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On the previous chapter, two new characters were introduced. One of them was A young woman who background was unknown. Other one was Caleb, a villain who has a score to settle with Sesshomaru. Let just say that he has a grudge against Sesshomaru. In this chapter, it will reveal the young woman's name with her background and how Caleb and Sesshomaru know each other in the future. Enough with my talking, here's the next chapter. Oh don't forget to review. Enjoy!
Chapter Twelve
Setting in the Future
A young demon girl about eight years old was running in the forest. She was badly injures and was grasping her stomach trying to stop the bleeding "Where do you think you're going?" a voice asked sudden.
A demon jumps out from the tress and landed in front of the young demon girl.
"What's the hurry when the fun has just begun," said the demon with smirks on his face. A thin, whip-like strand of yellow-green energy shot off from the young demon girl. She graciously moved it toward the demon whacking him in the face and knocks him to the ground.
The pain from her stomach was starting to affect her making her tumbling a little. Her vision was getting blurry making it difficult to see.
The demon got off the ground "So my poison is kicking in, so how does it feel?" Saige glares at him. He pulled out his sword "Don't worry I'll make the pain go away for you".
The demon fly up into the air and aim right toward the young demon girl when suddenly another whip-like strand of yellow-green energy shot out of nowhere, chopping off the demon's left hand and slightly slashes the demon's neck.
"Ah!"The demon shrieks in pain as he grasps his left arm that loses a hand. The red line on the demon's neck.
The young demon girl looked up as her savior landed in front her.
"Daddy?" she said, shock to see her dad in front of her.
Sesshomaru kneels down and check on her. He notices that she was getting pale and her hands are cold "Saige, Get out of here while you still can, you're only be in my way," he told her.
"But what about you?" Saige asked.
"I'll be fine, now go," he replied.
Saige nodded and took off running.
"Sesshomaru!" The demon exclaimed with an angry look "You're going to pay for chopping my hand off!"
Sesshomaru got up and pulled out his sword, Bakusaiga "Caleb, you make a deadly mistake for messing with me and my family. Don't worry I'll make sure to pay you by slashing your head off"
"Not if I slash your head off first," Caleb said with a threat.
A purple poison forms from his hand and hurls toward Sesshomaru who quickly dodge out "You're aiming is pathetic," Sesshomaru remarked.
A smirk grew on Caleb's face "Who say I was aiming for you," he coldly replied.
Sesshomaru's eyes widen when he realizes where Caleb was aiming "Saige!" He quickly turns around just in time to see Saige get hit in the back with poison tossing her over a cliff.
Sesshomaru ran fast toward the cliff to reach for Saige's hand, but he was too late. Saige fallen deep down into the forest below.
"Oops I guess you're too late Sesshomaru," Caleb gave a sarcastic remark.
Sesshomaru growls and charge toward Caleb swinging his sword, Bakusaiga viscously slashing him in the face.
Caleb begins to vanish "This isn't over Sesshomaru; I'll be back again and I will have my revenge on you. Mark my word! He exclaims, laughing before he completely disappears.
Sesshomaru put his sword away in it sheath and begins searching for Saige.
He has accomplishes defeating Caleb who he despise because of kidnapping Rin before to lure him for a challenge and also hurting Saige. Right now on Sesshomaru's mind was to find Saige
A young girl, age ten was in the forest searching for herbs to make medicine when she feel a demon aura near by. Curiosity, she decides to check it out. When she got there, she notices a monster was trying to devour a person that was unconscious. "Oh no that person is in trouble," She quickly closes her eyes and murmurs something. A light pink ball of light form in her hand and second later, she flings it toward the monster blasting it to pieces.
After that she rushes over to check on the person, but was in shock to see that it was a young demon girl unconscious and injures "Poor thing, she's been poison" the young girl said as she looked at the wound on the stomach "I need to get you somewhere safe so I can take care of your wound".
The young girl looked around for a safe place. She would bring the young demon girl back to village, but the villagers would be frighten to see a demon and would probably kill the young demon girl. The young girl spotted a cave not far from where they are "That look like a safe place," she remarked.
