AN: This would be my first fiction on this account. I've had an account on this site for years but got out of the habit of writing stuff, just started up again. I wrote this fiction on notepad cause my computer is being stupid it refuses to open up word so bear with me. On a side note, I've been reading the Inuyasha fanfics and have been seriously disappointed! I mean come on, ARE YOU ALL 12 YEARS OLD? Jesus. Learn how to write and edit your stuff! I mean come on, anime should not be a hobby that's for children, the only reason any of these American preteens have seen Inuyasha is because adult swim has edited half of it out and bought the version that has been voiced over so to sound like a corny children's cartoon. I bet half of these kids haven't even seen the subtitled version! Anyways, (the author promises that she will try to insult her readers anymore, some things just piss her off.) if you're gonna review say something helpful or say something nice but if u do decide to flame be warned that I really don't give a fuck about u and I'll probably flame your shit just to spite you, good day, thanks and enjoy...

Disclaimer: If you think I own Inuyasha or any of its characters, you really must be 12 yrs old...

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It was a dark time in Tokyo. A year where sudden disappearances were commonplace and strange phenomenon began to occur frequently. Rumors had spread like wildfire of a gang of inhuman men bent on destroying Tokyo, to make it bend to their will and in a sense take over the country. The idea was at first rejected and frowned upon as most people in Tokyo are more sensible than to believe a silly rumor. But as the number of missing people began to grow, what else could they believe. The first to be collected were the women and children, the abduction of men wasn't quite so common.

Women close to certain areas in the city would simply disappear and children would be snatched up from the playground or from the public pools when their parents turned their backs to them. Some would even be snatched right from their beds during the night. Old men would rave that the demons had been behind these crimes taking revenge on prejudice men who made laws prohibiting demons from leading normal lives in human society.

Politicians raved that this was due to an insolent police force or uninformed citizens being careless. But never the less the city was in danger and many people saw these tragedies as a sign from God to leave Tokyo or sometimes even Japan, fleeing the country in fear of the invisible threat that ate away at the populous. Nobody was safe in those days. Everyone knew this crime was not the source of a single gang but it was so much easier to believe what the media continually fed to them rather than do something about it.

It was so much easier to blame it all on the gangs and the renegade demons. After all, who wouldn't believe that demons were responsible for these crimes?

These were the five laws of Demon Cohabitation:

1. Demons cannot harm humans under any circumstances, with or without magic. Punishment: the demon would be stripped of all power and sealed away indefinitely or would be terminated.

2. Demons cannot use their powers and/or inhuman artifacts within sight or knowledge of a human.

3. Demons must hide their odd appearances to the best of their abilities and must appear human in order to live in a human community.

4. Demons must register themselves with the Yokai-tousu Control unit and must keep their files up to date when their strength has either increased or decreased.

5. Demons cannot produce offspring with humans. Result: The hanyou child will be given to the government and will be either terminated or trained to become a solider or law enforcement officer.

The parents of the offspring will be sentenced accordingly or to what their jury see fit.

Kagomae Higurashi ran from her home at the shrine to stand in formation with the rest of her family for the daily military head count, which consisted of each member of the city standing in line

In front of their home waiting for a caravan of hard headed soldiers to drive by and count them off.

Assuring they were who they said they were.

To be late for this head count would result in a bounty being placed on your person's head. It was said that these days keeping yourself hidden from the military was almost impossible. The only option anyone had was to turn yourself in; the government could then place you in prison for up to thirty days, enough absences to make you loose your job and/or your placement in school. Enough to make your family think you'd gone missing.

Today, Kagomae was late; it wasn't unusual to find her running to stand in the daily formation (as people called it). Teenagers usually had a problem with this demand as it was a new occurrence; only being put into action recently, the policy had many problems that were hard to sort out, such as the elderly who can't get out of bed or a sick adult who is unable to be moved from bed. But most people saw the necessity for such extreme action as now only a third of Tokyo remained.

Kagomae's own father had been taken; he was one of the few whose body was found.

It was Kagomae herself who had found him... she had been practicing her archery around her backyard one morning, a cold morning when the snow was very fresh from the previous night and a light layer hung graciously above the already frozen ground. This was just five years ago, when Kagomae was still a novice archer and missed the target a lot. She noticed a dark figure looming in front of her, it appeared to be a man with long white hair putting down a long trash bag and regaining his breath from a long run.

