Behind the mirror

This is chapter 2 of my little fanfic idea. Plz let me know what you think, there is nothing worse than writing a story and not knowing if anyone likes it. So plz plz plz let me know, if there is something wrong then perhaps I can fix it, improved. If you don't tell me I can't know. So plz tell me good and bad.

Disclaimer: No I still do not own any Inuyasha characters. And the song used in this chapter is from the movie "Prince of Egypt" and originally song by Amy Grant.

Notes: ' ' - indicates thoughts and { } that it is english.


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Sera awoke slowly, shaking her head to clear it. Her bed felt wrong, more hard than usual and the air smell more fresh, as she opened her eyes she realised she wasn't in her bed. She was in a small clearing in a forest, the sun was shining at her hanging low in the sky giving the forest a soft golden look. 'How did I end up here? And what is that noise, it sounds like forest sounds but it is so loud' she moved to put her hands over her ears and froze when she caught a glimpse of her hand. Slowly she moved it in front of her, her eyes went wide. Instead of her normal hands her fingers where longer, thinner and her nails looked sharp and pointy. He other hand looked the same and at her wrists she could see blue markings. 'Ohh no that is no what I think it is, is it?' she moved her hands up to her ears they were pointy. 'Ohh dear me, what is going on. Is this a dream?' she pinched her self and winced at her pain as her claw pierced her skin. 'Ouch, got to remember that, I bet I am going to get a lot of scratches with these before getting used to them' she looked at her arm where the claw had given her the injury. Her eyes went wide as she wiped away the blood to find that the small wound was already gone. She got on feetfeet and studied her apparently new body. She looked like her drawing, the drawing she had made of her self as a Tigress youkai. Thick long white hair to her waist, long shapely legs, a flat stomach and a fluffy tail. ‘Well if I had to get a new body, this one isn’t so bad’. She grabbed her bag and found the small mirror she used to look in when drawing, it was easier to draw certain facial expressions if she could see how she looked when trying to expresses it. She lifted the mirror to look at her face; her eyes were the same grey-blue colour as always, her nose where the same small straight nose, the only changes to her face was the blue marking that now graced her cheeks and forehead. Her hair had change colour from golden to a silvery white. ‘I look kind of good with this hair colour; perhaps I could dye it when I get back. If I get back’ She sighed 'now what could have done this. I remember going home from art class thinking about this drawing.’ She pulled out the drawing she had made and looked at it. She really did look like her drawing. She sighed and put the sketchbook back in her bag. ‘Then nothing, did I get home? Or did I stop somewhere first? The sun is setting and I think I can stay here tonight 'hopefully I won’t have to light a fire I would hate to burn any of my drawings'. She sat still listening to the sounds of the forest trying to figure out where the sounds where coming from, some she could recognize as bird singing, though she couldn’t tell which birds it was. Suddenly a wail rang through the forest, it sounded like a girl crying. Her ears were hurting as she got up, grabbed her bag and moved quickly in the direction of the sounds, perhaps the girl was in danger 'don't really know anything about this body yet but perhaps I can scare the attackers away if I am lucky'. She came upon a small clearing she could see a two headed dragon staring down at something behind it 'it must have captured her'
She moved into the clearing, hunched forward claws in front of her trying to look scary so the supposed attack would run away. The beast turned its heads to look at her with an indifferent attitude. She moved slowly sidewise around it, always facing it so she would be ready if it decided to attack. It didn't, it just kept staring at her with a dull eyes. As she moved the last few ms shs she could se a little girl sitting next to the dragon clutching her knee. She didn’t look much older than 7 or 8, her dress was dirty and her hair tangled. She seemed to have fallen and hurt her knee. Sera relaxed and smiled at the girl whose head shot up as she heard the sound of some one moving. "Hi there sweetie, did you hurt you knee?" Sera asked smiling at the girl as she kneeled down. The girl ran over to her and threw her arms around her neck and Sera hugged her back. "There there, sweetie. Let me take a look ok? We'll get that fixed in no time". The girl nodded and pulled back so Sera could take a at at her knee. 