The young girl carries the young demon girl on her back into the cave.
Inside, the young girl take care of the wound, bandage it up carefully. She notices the young demon girl's face was pale "I need to get rid of the poison out of her before it reaches her heart" she said.
The young girl grabs a bottle medicine, a knife with a towel from her bag. Then she grabs one of the young demon's girl arms and cut it with the knife. Without thinking, she begins sucking the poison with her mouth. A few minute later, the young girl bandage the young demon girl's arm carefully.
Meanwhile in the Forest, Sesshomaru was still searching for Saige 'I'm still sense her scent nearby which mean she must be close by. Hang on Saige, I'm going to find you," he thought.
Back in the Cave, Saige slowly become conscious and notices she was in cave, but she wasn't alone. She slightly turns her head to the side and saw a human girl was cooking something with her back turn. The human girl was wearing a light brown kimono with long brunette hair that tie in a ponytail.
Saige was confused about why a human girl was in the cave with her? Her first instance was to escape out of here before the villagers come looking for this human girl. She soon regrets it when she tries to get up, which accidently stretches her wound on her stomach.
She hissed in pain.
"You're shouldn't be moving, you were badly hurt," the young girl spokes all of sudden "I got the poison out for you so you're okay now".
The young girl turns around and looked at Saige.
"Who are you and why did you help me?" Saige asked.
"My name is Ella and I'm a doctor well not really a doctor, but I'm going to be when I grow older. So I'm actually a priestess even though I don't dress like one," Ella told Saige.
'Aren't you too young to be a doctor?" Saige asked.
"I save your life didn't I," Ella points out.
"You got a point there," Saige agrees "But why did you save me? Shouldn't you be afraid and ran for your life when you see me? I'm a demon and you're human".
"I'm not afraid of you," Ella said as pours the medicine into a bowl.
Saige blinks her eyes "Why? When people see me, they scream and run away".
"Not all human are bad. Beside I bet you already know a human, right?"
Saige nodded
"Demons and humans to me both need saving. If I saw a human or demons injure, I would save them without any doubt," Ella told Saige.
"Even, if there are bad demons and human too?" Saige asked
Ella smiles "It does depend on what the situations are. Like you for instance, I can tell you are not a bad demon at all. You would never hurt anyone would you?"
Saige shook her head "No, unless they hurt my family then I would".
"See you're not bad at all. So now I can tell you that I don't need a reason to why I save you, I just know right thing to do and that I went with my instinct," Ella explained.
Saige slightly smile "Thanks for saving me Ella".
"You're welcome," Ella gave Saige a bowl of medicine "Here"
"What is it?" Saige asked.
"Its medicine, drink it, it would make you all better and cure the poison that might still be in your body," Ella assured
"Okay," Saige took the bowl from Ella and drank it all. Then she gave it back to Ella "Thank you," she said.
"So, how do you feel," Ella asked a moment later.
Ella puts one of her hands on her chest "Much better, thank you".
Ella smiles and put all her stuff in her bag "I'm glad that you're better," she said with relieve.
Saige can actually move without hurting her wound thanks to the medicine Ella gave her to drink.
"Saige?" Saige looked at Ella.
"What is it?" Saige asked.
"I was hoping it okay with you that we can be friend," Ella said.
Saige was shock that Ella offers to be her friend. No human would wants to her friend because they were afraid of her. This was first time that a human would like to her friend beside her aunt Kagome, Sango, and Miroku. Oh and her mother of course.
Ella extends one of her hands out toward Saige.
"Huh?" A Saige notices Ella's hand extends toward her.
A minute later, Saige take Ella's hand "Friend," She replied.
"Friend," Ella said.
Then Ella grabs her stuff and got up.
"Where are you going?" Saige asked.
"I have to return back to village before the villagers come searching for me, which could put you in danger," Ella explained "But don't worry we will see each other again someday. I want you have this," she pulled something out of her pocket and gave it to Saige. Saige took it and stares at it. It was a whole piece of the peach stone rock.
"It's pretty, but I can't take this," said Saige who was surprise that Ella gave her the peach stone rock.
