Yu, Ermine Half-Demon

by Usagi Kagome

The gang are on their usual quest when they come across a village with a troublesome half-demon . The half-demon turns out to be a girl called Yu who's happy to join the group on their quest and befriends them all . But why does this girl have such strange and mysterious powers? And what could Naraku possibly want with her? Rated T for InuYasha's language and to be safe.

1. Chapter 1

A/N: Hello. I'm Usagi Kagome and this is my first ever InuYasha story. Please forgive me if the characters seem a bit OOC and/or if my OC seems to be a bit of a Mary Sue and I hope you enjoy the story. Please give me a review to tell me what you think but please no flames. Oh and InuYasha doesn't belong to me. It is being used for my non-profitable amusement.

InuYasha: Yu, Ermine Half-Demon

Chapter 1

'Help! Help me! Please!'

The air shook with a horrible cackle as the little boy raced down his village, his pleas falling on deaf ears. 'Help me! Help me, please!'

The demon laughed again as she gained on the poor boy her teeth poised. 'There, there. Why do you resist? No one in this village will help you. Stop running and I'll make sure your death is painless.'

The boy ignored and continued to run, only to trip and fall to the ground with the demon on him. He sat up and turned to face the demon, his small frame shaking as it loomed over him. 'Heh heh. Now, die!'

The boy shrieked as the demon made to strike at him. Suddenly a flash bounded over the boy's head and slashed at the demon causing it to wail and disintegrate into nothing. The boy opened his eyes to see his cloaked rescuer and gasped. 'You...You're the half-demon.' The figure turned to look at him causing the boy to flinch and crawl away. 'No. No! Stay away from me!'

The figure continued to stare at the boy who was visibly shaking before leaping away and vanishing into the night. The boy breathed a sigh of relief as the other villages armed with pitchforks, hoes and other deadly garden weapons raced towards the young boy, looking for the demon that had threatened their village and the boy. The boy raced towards his mother clinging to her and sobbing. 'Oh, mother. She was there! She was there!'

'Who was there?' the mother asked, although she already knew the answer.

'The half-demon! The half-demon was there!' The villagers around the mother and son heard the boy's frightened whispers and shook in visible fury.

'Curse that half-breed.'

...

'InuYasha! Sit!'

The silver haired half-demon immediately face palmed the ground at Kagome's command. Miroku, Sango and Shippo sighed at the sight. Kagome had only just come back from home a few minutes ago and InuYasha had already succeeded in annoying her.

'He never learns.' Shippo said shaking his head. InuYasha jumped up from the position, fuming with visible anger.

'Kagome! What the hell was that for?!'

Kagome huffed turning away. 'Sit!' She ordered again, forcing an unlucky InuYasha to flop head first into the ground again. 'InuYasha, how could you?!' she shouted. 'I expect that sort of thing from Miroku, not you!'

InuYasha put his face in hers, their noses nearly touching. 'How was I suppose to know you were having a bath there?! It's not my fault I walked in on you!'

'Why did you keep staring at me then?!'

'I didn't! And even if I did, maybe it was because I was so shocked to see you there naked!'

'Sit!'

InuYasha fell to the ground for the third time running. Kagome headed in front of her watching friends in huff. 'Come on, everyone. Let's go.'

Shippo shivered from Sango's shoulder. 'Kagome's scary when she's angry.'

Miroku grinned a little, a rather mischievous smile on his face. 'Hey, InuYasha. Does Kagome look nice when she's bathing?' Predictably this followed with a slap from Sango. 'You dirty monk! Can't you behave?!'

Miroku looked at Sango, his look turning from surprised to amused. 'My dear Sango. Don't be like that. You're always number one in my heart, you know.'

Sango stared at Miroku, the statement catching her completely off guard. 'What? That's not what I-!' She was cut off by Miroku's hand near her bum, causing her to shiver at the contact. 'You shameless dirty monk!' With that she stormed off, leaving Miroku with two large slap marks on either side of his face. Shippo sighed. Just another day in the Feudal Era. He better stay on the girl's good side today. Unlike poor InuYasha.

Kagome had promised to come back from the present today but had been a little late which of course enough to send InuYasha into full panic mode. He had jumped into the Bone Eater's well to get her, only to find Kagome in her bath, having one last soak before she come back. Luckily for Kagome, InuYasha wasn't Miroku and had immediately ran back to the Feudal Era but that hadn't been enough to save him from Kagome's wrath.