'That doesn't look to bad it is just a little scratch' she smiled at the girl "There now, it is just a scratch; I am going to get you a bandage from my pack ok? Then we can get that cleaned up and if you behave I will tell you a story afterwards ok?" the little girl sobbed and nodded, giving Sera a little smile. Sera dug into her bag and pulled out a plaster and using her shirt and some water from her bottle she gently cleaned the knee and dried it. Then she put on the plaster and gave it a light kiss. "There was that better, Kitten?" the girl nodded and gave her a big smile and hugged her. "What is your name, Lady? And are you going to tell me that story now? Where did you come from? Are you a youkai?" the little girl asked in a blur. Sera smiled "I am Sera and yes I suppose I am a youkai. What is your name, Kitten?" she said as the girl settled in her lap. "I am Rin and that it A-Un" she pointed at the dragon. "He is not dangerous is he?" Sera asked and glanced worried up at dra dragon "No, he is really sweet, and I love sleeping on his back, and he loves to be scratched on the belly" she jumped up and ran over to the dragon and started to scratch him as she had told. "Come" she yelled and Sera stood up slowly hesitant as to how the dragon would react to her coming closer. She took a slow step forward looking at the dragon for any indication that it didn't like it. It did nothing; it just half closed its eyes enjoying Rins petting. She took a step more forward, but apparently Rin thought it had taken to long she ran over grabbed Sera's hand and pulled her towards the dragon. The dragon still did not move, Sera reached out a hand slowly towards the dragon’s belly where Rin already was gladly rubbing it. Sera gently brushed her fingers against the skin; it felt warm and smooth like a snake. The dragon still did not move. She got more courageous and started stroking A-Un, she was afraid that if she scratched it she would hurt it with the claws she was still nsed sed to. She smiled 'I am stroking a dragon? wow this is wild, wonder what else there is in this world' She felt a tug at her pants and looked down at Rin "tell me the story" Sera sat down and looked up at A-Un as she slowly leaned against the dragon, it felt warm against her back, giving her a feel of comfort. The dragon just looked at her. She pulled her bag over and drew out a pencil and a sketchbook. She padded the grass beside her and Rin at down and leaned against her. Sera quickly drew a princess in a normal middle age dress. "Why does she have those weird cloths on?" Rin asked.
"Well that is the dress that princess wear where I am from."
"Can I have a dress like that?" Rin wanted to know.
"Well that depends on your parents I guess, you see the fabric to make this is very expensive, but if I can I will get you one” Sera said 'I better not promise her too much, I don't know what her parents would say, and from her dress they aren't rich'
Rin looked down "I don't have any parents" she mumbled, Sera was chocked "you don't? Then who looks after you? A-Un?" Rin giggled "No, A-un is my friend. Sesshoumaru looks after me" Sera swallowed "Sesshoumaru?" Rin nodded. 'I know that name that is Inuyasha's brother from the anime series. Rin and A-Un. I should have known. Ohh dear me I am so dead, he will gut me as soon as he sees me with her. I'm a youkai and I have no chance of learning to us pow powers before he gets here. But can’t just leave her. Perhaps he won’t kill he in front of her then perhaps I have a change of escaping. Or perhaps I can bargain with him, I don't know if I will ever get back home and from what I know this plis dis dangerous, I need to learn how to use my powers, don't even know what they are yet.' she nodded to herself. 'I will at least try'. She turned her attention back to Rin, put down the sketchbook and gently lifted Rin on to her lap, cradling the little girl in her arms “now about that story” she started but Rin looked up at her. “Can I have song instead?” Sera smiled as she thought of a song that would fit as a lullaby, it was getting late. Then she remembered a movie she had seen not so long ago “The Prince of Egypt” there was her perfect lullaby. Gently she started singing holding Rin in her arms.