Ella shook her head "No, I want you to have it," she kindly said, hoping Saige would accept the gift.
Suddenly Saige got an idea "Is it ok with you if I do something with this stone rock?" she asked.
Ella nodded "It's yours now; you can do anything with it".
Saige grips the stone rock in her hand and broke it in half. She gave one to Ella "I keep this half, you keep the other half. So when we see each other, we can easy remember each other".
Ella smiles and put the half piece of the peach stone rock in her pocket "I won't forget you," she said.
Ella begins walking toward the exit of the cave when suddenly she felt herself being grabbed by her throat. She was now dangling helplessly above the ground confused.
She looked down and saw the demon glaring at her with a cold look in his eyes.
"Wait! Daddy, please let her go! She heard Saige cried.
Ella eyes widen "This is Saige's father?"
"She saved my life, if it wasn't for her I would be alive and you wouldn't be able to find me," Saige explains to her dad.
Sesshomaru was surprises to hear that this human girl saved Sagie life. He releases Ella who fell to the ground breathing heavily.
Saige went over to Ella "You're all right?
Ella nodded
"I'm sorry, my dad didn't know about you saving my life".
Ella was finally able to breathe normal again. She shook her head "It's okay, don't worry about it," She got up with her stuff "I need head back to the village. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding sir, I shall leave now," she said as she bow her head down at Sesshomaru and then left out of the cave.
"Bye Saige!" she shouted.
"Bye Ella," Saige shouted back.
After Ella left, Sesshomaru turns and looked at Saige. He puts a hand on her shoulder "Are you hurt, are you poison?" he asked.
"I'm all better now, thanks to Ella," she replied.
Sesshomaru relieves to see Saige was okay and alive. Instantly, he pulled her into a hug which she return hugging him back.
"I'm glad you're okay," he told her.
"I was scared, I thought I would never see you again dad," she said, feeling the emotion inside. Even though there are emotions inside of her, she couldn't even shed tears nor show them.
"I promise I won't let you get hurt again. Caleb is dead, he won't harm you again," he assures her.
Saige nodded "I know you will always protect me no matter what happen".
"I'll intend to keep that promise to you and your mother," Sesshomaru thinks to himself.
Sesshomaru let go of Saige "C'mon let's go, your mother is waiting for us".
Saige follows Sesshomaru out of the cave "What about Jaken?" she asked.
"He waiting for us with A-Un," he told her.
"Daddy, can I hit Jaken? I need something to get my anger out of me," said Saige who was still angry that Caleb calling her weak which really hurt her pride.
"Do as you please," Sesshomaru replied.
Now back to the Present time
"I wonder why Cobramaru would want see us?" Caleb asked out loud as he was walking next to Kelsi.
"I have no clue at all," Kelsi replied.
She was also wondering why Cobramaru want to see them "Something tell me it's not good," she thought.
When they arrive, they were expecting to see a cave. Instead it was a strange dark castle with a barrier around it.
Caleb turns and looked at Kelsi "Why don't you go first?" he suggests
"After you," replied Kelsi who was in her own thoughts "How stupid do you think I am Caleb? I'm not going go first and get destroy by the barrier you fool! I know what you are up to and…"
"Huh?" Kelsi notices the young woman walked up to the barrier "What is that girl think she's doing? She is…" Her thoughts got interrupt when she saw the young woman walked right through the barrier as if it was nothing,
Kelsi blinks her eyes confused "Okay that's one strange human girl!" she thought.
"Let's go!" Caleb said, interrupting her thoughts.
Kelsi nodded and follows Caleb. The young woman disables the barrier for Caleb and Kelsi to enter. Right after Caleb and Kelsi enter, the barrier is up again.
They follow the young woman into the castle and into the dark creepy hallway.
"Kelsi?" Caleb spokes, breaking the silence.
"What do you want? Kelsi said, without turning to looked at Caleb
"Can you read that girl mind?" Caleb asked, staring at the young woman.
