InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Someone To Protect ❯ Saved? ( Chapter 3 )

A/N: Hey there! Sorry for the wait, I've been extremely busy the past week due to university starting again and work so I couldn't update in the weekend like I meant to. However you guys are lucky cause if things where normal (which they never are for me) I wouldn't have been able to update today either. But seeing as today is a practical training day and I have yet to find a place to fulfill said training I got the day off! And trust me, I'm enjoying it lol I've gone beyond worrying, I got to the point where I don't really care no more :-S lol Anyway on with the story ;)

 

A/N2: Words that are underlined are translated or explained in the glossary. Enjoy :)

 

Glossary:

Hanyou: Half demon or half breed.

Kappa-youkai: Kappa-demon (referring to Jaken).

Youkai: Demon.

Miko: Priestess.

Taiyoukai: Greater demon.

Inuyoukai: Dog-demon.

Hakama's: Kimono pants.

 

 

Previously:

Kiara's eyes fluttered open to the sight of two fuzzy, blurred objects hovering above her. She blinked furiously to try and clear her vision enough to see what was going on.

 

`What's going on? My whole body feels numb'. She tried moving her hand to rub her eyes but she couldn't. She couldn't move a muscle.

 

Slowly the blurry figures before her became more clear. `Surgeons? Why would there be surgeons hovering over me? What happened? What's going on?'

 

She suddenly felt a tiny sting in her arm and just as suddenly, everything went black once more.

 

 

 

Chapter 3 - Saved?

 

Kiara groaned as she woke up. She felt terrible. “Uhhh what happened?” she wondered out loud.

 

“You've become a hanyou like myself little one” came the calm, but unexpected reply. Kiara's head snapped up at the sound of the now familiar voice. “H-how?” she asked shocked.

 

Naraku smirked at the confused human turned hanyou. “Because I made you one”. He stepped closer to her, reaching out to touch her cheek. Kiara flinched at the touch. He smirked “still not giving in I see”. Kiara growled fighting against the shackles that bound her.

 

Naraku looked on amused as she managed to break them and charge him. She wasn't strong enough to fight him though. Her body was still weakened. Naraku smirked at her. “So you want out hmmm?” he asked grabbing her wrists so he could force her back against the wall.

 

“LET! ME! GO!” she growled angrily. Naraku's lips pulled up in a vicious smirk. “Fine, I'll have Kagura drop you off somewhere. I'm sure you can manage on your own now that you're a hanyou”.

 

Kiara looked at him shocked. `Just like that?' she wondered before once again, everything went black.

 

Naraku smiled inwardly as he carried her unconscious body to the main room. `She'll come running back when people and even demons start to attack and shun her. Demons will despise her for being a hanyou and humans will fear her for her demonic half. She'll have nowhere else to go' he mused.

 

“Kagura!” he called as he reached the main room, where the wind-sorceress stood by the window. She turned around at the sound of his voice. “Yes master Naraku?”

 

“Take her and dump her somewhere. I wish to teach her a lesson!” he said as he handed the unconscious hanyou to Kagura.

 

Kagura looked at the girl questioningly but didn't dare question her master. She quickly set out to do as he ordered.

 

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Kiara slowly opened her eyes. `Where am I?' she wondered looking around. She appeared to be somewhere in a valley. Far off to her right she could see the beginnings of a beautiful forest. Behind her where huge white peaked mountains standing tall against a beautiful blue sky. Off to her left she could hear a stream of water flowing.

 

And then suddenly she remembered! `Naraku! He made me a hanyou! Then he ditched me somewhere because I attacked him!'

 

Slowly she got up, but immediately fell down again. Her legs where to weakened to carry the weight of her body. “Damn it!” she hissed as she tried again and failed. After a few more attempts she gave up and simply dragged her tired and weakened body towards the water she heard flowing.

 

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Inuyasha was crouched on all fours, his nose on the ground as he tried to sniff out either Naraku or Kiara.

 

“Can you find her Inuyasha?” a very worried Kagome asked the hanyou. “No there's no trace of either of them!” Inuyasha growled annoyed.

 

Sango could see the tears forming in Kagome's eyes and moved quickly to comfort her. “Shhh Kagome, we'll find her. I know we will”. She spoke softly as her arms enveloped Kagome in a comforting hug. Kagome looked at the girl she had come to see as an older sister. She sniffled hugging Sango back. “Who knows what he'll do to her” she whimpered.

 

“Shhh don't think about that. We'll find her before anything happens to her” Sango told her softly, trying to calm her friend down. Truth was however, that they were all worried about the girls safety.

 

Inuyasha got up and let Kagome and Shippou on his back before continuing on. Kirara followed carrying Sango and Miroku on her back.

 

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Rin was running around happily looking for flowers to pick for her flower-crown. Lord Sesshoumaru had left her with Jaken a little while back. After all the `torture' little Rin had bestowed upon the kappa-youkai said youkai had fallen asleep allowing Rin to wander off.

 

After running for awhile she came to a river and decided to have a drink. When she reached the riverbank she slowly got in and cupped her hands to gather some water. While brining the third `cup' to her lips she heard something. The young girl looked around trying to find the source of the sound but saw nothing, so she continued drinking.

