Summary: Imagine a world dominated by demons, where all humans are slaves with few exceptions. Such was the way Inuyasha was brought up. Kagome, as we all know, comes from the future. However, this future is much different compared to the world we live in. The demons' power and control of the world has never been stronger. The most incredible detail about the situation is that through out all these thousands of years, there has only been one demon king. To imagine, all this could have been avoided had one person met another. That is what Kagome had to learn, whether she liked it or not. For you see, though this was a time unfit for true love and happiness, those are the very things that were needed to change the world for the better.

Disclaimer: Sigh...I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters from the show... I mean, if I did, wouldn't I be making this story into a new anime show instead?

A/N: This was my first fan fiction so please have patience... I totally re did the entire thing and this is a fresh start. I know that I have not been updating my stories and that's because my computer broke down. I want to post up this new revised version of my old story... so... here it is. If anything I write offends you, please inform me and I'll try my best to fix what ever the problem is. I'll change it even if I have to rewrite the whole thing (again). This is because the opinion of one single person is important enough to me that I want to make each of my readers comfortable. The ages and attitudes of the characters would be different a bit (well, the attitudes might be a lot different). For example, Rin and Kaede would be the same age (both pretty young). Lastly, I can not help but have favourites among the characters of the show, so if I seem to make one character way better than another, don't be surprised. However, I will try my best not to do that.

Now, without further ado... The show must go on...

Faces Of The Heart

Prologue:

"My fellow demons... It has been too long that we have been separated from one another. The humans treat us as equals, if not as trash, but we know the truth. We are superior in every way compared to them. It is time for us to show them their place in the world and for us to rise to the top, just as we were meant to be when we were first born. We need a leader, someone with true power and wisdom. The sooner we have a king; we shall begin to act on our birthrights. Who is with me?"

This was the speech that started it all. Just after one day, one would hear the thousands of legions of demons marching towards the human strongholds. The war was over before it even started. The humans were weak, in all the aspects of body, mind, heart, and spirit. The warriors were torn limb from limb, though they did put up a fair fight. For every demon slain, hundreds of people would die. The demons controlled loved ones of the warriors to attack them. The military commanders were brutal. For what can be worse then seeing an infant killing his or her parents and siblings? Lovers were turned against one another, as were friends and more. In addition to all that, due to the cowardly human nature, many tried to bargain with the demons for their lives in exchange for information. This the demons happily accepted. However, the traitors would soon live to regret that they weren't the only one that can betray other. For once the deserter has done his or her job, they were given the chance to live all right, but as slaves. Many of them were marked and sold to various demonic families where they were used any way the family wanted.

The last of the humans gathered themselves into an alliance with one another. They made their base on the island of Atlantis. For some strange reason, the demons were afraid of that island. Some say there was a great evil on that island; others claim that the water around it was pure holy water. Nobody knows for sure, but the kind of the demons never gave up. The war might have been over, and only a small handful of demons died compared to the millions of humans that have left this world, but there were still free humans in the world. He could not accept that, so he gathered the greatest of demonic necromancers, mages, wizards, warlocks, and more to cast one final spell to finish the rest of the humans.

Years have passed since the war and the humans were having great prosperity on the island of Atlantis, there was even talk about initiating another war with the demons to reclaim their homeland. Though some people did find this peace a bit too suspicious. Their uncertainties were confirmed by the sight of a newly constructed black tower on the other side of shore, where their homeland used to be. As soon as the tower appeared to be complete, a black cloud passed over the island. However, nothing appeared to happen, so soon the humans returned to their lives of rebuilding what was once a dominating empire. The next few years were of famine, pestilence, and death. The water of the island turned gray and all who touched it in any way started to die of a disease, which was different on each person. Some died of being burned on the inside, others died of their skin shedding every time he or her moved until all the skin was pealed off and the victims died of pain and agony. The animals of the island started attacking people, each according to its size. Rabbits attacked children while lions appear and devoured adults. Those who were left died of hunger for all eatable vegetation were infested with millions of insects on the inside. One would bite into an apple and start chocking on and spitting out maggots. This was a cruel time in deed, until the day when it all ended. All who died during this era of death rose from the dead and slaughtered those who were lucky enough to survive everything else. In the end, two skeletal hands arose from the surrounding water and dragged the entire island down and all were destroyed. Only two people survived from the island but what happened to them, that is another story all in itself.

WOO! I think that's much better than the original... please review and I'll update soon... please also check out my other stories. For now, this is S-S logging off.