Kelsi looked at the young woman for a couple second and then looked away "No," she replied as she walked away from Caleb "That girl mind is complicate to read. Even though the girl's mind is being control, she's still conscious," she thought.
Kelsi and Caleb walked into a room and notice was standing there with his back facing toward them.
"I guess he's well," Caleb thought.
"Caleb, I see you have been thinking about my health," Cobrmaru spokes of all of a sudden.
Kelsi gasps and her eyes widen.
Caleb gritted his teeth "How did he know what I was thinking?"
Cobramaru turns around and glances at the young woman "Ella, can you do me a favor?"
"Yes," the young woman replied.
"Play your flute for me," Cobramaru replied,
Ella lifts her flute up near her lips and begins playing. Before Caleb and Kelsi can figure out what was going on, the flute sound reaches their ear giving both of them a headache. They fall down to the ground, grabbing their head and scream in agony.
"Master Cobramaru, please stop!" Kelsi begged as she screams in pain.
"We are sorry we fail you Master Cobramaru, it won't happen again," Caleb screams as he apologies.
Cobramarau smirks and lifts one of his hands up, gesturing Ella to stop playing her flute. She immediately stops dropping her hands slowly down to her side of her kimono.
"If you two fail again or betray me, I will destroy you instead of torturing you," he warns Kelsi and Caleb "Now leave!"
Caleb and Kelsi nodded and left the room.
"As for you Ella," He turns and looked at Ella "You may go anywhere you please for now until further instruction"
Ella nodded and left of the room.
Cobramaru sat down on the floor "That fool Caleb, how foolish of him to thinking that I don't know what his plan was. His plan was a great one indeed, but not great as mine," He has a evil grin on his face "Hm for my plan, it was just getting started," He snaps his fingers.
Out in the forest, Ella was walking alone when suddenly she stops. Her cold eyes slowly turn to her normal brown eyes. She looked around confused "Where am I? She wondered.
At Kaede's Place
Saige was sitting down, leaning against the wall with her arms fold. She notices everyone staring at her especially the Prussian blue crescent moon mark on her forehead. Everyone was moving their head back and forth at Sesshomaru and Saige. As if Saige can read everyone minds, she suddenly breaks the uncomfortable silence "You can stop staring at my forehead".
Everyone avert their eyes away from Saige. They murmured "Sorry".
Sesshomaru was sitting near the door away from the group with Jaken by his side. Even though he was far from the group, he can still hear what they are saying.
"Saige… I know this is going to annoy you," Miroku begins saying "but… are you Sesshomaru's daughter?"
Saige sighs, knowing that eventually she would have to answer this "Yes," she simply replied with a little annoy that everyone should have figure out when saw the mark on her forehead, but she knew that they were just asking to be sure.
She hears murmurs like "I knew it!", and "I don't believe this".
"Saige?" she heard Kagome spokes. She turns and looked at Kagome.
"Who were those demons earlier?" Kagome asked.
"Their name was Caleb and Kelsi. They work for Cobramaru. He sent them as a distraction so he can regenerate himself," Saige explains "And also to kill all of you".
"That bastard!" Inuyasha growls.
"Why would he want us dead?" Sango asked.
Saige folds her arms "Because he know that you guys would stop him from succeeding his mission he came here for"
Inuyasha scoffs "Like that's going to happen, I'll destroy him for he can even complete his mission".
"If you survive that is," Saige remarks, receiving a glare from Inuyasha.
Kagome gave Inuyasha "Would you knock it off" look. Then she looked at Saige "Saige, who was that young woman earlier?" she asked.
"I would like to know that for myself," Saige thought
The truth is that Saige doesn't know the young woman at all, but something inside her told her that she knew the young woman, but can't seen to remember who the woman was.
Sesshomaru notices Saige was busy in her thoughts. He also was wondering the same thing about the young woman like who she was and how did she have that powerful flute? But what bothers him was that he pick up a strange scent
"Saige, Are you okay? Kagome asked.
"I'm fine." Saige replied.
"Saige, Can you tell us more about Caleb and Kelsi?" Sango asked.
