Inuforlyf

The Hunt

August 21, 2007

Summary: Kagome and Kikyou's mother is gone, kidnapped. Their father hears this and asks three Inu youkai, his friends, to look for the lady of their village. However, a deal is made. For the youkai to look for his wife, one of the sons of the eldest youkai must wed with one of the two daughters, who are Miko. Miko are known to purify the demons and hold nearly no nice feelings for the youkai kind. Unfortunately they learn a secret that can very well ruin their life if they are to mate with a demon. Hearing they must wed with one the run, thus beginning the hunt.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. This is Fanfiction.

"Oh Kami, Rin would you take a whiff of that?" A young 7 year old boy named Shippo stopped to sniff enviously at the tray of meat pastries that the vendor near the Eastern Castle was setting out on the counter of his cart. They were so fresh steam rising from them. Staring at the golden-brown crusts, sniffing their delicious aroma, Rin felt her mouth water.

Rin was a little nine summer girl, with black hair laying hazard down her back and with the shorter more ragged lengths near the crown of her head in a side pony tail. A constant layer of grim obscured delicate feature. Thick-lashed brown eyes, big as agates in her hunger-pinched face, passed almost unnoticed amidst all her dirt.

"Oh come now, we can't afford it any ways." She said sadly skimming the group of vendors. She looked a bit farther to see the Eastern Lord's home. She and her best friend were heading there, to beg for some help. Their village was facing a terrible drought and nothing was growing. Walking pass villages and market places like this had her feel odd, a strange feeling at the pit of her stomach.

She pulled on Shippo's arm and began dragging Shippo towards the lord's home. He struggled but she had a tight grip on to him. "Hey Rin, what is that?" She looked up from the floor that she liked to watch as she walked. She looked up and saw nothing.

She looked back down to her orange headed fox-demon friend. "What is what?" She asked and he pulled himself up right and gave Rin a better look of him. The ragged dark brown clothing he had and his bushy orange tail coming from behind. She smirked and he raised his arm to point at whatever it was he was speaking about. She followed his finger to see nothing but air.

"What are you trying to pull? There's nothing there!" She exclaimed.

"No, there's a barrier, it is right there!"

She looked again and still saw nothing, "Shippo, if there is a barrier it's probably to keep bad people out. The lord wouldn't want someone to come and chop his head off from behind." Shippo raised his eye brows to Rin. Such thoughts floating through her mind is not healthy.

"No, Rin, the barrier doesn't look like it wants to keep people out" He paused and examined the 'barrier' Rin couldn't see. "It looks like it wants to keep people in." He mused.

"Rin does not believe you. How do you know?"

"I'm a fox." He simply stated. "We're tricksters so we can see pass illusions and stuff like that." Rin rolled her eyes. "Well, let's go, the 'barrier' won't hurt us."

"How do you know!" he asked.

"You said it yourself," She said and grabbed his arm once is to keep people in not out."

"But what if we can't come out? How will we go back to the village?" She thought about what he said.

"Rin supposes you should head back and Rin will go in."

"No way, a little girl shouldn't talk to the Lord; they probably won't even let you!"

"Rin is the eldest, so follow what Rin says."

"Yeah right, I'll go and you'll go back home." Shippo told her huffing. Rin pouted and looked to her friend."You would send Rin off into the wilderness all alone?"

Shippo did a small growl and pulled on her arm, "We'll go together, and find a way out." She smiled causing him to smile. "Let's go," he said and they headed in.

-8—

A certain Takanashi, Sesshomaru was pacing in the room he was given. He needed to get out. The numerous smells of humans were overwhelming. Of course his father was used to it, having bedded one and Inuyasha was half human so it was not as strong. However Sesshomaru was dying. He swore he was.

He did not want to come here in the first place; he did not want a human mate. Secondly, when he reached this dreadful place, an untrained, weak girl decided to prove how uncivilized humans were. From the moment her lips parted, Sesshomaru knew this girl was going to make him resort to unnecessary measures. Now, she and her sister has run away, and he was to follow, he was to hunt them? He did not desire the girl and now she was the prey he was to follow. Sesshomaru questioned the knowledge the girls might have contained about the Dog Demon tradition of The Hunt. The reason the laymen no longer followed this tradition was because of ignorant women. Running after the decision is made and has been signed upon resulted in beginning the chase.

