Authour's Note: Or at least a little bit of one, okay so I thought I would leave no one guessing as to what the japanese words mean throughtout the entirity of the fic so I decided to give you them upfront along with some honorifics as well before we get started. I sure hope it's all here seeing as this is the only time it will be posted so if you get lost look up the prologue again. And if it's not all here or if I should correct anthing let me know.

Common Honorifics-simplified

Chan-expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. In general, chan is used for babies, young children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, close friends, or any youthful woman.

Kun-,by anyone when addressing or referring to male children or male teenagers. It can also be used by females when addressing a male that they are emotionally attached to or have known for long.

Sama-It is used mainly in addressing or referring to people much higher in rank than oneself.

San-is the most common honorific and is a title of respect similar to "Mr.", "Miss", "Mrs.", or "Ms."

A lack of honorific can be taken in two ways, one extreme to the next. You see in the japanese culture a lack of honorific signifys that you have total familiarity in the person seein as you've taken the time to have relationship. So naturally on the flip side of that if the trust hasn't been earned and you don't use an honorific when speaking to said person it can be taken as an extreme insult and an ultimate sign of dissrespect.

Other Honorifics that will be used

Sensei-is used to show respect to someone who has achieved a certain level of mastery in an art form or some other skill, although sensei typically refers to someone who is the head of a dojo.

Ue-while its use is no longer very common, it is still seen in constructions like chichi-ue and haha-ue, reverent terms for "father" and "mother", respectively.

Hōshi-Buddhist monk

Kensei-(sword's saint) an honorary title given to a warrior of legendary skill in swordsmanship.

Kyōshi-which in everyday Japanese can be a more modest synonym for sensei, is sometimes used to indicate an instructor.

Other Japanese that may be used

Kami=god/diety

Hai=yes

Gomen nasai=I'm sorry

Nani=what

Demo=but

Aishiteru=I love you

Baka=idiot

Chichi-ue=father(for this fic instead of otou-san)

Haha-ue=mother(for this fic instead of okaa-san)

Oji-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=uncle

Ojii-(honrific-san, chan, kun, sama)=grandpa (or male senior-citizen)

Oba-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=aunt

Obaa-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=grandma (or female senior-citizen)

Onii-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=big brother

Ototo-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=younger brother

Onee-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=big sister

Imouto-(honorific-san, chan, kun, sama)=younger sister

Yokai=demon

Youki=demonic aura/power

Miko=priestess

Kuro Miko=black/dark priestess

Hirouki=miko aura/power

Jaki=miasma

Hanyo=half-demon

Ningin=human

Taijiya=demon slayer

Hoshi=buddist monk

Shinobi=ninja

Kunoichi=female ninja

Kistune=fox demon

Neko=cat demon

Nekomata=twin tailed demon cat

Inu=dog

Ookami=wolf

Ryuu=dragon

Haori=a type of top (if confused look it up using google)

Haori=a type of pant (if confused look it up using google)

Kimono=a type of dress (if confused look it up using google)

Yukata=a type of dress (if confused look it using google)

Chihaya=miko blouse

Tabi=sock

Yuki=snow

Sakura=cherry blossoms/ cherry blossom tree

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Summary: What do you do when life you thought you wanted no longer exists? What happens when your new path awakens something from which you never thought you could have? And what happens when the very people you cherish most are threatened? What wouldn't you do to protect them……….even if it meant your life?

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Shinjitsu no Uta: Song of Truth

Prologue:

The Marvel of Life and the Senselessness of Death

Darkness fell over the landscape as it had ever night before it. Its dark indigo fingers stretching for what seemed like an eternity until the stars began to twinkle as the moon reached its peck. Breathtakingly beautiful for those who choice to step from their huts and under the blanketing stars. Such as a certain miko chose to do on a night such as this one.

During times such as this she found herself underneath its watchful and calming presence. It was so peaceful here compared to the bustling of Tokyo's city streets and the fog filled air from which one could easily suffocate from. Here the air held a certain magic to it. Or maybe it was the twelve years she had spent under this dark and wondrous sky that made her less than impartial.

Yes perhaps it was because of those years, though at times were filled with great uncertainty had most defiantly directed the compass of her life towards the path in which she walked now. She nearly laughed remembering Naraku's defeat and how the very man who had so captured her couldn't believe what he had seen or for that matter what he had felt. No it would be another three years after her seventeenth birthday before he would ask her to be his. And about another fifteen minutes before she would undoubtedly say yes.

