Blemished Armor: Untainted Innocence by Mizztrapped

Chapter 1

Blemished Armor: Untainted Innocence

By: lito-muffin

Chapter 1-

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"She will do as her name says, I know it."

"If you believe it dear, so will I."

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She looked tentatively to her left, then repeated the action to the right of her. Seeing the coast was clear, she straightened up from her spot in the bushes and squared her small seven-year old shoulders.

She took one step. Then another, and another, following the cracked rocky slabs on the ground until she reached the green foliage in front of her. Pushing aside the branches she stepped further in and stood there gazing at the object of the fairy tale known to her all her life.

The Enhanced.

The story that went with The Enhanced was now but an old wives tale, one of those entrancing stories to keep little children occupied while their mothers were off busy somewhere else. But Kagome really believed it, she really did. She remembered how the story had captivated her attention from the very beginning when her nanny had told her the breath-taking episodes that the door brought.

The beings that her mother regularly talked about, these...humans fascinated her like no toy she ever came in contact with, she knew they survived, they were real, that was why her race was made, to protect the weaker race beneath them. After all, it was them who breathed life into these humans, it only seemed fit to protect them as well.

She fingered the door, tracing the intricate designs clearly etched onto the oak wood, she traced the picture of a dancing woman with a cloudy substance swirling around her, a funny old man with a rather large pot belly carrying a long pole with two baskets on either ends on top of his shoulders, full of flopping fish, she traced every groove, every hollow until she reached the left end of the wide door, a golden knob was there, shining and glittering, luring Kagome to open it, she obliged, twisting the unfamiliar knob in her hand, she flung the heavy door open.

The world was frozen for just a second.

Just as quickly as it was gone, the noises came flying back at Kagome, the whole thunderous chatter of nature now hovering her head like a tsunami, her world was spinning around her like a crazy slideshow, the colors twisting around her causing a cyclone of iridescence, she heard a loud wail, a scream, then she realized it was hers. Her hair was flailing behind her, whipping around in the wind, her eyes started blurring as the wind picked up, causing her eyes to sting with the dryness of not blinking.

An ethereal blue light started to shine from the door, the glow seeping around the wooden frame to the ground to join the spiraling colors surrounding Kagome, her eyes widened more and more as the wind seemed to close over her, the tips now connected with each other causing Kagome to be trapped in the whirlwind of blinding light, she quickly spun around searching for a way out, her screaming still ongoing as she stumbled as the colors started to wrap around the bottom of her feet causing her to sit on the floating colors.

She whimpered. She wanted her mother, anyone, someone...she didn't care who it was, she didn't care how much trouble she would be for not telling the elders about her discovery, she just wanted to be back home and playing with her dolls, she wanted to jump into the comfort of her mother. She just wanted out. Without warning, her world tipped over, causing her to fall into a dark hole of nothingness.

The last thing she saw was a large tree with pink sakura blossoms floating gently to the ground.

Smiling at the one familiar sight, she slowly succumbed to the embrace the darkness held out to her.

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"Ugh."

Kagome sat up frowning, her lips curling into a babyish pout. Looking around, she searched for her mother who she knew should be here with her, she had just woken up from a dream right? She should be woken up to the familiar surroundings of her room, with her childish drawings and the papers full of practiced kanji done by a shaky hand, a wave of nausea shot through her from sitting up too quickly, she closed her eyes once more before opening them again.

She allowed her eyes to adjust from its swirling and looked around more carefully taking note of the flowers surrounding her. Beautiful, she was in a lavender field, with bright purple blossoms blooming out, peeking shyly with the green grasses, long and proud. Behind her, stood a tall oak door, right, the door that brought her to this strangely beautiful place. She licked her dry lips and continue to scout the place.

A shuffling sound was picked up from her sensitive hearing and she whipped her head to the heard noise, meanwhile trying to curl up into a tight ball of nothing, hoping whoever it was would leave her alone from this unfamiliarity.

Step

Step

St--

There was the sound of a heel of a foot hitting the grass, but it stopped halfway through, when she peeped out from underneath her arms, she shuffled backwards quickly at the sight of yellow eyes gazing down at her, not a centimeter away.

She tried, she really did, she wanted nothing more than to tear her gaze from those pools of amber, but she found herself captivated by the intense gaze and interesting coloring. Her eyes were starting to twitch as she realized that she had not blinked them for quite a while. Blue eyes closing, she only opened them again to find the identical yellow eyes glaring at her.

"Who are you? Why are you on my father's lands? You're not supposed to be here!"

