This is based off of the movie Wolf Children, so the roles will be a little mixed up. Both Sesshomaru and Inuyasha are Hanyous, Izayoi's children, and they both can transform into a huge dog. The movie also has a lot of scenes without dialogue, so if I don't want to whiz through this in all of two chapters, there will obviously be some differences.

Also, hanyou means half-demon, and inuyokai means dog-demon.

Now that that's out of the way, please enjoy the Prologue of Hanyou Children.

He was different.

From the moment Izayoi laid eyes on him, she was sure of it. It wasn't just his off-white hair, or his honey eyes, or the strange markings on his skin. His whole personality was different from everything she had ever known. He was so gruff on the outside, but kind on the inside. He sort of reminded her of the tsunderes from the anime she used to watch, heh.

She would never forget the day she met him. Every time the memory played itself in her mind, it was like new. He was like new. And she could feel her love for him surfacing again...

Oh, but let me tell you, this is not a love story. This is a story about a mother, Izayoi, and her life with her two half-demon sons.

It seemed to be an ordinary day at college, at first. Until she noticed a strange man she had never seen before taking notes at the front of the classroom. He looked so out of place, what with his extraordinary looks and diligent studying, even without a textbook. And he seemed to appear out of nowhere, too. Izayoi knew that if he'd been at the college the whole time, she would've seen him. As the class wore on, she couldn't take her eyes off of him.

After the class, she saw him pick up his notebooks, pens, and then leave through the fire exit. He was so unusual, she couldn't just let him walk away like that! She followed him out of the school, off of the campus, and to wherever he was going until she decided to speak up.

"Wait!" She called, making him turn around. His honey golden eyes made her feel like she was melting, and she had to come up with something to say, fast. "Um... Ya know, that class you were in is pretty hard without a textbook, so I was thinking," She held up her own book. "maybe we could share mine?"

He starred at her a moment, then two, then turned to walk away without saying anything. Izayoi stood there, defeated. He was the oddest person she'd ever seen, and she wanted to know more about him. It was stupid, but she thought that maybe if he said yes, then they could become friends and get to know each other. But she decided that she wouldn't give up. She would get to know him, even if it killed her.

The next day at the college, he actually did end up sitting next to Izayoi, and sharring her textbook. They didn't talk much, but Izayoi lurned that he was called Inu no Taisho, and that he lived alone, and that he hated squid-ink-spaghetti. Izayoi began to follow Touga around the school, determined to become his friend. As the days grew on, she learned more and more about him. Eventually they ended up spending time outside of school, and would end up walking together, just the two of them, sharing idle chitchat and questioning each other.

"So, why were you named Inu no Taisho? It's kinda long." Izayoi asked sweetly as they walked in the evening.

"Curious, aren't you?" Was his response. "That's actually not my real name. It's my father's title, and I was the next in line to take it. My real name is Touga."

Izayoi beamed. "Touga... I like it!"

Touga's eyes widened. "You do?"

"Yup! I think I'll call you that from now on!"

Touga smiled sheepishly. "Well, you'd be the first..."

As Time wore on, the became more than friends. They'd go on dates, and kiss, and do other things that couples did. But after a while, Izayoi could tell something was holding Touga back. Something was eating a him on the inside. She had no idea what, and she couldn't tell if he had any plans on ever telling her. Maybe he's got a a secret, she wondered. On night, however, Touga told her to meet him at the park, and make sure no one else was there.

"There's something I have to tell you." He stated. Izayoi shivered. Conversations that started like that never went well.

Izayoi, afraid that she might choke if she said anything, simply nodded her head in response.

"Well, I suppose it would be better to show you. Close you eyes."

Trusting her lover completely, Izayoi did as she was told.

After several moments, however, her eyes needed to breathe. "No peeking." Breath taken, she followed his orders.

She waited and waited, and she eventually heard strange noises on the other side of her eyelids. She had to admit, she was scared. What on Earth was he doing? Just when she thought he might've left her alone in a cruel form of breaking up, she heard him say, "Open your eyes."

