Laying Amongst the Dead

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any of its characters

Chapter One

Drip. Drip. Drip.

The dripping went on forever, it was starting to give me a head ache. Not that I didn't have one already. I opened my eyes and found myself in what looked like a dark and damp room. I realized that I was on my stomach on a wet floor.

I groaned softly. My side was killing side. I raised my head and winced. I had a bad crick in my neck. I focused on the blurry figure in front of my and tried to ignore my pain.

I blinked a couple times and tried to clear my blurry vision. My face turned a deadly pale as I stared at the face of a skeleton that still had blood on its bones.

I screamed and staggered to my feet.

Oh god.

CRUNCH.

I swallowed hard as I felt and heard a crunch from under my foot. I held my breath as I looked down near my feet. A scream escaped from my mouth as I looked at another bloody skeleton.

I jumped away from the skeleton and backed away with them still in sight. I hit something hard and sighed. At least there were only two disgusting skeleton's.

Where am I? What am I doing in a place like this? Where's InuYasha?

I leaned against the hard object and suddenly heard something crash to the floor nest to me. I clenched my fists and looked down at the fallen object. My eyes widened as I stared at a helmet.

Oh no!

I turned and placed my hands over my mouth. I had been leaning against a dead…warrior or something. It didn't even look dead. I reached out and gently touched the breast plate.

The person suddenly grabbed my forearm and pulled it towards my mouth. I screamed and yanked my arm away from the man. I stumbled back and felt something crunch beneath me.

I rolled over and screamed louder then ever. I was inches from the bloody skeleton's face. I could see the blood drip from its skull.

"Somebody help me!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

oOoOoOoOo Sesshomaru's POV oOoOoOoOo

I leaned against my window seal and stared out at my land. Rin was playing in the gardens near the pond. But my attention wasn't exactly on the girl. It was on my half-brother.

I felt a smile come across my lips. I had waited years to kill my half-brother, InuYasha, and I finally succeeded. I stabbed Inuyasha through his half-demon heart. I wasn't happy about the reward I earned after my half-brother's death, but I would find something to do with the girl. I didn't understand why my brother loved the human. She was attractive,but human all the same.

I felt my smile fad from my lips as my thoughts wondered to the girl that was mow lying unconscious in my dungeons. (I don't know if Sesshomaru has a dungeon or not.) She had been foolish to challenge me after my brother had fallen. I could still remember my sword slicing her side open.

"Foolish girl," I murmured a loud.

She should have heeded to my warnings. She would have gone unharmed, but she was angry and I couldn't really blame her for her sudden burst of hostility. I had indeed killed her lover. I knocked her out with a smack to the head. Pathetic human. So weak and fragile. I was surprised I hadn't killed her.

"Aw!" a scream caught my attention as I stared, dazed, out my window.

It's coming from the dungeon! The guards better have kept their distant from the girl. They have absolutely no reason to harm her. She behind bars for Christ's sake. What do they think she's going to do? Throw evil bones at them?

I spun away from the window and out of my room. I growled as a servant tripped in front of me. The servant scrambled out of the way and cowered next to the wall.

"I'm sorry milord. Please forgive me," the woman pleaded as she covered her face.

I growled and walked past her.

Humans. Disgusting things.

"Aww," the girl in the dungeon screamed again.

I could feel her heartbeat now. She was at the verge of having a panic attack. I quickened my pace and nearly ran down the stairs to get to the screaming girl. Her fright was getting me extremely anxious for some reason.

"Aww," the blasted girl screamed, making me flinch at the pitch her scream. Her scream was deafening to my sensitive ears.

I reached the dungeon and ran to her call. She was falling backwards. She smashed against one of the skeletons on the floor and rolled over. Her face turning to an even deadlier white then it already was.

"Somebody help me!" she screamed with tears brimming her eyes.

I growled as her scream hurt my ears...again.

Bloody girl.

I opened the cell door and stepped in. "There's no need to yell," I snarled loudly.

She looked up at me and scrambled to her feet. She threw herself against my chest, leaning into my armor and wept. I stood there, not knowing what to do. I wanted to throw her back down with the bloody skeletons, but…her weeping stopped me. She had truly been afraid of these lifeless forms.

"Stop crying, girl. There's no need for your tears," I said coldly.

"Y-Yes…there is," she sniffled.

She stepped away from my body and pointed to the skeleton on the wall. She started trembling uncontrollably as she stared at it.

That's what scared her?

"It…grabbed my arm," she sobbed.

I growled at her pathetic human emotions and stocked towards the skeleton that was hanging from the wall. It was indeed not dead. The meat on its bones were not melted away like the other ones were. The hands were also moving.

So the girl was telling the truth.

I grabbed my fang and sliced the head off. The hands immediately stopped moving. O\I sighed and replaced my fang.

"Aww." the girl screamed yet again.

"Now what?" I asked darkly and spun around to see that the girl was on the floor with a skeleton crawling up her legs.

The stench of rotting meat was starting to make me get a headache. The blood that covered the skeletons had a weird scent to them that made my vision blurry and my body fell weak.

"Strange," I muttered.

"Get it off, Sesshomaru!" the girl shrieked.

I sighed and stepped towards her. I hissed when something bit deeply into my flesh. I looked down and stared at the skeleton head I had cut from the body just seconds ago. He growled and swiped his fang down to meet the persistent skull that wanted to rip the flesh from his bones.

It shrieked when his blade slit in in half. It dropped lifelessly to the floor and moved no more. I then looked up and saw that the girl was trying her hardest to beat the skull away. It wasn't working all that well.

"Stupid skeleton," she yelled and punched the skeletons head until the skull fell into it's rib cage.

She gasped. The skeleton was like the skeleton skull he had killed. It wanted flesh. It wanted more bones.

I yelled out in alarm when I felt something grab onto my tail and bite down. I turned and saw another skeleton that had come from the shadows. It was happily chomping on my tail.

I growled and flicked two fingers at the skeleton. It scattered into pieces around my tail.

The girl suddenly screamed again. I turned and saw that the skeleton had a tight hold on her breast. I instantly stepped forward and cut the skeleton's hands off and kicked the body away from the girl. I grabbed the hands that were still connected to her breasts and gently tore them away and crushed them in my hand.

I grabbed heer hand and placed my fang back. I carefully helped the girl to her feet and looked at the state she was in. She was still pale and she had blood dripping from her side where my fang had sliced into her earlier. She obviously didn't notice by the way she was acting.

"It's time to leave," I said sternly and yanked her behind me.

"Thank you, Seeshomaru. I thought that I was a goner," she mumbled softly while she squeezed my hand gently.

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Well, that was my first chapter. What do you think? This is my first fanfic so I might be a little rusty in some places. I hope you like it though. I'll have chapter two out soon I hope. Well, love ya.