Disclaimer: No, I don't own InuYasha.
A/N: Hello there, this is my first fanfic. EVER. I know this Prologue is really short, but it's necessary. I might even get the first chapter up by tomorrow. I'm really looking foreword to writing this story - So I hope you'll like it! Anyway, here it goes...
Prologue – Judgment Day
August 9th, 1945 - 11:00 am
~Nagasaki, Japan~
The fluorescent screen of a computer monitor lit the features of the woman frantically typing away at the keyboard. In the distance, the air raid sirens continued to blare, their distraught pitches muted slightly by the thick walls of the warehouse-turned-science-institute.
Time had run out. The young woman continued to anxiously enter commands into the computer, as the warnings of her former teammates ran through her head…
"Leave it! There's no hope!"
"Our war is lost, it can't help us!"
"The project has failed - It must be destroyed!"
"We can't afford to let them find it…"
However, a different voice then trespassed on her thoughts…
"Kikyo… please…"
A single tear fell from her eyes as she remembered his pleading voice. It was the first, and last, time she had spoken with him.
She came closer to death with each agonizing tick of the clock. Yet, she was still determined to keep the promise she had made, against the wishes of her fellow scientists. He did not deserve this.
She continued to work at the computer monitor, desperately trying to seal the project before the inevitable air strike. The equipment surrounding her was technologically advanced far beyond the rest of Japan, thus is the reward of being a super genius member of a secret Japanese military organization. She estimated it would be another few decades before the rest of the world could rival it.
She punched in the final commands into the computer system and stared at the "loading" bar inching it's way across the screen, oblivious to the sirens that continued to wail.
At last the monitor cleared and the performed actions listed themselves across the screen:
Project Protection Unit Sealed
Log Copies Archived
Comatose Stage Initiated
Project Tetsusaiga – TERMINATED
Kikyo turned away from the screen glimpsing for the last time the lab that housed her failed project.
They had gotten so close…
At last her eyes landed on the semi-transparent containment unit, silent tears now coursing down her cheeks as she watched the unconscious silhouette within.
A sudden, unexplainable sense of premonition struck Kikyo seconds before the bomb did.
"Goodbye… InuYasha…"
Then her world disappeared in a flash of white.
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A/N: Okay for anyone who didn't learn about this in history - the "flash of white" was the atomic bomb we (the USA) dropped in Nagasaki to end WWII. And yes, you actually do see a big, white flash when the bomb hits.