InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Ryu No Jigoku (Dragon's Hell ) ❯ Ryu and the Lady of the WInd ( Chapter 3 )

Don't expect huge-o musings like I do usually 'cuz I'm just e-mailing these chapters around for now, I'll muse more in depth when I get home. Catchy chap title, no?

"Ryu and the Lady of the Wind"

"Get up, get up, get up, lunch is ready and if you two don't get down there soon your friends and our new guests will have eaten everything. Get up!" Dromar called through the door, banging on it all the while. "All right, Dromar, Miroku and I will be out in a minute!" Sango called back, they heard the elderly man go down the hall and stairs. She looked back to a disappointed Miroku and kissed him one more time before getting up and changing her clothes while he picked up his staff and watched her patiently, obviously having no qualms with Sango seeming to take her time. She turned and smiled at him while watching his increasingly difficult mental battle to resist walking over and touching her again. She sighed and immediately finished dressing and giving Miroku a break for holding back so well. "I think you've squirmed enough, Miroku, let's go eat and see who the new guests are." He nodded and followed her down to the dining room. They came in to see their friends, Ryu and, "Sesshoumaru!" Sango exclaimed when she saw Inuyasha's brother. "If you had been up earlier this morning you would have found out that Ryu had gone after Sesshoumaru in hopes of getting closer to finding Naraku." Ryu nodded. "Yeah, and I killed some imp that not even Sesshi here liked, kinda pointless to have kept him around at all if you don't even care that he's dead now. Oh, and Rith, that last one didn't even feign interest of sticking around, so the search continues for the right female." Rin looked at Sesshoumaru with curiosity. "Why's he looking for a girl, Sesshoumaru-sama?" He seemed to hesitate in telling her why exactly Ryu was looking for one because he was in search of a mate. "Nothing to worry about, Rin, I'm sure he'll be able to find one for what he needs though." Rith sighed. "I'm sorry, my lord, I hoped she would have been more dedicated than that." Ryu groaned and rolled his eyes while tossing a bag of coins to Dromar. "For the thousandth time, Rith, I'm not your Gods be damned lord. When Naraku's dead I'll take my leave of you and will live as far away from the source of my pain as possible." Before letting Rith take an opportunity to reply, Ryu stood and left, taking to the air as soon as he was outside. "Oh, I apologize for that young ones. Ryu still refuses to believe that our village needs him, that's why we've been sending demon women to him. Perhaps if he has someone to be with he'll accept that fact and responsibility. Except, so far none of the potential mates actually cared about staying with him, only wished to bear a strong dravern child. It's been putting him deeper into the belief that killing Naraku is the only thing left for him to do with his life." Rith sighed and hung her head. "Don't concern yourselves about it though, I do hope you're right that he will find a mate soon Sesshoumaru."

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Naraku gestured to the image in Kanna's mirror and returned his gaze to Kagura, who was observing the dark skinned hanyou sailing on the winds trying to remain indifferent. "Kagura, I don't care what you do, but you must earn his trust and keep a close watch on him and report to me anything that could be used against him when we fight. Anything that could make the hanyou Ryu weaker so his end can come swiftly." She glanced over at him, apprehension apparent on her features. "But Naraku, we've seen what he's done to the mortals and demons that had your scent, how will I be able to get close to him without getting killed? There would be no point in sending me only to die, you would gain nothing from it." Kanna sat watching the two patiently, seeming oblivious to what she knew was passing through Kagura's mind. 'You would only lose your most amusing plaything.' Naraku chuckled darkly. "You're resourceful enough, you'll think of something Kagura, go before you miss your chance." With that he walked out of the room leaving Kagura and Kanna alone. When he was out of earshot Kanna made the first comment. "I also put my faith in you, Kagura, you will be able to get the demon Ryu to trust you. Perhaps when you bring his defeat, Naraku will let you live as you wish." Kagura looked at the young demoness she had come to love as the sister she was. "Kanna, you and I both know that the death of one of us is the only way to make that stop. The only reason I haven't fled is because I don't want him to turn those drives on you, and you refuse to leave our master." Kanna nodded slightly and gave one of her rare small smiles looking up from her mirror. As the lady of the wind stepped out the doorway, she heard Kanna again. "Kagura?" She turned. "Yes, Kanna?" "Please be careful." "I will, don't worry about me." Kagura turned back and left for the village her target lived near.