She remembered that night as if it had been but a moment ago. Maybe she remembered it so clearly because of what that night had bestowed upon them. Maybe…….just maybe.

Kagome's silent musings took a detour towards the family she had attained here. The family of her own choosing who had settled down long before she and InuYasha had done so. In fact they hadn't waited for the week to pass before they began to plan for their union. And what a celebration.

The village had been dressed to the nines as if they were some form of royalty. Well at least Sango had been the daughter of a headman so part of it was justified for the time period. While the other two parts and three quarters she had to admit had been her doing. Yes she shared in the quilt for telling Sango about the weddings of modern day. She should've expected the overkill considering she knew her sister and dear friend as well as she did. But alas it was something far beyond her skills of predictions.

She remembered fondly the day Sango had discovered she had conceived their first child. She remembered the look that of perpetual terror that crossed Miroku's face before it was quickly replaced with one of fatherly joy. Kagome wondered how many times that same look would cross his facial features considering it had already crossed his features a total of three times before.

She marvelled at the similarities between the two prominent men in her microscopic world. They both had lost their families at a young age. Both were outcasts of some sort. And both, in spite of everything had survived to overcome their past. They had in fact both overcome it to the point of moving forward toward their future. Whatever that may be.

Her mind wandered once more to his own expression when she had told him, almost six years ago to the day, of their own unique set of circumstances. First his reaction had been one of anger, then despair, and at long last a saddened peace. She didn't blame him for these drastic mood swings considering what he had gone through being what he is. She didn't fault him for any of it. No she understood a little too well.

What nobody knew about her life was the very thing she kept close to her heart. Her own father had made a few choices that had altered her world in more ways than one. Leaving wholes in her life that would never be filled.

He had an affair that led to a divorce and then his remarriage. She assumed that as a result he felt content to forget about her, mama and even Sota. Choosing instead to focus on his new life with her instead of with them. She didn't get it. She didn't get any of it. So when people asked about her father she really couldn't say anything about him. The man who had raised her and the man that had left them were two completely different people.

However when InuYasha had asked about him she did confide in him about the other half of her genetic code. Laughing mentally at InuYasha's remark about what an "animal" her father was. One such animal that he would never become. And he hadn't. He was incredibly kind to the village children when they asked questions. He was incredibly patient when their parents would ask for assistance in exchange for food for his family. All things considered he had become a man any woman would be proud to marry or to mate just as she had. She laughed at how many times the children would slip and call him onii-san. Or in the case of Sango and Miroku's children, oji was what they called him.

Yes time had moved forward rather quickly making the twelve years feel like a nanosecond with a few minor wears and tears. But who could complain when life and love had given them all that it had. Including a bundle of energy in the form of a daughter, born hanyo like her father before her and like him had a stubborn streak to match.

Her fond memories were put to a sudden end when her eyes focused on the scene before her. Dark curling smoke dragged sluggishly along the horizon bringing with it the faintest glimmer of amber. Fear settled into her gut, coiling tightly around her insides, making it hard to breathe. Her lungs beat against her ribcage as if trying to catch up with her racing heart beat. She would have cursed had it been in her nature to do so but with the lack of a verbal swear she settled on the next best thing.

A desperation to find him settled into her very bones as it hardwired her mind with determination. It was moments like this, when she cursed her human limbs and frailties for she could never move with the amount of haste a situation demanded. But at least there was one thing she could do.

"INUYASHA!" she called hoping he would hear her from where he was. "INU-" she called again, stumbling over a stray root which forced her hollering to come to a standstill as she tried to regain her balance. It didn't help much really because with her luck the added effort sent her crashing to the ground. Or so she thought when instead she collided with another body, the very same body who gripped her forearms trying to balance her still wobbly frame.

"I see it!" he told her, his voice hard and firm while his face was solemn, his eyes telling her the million and one emotions that he was facing just beneath it's pearly surface. "I sent Izayoi to Kaede-bachan's in Shippo's care." He told her addressing some concern he must of seen come and go she supposed.

"So I take it that you're going?" she asked already knowing what his answer would be from the hardened set line of his jaw.

"Ya." He stated, still as sorrowful as before. Tearing his eyes away from her, Kagome watched as he looked toward the village in the distant hills where the black curling smoke wished to taint the beauty of the heavens.

"Did Izayoi see it?" she questioned praying to the heavens that her over inquisitive mind wouldn't put two and two together. Not this time, kami not this time.

