A/N: ok…well here you go!
Chapter two
They all took a seat around the fire in kaede's hut as they got ready to listen to Jaken. Sakura sat in between Inuyasha and Jaken. While Sesshomaru sat by the door with Rin by him. Miroku and Sango sat across from Sakura with Kelala on Sango's lap, and Kagome and Kaede sat by the back of the hut, with Shippo in Kagome's lap. Everyone looked at Jaken ready for the story.
"Around 150 years ago the Great Fairy King and Queen were taken…of course that's after the Queen gave birth to the Princess, and a grand ball. Of course I was there along with the Lords of each land. I was there with your father Lord Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, you were there as well, I know you don't remember Lord Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha was still a pup so he couldn't remember. I was in my Imp form. I much prefer the Imp form. Anyway, when the King brought you out Princess Sakura everyone fell in love with you. You looked like a human, but that's what made you so easy to feel like we needed to protect you. All the Lords wanted to claim that their sons were to be your mate; which is crazy. All the Lords were asked to come forward and swear, with blood, that they would put their lives on the line to keep you safe. When my Lord came up; for he was the last to, he brought Inuyasha with him, no one knows why, but he did and the King graced Inuyasha with a seal on his forehead, as the Lord swore to protect you." Jaken said as Inuyasha tried to look at his forehead, which resulted in him looking up cross eyed and rubbing the middle of it with his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth.
Sakura looked at the fire. She felt sick, but happy. People she didn't even know had tried to protect her, and the one she gets stuck with is dead. She stood up and started toward the door, only to have someone grab her wrist. Looking back she locked eyes with molten gold. Which was laced with worry?
"I feel sick. I need some air." She said as she yanked her wrist free and ran outside. Jaken sighed.
"She still has yet to understand. Inuyasha, where are you going?" Jaken asked looking at the half-demon as he made his way outside. "Well…they didn't last long." Kagome started to laugh. Loud and hard.
"She's just not uses to people being there for her." Kagome said wiping a tear away from her eye.
"What do you mean Kagome?" Sango asked looking at her friend like she was crazy.
"Sakura was an orphan before she came to my home. She grew up all alone. So it would make sense that Inuyasha would be the one to take a liking to her." Kagome said looking at the door her two best friends just walked out. Rin looked at Kagome and then at her Lord. The man she considered her father.
"Lady Kagome…"
"Yes Rin?"
Rin thought for a moment, "So Lady Sakura is like Rin then? All alone, with no one to look after her? Until Dadd- Lord Sesshomaru came and took Rin in. she had no one when she was Rin's age? So she grew up all alone?" the little girl asked.
Kagome got up and walked to the little girl. She got on her knees and wrapped her arms around the little girl. "No Rin. Sakura wasn't lucky enough to have a Lord Sesshomaru. She grew up all alone." Kagome said into the little girls' hair locking eyes with said Lord. "She was all alone."
"…Just like Inuyasha…" Miroku said sadly.
"Yes…Just like Inuyasha…" Kagome said still looking at Sesshomaru, who hadn't taken his eyes off her.
"Then Rin will be there for her!" everyone looked at Rin. "She won't be alone anymore!"
Sakura and Inuyasha
"Sakura? Sakura?! Where are you?" Inuyasha yelled out racing after her scent. He smelt salt and knew it was tears coming from her. She had scared him when she rushed out of the hut like it was on fire. 'Where the hell is she?!' he thought thinking the worse things could have happened. 'Oh my god…is that blood?!' he thought as he smelt the coppery tang in the air and he closed in on it. He heard sobbing and…and... "Aww Hell!" he yelled as he raced into a clearing and say Sakura leaning up on a tree and with an arrow in her shoulder and a cut on her palm. "SAKURA!" he yelled running to her.
"Inuyasha…" she said weakly. A harsh laugh came over the clearing and Inuyasha's heart clenched.
"Inuyasha, did you forget me? Did you forget you love me?" Kikiyo asked rising her bow and arrow aiming it at Inuyasha's heart and letting it fly only for it to be stopped by a green haired man. Jaken looked at the arrow in his hand the Dark light coming off it told him it was not a holy arrow. He was broke out of his thoughts by a yell of "WINDSCAR!"
"You would attack me?! The woman you love?!" kikiyo asked behind a barrier in front of her. "Inuyasha you betrayed me!"
"No…he just moved on." A cold voice said from behind her.
"Yea you evil clay pot!" a small voice yelled from his shoulder.
"Shippo!"
"What?" Everyone just looked at him like he was crazy. "She is…"
A weak voice caught their action. "Who is this crazy lady…?" Sakura asked leaning on the tree and sliding down to the ground. She was really starting to feel sick. The blood loss was making her head really light, and her stomach hurt. "Do I know you…?" she asked looking at the miko in front of them.
"No, but I see you're not human, so for that I will rid the world of you!" she said throwing something at Sakura and laughing evil at them. Before anyone could move Sakura's hand shot up and the ball of energy stopped. It just floated in the middle of the air and that was it. It didn't move, didn't frizzle out, or anything. Everyone just stared at it. Sakura said three words that shocked everyone.
"I pity you…" and the ball shot back to Kikiyo. Lucky for her she was retreating and was almost out of sight so the ball barely missed her. Her voice echoed around them.
