63A/N: I know that everyone hates OCs so I'm just letting you know that this is only a prolouge and these OCs never appear again in the story. I apologize for the agony of them. I hope you enjoy the new story I've been working on it for a few days if you can't thinking about it as working. I actually only started writing this last night. Ashes
She was conceived in wedlock between a Lady and her Servant she was sold into a proffesion at birth she was the best that had ever done her sort of job. He was planned and had pure noble blood he was now the Lord of the West, she was the body guard of his enemy, he was going to fall for her even if she was a dirty human that could stand against him in battle.
Chapter 1 : The Begining
A beautiful woman stood on the corner talking to a man, her almond shaped eyes had a roundness to them the long dark lashes that framed them curved towards the sky, her hair was long and fell in ringlets to her waist, her face was perfectly symmetrical, her straight nose and her plush rose colored lips in a natural pout moved as she spoke to a man who was rather plain and his clothes were tattered, he was nothing special for the eyes to gaze upon but her stare was filled with adoration. She was from a rich family and he was the boy who tended to their gardens and she'd fallen for him just as easily as he had for her. The only thing that stood out on this man was his rich emerald eyes, which glittered for the woman standing before him. She noticed that he was trembling he didn't know what he was doing, this could very well cost him his life. His raven hair was slicked back with grease as he wasn't always permitted the pleasure of bathing, maybe twice a week did they give him time in the bath house, which they often reminded him was more than generous.
"Ryuhei, I need your touch or I shall die." the beautiful girl said to him her tone was laced with desire for him, her kimono was filled with bright colors that complemented her fair skin.
"Yuuki, I cannot be with you, and nor you with I." Ryuhei said to her his eyes welled with tears as he watched hers do the same, she grabbed his hand and placed a note in his palm her soft fingertips grazing his rough calloused fingers. Yuki smiled at him as a tear escaped her eye unwillingly.
"If you will not have me no one shall, I would rather die than to not to have you." Yuuki told him before she turned from him to wipe her tears with a shaking hand, the sky began to let drizzle fall on their heads, she walked the short distance to the large house of her wealthy and blue blooded parents. Yuuki walked into the house and immediately servants and maids bombarded her with questions asking if there was something she might need or something they might be able to do for her. She passed her parents without a glance to them and continued on to her room where she would sit at the window and look into the beautiful courtyard and gardens that were beyond the arch. She sat down on the chair as admired the variety of enchantingly beautiful flowers that seemed to glow under the cloudy sky. As she sat there she thought of her love's face, the plain features were a disguise for his handsome character, his kind heart, gentle voice, his warmth. He had been the only person she'd ever met that had ever radiated such warmth and she had become addicted to being near him. Yuuki stood and walked over to her vanity where she brushed her hair as she finished the ringlets had bounced back into place. She recalled her small letter to Ryuhei.
Dearest Ryuhei,
My feelings for you have grown so immense that I can barely go a moment without you in my immediate thoughts. Whenever I come near you my heart beats like a race horse, and I feel I cannot breathe because of all the butterflies fluttering inside of my stomach. This feeling I am carrying for you is so much more than love, it is everything wrapped into one perfect ball. I ache when you are not beside me and I am aching now that I am away from you. I have to know that your feelings for me are the same as mine for you. I will die for you, I will die to be with you, and I will do anything for us to be together. I will leave everything, this cursed life of privilege that keeps me from you, my parents, and all the pretty material things that I have here. I want to be with you and you alone. I will need only you. Ryuhei please show me that you feel the same. Tomorrow night in the rose garden I will wait for you. I want you to have all of me, and in return I want all of you. I want your child growing within me and I want to run away with you, I want to be able to be called your wife. I will learn all the household duties and how to work so that I may be with you and make you a proud wife. So please meet with me at midnight tomorrow in the rose garden.
Love Always, Yuuki.
Yuuki sat dressed her sleeping robe on her bed the silken sheets and comforters pressed against her skin smoothly she could hear her father and mother arguing down the hall about the man who would become her husband, they were stuck between two choices, the first, Kouichi Yamagishi was a man at least forty years old he had a seemingly endless amount of money and a large amount of lands, he was a man with a temper and his six year old son was the only thing that he prized, his beautiful son that took after his mother only his son was called Naraku. The second was a demon lord called Inutaisho, a beautiful man who'd never age with more gold and money than the first could ever hope to possess, he ruled most of the western land. He had two sons a full demon son who was known as Sesshoumaru, and the second son a lowly half demon called Inuyasha. Of the two Inuyasha was the troublemaker and Sesshoumaru was the calm collected son that would rise and become the next Lord of the West. An eleven year old and a seven year old would be much to much trouble for an seventeen year old girl to deal with.
