At First Sight by FluffyFox

Chapter 1: Inu Priestess

At First Sight

A/N- This one I've been working on for a while. Since I'm creating new ways that everything occured in the anime and manga of InuYasha, hopefully this will work out.

Disclaimer- I don't own InuYasha, even though I would love to bring Fluffy and Inu home anyday!

Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Inu Priestess

Feudal Era...

The night's moisture hung heavily to the air as the large form of a Demon Dog prowled his lands, Sesshoumaru hated night duty but being a faithful son, he had done as his father had asked him too.

Looking up at the sky he discovered that it was a new moon night, 'that bastard is going to be born soon,' shuddering at that thought, Sesshoumaru continued down the hill and into a wide valley.

Since winter had passed only months ago the grass was still struggling to grow back, there were wide patches of brown and grey grass, here and there, thus showing that the time had come for new grass to grow in the stead of the old.

As he made his way across the valley, Sesshoumaru's ears picked up a loud scream that resounded in the distance, '...it can't be that human woman she's miles away...better check anyway, father would be rather displeased to find out that I had done nothing.'

Having made up his mind, Sesshoumaru silently cursed his father as he ran off into the trees where the scream had come from, still unsure that this was the right course of action he sniffed the air.

Almost automatically the scent of blood hit his nostrils, it was human and female, but there was another sent as well.

'Panther Demon...' growling angrily at the audacity of the demon, he hurried to the location of that offending smell making sure to transform back into his human form, 'no demon has the right to see me in my true form!'

As he approached, he could hear the female human screaming at the demon as she tried a pathetic attempt to be let go.

Letting loose a low and threatning growl, he stepped out into the small clearing his eyes automatically locking on the form of a lower ranked Panther Demon. The Demon cringed when it saw him but oddly it didn't turn and run, even though it knew that it had no chance in hell at defeating Sesshoumaru, instead the Demon lunged forward.

Surprisingly the Demon wasn't headed for him, following the Demon's trajectory, Sesshoumaru saw the human female he had smelled from earlier.

She was lying upon her side, blood was streaming out from between her legs as she tried to move away, her yukata was stained with mud and now blood. Her once clean and kept hair was now a dirty mess, her eyes were wide with fear and pain as a contraction sweapt through her still quivering form.

'She's giving birth...Hmph, stupid female, she has no chance of survival.'

Sesshoumaru just watched as the Demon landed before the woman, expecting the Demon to just kill the woman he waited, but yet again the Demon surprised him, instead of killing the woman the Demon bent down and spoke kindly to the woman.

"Calm yourself human, I am not going to harm you...I've come for your child," the woman's face shifted between relieved and frightened at the Demon's words, "Why?"

Instead of answering the Demon got to it's feet and faced Sesshoumaru, "I will not let you take this human, we need her child, let me leave with her now and I swear never to enter your lands again."

Sesshoumaru's curiosity was perked at the Demons straight forward statement, directing his attentions to the woman, Sesshoumaru studied her form and her scent, '...hmmm, there seems to be something strange about her pup, it has an odd yet familiar scent.'

"Tell me why you want her child and I might consider letting you leave with it," the Demon flinched at his powerful words, Sesshoumaru had made sure that his voice had a tone that told the Demon to cut the crap or die.

Taking a slight step back the Demon slowly responded, it's voice quaking with fear, "the child is an Inu Priestess. Her value is great to us Panther Demon's, we have been waiting a long time for such a child to be born and now that she is almost among us I must return with her so that she may be trained properly. Now, I have respectfully answered your question, may I leave now?"

Sesshoumaru was frozen in place and had not heard anything the Demon had said after he mentioned 'Inu Priestess,' moving forward, Sesshoumaru came to a stop before the human, she was shaking horribly as she tried to keep her child inside of her instead of giving birth.

The Panther Demon took the chance and lunged at Sesshoumaru, not even turning around, Sesshoumaru sliced the Demon in half with one stroke of his poisonous claws.

Licking the blood off his nails, Sesshoumaru turned his attention back to the woman before him, "Woman...did you understand what that Demon said about your un-born daughter?"

"Y...yes..." barely keeping in her screams the woman held a steady stare with Sesshoumaru.

"Good, then I have nothing to explain, this Sesshoumaru will go right to the point then. I want your daughter and either you are going to give birth to her naturally or I shall remove her from your lifeless corpse, the choice is yours."

The woman's face lost it's color completely at Sesshoumaru's last words, glancing about to see if any help was coming, the woman directed her attention back to Sesshoumaru knowing that this was her only choise if she wanted her daughter to live.

