InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkness of One's Heart ❯ First Impressions ( Chapter 3 )

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First Impressions

Intaisho P.O.V.

Sakura and I ran as fast as we could to our home in the western lands. I could hear the girls breathing become labored, her heartbeat slowed and became softer. She was dieing right in my arms. We would have to get home soon, or stop to try and find some herbs to help with the poison. I still can't believe how much poison she took in. She should be dead. Good, I can see our castle in the distance we might be able to make it.

Sakura P.O.V.

We're losing her I can feel it. I'm trying to use my physic powers to go into her mind and tell her to hold on but I can't find anything, and I when I even try to enter her mind I feel strong mental blocks. This girl most also have physic abilities. Oh good we're at the castle.

Normal P.O.V.

Intaisho and Sakura came bursting through the castle doors. "SOMEONE GET A HEALER DOWN HERE NOW!!!!!" Intaisho and Sakura yelled at the same time. Soon they're best healer, Yuri, came running down. "Kami-sama. What happened to her?" Yuri asked. "Just heal her right now." Intaisho said. "Bring her to the hospital wing." Yuri said. And with that they were off to the hospital wing. As soon as Intaisho laid Umbri down on the bed he was rudely shooed out. He and Sakura saw nurses run in and out of the hospital wing for many hours. They were bringing in herbs and bandages and then latter coming out with bloodied bandages and rags. After many hours Yuri finally stepped out of the hospital wing, and was surprised to see Intaisho and Sakura still outside the door waiting. "Well how is she?" Intaisho asked. "She's resting, it was hard to stop the bleeding and she also took in a lot of poison. It will at the very least take a week for the poison to get out of her system, and that's if she doesn't move around much." Yuri answered with worry in her voice. "Is she going to live?" Sakura questioned. "I believe so, but I can't promise you. Many things could go wrong, one of her cuts could get infected, or the poison might have a relapse. You can never really tell. But the best thing for her right now is rest, I think she'll wake up in a couple of days." "You said her cuts could get infected, how much of a problem can that be? All of them will be healed in a matter of hours, right?" Intaisho asked. "For some reason her wounds aren't healing well, it might be because of the poison, or it just might be because she's a Skumoni, sometimes their powers go all weird. In some stories I heard their healing powers could be taken away for a while, as can their senses and strength. However no one knows when this will happen because it never happens at the same time again. So basically she could lose any one of her powers at random and then get it back later. But luckily this doesn't happen very often." Yuri explained. Intaisho nodded. "I will come check on her in the morning." With that he turned and left with Sakura at his side.

Umbri P.O.V.

'Me be asleep for a few days? Feh, I may have lost my healing power for a little bit, but that doesn't mean I'll stay asleep. What do they think I am weak? But than again right now I am weak, I can't even move. This damn poison is making it hard for me to think. Wait a second, I'm not wearing my cloths, and this is a nightgown I'm wearing. Where is my armor? And my weapons? Now that I think about it where the hell am I. I remember looking over at Intaisho then blacking out. Shouldn't I be on the forest floor bleeding to death? Wait I bet that Intaisho and Sakura took me here. They want something from me I know it. Everyone wants something from me. They're going to try and act nice, they're going to say they want to help me and become my friends, and then when they get what they want they're going to leave me for dead. Well I won't let that happen, I won't trust them. I'm never going to get hurt again, besides I already have two groups of friends I can trust right? Yeah, I think I can trust them. So that settles it. The second I'm able to leave here I'll leave. Whether I have to just ask to leave and they let me, or sneak out of here. I will not be held prisoner, they can't make me do anything. I am my own master, I listen to myself and no others.' And with those thoughts Umbri fell into a deep sleep filled with nightmares.

Intaisho P.O.V.

