Chapter 2: The Other Moon

The man I saw standing before my eyes had silver hair that stopped at his lower back. He had dog ears that were more obvious than my own, and golden eyes. He wore a white hanjuban under his red suikan. Tying his suikan around his waist is a red hikigoshi, following after that is his red sashinuki. He was also wearing Beads of Subjugation, which I squinted an eye and raised my eyebrow to. Well that's rather odd. "Did you run away from your owner or something?" I gave him a smart remark. His facial expression did not budge. "Tch" I scoffed and then he ran. My eyes widened, "what the hell just happened?" I shook my head turned to look at the rest of my village in search of anyone living, then I heard a scream. I froze with a look of horror. Suki! I turned and left the village. My sister was much more important to me than the humans. I would find another village.

I reached the location I remember seeing my younger sister. She was standing there with that same man. My eyes widened. How did he get here so fast?! I erased the shocked expression from my face and hardened it. I grabbed the handle of my sword that was attached to my back and unsheathed it. "Prepare to fight me, coward!" I yelled and darted towards him. Next thing I know a branch like tentacle came out of nowhere and stroke down my foe. "Now what!" I yelled and looked to my right. I saw this creature dressed in a white baboon fur cloak with a blue baboon mask. That's where the branch like tentacles were coming from. I looked to my left again to see the man with the silver hair bleeding out from his shoulder. "You missed, Baboon." I said with a low tone.

The man ran off again, and just as I took a step to run after him the baboon spoke, "Stop."

I stopped, causing my hair to sway in front of my face. "What!" I demanded. "That man destroyed my village and was about to attack my sister!" I turned back to the baboon and glared daggers at him.

"Lady Kasumi of the Antler tribe, am I correct?" His voice was so deep.

"How do you know my name?"

"You're very well known, Lady Kasumi. It's not hard to figure out" he pointed to my antlers as he spoke.

"What the hell do you want?" I had not once quit glaring at him.

"The man's name who attacked your village, I can give that to you, along with who his group is. I can even provide protection for your little sister there." He tried to bargain with me.

"And what do you want in return? Nothing comes free" I straightened my posture and moved my hair out of my face. I was quite intrigued by what this baboon had to say.

"I want you to eliminate him and the rest of the group he is with." His voice sounded that of death.

"I suppose you won't tell me why you want them eliminated?" I questioned, but only got silence in return. I sheathed my sword and asked, "then what is your name?"

He tilted his head up a little revealing the lower portion of his face. He had a small smirk. He retracted his tentacles and walked closer to me. He stretched out his right arm to reveal a hive in his palm. "Naraku," he stated. "The man who attacked your village goes by the name Inuyasha. With him are two girls, a priestess and a demon slayer, then there's the monk. Take this hive," I grabbed the hive as he said that. "Use it on the monk. I will have someone fetch you when your task is complete." He disappeared, then reappeared behind Suki and grabbed her. "Only then you will get your sister back" I turned around too late. They were gone. Worry flushed over me.

"Suki!" I screamed, "Dammit to hell!" I clenched my fists so tightly that my claws dug into my palms and blood dripped from the open wounds. He must have wanted to make sure that I killed that demon and his group… Naraku… You're more of a coward than that Inuyasha being! First Inuyasha destroys my village, then this Naraku demon took my sister! What a disappointment. How could I have been so foolish? After everything my father instilled on me. I started walking back to the village while staring at the ground. My facial expression showing how distracted and upset I felt.

Once I got back to the village it started to pour. I stood there still as a rock as the rain depleted any fire that remained. I should probably go ahead and bury these humans and then be on my way. I started walking again and went to each house, carried out the dead bodies, then went to a clearing that was off to the back gate. It was a beautiful clearing. It contained a flower bed and an area for the crops. Somehow the fire didn't make it that far. I found Shiro and his mother last. I stared down at them, remembering how good they were to me…

"Lady Kasumi!" Shiro called out to me. I turned around and saw a little boy running towards me, waving his arm in the air with a huge goofy grin on his face. His other arm was behind his back, "guess what I found?" he stopped in front of me.

