RIN'S P.O.V

"Die!"

A man with a spear in his hands said as he drove it down towards me. I closed my eyes expecting pain, but it never came. I heard all the villager's gasp and some scream. I opened my eyes and saw a man with pristine white hair, red and white hakamas and hatori with spiked armor over one shoulder, and a white mokomoko around his other. He had two magenta stripes across each side of his face and a crescent moon in the middle of his forehead. He was standing over me with the spear the villager had in his hands.

"Demon leave! This is of no concern to you!"

The village master said and the demon above me turned his golden eyes on him. I watched as the demon's claws glowed a bright green and a whip shot out, killing the village master instantly. The women screamed and ran while the men of the village tried to attacked the white haired demon. The green whip slashed through all of them and their blood soaked the ground. I looked up at the white haired demon in shock as he turned his attention back to me.

"Are you hurt little fox?"

The demon asked kneeling down beside me.

'No, not at all. She was just attacked and stabbed, but she's ok.'

Kitsana said from within my head still trying to get free of her bonds.

I tried to move, but the pain coursing through my body made me cry out. I thought I heard the white haired demon curse under his breath before he gently picked me up. Suddenly, the ground shrank away and wind was blowing my hair about. I whimpered as I tried to understand what was going on.

"It's okay little fox, I have healers at my palace that will help you."

The demon said and I nodded.

"W-Who are you?"

I managed to ask as I felt the darkness close in on me.

"My name is Sesshomaru little fox…."

The demon, Sesshomaru, said something else but the darkness took me and I didn't hear him.

SESSHOMARU'S P.O.V

The little fox in my arms fainted before I even finished my sentence. She was still losing a lot of blood despite her fox trying to heal her.

'Why did you help her? She is a stranger.'

My beast asked and I sighed as I quickened my pace towards the palace.

'It would seem that your brother's wench has had quite an effect on you.'

'What makes you say that?'

I asked as I landed in the courtyard of the palace. I called the servants and told them to have Onai prepare for his next patient. They bowed before running off to do as I ordered. By the time I got to the infirmary Onai already had a cot ready and was waiting for me. The old phoenix demon carefully took the fox from me and set her down on the cot.

"What caused these wounds M'lord?"

Onai asked as he set to work. His gnarled hands working as swiftly as they had many years ago.

"The villagers where she was staying."

I said and Onai only hummed as he continued to work. He cut back her kimono leaving her in her bindings, but still exposing her abdomen so he could clean and bandage it. When he finished he turned to me.

"She will be fine M'lord. She just needs some rest."

Onai said and I nodded. He bowed before leaving. I watched as he hobbled out of the room. His once fiery red hair now graying with age was a dim comparison to what it used to be, but he still had his uses.

'You've become soft.'

My beast said and I sighed.

'Not soft, compassionate.'

I said and my beast was quite for a while before finally deciding to agree with me.

'What will you do when she wakes?'

'I don't know. Something about her just compelled me to help her.'

I said as I looked over the young girl laying on the cot in front of me. She had on a tattered, bloody, and now torn kimono. Her black and red streaked hair sprawled out behind her down to her shoulders. She had a small, petite figure. She looked to be no taller than 5'4, and what I remember of her eyes they were a deep forest green with a mix of what had looked to be scarlet.

'What would make an entire village want to attack such a young child?'

I wondered to myself and my beast joined the conversation.

'You know how humans react to demons, whether they are nice or not. They fear us and so they attack our kind, even those of us who are innocent. It is no different for this child.'

I found myself sighing again as I saw the logic in my beast's words. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and a servant walked in and bowed low.

"Forgive me M'lord, but your brother and his friends are here. Should I let them through the gates or…."

The servant trailed off waiting for my orders. I growled to myself and closed my eyes.

'Always with the worst timing little brother.'

I thought to myself before standing up.

"Let them through the gates and show them to my office, I will be there shortly."

I said and the servant bowed lower before leaving. I walked over to the little fox sleeping on the cot and brushed her hair out of her face. I could feel her demon's aura working to try and heal her, but I could also tell she was not fully connected to it meaning she wasn't born as a demon.

'So she let herself become a host, why?'

I wondered curiously.

"Sesshomaru! Get your ass out here!"

Inuyasha's infuriating voice called from the courtyard. I walked over to the open window and looked down in the direction of his voice. I saw the demon slayer and the monk shaking their heads as Kagome tried to get Inuyasha to calm down.

"Oi! Sesshomaru!"

Inuyasha yelled again and I sighed before jumping out the window and appearing before them. I backhanded my little brother and he went flying into the wall.

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome yelled in surprise.

"He will be fine. What brings you all here?"

I asked and Kagome reluctantly turned away from Inuyasha who was getting up and looked up at me. She smiled at me and I felt a familiar warmth spread through my body whenever she was around.

"We came by to visit. You said last time that we could."

She said the last part uncertainly and I nodded.

"That I did. Come, I will show you to your rooms."

I said and Kagome's smile widened as she and her friends followed me into my palace.