"As you wish milord Demon, but please allow me to raise my child if I survive the birthing process, that is all I ask."

Nodding his head in quick approval, Sesshoumaru choked back a gag as he lifted the woman up into his arms and let his demon traveling cloud appear, stepping onto it he felt the woman shift her weight so that she could breathe without it touching Sesshoumaru's face.

Sesshoumaru ignored the woman as he directed his cloud towards the nearest human village, his home was too far away to reach or he would head there, after a few minutes of traveling Sesshoumaru touched down in the middle of the village.

Looking about he could see countless human's surrounding him, surprisingly one stepped forward and bowed, "Milord Sesshoumaru...to what do we owe this honor?"

"Silence! I need a healer, this woman is having trouble in the birthing process, I wish her child to survive," answering slowly, Sesshoumaru made sure that the human's would not think that this woman's child was his, the very thought of that made his skin crawl.

"I am healer! Bring her after me milord, I can help her."

Hearing the soft voice of a woman, Sesshoumaru turned to see a priestess pushing her way through the crowd, scanning her form he could see that she was pregnant as well, but was only a few months so.

Nodding his head, Sesshoumaru followed behind the priestess as she lead him away from the village and to a small hut that was separated from all the others of the village.

As they approached Sesshoumaru saw a man make his way over to them, he was young but from his scent, Sesshoumaru could tell that he was the father of the priestess child. From his clothes, Sesshoumaru could discern that he was a very highly ranking monk and smelled of herbs, the man bowed deeply as he stepped aside to allow Sesshoumaru to carry the woman into the hut.

Once inside the Priestess pointed to a straw mat that lay on the floor, "please set her down here Milord."

Sesshoumaru just nodded his head as he set the woman down lightly, glancing down at the front of his kimono he saw that the woman's blood had stained the silky material, 'curse that human, now I have to bathe.'

"Milord, this woman, where did you find her? I can tell already that she is not your mate, so why did you bring her here?" hearing the monk's voice Sesshoumaru turned about to glance at him.

"I wish to take her child, that is all, her life is of no consequence to me," speaking in his normal neutral tone, he almost smirked when both the monk and priestess stared at him in utter shock and anger.

"P...please...help me, I have already said that he could have my daughter for saving my life, so please deliver my child..." the woman's voice was weak and Sesshoumaru could tell that she would be dead pretty soon.

Hearing the woman speak the priestess turned back to her and only nodded her head as she motioned to the monk lightly, nodding his head the monk turned to Sesshoumaru, "you need to leave, just wait outside."

Sesshoumaru was slightly surprised that they wanted him to leave but he didn't speak and just turned about, once outside he could see that most of the human's of this village were watching from the distance.

He didn't care, as long as he got the child nothing else mattered, moving over towards a nearby tree he jumped up into it.

He listened to the screaming of the human woman inside of the hut as she pushed the child out, 'an Inu priestess,' a cruel smile grew upon Sesshoumaru's lips as he recalled what his father had told him about Inu priestess's.

'Inu priestess are the most powerful priestess or spell caster, they are only females because as everyone knows, the female of the species is always stronger than the male, though there are a few exceptions.

Now, the Inu priestess holds the power, that if trained correctly, she can entice any and all male Inu demons around her.

If trained by a male Inu demon from childbirth, her powers of enticement have no effect upon that male because she will consider him as a special case.

Now, one look into her eyes is all it takes for a male Inu youkai to fall in love with her, but her on the other hand can only fall in love once.

Since she puts off a sent that unmated male Inu youkai's can't resist, she will only fall in love with a male Inu youkai, it is all part of her abilities as an Inu priestess. The rest of her powers are like that of any priestess but only a hundred times stronger, she has the ability to purify anything and everything around her except male Inu youkai's, the female of our species is not protected and would be purified.

There is more though, if and when the Inu priestess falls in love that male Inu youkai will...'

At the time when his father was telling him this he was still young, but his father was never able to finish because that was the day that his mate, 'my mother,' died from a deep wound she had attained from the war with the Panther demon tribe.

Hearing movement outside the hut, Sesshoumaru looked down to see the monk walking out, a small bundle in his arms.

Leaping down quickly, Sesshoumaru walked towards the monk, his eyes focused wholly upon the sleeping form in the bundle of cloth. A slight trace of the woman's blood wafted to his nose, "the mother is dead, is she not?"

Already knowing the answer to that question, Sesshoumaru reached out his hands slowly, letting them encircle the small child, pulling the child against his chest he looked down.

