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Relic of Dholes	By : LuciferDragon Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 1404 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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He let her get off the cloud before dissipating it. A sudden cheer from the path ahead of them sounded before a girl in her late teens ran up to them. She stopped right in front of them, arms behind her back. “Welcome back Lord Sesshomaru.” She smiled broadly.
Yamika held a breath. It was a human girl.
“Rin, I see you are doing well.” He patted her hair and continued on past her. “We will speak more when I’ve spoken with my brother. This woman needs tending to.”
Yamika stood in place as he walked away, not sure what to do. The girl laughed and turned to her. “He never changes.” She cocked her head to the side. “Though who are you?”
“Yamika.”
“Are you a warrior?” She pointed to the swords.
She nodded. “Yes. I guard the Shrine of Dholes. I was injured in the fight your lord found me in. Are you able to help?”
She nodded as well, turning on her heel. “I’ll take you to Lady Kaede.”
Yamika followed the girl, Rin if she heard correctly, through a small and quiet village. Each of them were human. The men tilled the fields off in the distance, while the women kept busy in the central area. They gossiped to pass the time. She had to sidestep running children. She clenched her jaws in pain as her wrist was jostled.
“Is your wrist okay?”
She looked to the girl next to her. “I landed on it wrong. I think it’s broken. It just needs to be set properly and it should heal in a few days.” She grimaced at the thought. With the hour that had passed, her wrist needed to be broken again just to set it right.
“There’s a lot of blood on your kimono.”
She nodded. “Those have healed.” She looked around again. Unlike her home, it was completely vulnerable looking. Not many trees hid the village from sight, and the rice fields spread far beyond sight. She said just as much to Rin, who laughed behind her hand.
“We don’t have much to worry about with some of our residents here.” She led her into a hut, holding the bamboo aside for Yamika, careful of her wrist. “Lady Kaede, a visitor for you.”
An old woman looked up from tending to her fire pit. Her visible eye narrowed. “Aye? And who may ye be?”
Yamika bowed through the pain of jostling her wrist. “Yamika of the Dholes. I am the guardian of our shrine.”
“And why have ye come to see me, child?”
Yamika narrowed her eyes in mild confusion. From the look of it, the human was younger than she, if she remembered how humans looked as they aged. Until the end of the reign of the Shikon Jewel, her pack had avoided human contact. “I was told I could come here for help.” She gestured to her wrist. “My cuts have healed, but this is broken. I can’t fix it on my own.”
Lady Kaede sized her up cautiously. She shifted carefully and slowly to her feet. “Rest on the cot. I shall fetch Kagome. My old limbs cannot reset bones.”
They stepped out of the doorway, allowing the older woman to shuffle outside when she had her sandals on. Rin bowed once the bamboo had settled again. “It was lovely meeting you, Yamika.” A far off male shout sounded out and Rin sighed while Yamika was alarmed. “I’d better go. Those two should never be alone for long.”
Before Yamika could ask, the bamboo door was already fluttering closed. She shrugged and moved to the cot, sitting down. The silence rang in her ears, broken by the crackle of the fire. The wrist continued to ail her, and now thrummed as a dull ache. Every movement put needles through the tendons.
“Yeah, that’s easy enough.”
Yamika looked up as the door shifted. A younger woman with long black hair stepped inside. Trailing behind her was a boy, maybe three.
“Hi there, you must be Yamika.”
She nodded.
“I’m Kagome. I was told your wrist was broken.”
She nodded again. The girl wore robes of a priestess, same as the woman from before.
“Sorry that we have a visitor with us. I’m babysitting for my friend while she’s off on a mission with her husband.” She knelt in front of Yamika, taking a roll of bandages and a splint from her kit. “Can I ask what happened?”
The weight of the relic pressed against her gut as she shifted in place. “Human thieves ransacked my shrine. They stole something from me. I managed to kill one, but the other overpowered me.” She turned her gaze down. “I almost lost something very important to my pack.”
“I see.” She smiled again. “I was told you were brought here by my brother-in-law.” She noticed Yamika’s confused stare. “Sesshomaru.”
“Oh, yes.”
Kagome merely gave an innocent hum as she took the wounded arm. “This is going to hurt a lot, but—“
“Just do it. The faster the better.”
“Do you need something to bite down on?”
She shook her head. “No. Don’t stall any longer, please.”
She nodded and took Yamika’s hand, holding below the fracture. “Okay, on three. One, two…”
The resulting shriek cut through the whole village.

She stared at the bandages, wrapped tightly to keep the splint in place. Her gaze went to the young human, hiding behind the woman now putting away her wares. She smiled a bit. “I’m sorry to have startled you, child.”
