InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love's Lessons ❯ Inuyasha: The Demon Lord ( Chapter 2 )

Futon - Japanese style bedding

Miko - Shinto priestess

 

Chapter 2: Inuyasha: The Demon Lord

 

The girl remained unconscious the whole way back to Kaede's. He brought her in and placed her on the futon Kaede directed him to.

 

“What happened, Inuyasha?” asked Kagome as she went to get her first aid kit to help the older miko with the girl.

 

“Don't know, just found her crawling around.” Inuyasha was still hurt that she had been so afraid of him. In actuality she had not been scared of him at all. What she had been terrified of was getting caught and having to go back to her master. She would have been more frightened of him had he been human.

 

As Kagome was cleaning the wound before Kaede stitched it, the girl woke and looked at Kagome with absolute terror in her eyes. She sat up quickly and scooted back, falling off the futon in her rush to get away from the dark eyed girl before her. She tried to scream but all that happened was her mouth opened wide and no sound came out.

 

Kagome was completely confused. She tried to calm the girl. “You're safe, Inuyasha brought you here so we could help you, its okay,” she soothed, holding her hands out and smiling.

 

The girl continued to scramble away until her back hit the wall of the hut and she had no where else to go. Large tears began to fall from her eyes. She was certain that she had been found out and now her master was going to come through the door and kill her.

 

Kaede and Sango began to come towards her, talking quietly to get her to calm down. This had the exact opposite effect and the fear that Inuyasha felt coming from her made him want to vomit, it was so strong.

 

“Stop it! You guys are scaring her to death!” he cried out, his own heart racing because of the terror he could feel from her affecting his demon senses. They backed off, staring as she gasped for breath, her chest rising and falling quickly, thankful that the demon lord she supposed Inuyasha to be had stopped them from advancing. She kept glancing at the door, looking for a way to get out.

 

“Please, child,” Kaede spoke soothingly. “Let me tend to your wound then ye can leave if you wish.” She motioned for the others to leave the hut so the girl wouldn't feel trapped.

 

The girl watched as the others left and looked again to the old woman who was talking quietly to her. “See, they are gone, I will not let any harm come to ye. Now let Kaede see your leg”

 

The girl sat still as Kaede came closer and only flinched slightly when she began to stitch the wound closed. She kept an eye on the old woman and an eye of the door. Kaede could see her muscles were tensed to jump and run at any moment.

 

Kaede continued to talk kindly to her as she finished stitching and then bandaged the wound. “Ye are free to leave,” she stated, standing to open the way to the door. “But I hope ye will stay, no one here will harm ye.”

 

The girl looked to the open door and stood, not as fearful as before, but not ready to trust anyone yet. Her leg hurt badly but she figured she could walk on it some. She bowed to the woman who had been so kind to her then hobbled towards the door, mostly by hopping on one foot, and out the hut. She saw the other humans just outside looking at her with curiosity, the white haired demon lord just looking with his arms crossed in front of his chest. She gave him a quick bow of respect as she knew was proper. Even though they didn't seem to want to do her harm, she was still nervous and slid sideways with her back against the hut wall, around to the rear and then off into the woods. She kept checking behind her to make sure no one was following.

 

“What do you think all that was about?” asked Kagome, curious as to why she bowed to Inuyasha. “She seemed so frightened; we should try to help her.”

 

“Feh,” Inuyasha expressed his annoyance.

 

In reality he could not believe that she was more frightened of his human friends than she had seemed to be of him. She bowed to me as if I was some kind of lord or something, Inuyasha thought with surprise. Something bad has happened to that girl.

 

Inuyasha felt pity, and even though he acted the tough guy with his friends, he was going to try to help her. The way she had looked, so frightened, it had reminded him of himself when he was on his own and had wished that someone would have helped him.