The child had raven hair like it's mother, but a few strands were a dark blue color, other than that the child had the mark of the Inu priestess upon the right shoulder and that was what caught his attention the most.

The mark was a dark blue symbol, it looked like a large dog, 'the true form of a male Inu youkai, interesting.'

"Yes, the mother is dead...but Milord, I must ask. I saw the mark upon her shoulder and I wish to know, what does it mean?"

The monk's question pulled Sesshomaru's gaze away from the child in his arms, "it is simple, she is an Inu priestess, now I must leave."

Speaking solemnly, Sesshomaru drew his demon traveling cloud about himself and took off into the air, heading directly towards his father's castle.

The monk could only stare in shock as Sesshoumaru and the child disappeared into the distance, the only words that could be heard was, "may she grow strong and beautiful," with that uttered the monk turned about and walked back towards his hut to tell his wife of this.

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Flying swiftly, Sesshoumaru made his way towards his father's castle as his hair whipped about behind him, letting his tail curl over the small child he as felt a rather strange sensation come over him.

The girl was still sleeping but her breath's were coming out soft coo's instead, surprisingly Sesshoumaru felt his lips twist into a gentle smile as he looked down at her sleeping form, 'she looks so beautiful...oh Kami, did I just think that?'

Shaking his head violently Sesshoumaru looked ahead seeing his father's castle just up ahead, flying faster he reached the main courtyard of the castle and landed softly.

He had sensed his father's presence already and just waited as his father approached him holding a small bundle to his chest as well.

"Sesshoomaru, what are you holding, it smells of human's," his father's voice was deep with a tint of amusement as he stopped at Sesshomaru's side, glancing down at the sleeping child his eyes widened dramatically.

Sesshoumaru saw this but was too busy examining the form of the small child his father held, the child was male by it's sent and it had silver hair, there were also two small but prominent dog ears adorning his little head.

"I see that your human bitch was able to bare you a son, may I assume that she is still among the living then?"

Sesshoumaru filled his voice with obvious venom as he glared at his father.

"That, my son, is none of your concern. Besides, if I may, why did you bring a newborn human child here?" his father reached a finger towards the child that Sesshoumaru was holding slowly, Sesshoumaru let out a low protective growl from the back of his throat as he backed away slightly, his eyes flashing dangerously.

"I have a need for her, but I'd like to know, what did you call that half-breed in your arms?"

Sesshoumaru didn't wish to bring up the subject of an Inu Priestess just yet so he decided to just stall for a while.

"Hmmm... his name is InuYasha, now tell me, what purpose do you need this child for?" his father was apparently loosing his cool because he was flexing his claws as he glared back at Sesshoumaru as if daring him to fight him.

Sesshoumaru only nodded his head as he pulled the blanket back on the child revealing the symbol on the child's shoulder, his father's breath caught as he gripped Sesshoumaru's shoulder tightly.

"Sesshoumaru, do you know what this means, you must get her away from here right now before her power has the chance to meld with your youkai blood."

Sesshoumaru's eyes widened slightly, "What do you mean, she is still an infant, there is no chance of that ever occurring."

He watched as his father's sent became distressed and agitated, Sesshoumaru glanced down at the child in his arms again and saw that the mark on her arm was beginning to change colors, it was going from dark blue to the magenta of his own stripes.

"Hand her to me Sesshoumaru, now before she has a chance to meld with you completely," Sesshoumaru glanced at his father in complete confusion as he started to move towards him, but something held him in place, it was a comforting feeling but very possessive.

'What is this sensation...I don't understand,' "Father, I am unable to move, why is this occurring and why is her mark changing colors?" he needed answers, Sesshoumaru tried to step back and found he could.

Hearing his father sigh deeply he focused his attention on his father watching as he sat down and met his eyes.

"Sesshoumaru, when I told you about Inu Priestess I left out a few details about their abilities, that of course was because I never thought that you could find one nowadays. The female in your arms may be a new born but she still is a female, you are the first Inu Youkai that she has come into contact with and to make matters worse, you are an unmated male of mating age."

Sesshoumaru followed suit and sat down as well as he slowly processed all of the information he was receiving, he watched as his father struggled with talking about this and a foreboding sensation was starting to flow through him as he listened on.

"You already know of an Inu Priestesses ability to attract all male Inu Youkai's around her except that of the male that has raised and trained her. There is a catch though, this male that has been training her has already..."

Sesshoumaru felt something bad was about to happen but he had to know what was occurring so he pressed on, "please continue father."

