InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Other Side of the Story ❯ The Mystery ( Chapter 1 )

I don’t own Inuyasha   The Other Side of the Story   Chapter 1   Insects, muck underneath his feet.  They weren’t worthy enough to even be in his presence or even breathe the same air as he did.  They were the lowest of things, and he despised them.  He hated them more than most demons hated them.  It was almost unnatural how much he hated them.  He was disgusted with the very thought of them.     He lived his whole life despising them, only to learn the truth…    Many years ago…   Lord Inutashio held his son in his hands as he waited for the gates to open, so that he would be able to enter into his empire.  It was his first born child, and he resembled his father.  He had his silver hair, the golden eyes, his ears, and even the red line above his eyes.  He looked just like him, but also resembled his mother, the woman that the child would never be able to meet.  He possessed the graceful presence that she had when she was alive.  Inutashio doubted that his son would have the same nature as his mother.  He doubted that his son would even possess the same nature that he had.  This child was different and would do great things, perhaps even greater than Inutashio had ever done.    “Master Inutashio” said a small flea demon, sucking the blood from his master’s cheek.  “Are you sure you want to do this?  You honestly want this to be this way?”   Inutashio cradled his son with one arm and slapped the flea with the other hand.  “There’s nothing else more to discuss Myouga.  What’s done is done.”   Myouga moaned in pain when his lord took his hand away and let him gently fall back on his shoulder.  It took him a minute to pop back in place, but when he did, he continued asking his questions.  “I understand that my lord, but what about-”   “Myouga” Inutashio said regrettably.  “It has already been a year.  What’s done is done.”  As he walked through the gates of his empire, the guards gathered around to see the baby that Inutashio held in his arms.  No one asked about the mother of the child.  They were all just so glad to see that their lord had reproduced a healthy and strong heir.   Myouga played back everything that his lord had told him earlier.  ‘Don’t breathe a word to anyone about what has occurred Myouga.  You must take this to the grave with you.  If you tell anyone of my son’s true origins then you will be killed.  Is that understood?’  Myouga remembered what happened and what Lord Inutashio had said.  Myouga also remembered that he had promised to take the secret of Inutashio’s son to the grave.  ‘I will keep this a secret until I die.’   “What is his name?” asked one of the dog demons.   “His name is Sesshoumaru.”    Over 900 years later…   “Where are we?”  A little girl with long black hair flipped at the ends and brown bright eyes jumped off of the demon she was riding on and ran next to her lord in fear.  The scenery was getting dark and everything was looking demonic.  Even the human girl could feel the dreary sense of something horrible coming.      “Rin, stop cowering before Lord Sesshoumaru!”  The little green demon hated when she’d do little things like that.  It was embarrassing.  “We are just in a demon’s forest.  That’s all.  There is no reason to run off of Ah-Un.”    Sesshoumaru thought nothing of Rin running behind him.  She had done it before.  Besides, there was a demon coming.  It didn’t have a strong demonic aura, but it could rip Rin apart if she was alone.  Humans never went in this forest.  It was demon’s territory and the forest itself was giving off a powerful demonic aura.  “Rin” Sesshoumaru stopped in his tracks and grabbed Tokijin, one of his swords.  “Get back.”   Rin nodded her head and waited for the danger to come.  She didn’t have anything to be worried about if her lord was there.  “Yes, Lord Sesshoumaru.”

