InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Immortalized ❯ Living Legend ( Chapter 2 )

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200 words.

#2: Living Legend

Once upon a time, there was a youkai warlord. He ate, drank, and slept the dream of more power. He slaughtered human armies for the simple crime of being in his way. He battled his closest kin relentlessly for the possession of their father's killing sword. He esteemed himself above all others, and yet it was not enough to satisfy him. If only he had more land, more youki, more servants, more something.

Injured badly after a skirmish with his bastard half-brother, he lay on the forest floor and strained to heal his flesh. Later, he revived and adopted the human child that had come to him in his convalescence, offering food and smiling her gapped-tooth smile.

The years passed swiftly and unkindly. He built her a beautiful castle on a mountain near the sea and planted fields of flowers on the hills. As she aged, he wandered less and played in the sand more. As she aged, she loved him in ways that he could not understand and in ways that she could not put to words.

After the long sleep claimed his elderly human ward, he tore her beautiful castle down stone by plank with his bare hands.