Hey everyone:)

This fanfic was first written during the summer. One of my younger sisters co wrote this with me. We watched the movie "Balto" and were inspired to write an Inuyasha adaptation.

We of course changed things, adding more ideas. The writing was going great, but with school appraoching, we unfortunately put it on hold. I came across the file and decided to post it.

I want to continue to write it, but I want my sister to complete it with me. I hope that with a handfull of reveiws and comments, even if they're not all good, she'll be able to get back into the groove. I plan on updating all the chapters every few days until I reach the end of the already typed chapters. If she doesn't want to write with me anymore, I'll just finish it myself.

We added some phrases and jokes from other movies and shows. We wanted to have a contest and see how many things you can pick out from other movies or shows. I thought it would be a fun side activity.

I would also like to say that my sister and I own nothing in this fanfic.

Please enjoy:)

Prologue:

The sun had just began to rise over the tree tops, as it did every morning, an older women slowly sipped her daily cup of morning tea, as she sat in her rocking chair, swaying back and forth. Nothing but the dawn chorus from the birds arising from their long night sleep. As other villagers began to rise from their slumber, she began to smell the aroma of the wood stoves as mothers and wives began to prepare the morning meal and she could now hear the town come to life.

As more villagers begun to awaken, the peaceful songs of the nearby forest had been drowned out leaving the bustle of the regular town life. She stroked her long silver hair and made a mental list of tasks to be done for the day. Her thoughts were rudely interrupted by the tortured cries of a young child. She let out a long and dragged out sigh, her bones slightly creaked from her sudden movement as she stood up.

"Now what?" she wondered. Grabbing an old and battered bow as well as a quiver of arrows she hastily crept towards the pleading cries.

"You filthy half breed!" an angry voice shouted.

"Stay out of our village!"

"We don't want your kind" another voice called

"Ya you might eat us in our sleep!" at this statement laughter began to spread like wild fire. One of the more braver, if not crueller, boys grabbed both of his long rabbit like ears, pulling him backward. This made the young child cry out in pain. But it was pointless, the tears only encouraged more violence and abuse,

"Who would want filth like you around?"

"Do you think your parents can save you now?"

"Please stop, please, I don't want to be like this...I swear!" he said between sobs, this only earned him a fast kick to the stomach, and stone to the head. He doubled over in pain, and held his side.

"THAT. IS. ENOUGH!!!" commanded a strong voice, which made the boys stop and look in the direction of where it had came from. The old woman stepped from the shadows cast by the tall trees, an arrow was notched to her bow pointing straight at the group of boys.

"Me thinks it's time you all go home to your mothers" the boys looked at each other before scattering off. The young boy was still curled into a ball, as if he were ready for the abuse to continue. He was shocked when a gentle, yet withered hand grasped his shoulder.

"Me thinks you ought be getting up now, little one." he looked into her kind and somehow youthful amber eye. When he didn't answer she asked

"Are you all right little one?"

"Why do you care?" he sniffed trying to sound braver then he felt. She only smiled at his response

"Come young one, and I'll fix you something to eat." the young boy looked skeptically at her. However when she held out her hand, he hesitantly took it

"My name is Shinmaru" he smiled weakly

"Madam Kaede" she introduced herself

"I like your eye patch" he informed her in a matter of fact tone as she led him to her house.

She filled a large wooden bowl full of streaming homemade stew and served it to the wide eyed child. He scoffed it quickly as if it was his first meal in years, not caring about the heat.

Her eyes crinkled from her smile and she said in an amused voice.

"Ye shouldn't worry about those boys, their not so tough" He lowered his bowl sadly and sniffed.

"But their right, I'm just a filthy half breed and I'm not worth anything"

"And what's wrong with being half and half I'd like to know?" she questioned angrily. He reached up to grab the ends of his long rabbit ears pulling them to the sides of his face.

"No one could ever love a half breed" he whimpered. Keade's face softened.

"I know that not to be true. There was once a young man who could not find his place in the world, however that all changed when he accepted who he was he. He was a half demon just as you are". Shinmaru was intrigued and wished to learn more about who this half demon was, he managed to sputter out

"W..Who was he?"

She answered simply "Inuyasha"

I know it's short, but it's just the prologue. We just wanted to capture interest.

Hope ya liked it!!

Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Please R&R