Sesshoumaru Meets His Match?

* I don't own any Inuyasha characters except for the ones I have made up,( such as Liz, Susan, blah, blah, blah, you get the idea ) and taken from my own twisted and disturbed mind *

Also on a little side note, I am going to be taking some poetic license here so please don't freak out. Just enjoy the story. The word key was moved to the bottom of the story.

Anyways, on with the story I say!

Chapter 2 - Surprise Surprise Look Who Has Arrived!

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It wasn’t long after Liz dozed off that two figures came out of the near-by bushes making a slight rustling noise as they came through them. One was a tall, well built man dressed in a fine kimono with spiked armor going across his chest. Over his right shoulder was a long fur that touched the ground. To top off this gorgeous picture was a mane of silver-blue hair going down to the backs of his knees. His companion however, was not so handsome looking, he wasn't over a foot and half-tall and wore a drab brown robe and had a funny looking hat on his head and carried an oddly shaped staff with two heads came through the underbrush. They stopped walking when they came to the spot where Liz was laying against the log.

"Master what have we here but an intruder! We should dispose of this human trash before more come from where this one did!" said the shorter one in a obsequious tone of voice, the kind that the tall man found irritating at times, and this being one of them.

"Be silent Jaken." This was said in quiet and unemotional voice as Sesshoumaru studied the girl closely as she slept against the rotted log in *his* forest. As he was looking over her, he noted a few things about her; one was that her hair was in a single braid and pulled over her right shoulder and that it was red. It was also very long, almost as long as his hair is now. And most importantly, she smelled much cleaner than the usual peasant ( human or demon ), but she wasn't dressed like them. In fact it reminded him of that wench that traveled with his 'brother'. However, just thinking of that was enough to make him mad, for he hated that filthy half-breed, the one who dared to claim their father's sword the Tetsusaiga, but he was digressing. Bringing his thoughts back to the present with a slight disgusted shake of his head, he nudged the girl over with his foot that brought her to full lucidity, not to mention into a state of slight panic at such a wake up.

Liz was dazed, confused, and a bit panicky from the rude awakening. She was having a pleasant dream that involved Emily getting tied to a stake in the middle of the desert so the vultures pick at her rotting corpse. Now she just wished that she could see who woke her up and give them a piece of her mind. However, she couldn’t as the fog was still very thick and whoever did it retreated back into it. So she just sat there. After a few minutes though of just sitting there and waiting made her even more nervous. In fact so nervous that when somebody suddenly gripped her forearm it sent her into a full blown panic which included, screeching like a banshee and swinging wildly with her free hand. She didn’t hit anything, but after a second swing, the hand holding her arm let go and when that happened she took the opportunity to run.

Sesshoumaru let go after the second swing. He was incensed that she would dare try to strike him, Lord Sesshoumaru. It didn't matter to him that he was the cause of all this, it didn't matter to him that she could not see him in the dark with her human eyes. No, the only thing that mattered to him was the she dared to try to strike him. He gave chase.

*Run! Run! Run!* That was the only thing Liz could think of now, that and she hoped that her friends were out here somewhere looking for her. Moreover, who knew what was going to happen to her at the hands of this unseen stranger, for all she knew it was a deranged maniac. What happens if he keeps her as a prisoner? In addition, what if she is stuck here forever and, and, and...What was that sound? It sounded like a slight whooshing sound! There, to her left! In front of her!? She screamed again for all that she was worth and then some when a dark silhouette appeared in front of her from seemingly out of nowhere.

Wincing slightly as the sound irritated his sensitive demon ear, he decided that enough was enough! Growling he went to lunge at her but at the last minute, she must have sensed him coming toward her and backed up. However, in her haste to get away from him, she didn't see the exposed tree root sticking out of the ground and tripped and fell.

*Stupid human*, thought Sesshoumaru with disgust as she fell backwards with a small shriek.

^ THUD! thunk! ^

The muffled thunk was not a welcome sound as it meant the stupid female must have hit her head when she hit the ground. Great. Then something else became apparent as a distinctive smell wafted up to his sensitive nose, the undeniable sent of blood. It wasn't a lot, however there enough for him to smell the blood and figure out that she might not wake up anytime soon. Now the question is what to do with her. She was after all trespassing on his land.

