Okay, before the story starts, here's the following:
Special Note:
I will be following the anime plot of Inuyasha as closely as possible, with some changes here and there courtesy of my OC, Coraline. The only major change to mention at this point, is that the story setting for the modern era will not be in the late 1990s as it is originally, but in 2017.
Disclaimer:
I do not own Inuyasha in any shape or form, be that the plot or characters.
That right solely belongs to Rumiko Takahashi (creator; manga), and Sunrise Studio (anime series).
I also do not own references (subtle or otherwise) to the following:
Tomb Raider (reboot 2013 and onward; some of the story, characters, plus my OC is based off of Lara Croft); that's Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix
Legend of Zelda (Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time); that's Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka and Nintendo
Oh, and my character will be singing some songs from this time, so I'll be be adding disclaimers to the songs that come up; if I somehow forget, do not hesitate to let me know in the comments/reviews so I can fix it. Also, due to a comment that has recently surfaced (June 3rd), you will need to look up the lyrics on your own.
...Okay, that should cover it all. Now, on with the story!
Sengoku Period (430-480 ya), Goshinboku Village, Edo, Japan...
Our story begins almost five hundred years ago, in what was previously known as Edo, Japan.
The view is over a modestly large village, deep within a lush, green hillside forest, which was currently under attack.
Fires are blazing all around the village, engulfing a few huts, accompanying other signs of destruction...
Who, or what, was the cause?
"Inuyashaaa!"
Several village men crowd back in fear, as a figure, seemingly trapped within netting and rope, leaps into the air, and cuts through the ropes with ease!
Getting a closer look at the figure, one could see that this was no ordinary individual:
A young man, with long, thick silver-white hair, wearing a strange, red robe, barefoot, clawed fingers, canine ears on top of his head, and sharp, amber eyes.
With a small chuckle, the figure, now known as Inuyasha, continued to leap from up high, dodging arrows shot towards him, before crashing through the roof of a tiled, well-kept shrine house.
Inside, he stands up straight, covering his face from the smoke of the fire posts planted inside, focusing his vision on his target of interest:
A pedestal, holding a mysterious jewel about the size of a large marble, held within a necklace of other mineral shards...
Inuyasha rushes over to the pedestal, and snatches away the jewel, knocking the holder to the ground. As he turns to leave, the door to the shrine bursts open, courtesy of more men from the village. Inuyasha acts quickly, and dodges an onslaught of spears, leaping into the air, and crashing through the roof again.
He continues to glide through the air, remarking with a smirk,
"Ha! So there!"
He looks down at the jewel in his hand, adding,
"Finally...a way for me to become all demon at last!"
He lands swiftly on the ground, and begins to make his escape. But just before he could cut clear into the forest:
"Inuyasha!"
A voice, belonging to an unknown young woman, calls out, before she pulls the arrow on her bow, and releases!
(Twok)
The arrow flies, as Inuyasha leaped forward, somehow not seeing the arrow, and before he knew it:
(Whizz...TOK)
"Agh!"
The arrow makes contact with his chest, right where his heart is, pinning him to the tree behind him, and causing him to fumble his grip on the mysterious jewel...!
...He watches, a stunned and confused expression on his face, hand stretched out, as the jewel fell to the ground a few feet away from him. His gaze then focuses on the source of the arrow: The unknown woman, who held a stern expression on her features, stock-still as the wind blew gently pass...
With his last strength, he calls out to the woman in a hoarse, and pained voice:
"Ki-Kikyō...How could...I thought-...Auu..uh..."
And his eyes close, he now gone from the world...
The woman, now identified as Kikyō, then steps forward slowly, softly groaning in pain, before kneeling in front of the fallen jewel.
As she does so, footsteps begin to resonate behind her, one set belonging to a young girl in a light orange kimono, and a gauze around her right eye.
"Big sister!"
"Lady Kikyō!" "That wound..."
"You're hurt really badly." Kikyō then says in a pained voice,
"I forgot who I, and now see that..." She then picks up the jewel, and holds it in her fingers, looking at it with a grim expression:
"All for this...The Shikon-no-Tama, which-mmh!"
She cringes from the wound on her right shoulder. Her younger sister desperately pleads, arms held out to her in concern:
"Your in pain, let someone..."
"I won't, be let much longer..." Kikyō then turns to her sister, holding out the jewel:
"And so, I give this to you: The Shikon-no-Tama. Which you must burn with my body..." She adds with a stern expression,
"It must not fall into the hands of those who would abuse it..."
Kikyō grasps the jewel to her, as her expression turns from serious, to one of distant sadness, mixed with pain and exhaustion...She whimpers softly, eyes closed, and succumbs to her wound, as her sister calls out in tears,
"Sister Kikyō...Sister Kikyōōōō!"
Time passes, and the body of the woman once known as Kikyō, is seen as it falls to cremating flames, the mysterious 'Shikon-no-Tama' placed in her hands in a ceremonial fashion.
I shall take it with me, to the other world...
The jewel emits a bright glow, as it, and Kikyō, fall into the inferno, never to be seen again...
Unknown Time and Place...
...Fire...gunshot...
...Forest...escape..
...Pain...shining light..."You will soon realize your destiny."
...Wh..What?...Grabbing the light...no, an object...
...So, bright...voices...(sheen)
(Jolt)
"(Gasp), (Pant, pant...)"
We now turn to a large home and shrine somewhere in Tokyo, namely, on one particular resident: A young girl with long, auburn hair, whom had just awoken from sleep, slightly shaky, but also curious from the dream she had:
"...That, dream...It came again..."
She gets up, walks over to her bedroom window, and opens it to greet the morning.
Yet, as she breathes in the fresh air, it did little to help quell the unease and intrigue arsing within her:
"...This is the third night in a row that I had this dream. I wonder what it means? And...why do I have this feeling, that something life-changing is going to happen soon?"
Little did this young woman know, just how right her intuition was, or was about to be, in the events to come...