I don't own Inuyasha, breath of fire, or any of the copyrighted characters used, this work is not for the motive of profit and is entirely fan written.
Scent of Fire
Prologue
My name is Ryu, up until recently it was just Ryu. No family name.
I've never had to put much effort into the things I did, without practice I'd be in the top five in everything at school, all the subjects, all the sports, I was even voted onto the top five most attractive guys list in the school newspaper.
I never though about why everything was so easy, that was the way things were, why complain about it being easy?
But then I transferred schools in the third year of middle school...
...Before that story, the reason I had no family name, my father died while my mother was pregnant, and my mother died minutes after my birth, I have no other living relatives and my family line died without anyone left to write me into it. I was taken in by a woman who had just had a stillbirth, but after 2 years something about me scared her enough that she put me up for adoption, no one took me in that time.
I lived at an orphanage until I was six, then a friend of my father found me, the high priest at a temple near where my parents had lived. I lived there until I was ten; when the high priest passed away.
After Jijiis death I was passed from temple to temple, staying for between 3 to 8 months at a time, finally in my last year of middle school a friend of my Jijii found me, and I was adopted into his family, that's how I came to have the family name Higurashi.
I was told I would have a sister my age, a younger brother and a mother, but old man Higurashi is the one that adopted me because of his haste, and therefore it worked out that I had a sister twice my age and a niece and nephew...
Although I was told I had a sister (well niece I guess...) I lived at the temple for a whole month before I actually met her, old man Higurashi was always calling my school giving random excuses for "Kagome's" absence. I was curious at first, but after a few weeks without seeing a sign of anyone else... I just lost interest.
That is until I overheard old man Higurashi talking to Souta (that's my "nephew" by the way) about the well in the old shrine behind the house.
My curiosity returned. I waited until nightfall and then slipped out of the house.
The shrine... it made my skin crawl. It felt like something was happening, like i should of been able to see more than i did. I made my way down the old stairs and peered over the edge into the well, everything was still, it was just an old dried out well. But when I turned to leave, one of the most embarrassing things in my life happened...I came face to face with the family cat. I was so tense because of the feel of the well that I completely overreacted and jumped backwards. Right. Into. The. Well.