Jaken prepared to fire his staff of two heads if he needed to.  He was always ready to serve his lord.   While Sesshoumaru waited, he suddenly felt a sudden pain in his chest.  ‘Something’s wrong.’  He felt the pain again and grunted, even though he tired not to.  ‘It’s happening again.’  Sesshoumaru was now impatiently waiting for the demon to attack.  He needed to make this quick and get out of the forest as soon as possible.  He couldn’t withstand it much longer.  “Jaken....ugh” he grunted again, feeling it again.  It was getting worse.  It was his heart.  It had happened before. It didn’t happen to any other demons, but it happened to him.  ‘Why does this happen to me, and why now?’   Jaken gasped as he looked to his Lord.  He recognized what was going on.  He had witnessed it about three times since he was with Sesshoumaru.  “Rin, get out the way!” 
Rin had never been so scared before.  She had never seen her lord in such pain before.  She still listened to Jaken and ran over to his side.  “Lord Sesshoumaru, what’s wrong?”   Sesshoumaru wished he knew that answer himself.  It had been happening ever since he was a young boy.  He never got the answer to why he was like this.  His father knew something but never told him.  “It’s coming…”  Sesshoumaru wasn’t talking about a demon.  He was talking about the cold grip of death.  He had felt it before.  He hated to feel its presence.  It was never convenient.  ‘I can’t stop it.’  He stumbled back a little, but then held his ground.  If he were to pass out, then Jaken and Rin would be killed by the demon.  He couldn’t hold on for much longer though.  Things were beginning to become blurry.  He closed his eyes and opened them back up in an attempt to make his vision come back into focus, but that only made things worse.  ‘Not now!’  He closed his eyes again, but before he was even able to open them back up, he felt the force of a giant hand smacking into his chest and knocking him back into a tree and breaking it in half.           “Lord Sesshoumaru!”  Rin screamed with tears in her eyes.  She could feel her heart breaking as Sesshoumaru’s heart was stopping.  “No Lord Sesshoumaru!”  Rin got up the courage to do something.  She ran in front of the blue troll demon and stretched out her arms.  “Leave him alone!”  Tears started to roll down her cheeks.
”Rin, get out the way!”  Jaken ran in front of her and placed the end of the staff of two heads on the ground.  “Feel the power of the staff of two heads!”  The mouths of the staff began to open up and fire spit out at the demon, but it barely did anything.  Jaken began to get worried, but Rin stood her ground. 

”I’m not gonna let you!”  She closed her eyes.  She was scared, but the thought of losing Lord Sesshoumaru scared her above all.    Sesshoumaru opened his eyes and was able to make out the blurs a little bit.  ‘Rin!’  He could see a big blue blob and decided that there was his target.  He charged forward and swung Tokijin.  Jaken grabbed Rin’s arm in a panic and ran out of the way while Sesshoumaru’s attack engulfed the troll demon and blew him into hundreds of pieces.    “Lord Sesshoumaru!” Rin yelled his name with happiness, but her happiness died down once she saw his eye color fade and his legs lose their strength.  “Lord Sesshoumaru!”  She screamed his name in a panic as she watched him fall to the ground, not moving at all.  He wasn’t even breathing.  “Lord Sesshoumaru?” she asked quietly.  When he didn’t answer, her lips began to quiver and she ran to his side.  “Lord Sesshoumaru, no!”  She began to sob on his chest.  “Please answer me!  Please answer me!  You’re not supposed to leave me!  I’m supposed to be with you forever!”    Jaken dropped his staff and ran to Sesshoumaru’s only arm and tried to find his pulse, but he didn’t have one.  “Rin,” he said quietly “he’s…”   “No!”  She placed her ear on his chest and tried to listen for his heart beat.  As each second went by, she shook with a sorrowful rage until she just broke down and sobbed even more on his chest.  “He can’t be dead!  He can’t be!”   “Rin, it’s okay.”

“How can it be okay?  He’s dead!  It’s not okay if he’s dead!”   “This has happened before Rin!”

“But!”  Her panic stopped and she lifted her head up from off of his chest and tried to stop sobbing.  “But…but…but how?”  She was crying so much she could barely talk.   “I don’t know, but it’s happened before.  It’s happened three other times.  His heart has always stopped each time, but he always wakes up in the end.”  Jaken closed his eyes, remembering what had happened about 50 years ago.  “The last time it happened, it was a long time ago, to you anyway.  You weren’t even born.  It was around 50 years ago, right before our great battle with the Panther Tribe Demons.”  He nodded his head.  “Yes, it was terrifying indeed.  We were soaring through the air.  I was on Ah-Un, but Lord Sesshoumaru was flying brilliantly through the air.  He was magnificent!”   “Go on, Master Jaken!”   “Alright!  Hold your tongue!  I’m in the middle of my story.”  He cleared his throat and opened his eyes.  “Anyway, Lord Sesshoumaru all of the sudden began to grunt in pain and then he held his chest.  I asked him if he was alright in a panic and he wouldn’t answer me.  It was then that I remembered and realized what was going on.  He couldn’t keep himself up in the air any longer and began to fall to the ground, as I watched in horror.”

