Inuyasha (revised)
Pre-reading:
I hope that I am not the only one who thinks Inuyasha needs a revamp. I would like to look at this as my own little Inuyaha revamp. There's not a whole lot of change, except with Kagome's character. Kagome is more courageous and stronger in this then she is in Inuyasha. I always found myself very annoyed and disappointing with her character right down to the very end of Finale Act. Sure, she becomes stronger in the end, but not by much, she just had so much unused potential. Oh yes, and Shippo is a lot less annoying, too. If I have offended you in any way, I am sorry. If you are a big fan of the way Kagome is now, then you shouldn't go on reading this. But if you want an ass kicking, cold, witty and charming Kagome, then this is your fanfic! I hope you like it, and I know it's not the most spectacular work, as I am not the most spectacular writer, but I want to try and get better and make this story a better and more enjoyable experience for all that read it. Constructive criticism is much appreciated and so is your love3 please don't hate, thanks.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA
Ch.1: The Well
It was getting late, and I had to pick up the pace if I wanted to get to archery on time. Today was the competition I had been waiting a whole year for, and I couldn't miss it. Grandpa was blabbering on again about some demon and some jewel, but I decided to tune him out.
"Grandpa, you're going to make me late for my competition if you keep blabbering on like this!" I complained. I checked the time once again, panicking in the process. The time was now way over due and I had to book it if I wanted to even think about being on time. I got up in a gust as I grabbed my archery equipment and was out the door in no time, shouting goodbye behind me to my grandpa. I was stopped, though, by my younger brother, Souta.
He was inside the well house, where the bone eater's well lived. Grandpa would tell countless stories about that well, but I never believed any of it, until today, that is. I was curious as to why he was in there, I can spare a minute. The well house, as we call it, was dark and ominous as ever. As I stepped through the door of the well house, my footsteps echoed all around, making the small room that much creepier and my brother's head turn.
"What are you doing here?" asked my brother, monotone. I had finally arrived to him as he finished his sentence, then studied my person, taking in my red and white priestess outfit I had to where for the archery competition. "I thought you were running late for your archery" he told me, same tone.
I shrugged, "I saw you in here, and was curious."
"Well, if you must know, Buyo went into the well house, and now I can't find him" Souta told me matter-o-factly. He was holding a dark blue cat bowl with cat food and a half eaten fish, must be for buyo.
I sighed and took simple steps toward the well, "what are you doing?" asked my little brother, quite alarmed.
"Getting Buyo back, because someone's being a baby" an odd sound came from the back of my brother's throat.
"I am not!" my brother hollered while stomping his foot onto the floor in a violently, I chuckled at his denial. He growled, but stopped when the room was filled with an unfamiliar sound. I stopped in my tracks and stood still, what was that?
Souta and I were both frozen, "uum…sis….what was that?" asked my paranoid brother.
I, too, was somewhat taken aback, but revived quickly as I turned my head around to see my brother so he didn't see how frightened I was. "The cat, now stop being such a weenie!" I exclaimed. I turned my attention back on the well.
For the second time, another unfamiliar sound came from the well, and once again, I froze. I stared intently at the well, and then out of nowhere, something had wrapped itself around my legs. I jumped and yelped, my brother along with me. I looked down, expecting to see some other worldly creature, but only set my sight upon my fat cat. I breathed again, without even realizing that I had stopped.
"Hah! That's what you get!" teased my brother.
I turned my head to my brother, "give me a break, I was startled was all!" I told him, he just rolled his eyes. I then switched my attention back to Buyo, who was now rubbing against my leg and making happy little meows. I picked him up then, and started ascending up the steps. I was then frozen by an invisible force, and all I could do was stand there, looking glassy-eyed. Then, this forced increased dramatically as the well burst open. I could feel the well now sucking me in, and again, all I could do was stand there and look like someone frozen in time.
"Hey, what's going on?!" I heard my brother before I was engulfed by the well. The only action I could make was the outtake of breath that had previously left my mouth as if someone had punched me in the stomach, knocking all the wind out of me at once. The last thing I saw was my brother running towards the well and his mouth moving. That was it. I was now going through a funnel of blue and white light. I was so in awe and in shock that I couldn't even scream. Then, I felt the force materialize into hands around my body, and finally, a full body. It was a naked woman with 6 arms, 3 on each side. My eyes grew in alarm, but my vocals stayed put. The lady looked as if she came directly out of Grandpa's books about demons. She had a pale completion with blood red lips, eyes with no pupils, along with black dots above her eyes, and the body of a centipede. The thing then grabbed my face, and my pupils grew impossibly larger, but there was still no sound that came out through my mouth.
