Story: Pain hurts so do enemies (rewrite)

Chapter: prologue

Warnings: Character deaths, blood

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, or get paid to write this…which sucks.

Authors note: Hello again every one thanks for waiting so long! I am rewriting my story Pain hurts so do enemies so I thought may as well set the scene as dark as possible so here is the prologue! Please review and tell me what you think! It runs a bit fast because it is really just so you all get what is going on… so on to the chapter!

Prologue

Miroku

Miroku (age five) lived with his father and father's best friend (Mushin). His mother had left just a few weeks after Miroku had been born and he had never met her. Miroku's father was a well-known monk and a 'bit' of a womanizer. He had a curse that was placed upon his father and had carried on to him when his father died. It was a wind void in his right hand.

When Miroku was just six years old his father committed suicide. He sucked himself into his own hand; Miroku watched it happen, he was scarred for life. After Miroku's father died Miroku was taken into protective custody. Mushin tried to gain custody of Miroku but he failed, so Miroku was sent into a foster home.

House after house he went through… never spending more than a month or two at any one of them. Each foster parent had said he was too traumatised, or too depressed or problematic for them to take care of. Finally at the age of nine he arrived at the last house that he would live in, the couple had wanted a child for a long time but had never been aloud to have one because of the husbands history, he had went to jail for violence problems.

The people from the agency where told that this would be his last house if he could not stay there then there was nothing left they could do he would be put into a juvenal detention centre just because there was no where else he could go. This family was nice for the first few months then just like all the other houses the problems began. The husband began to show his true colours he began hitting his wife then Miroku. The wife left after a month of punishment from her husband and then Miroku was the prime target for him. Five long years Miroku endured the pain relying on his friends for comfort and support through the hard times.

Miroku met Inuyasha when he was eight and he met Kagome and Sango when he was nine.

Inuyasha

Inuyasha's parents had met when they where in collage, Izayoi and Inutaisho. They loved each other at first sight but love between a human and a demon was forbidden so they kept their love secret from the world only meeting in the dead of night. Inutaisho even married and had a son with a dog demon-ess to make it seem convincing that they had no feelings for each other. Very quickly Inutaisho made his way to the top of the corporate world and became a millionaire.

When Inutaisho's wife found out about the secret she promised not to tell anyone but that was only under the condition that she got a large sum of money and that she could move away to another part of the world. He agreed but was unsettled when he awoke in the morning and found a note saying 'the divorce papers are here I signed my share of them, keep the child I have no need of him now.' His ex-wife had left the baby Sesshomaru with Inutaisho.

When Izayoi was told of the infant being left alone by his mother she made up a plan to disguise herself as a demon so she could care for him. Inutaisho agreed to her plan and the preparations where made. Soon after getting married they had a second son Inuyasha. He was a hanyou but they easily disguised his as a full demon also. Seven years they lived like this; Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, Izayoi, and Inutaisho one family of demons.

Eventually they where found out and Inuyasha's parents where killed. Sesshomaru was just as devastated as Inuyasha but he somehow saved Inuyasha from being killed along with them. Sesshomaru had just turned twelve at this point and was legally old enough to live on his own since he was a demon. He gained legal custody of Inuyasha and they together disappeared from the public's eye.

Inuyasha (age eight), and Sesshomaru (age twelve) moved into a house in a small suburban neighbourhood. Even though their father had been a millionaire all his money was taken from the boys. They had barley enough to live off of at the current point in time. They where given enough money to buy the house and the bare minimum amount of furniture. A small sum of money was given for food and utilities each month but that was it.

In order to save money the summers where hot and the winters where cold barley any use of the heater and air conditioner made for less money spent. Cheap brands of food were bought, candles where used often, clothing was always second hand and Sesshomaru got a job all so that they could have money for later on in life.

Sesshomaru was rarely ever home to care for Inuyasha, they both had school during the day, Sesshomaru worked three nights a week and on Saturdays. Inuyasha was always picked on at school and Sesshomaru stood up for him whenever possible. When Sesshomaru was fourteen he moved to high school. Inuyasha was left to fend for himself from then on Sesshomaru couldn't protect him anymore.

He made friends with another boy who was picked on for being different; a human named Miroku, the two where inseparable. Later they made friends with two human girls named Sango and Kagome.

Sango

Sango was a young girl from a family of demon slayers. Even though it was a time in which demons and humans lived together in harmony they still trained in the ancient ways of their ancestors and they continued to hunt down wanted demons. Her life was good she had a father that loved her and a large family that she loved. When she was two her mother had another child a brother for her Kohaku was his name. She had died from birth complications but her son lived.