"She doesn't know the source but her senses know. The smell is so strong even here and we're quite a ways away yet."

"Oh." Pathetic answer and she knew it but what else does one say? Her eyes closed harshly at that moment as they tried to force her tears back and only when she was sure they wouldn't overflow did she open them. Only to stare at a kneeling InuYasha who was waiting patiently for her to wrap her legs securely around his waist and her arms around his shoulders. Forced to wait anxiously for the inevitable wind that would assault her senses once he had begun to move.


Yokai had polluted the forest in large numbers and with it came a sickening amount of youki. Making it impossible to find their way back to the village even if he were too follow his keen senses. He debated briefly with himself as to whether or not he should send her on ahead of him, as to whether or not he could trust in her safety. He concluded quickly that her safety was more important than anything else. And he most defiantly couldn't secure it if she were to go ahead of him blinded by the night.

His arms tingled with a barely contained numbness as he tried to readjusted her small form. The same form whose small arms wrapped around his neck, and whose legs draped around his waist clinging to him with barely any energy remaining.

'Poor kid' he thought to himself when she whimpered softly at his efforts. She had exhausted herself to the point of a much needed sleep. A sleep he would be all too happy to grant once he could be certain of their safety.

"Iza-chan you need to stay awake for me." He whispered softly to the girl who clung to him, her hold tightening somewhat after his slight prodding.

"Po-chan?" she yawned softly.

"Hmmm."

"Then when can Iza sleep?" she asked as the boy tried to figure out a safe enough place to stay when his eyes settled on a cave entrance not that far off that could serve. He could gather wood to heat and light the inside of the dark cavern. Once secure that she would remain within the stone setting he could hunt for something for them to eat. 'Yes,' he thought. 'It would be more than adequate.'

"You see that cave over there?" he asked her pointing dead ahead. He felt her head lift off his shoulder briefly before settling back down. "Iza-chan we'll rest there for a bit, wait for the yokai to leave and then once were home again you can sleep. Okay!"

"Kay, Po-chan." She breathed against his neck, her hold on him tightening somewhat as they trekked onward through the forest polluted with youki.


The sight that held there gaze was more sickening than anything else. The fire that had once plagued the village with a burning ferocious light had all but died down to nothing but dieing embers. The fire had completed the purpose the setter had planned for it. That much was obvious from the smell of blood mixed with smoke that coated the air.

Kagome couldn't keep her eyes from running across the dead bodies that littered the ground. It seemed to her that they had been slain without mercy as many of them had died while clutching their children. Bleeding out from deep gashes, from beating and blows to the head. It didn't matter to the attackers who fell to their blades. Tears stung her eyes as she followed behind InuYasha closely.

She tried to hold her feelings together as they looked for survivors, calling out to anyone who might have escaped the massacre. For what seemed like a lifetime nothing but silence greeted them but then there it was; the faint sob of a child's tears. Thinking she might have been hallucinating or something because she couldn't stand the horrors she was seeing she paused waiting to see if she heard the sound again. And when it met her ears once more it was stronger this time.

Motherly instinct drove her forward when common sense told her not to. She ran along uneven ground. Ground littered with the dead and smouldering ash towards the cries that drew her in. She followed with her ninjin senses coming upon the remnants of a hut that had caved in under the assault.

She pulled apart the damaged hut, to the best of her abilities, with her bare hands. After several minutes of pulling apart the blackened wood she reached a peculiar plank that appeared to have escaped the ravage fires. But as she pulled back the last obstacle she revealed something she hadn't been prepared to see. Her eyes glossed over with fresh tears instantly at what she was now forced to witness.

A young boy, not much older than her own child held his mother's dead body close to him as he buried his tear stained face in her bloody kimono. A sword had been her undoing, or so it would seem from the gash that slit from her abdomen to her heart. And even though her heart had stopped beating her body still bleed.

Her heart shattered along with his as she felt his sorrow. It wrapped around her, coiling like a snake around her innards. The life drained from her legs as she slid towards the bloodied, damp soil, neither caring if her red hakama would be forever stained.

He cried as she watched him hold her so tenderly as if she had been made of fine china and one quick move might shatter her. She watched as her tears streamed unhindered down her cheeks like twin torrents.

It was then, as he bent over her body, that she noticed something that had escaped her notice. The child's ears were pointed, much the same way as Shippo's were but something other then the ears caught her interest. Twin black, bat-like wings extended from his back outward. But the woman he held so tenderly was most defiantly human, unless her eyesight had failed her.