"Ah, alive, to be alive once more" the creature screeched. Its voice was as wicked as she looked. The thing grabbed my face with more emphasis now, sticking out her slimy red tong, speaking "you have it in you, don't you! Give it to me!" this unfroze my vocals somewhat, and allowed me to yell out in alarm and unwillingness. The centipede's tong came out in full onto my face in dissatisfaction.
My vocals were now completely unfrozen and I could talk, "what, what are you doing?!" I yelled out questioningly. Then I placed the palm of my hand on the thing's face to make it stop. "Stop!" I yelled out, and once I did that, a pink glow had come from the bottom of my hand. The centipede's eye's grew wide with panic as she let out a gasp of surprise as my glowing hand forced it back. I watched my hand glow in great puzzlement as the glow made its way to my abdomen, then burn out completely.
"wretched girl, I need the sacred jewel!" exclaimed the centipede lady madly as she dropped in my opposite direction. Sacred jewel?
The blue-star-y-ness started to materialize into ground, and I stood there, panting, not believing what I had just witnessed. I got up, still shaken.
"I must have…bumped my head….or not" I looked around the well, which didn't seem to resemble the well I've come to know at all.
"Souta, get grandpa!" I yelled out hopefully. No sound. I gave up and looked around for some kind of escape. It was then that I spotted some sturdy looking vines, in which I used to climb up out of the well with. When I got out of the well, all I saw was green, almost as if I were somehow placed in a forest.
My heart pounded with shock, "I don't think were in Tokyo anymore" I thought aloud. I began to walk forward, and out of the well, calling out the names of my people who were at the shrine. Unfortunetly, forest was as far as the eye could see, until I spotted something familiar.
"The tree!" I had found the family shrine tree. I could now feel a twinge of hope fluttering within my heart. I sprinted my way towards the tree, only to lay my eyes upon something odd, a boy who was constricted to the tree.
I completely stopped and stared in awe and curiosity. The boy was binded to the tree with huge vines, as if by ropes. The boy also had the same kind of outfit I had on, except it was completely red. What was odd about the boy were his dog ears and long, white hair. The boy also had an arrow sticking out from his chest and looked as if to be asleep. The sunshine shined upon him as if he was some great prince and the wind blew a gentle breeze against him. He was beautiful. The first thing I couldn't help but notice was his ears, they look so fluffy and soft, I just wanna touch 'em!
I started walking over to the boy, climbing over the large vines in the process. "uh, hey, whatcha doin there?" I asked the boy, but there was no reply. It didn't seem that the boy was alive at all, so I decided to touch his ears; I couldn't help myself, wow! Like dog ears! Then there were arrows…and they were coming for me! Next thing I knew, I was getting ganged up by a bunch of strange looking men.
"Hold on, fellas, is this guy here your friend or something? I'm sorry, he just looked so approachable." I had said in an apologetic tone, though I don't think they got what I was talking about as I heard them mutter things like "who is this strange maiden?" and "what is she talking about?"
Then, one of them finally spoke up and said, "He's no friend of ours" in an unfriendly tone, I frowned. Another yelled, "get away from there!" Next thing I knew, I had been tied up with rope and carried away by horse to a strange medieval looking town of some sorts. Here I was set down upon a straw rug of some kind in what looked like the middle of the small village where the village people now gathered.
Foolish talk and chatter of "the girl being a demon sent from another village," or other things of the sort gushed from the villagers who now surrounded me. They were all as strange to me as I was to them. The villagers wore kimonos and Japanese peasant robes of all sorts, what is this, medieval Japan?
A loud voice then made its way through the chatter and silenced the voices, "make way for high priestess Kaidai!"
An elderly woman with the same outfit I had for archery came through the crowd of people and walked right up to me. Then she took out a bag and started throwing powder of sorts into my face, and said "be gone demon," DEMON?!
"Hey! I'm no demon!" I exclaimed, now very annoyed. The "priestess" named Kiyadai stopped throwing her powder at my face, "then why were ye found in the forest of Inuyasha?" Kaidai had asked with a gentle, yet curious, voice.
I had no idea what she was talking about, for a moment I said nothing. The man next to Kiyadai whispered, "Maybe she's a spy from another town?" SPY?!
"In that case, she would be a fool. Who would invade a village like ours?" Kiyadai had asked herself. There was a long moment where Kiyadai looked at me, then her expression had changed from puzzled to shock. Next, Kiyadai grabbed my face so to examine it.
