Hi! :) This is my first story, so I'm trying my best not to mess up. Enjoy!
Summary: With Naraku defeated and the Shikon Jewel completed, the Inutachi can finally relax... or so they thought. Who is the one resurrecting all their old foes, and why are they even stronger than before? Could be Naraku be still alive? How will the meeting of a new girl change the Inutachi's lives? Is she a friend or a new foe? What connection does she have with the Band of seven and other foes? With old enemies changing sides to become new allies, who can you possibly trust? InuKag MirSan BanOC
Thanks to Tempest 78 for helping me with my summary :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but I do own the plot and the OCs.
Rated M for later chapters (for language).
IMPORTANT A/N:
After defeating Naraku, Kagome is still able to pass through time, Kohaku is alive (without the jewel fragment), Rin is still traveling with Shesshoumaru, Sango and Miroku didn't have kids (yet ;3) and Kikyo is dead. The Shikon Jewel is gone, Tetsusaiga has all the attacks it can do from The Final Act, Hiraikotsu can cut through demonic auras, and Kouga has the Goraishi. Kohaku has a weapon similar to Sango's (seen on the last episode of The Final Act) forged by Toutousai, and grew more like a man. Ayame the wolf demon never met Kouga (let's just say she was a good girl and she never got lost for Kouga to rescue her). Sorry Ayame fans. So basically, this is almost the same ending from TFA, only I made some exceptions.
PLZ read till the end! I know, it'll sound boring at first, but I promise, it'll much better later.
~Stars Of The Moon~
Prologue
"It sure is peaceful, now that Naraku's dead. Finally." A beautiful young woman about sixteen years of age was praying silently in front of a shrine. She stared at the tomb which was not very long ago split in two. She smiled softly, "To think that it's already been six months... since then." She remembered all that work she had to do just because of him.
His beautiful smile and his strong figure still haunted her memories like an obession. He was one of the - no, he was THE most handsome man she had ever seen, and it's pretty hard to impress someone like her with looks. He was a strong opponent, and a loyal partner. Even when the girl fought with her demonic blades, he gave her a tough time. It has been a while since she ever fought with someone of the same strengh as her.
She did have tons of fun though, she loved to spar with him. But even if he was strong, he died along with his comrades. "It was going to happen eventually, right? I mean... fairytales always finish with the bad guys losing... or dying."
But to her, he wasn't a bad guy. To her, he was just another man confused with the meaning of his new life. The new life he lived for only a short amount of time.
"Tsk, he's lucky that I was actually nice enough to help him! Otherwise he and his brothers wouldn't have their precious belongings safe right now!".
Next to the shrine were some particular items: huge armour, canons, giant pieces of metal, bottles of poison, torn woman clothing, metal claws, and a piece of a sword's handle. (A/N: What do you call that stuff?) She looked at the items, knowing which one represented who.
She sighed. "I tried to warn you, I really did. I wish you listend to me that time... but I guess some things aren't meant to be. Some promises can't be kept. Two different destinies can never be together. The dead and the living aren't meant for each other... Isn't that right... Bankotsu?"
She stood up and started walking back towards the village. She would have to assure everyone that the souls of the specters are still at peace. She knew she had to leave the village the next day, so she wanted to make sure the villagers can relax and stay calm. As she left the grave, a silent tear rolled down her cheek.
"Dammit!" Inuyasha yelled after the hair demon dodged his attack once again. The hair demon was Yura, and only God knows how she came back to life. The gang was simply enjoying some peaceful time together when Yura bursted out of nowhere and started attacking them. Miroku was doing his best to fight, since he didn't have his Wind Tunnel anymore, Shippou was firing his Fox Fire like a mental freak to get rid the hair, and Kirara was all tangled up.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango launched her large boomerang at Yura and sliced her in half, but even with the demonic aura that has been cut, Yura regenerated herself with her hair (A/N: sounds wierd, right?).
"That won't work on her!" Kagome yelled. She remembered that Yura has an infinitive amount of hair, and the only way to kill her was to break the red skull which was connected to her life. But she couldn't see it anywhere. She informed her friends "Everyone! Try to find a red skull and break it!"
"Too bad that won't help a thing! I can survive without it this time!" As Yura spotted Inuyasha charging at her, she threw a blade at him from behind and ran it threw his chest. Inuyasha let out a yell of pain, and Yura got ready to hit him again. "After I'm finished with you, I'll take that beutiful silver hair of yours as a souvenir." Inuyasha was clinging to chest, where the hole was and barely dogged the next move. "Stop moving around!" Yura threw another blade at him another, but before it hit the hanyou, a sacred arrow sliced through the web and prevented the attack.
"Inuyasha, why don't you rest for a while, we'll handle this!" Kagome yelled to him from his left.
"Why should I? I can take care of myself!"
"Well for one you have a hole in your gut and you can barely move." She shot another arrow. "And for two, you've already done enough work! It's our turn!"
Inuyasha snorted, "Since when did she become so... selfish? Before Naraku died, she never wanted to fight."
Kagome noticed that Yura has gotten a lot stronger than before, and this battle was annoying the hell out of her. "I liked you better when you were dead!"
"Sango!" Miroku called "I have a plan! Can you back me up?"
"You got it!" And she threw her weapon.
Miroku was getting closer and closer to Yura until eventually he got close enough to pierce her heart with his staff. Yura still had a few seconds before being completly purified and Miroku took this chance.