“Ah-Un didn’t catch him?”   “No, he wasn’t able to.  Lord Sesshoumaru landed in the middle of a rice field.  The humans working ran away in fear.  They didn’t know what he was.  I got him out of there and waited for him to regain his consciousness.  He didn’t wish to speak of it, but it frightened me.  I was worried about him going into battle with the Panther Tribe Demons, so I desperately asked him to get some allies.  He wouldn’t, so I even went to seek the help of his half breed brother, Inuyasha.  Inuyasha wasn’t able to help because he was put under the spell of a priestess.  When I returned to Lord Sesshoumaru, there were many demons that had pledged to help in the battle.  I was overjoyed.  It hadn’t happened since that day.  I always feared that it would happen again, and if it was during a battle, then his fate could be sealed.  But then again, he is dead.  It’s not like he could be killed again until he was alive again.  If he was alive again, he could defend himself. He might be safe, but his enemies would know his weakness.”  He frowned.  “But Lord Sesshoumaru will be alright.”   Rin sniffed a little and wiped her tears away.  “Are you sure?”    “Of course I am.  If I wasn’t, then I would also be mourning his death.”

Rin looked back down at the face of her lord.  He had such fair skin before, but now he was just so pale.  “Are you sure Master Jaken?  He looks…”   “Right now he is.  But everything will return to normal.”   She felt Sesshoumaru’s forehead.  “He’s so cold…”  Rin couldn’t help but let some more tears fall from her eyes.  “Lord Sesshoumaru” She gasped as she began to feel the sudden warmth return to his forehead.  His temperature kept rising until it felt like he was burning up.  “He has a fever!”   “Rin, the dead can’t have fevers!”   “He’s not dead!  He’s alive again!”  Rin noticed Sesshoumaru’s left shoulder twitch.  She was surprised.  She hadn’t really ever seen it move.  He didn’t have an arm there.  “I don’t understand.  What’s going on?”  It twitched again and then tensed up.  Rin looked at it closely and wondered what was going on.  Rin jumped back and screamed when she saw his sleeve move and blood splatter on it, in an instant.  “M…m-m-master Jaken, look at Lord Sesshoumaru’s left arm!  It grew back!  It grew back!”   “What?”  Jaken ran to Sesshoumaru’s left side and looked at his new grown hand.  It was covered in blood, but it was a hand alright.   “His arm was cut off in battle with Inuyasha.  How is it possible that it has grown back like magic?”  Jaken got up the courage to touch it, and Sesshoumaru moved his fingers.  “He’s alive!”  Jaken starred at Sesshoumaru’s face and waited for him to open his eyes.  Rin did as well.  ‘I wonder why this happens to Lord Sesshoumaru.  Why does he die and how is it that he is able to bring himself back to life as if he was reborn?’  Jaken smiled as Sesshoumaru opened his eyes, barely.  He had gone from being dead to working up a fever.  He closed his eyes and muttered for water.   “Water?”  Rin asked.  “Yes my lord, I will go get you some water!”  Without thinking, Rin ran off.  She was just so happy to see that her lord was alive that the fact that the forest was dangerous didn’t even enter her mind.   “Rin, be careful!” Jaken yelled.  He would have gone with her, but if he left his lord, then Sesshoumaru would be in danger.  ‘He’ll probably be angry, but I can’t leave his side!’    Rin ran until she couldn’t run away more.  She could only go for so long.  She had to start walking.  When she did, she could feel the dreary feeling of something watching her.  She was trembling.  ‘I have to get Lord Sesshoumaru some water.’  She was in the center of the forest and nothing had managed to get to her, but something was about to come, and it began to scare her.  ‘I’ll be brave.  I’ll have to hurry!’   Just then, a bird demon emerged from a tree and charged towards her.  