She jumped backwards startled when the owner of the gorgeous eyes spoke, his tone was a serious one, but the seriousness was regrettably lessened due to the fact that his voice was but of a young child, high and squeaky.

"Who are *you*? Where am I?" She found her voice cracking as she spoke, she watched as the eyes blinked a few more times before they drew back, allowing Kagome to look at who she was talking to.

A boy...not her race. No, not at all, he looked...different, could he be...

"Human! You're human aren't you?" She mentally patted herself on the back for making such an important discovery, she smiled up at him and found herself staring at a slightly confused child.

"Human? You mean those things that walk around that smell so bad? Oh please no! I'm youkai. Full-blooded youkai at that too!" He drew himself up proudly, his little chest puffing out with pride, his nose stuck up arrogantly up into the air.

Kagome giggling turned into full blown laughter at the sight, only to cease when he turned hurtful eyes at her, she coughed a few times before smiling up at him again.

"Youkai? I've never heard of it...but you're really pretty, I like your hair!" Her smile turned into a bright grin and she nodded her head seriously to emphasize her point.

His face turned into a look of horror, "I look pretty? How could you say that? I'm a man! I do not look pretty!" He folded his hands over his chest and pouted, before returning to the nose-in-the-air pose. "You however, could call me handsome or charming."

Kagome scrunched her little eyebrows together. "What's wrong with being pretty? My mother calls me pretty all the time. I don't see anything wrong!"

The 'youkai' as he placed it, in front of her looked down his nose at her. "Well, pretty is for women, that's what my father told me! Mother always called me 'a handsome little boy', so you shall too!"

Kagome huffed, "I don't want to call you handsome. I will call you pretty, I like your hair by the way, and your eyes are really pret--" seeing his glare, she gulped and changed her wording, "--are really...nice."

She reached over and grabbed a handful of his hand into her chubby fingers. She was awed by the fact it was so soft and silky...like a cloud. She fingered the delicate strand in her hand oblivious to the owner's outraged cries.

"Ouch! That hurts! Lemme go you evil thing! Ack! Don't pull anymore! You're going to pull out all my hair! I don't want to be bald!"

She smiled as she braided the long hair in her fingers, touching the strands every so often as to tell herself that one could have such fine hair. She grinned at her handiwork and started a conversation, unaware of the pouting boy in front of her.

"What's your name? Mines Kagome, my mommy said that I will do as my name says, you know what my name means? It means protection, uh-huh, it's a very honorable name, that's what mother says, how old are you? Why are your ears pointy? Are your teeth supposed to be pointy at the ends? And why do you have such long fingernails? Do you always wash your hair? With what? I want my hair that soft too!" She took a deep breath and waited for his answer.

"I don't want to tell you my name, and I don't care about yours, I won't tell you how old I am, I don't want you to know why my teeth and ears are pointy and you don't need to know why I have long fingernails, and they are claws mind you, and only I'm allowed to have such soft hair, except for mother and father and my nanny, and your hair will never be that soft!"

Kagome looked up, hurt filling her small eyes, "do you really mean that?"

The figure started, but quickly covered it with a quick turn of his head and a small 'humph', Kagome frowned and sat back on her behind, letting the silvery strand fall out of her small fingers.

"I'll go now. I'm sorry."

The boy looked back at her and sighed when he saw her sad expression.

"Hey, I'm sorry for yelling at you, mother says I have to be a gen-gentle-gentleman when it comes to talking to girls, I'm sorry. Alright, I'll answer your questions, I'm Sesshoumaru, I'm 45 years old and my teeth and ears are pointy because I'm a youkai, I have claws because of the same reason and I don't know why my hair is so soft. Alright?"

Kagome smiled at him and nodded. "Hi Sesshou-kun, nice to meet you! Do you know where this is?"

Sesshoumaru looked at her weirdly, a confused look settling on his childish features. "This is home. Where else could it be?"

Kagome seemed satisfied with the answering and nodded with enthusiasm, "so...what do you do for fun around here?"

Sticking his nose back into his now trademark position, tilted towards the sky, he huffed, "I'm the future Lord of the Western Lands, I do not play." He drawled the word play as if it was a dirty word, but Kagome found it hysterical how his pitchy voice sounded when he tried to be serious.

"I'm sorry for laughing Sessou-kun," then she became solemn, her eyes looked pitying while her mouth tugged downwards, "you never had any fun? You poor poor youkai. Here! Let me show you how to have fun!" The sad face fell and she began to beam happily at him, she quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him behind her while chattering away.