The boy slinked farther behind Kagome, who laughed. “Don’t mind him. He wasn’t expecting that.”
She gave a soft chuckle. “Neither was I, little one.”
Kagome stood with her kit. “You’re all done here.”
Yamika stood as well and bowed. “Thank you so much for all the help.” She followed Kagome out of the hut. “I’d offer payment but-“
“Oh don’t worry about it.” She tilted her head and smiled. “But I should be heading back to my own home. Those brothers usually don’t stay quiet for long when in confined spaces.” She gave a look of realization. “Will you be staying with us tonight?”
Yamika looked to the horizon, seeing the sky fading to orange. She only had a vague idea of the location of the village to her shine. And, as it was, she would not be able to guard the relic until her wrist had healed. Being alone with it as it gathered more and more attention was not a good idea. “If it isn’t too much trouble.”
“Not at all. We always make plenty just in case. Come with me.”
Yamika followed her to a hut on the edge of the village, a heated argument becoming clearer as they approached. At least, one of the voices was heated.
“No fucking way! Not happening!”
“Oh no,” Kagome muttered. As they entered, a bowl crashed against the wall next to them. Its target had merely tilted his body to avoid it.
“I am only thinking of the good of the land,” Sesshomaru answered. “You are in no position to turn down the missive.”
Yamika looked to the other, seeing a male similar to the one who had brought her to the village. His golden eyes were narrowed in seething anger.
He growled. “Just seeing your face pisses me off.”
Sesshomaru only chuckled. “I’ll take that as a yes, little brother.”
“What’s going on?” Kagome asked.
The other male growled again and stood up suddenly. “Forget it. If that idiot wants a treaty he can come here himself.” He stormed out of the hut, almost tearing the bamboo from the doorway.
“Wait, InuYasha, what the hell?” Without a word to them, she followed the male.
“Typical.”
Yamika turned her gaze back to Sesshomaru as he tilted a tea cup to his lips. “Your brother?”
“Yes, and a stubborn mutt at that.” He turned to her finally, not standing. “I’m assuming the shout before was you.” He nodded to the wrappings. “I see you’ve been tended to.”
“If it isn’t out of line for asking, what made him so angry?”
He gestured for her to sit by the fire. “The past few years of peace, I have been doing my part as Lord of these lands. I’m not surprised that he acted as he did with my proposition.” He set his cup down and folded his arms into his kimono. “I’ve been approached by Koga of the wolves. He wishes for unification between his pack and this village.”
She frowned. “That isn’t uncommon. What is so upsetting about that?”
“From what I understand, an old lover’s spat.”
They both went quiet as she processed the insight. “What?”
“I don’t pretend to understand. I don’t really care.” He clicked his tongue. “My only concern is what my father has left in my hands. My idiot brother would let this land fall to ruins.”
“Opening trade with the wolves would be beneficial to everyone, especially the humans of this village. More food, pelts, protection even. And he’d give that up because of something as ridiculous as love?”
“I did say idiot, didn’t I?”
The fire cracked between them. She wasn’t sure what more to say on the topic. This wasn’t a normal demon she was sitting with, but a Lord. A Lord she knew very little about. She left it to him to fill the silence.
“I won’t be leaving until the morning. Will this inconvenience you?”
She shook her head. “No. The more people I am around right now with this relic, the safer I will be.”
He hummed in thought. “And then after you have returned?”
“Ah, I’ll return to guarding the shrine.” She cast her gaze to the fire, watching the flames dance and dissipate. “It’s not glamorous, but it is a duty I need to uphold for my pack. Until they return for me.”
“How long have they been gone?”
“Twelve years.”
“And have they contacted you?”
“Sporadically. I’ll receive a hawk every now and again. Haven’t seen it for three months, but it isn’t unusual.” She saw his cup tip again from the corner of her eye. “It gets suffocating up there, but…”
“You do what you need to do.”
She nodded. “Even if it means doing it alone.” She shrugged. “I accepted long ago what my staying would mean.”
“What of your family?”
She flinched and withdrew a bit. “If it’s not too much, I’d rather not speak of them.”
He went silent again, allowing her a chance to relax a bit again. She saw him pick up a stick nearby and prod the fire.
The bamboo curtain shifted again, allowing Kagome back inside. “He’s such a baby.” She looked between them. “Kaede has had dinner ready for a bit. We can get this sorted out then.”
“So he’s seen reason?”
She smiled. “It took a few ‘sits’, but yeah.”
Yamika didn’t understand the importance of the term, but it sounded effective, whatever it was.
Her smile turned to Yamika. “It’s not much, but I hope you like rice and fish.”
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