Damnation, this wasn't his day! First stuck with a human girl-child some months ago, and now stuck with another human female! Could this day get any worse than it already was?! Oh, wait yes, there is Jaken, his toadying servant. The only thing that had made this day worth his while was the fact that the sword that was given to him wasn’t *completely* worthless, but that wasn't the point, the point was he didn't WANT this sword, he wanted the Tetsusaiga, a sword more suited to him. Sighing he bent down, and tossed the female over his shoulder, and returned to where he left Jaken. He was not in a good mood. Nope, he sure wasn't. Moreover, may the Gods help whoever dares to question his decision!

Reaching his servant who was no doubt anticipating a story of how his Lord dispatched a lowly human that was hardly worth the effort of a chase, he remembered the backpack that was sitting next to the girl before their little "romp" through the forest. Picking it up he tossed it to Jaken as he said in a detached way, "Put this on my mount, we leave." And with no other explanation to Jaken,he walked over to his two headed dragon with Jaken following closely begging for some answers. Getting tired of the incessant whine he walloped Jaken over the head and continued on towards the beast. It wasn't his day, it just wasn't.

As soon as Sesshoumaru sat on the beast he and just as he was about to give the command to leave, Jaken came running up screeching “Wait for me! Wait for me!” As the little toad demon hopped on, he silently wished to get back to his home soon. The sooner he got back there, the sooner he can dump this unwelcome burden onto someone else’s shoulders and be done with it.

Returning to the castle thirty minutes later Sesshoumaru took the child and woman to the other side of the castle well way from his quarters so he didn’t have to smell them, and dumped them with a couple of servants and went to his room to retire for the evening. He would wait until morning. Then everything would be much better but he had a feeling that things were just going to go downhill fast.

~~The next morning ~~

Standing in his private rooms at the far end of the castle and away from the foreign smell of humans in his home Sesshoumaru was debating when to go and see if his "guest" was awake and coherent enough to answer some questions when Jaken came in to report some unwelcome news to him.

"Lord Sesshoumaru! Lord Sesshoumaru! I have bad news! Terrible news! News that will no doubt put my life into danger by just telling you!” said Jaken as he tried to catch his breath from having to run from the servants’ wing all the way over to Sesshoumaru's private quarters at the opposite side of the castle.

Thinking that he was being overly dramatic as usual, he just motioned impatiently for Jaken to continue with his "bad news".

Sighing with regret that, Sesshoumaru as usual, didn’t take him seriously, he non-the-less got on with his news. It was about the young woman that he brought home last night. "The female you brought with us last night is not waking up Master Sesshoumaru! We tried rousing her but to no avail! Me thinks she is more injured than we first thought."

Not believing this, Sesshoumaru, looking unimpressed with this news, just stared at Jaken as if he wanted to beat him senseless. In fact, he did just that. Jaken now sported about ten new lumps on his head for his troubles. He was lucky though, Sesshoumaru may have just tossed him to Ah-Uhn for a morning snack. However, Sesshoumaru was about to find out how wrong he was in thinking that the girl was just faking it. Because by mid-day, she still hadn't awakened. Jaken knew Sesshoumaru still wanted answers. And he didn't want her to die just yet, and certainly not from a bump on the head. No, Lord Sesshoumaru wanted that particular pleasure for himself, but after he got what he wanted of course. And he always got his way.

~~ Later that evening ~~

"Is there any change yet in her condition", asked Sesshoumaru as he stood over the sleeping woman in her room.

"I am sorry to say not yet." said a servant that was watching the girl for any signs that she was waking up. And that is why they didn't hear the slight intake of her breath as she woke up and got a good eyeful of who was standing over her. One was a man so stunning that she had to blink to make sure she wasn't dead and this was Heaven, the other was an ancient and shriveled looking woman. It looked like a good breeze would send her flying. However, there was one watching her and she heard him as he exclaimed in a squawky voice, "Look Master! She wakes!"

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A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, but unfortunately this will the last time I can update so quickly, I don't have a lot of time for me to do this cause of classes, but I will try to update as often as I can. But please review, I enjoyed all the reviews I got on my first chapter, so thanks guys!

I would also like to apologize to Inuko, who gave me my VERY first review before I accidentally deleted the story, including the review! If you are out there, please, please re-read my fic if you want, I promise not to do again! And this is what Inuko had to say about it:

[QUOTE] I...I loved it. and I really mean it! please write more!(^_^)ja'ne [/QUOTE]

Thanks for reviewing and I am sorry that I did that, I was trying to correct something and you know what happened....

Misato_Katsuragi2 ( FF.net ) aka SilverFox ( AFF.net )