"What is the Lord of the Western Lands? Is it a cool place? A person? Who is it? Or is it a what? Do you live near here? Do you like sakura blossoms? I love sakura trees, especially when they still have a bit of white in them, but then it's mostly pink, so pretty, don't you think so Sesshou-kun?" Kagome spotted an empty patch of field where no flowers currently resided in, she thought it would be a shame to run around in the lavender only to squish the purple flowers.

"What are you doing?" Sesshoumaru cried out. Kagome turned back to him and smiled brightly. She tugged him to the green patch lacking the purple it's neighbors adorned.

"We're going to play! You know how to play tag?" Kagome asked, while tilting her head to the side, hands on her hips. She frowned when Sesshoumaru shook his head and she sighed while biting her lower lip, her eyebrows bunching together creasing her forehead. She thought of her favorite game and began to explain the rules slowly to her new-found friend in this...place.

"Alrighty Sesshou-kun, first of all, one of us is 'it', whoever it is they will have to chase the other person until they 'tag' them, you can do that by lightly tapping them, as long as you touch them and then they're it and then they have to catch the other person! Sounds fun huh?" Clapping her hands joyfully while her face radiated with another of her smiles.

Nodding, Sesshoumaru tensely looked around to see if there was anyone who would catch him having fun. Seeing no one that would later annoying him of frolicking around, he slowly relaxed his small shoulders and gave a grin of his own to Kagome causing his fang to poke out from his top lip.

"Oh! That's so cute! You have pointy teeth that poke out! Eee! I love them!" Kagome squealed with delight, she leaned forward to poke one of the gently and pulled back when her finger touched it slightly, giggling at the sensation, she decided to poke at it again, she touched it quickly, only to pull back her hand when it neared the point.

Rolling his eyes, he stood there while the younger girl poked at his teeth, he sighed through his nose, so he wouldn't disturb the young girl in front of him who seemed to have a fetish for his fangs. After a few more pokes and pulling away followed by squealing he took her wrist and gently placed it back at her side.

"Are we going to play or not Kagome?" He looked down at the ground when he first used her name.

Her lower lip curled into a small pout and she crossed her arms over her chest, "why won't you call me Kagome-chan or Kago-chan like Seiichi does? I call you Sesshou-kun!"

Blushing, Sesshoumaru fumbled for an answer, he 'uhh'ed and 'ahhh'ed racking through his brain to find an answer that would satisfy her. Finding none he sighed in defeat and mumbled a quick, "Kagome-chan, do you want to play yet?"

Kagome cheered loudly, jumping up and down before poking him once lightly on the arm, grinning she took off yelling a 'you're it!' behind her.

Her feet pounding on the ground beneath her, Kagome rushed forward, not waiting to hear Sesshoumaru's reply, she picked up her speed and began to use her own abilities to run, she felt the air whip around her and she immediately tucked her chin to her chest and pumped her arms faster, she unconsciously felt Sesshoumaru behind her and she shrieked with laughter when he managed to barrel her over and tag her.

Kagome smiled evilly and turned to him. "I'm so going to get you back!"

Sesshoumaru only smirked and turned around. "Only if you can catch me!" Kagome watched him run off before it registered in her mind, Kagome pouted and sped after him. "Not fair!"

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"Well, Sesshou. I'm dead tired already. Phew!" Kagome plopped down beside the young youkai looking up towards the heavens glittering with stars.

"You're tired? You tackled me and tickled me until I couldn't talk!" Sesshoumaru retorted back with a childish snort, Kagome flopped to her back her arms spread eagle beside her while looking beside her at the laying child.

"I had to because you tickled me first!" Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and continued to look up in the stars.

Kagome smiled again at her new friend.

"We're friends now, right Sesshou-kun?"

Sesshoumaru returned her look and grinned a toothy smile. "Yup, friends for life Kagome-chan."

Kagome nodded happily before a crestfallen expressions settled into her features. "But...what if one of us leaves the other?"

Sesshoumaru sat up placing a finger to his chin thinking thoughtfully, his face brightened when an idea came to him, turning back to face his friend he answered.

"I'll take you as a mate! My mommy and daddy say that as long as they're mates, nothing will separate them!"

Kagome nodded enthusiastically, happy with the idea, she held out her pinky and grabbed Sesshoumaru's hand with her own pulling out his own little finger. She crossed them together and grinned.

"Promise?"

A grin flew onto his young features, Sesshoumaru nodded firmly.

"Promise."

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A/N: Alrighty! I decided to discontinue 'Will it hurt to try' because the plot came out all wrong and it just doesn't sound...right, so I'm starting on a new fanfic called Jinxed and this one, Blemished Armor, anywho, I hope that this will turn into a somewhat...successful fanfic and the only way to tell is by all you lovely reviewers out there to review!!

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