Disclaimer: Don't own Inuyasha! Wouldn't have exactlu 1.33 cents in my wallet if I did:)
Ch. 1: Meet the Girl...who'd do anything for Love
Love. That was what had brought her here, to a place that no mortal would dare whisper even in the most private of conversations, a place synonymous with all the pain and suffering that was known to man, a place where death clung to her skin, soaked her hair, and broke her spirit, her soul, from her crumbling shell that was her body.
A hooded figure turned to the young maiden, sensing the life that still burned within her frail body, "Only the dead may cross," it hissed, its skeletal hand herding miserable souls into the boat that would lead to their eternal torment.
"I-I must cross, I must see the one they call Naraku," her body strained as she gasped out the words. A mortal could not survive long in Hades, and her time was soon running out.
"Nothing will bring him back," the creature sneered in a voice so cold, it sent a shiver down her spine, even as the flames of Hell began to dance on her skin.
"How do you-"
"I know all." The hooded death dealer replied curtly, about to launch his boat towards the fiery pits of punishment.
"No you don't understand! He was not supposed to die, I made a deal with a powerful taiyoukai, he promised that he wouldn't die…he gave me his blessed curse," the girl pleaded as she fell to her knees, her fingers clasping onto the black robes of her only hope.
The figure froze as the last words left her lips. To balance the powers between humans and youkai, many precautions were made by the Gods. Chosen humans were granted with mystic powers that could subdue ambition, while youkai were given immense powers to create order. However, as Youkai began to grow too strong with insatiable appetites for power, the Gods watched as the youkai began to take advantage of the naturally kind and trusting humans, deceiving them with their promises of peace and destroying them with the evils of war.
Thus the God's deemed that a Youkai's word would now be his blessed curse, a blessing towards the human who would know the true meaning of trust, and a curse to the youkai, who would be met with severe punishment if his word was not kept.
But no youkai had ever broken his blessed curse. In fact many were to full with pride to give their word to a human. A war was now being waged between the humans and the demons, for humans had begun to demand the blessed curse of their youkai allies, and when the demons refused, they were regarded as traitors. Ironic that, a measure created to restore trust, had in fact destroyed any bonds that had once existed from the two races.
"Do you tell the truth human? My Lord does not take kindly to liars…"
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