It looked like a deformed crow as it attempted to peck at her.  She made a run for it, but she was already so tired.  “Lord Sesshoumaru!”  She felt her leg snag on something and she fell head first on the ground, knocking her unconscious.  Just before the bird demon was able to strike, it was cut in half by a sword, and it wasn’t Tokijin.   A man hovered above Rin and picked her up.  He cradled her in his arms and started to walk the opposite way from Sesshoumaru and Jaken.  He was kind of stumbling, weakly.  “What are you doing here in this demonic forest?”  He looked around to make sure there was no more danger.  There was.  There were demons watching from the trees, but they knew not to mess with this man.  Even though he had a strong scent of blood coming from his clothes and the demons were drawn to that scent, they weren’t going to come against this man.  “I’ll keep you safe.”   Even though Rin was sleeping, she could still find comfort in this man’s arms.    “I’ll keep you safe.”   When Rin opened her eyes, she was not in the forest, nor was she with Jaken or Sesshoumaru.  She was in a small hut, a place obviously used for temporary shelter, far from the forest she once was in.  “Where am I?”  She stood up and searched in a panic.  “Lord Sesshoumaru?”  She looked in front of her and saw him, the man who had saved her.  He was sitting down with his back pressed against the wall, looking off to the side.  “Who are you?”  His skin was fair, and his hair was long and jet black.  His eyes were cold and a dark chocolate brown.  His eyes looked distant, as if he was thinking of something.  His eyes were so familiar.  Finally, Rin ran to him and touched his face.  “Lord Sesshoumaru!”  She gasped.  “You’re a human!”   His eyes widened and he took her hands off of his face.  “I’m sorry; I don’t know who you’re talking about.”    “What happened to you?”  She grabbed his ears and saw that they weren’t pointed.  His hair was different, his eyes were different.  “This is strange!  What has happened?”  She opened his mouth up and didn’t see fangs.  “What’s going on?”  He pushed her hands away and stood up to his feet.  He was tall, just as tall as Sesshoumaru.  His face was the same.  He looked just like him.  It took a second glance, but it was him.  “What’s the matter Lord Sesshoumaru?  Don’t you remember me?”   “That isn’t my name!”    It was so strange to hear him angry.  Rin never heard Sesshoumaru yell at her like that.  “You’re not him?”  She frowned.  “Then who are you?  Where is he?  Where’s Master Jaken?”    He couldn’t answer her.  He couldn’t answer a thing.  “I don’t remember my name, and I don’t know these people that you speak of.”  He didn’t mean to lose his temper.  It was just frustrating, not remembering a thing.  “I saw you about to get attacked in the forest, so I saved you.  That’s all.”  He looked off to the side.  “I think I can probably remember something…maybe later.  But I can’t, not right now, not right after what just happened.”   “Huh?”  Rin’s eyes crew curious.  She needed to find her lord, but this stranger intrigued her.  “Well, what happened?”   He hesitated.  He somehow knew he didn’t share anything with anyone, but he owed the little girl something.  “Well, if I told you, you wouldn’t believe me.”  He tried to leave it at that.  He figured she wouldn’t believe him.  He barely believed it himself.  He still looked off into the distance, still thinking about it.   “What is it?  What’s the matter?  What happened?”  She could hardly contain her curiosity.  “What happened to you?”   He looked into her eyes.  He didn’t quite want to answer her, but he needed to say it in order to believe it himself.  “I think I died.”     To Be Continued….     A/N:  Reviews guys so I can update!  Don’t you want to learn of Lord Sesshoumaru’s origins and the man who looks just like him?  What is his father’s secret?  If you want to know, you better review!