{Hush now, my baby
Be still love, don't cry
Sleep like you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember
My lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dream

Drift on a river
That flows through my arms
Drift as I'm singing to you
I see you smiling
So peaceful and calm
And holding you, I'm smiling, too
Here in my arms
Safe from all harm
Holding you, I'm smiling, too

Hush now, my baby
Be still, love, don't cry
Sleep like you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember this river lullaby
And I'll be with you when you dream
I'll be with you when you dream.}

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Sesshoumaru made his was back from his patrolling, trying to ignore Jaken’s blabbering, when suddenly he stopped as the smell of a youkai reached him from the direction of the clearing he left Rin in. With out a word he started running towards the clearing, ignoring Jaken’s protests. ‘I wasn’t gone that long; if the bastard has hurt Rin I will tear him to peaces’.
As he neared the clearing the sent grew, making him certain that the youkai was in the clearing. He picked up his pace. Then the gentle voice of someone singing a song hit him. He could not understand the words but it sounded like one of those songs a mother would sing to calm her pup. He snuck up to the clearing not making a sound and took a look at the situation before him. Rin was sitting in the lap of a female tiger youkai leaning against her sleeping; on her knee a strange piece of cloth was apparently stuck. The tigress was cradling the girl as a mother, holding her gently rocking hHer Her long white hair flowing down from her head hid her face. She was wearing some strange clothes. ‘I wouldn’t even call her shirt clothes, not even a gaishou would wear a shirt like that. It is far to revealing. It leaves nothing to the imagination’. He listened as the last chord died and the tigress let her head rest on top of Rin’s. Then he moved into the clearing deliberately stepping on a twig. Her head snapped up holding Rin tighter with out waking her, and he found himself looking into a pair of grey-blue wide scared eyes. He almost gasped ‘She is perfect, from the depth of her eyes to her little nose and her soft looking lips’. He clenched his hand into a fist and forced those thoughts from his mind ‘I need to get an answer from her’. “Who are you and what are you doing here?” he asked in a cold voice. He could see her swallow before she gently laid Rin besides A-Un. The tigress stroked the child’s cheek and placed a loving kiss on her nose, before getting up and slowly walking over to Sesshoumaru. ‘She is afraid of me I can smell it. Good I can use that to get the knowledge I need’. She stood in front of him head bowed afraid to look him in the eyes. He smiled to himself, this would be easier than he had expected. She lifted her head and looked him straight in his golden, as their eyes met she gave out a small gasp, but she held his gaze refusing to let go. ‘She has spirit’ he mused. “My name is Sera Calliston, I am here because I heard Rin cry and I wanted to comfort her, where were you when she needed you? What if my intent was to hurt her? Would you have reached her in time?” There was an angry tone in her voice, he did not like it. “This Sesshoumaru does not have to explain himself to you, you are nothing but a lowly youkai and are not worthy of my attention” he walked past her towards Rin, looking at her for any scratches or other signs of injuries. ‘There is none, it seems she has not hurt the girl, that is for for her health. What is this?’ he picked up the sketchbook and looked at the princess draw upon the paper. “Answer me? Could you have saved her?” The scent from the tigress change from scared to angry as she stomped over to him grabbing the sketchbook and trying to get it out of his hands. He held on to it ‘is there something here she doesn’t want me to see?’ he flipped a page and found himself looking at a drawing of her. “Give me my book” she demanded. He looked at her with his normal cold expression “Why is there something in here you do not want me to see?” he asked, she paled. ‘Now what could that be that she did not want me to see’ he flipped a couple of more pages displaying various persons until he came upon one of him. He eyed her ‘so she has drawings of me? What does this mean’ “woman you have some explaining to do, this Sesshoumaru does not like being the object of your art”. He could smell her anger. ‘What is up with this woman, she doesn’t react normally. Other Youkai would have run away or tried at least, does she not fear me?’ “Ohh you don’t like my art do you? Well fine” She grabbed the book and pulled it from his grasp, then she tore out the drawing of him and creased it into a little ball before throwing at him, him didn’t even flinch. “Here” she yelled, then with a quick glance over to Rin she lower her voice and hissed “take it then, I don’t care” he just stared at her with his uncaring expression. She dug into her bag and pulled out a sheet protector. She took the princess drawing and put in the protector and marched over to Rin, purposely ignoring Sesshoumaru. ‘Why am I allowing this? I have killed youkais for lesser insults. There is something different about this one, she shows every indication of knowing who and what I am, yet she moved rather quickly from fear to anger and she had no idea I was watching her earlier she should have been able to feel my person long before I came to the clearing, yet she showed no sign of doing so, has she had no training with her powers? Perhaps I should test this later when she is away from Rin’. With that decision he just watched closely as Sera gently kneeled besides Rin and stroked her cheek. “Kitten, you need to wake for a moment” she whispered to the sleeping child who yarned and open her eyes. “Sera, is there something wrong?” Rin looked into Sera’s eyes reading in her face that something was indeed wrong. Sera smiled sadly “I have to go, Kitten.” She glanced up at Sesshoumaru who was looking the other way like he didn’t care, but she knew he listen carefully to every word they said. “I have some things I need to do, here you can keep this drawing I made for you and when ever you feel alone you can look at it and know that I am thinking of you, okay?” Rin nodded and Sera gave her a kiss on the forehead. “I’ll come back to see you again, I promise”. Sesshoumaruyebryebrow went up at her statement.
She gave Rin a hug and stood up. Looking angrily at Sesshoumaru she grabbed her bag and walked out of the clearing.

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due to random RL stuff it might take some time before I get more chapters up, and the lack of reveiws isn't very encouraging, so if you want it to go faster with the updates give me an reveiw, plz. Sry about the delay