InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Remember ❯ Forgotten ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

'Where... Where am I?' The man lifted his upper body, holding it up as he rested against his elbows. His eyes darted around his surroundings. He was in a forest, a clearing in a forest but why was he here?

Lifting a clawed hand to his face to run it through his hair, he aburtly stopped. 'Claws?' He examined the elongated nails in confusion, then to notice the blue jagged stripe on his wrist. Sitting up now, he raised his other hand to find the same stripe across his other wrist. 'Do they mean something?' A strong breeze whipped through his long hair, revealing its silver shine to his eyes. He tucked the lock that managed to get in his face behind his pointed ear. His eyes narrowed,

'Why don't I have any memories?' The man rose from the ground with a frown darkening his features. 'Who am I?' Well, it seems he would have to find someone in the area and hope they know who he was. Deciding that was really the only thing he could think of to do this moment, he strolled throughout the forest until a big, ugly... thing blocked his path and it seemed quite angry at him.

"You! What are you doing alive!?" The ugly being roared, baring off-white fangs that were roughly the same size of his arm. 'What am I doing... alive?' He wanted answers not more questions that made no sense. He couldn't have died if he stood before the thing now, he must be mistaking him for someone else.

"You must be mistaked---"

"How dare you play games with me, Touga!? I would never forget the face of the one who slaughtered my kin!" It swiped its large claws at him which the man found he could dodge with ease.

'Touga? That must be my name... but I've ever seen this being before.' He landed on the ground softly, 'Much less slaughter his kin.'

The being continued with false accusations as it slashed and growled at the man who was at a lost at what to do. The man felt himself get annoyed by the irrational being's actions then in the dark recess of his mind, he heard a whisper of violence.

A dark, haunting voice, raw with power and bloodlust it spoke. (Kill him.) Touga instinctively narrowed his eyes, what was this voice? (He dares to challenge your power, to threaten your life by means of his pathetic attacks.)

(That demon is looking for a fight, Inu no Taishou.) The darkness wrapped around his mind. Claws and fangs elongated as his entire being pulsed with pure demonic energy.

(And for his actions,) The offensive being suddenly stopped its rage of attacks and stared at his opponent in awe. An ominous wind swirled around the clearing, carried with it a promised death whispered in the being’s ear.
(He should die.)

The crack of Touga’s knuckles and the crackle of a demonic whip was the only warning the being received for in a second his head was cut clean off his shoulders and onto the ground. With the threat eliminated, the demonic energy calmed and the voice crawled back into the back of his mind.

Touga stared wide-eyed at the slaughtered being before him, he did this?

‘No, I couldn’t have.’ His hands held his head which was throbbing painfully, ‘I can’t remember.’

But now was not the time to dwell on the death of one who was trying to kill him, he continued on his way to nothingness without gracing the fallen being with a glance.

–

“Rin!” The one woman being called sighed dramatically, being caught of going to far from the village. She turned to see who had been her caretaker for 5 years, Ayumi.

“You should not leave the village, Rin! Demons will surely–“

“Eat me, rape me, torture me–Yeah, I know.” Rin finished for her. The older woman gave her a withering look, but noticed the tinge of sadness in her voice. She knew what was going through her little girl’s mind and she knew nothing would make her stop believing what would never happen.

“I just feel so... trapped here. Can’t I go out for just a few minutes?” Seeing Ayumi’s disapproving look, Rin continued to nag, “I know how to defend myself, you know that! I’ll make sure to arrive before sunset, I promise!” Ayumi sighed,

“Alright. But I’m holding you up to that promise, girl!” Rin grinned, that which did not reach her eyes before running off into the forest, disappearing in the immense greens of bushes and leaves. Ayumi continued to stare despite not being able to see the girl’s form anymore.

She felt a tug at the bottom of heart, a silent voice warning her in the corner of her mind. Something will happen, her dulled human instincts told her that much. The woman’s onyx stare fell to the ground; will it be a good thing or bad? But her instincts refused to give her that much.

She would have to rely on the gods that nothing would harm her beloved Rin, physically or emotionally.

–

‘Why is everyone trying to kill me?’ Touga thought irritably as he grunted in pain from the poisonous bite a snake demon decided to give on his side.

Evidently, he has done a lot of killing.

A lot.

And every relative of every demon he slaughtered in the life he did not remember wanted revenge. They talked about how they thought they lost their chance since, apparently, he really was suppose to be dead. Then why did he walk this plane of the living?

With a warm body and a beating heart?

A clean swipe of his powerful claws and the snake demon soon fell and hissed his last breath. Clutching his side, he damned his luck for encountering a venomous demon. How could he fight when the poison was pumping in his blood, dulling his senses and sapping his strength? He needed rest where he was peaceful, where he was safe.

‘But now this tree would have to do.’ He dropped near the tree without grace, his back resting against the bark. In mere seconds, his eyes slid closed as his body continued to fight the poison.

–

Rin looked back at the horizon, orange tints began to taint the blue sky. Sunset was commencing much to early to the young woman’s liking. She loved to venture into the forest, the dangers meant nothing to her anymore and that matters where the blooming wildflowers she longed to pick like in her younger years. Yes, she was definitely spoiled under Sesshomaru’s care for those two unforgettable years.

‘Sesshomaru...’ Rin’s usual blank eyes sadden with the thought of the man that saved her life, protected her, cared for her, and left her. Dumped in a human village without promising to return, despite her young age at the time she knew, she knew...

“Lord Sesshomaru, when will you be returning?” The little girl asked her savior with her usual grin, an innocent question that was always rewarded with an appropriate answer or action.

But all she received was a look he gave over his shoulder, that look she would never forget. The alien softness in his otherwise icy gold eyes, the flickers of sadness and regret, the slight sagging of his board shoulders and then his retreating back followed by the dragon she cared for and the imp she grew to love.

She knew what it meant and her grin faded with tears prickling her pain-stricken eyes. He was not returning. He was leaving her here, with humans in a human village where other humans might attack.. She lost her family again and the experience chilled her to the bone.

She felt dead for the fourth time in her short life but instead of reviving her,

he was walking away from her shattered mind and broken heart.

Rin’s hand covered her mouth, muffling the choked sobs that erupted from her. The pain of the memory was so vivid, so real as if she was reliving the experience oppose to just recalling it. She still didn’t understand why, why he had left her. Maybe she should have listened to Jaken.

Perhaps she was annoying her lord with her questions, her childish antics, and her smiles.

Maybe he had enough and that’s why he left her behind...

‘But then why did he look so sad, so guilty, so regretful? Why would he do it if he didn’t want to? What forced him to make that decision?’

Rin knew she would have to stop soon, questioning that day was pointless. It only hurt her and ended up in more questions with no answers. With a heaving sigh, she wiped away her frustrated tears with a hiccup and a sniffle.

She had sworn that when she was trained well-enough and old-enough to leave the village, she would hunt her lord down. Hunt him down to the ends of the world and demand an explanation. She would not take his silence, she would not take his cold glares or remarks, she would not back away and leave him. May he hold Tokijin to her throat but she still get the explanation she deserved or die trying.
Sadness turned to anger rather quickly in her mind as she kicked the innocent rocks on the ground to release her pent-up emotions. She hadn’t noticed who deep into the forest she had gone or how the sun was already a quarter way down on the horizon and at this particular moment she didn’t care. That is until a figure leaning on a tree, clad in a white attire, caught in the corner of her eye.

She hid behind a tree, shrugging off the feeling of deja vu, and stared upon the near-angelic being.

‘Sesshomaru?’