InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Through the Eyes of Another ❯ The Beginning... Where Else? ( Chapter 1 )

Through the Eyes of Another

By: TLA

A/N: Hello, to my Readers. I got this idea one night, and it didn't let go. So, here I am. Please, if you think I should add something or explain something, tell me. I'm always looking for more ideas. To read this, there are a few codes to understand.

::blah, blah:: = mind to mind talking

~*~*~*~* = scene change

::~~~::~~~::~~~:: = into the diary

{blah, blah} = thoughts to oneself

<~*~> = back to reality

Disclaimer: I do NOT in any way own Inuyasha. If you want to sue me, go for it. But I have to warn you, I'm a college student with no money. So I don't think you would be satisfied in any way if you sue me.

Chapter One:: The Beginning.. Where Else?

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"Aiko, come help me!"

"Hai, Mama. I'm coming."

Running steps can be heard down the hallway. Down the long stairway those hyperactive feet went. A soft sigh can be heard. "Mama, what do you need my help now? I helped you all of yesterday by cleaning the yard, both front and back, might I add, and also my room. You told me last night that this is my free day."

Finally, a girl of sixteen came into view. From head to toe, she looked nothing like an inu youkai. Be then, she took after her great-great grandmother, Kagome. Long black hair with some white it reached to her rear. Half of her hair was in a ponytail, tied with black and blue ribbons. Her face did have eyes, nose, and mouth, but also navy colored markings. Two strips on each check, and one on her forehead that looked like four little diamonds on four points of the key. A silver necklace shaped into little roses adorned her throat. Jeans and a lavender tank top she wore, with her tail hanging over her right shoulder. But the most interesting feature is her eyes. The colour of violets, with gold in the center. Right now, though, these beautiful eyes are all on her mother.

"I know, Aiko. Trust me. I don't need your help today. I just wanted to give you something that Kagome left for you before she died."

Inside a hope chest, a hand reached out to grab a book. The cover was black leather. The binding was only sown together by what looks like black hair. The only writing that anyone can see is Nikki no Kagome. To anyone, this would just look like another book from a land far away. But to this family, it was their inheritance.

Out came the book, and passed on into a pair of eager hand. "Now, Aiko, make sure you take care of this. Someday, you will give this book into your child's hands."

"Yes, Mama. Can I go now," Aiko asked very excitedly. She so wanted to go lock herself into her room to find out all about her beloved family.

Soft laughter rang into Kimi's voice. "I don't know, Aiko. Can you?"

An annoyance sigh was heard throughout the room. "I mean, may I go now?"

"Hai. You may go. But remember to head back down for dinner." .

"Mama, like I would ever forget dinner!" And with that, Aiko ran up the long stairway to her room.

::This little child of mine. How so like Kagome. Eager to learn about the things around her.::

Kimi slowly stood up. For an inu youkai of a few centuries, she looked really young. Her hair was a mixture of gold and black, tied in a long ponytail. Her markings consist of three red strips on the left side of her face. On her forehead, a red crescent moon with a shooting star. On this hot summer's day, she wore a white shirt and shorts that were tied with a string.

She started to head towards the stairs. Soft steps hit the stairs, with not a sound. Out in the hall, Kimi gently closed the door for the basement, and started to head for her room, as well. She still needed to take care of the laundry. Taking care of five kids and a husband is not easy, you know.

::Ah, but also like you when you were that young, ne?:: Said a deep voice with the sound of silent thunders.

At the other end of the house, stood a being that was quite powerful. Yukio has long black hair, with blue highlights. His markings are also like his daughter's. All he wore was cut off jean shorts. His tail was looped twice around his hips, then hang on his left shoulder.

Delight and laughter shot through her mind. ::I guess you're right. She takes after us both so well. Ahh, how I miss youth. Now I'm old, and getting older.::

By now, the Lady of the house was elbow deep in warm laundry that needed to be folded. A sea of colors they were. Blue, black, red, and white. They were all, at the moment, her husband's clothes.

::Getting older? I'll show you getting older.::

Quick as lightning, he raced up the stairs and into the bedroom. He grabbed her arm, which was in the middle of folding a T-shirt, and softly pushed her back onto the bed. He shifted all the unfolded clothes to the foot of the bed.

"The clothes," she gasped.

