InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Resistance ❯ Explanations ( Chapter 4 )

A/n: Hey guys, here's another chapter, enjoy!

 

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Explanations

 

The next morning I awoke in the early hours, quietly rising from my place among the massive roots of an oak tree. Rin, the toad, and the dragon all still slept peacefully. Sesshomaru was sitting across the clearing leaning back against the tree behind him with a half-lidded gaze.

 

I slung my sword across my back and tripped smoothly from the clearing. My eyes roamed the ground carefully as I swiftly darted in and out of the trees. Finally I caught sight of a lone strawberry plant.

 

Kneeling down beside it I carefully touched the delicate roots of the plant with my mind. As I felt them I encouraged them to spread and separate as easily as I would lift a finger. Soon, dozens more plants had sprouted, bearing the red fruit within seconds.

 

I began to pick the ripest as I extended my other hand above me, the tree lowered a branch and I grasped one of its large leaves, placing the gathered fruit on it. Rin was just waking up as I reentered the clearing, nobody else had moved, only the eyes of the demon lord shifted as I returned.

 

Rubbing her eyes Rin smiled as she looked up at me, “Nami!' She squealed racing into me, knocking the strawberries right out of my hands.

 

“Oh!” I huffed as her head collided with my stomach. I shoved my arm out in front of me, palm up, and jerked it upwards as I stumbled backwards.

 

“I'm so sorry Nami.” Rin mumbled as she pulled back, “I just ruined your breakfast…”

 

“Our breakfast,” I replied with a smile, “is just fine.” I grasped her shoulders gently and turned her around.

 

“What? Oh!” She asked then stopped as she saw the overly large clover that stood about waist height before her. The leaves were curled inward, gently holding the berries, unharmed. “Wow!” She shrieked with delight, suddenly she turned back to me with large eyes, “Nami…will I be able to do that? Hey! How come you can do that? Last time you had to sing when you did stuff like that!”

 

I laughed and tucked a strand of hair behind my ear, I would need new chopsticks soon, my hair was already bothering me, “That's because last time I was only sixteen, with lots of training sirens can control the forces they are connected to without ever alerting the enemy.”

 

“Oh…” Her brow furrowed in thought for a moment, “Will I be able to control plants too? We are sisters after all; do we control the same thing? Is that how come you can train me?”

 

I sat down and allowed the clover to gently lower to the ground, “Not necessarily, you see the reason I control plants is because I inherited it from my mother, it's highly doubtful that you will. Our father however, he was an air siren, if anything, you will inherit that. You look like an air siren anyhow.” I smiled to myself, pleased that she seemed eager to learn.

 

She sat down next to me and picked up a strawberry, “You can tell by looks?”

 

I laughed, “Have you gone color blind Rin? Why do you think I have green hair?” I plucked a strawberry from the pile and contemplated how to best explain everything; there was so much she needed to know. Deciding to start from the beginning I rolled the fruit between my fingers. “As far as appearances go, think of things this way; sirens that manipulate water have blue eyes and hair just like the water. Green hair and green eyes means a nature siren, plants are green, so are we. As for air sirens…” I stared at the fruit, deep in thought, “Air is clear…you can't decipher it from its surroundings…air sirens…they have black hair and brown eyes…indiscernible from humans. Does that make sense?” I asked

 

“So because air blends in with everything, air sirens blend in with humans?” She asked. I smiled at her and nodded, looking up to scan the quiet camp quickly out of habit. Sesshomaru was watching us, probably listening as well, Jaken was stirring now, and the dragon demon…it was gone.

 

“I have a feeling you'll do just fine in training.” I told Rin slightly distracted as I searched for the dragon. Suddenly something bumped me from behind, “Oh!” I exclaimed, and Rin giggled. I turned around to be staring face to face with one of the dragon's two heads.

 

“Ah-Un!” Rin scolded playfully, “That's Ah-Un,” She explained, “they are really sweet and love fruit, but mostly get to eat grass.”

 

“Uh…hello.” I giggled as the demon dipped its head and took the forgotten strawberry from my fingers, I laughed and reached behind me for more fruit, “I guess I know how to get on your good side!” I gave them each a handful more and they lie back down, content.

 

Jaken was just waking up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes he stared at the fruit before us in awe, I couldn't help but wonder what exactly they had been eating.

 

“Here master Jaken!” Rin handed him a large handful of strawberries.

 

“Why thank you Rin!” He squeaked.

 

“My sister, Nanami, picked them for us.” Rin smiled eating one of her own.

 

“Is that so?” His gratitude disappeared almost instantly.

 

“Yes,” I smirked, “And yours are poisoned.”

