Corruption in Purity
By Take A Bow For Your Mistakes
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from the InuYasha series. I do however, own the characters that are not in the anime or manga as well as the ones my friends own.
Chapter 1
The Prologue
In the Feudal Era, youkai lived in the land of Japan. Tokyo had yet been established and the humans feared the destruction of their villages as well as the loss of their children. They hated the youkai just as the youkai hated the pollutants of the humans, yet this did not stop the cross breeding of the two kinds.
Some youkai fell in love with humans, either having them bear, or bearing them the mix race offspring known as hanyous. These children were hated and seen as evil, never belonging in either society of the humans or youkai. They were beaten by either kind, despised, and only their parents appeared to love them.
That was, until a Miko fell in love with a hanyou. The miko was strong, and she was the protector of village, as well as a sacred jewel known as the Shikon no Tama. This jewel gave both youkai and hanyou strength and granted them a wish. The hanyou this miko fell in love with had sought out this jewel and wanted to become a youkai. He often attacked, but the miko never killed him. She taunted him with death, letting him go and soon the two fell for each other. The miko was tired of being burdened with the task of protectin the jewel and offered the hanyou the jewel if he would become a human instead and the two get married. The hanyou agreed, and the two set up a time they would meet.
But another human wanted the miko but he was badly burned and could not move. The miko often cared for him and this corrupted the human to the point where he gave away his body to the youkais. He too became a hanyou, and the youkai craved the Shikon no Tama. When the miko and the hanyou she loved went to meet, the once human tricked her, making her think he loved betrayed her and stole the jewel. He fooled the other hanyou as well, and turned the two against each other.
As her final will, the miko being injured from the hanyou's trick to a point she would die, she sealed her love to a tree. His body would never age and he would he pinned forever. She died, her last wish being that the jewel be burnt with her remains in order to rid of it. The second hanyou had escaped, never being pinned with any of the tragedies and reeking havoc on others.
The jewel remained lost and forgotten for many years until in present day Tokyo, a fifteen year old girl was pulled to well. She was attacked, and dragged into its depths where she stumbled upon the hanyou who was pinned and woke him from his seal. She released the hanyou when her life was at risk when it was discovered that the Shikon no Tama was embedded in her body.
The hanyou hated the girl since she reminded her so much of his once love who betrayed him. But the duo worked together to protect this jewel when it was discovered the girl was the reincarnation of his love. The girl soon destroyed the Shikon No Tama on accident when she tried to recover it from a youkai crow, and soon went on a journey with the hanyou to regather the shards.
On their journey, they met a kitsune youkai, a youkai slayer whose family was killed by the power of the evil second hanyou, and a monk, who was cursed by the same hanyou. The group traveled together and the hanyou and girl soon developed feelings for each other as well as the monk and youkai slayer. Meanwhile, a greedy and power hungry witch had dug up the bones of the miko and brought her back to life. The hanyou was torn between the two, the miko still having feelings for him and he soon chose the miko when he found out it was the second hanyou who had put the two against each other. He swore he would avenge her death, and when the miko died again, the hanyou's and girl's feelings for each other grew ever more.
They confronted the second hanyou multiple times, yet he always escaped, always had his followers and never died. They fought with him to get all the shards of the Shikon no Tama, and final, they had gathered them all. Yet the second hanyou escaped again, disappearing for seemingly forever while the group wished on the jewel for peace in the Feudal Era. The wish was pure, for the greater good and when it was granted, the jewel vanishing from the girl's hands and she thought she could live with the hanyou forever, she found that everything around her was disappearing. She had no purpose to be in the Feudal Era anymore. She was separated from her love and would have lived in despair had it not been that her memory had been erased and she no longer remember anything that had happened during those years.
Everyone forgot in fact and the group was separated. The monk and youkai slayer met again however, and soon was married. The kitsune youkai was taken in by another family and lived fully, growing up and marrying a human himself. The hanyou however, felt empty, but he was not lonely anymore. He had a brother, a youkai brother who was only related to him through their father. The two used to hate each other but now, they got along and no longer lived alone.
Other youkai got along, there was no more battle for territory and the hanyou's brother, soon fell in love with a neko hanyou though he and his brother were inu. Everything seemed peaceful in the Feudal Era now. The youkai and hanyou blended in with the humans and though the human's died and there was no memory of the girl from the future; therefore she was never written about, the youkai and hanyou did not. They grew older, but never aged. They caught up with time, living in the present day though inventions were made to mask and hide their non-human features. They attended school and watched as evil came back to the lands through passing ages.
They also watched, as the hanyou they thought had disappeared forever had come back… and they wanted to kill him. But the laws in the land stopped them and bringing up the past would they give them away, so all stayed quiet, watching the evil hanyou carefully and making sure he did not try anything to destroy what was new in the lands. Yet along with everything else in the past, their memories on just what had happened so long ago had disappeared and all that was left was their hatred.