"They can wait," was the reply.

Yukio took her hands, and hold them above her head. Just to let her know that he wanted her to not move her hands, he lightly pushes them onto the bed. Slowly, Yukio ran his hands down her sides. Grabbing the end of her shirt, he trailed back up her body, and throw the shirt over his head. His hands quickly land on her waist. He caresses her waist with the light touch of his claws. A soft moan came out, with a little purr. With the tip of her tail, Kimi guides his hands to the front of her pant. Yukio got the hint and deliberately tug her strings, like a playful puppy. But as punishment for moving when she was told not to, his tail pinned hers to the bed, and rubbed back and forth, making her more aroused.

After a couple more tugs, he finally untied them. Holding her pants, Yukio slid them down to the floor. Gazing at her, he couldn't think of anything more exotic than Kimi with only black bra and pantie. Lifting her up, Yukio moved her into the center of the bed. Stepping a few steps, he gave Kimi the striptease of her life. Hips swaying to the music of their heart, he seizes his jeans. Unbuttoning them while his eyes drank deeply into Kimi's, he slid them off his legs. With a flick of his tail, into the corner they went.

Being the dangerous taiyoukai that he was, those jeans were the only thing he wore. Still dancing to the silent music, he twirled around with his tail rubbing against his body. Passion clouded eyes travel up and down his body, worshiping him all the way. Facing her again, he posed. Typical tail over left shoulder, he gave her an air kiss.

"Come to bed," she seductively whispered.

Yukio sauntered back to the bed with that slow, loose-limbered walk that always made her hot and desired. He crawled up on the bed like the inu youkai that he is and ran a long, lustful stare up her body. "My glorious Mate. Mine. Forever and always."

"As you will always be mine, Mate."

~*~*~*~*

Aiko rushes to her room, barely missing collision with her older brother, Kenji. "Sumimasan, Kenji-chan," she said as she passed.

Poor Kenji, he was left pressed on the wall. ::Man, why does she always do that. Can't she walk like a normal person?::

::I heard that!::

::Darn:: He left the hallway, chuckling as he went.

Aiko jumped on her bed. Wrapping her tail around her legs, she grabbed her pillow. While hugging Tweety Bird, she closed her eyes. Flipping the diary, she landed toward the middle of the book. Opening her eyes again, she leaned over.

August 26

Today was very interesting. It involved a Shikon shard, the long lost bear youkai, Lady Nikkou, Sesshoumaru, and his little girl, Rin. What happened was...

The words faded away. Slowly, the scene unfolds....

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"Jaken, watch Rin."

"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama."

Rin walked around, plucking flowers. Every once in a while, she would run up to that old toad and shove the flowers in his face. Finally, he had enough with all those "weeds" up his nose.

"Get those weeds out of my face!" he screamed, after she ran up to him for the third time.

Rin stood there, shock and surprise were written all over her face. Slowly, a little tear drops. Creeping down her check. No one said anything, Rin just standing there, and Jaken glares at Rin for making him feel guilty.

Suddenly, Jaken felt a present of a powerful youkai. Not wanting to make his master more mad, he grabbed Rin. "We have to go. Now!"

For the first time, Rin didn't want to go with this ugly, mean toad. She just wanted her Sesshoumaru-sama. The only one who cared for her, looked after her when no one else did. She thought Jaken was her friend, a part of her family. But, she guessed he didn't feel the same way. Even though Jaken kept tugging her to go, Rin sank down to the green floor. Little tears rained down her face, but she didn't feel them. All she wanted was her father, Sesshoumaru-sama.

The ground shook when the youkai appeared at the edge of the clearing. The female bear youkai gave a great roar, and started to charge toward the silent child, and the guilty toad. Surprisingly, the bear stopped not ten feet away from Rin. She lifted her snout and sniffed the air. The scent of loneliness and heartache triggered the bear's psyche. With a low growl, she lumbered to where Rin was. Thinking that Rin was her long-lost child of centuries ago, she gently picked her up from the floor. Turning around, the female started to head toward her cave deep in the middle of the dark forest.