Yuuki didn't want to hear any of it and tried to drown them out with thoughts of her dearest Ryuhei. She could feel her body relaxing as she thought of him cradling her in his arms sh wrapped her arms around herself and allowed herself to fall into a peaceful sleep. Ryuhei watched her sleeping face beautiful, and at peace he never wanted to see her frown or to see her cry, he wanted to make her his wife, to watch her swell with his child, to see her face when he woke up every morning. He watched her chest move up and down steadily with her breathing, her lips parted lightly and he held the letter in his hands folded neatly he smiled and walked to the shed where he lived the conditions of the small area weren't great but he managed and he was able to see her almost everyday thanks to this living arrangement. His bed was made of hay and his sheet was tattered, he had a few apples and carrots in a basket he could feel his heart beating as he picked one up and looked down at her letter. He was worried but he wouldn't break her heart by refusing her. Ryuhei clenched his fist lightly and put the apple back into the basket.
As the sun rose above the horizon, and a light yellow brightened the edges of the sky Yuuki opened her eyes slowly with a light yawn covered by her delicate hands. Her maids were opening the curtains and letting the mornings light seep through her windows. She stood as they undressed her and put her bathing robe on leading her to the bath house. She followed drowsily with slow graceful steps, it seemed as if she were floating towards the baths. She allowed the robe to fall in a pool to her feet and stepped in the warm water, her maids came in with a variety of oils to wash her hair and drop into her water so it may be come scented and her skin would absorb the smell. They knew she always chose a mixture of vanilla and roses. Yuuki leaned her head back as her long chestnut hair was gently washed by her closest friend and maid, Mei was picking out the clothes she would wear today. Yuuki stepped climbed out of the bath and was quickly wrapped into robes as they dried her and pulled her hair into neat twists on her head held in place by an elegant comb. She sat at her window looking into the courtyard as she awaited her father's orders. Mei stepped into the room her flaming red hair and russet eyes were so rich and it was the first thing that had captured Yuuki's attention.
"What is it that you are planning Lady Yuuki?" Mei asked Yuuki with a certain knowing.
"I am planning nothing, and how many times have I asked you to please call me Yuuki." Yuuki complained with a lie to Mei.
"I know that look in your eyes, you are planning something." Mei ignored her request to call her Yuuki.
"There is no look in my eyes to cause such suspicions for you to keep insisting that I'm planning something." Yuuki told Mei with a slightly annoyed tone.
"You are telling me the truth, that is why you seem so sure. So that can only me you are passed the planning stage." Mei said.
"I will not deny that I already have planned something. I will not deny you that truth." Yuuki smiled at her friend.
"Please tell this is not something that will get you into trouble. You have two suitors seeking your hand and you cannot afford a blemish to your good name." Mei said becoming worried.
"I will not be in trouble," Mei sighed in relief. "because I will not be here I am going to elope with Ryuhei and we will be long gone before anyone can do anything about it. We are leaving with the caravan that will come in three months, we will marry tonight though." Yuuki's grin spread across her pretty face as she told Mei who sat frozen horror.
"You-Y-You can't do that, Yuuki. Your father could have both of you killed for doing something like that." Mei said worried.
"He won't have me killed because he won't find out about me and Ryuhei." Yuuki said to Mei with an intimidating glance as a warning.
"I won't be the one to tell anybody, you know me Lady Yuuki." Mei said in her defense she looked at the noblewoman before her and pictured the opportunities she was throwing out the window.
"Good, then you will give my father an excuse for why I will not be at dinner tonight. I have to make sure everything is ready." Yuuki smiled Mei nodded ruefully and went about her other chores and business.
As night fell a deep violet blanket covered the sky with the small bright stars burning light years away from the manner. Yuuki was nervous she possibly shaking with excitement her eyes widened as she took out the nearly transparent robe and left her hair loose around her shoulders. The garden looked beautiful as the silver moonlight spread across the flowers and flowing waterfalls that dipped into the clear water ponds that were filled with koi fish. Yuuki stared at her hands and closed the folds of the robe to conceal her body with the material and she tied a neat knot in the front with the ties. She could feel her blood racing through her veins in anxiousness she took a deep shuttering breath and waited for her parents to fall asleep. Mei came in her eyes were darting the proof of her nervousness and worry for her friend as she came in to the room of her mistress. Yuuki gave her a sideways glance and bit her bottom nervously before returning to stare outside the window.
"Lady Yuuki, are you sure about this?" Mei inquired her friend with a worried expression coating her usually smiling face.
"I am not sure about anything except for this. Mei I love him more than life itself. I am going to be with him tonight and for every night after that. I am going to do this." Yuuki told Mei with a nervous smile.
"I hope it is worth it, whatever may occur." Mei said to Yuuki.
"He said he will be there waiting for you." Mei informed the young lady.
"As will I...it seems that my parents have finally closed their eyes for the night. I am going to him." Yuuki told Mei with a determined shine in her dark eyes. Yuuki stepped into the hallway the light padding of her feet could barely be heard by anyone who was awake so no one should have heard it if they were sleeping. Yuuki walked out into the garden the cool soft grass felt nice under her feet as she waited for Ryuhei who showed up minutes later in his own sleeping garments. His eyes fell upon Yuuki who looked like a goddess wearing that transparent robe the shone a slight silver in the light, he could see all over her underneath with great ease he noticed as most of his blood headed south. Her hair fell over her shoulders and down her back like dark silk the light of the moon even made her skin look paler than it already was. Yuuki stared at him and he felt the need to have her stab at him painfully as he ran his eyes down her body.