 

Suddenly out of nowhere a bear youkai appeared before her growling furiously. Rin screamed and cried out “LORD SESSHOUMARU!!! MASTER JAKEN!!!” but neither of them could reach her in time as the youkai lashed out at the little girl. The next scream that followed however was not the girls, but the youkai's howl of pain.

 

Rin looked up confused as the bear youkai howled in pain. `What happened?' she wondered looking at the soft green shield that had appeared around her.

 

Suddenly another scream was heard, bringing Rin from her musings. The little girl looked up just in time to see a young lady collide with the shield surrounding her.

 

“AGRRR!!!” Kiara screamed in pain as the youkai slashed her stomach open. She had seen the bear try to attack the little girl so she quickly set up a barrier around her to protect her. She was glad she could still use her miko-powers, even though she was now a hanyou.

 

Unfortunately for her, the bear had turned his attention to her now. And to make matters worse, she couldn't create a second barrier to protect herself. Nor did she have enough energy to purify him. Kiara struggled to get up when the youkai slashed her shoulder, forcing her back down again. `This is it' she thought. `I try to save a girl only to get killed in the process!'.

 

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“LORD SESSHOUMARUUUUUU!!!”

 

Sesshoumaru stopped dead in his tracks at the sound of his name being called in fear by his ward. He immediately sniffed her out and used his demonic speed to get to her. `She's not alone. There's two youkai and a miko with her' he thought.

 

He arrived at the scene in no-time and was shocked at the sight that met his eyes. Though he never showed his shock. His ward was watching from the safety of a soft green glowing barrier. The miko he had sensed was struggling to remain conscious from the slashes and bites she was receiving from a very enraged bear youkai. There was no sign of the other youkai he sensed, which confused him somewhat.

 

The barrier around his ward flickered with every slash dealt to the miko's back, he noticed. The Taiyoukai instantly understood the miko was protecting his ward, at the cost of her own life. Sesshoumaru understood that while holding up a barrier for his ward, the miko could not create one for herself, thus forcing her to endure the bear's attacks. For this, his honor demanded that he destroyed the bear youkai. And so with a flick of his wrist his poisonous lightning whip disintegrated the bear youkai.

 

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Kiara looked up to see a beautiful silver haired man disintegrate the youkai that had attacked her in no-time. `He didn't even break a sweat!' she thought. Her initial panic subsided when she heard the little girl call out to him from behind the barrier. The child was obviously happy to see this demon. `That must mean she knows him. Then he can't be all that bad', she thought as she withdrew the barrier and watched the little girl run off and attack the demons left leg. The demon looked at the little girl and patted her head.

 

“Lord Sesshoumaru! Rin was so scared when the demon attacked but then this lady came and saved me!” she squealed excitedly as she pointed to the miko struggling to remain conscious or even alive.

 

Sesshoumaru looked at the miko that had saved his wards life. She had strawberry blonde hair with blonde highlights making it appear golden in the right light. It was currently matted with blood though. `I seems as if the Inuyoukai I smelt is coming from within her, but how can she have two different scents? If she's half miko and half Inuyoukai she should smell like a hanyou, not both beings!”

 

Sesshoumaru was brought out of his musings by a tug on his hakama's. He looked down into Rin's hopeful eyes. “Lord Sesshoumaru?” she questioned. “What is it Rin?” he asked, his tone softer than his normal cold baritone. “The lady is hurt, are you going to help her?”

 

Sesshoumaru couldn't deny his ward anything and so he slowly made his way to the hanyou. He kneeled down beside her and assessed her injuries. They where severe but if treated properly and in time, she would live.

 

He carefully picked her up placing her over his shoulder. He placed his only hand on her bottom to keep her in place. This was far from the best way to carry her in this condition but with only one arm he had no choice.

 

“Rin” he called. The girl immediately ran over to him and latched onto his leg as his demonic cloud appeared at his feet. As soon as Rin was latched onto his leg he took off in the direction of his castle.

 

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“GRRR!!! This is not what I had planned!” Naraku growled as he dismissed Kanna. He had seen the whole ordeal in the voids mirror.

 

“Who knows what that dog will do if he finds out what happened! And I cannot barge into Sesshoumaru's castle to take her back either! I'll have to find another way to get her back, and fast!”

 

He smirked at the thought of finally having her. He had hoped she would be viciously rejected by both humans and demons so she would come running back to him. That way it would be easier to have her submit and bend her to his will. But it would seem that his plan failed. The Taiyoukai had once again been in the way. `No matter, I'll have her soon and break her myself' he thought as his eyes glinted in anticipation.

 

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Sesshoumaru landed in the courtyard and made his way into the castle, followed closely by Rin.

 

“Daichi!” he called out to his healer as he laid the girl down on a futon in the healing chambers. An owl-demon hurried towards his master. “Oh my”, he stated as he looked at the injured female his lord placed on the futon.

 

“Who is she milord?” he asked. “Hn, she saved my ward's life” is all Sesshoumaru said as he turned to leave. Before he left though he said one more thing. “Let me know when she has healed enough to talk”. With that he left the room.

 

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A/N: Hope you liked this third chapter! Please read and review! And if you'd like to be my beta-reader, please let me know! I think I could really use one lol

 

-- Golden Tigress --