"Stupid youkai! You can't take her for she belongs to Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands!" Jaken hollered, making the bear miss a step. But she shook her hand, and started to head toward her cave again. Jaken, not knowing what else to do, ran up to the bear and beat her over the head with his stick. She not taking that hit very well, bellowed and swaps him with her unoccupied paw. He went flying, and his head hit a huge rock. Jaken lay there, unconscious.

When Rin heard Jaken's head hit the huge rock, she snapped out of her trance. Looking around, she noticed that her body was pressed against dark fur. Glancing above all that warm fur, she saw the bear's face. Thinking that she was being taken so that she can be eaten, Rin screamed at the top of her lungs. "Sesshoumaru-sama!"

At the moment, Sesshoumaru was busy tracking Kagome and Inuyasha. He got their scent, and thought it was a perfect time to attack so that he can get the powerful sword, Tetsusaiga. He found them a mile away from the clearing, and two miles away from the cave. Not wanting to give himself away, he stood down wind and hid himself at the top of some small trees.

While Sesshoumaru was watching them, the team was searching for a Shikon shard that Kagome detected two days ago. Because of this youkai's movements, they couldn't pinpoint where it was exactly.

"Kagome, are you sure it's this way?" Inu Yasha demanded for the third time in five minutes.

Kagome sighed. {How many times do I have to answer?} "Hai, Inu Yasha. I'm most sure it's this way."

"Fine." He turned to everyone. "Kagome and I will go ahead. I do not want to spend another day looking for the same shard when we can get others."

Without another how-do-you-do, he snatched Kagome, tosses her onto his back, and flew through the trees. Everyone else looked at each other, then took off running. Trying to catch up with Inu Yasha took almost most of their energy.

Sesshoumaru looked at them go. Not wanting to lose the moment, he also took off. Being the taiyoukai, he caught up with him with not a sigh of tiredness. Suddenly, a sound of screams ran through the forest. Inu Yasha and Kagome thought it was a human needing help, but Sesshoumaru knew better. {Rin is in trouble.} Off he took, trying to get to Rin before something bad happens. {If Rin is hurt in anyway, Jaken will have much to answer for.} He growled under his breath.

While the three were heading towards them, the female was trying to comfort Rin. When Rin screamed, the bear thought she was crying of pain. She thrust her nose up to Rin's neck, whimpering all the while. Thinking that the youkai was going to eat her, she struggled to get out of her grip. Unexpectedly, the tip of her tongue licked her check; wiping away her salty tears Rin stopped crying, and looked into the eyes of this female bear youkai.

The soul of these two touched, one in torment and one in loneliness. Rin could see how lost this mother bear was. Long ago, she lost her cub from hunters, and even to this day, she didn't want to accept that her baby was lost to her. So she went searching for her lost cub. A century went by, and she comforted many lost children. She found them, from war or disease, and took them home with her. She took care of them until they grew up and left her, like children tend to. One of them came back, one day, and gave her a purple shard as a gift for taking care of him all his life. She wore it on her wrist, and to this day, she never took it off.

:: Rin is sorry for your lost, Mrs. Youkai Bear. But Rin is not lost. Rin has Sesshoumaru-sama and that mean toad, Jaken. Rin is well-taken care of. Sesshoumaru-sama loves Rin, though sometimes he doesn't show it. Rin also knows that Jaken loves Rin, too. He's just confused on how to show it.::

Sesshoumaru suddenly appeared at a tree above them. "Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin cried, very happy to see him. The female bear took one look at Sesshoumaru, then back at Rin. She knew that this is this child's guardian. So, she leaned down, and gently put Rin down to the ground. Rin thanked the bear, then rushed over to Sesshoumaru. Tiny arms wrapped around his legs. Instinctively, he laid down his claw to smooth her head in a parental gesture.

But while his body was doing one thing, his mind was in complete shock. In front of him stood Lady Nikkou, mate of Lord Shizukani, who was lost a century ago after the great battle between the humans and youkai. Rumor had it that a group of hunters went and killed her cub in front of her. Being seriously wounded, she tried to stop them, but one of the hunters knocked her unconscious. Thinking she was died, they didn't do anything more to her. After the battle was long over, and the youkai killed all who was there that day, Lady Nikkou woke up. She looked around for her cub, and when she finally spots him, she ran up to her baby. After that, some rumors said that she killed herself because her cub died for her, and some said that she went mad and killed many villages before a hunter went and killed her.