"Ryuhei...I-I want t-to be with you" she said nervously at first becoming more confident as the words left her lips she walked closer to him.
"Yuuki, we can't. Me and you are from different worlds for me to be with you is wrong. I want to be with you, but I won't let you ruin your life for me a poor peasant. I will never be able to give you a life like this." he said trying to walk away from her. Yuuki wrapped her arms around his waist kept him near her.
"I don't care, I want you because you aren't a nobleman, or a scholar, or some stupid lord. I want you because I love you." Yuuki said finally standing back from him.
"Yuuki, I love you. Don't you understand that is why I am trying to leave? I don't want you to be defiled by someone as unworthy as me." Ryuhei said his green eyes began to water with tears.
"If you won't then no one ever shall." Yuuki said as she untied the knot of the robe and slid it off of her shoulders she stood before him bare as a new born babe.
"Yuuki don't make this harder for me." he said to her. Yuuki ignored him and grabbed his hand placing it on her chest, she kissed his lip deeply and he had fallen to his desire for her. He mounted her as if she were a stallion with great care and he had taken her there underneath him in the estate's courtyard. Her hair was sprawled underneath her and her body was arched against him as her body released not long after he did as well filling her womb with warmth. They laid in each others arms with tired limbs and sore bodies. Ryuhei held her in his arms and she had begun to fall asleep against his well formed chest he looked at her and kissed her with eventually instigated another tryst in the garden that night. Little did they know that her father was turning the corner to catch them in the middle of their passionate actions. They were still oblivious to the fact that he was standing there in shock he called for the guards immediately and they were pulling a very scared Ryuhei off of his daughter whom he threw his cloak on to give her some decency.
"What is this!" he roared in anger looking to his daughter who looked at her father with shame in her eyes.
"I am in love with him father." she said scared of her father's anger which she could feel in the air.
"No one is to know about this...execute him now." her father said to the guards after addressing her. Yuuki let out a cry of grief.
"You can't do this father!" Yuuki cried out.
"I will do it, he has defiled my daughter...do you realize you are worth nothing to me now. I can't marry you to anyone of a high standing now. You will end up marrying a merchant now. You have allowed your self to be damaged. He must pay for what he has done against me." her father said. Yuuki saw the sobbing and wracking of Ryuhei's torso as he cried the tears pouring from his eyes.
"Father, you should kill me too." Yuuki said to him.
"This is killing you, you two hold my daughter and have her watch." Yuuki's father said.
"How are we to execute him, my Lord?" a soldier asked.
"Beat him first, I supposed you could whip him and when he no longer reacts to that you can chop of his head." he said walking away. Each lashing against Ryuhei's back made Yuuki die a little inside as he cried out in pain she was sobbing heavily. "Please stop, Please don't do this to him!" she cried over and over again until finally he was no longer reacting to the lashings and they knelt him before them and the strongest looking one unsheathed his sword and brought it down on Ryuhei's neck with a strong amount of power, blood splashed on Yuuki's face silencing her once and for all that night. She dropped limply as if lifelessly in the soldier's arms. They took her to her room and laid her on the bed before returning to their posts. Mei cleaned her mistress with tears falling down her cheeks Yuuki was staring lifelessly at the ceiling. It had been three months since the night of Ryuhei's death and Yuuki's cycle hadn't shown up in the three moons that had passed. Mei didn't want to tell the Lord and Lady of the house who were still trying to arrange a marriage for Yuuki but knew that she had no choice.
"Yuuki, you are with child." Mei said she got a slight reaction from Yuuki but it was short lived as Yuuki merely turned over and let sobs take her as she had been doing for the passed three months.
"I have to tell your parents you know. I'm sure they will find a good home for the child when it is born." Mei told Yuuki who now turned on her like a savage.
"They will have nothing to do with my child, it is mine and mine alone...the only other person holding any claim to it is dead. I will not allow them to take this from me as well." Yuuki snarled pressing a hand on her abdomen protectively. Yuuki could not be left alone until she was asleep. Mei did as she knew she must and informed the Lord of the house.
"She will carry and deliver the child here." he said to Mei. Over the next six months Yuuki seemed to be regaining her sanity and when it was time to deliver she was brave and pushed and pushed until she could do no more. Her labor was forty three hours long and very tiresome, The child had finally begun to crown but Yuuki was growing weaker and weaker by the second, As the child slipped out with the finally push and tug. Yuuki took her last breaths that night. The child was sold to a house similar to a geisha house only they were trained as personal bodyguards, entertainers, in addition to being the intimate entertainers for a mans personal needs.
She was called Rin.