The attacks upon Tokyo had just started by then and little Kagomae had a bad feeling about this man. She fired her arrow at him, but the man quickly raised the long bag to block the arrow, which, due to her poor aim, hit the tree next him. As Kagomae armed her next shot the man had begun to run away, but Kagomae's second arrow had already been shot with a stroke of luck her arrow had struck him. Unfortunately, the man got away, hobbling of course. Kagomae ran after him, following his trail of blood through the wood and tripped over his abandoned bag. She cried out and hissed with her teeth from the pain of landing so hard on her ass. She landed with her hands on top of the garbage bag. Curious of course, Kagomae opened it.

She would regret that choice of action for the rest of her life.

For within the bag was her father's body, in pieces. His head was detached and it was staring at her, a light smile on his face. She was twelve that day, and five years had passed.

Kagomae was considered a wonderful student, many universities were after her, for these days, there were very few students entering university and having the more successful students of what was left was one of the top priorities on the universities' goal list. A lot were drafted for military service, but most were one of the many missing.

Kagomae had finally found her way to the rest of her household, standing straight and silent at the edge of the sidewalk.

"Ohio mina san..." Kagomae whispered, brushing off her yukata and following their example, they did not answer for a second later the military vehicle strolled by and stopped before the waiting family with cold eyes.

"Aoi Higurashi, Nuzumi Higurashi, Kagomae Higurashi and Souta Higurashi..." his deep voice rumbled.

The family then proceeded to take out of their pockets their ID cards and hold them out, "Hai," they said in unison.

Through the corner of her eye she could see the soldiers posting up fliers on the side of their shrine and around the entire area. They were wanted posters.

As quickly as the military had come, they'd left and her family moved silently up the steps back to the shrine to prepare for work and school. Kagomae however, moved towards one of the trees the soldiers had posted a wanted flier upon.

The bounty was for a demon whose name was unknown to the authorities. His human disguise was that of a young boy, a little older than Kagomae herself. His actual appearance was that of a dog demon, white hair and red eyes.

Kagomae's eyes widened... he looked like the man she had seen in the woods but...how could this be? Could he have been her father's killer?

Ripping the paper from the tree she ran back up the steps to her home her heart in pieces, and rushed to be ready for school. One could get kicked out very easily these days for being late.

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"Lord Inuyasha...where are you going," Asked the man servant at his feet?

"Out, I'm coming back with a prisoner who'll hopefully be of some use to us and help us with our search," said the Lord.

It was a dark room and the air was thin, when Lord Inuyasha looked out the window he could see the mountains and the land that had once belonged to his father. Of course now it was publicly owned, as no one but the government had the right to own property, a result of the newfound tyranny instated by the government who was using the high crime and sudden disappearances to start a military dictatorship.

"Has our spy reported back yet on the target's pattern of location?"

"No sir, he'll need another day. You only deployed him yesterday, my lord. However the other spy has sent in his documents but I assume you've already read them if you're going out to take in a prisoner," said the sly servant.

"Yes, Myoga, I have read them. Please be sure to take care of things here while I'm away. Have the Special Forces unit ready to for combat, the enemy is close to the city now and there will be another raid this week. I want the unit to intercept them. I should be back before then, but if not hand things over to old Keade for a while."

Lord Inuyasha open the sliding doors and slid off his outer red kimono revealing the black fire rat robe that was his famed attire amongst the demons of the northern and western lands, his even more infamous Tetsaiga which lay dormant at the moment, sleeping inside its beautiful golden sheath. Outside the sliding doors was a long drop to the forest below, and beyond that were the mountains, which were green at the base and white capped up top. Sakura blossoms from the surrounding trees blew about the air. Inuyasha used to think he could live here forever without sorrow or care, but when he learned that the only reason his region was so beautiful was because of his father's Resistance. He wanted no other future than to continue his father's work.

Many claimed Inuyasha had become different during his reign of the Resistance.

Inuyasha was known to be gentle in his early years and even after his father died and his brother took control of the Resistance, his kind disposition towards all, humans and demons, was well known. But as soon as his brother had abandoned his position five years ago, Inuyasha began to exhibit violent tendencies. His warm yellow eyes changed into a bright, deep raging red and he became distant to all of those who knew him. His job as leader overcame him; one could only speak with him if his sword was present, for otherwise, anyone near him would be slain.

It had been ten years since he'd gone out into a human city; a guy had to be cautious after he'd escaped imprisonment. The government was very keen on recapturing him; they wanted to know what made Inuyasha able to escape being sealed away? Why was he the only demon ever to break away from being sealed?

His servant Myoga finally got off his knees and turned towards the doors, only to find that his master had already left.

Lord Inuyasha fell down from the building he was observing his spy from and pounded the concrete beneath him to shambles. He jumped directly before his spy who fell to the ground in surprise and awe, for the poor boy had never seen his fearless leader (Not many in the Resistance did.) but upon sight of this awe inspiring demon before him he knew instantly who he was.