When she did so, there were at first no words to describe what she saw. When her eyes and then her brain finished processing what stood before her, she realized it was an enormously large, powerful dog. It bore markings on it's face like Touga did, and something inside her told her that this creature was her lover.

"What do you see? I'm a monster, aren't I?" The dog asked, with Touga's voice. Izayoi was speechless. When she finally thought that she'd be able to respond, she opened her mouth. Her tongue was sandpaper dry.

That night, she learned that Inu no Taisho was the title of an Inuyokai. That Touga was the last surviving Inuyokai, born of two purebred parents, who died during his childhood. He was the last purebred that could be born, and therefore the last one to carry the Inu no Taisho title. If he were to mate with her like he wanted, then their children would be Hanyous: half human, half Inuyokai. His parents taught him not to mate, because there were no more surviving Yokai that could care for them. Hanyous would be forced into the human population, or would become animals.

But Izayoi knew that he wasn't a monster. She loved him, and he loved her. So that night, they mated.

The following day, Izayoi woke up with sickness. While Touga was out at work, she took herself to her doctor's office, and found out that the night's activities created a little life inside of her. Later that day, when she saw Touga, they celebrated. It didn't matter to either of them that their child would be a Hanyou. They'd love it just the same.

For nine months, Touga took care of her. She was his flower; a beautiful lily that needed water, food, care, and love. He made her dinner, and comforted her when she got sick. They never risked any doctor's appointments, however. How could they explain if the ultrasound shown a pup inside of Izayoi's belly? And when they child was birthed, it was just the two of them, bringing the Hanyou into the world as snow fell outside.

The child very much resembled Touga, what with his inhuman markings on his skin and pointed elf-like ears. His hair was long, down to his shoulders even as a newborn, and it was shiny silver. He had a long, cream colored tail that Izayoi wrapped around him to keep him warm.

"What's his name?" Izayoi asked as she breastfed the surprisingly calm little boy.

"Sesshomaru."

Izayoi gave Touga a funny glance. "That's certainly... unique."

Touga chuckled. "He's different from everyone else. He can be whatever he wants to be when he grows up. Be it human, or yokai..."

Izayoi smiled, and warmly nuzzled her firstborn son.

Shortly after Sesshomaru's birth, Izayoi was pregnant once again. The following spring, the baby was about ready to be born. Touga and Izayoi were excited. Their journey through parenthood was getting started. But the day of the baby's birth, Touga had gone out. Izayoi was alone with the child, and the day wore on. He didn't come home. Izayoi brought Sesshomaru and the new baby, another boy, this one donning pure white hair with little white dog ears topping off his head, with her to search for Touga.

It was raining, and Touga wasn't at his job. Or any other public facility that Izayoi figured he might've gone to. She was about to give up hope as she walked solitarily on a bridge, when she saw it. Floating in the man-made river below her, was the drowned body of a huge, white dog. Men in raincoats and tall rubber boots came out of a trash truck, and went down into the river, bagging up the body and throwing it into the truck, which would drive off to dump the body in a landfill somewhere.

Realization hit Izayoi square in the chest, like a bullet to the heart. Her lover's dead body would be dumped in some landfill somewhere.

Without thinking, Izayoi ran up to the truck, screaming nonsense at the men as raindrops and salty tears and snot ran down her face. The men ignored her, and she collapsed on her knees, both she and her babies crying. A kind someone walked over to her, holding an umbrella over her head and she screamed out in pain.

That night, Izayoi had a dream. It was the first one she'd had in awhile.

She was walking in a meadow, wearing her favorite blue dress. It was sunny and warm. She turned, and saw a figure. A figure with an off-white ponytail hanging down his back.

"Touga!" She cried.

He flashed her a warm smile, then turned to walk away, transforming into his Inuyokai form as he did so.

"Wait!" Izayoi called out, but he didn't stop walking away from her. She began to feel rather hopeless, until he spoke.

"Take good care of our children."

Izayoi woke up the next morning, her face stained with tears she must've shed in her sleep. She glanced around the room, and at the two white-haired little boys that lay sleeping peacefully and unaware of her pain.

"I will." She spoke, her voice thick with determination.