"let me have a good look at ye." Kiyadai was now turning my face from side to side, which annoyed me even further. A few second later, she let go of my face and said, "It's there, but I know not why," more to herself than anyone else.
Moments later, Kiyadai had ordered me to be untied and then invited me to her home for supper, in which I took, I couldn't resist.
Kiyadai had made a tasty smelling soup and handed me a cup of it, "Wow! Real food, " I praised while taking no time at all to get a sip of it.
Not too much later, my slurping was interrupted by Kiyadai's voice, "bare us no ill will, child, for now I know you mean us no harm. In these troubled times of war, no stranger may be welcomed upon us without disgrace."
I had no idea what she was talking about, again, but tried to looked concerned and said, "We really aren't in Tokyo anymore, are we?" I asked, hoping for an answer.
"To-ki-yo? Never heard of it, is that where your people are from?" Asked Kiyadai, I tried to keep calm while also trying to put on a cheery façade.
"Oh, haha, yes, and I really should get going" I said awkwardly. Though I have no idea how to get back. I decided to pay attention to my food when, nothing short of a few moments later, an unexpected crashing sound was heard and then came the panic of the villagers. Both Kiyadai and I sprinted outside of her home to find out what had happened.
All was chaos in the village, and the bad thing was that centipede from the well was back, and now it was destroying the village.
"It's that thing!" I managed to say as it stopped to look at Kiyadai and me.
"Give me the sacred jewel!" The centipede exclaimed in her awful voice, and then charged at us. Even with my "cat-like-reflexes" I managed to barely get away from the attack. The centipede monster yet again maliciously attacked the village.
I thought I might give a bow and arrow a shot, but as I looked around at the men who were them, I saw that they weren't working. What should I do? It's me that the thing wants.
Kiyadai's voice now interrupted my thoughts, "it's after the jewel…bare ye it, still?!" Kiyadai had looked at me in surprise.
"look, I have no idea what you're talking about! I mean, I've heard of it, but-" I was interrupted by the centipede.
"I must have it, I must!" yelled the centipede while wrecking parts of the village, yet again.
"We need to lure it to the dry well" I heard Kiyadai's voice say.
"Where is the dry well?" I asked Kiyadai.
"In the forest of Inuyasha"
"The well I climbed out of! Which way is it, near that light, right?" I said directly before I started to sprint toward the pink light where the "forest of Inuyasha" lied. "I'll draw it away!" I yelled behind my back as I sprinted toward the forest.
As I ran for dear life, the centipede had finally started catching up to me. I decided to bulk up, "Hey! Centipede! Bet you can't catch me!" I taunted. This made the centipede mad with rage, which led to the centipede head-butt-ing me and sent me flying, not one of my greater ideas. I hadn't known where I had landed until a voice I had never heard before called to me seconds after landing.
"Hello Kikiyo, playing with bugs now, are we?" a strange voice of a man taunted. I looked up only to find out the voice had come from the seemingly unconscious boy that I had encountered in this forest upon setting my sights on the family tree.
"So…you are alive" I stated the obvious.
"Why are you taking so long to kill it? Just do her like you did me." The boy had said, though I had no idea what he was talking about. The boy's facial expression shifted then from cocky to bewilder.
"You look pretty dumb, there, Kikiyo. The Kikiyo I know wouldn't waste her time"
I was annoyed by the fact that this kid called me Kikiyo when he didn't even know me. "Hey, I don't think I know you, so would you stop calling me Kikiyo? Kind of irritating if you ask me, my name is Kagome. Ka-go-me, you get it?" I said to him assertively, maybe he'll get a clue.
"What?! You gotta be her! Because there's no way that you can smell so-" The boy interrupted himself with his own sniffs, and then his face changed to shock.
I rolled my eyes, "see! I'm not whoever you're talking about. I am Kagome!"
The boy's eyes and face looked the other way, "you're right, Kikiyo was cuter, much cuter."
WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?!
Just then, I felt the centipede coming towards us, so I jumped out of the harm's way as soon as the window of possibility was opened, though this proved useless as the centipede's tail knocked me back to the tree, mid-air. Then it's tale bound me to the tree to ensure [my] escape was impossible. I then let out a sound between a scream and a heavy sigh as the tale, that had constricted around me and this tree, had almost extinguished all the life within me. The grip of the centipede to the tree somewhat lightened, and then I felt my pulse regulate and my eyes started to become un-blurred. I could now see and hear what was going on around me much clearer.
"I heard you're a half" the ugly voice of the centipede called, though, I'm quite sure that it wasn't directed at me.