Saige closes her eyes and recalled what she knew about Kelsei and Caleb "They destroy a lot of villages in my time and kill demons or anyone that get in their way…"
"How awful," Kagome said with sympathy "I can't believe they killed innocent villagers".
"How cruel!" Sango exclaimed.
"That's not all, you should know what Kelsi and Caleb are capable of," Saige told them.
Sesshomaru glances over at Saige, interest in the conversation.
"Kelsi is a demon bird. She can move fast, form lighting with her hands, and also can control you unwillingly with her mind. Caleb is also a demon snake like Cobramarau. He's mischievous person who come out nowhere or anytime to strike you from behind. His claws are poisonous that can hurt or worse kill you. Don't forget abut Caleb's fangs. If he bites you, you will be paralyzed and it does affect on demons too" Saige explained.
"That's not good at all," Sango said as she pats Kirara who was sitting in her lap
"How can we destroy them without dying in the process?" Shippo asked.
Inuyasha gritted his teeth "SHUT UP SHIPPO! STOP SAYING THAT NONSENSE. YOU"RE MAKING IT SOUND LIKE ALL OF US ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH!" he shouted.
"Hey, didn't you hear Inuyasha? That Kelsi demon can actually control us with her mind and that Caleb demon can attacks us from behind or uses his claws to destroy us," Shippo points out.
Miroku folds his arms "But that's doesn't mean that they don't have weakness".
Inuyasha and Shippo turns and looked at Miroku
"Miroku, do you have a plan in mind?" Sango asked.
"Sort of," Miroku puts one of his hands under his chin "I'm trying to come up with something that can actually protect us from being mind control," he replied.
"Miroku, How about your prayer beads," Kohaki suggests
"That's a great idea Kohaku," Miroku agrees, but then realizes something "But there a problem, I don't have enough for all of you".
"That's ok Miroku, we will think of another idea," Kagome reassured
"I think you should be focusing on Cobramaru because if he succeeds with his mission then future will be in darkness," Saige suggests.
"I agree," Inuyasha got up "I want to go find Cobramaru and stop him, rather then sit here waiting for him to show up".
"Inuyasha right," Kagome agrees "Who knows what Cobramaru is up to so why wait when we can find him and destroy him".
"But where do we find him?" Sango asked.
Inuyasha scoffs "I can track his scent and find where he's hiding at," he replied.
"Hn," Sesshomaru got and walked outside.
"Wait for me Mil Lord!" Jaken shouted as he rushes after his master.
Rin got up and ran after Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha growls and he ran outside after Sesshomaru, but then stops when he saw Sesshomaru standing there gazing up at the sky.
"What's going on?" He wonders. The others were running out and came up to Inuyasha. They were wondering the same thing.
Before Inuyasha can get his answer, a strange light struck the ground and reveal Totosai sitting on his cow.
"Totosai?" Kagome said.
"Oh Sesshomaru, I see you're here," Totosai said when he notices Sesshomaru.
"Totosai, what's brought you here all of a sudden?" Miroku asked
"I sense a strange demon aura…" he begins to said, but sudden stop when he saw Saige
"A strange demon aura," said Kagome who has confused look on her face.
Inuyasha glances at what Totosai was looking at and realizes who Totosai was talking about "So you sense Saige's aura I supposed?" he asked.
"Who is this demon, why does this demon bear a resemblance to Sesshomaru?" Totosai wonders. "Young demon, can you answer my question?" he asked.
"Hn," Saige glares at Totosai "I don't have to answer to the likes of you".
Sesshomaru smirks seeing that has his attitude.
Jaken folds his arms "Like father, like daughter".
"Totosai, if you wondering if Saige is Sesshomaru daughter then the answer is yes," Inuyasha told him.
"Sesshomaru daughter!" Totosai exclaimed.
"Sesshomaru has a daughter, but how?" asked Myoga who was on Totosai's shoulder.
"Saige is from the future," Kagome explains "She came here to stop a snake demon named Cobramaru who is planning to something here that can jeopardize the future".
"That can't be good," Myoga remarks when suddenly he notices something "Wait a minute, that Tenseiga," he looked back and forth at Sesshomaru and Saige "There are two Tenseiga, impossible!"