"Wake up." He begged her. "Please Haha-ue wake up. You can't leave, you just can't" He called out to her not realising or not wanting to see that she had long since left the world of men.

She knew that he was aware of her then when his eyes met hers, glossed over with tears that wouldn't stop pouring down his chubby cheeks. His mauve eyes studied her, begged her, pleaded with her to do something that he knew couldn't be done. Something that only the kami could grant.

"Why did they take her back?" he asked her making her heart break further.

"I can't answer why." She told him truthfully as hard as it must have been for him to hear from someone who was chosen by the kami to do their will. Maybe it was the mother within Kagome's heart or perhaps it was the boys suffering that drew her closer to him. She couldn't deny that she wished to comfort him but she was a little taken aback when the boy threw himself into her arms.

"Why did she have to leave me?" he asked through tearful sobs that soaked through her chihaya touching her skin. She drew him closer, steadily wrapping him in what she hoped was a cocoon of safety, of peace and maybe even of hope. She drew him closer to her as his claws sunk into the fabric adorning her shoulder. He clung to her as if she were a life raft and he would drown without her help. "Why did she leave?" he cried again brokenly.

"All I can tell you is, I know that your mother fought with all that she had to remain in this world."

"How?" he hiccupped as if to say 'how do you know?'

"She loved you didn't she?" she asked softly, running her fingers through his short icy blue strands when she felt him nod against her chest. "That's how I know young one. That's how I know!" she repeated as she continued to hold him close.

Kagome looked up briefly when the air changed to stare into his golden eyes. He too hurt for the village. It was written in every fibre of his being and in every worrisome wrinkle that creased his brow. He felt for the boy, that much was plainly written from how he looked at him. While Kagome couldn't help but wonder if this was a memory that they both now shared.


The night dragged on and with it the boys tears began to dry and the task of respecting the dead became a worry for him. Kagome watched as InuYasha took great pains with the boy's mother. He found a spot underneath a beautiful ageless sakura tree to burry her. Later Kagome would learn that he had chosen the spot so that way the boy would have somewhere to come and remember her but for now it was a beautiful gesture.

She had been buried first and then came the reaming villagers whose bodies hadn't burned up with the fire. Maybe no more than twenty-one new graves were dug that night but it was far too many for Kagome's liking. The killing here had been a senseless disregard for life no matter what race you belonged to. Senseless death.

The boy hadn't spoken another word since the burial. Since he had bade her resting place a quick farewell with the promise to return. She didn't blame him, she was just thankful that he had chosen to remain with them…..if only for the time being. She wouldn't force him to stay if it were his choice to leave. No she wouldn't, she couldn't.

The village was filled with silence as it came into view and further more as they walked its dusty worn out streets, finding the path inevitable path that would lead them home. The shoji screen was slowly drawn open as they approached, the two children within choosing to leave its shelter momentarily. Izayoi, very much in a sleepy trance was being supported by the older and stronger Shippo. who half carried her to see them.

"She wouldn't go to bed until she knew you were safe." He stated, repeating what she had told him earlier in the cave when his eyes drifted towards the boy who was currently half hiding behind Kagome. "Who is he?" he asked, his curiosity peeked when he smelled exactly like the air had earlier.

"This is Kouhei-kun, and he'll be staying with us for as long as he wishes. So be nice, both of you." The last bit of Kagome's words was mainly directed towards Shippo who threw his hands up in the 'surrender' motion. "Kouhei-kun," she addressed. "This is Shippo. Take no mind of his trickery that's just what kitsune do." She whispered softly to him. "And this," she directed him towards the now nervous and less sleepy hanyo girl. "Is my daughter Izayoi."

"Nice to meet all of you." He tried to smile but as soon as the effort was made it was lost.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm exhausted." InuYasha yawned trying to cut the unease of the moment. Choosing to instead direct everyone, including the family's newest member towards the main house deciding to ignore the fading of the night sky in a desperate need of sleep.


Authour's Note: Okay so this story was a long time coming. I've had it sitting in my head waiting to get out for over six months and every time I sat down to do it never turned out the way I wanted it to. Anyway this story had taken a drastic plot tiwst from the origional Kagome and InuYasha love story into a love story/prequel for Izayoi's tale in the planned sequel InuYasha: Secret's of the Fallen. So I hope you all will make the transition from this one`s end towards the new beginning once this is completed which is far from the finish line in all honesty anyway you know what to do.

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