Fragile by ConsistentlyInconsistent

Found You

As usual, I don't own any of the characters, please don't sue ^_^

AN: This idea just kind of hit me out of the blue today and wouldn't leave me alone until it got put down into words. I'm still working on the chapters for A Historic Love (even if the chapters aren't flowing like I'd like them to...). Please enjoy my new story!

Chapter 1: Found You

Silver hair flowed like a river in mid-air as Sesshoumaru made his way down a long, dark hallway. A pointed glare from golden eyes met anyone unlucky enough to encounter him. He was in his usual business attire of a simple black suit, pressed and starched white collared shirt, and a black silk tie. Indeed, despite it being four o'clock in the morning he was well put together without a single flaw in sight...even if his mood was a little less agreeable than normal.

He'd received a call a little over an hour before, waking him from one of his better nights of sleep in a while. Apparently there was an urgent situation that couldn't have waited a few more hours. Once he was in the elevator he'd been walking towards he pushed the button that would take him to one of the lower, underground levels of the government building. As the giant box began making its descent, Sesshoumaru leaned against the wall and began to think over the events in his life that had lead him to where he was currently.

It had been around 500 years, give or take about five years, since the defeat of the despicable half-demon, Naraku. After that, time had seemed to pass in a blur. Things all happened so fast. He'd lost touch with the others that had a hand in Naraku's downfall upon returning to his castle with his small entourage. Every few years he would hear something of Inuyasha, or the wolf demon, or another member of the party, but he would never make any attempts to contact them; he was busy overseeing his lands and governing the people who resided within them after all. Rin had lived out the remainder of her days under his ever-watchful eye. She had married a young man from a local village who had treated her very well and hadn't looked down upon her for traveling with him. He'd also kept watch over her children and their descendants, even to this day.

He'd watched as an inquisition of sorts took place almost exterminating most of his kind. Something akin to pride had bubbled in his chest as he watched the people of his lands refusing to turn on him. Humans they may have been, but they knew that as long as they followed the laws he set forth that he would make sure they were kept safe and relatively fed; he would always protect what he saw as his. He had refused to get involved as civil war tore at his country, but did become more active in human politics. He and a few other demon lords had managed to strike a set of deals with the newly forming government while it was still young. He and his kind would agree to go into hiding, blending in amongst the people, and would fade into history as nothing more than myth so long as they were not actively hunted. If a problem ever arose between a demon or a group of them and the human government then the demon lords would deal with it.

Now only a select few of the higher-ups knew of the existence of demons and the ancient magics. And that's what he found had brought him to where he was now: in a government building's elevator, underground, at four in the morning. Outside of all the politics and bureaucracy he was an active investor in the stock market and owned a few small businesses on the side dealing with everything from the latest technologies to the buying and selling of the oldest artifacts.

A 'ding' caught his attention as the elevator doors opened silently and he swiftly stepped out into the dim lighting of the hall. 'This had better be worth waking me up at an ungodly hour or heads are going to roll.' Sesshoumaru thought with a barely noticeable smirk at the mental image that went along with the thought. 'It's been such a long time since these claws have felt the warm, slick feeling of blood coating them. I almost can't remember what it smells like.'

He slid a key card through a slot in a fluid motion and never broke stride as he showed his ID to the guards standing on the other side of the door without making eye contact. 'The sooner I see what these incompetent fools want, the sooner I can return home.' He walked through one final door which was much thicker than the previous few after punching in a code on a number pad. "What was so important that it couldn't wait until morning?"

There were three other gentlemen standing before him, all of whom started slightly at hearing his commanding voice. Two of them were government officials by the way they were dressed; one he knew, one he did not. The other man with them looked to be a scientist or doctor by the white coat he wore, and also appeared as though he'd been sleeping on a cot in his office for quite sometime. "Mr. Taisho, sir, I'd like to introduce you to the head of our Supernatural Research Department, Dr. Nakaura." The older official greeted.

Nakaura bowed while Sesshoumaru nodded his head at the man in an irritated way. The doctor started, "Sir, we discovered a young woman a few months ago who possessed odd...powers, shall we say, that haven't been known to exist in centuries even amongst demons. Of course we took her into custody immediately and began with several tests and interrogations. She was extremely reluctant to answer our questions at first, but she eventually gave in to our requests and told us quite an amazing story. What was most intriguing, however, was that in the story a powerful demon by the name of Sesshoumaru was mentioned several times and we were wondering if you may have known the girl at some point. If so then we have many more questions not just for the girl but yourself as well."

Sesshoumaru was confused to say the least. If the girl had known him in the past she was either a demon, which they already knew the existence of, or she was something else; what exactly he had no idea. "In what context was I mentioned?" Maybe if he knew what this girl said he'd have an idea of how long ago she claimed to have known him.

"We have all of the sessions recorded digitally, would you like to hear one of the times that your name was mentioned?" The doctor offered.

"Yes, I need to know which period of time this girl is referring to." Sesshoumaru answered as he followed the three humans to the next room where there were several computers, screens glowing, and he was handed a set of headphones.

"Please have a seat while I pull up the audio file."

Sesshoumaru sat and waited until he heard a pitiful, feminine voice reach his ears. "All I could do was watch while they fought." The voice cracked. It sounded as though the owner would erupt with sobs at any second. "He was berserk, possessed by his demonic blood, and when Sesshoumaru appeared I thought it was the end. I thought for sure Sesshoumaru would kill him...but he didn't." Here the voice went from sad to thoughtful, "all he did was knock him out. I ran to him to try and protect him from Sesshoumaru, like I could have stood in his way if he really wanted to do anything. But all Sesshoumaru did was look down at me and tell me that their father's sword would make him sane again. Then he simply turned around and left...I still don't know why Sesshoumaru didn't finish him off...didn't kill Inuyasha." There the audio was paused.

