said as he watched her eat. He was slightly taken back by how she was eating, and wished she would use more manner, that was the only reason he had said any thing to the child.
She nodded and began to eat much more slowly. The soup warmed her from the inside as she ate it, and the bread filed the void in her stomach. After a few minutes the food was gone, to Maru's disappointment. She was starting to feel better, as she could feel strength returning to her body. She turned her eyes to meet Sesshoumaru's cold gaze.
She bowed her head to the youkai lord, "Thank you very much Sesshoumaru-sama for you help. I have troubled you enough I should leave." Her thoughts continued on where her words left off, 'I need to find someone in these lands.'
"Who are you? And where do you come from?" He had no intentions of sending this girl away with out knowing the answers to his questions, and if she refused to answer them then he would kill her.
Maru was a little dumbfounded by the first question, but after she looked at his face she was a little confused as to why he was asking he didn't seem to really care. "I am Maru. I come from the Northern lands."
"Why have you come here?" If she was from the north then way was she here. What caused her to stray so far from her home?
How was she supposed to explain to him that she was following a feeling, or more the dark voice that kept creeping into her mind? She knew she could find out why exactly he wanted to know but she learned long ago that peaking into a full youkai's thought was dangerous seeing as their developed senses allowed them to better sense her probing in their mind. Judging by his aura he would most likely know she was doing it because his aura was a constant swirl of green signaling annoyance and indifference.
"I am looking for someone." She wasn't sure who she was looking for just that the person was family and powerful.
"Who?"
'Great now we are playing 20 questions? What's next?' She sighed heavily, "I am not exactly sure who I am searching for. Just that they are powerful, and they are family."
"You are part human are you not?" Sesshoumaru was slightly interested in her story now. She was searching for someone in her family, yet she bore his family's crest. Something like that could only be bestowed by his father or himself. She was inu youkai that much he could smell off her, but the scent was slightly off, most likely because the human part of her.
She looked up and the tall male before her trying to puzzle out why he would care. She knew he that he had to have smelled it by now. She nodded to him. It was not like it concerned him any ways, but it wouldn't hurt to tell him.
Sesshoumaru's curiosity was getting the better of him as he tried to piece together this girl in front of him. Either she was a mate of his father, or a child of his or himself. He doubted that she was a mate seeing as she only looked to be about 14 human years old meaning that she would be no older that 45 if she was full youkai.
If she was a child of his father's why was she so young? He recalled a trip to the northern lands years ago, but he was quite sure that he did not bed any females on that trip. It was rare that he would allow himself to fall prey to desires of the flesh.
"How old are you girl?"
Maru was two steps short of losing it. This youkai was hard to read, and it was annoying her to no end. What did her age, where she was from, or if she had the damned human blood in her matter when all she wanted to do was thank him for his help and leave? But Maru had learned long ago that her rage was something that clouded her mind.
"Thirty years." She looked down to the floor away from his gaze debating if she would be rude enough to ask him the question that was on her mind. She looked back up to his face and watched his cold stare harden at her. She decided that was it, she want to why he cared. She figured that she would opt for asking before dipping into his mind for the answers. "Umm, Why do you care about this stuff?" She inwardly winced at her choice of words and scolded herself for not choosing them better.
"Why I care is my own concern. Who are your parents girl?"
She never thought his gaze could have got any colder but it did. His golden eyes seemed to be burning holds through her. She was reconsidering poking through his mind at this moment he didn't seem like the type that would let you keep your head if you went poking about where you were not wanted.
She decided that she would answer his questions for now. But wasn't entirely to sure if he would be happy with some of the answers that he would be receiving seeing as some answers she did not have.
Taking in a deep breath she began, "My mother was a Kitsune that lived in a small valley in the northern lands. She is the one I got my human blood from. My father on the other hand I have no idea who he was. All, my mother told me about him was that he was strong and that he wouldn't remember having mated with a female so not to bother hoping to find him. The only information I ever got out of her when she was alive was that he was not from the Northern lands and held a position of some power."
Sesshoumaru stood there staring at the girl if she was lying she was a very good liar. He could pick up no trace that she didn't believe was she was saying. "How did she manage to mate with a powerful youkai, considering that most would have nothing to do with her?"
'If he wanted my whole life's story why the hell not just be direct and ask me to rattle it off. *sigh* He did save my life so I guess I will humor this right now.' "How do I explain this simply? It was a trait of many females where I was raised. See many possessed some form of telepathic ability. Some that had exceptional power in it were able to cause people to black out or bend them to their will. Now it was rare for youkai to be targeted because a youkai's will is so strong and they are sensitive to that, and having it done to strong youkai was unheard of until my mother pulled it off."
"My guess is that she over loaded his senses with some form of herb blend or something that weakened him, and then, for lack of a better word, took advantage of him."