Letting out a sigh his father muttered a couple words under his breath and stood up, he then proceeded to approach Sesshoumaru and touched his shoulder.

"The male has consented to be the mate of the Inu Priestess once she comes of age and if she chooses him over any other male they will mate."

Sesshoumaru's eyes shot open as wide as they could go as he shot to his feet, his eyes drifted to the child in his arms as her mark had fully turned magenta. He felt his heart almost stop as the child's eyes drifted open and locked with his, her swirling orbs of the deepest blue held an emotion that Sesshoumaru could only register as complete and utter possession.

'This child, this human female has claimed me...' his thought's were only a whisper as he watched the child roll over lightly and drift back into a deep and peaceful sleep.

"Father, what am I to do to prevent this?"

Sesshoumaru was desperate now, there was no way in hell that he wanted a human mate, unlike his father he thought that was degrading not to mention utterly ridiculous.

"I don't know Sesshoumaru, by the color of her mark she has already accepted you as a suitor, the only thing I can think of is to leave her somewhere and hopefully you will never meet again."

His father was shaking his head as he touched the child with one of his claws gently, he then chuckled deeply to himself as he continued.

"It seems that she has accepted me as her father as well, which only means that her and InuYasha will be like brother and sister, that is if you decide to keep her here."

With that said, Sesshoumaru could only watch as his father turned about and entered the castle without a single glance back. Sesshoumaru glared down at the child, his thoughts whirling as he drew his demon traveling cloud about himself again, as he took off towards to north he had his mind set on what he had to do.

Reaching his destination, Sesshoumaru walked through the trees stopping only once to glance at the sacred god tree which was the resting place of his mother, 'I'm getting distracted...better just continue before I forget what I came here to do in the first place.'

Moving past the god tree he made his way into an open meadow, the only thing that stood out here was a small wooden well that sat by itself in the center of the meadow. Approaching it, he took a last look down at the sleeping child and did something completely out of character for him, he placed a gentle kiss on her forehead as he wrapped his tail about her and lowered her into the well.

Making sure that she was still sleeping and was laying comfortably at the bottom of the well, he released his tail from her and turned about, calling his demon cloud he started back towards his home.

He assured himself that a human would find her and raise her, but most importantly that they would never meet again.

He was too lost in his thought's though to notice that the well was glowing a bright blue and then faded leaving the night to remain still as Sesshoumaru disappeared from the forest never to return again, or so he thought.

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Beyond the well-

A woman walked up the steps to her home which was known as the Higurashi shrine carrying her groceries in one hand, as she passed the old well house she heard a faint sound coming from inside it.

Setting down the bags she made her way towards the building, as she got closer the sound increased in pitch, thinking that someone had gotten trapped inside so she pulled the door open quickly and rushed inside.

She discovered that the sound was coming from inside the well, running over she pulled out a flashlight and shined it inside, she almost fell back in surprise when she saw the small child laying there a blanket wrapped about it.

"Father! Get out here quick!"

Screaming, the woman threw a leg over the mouth of the well, then proceeded to let herself climb down to the child with out even thinking about it.

Upon reaching the bottom the woman reached over and pulled the child into her arms, the child was squirming as it fought grabbing at something invisible. The woman hummed lightly trying to calm the child as she opened the blanket and found that the child was a girl and was still rather bloody, meaning that someone had just abandoned her here.

There was a scuffling outside as an elderly man came barreling inside, upon reaching the lip of the well the man was breathing heavily as he glanced down into the well, "Daughter, are you in there?"

"Yes father, please send down the rope, I need to get out quickly."

Nodding his head the man went about untying the rope from the sides of the well, while she waited the woman had been examining the form of the child in her arms.

She discovered that the child had a mark on her shoulder, it had started to blur and was almost all gone, but she could make out that it was in the shape of a large dog and held a strange mix of dark blue and magenta.

The child slowly calmed and buried her face in the woman's chest as the man lowered the rope down to the woman, she only smiled as she took hold of the rope and with the help of the man finally was out of the well.

The man went about rolling up the rope as the woman moved as if in a trance, she walked outside and past her forgotten groceries as she stopped before the house.

Pulling the child closer the woman whispered to the child in her arms, "Welcome home, my Kagome..."

A/N- Well, there you go. I hope that wasn't too vauge on the subject of the Inu Priestess, I just made it up so what can you so huh? Anyway, I hope you guy's liked it enough to review. Hopefully the questions you have will be answered in the next chapter!

Till Then...