"Half's all I need to kick your scaly hide!" The confused boy taunted.
"You talk big, but can you back it up?" I tried to taunt, but my voice still wasn't back. The boy just blinked blankly. "Can you, or not?!" I demanded, this time with more of my voice.
"What can you do?" the raspy voice of the centipede monster taunted menacingly. "The both of you, you're useless, Powerless." The centipede gave off an ominous chuckle and then picked up what looked like a small pink orb with its tong and swallowed it whole.
"No!"
The arms that had fallen off had re-connected to the centipede's body. After the arms made a complete recovery, the whole centipede monster changed from snow white skin, head of a lady, and body of a centipede to full blown monster. My eyes grew wide with disbelief, is this…really happening? The monster re-tightened its grip around me, making sure to squeeze out every ounce of life I had left in me.
"Hey…can you…pull out this arrow?" the boy asked.
I weakly lifted my head to see a blurry arrow sticking out of the boy's chest. Then my head swam madly around the idea of me on the brink of unconsciousness, or possibly death, and all this kid wanted me to do was pull out this arrow?! "Here, I'm almost unconscious, and you want me to pull out a freaking arrow?!" I raged weakly, my head spun.
"Can you, or can't you?!"
I was too light headed to know what I was doing, but I grabbed a hold of that arrow and pulled with whatever strength I had left. I then felt the arrow lift from my grip, and then disappear all together in the next instant. Next, with a blurred sight, I watched the boy pulse to life, and then explode with light and power as he set off to destroy the centipede monster.
The light from the boy had me free from the body of the centipede, and I hit the ground, gladly, gasping for air. As I did this, I kept a sharp eye on the mysterious boy who seemed to have powers as-well as the centipede. The boy used his claws mainly to take care of the centipede, but it was enough to make me stare at him in awe. He was brilliant, though that might just be due to my light headedness. When he was done, he stood in a sort of glory, while wearing a cocky smile. Despite the cocky smile, he was still, indeed, brilliant.
Nothing short of a few seconds later, I found myself in the real world again. I decided to look around my surroundings and noticed that the parts of the centipede, being that they were detached from the body as a whole, were still moving, or, twitching.
"The jewel, child, find the jewel! It must be removed at once, lest mistress Centipede revives!" Kiyadai's voice called toward me. I turned to see her and some other men from the village with, or on, horses. I gave her a curt nod and then searched for the jewel. I had easily found it and pointed to its location, in which Kiyadai had no problem finding and successfully taking out of the centipede's body. This caused the body to rapidly decay in the amount of seconds until there was all no more left than bone. Then Kiyadai walked over to me and plopped the small pink jewel right into my hands.
"Are you sure this came out of me? Why would I have something in me that's wanted by demons?" I asked curiously.
"Exactly, humans can't use it, so why not just give it to a demon like myself? If you hand over the jewel over right now, I won't have to start sharpening my claws on you!" the boy stated, cockily.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "And here, I thought you were the good guy, guess I was wrong about that, but I won't let you get your claws on this! Even though, you did technically save my life, so either way you look at this, you still ended up saving the day without this" I raised the jewel so he could see it. The cocky smile that was planted on his face only grew larger and more cunning, but then unexpectedly crumpled into a frown.
"I hate having to wait, and I hate the smell of you!" The boy came running at me, full speed.
Instinctively, I sprinted away from him as quick as I could, and actually effectively evaded the attack, which surprised me. I had figured him to be some kind of demon, like the centipede. This meant I was at a serious disadvantage, even with my above average athletic ability.
The demon boy started to close in on me and I thought I was done for, but something happened that made me change my mind. A rosary of sorts formed around the boy's neck which came at him like pin missiles. Then came Kiyadai's voice.
"Quickly child, the word of subjugation!" Kiyadai yelled out. The what?
I think I understood what she was talking about, but I had no idea what word was to be used, so I said the first thing that came to mind. "Sit boy!" as soon as the words left my mouth, the demon boy who was after me had then fallen flat to the floor forcefully by the sound of my voice. I had no idea what this was, but I didn't care, just as long as that rosary keeps him from tearing me to shreds, I'm content.
"Hey! What heck is this?! What the heck was that for?!" The boy raged as he struggled trying to forcefully take off the rosary, but as if there were a special barrier around it, it prevented him from taking it off.
I now wore the cocky smile as I said the word again, "sit boy." I got much pleasure out of saying those two words as it pummeled Inuyasha forcefully to the ground. Such was the power of an enchanted rosary.
how'ed you like that first chapter? Comments and all that stuff is appreciated, thanks!