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Ryu sat at the lip of the cave breathing slowly and trying to wrestle the wyvern back under control so he wouldn't go back to the inn and attack Rith. He finally calmed down and Naraku's scent suddenly assaulted his nose and he was immediately headed in that direction. When he took a second to smell who it was coming from, he smelled a female wind demon, he was certain that she was no longer pure either. He lighted on the ground a quarter of a mile away from the scent and snuck over to the source. When he peered between the branches that were barely able to cover him. Fortunately, there was steam coming from the spring she was currently submerged in, but he could still see her form under the water clearly. She then stood up and wrung out her soft ebony hair and climbed out of the soothing water. Ryu had become mesmerized by the curves of her body and pain rent his heart seeing the scars covering the delicate frame that he wanted to hold so dearly. In his mind he shot daggered glares at the drake and wyvern mentalities realizing that she wasn't pure and there was no mark on her neck along with all the painful reminders of her past. After dressing, the demoness sat and seemed deep in thought, she suddenly dropped her head in her hands and began to cry softly which Ryu was barely able to hear. He stepped from the bushes slowly and she immediately caught the sound of the snapping twigs and looked directly at the dravern and only one thought came into their minds. 'I'm fucked.' Ryu cleared his throat. "E-e-excuse me, miss, may I ask what troubles you? My name is Ryu, by the way." Kagura wiped her eyes and held out her hand which he took and brushed his lips against the tender flesh. "Kagura." She replied. Ryu suddenly came back to reality when a fresh wave of Naraku's scent hit him. "Forgive me, but you smell of a demon I seek, can you tell me where he is and why you smell so strongly of him?" Her eyes widened slightly and she turned away, biting her lip. "I could sense someone recently while I was bathing, was that you?" She looked back to him to see Ryu's slight nod. "Then you saw my scars and can smell I am not pure. That is why I smell like Naraku, he kidnapped me and my baby sister when we were young and kept me for his own object of pleasure, that pleasure included making those scars. My little sister Kanna was raised from so young that she's completely loyal to him and sees him as our father. I only recently escaped and had no choice but to leave Kanna behind with that sick monster." What little of his heart that had not suffered from seeing the agony written across this Kagura's body shattered at hearing what was etched into her heart. She had received dramatically deeper scars in her mind and heart than he had. "I'm sorry, but you know where he is, if you take me to Naraku I will destroy him and we will save your sister. Just take me to where you fled from." Kagura thought only a moment, looking frantic. "N-no, I can't, it was so horrible. Oh Kanna, I'm sorry but I can't go back." She started crying again and Ryu did the only thing he could think to do, he pulled her into his arms and let her sob into his chest. Kagura didn't need to try hard to bring forth these tears, she really was afraid that Naraku would start to use Kanna as he had her. The bond she had with Kanna made it easier for her to lie about their relation to this hanyou, but for some reason she wanted desperately to tell Ryu she was lying, that Naraku was using her to find a weakness he could exploit. 'Why the hell is this happening to me, all there is for me is to serve Naraku and die fighting for him. Love is for those with a future, able to live on and have a family. My only family is Naraku and Kanna, no more, no less. No male to share my life with, there is nothing for me. Why should I even waste my time with this half demon, it would be so easy to tell him Naraku's plan and where he is, so easy to infuriate him with learning of my lies, and die swiftly and mercifully.' Ryu held her and began to rock back and forth, then, without thinking he pressed his lips softly against her hairline. Kagura gasped and was jolted out of her thoughts, he immediately regained himself and pulled away. He noticed his two different minds snickering and began roaring at them for trying to take advantage of the demoness' time of despair as though she were a whore or some object that couldn't feel or think for itself. ~Master, you want her, you know that as do we and being a part of you we share that feeling. We know that Kagura's purity was stolen from her, but what you fail to realize about us is that dragon, drake, wyvern, dravern we don't care whether our mate has been with another, so long as she remains faithful to us when we make her ours.~ The wisdom of the drake made itself clear and Ryu then noticed that if they merely wanted her body that would have happened already since he was still recovering from the wyvern's raging to return to the village and kill Rith for striking at his pride and telling him that he was obligated to watch them for the remainder of his days, preferably with a mate. <When can we have her though, we need a mate and she's so much like us. she reminds me of...> The wyvern paused a second, wondering what kind of shit it would catch for its comparison. <She reminds me of mom, we all know that she's vulnerable right now and none of us are going to take advantage of that. Can't you feel it, all the loneliness in her heart, we need her trust before we claim her as our own. That bastard Naraku can't get away with making her impure and leaving her to be used by any youkai that came along like he did.> Ryu and the drake were both shocked at the wyvern's concern and desire to heal the pain Kagura had coursing within and without her body. The wind demoness in question was still in shock with Ryu kissing her, it may have only been on her forehead but it felt like it had meant so much more than to merely comfort her. Whatever it was she was feeling it was pleasing and she wanted to have the feeling be a permanent part of her. She put her arms around his torso and was brought deeper into the half demon's embrace, there was a low purr coming from Ryu and Kagura got an odd sense of pleasure from being the source of the purr. She smiled slightly and looked at him with some interest in what else she could do to make him purr more often. He wanted her to become his and she was entertaining the idea gladly. Ryu felt the intense desire to never let her get away from him and especially to do all that was in his power to make sure she never suffered again, the fire burned strongest when he thought of Naraku having his way with her. "I live not far from here, Kagura, would you like to stay with me tonight, since you have fled from Naraku I would assume you have no place to sleep." She smiled and suddenly yawned, "I would like that very much, Ryu, I didn't realize how tired I was." He scooped Kagura up and flew back for his cave, upon arriving he set her on the only bed in the cave and sat next to her. He looked out to the sunset and felt Kagura slump onto his arm, her chest rising and falling steadily telling him she had fallen asleep. "Sleep well, wind sorceress. May Naraku never plague you again so long as I am around to fight him." He stroked her hair as though he were petting a small animal, then drifted into a deep and, for the first time in years, untroubled sleep, the dreams now centering on Kagura and being able to destroy her tormentor.

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The original design in this was to have a demon I created to be with Ryu, then I read a fic with someone's character and Kagura and thought 'now why in the Nine fucking Hells didn't I think of that?' and it would be oh so good to add to my endless torments to people, what better way for Naraku to get to Ryu than figure out that his spy had fallen in love with the dravern and use her to kill him. I know, I'm so vile that ain't even close to what I could do. Hmmm, uh oh looks like the idea's catching to appeal look now you made me wanna do something so very sick and wrong.