"You pity me? How it is a mere Demon can pity anyone? You are nothing but an imposter. You are nothing to Inuyasha or theses humans…they will betray you too…"
Everyone looked at Sakura who was laughing slightly, which she blamed on the blood loss; she looked at everyone and finally landed her eyes on Kagome. "You didn't tell me that crazy bitch could shoot…" she said as she blacked out. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru raced over to her. Sesshomaru pulled the arrow out of her shoulder and hissed at the holy power in it. Inuyasha quickly tore at the shoulder of her shirt and tore the sleeve off to get to the wound. He leaned down and started to lick it clean. It being a deep wound he had to stick his tongue in it to get his saliva to the parts it needed to. Sesshomaru took her hand and licked her palm, it was deep as well, but he didn't have to stick his tongue in deep for the saliva to get in.
"What are they doing?" Kagome asked a little grossed out.
"Healing her. Dog Demons' saliva has healing properties which will allow her to stop bleeding and recover quicker. Don't worry it's not a mating thing, it's a save a life thing. Kagome…may I talk to you alone for a minute?" Jaken asked looking at her with seriousness. "It's important."
"Of course." Kagome said looking at him with confusion. Kelala hopped on her shoulder. She wasn't going to let her mistresses best friend go alone with this strange man. Walking away from the group. Jaken turned to kagome and asked her to sit down. Sitting down Jaken looked at her with seriousness.
"Kagome, you said something that has been bugging me…. You said she was all alone when she came to your home…what happened to the Demoness that was with her? She was sworn to protect her. Did she give up?" he asked looking her in the eye.
"No. she was killed by a thing we call a gun. When Sakura was five the demoness was shot and killed because someone wanted to kill Sakura. She lived long enough to see Sakura into a good home, but after she died the people sent her to a boarding school. Where she stayed until she was 15. She then got into martial arts. Which she became a master at, and entered a foreign exchange student program and came to my home. She is now 17 years old…but you said that she and the demoness went down the well 150 years ago… how is it that she came to be in my time?"
"The well does what it sees fit. The great Lord Inu Tashio knew that when he sent his mate and the princess down there." Jaken said as he looked up at the sky.
"His mate...? Oh...Sesshomaru's mother?" Kagome asked looking down at the ground in thought.
"Yes."Jaken lied. "Shall we go see if Sakura's ok?"
"Yes!" she said as they made their way to the group. Upon entering the clearing they saw Sakura in Inuyasha's arms and asleep with a red eye Sesshomaru watching for danger. Seeing them he nodded his head, but quickly zoomed over to Kagome and started to sniff her.
"Umm...Milord?" she whispered. His eye lips drooped and he moved his face closer to hers. She looked up at his face and gulped. "Sesshomaru...?"
"LORD SESSHOMAUR!" everyone yelled at him. His blinked and turned to the group; his eyes no longer red.
"What!?" he asked looking at them.
"You looked at her like you wanted to eat her...and not in the food way..."they heard someone chuckle. Sesshomaru's eyes widened and he blushed a light pink. No human could see it, but the demons in the group could. His eyes snapped to the Princesses. Sakura was wake and smiling a knowing smile at him.
"Hn." was all he said and walked away back towards the hut. Rin followed closely after him. Jaken had his hands behind his head looking up in a 'I-don't-care' way, his eyes closed, and was humming a tune as he walked to the hut after them.
Sakura looked up to inuyasha, "Inuyasha?" he looked down to her, "I'm hungry." Jaken stopped walking and turned to her.
"Well? Get her up! Foods gonna get cold!" and went back to walking. Scooping her up him followed the group to the hut.
Back at the hut
"Sakura, do you want to sleep over here tonight?" Kagome asked her.
"No. I want a tree."
"..."
"What?"
"...A tree?" Kagome asked looking at her friend. "What is on your mind?"
"Nothing. I just want to sit in a tree." with that the princess walked out of the hut and into the crisp night air. Kagome went to go after her, but was stopped by a hand on her wrist. She was dragged down and landed on a soft lap. Looking up she saw Sesshomaru.
"Don't. Inuyasha is out there anyway. Stay with me tonight." he said leaning down to lick a mark on her neck.
"Are you sure? Are you ready to tell people yet?"
Sesshomaru hugged her tighter and whispered into her ear. "Not yet, Mate." he said licking the shell of her ear. "But as soon as those idiots are mated, they can be the first to know." Kagome giggled at that. Sighing, she asked,
"His beast chose her huh?"
"Yes." nodding her head she attacked his lips and that was the last of their talking that night.
Outside
Sakura walked past the first few trees and looked around. She hadn't freaked out like everyone thought she would...well not out loud. Inside she was freaking and crying and wondering if they were going to tell her she was a freak... they always did when she was little. She would pretend to be a princess and have powers and she would be put into a closet after being beaten for being a "wicked demon child". She smiled, if they only knew how right they were.
"You know walking outside in the dark is dangerous Princess..." she heard Jaken say as he leaned on a tree. She saw that he was in his human form. She smiled.
"Why Jaken, I thought you hated your human form. Why are you still in it?"
"To not freak you out, and once I transform I'm stuck like this for a month." Jaken said as he watched her jump into a big tree. "Anyway goodnight princess." he smiled knowing that golden eyes watched him and her closely. 'You better be kind to her Iunyasha...' He smiled smugly as he heard a gasp and a curse.
"What the hell are you doing outside?" Inuyasha asked looking at her. She was not in the mood for this shit. She looked at him and snuggled close to him.
"I'm trying to sleep. So shut up and sleep." She said as she leaned on his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her to him.
"You know you don't have to be so bossy." He mumbled. She giggled tiredly.
"I'm sorry. It's just been a rough day. Just….." She sighed sadly, "Hold me?"
"Always." He said. His beast purred as he held her and they fell into a light sleep.
A/N: so this is seriously my first fanfiction for this fandom. So review if you have any suggestions for my writing. Thanks! 3