"My...my lord," the boy trembled.

"Stand before me, Major and tell me your name," Inuyasha grumbled.

Trembling and frightened they boy got on one knee and held his hand out to the side as if he had a weapon in it and bowed his head before Inuyasha, not looking his cold and terrifying red eyes.

" S-sorry...Sir! M-Major Kouga Kanayu... Third division of the northern army, leadership position- I," he said before his leader interjected.

"Major Kouga, stop this. You don't have to do that right now, we're away from the eyes of the council and court. And you don't need to tell me the name you've acquired through your human living arrangements, honestly, demons with last names, what are they going to insult our heritage with next... But please lets step out somewhere safe. Out of broad daylight so you can remove that stupid disguise."

"Sure thing, sir," Kouga spouted as he motioned Inuyasha into the alleyway.

Once safely in the dark and out of public eye, for it was indeed broad morning daylight, Kouga looked strangely as his wrist watch, as if looking to see if it had a message on it's steel exterior made out for him. Then, suddenly, Kouga pressed his fingers upon the watch in an odd and soft sort of manner and began to recite an incantation. Before Inuyasha knew it, Kouga was himself, a wolf demon once more. Inuyasha quickly began to interrogate his spy.

"So, how long have you been out here?"

"Five years, on and off," he said quite casually, "Your brother stationed me here to keep an eye on our human ties, particularly those close to Higurashi and his family. At first when I came here, I had my hands full. I failed to stop the government from assinating Higurashi's friends, but I figured the family was my first priority, on account of the treasure they've got up hidden somewhere. The family is safe, those government honchos never discovered Higurashi's true identity, only the one he had among the humans that used to assist the Resistance."

"How could you have watched an entire family and keep up an outside appearance?" His Lord inquired...

"Oh that, easy... The wife doesn't leave the house too often, so I got a friend of yours on the base to enchant the shrine so that no one can come into it without being wanted or invited, that way the tourists and those who want to pray at the shrine can come in and the G.I. Joes are kept out. The old man has one of my wolves on him, he thinks it's a dog and he's so attached to him he doesn't allow the poor guy to leave his side. The boy's best friend is a demon I myself recruited to keep an eye on him, he's a kitsune by the name of Shippou. Cute kid, not well trained but he can alert me instantly if anything should happen to him, enrolled him in the same elementary school."

"And what about the girl... She's the one we really have to watch..."

Kouga sighed deeply, "I know, well. The best I could do without her detecting my demonic aura is enrolling in her school and keeping my distance. It's hard you know, not telling her about her father and everything. I've watched her power increase over these past few years; she could really help us against our enemies. Especially Kikyo and her troupes... It's so hard to believe that a girl that sweet and beautiful is really evil."

"Well, she is evil. I mean, who could possibly remain normal after being infected with so much miasma and by her own sister too..."

"You know, I really think she could have filtered it out with her purification powers. Her father was a very strong warrior and priest, and he was so loyal to us all. His life was the Resistance. Maybe she's not infected anymore after all..."

"Kouga don't even think about it," Inuyasha interrupted sharply, a small growl in his throat.

Looking down the wolf demon scratched behind his ears. He laughed nervously, but just a little, "Have you come to kill her?"

Inuyasha scoffed at the remark, "No, I'm not that cruel. I've come to take her back with me, to our lands. The council has to decide her fate, but they've allowed us to try and heal her. I don't want Higurashi's daughter to die anymore than you do..."

"Hai," Kouga said gruffly, yet his lord could see the sadness underlining Kouga's rough and battle worn face.

"Kouga," Inuyasha said, "I can see you care for her, but you must dispel those thoughts from your head. Kagomae is a variable in this war, a major one. If we cannot help her we cannot allow her to help anyone else. We cannot allow the daughter of my father's dearest friend to suffer any longer."

"Hai," Inuyasha's spy repeated, sorrow tainting his voice... "I must leave you, my lord, school has almost begun and I must run."

"Be off, Major."

The wolf demon pressed his fingers against his wrist watch once more muttering that same incantation and with the blink of an eye, was indeed once again, human, smell, sight and all, only a hint of his demon aura lingering above him.

"If only all demons could be blessed with such a device, then maybe this mess with the humans could be over and we could focus on the real enemy," Inuyasha muttered as Kouga ran around the corner, leaving him all alone.

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NOTE: I'll do the next thing soon, please tell me what u think, but keep in mind that I don't give a flying fuck about how you think I should spell the word Kagomae… Because that's how you really spell it and if you think otherwise you're just buying into bad propaganda.