Inuyasha was annoy by Myoga "Myoga, didn't you hear? Saige is from the future so it obvious that Future Sesshomaru gave her that sword to her".
Totosai got off his cow and went over to Saige "Saige, let me see that bracelet on your wrist," he told her.
She shows her wrist to Totosai who stares at it This bracelet is made to keep Saige's true demon lock and also hide her true power from other demons," Totosai glances at Sesshomaru "I'm guessing Sesshomaru couldn't sense Saige's true demon power," Feeling Totosai's gaze, Sesshomaru turns and glares at him "Or I could be wrong. If this bracelet were to break, than her true demon power will be release" Totosai thought.
"So is it true to what you are saying?" Saige asked sudden startling Totosai.
"Wait! You know what I was thinking?" he asked.
"Answer the question," she said in a cold tone.
Totosai shudders "Yes of course it true," he replied rather quickly.
"So it is true, Saige is a full fledge demon like me. The bracelet was hiding her true scent and the only scent I pick up is a half demon. If Cobramaru finds out about this, he'll absorb her power," Sesshomaru thought.
Inuyasha walked over to Totosai "What's going on?"
"Saige is a full fledge demon," Totosai replied,
Everyone gasps
"What? Are you sure?" Inuyasha can't believe what he was hearing "But that impossible, Saige's scent is a half demon.
"That's not her real scent. Her real scent is hidden by the bracelet that's on her wrist. This bracelet was created with two fangs that are Sesshomaru and yours. The purpose of it is to lock Saige true demon power inside and keep hidden from other demons," Totosai explained.
"What happen if the bracelet broke?" Kagome asked.
"Then Saige's true demon power will be release," Totosai replied.
"If Cobramaru found out about this, he will definitely come after Saige," Inuyasha said as he looked at Saige.
"Which mean we need to keep this a secret and make sure we destroy Cobramaru," Miroku told them.
"There is one thing I don't get was why Cobramaru came here?" Inuyasha said, wanting to know the answer.
"He want resurrect him self here earlier before he exist," Saige replied.
"Why?" Miroku asked.
"His body is weaken so he wants to resurrect him self here and transfer his power to his doppelganger," Saige explained "not only him self is being resurrect, but an army of demons from hell".
"We can't let that happen, we must stop him before that happen," Kagome said, not wanting to see the world become dark.
In the forest
Ella was walking alone by herself when out of nowhere a demon jumps out in front of her.
"Prepare to die human!" the demon growls.
The demon swings his claws at her, injure her right arm. Ella back away and closes her eyes. She suddenly begins murmurs something and a light pink ball of light form in her hand. She flings it toward the monster blasting it to pieces. After she ran away and hides in a cave. She pulled down her kimono to reveal her right injure arm. It was bleeding a lot so she grabs a torn shirt from her pocket and covering her wound when she suddenly recognizes the torn shirt.
She puts her hands on her head when a vision suddenly hit her.
~The Vision~
Ella (age 12) was running away from a giant demon with one of her leg injure. She was busy running away from the giant demon that she didn't notice a boulder in front of her and she end up falling to the ground.
The giant demon was about to devour her when out of nowhere a demon slayer jump out and killed the demon saving her life.
He kneels down and tends to her injure. He notices her leg was bleeding so he took out a bottle of water and a napkin and cleans the wound with it. After that he applied medicine on it "There, you should be okay," he rips a piece of his shirt and covering her wound with it. He then helps her up "Can you walked?" he asked.
Ella nodded.
"Okay, I should get going, I'll see you again," he told her and left in a hurry.
"Wait," she said, but he left into the forest.
She looked at the torn shirt wrapped around her leg and smile "I hope I'll see you again" she said.
Then she turns and walked into the village.
~End of the Vision~
Ella gasps and lifts her hands off of her head "What was that? Who was that person? How come I can't forget that person face?" she wonders.
Her heart was beating fast. She touches her chest "What is feeling I sense?" she asked out loud.
TBC: Whew that was long chapter. Review and tell me what you think?