She took Sesshoumaru's silence as he was considering what she said. She looked up at him in quiet contemplation. He was the first Inu youkai that she had seen. She might not have the answers to her past but she was sure of what she was. Then there was the fact of their similar appearances, there had to be a connection between this and the reason why he was asking her all these questions.
"I think you have been lied to girl. There are no inu youkai other than myself that hold any type of power. Go home girl forget these stupid feelings you have. I would not have allowed myself to be taken advantage of in the manner in which you speak." He wanted to get rid of her some how. She was a mistake that should not have happened a moment of weakness that should not have been allowed. He should be killing her right now but he was feeling merciful today so he would give her a chance to leave and forget this search she was on.
"You… are… the only one left or the only… one period?" She needed some type of answers her. She didn't care what the answer was just that she got it.
"The only one period." His voice was unchanged from how it had been earlier. She was getting pissed off, and the amusement in his eyes told her that he knew.
"You mean you are just going to send me away? Don't you even care about family? And how do you know that I am your family and not someone else's?" Maru stopped when she saw his eyes flash dangerously at her. 'Now you have done it Maru. You went and pissed the bastard off.'
"You bare my families' mark. I don't need any other weak members to be added to my family. I have enough trouble with my stupid half brother that I don't need you." His voice had an edge to it that told her she was dreading on dangerous ground, but she stood her ground.
"I am NOT WEAK. I got careless of the girl. She wouldn't have had a chance to touch me if that hanyou or that fire cat had not been helping her! I. let.. my.. guard… down." She bowed her head allowing her hair to hide her face from his view.
She realized during her ranting that he was right she was weak. If she had not been weak then her clan family would still be alive. If she had not been weak she would not have gotten careless and under estimated the people who were chasing her the other day. He was right she was weak.
She knew nothing about the true nature of her youkai blood. She had been raised as a hanyou the same as everyone else in her group. She came hoping to find answers not really hoping to find a family from a full youkai, or anyone else in this land.
She let out a long shaking breath not looking up from the floor, "Forgive me. I lost my temper, it was uncalled for. You are right. I will leave her now. You don't need someone like me to be here. Thank you for you help and hospitality Western Lord. I will be leaving now."
He watched as the fire in her eyes had slowly died down as she realized that she was confirming her weakness with what she was saying. Sesshoumaru watched and she spoke her words in a defeated tone. She was very lucky that she had spoken when she did because she was moments away from death as she apologized for them.
Something she said puzzled him. She called him the Western Lord yet he had not revealed his position to her, so how did she know? He sniffed the air seeing if he could detect any hits from her scent yet all he found was sadness and regret.
She had turned way from him and gathered what few things of hers where sitting on the bed. She placed her hands on the seal of the window and prepared to jump out when Sesshoumaru latched on to her arm and spun her around to face him.
"What did you call me girl?" He was un amused with her knowledge. He watched her face go from being confused to angry at his question, and as he wrenched her arm un comfortably in his grip.
She had not thought about what she called him. Well at least not till now. She hadn't realized that some how she had slipped into his mind and heard him say his title several times. So she just used it with out thinking.
"I heard you say it." She knew that was not enough of an answer when his claws began to dig into her arm painfully drawing blood. "I heard you say it in your mind."
Before she knew what hit her she was dangling by her neck with his claw flexing slightly against her pulse point.
"Do you often make a habit of invading people's minds?" He snarled at her, baring his fangs.
"I… Well… NO…. I DON"T make it a habit of invading youkai's minds. I didn't realize that I had somehow slipped in to your mind. I had thought about trying and decided not to but it seems like I did anyway unconsciously."
He could tell she was angry right now but whether at him or herself he was unsure, but if she could learn to tap into that power she could be useful to him in many ways. A low growl escaped his throat as he thought of the ways he could use this girl. "Can you repeat this action?"
The question was slightly shocking, "Maybe, with practice. It is hard with youkai, I am sure I could learn."
Sesshoumaru looked down at her, she could be useful but where did her combat skills lay. He didn't want to have to protect her. He would have to test her; if she couldn't stay alive then she wasn't worth the trouble. He puzzled in his mind over something that would be an adequate challenge. When the thought finally came to his mind he allowed a small smirk to cross his face.
"Let's test how strong you are shall we?" He released her turning to leave the room. "There are clothes in there." He motioned to the wardrobe as he left the room.
She sat there and stared at the closed door for a minute before she went and opened the wardrobe. She frowned; there were only formal kimonos in here. If it resulted in a battle then she would not be able to move well at all. She fingered the material, they were made out of the finest silk she had ever felt.
Signing heavily she chose a black kimono that had red dragons embroidered on the sleeves. She moved towards the door and almost fell when the near floor length outfit stopped her from making a full step.
Deciding that she had enough she took her first claw on each hand. After a second it glowed with a blue hue. Then she made a slit on each side from mid thigh down. She smiled when she saw that her energy had made it look like it had been there the entire time. Pleased with the results she left.