Hello and thanks in advance for reading my story. This is the first thing I've tried on this website, which is why I decided to do a bit of everything. When all the stories have been added on I'll be asking for opinions on which one was liked best, so pay attention! The genres will be posted in random order.
First up…
Angst
The sun was setting in a flaming orange sky across the ocean, but the young hanyou did not see its beauty. His senses were filled with salt water and cruel taunts. He struggled against the older village boys holding his head under the water, but they were bigger and stronger than him regardless of his half-demon blood. He winced again as another strike fell onto his back from a whippy branch held by another boy.
"Look at the little puppy-boy! Ya got fleas, puppy-boy?" jeered the boys, pulling his head out of the water just long enough for him to gasp for air, then plunging it down again. He let out an involuntary yelp as the whip branch lashed across his dog-like silver ears.
"Awww, listen to the puppy cry!" laughed the oldest of the three boys, yanking on the small hanyou's long, silver hair to raise his head out of the water again, "You're pathetic!"
"Let go of me! I'm warning you..." cried the small boy.
"Ohhh, you're warning us!" the older boys hooted. The boy holding their victim's hair hurled him aside onto the rough sand. "What're ya gonna do, call your big, scary demon daddy on us?"
The young hanyou's eyes filled with tears at the words and he lept up off the sand. He turned and dashed away along the beach.
"That's right, go home, little doggy! Run with your tail between your legs!" the boys hollered after him. The tormented hanyou's vision blurred as the tears welled up and spilled out, streaking along the sides of his face...so many tears...
Tears...
Inuyasha opened his eyes to gaze up at the starry night sky. He sat up and found his face wet with tears. He brushed them away angrily. He'd tried his best to forget those times, sworn he'd never let himself be so weak again, but at night the memories still drifted back. Inuyasha remembered how all he'd wanted was to play with the others, to fit in. But they'd only shunned him. Tormented him. He twitched his dog ears, the old scars on them making their presence known. He'd wanted so much to be accepted, but the human children refused him. Even today, he was treated like dirt by humans and demons alike. But he had learned to harden his heart to it. No one would ever want him, it was better to just accept it. He lay back down again to go to sleep. It was no use hoping for what never was and what never would be.
The End
A/N: This actually was the first one I wrote, and one of the easiest. I got the idea from the demon-bat episodes where you see little Inuyasha(so cute!)being harassed by other demons. This is also one of the shortest; the fics tended to get longer as I went along.
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