I knelt down and asked, "What did you find, Shiro?" I smiled at him softly.

He moved his hand from behind his back and held out a jar, "a butterfly!" It was a beautiful one too. It had black outlining with yellow and orange filling. "Do you think mommy will let me keep it?"

I shook my head and replied, "Shiro, you shouldn't keep it. You have no way of being able to feed it. You should let it free."

His expression dropped. After a few minutes of silence he nodded, "you're right. I wouldn't want it to die" he opened the jar and allowed the butterfly out. To his surprise, the butterfly landed on his nose. His eyes widened for a second, then returned to normal. "It tickl- "he got cut off by a sneeze. The butterfly flew off.

I giggled, "Shiro, go home now. It's getting late and I'm sure your mother is worried about you." He nodded and ran off.

Tears started to form from my eyes as I remembered the little boy. I quickly wiped them away and buried him and his mother side-by-side. Now, to start my journey to find that coward, Inuyasha. Sudden realization hit me. I have no idea where to begin! I never picked up his scent! I growled under my breath. It started to warm up, and it was getting light out. I was awake all night. Suddenly drowsiness hit me. I was worn out from the previous day's activities along with everything that happened throughout the night. I jumped to the top of a tree where I could be hidden and rest my eyes for a bit.

"Milord, this way!" a sudden whiny voice woke me up. It felt like I had slept for a few hours. Longer than I intended. I squinted my eyes to see through the leaves to find the source of the voice.

"Jaken, slow down." Another voice was heard, this one was deeper and more emotionless.

I caught sight of the intruders. A male, smells of full dog-demon, long silver hair that reached to his knees, a load of fluff around his right shoulder going downwards, wearing a hanjuban under his white hankimono that has red hexagonal flowers on the shoulders and tips of his sleeves behind a red background. A yellow soft obi with purple on the ends tied around his waist a couple times, looping downwards twice. He wore a chest armor plate, as well as waist armor that was divided into three sections, and shoulder armor that was thin and reached around his shoulder and across the top part of his chest armor. The shoulder armor had spikes. He bore two purple stripes on both cheeks, and a crescent moon on his forehead.

The little green runt with him that looks like a toad with a beak was wearing a hanjuban, a brown karigino, and a black hat. He carried a brown and black double-head staff. One head looked that of a male, while the other a female. Then following behind them was a two-headed dragon demon that was a light brown in color, had black muzzles, and a red and black saddle.

I focused on the crescent moon of the silver-haired man. That moon… It's similar to mine just right-side up and without the dot. My father told me of this tribe. They are royalty. No matter, I need to know why they have come. I jumped down from the branch I was resting on. The green toad demon jumped back startled and frantic.

"W-where did you come from?!" The toad yelled at me.

"Shut up!" I glared at him, then turned my attention to the silver-haired man. "Why are you here?" I demanded. The man stared at me without saying a word. I could feel my annoyance level rise. I do not like to be ignored. He started walking towards me. I took a step back, "stop! Don't come any closer or I will draw my sword! This village is already destroyed! Let them rest in peace!"

The toad ran up to me, "don't speak to Lord Sesshomaru like that! Know your manners!"

I balled my hand into a fist and raised it in front of my extremely annoyed face. I furrowed my eyebrows and clenched my eyes shut. "You are so annoying! No one is speaking to you, runt!" I kicked him in his gut and sent him flying. He screamed and skid across the ground hitting the trunk of a tree about ten feet away, knocking him out.

"Ah-Un, take Jaken and go somewhere safe." The one known as Lord Sesshomaru spoke.

Ah-Un grunted and walked over to where Jaken lay. Ah grabbed the neck of his clothes and threw Jaken on his back and walked off.

Not once did Sesshomaru take his eyes off of me. "Kasumi, correct?" he said.

My eyes widen, shock filled my body. How does he know?