I woke up to a loud crash the next morning. 'That sounded like it came from the hospital wing.' "What's all this racket?" I heard my mate Sakura say sleepily, as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "I don't know." I answered. We heard another crash then, this one louder. Suddenly there was a knock at our door "Intaisho-sama?" I heard a servant call. "What is it." I asked somewhat rudely, after all it was very early in the morning, the sun was just starting to rise. "It's the girl in the hospital wing, she seems to have woken up, but she refuses to let anyone enter the room to change her bandages." The servant yelled over another series of crashes. I was out of bed in an instant. "When did she wake up? I thought the Yuri said that she would be asleep for a few days." "It appears Yuri-san was wrong milord. She was awake when a servant came in to change her bandages; the second he walked through the door a burst of energy came at him, and hit him right in the chest. He's still out cold. The girl than accused him of having impure thoughts about "changing her bandages" if you know what I mean master. She then called all of us "hentai's", demanded to know why she was brought here and where her weapons and armor was, then she demanded to leave when we told her we didn't know why she was brought here or where her weapons were, and when we told her no she couldn't leave she then proceeded to call us every insult and swear word imaginable, a the while tossing energy balls at anyone who so much as looked at the room she is staying in." I didn't know whether or not to be angry or start laughing. It appears Sakura thought this was funny though, considering she was on the floor rolling around in laughter with tears streaming down her face. I opened the door and saw the servant still standing outside of it. "Was there something else?" "Yes sir." I noticed she now looked somewhat uneasy. "…." "Well???" I asked seeing as though she wasn't answering. "She's destroying the whole hospital wing, we're pretty sure she's taken out the whole eastern wall of the hospital wing." The servant coughed out quietly. "WHAT!!!!" I yelled, and started running to the hospital wing. I was there in seconds. It looked like a war, hurricane, tornado, and a typhoon had all been in there and fought to see who could do the most damage. And I also saw that the eastern wall had indeed been destroyed. However that was just a quick observation considering the second I walked in there an energy ball was hurled at me. I ducted and looked over at the girl who attacked me. She was standing up, or at least trying to she had gotten a large gash on her knee so standing must have been extremely painful. She also kind of looked like she was going to throw up, and I couldn't really blame her for that, with all the moving around she'd been doing it had gotten the poison flowing again. Soon she collapsed, and as soon as she did I walked up to her. "You know it's rude to destroy part of someone's home, especially if they were kind enough to take care of you when you were hurt." I scolded her. Then bent over to help her back into the bed, but she slapped my hands away. "Don't touch me. And by the way, it's also rude to take someone to your home without asking them and then not let them leave when they want to leave." "Yes, maybe it is, however is also rude to talk back and not show respect to the lord of the western lands." "I give respect to thoughs who deserve it, and no one else. Others might try to suck up to you, flatter you, and always agree with you just because you're a lord. But I'm not going to be doing that, being a lord doesn't mean that your always right, or that you deserve to be respected. You get respect by actions, not titles." Umbri said in a firm voice. 'How dare this guy come in here and expect to be respected by me when he's holding me prisoner.' Intaisho was stunned into silence for a moment. No one has ever had to guts to talk to him like that. Except for his mate. And when the shock wore off he started to get furious, and momentarily forgot his vow to help this girl. "Listen here girl you will show respect to me as a commoner should!" He growled. As he said this, his arm had shot out and grabbed her by the neck lifting her up to his eye level. "I don't have to do anything you say, besides what can you do to me? Hmmm? Kill me? Cause let me tell ya, if you really want me to suffer that won't be the way to do it. I have most likely already gone through any "torture" you can think of. The best way to hurt me is to let me live." Umbri had started saying this angrily but as she finished her voice was no louder than a whisper. Her eyes never left his however. "What do you mean?" Intaisho asked forgetting his anger. "What is life to someone who doesn't want to live? I'll tell you what it is… It's a true torture chamber. There's nothing worse than living when you have nothing to live for." Umbri said in a still whispery voice. Her eyes were distant. She probably didn't even know she told him that. When he looked at her again he noticed that she was unconscious. Intaisho slowly lowered Umbri down on her futon and left the room. He then sent in female servants to go in and change her bandages. That's when Intaisho realized something, he still didn't know the girls name. 'Oh, well. I find out the next time she wakes up.' Intaisho thought to himself.

A Few Days Later

Normal P.O.V.

It was obvious that Umbri was not going to be an easy patient from the very beginning, but no one thought it was going to be this difficult, however Intaisho did manage to get her to tell him her name. Although Umbri used a lot of power up when she woke up for the first time and exhausted herself she still would attack any servant that she thought in her opinion was "untrustworthy", but then again everyone was considered untrustworthy to her. So in order to save her energy Umbri just attacked all the servants that were mean to her and all male servants. Actually she attacked any male in general. In fact if a male were just walking by Umbri's door she would attack him by throwing things at him or just using her good old energy ball. Eventually it got so bad that all the males except Intaisho himself refused to even go in or around the hospital wing. (But that didn't mean she didn't attack Intaisho when he tried to enter her room) Intaisho wanted to know why Umbri had such a thing against males, but instead of going himself to ask her for obvious reasons, he asked his mate to do it for him. And so that was why Sakura was on her way to the hospital wing.

