InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A New Sibling ❯ The Dragon Stables... ( Chapter 8 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

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Oh…I'm going to start putting quotes on here so…here we go with quote numero uno!

"Of all the animals, the boy is most unmanageable"-Plato

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*Citadel in the West*

Sesshoumaru and Kuzume stood at the front gates next to Ah-Un, waiting for InuYasha and his group to come out of the stables with their mounts.

Kagome came out holding the reigns to a slender, black dragon named Och-Friyaku. Och-Friyaku was a dragon built for speed on land and in water. She was of the shadows and did not fair well in sunlit areas. Och-Friyaku was named for her superior stealth and vision at night.

Shippo rode the only child dragon in the stables. Djuna was named by his own mother, Och-Friyaku, and was tamer than all the dragons combined.

Kagome and Shippo were closely followed by Sango who had chosen a dragon that was not easily won over. He had huge scales that covered his broad chest, and acted as armor and a wide wingspan. He was named for his personality, U-Shun.

Miroku came next with one of the slyest of dragons in the stables. He was of normal dragon build, but had a wingspan twice the length of U-Shun's. He was named for what was said most often to him, Kiya.

Taking up the rear was InuYasha and his dragon of choice, Choto. He was one of the largest dragons in the stables, and was the quickest of them all. Choto, like Kiya, was named for the word most often told to him.

"I see that you have all found suitable mounts. We must be off."

Sesshoumaru climbed onto Ah-Un behind Kuzume, reaching around her to take hold of the reigns. He gave them a light shake and Ah-Un took to the sky.

"Oi, Sesshoumaru! Why didn't I know about all of these dragons in the stables?"

Sesshoumaru looked down to the ground to see both InuYasha and Choto looking up at him, riding next to Kagome and Och-Friyaku who were taking cover from the sun in the shade of the forest.

"You didn't live in the citadel, InuYasha. Don't you recall?"

InuYasha thought a moment and realized that he was right. He didn't live in the citadel when he was younger. He lived with his human mother in a respectable human village. He had only seen his father but a few times.

"That may be true, Sesshoumaru, but my mother told me stories about it all the time! She told me all about you and our father, too!"

"Indeed. What, dare I ask, did she tell you about me?"

"She always thought you were very reserved, never very friendly, and she thought that you needed to get out and meet people more often. She pitied you, thought you needed a friend."

"Hn…"

Sesshoumaru turned his attention back to flying in between Sango and Miroku. `InuYasha's mother, a human, pitied me for not having friends…maybe that was the reason she acted as she did towards me…'

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*Flashback/Dream sequence again…*

"No, Ayumu. I must go to speak with someone." Sensei turned to walk out of the garden where his pupil sat, eyes dark and unseeing. He had been teaching her swordsmanship, but after her unfortunate encounter with her young friend, she hadn't spoken a word.

<I'll never have another friend again…Hn…? What's that…?>

Ayumu turned her eyes slightly to the right to see a group of her human peers peeking around a corner of the shrine to watch her. She stood up when she saw Ichido amongst them. When she moved toward them, they ran away screaming about attacking demons and how she was trying to kill them. Ichido was the last one to leave, watching her blank stare, then ran away with a frightened look on his face as well.

`Flumping' back to the ground, Ayumu did as her sensei told her and began her meditating. She would rather be lost in meditation than in her own pitiful thoughts.

*~*(A/N: still in dream sequence mode!)

Ayumu bolted upright on her futon as she watched villagers and shrine attendants run past her room screaming. She opened the shoji door and ran the opposite way the humans were running. When she got to the courtyard, she found a giant snake demon, fangs shining with venom in the moonlight. Directly in front of the demon stood Sensei, barely holding the snake back with his spell scrolls.

<He won't make it out alive…I have to help him!>

Ayumu stepped forward onto the stone in front of her, eyes glowing a murderous red. Unfortunately, her silver-white hair reflected the moonlight off of it, attracting the other demon's attention.

The snake opened its mouth as if to smile and hissed out, "Ah…You'rrre Ayumu, arrren't you? I was sssent here to dessstrrroy you and thisss ssshrine you livvve in…"

Ayumu stepped forward and reached to her side as if to draw a sword, but wasn't one; she had left her practicing swords in the small dojo.

"What arrre you planning to do? Sssliccce me with airrr?"

The snake demon began to laugh at her. He laid down on the ground, opening his mouth wide enough to swallow Ayumu whole, and launched himself toward her at full speed. Just as he made it to her, Ayumu jumped into the air, landing on top of the snake's head. She crouched to spring, and then landed near the tail of the great beast.

"Ssso, you'rrre quick. But, not nearrrly quick enoughhh!"

He launched himself toward her once more. Ayumu dodged to her left and unsheathed the hidden sword at her side, stabbing it horizontally into the side of the second demon's neck.

The snake shrieked in agony as his throat spewed blood all over Ayumu. She used the sword to drag him closer to her. Once he was right in front of her, she adjusted her grip on the hilt and pushed upward, then forward. Ayumu made it half way through his neck before she heard him say, "You'rrre too late forrr you'rrre frrriendsss. Othersss will come forrr you. Of thisss you can be surrre. I am not the only one!"

With that, Ayumu sliced through the rest of his throat and disintegrated his head and body with her poison claw to be sure he would not come back. Afterwards, she turned back to Sensei only to find that he was dead, lying on the ground with frothy, poisoned blood leaking from his leg. Ayumu looked away, toward the rest of the shrine; it was completely totaled. She ran forward, not noticing the searing pain in her arms, chest, and right leg.

Stepping into the garden, Ayumu came across rubble covering corpses of monks, old and young. She knew most of them, but they had detested her, thinking only of the consequences that raising a demon would cause.

When she got to the dojo, Ayumu found Ichido, poisoned and dying slowly in the center of the room. She ran toward him, thinking of how to help him; Ayumu was taught nothing about healing demon venom wounds.

"Ayumu…!"

Ichido lifted himself up on his elbows, trying to shrink away from her. He feared for his life, no matter how close they used to be.

Ayumu knelt beside him, taking off her shirt to reveal bandages tightly wrapped around her chest and stomach. She began ripping the cloth to form makeshift bandages. When she reached over towards him to start dressing his wounds, he pushed her hands away.

Ayumu's eyes started to water as she spoke to him. "Stubborn human, I have to dress your wounds, or you won't live." She gave him a watery smile as she looked into his eyes, once again seeing her old friend and not the frightened teenager that lurked behind the corners of the dojo, watching her. "Y-You have to get better, Ichido. You just have to…" She whispered out the last part of this.

Ichido leaned up on his elbows a little more until he could sit up on his own. He reached over to Ayumu-who had leaned her head down to look at the ground-and took the improvised bandages from her hands. He began wrapping them around her arms, legs, and some on her neck.

"I'm going to die, Ayumu. But, you have a chance to live. You've lost a lot of blood, but you're a demon; you can keep going."

Ayumu jerked her head up to look him in the eyes and threw herself into his chest.

"No! No, I can't! Not without you, Ichido!"

Ichido's breathing started to become increasing difficult to control as the poison rushed through his veins.

"Go, Ayumu. Go and don't think anything more of this place…or me."

With that said Ichido breathed his last breath and slumped against Ayumu. She pushed back from him and shuddered to find him dead. She threw the corpse back from herself and started to run out of the shrine, through the forest, and to heaven knows where, crying over the loss of her best friend, Sensei-the fatherly figure she knew for most of her life-and the numerous Sensei's she had lost over the many years to old age.

After all this, Ayumu still listened to only half of what Ichido had told her. Sure, she did run away, but she would never forget him, any of them…never.

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