"Answer me this before you die, who revived you, and what is his purpose of doing so?" He was desperate to know if it was Naraku. Naraku faked his death once by removig the wind tunnel from Miroku, just to gain more power while everyone relaxed (A/N: from movie 2). The gang wouldn't be surprised if this was another trap.
Yura snickered, "Aww now that's a shame, because I don't know. I just woke up where I was killed and there wasn't a trace of my saviour. Too bad for you I suppose." And with that she and her hair evaporated.
Sango came up to Miroku's side. "This sounds a lot like what Naraku would do. Disappear, only to come back a few weeks later."
"Yeah, this just isn't right, we've been countering more demons for three weeks now, and they're a lot stronger than usual." Inuyasha was holding Tetsusaiga and Kagome's shoulder for support. She was doing her best to support all Inyasha's weight and her voice sounded pretty tired. "Most importantly, they're always coming after us. It seems logical that Naraku is doing all this to distract us."
"Does that mean Naraku's still alive? Or is someone else doing all these stuff?" Shippou's question rang in everyone's ears.
They all stayed deep in thought for a minute, then Miroku spoke, "Right now is not the time to think about all of this. We should treat our wounds first, and then we'll talk about this situation."
"Right" They left for Kaede's village. Once there, Kagome started treating Inuyasha's wounds first, after all, he was the one with the hole in stomach. Like, litteraly.
"First, we should think of the suspects. We have Naraku of course..." Miroku stated.
"But other than him, we don't have anyone else to think about, do we? And besides, he couldn't have known that Yura was one of Inuyasha's first enemies, he didn't even know that Inuyasha woke up from his spell that time!" Sango finished for him.
Inuyasha nodded, "Unless Naraku is reviving some other little friends of his- OW! Dammit Kagome, you wrapped the thing around me a little too tight!"
"Oops, sorry, my bad."
"... Anyways, continue, Inuyasha," Miroku urged.
"... Unless Naraku is the one behind all of this, there might be some sort of new enemy trying to get us. The scent on Yura was nothing like Naraku's scent or hers. It smelled more like lavender flowers and graveyard dirt. The Band of Seven may have smelled like graveyard soil, but this scent is different. It smelled more... feminine. And unless Naraku changed his gender by coming back to life, there's no way he's the one doing this."
"So... are you saying that someone else is after us?" Kagome asked. "Great. Just when I thought I can finally relax in the Feudal Era, another random bad guy shows up, and we have to waste another whole year trying to kill him. GREAT. It's already enough that we have demons to take care of, why can't the bad guys just stay away?"
Inuyasha explained a little more, "I'm not sure. Naraku could be just hiding his scent so we can't find him... but doubt that bastard's still alive. Meidou Zangetsuha should have sent him to the other world."
Kohaku and Kaede came in the little hut. Kaede seemed surprised to see everyone badly wounded. "My, what happened to all of ye?" They explained to her their previous encounter, and what's been going on. Kaede sighed after the story. "It is happening here too, I presume."
Sango's eyes widened, "What do you mean?"
"There have been many villages attacked by demons recently, and the have been reeking havoc everywhere."
After a long pause, Miroku stood up. "Well, then, I guess we have no choice."
"Miroku?" Sango looked at him questionly.
"We have to destroy whoever is doing this. Whether it be Naraku or not, we have to stop this."
Sango stood up next to Miroku "We're all with you, of course".
"We are?" Shippou asked in a nervous voice.
"Yes, we are. Why, are you afraid?" Inuyasha teased.
"No I'm not!"
"Really? 'Cause it sure looks like you are, and you call yourself a demon. You act more like a regular fox if you ask me."
"Do not!"
"Do so!"
"Do not! And besides, who are you to talk, you're afraid of being 'sat' by Kagome! All you do is crash to the ground! You survive all the time! You never take things like a real demon, you're afraid of a human!"
"Why you little... I oughta..."
"That's enough, both of you!" Instantly, Inuyasha and the kitsune both shut up and pouted in thier own corners... as usual.
Inuyasha grumbled a few thing like "Stupid fox, always trying to get me in trouble. Next time I'll hang him to a tree and leave him there," or "Wench, always trying to boss me out of it. Crazy woman's gonna kill me one day. Then, she'll be sorry."
"Inuyasha..."
The hanyou flinched.
"Uh oh."
"SIT!" Inuyasha then met his old friend, the floor. He still continued mumbling.
"Great, now we'll need to fix the floor before we leave," Miroku thought desperatly.
Everyone sighed. Not only will this be hard work (not fixing the floor, the journey), but they're also going to have to deal with those two bickering at each other everyday. And it almost made Kagome go crazy last time. And Sango. And Miroku. And Kohaku. And all the villagers.
"One good thing is coming out of this: the fact that the villagers will have these two out of their hair," Sango thought to herself.
"Alright, as soon as we are all fully healed we will move out to the village south from here to see if we can get some information." Miroku decided. Everyone else nodded. "We don't know how long this whole adventure will take, so we all have to get our stuff ready. Kagome, you should probably take a visit to your era and make sure you got everything too."
Kagome nodded, "Alright."
She looked up desperatly to the celling, hoping for an answer. "Will we EVER find peace ?"
This prologue is really tiny compared to the next chapters... and much, much, lamer -_-'. I promise, the next one will be A LOT better.
If you got any ideas/advice I'd gladly take them in :)
~FoxRain7~