Sesshoumaru slowly walked up to her, trying not to scare her. A voice ran out of the trees, "I sense the shard. It's up ahead." The voice must have scared Lady Nikkou, for she started to leave. Inu Yasha appeared, and Sesshoumaru gave him a killing glare. Kagome, sensing that something was not right, looked to the leaving bear. "Inu Yasha, stay here. I'll get the shard myself." Inu Yasha tried to say no, but Kagome already started to leave. Passing Sesshoumaru and Rin, she gave a polite bow. Unhurried, Kagome followed Lady Nikkou. Finally, Nikkou stopped in front of her cave.

Slowly, as not to scare her, Kagome went up to her. Lady Nikkou just looked at Kagome, neither making a sound. Carefully, she took the paw that had the Shikon shard. Covering it with her other hand, they both lowered down to sit on the dirty floor. Kagome closed her eyes, and tapped into her soul. Sending herself outside her body, and into Lady Nikkou, she discovered the bear's pain, anger, lose, and denial. Moving more further, both her soul and Lady Nikkou touched.

A space of white emerged. There, Kagome found a young lady with long brown hair that seems to be in a complex weave. Ribbons of aqua, fuchsia and white intertwined within the weave. Her kimono was a mixture of aqua and fuchsia. Sakura bloomed all over, with swirls of what looked like wind. A rose obi was tied around her waist. She had dark blue markings, and her forehead had a heart marking. But the most interesting were her eyes. They betrayed all the pain and suffering that only a mother can go through.

Kagome walked up to Lady Nikkou, and slowly sank down in front of her. Lady Nikkou looked up at Kagome, and started to cry. Rain started to fall from her eyes, washing away all the pain. While all the tears were washing away the suffering, Kagome was purifying the shard. The emotion the shard gave out was not of greed and power, but of pain, suffering, and a lose of a loved one. This shard was never used for evil, but to take care of the lost children.

At last, the last tear was falling. Both were pure of all negatived energy. Seeping through Lady Nikkou and into her own body again, Kagome was fatigued. Her eyes opened, and the first thing she saw was Lady Nikkou in her humanoid form. "Arigato, Kagome. It took me a century to let go of that guilt and suffer. Is there nothing I can do for you?" she asked with a voice that sounded so light and musical to anyone who listened.

"If I may ask, may I take that shard. Don't worry. I'm not going to use it for evil. I need that shard to complete the Shikon no Tama."

"Oh, the Shikon no Tama. Long have I heard of that legend. For a good cause, here you go. Please, take care of it. It was given to me by one of my children. One of my more tormented ones. How I miss him." With that, Lady Nikkou gently plucked the shard from her wrist, and passed it to Kagome. Kagome took the shard with a low bow, and tucked it into a pouch with the other shards loose shards that needed to be connected with the jewel. Then, with another low bow, Kagome walked back to the inpatient Inu Yasha. Along the path, she spotted Sesshoumaru sitting on a low branch. Again, she gave a polite bow, but she did notice the way he looked at her. Hearing Inu Yasha's voice to hurry up, she gave it not another thought.

After Kagome left with Inu Yasha, Sesshoumaru jumped down from the branch. Walking over to Lady Nikkou, they both stood still to hear the end of Kagome's voice telling Inu Yasha to leave her be. "Much she has to do before her path ends," said Lady Nikkou. "She's a strong miko, with a pure soul." Sesshoumaru didn't say anything. Lady Nikkou then turned to Sesshoumaru. "I haven't seen you since you were adolescent. My, how've you grown. Look so much like your father when he was your age."

Sesshoumaru bowed low. "Please, Lady Nikkou. Let me take you to my home to rest for a while. I'll take you home when you are back to your strength."

"That will be fine, Lord Sesshoumaru. I'm sorry for your father's death."

<~*~>

Aiko leaned back to rest her head against the headboard. {Wow. That was only a year after the Shikon no Tama was broken.}

From downstairs, her mother yelled, "Aiko, dinner!"

Gasp! {Dinner!} Aiko quickly, yet gently, shut the bok closed. Tearing thought the house, she finally got to the table. "So, what's for dinner?" she calmly said.

A/N: Well, that's it for now. Please, I would love feedback. See that button down there? Press it, and it will take you to another world! Catch ya laters!!