 

He glared at me and I couldn't help but smile back, “Are not! You wouldn't be able to tell which out of the group were poisoned!”

 

I lifted and eyebrow in challenge then grinned, “I'm a plant siren, I can smell everything when it comes to nature.” I tapped my nose and winked at him. The victorious smirk on his face slid into a scowl and he stared at the strawberry for a moment before hesitantly taking a bite.

 

I smiled at him coyly and made a damp fern creep silently up from the ground behind him. “See! No poison!” He scoffed at me, eating the rest of the strawberry. At my command the fern contracted on itself dripping goop and foam onto Jaken's head.

 

He reached back and touched his head in horror, pulling back and staring at the sticky substance on his fingers in wide-eyed shock. Screeching he panicked and I doubled over with laughter, Rin however did not catch onto the joke.

 

“Oh no! Master Jaken!” She cried, silencing my laughter at once.

 

“Rin.” Sesshomaru spoke before I could, “He is fine.”

 

She looked up at him, “Oh…but Nami said-”

 

“No Rin!” I said quickly, “He isn't hurt, any poison on a fruit this small would have been visible from the outside! I was only joking.”

 

“Oh!” She smiled, “Silly Master Jaken.” Jaken grumbled to no one in particular and stormed off to clean up.

 

I grinned as I watched him go and finally bit into a berry. I heard Rin gasp and looked up to meet her astonished gaze.

 

“You have fangs!” She stared at my mouth.

 

“Sirens originally ate underwater plants, most of them are chewy and gummy, we need fangs to tear through them, I am a demon anyway, most demons have fangs.” I flashed my teeth again.

 

She studied me for a moment, and then grasped my hand. “But you don't have claws, at least not like my lord does.”

 

I glanced down at my long rounded fingernails, “Sirens are meant to blend in, so we can catch people without suspicion, we don`t attack with our fingernails anyhow. When we turn into our demon form though…well then lots of things change.”

 

“How?” She asked, sitting up on her knees waiting for my answer.

 

“Well,” I thought for a moment, “It normally happens when we are really angry, or in a difficult position. Our hair and our eyes turn pure white, our ears become long and tapered almost like a fin, our claws become very long and sharp, and we get scales along our arms, neck and legs. A fin grows from our back and we sprout sharp fins from our forearms…it sounds gross I know, but it's shockingly beautiful, the only problem is that in our demon form gills are permanent so being on land is dangerous in that form.”

 

“Can you breathe underwater?” Rin suddenly asked changing the topic, “And how come you don't have some demon markings or fangs that are big like Lord Sesshomaru?”

 

“Yes, in this form, when I'm underwater I get gills, but they disappear when I surface. As for demon markings, like I said we need to blend in and your Lord Sesshomaru…” I lifted my eyes to study him for a moment, “He is a…what…a dog demon? His fangs should be larger.” I guessed, looking at the fur on his shoulder and the claws and fangs he had.

 

“Exactly!” Rin exclaimed, looking over her shoulder and smiling at Sesshomaru, “Um Nami, will I get fangs?”

 

“I have no idea.” I smiled softly at her handing the last strawberry and letting the clover return to its normal size. Jaken returned just then and fought a smile when he saw that the strawberries had been saved for him.

 

“Let's go.” Sesshomaru spoke, as Jaken took the fruit and clambered up onto Ah-Un. Sesshomaru stood and walked away from us. Rin took Ah-Un's reigns and began to walk after him, I hurried to catch up. After a few moments of silent walking I looked down at Rin beside me.

 

“Rin…can you tell me…how did you end up here, traveling with demons?” I asked tentatively, worried about striking a painful memory.

 

She looked up at me with bright eyes, “Well, about…four years ago, yea it was just after you had left, our village was attacked by a bunch of bandits, our brothers couldn't escape, and Mom, well I couldn't find her, but one of the ladies in the village told me to run, so I did, I thought mom would be right behind me. But, when I got into the village a few days later, everyone was dead…I ran again and found another village that took me in, I lived there for a while, but I had to steal to get food and the village men sometimes beat me for it.”

 

I gasped and hissed under her breath all in the same second, “If I had known…if I hadn't left…” I whispered. I felt Rin take my hand with her small one, and I smiled at her, encouraging her to continue.

 

“After a year or so, I was in the forest, when I came upon Lord Sesshomaru, he had been badly injured and he was nice to me, so I kept coming back, trying to offer food, but he doesn't eat human food, anyway he was never cruel to me like the men in the village were.” Rin grinned in the direction of Sesshomaru. I could barely hold in a scoff, I couldn't imagine that stoic man being kind.