Sakura P.O.V.

I really didn't want to go into the room, but at the same time I did. I have heard from servants that she doesn't like anyone in her room and that if you got on her bad side to not expect to be going anywhere near the hospital wing until she leaves. Intaisho also said he didn't want me going there because I could get hurt. However I wanted to go in there to see if I could get her to tell me about herself, maybe become friends with her. But somehow I doubt that will happen. Or at least not for a very long time. As I came to the door I knocked so as not to surprise her. "Who is it?" A voiced questioned from the other side of the door. "It's Sakura, Intaisho's mate." I answered. "What do you want?" Asked the somewhat irritated voice said from the other side of the door. "Can I at least come in?" "If you must." Was the reply. So with that I walked into the room, and saw my first real look at the girl called Umbri. She looked a lot better but you could tell that if she started to move around all her wounds would reopen and the poison would start to affect her again. 'Hmmm, her healing powers must not have returned yet.' "Well what do you want?" Asked an obviously irritated voice. I blushed realizing I'd had been staring at her for a while. "What makes you think that I want something?" "Don't play games with me. I know you want something from me, that's what anyone does when they try and come in here. I know that they're trying to get information out of me so they can tell they're precious Intaisho-sama. I know that you're here for the same reasons, so tell me now what you want so that I can be left in peace until I get out of this wretched bed and castle." Was her cold and hate filled reply. "Do you not like the bed and castle?" "No, it's not that I do not like this bed or castle, it's that I hate all beds and castles. I cannot stand sleeping on any kind of bed or being inside of any kind of home. In fact I can't stand being inside." "Why?" "It's none of your business, be happy I told you all that. Now ask whatever you came here to ask in the first place then leave me alone!" "Fine, Intaisho wanted to know why you have a thing against guys." "Why does he care?" "Wouldn't you be curious if all your male servants refused to go anywhere near one wing of you castle?" "No because I would not have any male servants in my castle." Was her smug reply. "But anyways, if you really want to know why I refuse to have any of the males here by me you must promise to tell Intaisho in my exact words." I nodded my head and she began her explanation.

Intaisho P.O.V.

After about thirty minutes Sakura finally came back. "Well did she tell you???" I asked. My curiosity had been killing me. "Yes." "…" "Well what did she say?" "Well her exact words were and I quote… (Sorry all guys out there please forgive me) "All men are rude, sex crazed, smelly, and dumb. They also act like pigs, lose their temper easily, can't get a clue even if it hit them on the head and started yelling in they're ear, and every single one of them thinks that they are the best thing that has ever happened to this world. They think of themselves as the stronger sex but they don't seem to realize that is was the women that had to go through the pregnancy then pop them out when the time came for them to be born. They call us stupid and weak, but how do they expect us to get smart if they refuse to let us go to school and how do they expect us to get strong if they don't train us or let us do any hard labor work? They also try to be in control of everything and if they're not in control then they get grumpy. They're also gross, lazy bum's that… Well I guess you can think of your own examples for those too. Kami knows that those two seem to be two of they're all time favorites. And lastly (Though Umbri could keep thinking of a lot more, but didn't want Sakura with her that long) All of they're ego's are so big that they wouldn't even be able to fit through this castles gates. And Intaisho is no exception. In fact men, youkai or ningen, with power tend to be even worse than a regular man." Unquote. When I asked her why she thought this about all men she said it's been proved to her enough times for her to believe it and that one of the very few males that she has ever trusted had told her some of those things, she just added on to the list." Sakura finished.

Sakura P.O.V.

I almost started laughing as I told Intaisho what Umbri had said. And it wasn't Intaisho's priceless face either; it was that fact that many of the things Umbri said were true that made me get the giggles. I could think of many men that those things would apply to. It was down right hilarious. Intaisho looked like someone had just dumped cold water on him. "She said that these things have been proved to her enough that she thinks this way of all men?" Intaisho asked when he got out of his shocked state. I was surprised. I thought he would get all angry and start yelling. "Yes." I answered truthfully. "Then we have a problem." "And what would that problem be?" "I've told the other lords about her, they are intrigued and want to meet her." 'OH NO, OH NO, OH NO, OH NO.' was all that was going through my mind at the second. 'Umbri was not the nicest or most polite person, especially when it came to men, and these men all had high power, which made it even worse, and with Umbri in her weakened state they would be able to rip her alive in seconds if she got them mad enough! Which was quite possible.' "When are they coming?" I asked in a death whisper. "Tomorrow."

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