He slowly dropped to his futon as gracefully as he was taught. Soon after the chase, consummation and Mating would come within three days or nature would work against the members of The Hunt. Seeing as the prey in this chase were human women, Sesshomaru wondered if nature would affect them as it did demons. Humans are less instinctual than dog demons and thus may not have to live by nature's work.

Sesshomaru then scoffed, gravity was still working on those filthy waste of space, why not other works of nature.

He took a deep breath and almost gagged, too many humans, it was disgusting. He went out of his room and searched for his father.

"Father," Sesshomaru barked at the man sitting on the cushion in front of the meal table. The man was drinking tea in the most silent way before he was interrupted by Sesshomaru.

"Son," Inu no Taisho said or Toga as he was known among family and friends. He looked up with a glistened eye.

"This is not a joke, why must I stay here?"

"Do you want to go looking for them now? Go ahead; it seems you will like that younger one as a mate more than I had thought."

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at his father, "This Sesshomaru wishes to leave this place. The smell of decaying flesh is unpleasant."

"Well, you are soon to mate a human, so get used to the smell, you may leave now but Inuyasha will leave in the morning."

"This Sesshomaru could not care less for your son," Sesshomaru turned on the balls of his feet and headed out of the castle.

-8—

They ran for long before they reached the springs. Kikyou gave out a sigh before dropping herself to the ground in an un-lady-like form and dipped her head in the water. Kagome smiled and looked back to the way they had come. No one was there so she sighed and dropped down as well.

"What now?" Kikyou asked her sister as she pulled her drenched head out.

"I'm not sure." Kagome answered.

Kikyou gave out a large sigh, "I knew your wisdom was not going to last."

"I never knew you liked to joke. We should bathe, and then get some shelter."

Kikyou was already taking off her hair ribbon. Kagome heard a twig snap. "Kikyou," she whispered. Kikyou shout her head up feeling her sister's urgency in her name. She gave her a questioning look and Kagome gave her the sign to keep quiet. Kagome reached for the arrow that lay forgotten on the ground and threw them at Kikyou. "Run," she whispered.

"What, why and what about you?" Kikyou asked picking the arrows up. Kagome stood staring into the forest on the other side of the stream.

"Pick up that bow and run. Whoever they might be will come after you because you are a half-naked female." Kagome hissed at her sister.

"You are a girl as well," she hissed back but picked the bow up any ways. "Protect yourself." Kikyou gave Kagome an arrow.

"You give me an arrow and no bow, and I'm not good with any activities that have to do with the coordination of sight and hand. I don't think that is wise."

"It might be useful." She responded.

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Go, me being Akio for the time being might hold them off." Kikyou nodded and ran down the opposite way, back to the barrier.

Kagome shook her head and a group of warriors came into view. "Halt! State your name!" Kagome stared at them not responding. They obviously became angry and walked closer to the water. "Boy! Answer the soldiers of the Northern Wolf Tribe!"

She kept quiet. More soldiers came. "Are you simple son? Do you not know how to speak?" One shouted and they came closer. Kagome dropped the arrow as well as herself to the ground sitting on her behind,

"Are ye daft or just rude and disobedient?" Kagome wanted to scratch their eyes out and feed them to the fish but she maintained her silence. More men were present, making a very large group, large enough to intimidate a lord's status. What was the Northern Tribe doing in the east?

"State your business!" Kagome shouted making her voice low like the Akio she was pretending to be. The crowd seemed to part and a man-err- wolf- um- man-wolf demon came walking out with two others behind him.

"Who and what are you?" He asked. Kagome stared into his blue eyes and his firm chest and is muscular arms. She shook her head.

"State your business!" she shouted once again after pushing thoughts away from her mind.

In an instant he was in front of her, passed the water and was right in front of her. "Fast." she squeaked and his eye brow rose.

"Wolves, you'll eat well today." He said and she gulped. She looked passed him and saw the human soldiers shudder.

"Why would you eat me when you have an entire group of humans behind you?"

"I have their loyalty, why should I do that to them? It's mean." He replied.

"Yes, eating other humans in front of them isn't 'mean.' Where do you get off?" He growled at her words and stepped closer. "You better back off?" She said in a low voice feeling his heat radiate of her.

"What would you do if I didn't?" She stood up and reached for his chest, how embarrassing. She slipped her hand into her pockets and moved her fingers looking for a circle shaped charm. She found it and smiled.

"What's so funny?" He growled into her face. And bam! She disappeared.