 

“Oh right,” Rin suddenly remembered her story, “One day a wolf tribe came into the village and ate everybody up, I ran into the forest toward Lord Sesshomaru, but I didn't make it in time, they killed me too.” She was smiling as if what she had just said was as unimportant as a remark on the weather. I, however, had stopped, staring at her in utter confusion.

 

“Are you telling me you're a ghost or something?” I asked hoarsely.

 

“No you stupid wench, Lord Sesshomaru is a powerful demon lord, his sword can revive the lives of the dead if he so pleases.” Jaken snorted from Ah-Un's back.

 

My mind didn't want to wrap around the concept, a sword the revived instead of killed…I decided to not attempt to understand, instead refocusing on Rin, “So he brought you back to life…and you have stayed with him ever since?” I asked.

 

“Yup!” She grinned, skipping with Ah-Un's reigns. I smiled, easily keeping pace with her short stride.

 

“Hey Nami?” She asked after an hour or so.

 

“Yes?” I asked inhaling deeply, we were walking through a meadow, the petals on the flowers were giving off the most intoxicating scent, especially to my nose, as acclimated as it was to nature.

 

“How are you going to train me when I don't even get powers for another month?” She was frowning, “You did say when I turned ten.”

 

“Yes, that's why I came a month early, before you train and have the ability I thought it would be best to teach you to sing first, and the basics of how to use your power when you get it.” I plucked a daisy from the ground and lifted it to my hair, twisting it so its white petals sat above my ear nestled in sharp contrast to my hair.

 

“You're gonna teach me how to sing! Oh Yay!” She jumped up and down in place for a moment, “Jaken says I'm always humming; now I can sing too!”

 

“That's a good start I suppose, I'll teach you songs and how the words can sometimes affect what's happening, how the note can affect the speed of what you're trying to do, how the tone affects the severity.” I smiled, glancing around for a flower for her hair.

 

That's when I noticed it, the vine in a nearby tree snaking along the ground towards us…on its own. I didn't hear Rin's next question, my ears were focused on our surroundings, all I could hear were bee's and bugs, but I knew better.

 

I picked Rin up placed her on Ah-Un much to her surprise. Sesshomaru had turned to look at me, I drew my sword and closed my eyes, killing the vine as it crept, I reopened my eyes, sensing nothing. Sesshomaru's eyes flickered to where the vine shriveled and turned brown.

 

I focused, sensing any disturbances among the surrounding plant life as I searched for whoever it was that was attempting to attack. Finally I felt wind brush past the branches of two trees behind me, spinning around I ducked as the strong air blast shot over my head, staring into the darkness between the trees.

 

“Rin…” I spoke quietly, “Go into the sky…but stay where I can see you.” I murmured straining my senses for the attackers. Ah-Un lifted of the ground quickly leaving Sesshomaru, Jaken, and I to fight.

 

“There is nobody there! If Lord Sesshomaru cannot smell them then they are not there.” Jaken finally told me, his voice confident and irritating.

 

“Nobody would smell them.” I replied, keeping my patience under tight control, “They have grown flowers all around, flowers that release a masking fragrance, all Sesshomaru can smell is flowers, am I right?” I could smell them, but seeing as how I couldn't smell demons normally, I had attributed the scent to the meadow we were in.

 

Sesshomaru remained silent, staring into the shadows, “I'll take that as a yes.” I muttered, “So you're prepared, they have at least one plant siren and one wind siren in their party; I have no idea how many total.”

 

“Why did you not tell us this before wench?!” Jaken yelled, slightly panicked.

 

“Keep your voice low, I'm trying to hear.” I hissed, “I had a suspicion that someone was searching for me, but I had no idea I had been found!”

 

“Well, we'll just kill them.” Jaken huffed, stabbing his staff into the ground.

 

“I would suggest you attacking the plant siren; the wind siren will render that staff useless.” I sighed, attempting to focus.

 

“Nobody can defeat the staff of two heads!” Jaken retorted, voice loud again.

 

“Be quiet!” I reprimanded, but it was far too late, a huge wind current rippled the flowers before me and I was thrown backwards, landing on my feet, crouched low, fighting the wind as a five sirens emerged into the clearing, one holding a high note.

 

A female water demon stepped in front of the two wind demons and two plant demons accompanying her as the wind ceased. I straightened, still hunched and prepared for attack as she spoke, “Lady Nanami, it's nice to finally meet you, I've so looked forward to the day when I might finally kill you.” She smirked widely at me.

 

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A/n: Kay so what do you think, sorry about cutting it off, but I wanna make the fight good so wait patiently for my next (hopefully quick) update! Review pleez with any thoughts!