Tenshi
Chapter 1: Father's house
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but the original characters. The universe of Inuyasha is from the brain of Rumiko Takahashi. I am just obsessed with her creation.
An ancient evil emerges in feudal Japan. An evil so dark that even the demons that lurk within the dark quake in fear at the unmentionable accursed name. Can this mysterious foreigner who appeared from the bone eaters well after 50 years of silence, be the answer?
Feudal Era Japan 50 years after the defeat of Naraku, in the blossoming town of Edo
A streak of red and black ran through the forest of Inuyasha. "Toshi! Behind you!" The streak of black and red stopped and clawed at the air pink claw marks appeared in the sky and a loud crash followed. A giant centipede fell in pieces to the ground. He was tall and appeared just as human as you and I but flowing through his veins is the blood of a hanyou and a miko. He was truly unique in this world. That was his curse. His mother had died in childbirth and his father soon followed. He died from grief. A dog demon, even a half of one, cannot be without their mate for long. He was taken in by Sango and Miroku. He watched them live and grow their family and then die. Now, he was the town's glorified guard dog. He hated it. A young man wearing a monk's robe and carrying a staff ran up to Toshi son of Inuyasha.
"Toshi! That was great! You didn't even break a sweat." The young monk exclaimed.
"It was just an overgrown bug. You could've handled it, Hagiwara."
Toshi turned to leave. His father's fire rat robes were snug around his muscular form.
"Where are you running off to?"
"I need to think!"
Toshi walked away from the scene with a heavy heart. He felt like he hadn't lived up to his potential. By his age his parents had defeated Naraku and started a family. Well, they also were dead by now. Toshi was lonely. He could feel the loneliness in his very bones. Sango had raised him with full knowledge of his demon parts.
"Dog demons are not meant to be alone. They travel in packs and have one true mate or their 'Bitch'. Before finding this mate they can have many trysts and many children but after the mate has been found they become whole. They think only of being with their mate and protecting their mate. That is why dog demons are so rare. Their children are second on the list of importance because their mate holds their soul. The males have been known to kill off their own children and murder anything that seemingly steals their mate away from them. If the mate rejects their dog demon mate, it often sends him or her into a jealous rage." Sango had told him once he had reached puberty. She had feared he would not know what to do with himself if he found his mate.
He walked up the hill outside of Edo and sat leaning against the well his mother had come from. "Why can I not have my mate from this well? Father was lucky. Few have their true mates come appear before them like an angel. If I had my mate appear in front of me I wouldn't waste any time marking her. I would treat her like a queen."
While Toshi was bemoaning his existence the well started pulsing with energy and filling slowly with water.
He turned around and peered down the well as it slowly filled with water. The water shot out of the bone eaters well like a fountain. Toshi jumped back. Then the pulsing stopped. Toshi gaped down at the bottom of the well in awe. There at the bottom of the well was a woman. Could my prayers have been answered?
Colleen had been skeptical of this place her best friend,Elizabeth, had recommended to her. Her tan faced had turned up in one of her beautiful smiles and her doe eyes had sparkled with that joy that only she possessed. Colleen had always thought Elizabeth was more beautiful than anyone she had ever seen. She was Colleen's really only true friend. They had known each other since they were in diapers together. Colleen loved Elizabeth like a sister. So if Elizabeth told her that this run down, creepy tattoo shop on a dirt road in the woods of East, Texas was the home of the world's best fortune teller, then Colleen had to believe it. She pulled her beat up old Ford into park outside the shanty. There was no parking lot. The woods overtook the tiny shack that only had one identifying marker, a single neon sign that flickered "Tattoo". She took a pack of cigarettes out of her hoodie pocket. She lit up and took a drag. Colleen walked up the dirt road in her black police boots. She had done a stint at a security company and they had made her buy her own boots. They were perfect for walking up the woodland terrain.
She sighed. Her black hoodie was pulled up over her hair to protect it from the slight drizzle that made her forget about her cigarette. She checked her phone. No service.
Great. This is how people die in horror movies.
Raising a fist to knock on the door only to have it slowly creak open. Paralyzed in fear, Colleen stared at the crack in the door.
Why?!
"I have been expecting you." A voice sang.
Beth must have told her that I was coming. Yeah that's what I choose to believe.
Colleen pushed the door open the rest of the way. How relieved she was when the shack looked like a normal tattoo parlor. Sitting in a big plush easy chair in the corner was the sole inhabitant of the shop. Her skin ,seemingly free of blemish and white, clashed with her all black attire in such a tantalizing way. An Elvira inspired goth psychic,tattoo,artist Drawings of tattoos were crammed onto every centimeter of the walls. Flash tattoos.
"Come on back, Sugar!" Back breaking stilettos clicked as she danced across the checker board floor to the back of the shack. 'Elvira' smiled and winked on perfectly lined eye at the ebony haired teen. Colleen felt compelled to follow. Her feet were moving on their own and she felt hazy. There was a tiny room in the back 'Elvira' took opened walked through the beaded curtain and Colleen followed. The room was the size of a small bedroom and light with candles. In the center of the room was a large tortoise shell floating up turned in and floating in what appeared to be a koi pond minus the koi. Strange symbols were drawn in chalk around the pond.
emSomething is weird about this /em
"Have a seat Darling and we will begin." Elvira sat cross legged on the floor infront of the pond and peered into the tortise shell. She did as she was told.
"You are not as you seem my lovely. Few understand you. It is because you are not of this world but a word beyond."
The sorceress pulled a skull out of her dress pocket. It had fangs and two black jewels for eyes. "I can fix that for you if you like? I just need a personal item. Like those!" She pointed at Colleens glasses. "Is there something else you would like to have? I have to have these to drive home." "That was never your home." The glasses appeared in the pond without Colleen taking them off.
emWhy am I not afraid of her? Why does this room feel comforting?/em
"You find comfort in your father's house. It is only natural." The goth replied to her unspoken question. Colleen looked through her blurred eyes at the sorceress only to see everything too clearly. They were not in a room in a shack. They were in cave that had many skulls of different creatures laying around them in a circle and the psychics eyes were blood red. She could see the individual scales on the woman's pale face. emWhy am I not freaking out right now?/em
"You cannot see into the world without glasses because you were meant to see differently than mere mortals. Take a hold of the well, Goddess. Look upon the truth. Colleen leaned over the pond. She say a man wearing what looked like a red kimono. He was clearly Japanese but he had beautiful blue eyes and an aura of power surrounded him. He walked almost like an something just beneath his skin wanted out. Something feral.
"Why does he look so depressed? What is his purpose?" Colleen asked.
"You are my Goddess. It is time for you to go to him."
"GO!"
Colleen screamed as the well expanded to 5 times it's size. She had been gazing so intently at the water that her nose was nearly touching the water. She lost her balance and fell head first into the sorceresses magic water. /pre