Kohaku, Sango, their father and the rest of the family lived in happiness. They trained everyday hard and long, still going to school and doing homework and chores under there father strict supervision. Sango (age five) had exterminated many demons and was now considered the youngest professional slayer in the country. Her brother would do the same as soon as he was the same age as her. Once Sango was nine and Kohaku was five they where asked to go out on Kohaku's first real mission and Sango's third. Fifteen members of the clan were summoned to a castle in the far north to exterminate a large group of centipede demons.

The extermination started off well enough but soon took a turn for the worse. By the time they had finished off all of the centipedes but the king three of the slayers had perished. When killing the king centipede another two slayers died. The job was over and the remaining ten slayers gathered the dead and brought them back home to bury them. When they returned home they found their shrine in shambles everyone of the family that had remained behind while they went to the castle.

From behind the ten remaining slayers where ambushed and all where killed except for two, Kohaku and Sango. When Sango woke up she found out that her and her brother where in a hospital. Taken there by one of Sango's best friends brother. Sesshomaru had been walking home from work when he smelt blood, demon and human. He had taken a short detour to find out where the smell was coming from.

Once the house the scent came from came into sight he knew he had to help it was his little brother's friend's home. As he charged into battle he caught the scent of death, all of the slayers were dead accept from the two children. The boy had been knocked out and the girl was being thrown around. He easily caught the young girl and placed her down beside her unconscious brother. The demons that killed the slayers charged at Sesshomaru and he easily evaded most of the attacks.

One by one he knocked them out or brought them to the brink of death. He did not kill even one even after gaining many injuries he continued to fight. All but one of the demons had been cut down; Sesshomaru took a few deep breaths. The final demon charged without warning, the sword he held severed his arm from body. Sesshomaru moaned in pain but with his other hand he defeated the last demon with one swipe.

Sesshomaru picked the two children up and carried them slowly down the now pitch black street. He arrived at the Higurashi's shrine where he saw Kagome's mother at the top of the shrine steps and he collapsed. Mrs. Higurashi was just sweeping off the steps before she went in to put Kagome to bed when she saw the young demon boy collapse.

She called her father out to the yard and got him to call EMS/911. She ran down the steps and helped the now semi-conscious boy to lie down and she laid the children down beside him on the grass. Quickly she looked over at the children she knew who they where they where the slayers' children from down the street, Sango and Kohaku.

When the ambulance arrived Sesshomaru was sitting up and told them to take the children first he could wait. But they insisted that he come first and the decision was made to send Sango and Sesshomaru in the ambulance because they had the worst injuries and to take Kohaku in the car behind the ambulance. Kagome had called Inuyasha and he had told her he would get Miroku and meet her and the others at the hospital.

Inuyasha left a note for Sesshomaru just encase he returned while he was at the hospital. Not knowing that he was going to find his brother had also been hospitalized with a lost arm. He ran over to Miroku's house and together they went to the hospital. Miroku was a bit banged up from his foster father and Inuyasha was a bit sore from a beating earlier that day but still they ran at full speed to the hospital.

With none of her family remaining Sango was invited to live with Kagome and her family. At the age of nine everyone was gone except for her little brother.

Kagome

Kagome lived a relatively normal life compared to her friends when they were children; she had a mother, a father, a grandfather who lived with them and a little brother. For years they all lived together as a happy family that is until she was seven her father died in a car accident. It was a rainy night and nether of the drivers saw one another. Two of the demons in the opposing car died, the third a year old kitsune lived. Kagome's family took him in as if he were their own child, and named him Shippo.

After that Kagome was inseparable from the young demon he even began to call her mother. The five lived on for years happy as ever, until Kagome's best friend lost her family at the age of nine. Sango and her brother moved in with her and the rest of her family.

Well even when they all got settled in things got harder for Kagome, Sango, Sota, Kohaku and Shippo. When the girls turned thirteen, Sota and Kohaku turned nine, and Shippo turned seven, everything went down hill. Kagome's mother and grandfather were killed in a drive by shooting in down town Tokyo. The five children were left alone again. Sesshomaru now being seventeen and a new business power in Japan easily took the five into his custody and they were able to support themselves on the amount of money the Higurashi family had.

So as you can see these kids were pretty messed up. Not one of them had parents, everything from murder to suicide, scars ran deep on the inside and the outside of these children and it didn't seem like it was going to get any better. Lets give you a heads up… it only gets worse….

Please review! I know that is went really fast so no need to reinerate that! Sorry it took so long!

HOPE YOU ALL LIKED IT!