"That is just one of quite a few passages where your name is mentioned. Does that ring any bells? Did you know an Inuyasha?" The doctor asked as he turned away from the computer.

Sesshoumaru was quiet for a moment while he thought. 'That voice is so familiar. Where have I heard it before?' At hearing the question he answered, "Yes, Inuyasha was the name of my bastard half-brother. I vaguely remember the encounter mentioned, but the girl that ran to his side was a human; even if she did possess holy powers, they were minimal and even those with advanced, similar powers wouldn't have been able to live these 500 and some odd years. Where is this girl now? I wish to ask her how she came to know these things."

The three humans looked at each other and shifted slightly under the intense gaze they were receiving. "Mr. Taisho," the older official spoke, "you can see her, but there is a slight problem with speaking to her." Here he paused a little too long for Sesshoumaru's liking.

"Get on with it." He snapped. His lack of sleep from the past weeks and annoyance of the situation were catching up with him.

"Well, during the last interviewing session there was a problem. It appeared as though she was nearing the end of her story and she had been becoming more and more restless. I, myself, was in a separate room watching from a monitor and she appeared highly nervous...scared even. She had made mention that the group she was traveling with were after a powerful demon by the name of Naraku I believe. But once she got to a certain point she had refused to say anymore. We asked her several times to finish giving us the rest of the information, but when she continued to refuse a few of the security guards were asked to come into the room to hold her down so that we could give her a sedative due to her starting to lash out." He closed his eyes with a sigh as he recounted what he'd witnessed. "When the guards grabbed her arms was when everything went to hell. She apparently took it as a threat and lost control. What could only be described as a barrier surrounded her, giving the guards a few burns, and it knocked out all electrical equipment in and connected to the room. Naturally, we had everyone evacuated from the room and had a sleeping gas introduced via the air vents. As soon as she lost consciousness she was moved to another room. After a week she still hadn't woken up. It was then that it was decided that she was too dangerous and has since been placed in a monitoring tube in a state of suspended animation while we reviewed all of the video and audio recordings. She's been there for a few weeks now receiving nutrition via IV's and feeding tubes and having her vitals monitored. However, there hasn't been any kind of increased brain activity or any other sign that she'll wake up any time soon."

Sesshoumaru allowed all of the information to sink in before smoothly standing up, straightening his suit jacket, and saying "Take me to her. I wish to at least see if it the same girl."

The youngest official spoke for the first time since he'd gotten there, "Sir, I really don't know if that is the best idea-"

"Considering that you decided to wake me up and drag me down here at a most indecent hour, I think it is the perfect idea, human." Sesshoumaru interrupted as he looked at the young man with a heated glare. His ire was finally getting the upper hand in his demeanor and it was starting to show.

The other men in the room knew that his voice held no room for argument and agreed to take him to the room the girl was being kept in a few floors down. Stepping off the elevator all of the men had to show their identification cards to the armed guards standing by. The doctor took out a key and unlocked a key pad where he entered the code needed to open the doors in front of them.

As soon as the doors were opened there was a soft blue light cast on everything. In the middle of a room filled with computers and monitoring equipment was a large tube filled with some type of liquid that had a blue luminance due to the lighting above it. And floating in the liquid was a young woman, possibly in her early twenties at the oldest, with oxygen and feeding tubes running in her mouth and nose. Wires with electrodes at the end were stuck to her chest and back to monitor her heart and breathing rates. Being surrounded by the liquid her long, black hair was fanned out around her nude body which was currently in a fetal position. The lighting in and around the tube made her appear to glow, and for all the tubes and wires wrapping around her anyone would have to agree that she still looked beautiful with the serene expression she wore on her face.

Sesshoumaru took a few steps forward to get a better look at her. 'She looks a few years older and it's been over 500 years, but there's no mistaking that this is the same untrained priestess that traveled with my brother.' He turned back to the other men and stated in a flat tone, "This is the woman that was traveling with my half-brother more than 500 years ago. I'm not sure how she survived, but it is she. However, I never committed her name to memory and so I cannot tell you that."

"Her name is Higurashi Kagome, Mr. Taisho. Are you positive that it is the same girl?" One of the men asked.

"Yes, I'm positive." Sesshoumaru said as he turned back around to face the sleeping girl. 'How are you still here, woman?'

Sesshoumaru was surprised when as soon as the thought passed a beeping started from one of the machines. The doctor and an assistant that had been in the next room ran over to the machines to view the read outs on the changes taking place. Sesshoumaru kept his attention trained to the woman in front of him with curious interest. Dark blue eyes that were glazed over opened lazily to gaze at him. After a moment of holding his gaze a small, sad smile played across her face and she very slowly reached out one arm to place her palm against the glass surrounding her.

Through all of the activity going on around him, Sesshoumaru kept the same schooled look on his face as he remained sharing his gaze with the young woman in front of him. Then a soft voice echoed through his mind. It was barely audible but it was similar to the voice he'd heard on the audio clip moments prior. It said, "Help me..."

AN: So what do you think? Good? Bad? Would anyone like to see this one continued or should I just concentrate on my other stories before I'm hunted down and beaten? This is a Cannon Universe fic, it's just starting in the future (present day-ish). I really hope Sesshoumaru didn't seem too OOC, I tried to make it seem like him. Next chapter will have what happened to Kagome and the conclusion to what was going on in the last scene here It should be up fairly soon so keep an eye out, and I'm not going to hold chapters ransom for reviews but they do make me happy and let me know what you guys are thinking as far as if I should continue and whatnot!