Well, InuYasha should probably consider himself lucky. Compared to some of Kagome's over sitting episodes, this one was relevantly mild. The group continued their trail in silence with Kagome and Sango's fuming anger slowly dying as the journey continued, Kirara running at Sango's feet mewing confusedly while InuYasha and Miroku trailed behind with InuYasha mumbling insults under his breath. Soon, a village loomed into view, the roofs of the houses were either destroyed or filled with holes and the houses were half destroyed and standing on their last stands. Shippo's eyes widened. 'Whoa! What happened?!'

InuYasha and Miroku caught up with the girls to see the same sight. 'It looks as if the village has been attacked.' Miroku observed.

InuYasha snarled. 'This stinks off Naraku!'

It did seem the case. Everyone knew that Naraku would happily slaughter villagers if it helped to move his purposes forward.

'We should go and take a look.' Sango suggested.

The group were greeted with stares, fearful at best and downright hostile at worst. Kagome shifted uncomfortable. 'Does anybody else think we may not be welcome here?'

Sango who was next to her subconsciously tightened her grip on the strap of Hiraikotsu. 'Maybe strangers are just not welcome here.'

InuYasha snorted at the statement. 'Well that's stupid. Why would we not be welcome here?' Suddenly a stone dropped at InuYasha's feet. InuYasha raised an eyebrow to see the source of this unexpected assault- a little boy who couldn't be more than twelve years old. The little boy's eyes widened with fear as they met with InuYasha's annoyed filled golden ones. 'What's your problem, you little punk?!' InuYasha shouted causing the little boy and some of the villages to jump.

The little boy shrieked and back away. 'Argg! Don't hurt me! Please don't hurt me!'

The villages watching the scene began to mutter. 'It's a half demon, like her.'

'What should we do? We can't let him hurt that young boy.'

'But we can't even get rid of her. How are we going to get of him?'

Kagome looked around her. The scene seemed familiar to her. It was the same kind of situation that Jinenji and Shiori's villages were in. Villagers picking on half-demons purely because they were different. If they were having problems with half-demons, it was likely the reason they were all staring was because they had realised InuYasha was half demon. She had to do something and fast. She raced in front of InuYasha. 'Now just hold on a second. InuYasha isn't going to hurt anybody. We just wanted to find out what happened to this village.'

One of the villages sneered at Kagome's claim. 'Oh? And why should we believe you? You're the one defending the half-breed! You're probably going to help him kill us all!'

Kagome felt her heart sink as the villagers started to agree with him.

No way.

'Excuse me, my dear villagers.' The villages turned to see Miroku make his way to the front of the group. He put on his most pleasant face before continuing. 'My name is Miroku and I have proof that this half-demon InuYasha is not going to hurt you people.'

The same villager sneered again. 'Oh? What proof is that?'

'Well as you see I, myself, am a monk, Kagome here is a priestess of the highest power and Sango is one of the Demon Slayers. We slay demons that trouble folk like you and InuYasha here helps us.'

InuYasha twitched in annoyance. 'Why are you saying that like I'm just some sort assistant? I'm the one who usually ends killing them all!'

Kagome shushed him. 'It's working.'

It was. The villages looked at each other, Miroku's persuasive words slowly changing their minds. 'Do you think he's telling the truth? Are they really demon slayers?'

'Well, he does look like a monk. And any monk in his right mind would go near a demon they didn't trust.'

'I guess so.' The villagers looked up and one of the stepped forward to address Miroku.

'We believe you, monk.'

Kagome and Shippo breathed a sigh of relief.

'That was close.' Kagome murmured.

'I thought we were done for.' Shippo agreed.

...

Five minutes later the group found themselves sitting in the small hut of one of the leaders of the village. 'Please forgive us, mister half-demon.' The man apologised sheepishly. 'We have been having problems with a half-demon that lives here. It has put everyone here on edge.'

Everyone raised an eyebrow at the statement. 'You've been having problems with a half-demon?' Kagome repeated. The man nodded.

'Yes. That is correct. See, her mother lived in this village and she fell in love with an ermine demon. This demon and the women lived together for many years and had a half-demon child before the young one unfortunately died and the demon disappeared, leaving the child alone here, in the village.

'I will admit, the child was rejected and shunned due to her demon heritage and it was common to see her being bullied by other children. But soon she began to fight back. The children would come back badly wounded. One even died by her hand. And as she has gotten older, she has gotten stronger and bolder. We can't control her the way we use to. And there are no monks and priestess to help us tame her. A few have tried to kill her but she would dump them at our doorsteps, completely defeated. We are at a loss of what to do. '

Kagome put a finger to her lips. As much as the villagers seemed to have brought this onto themselves, this half-demon did sound pretty dangerous and killing a defenceless child was never a forgivable act. Maybe the village really was in danger. Maybe the half demon attacking them really was causing trouble unlike Jinenji and Shiori. InuYasha snorted and turned his head haughtily. 'Feh. Why should we care?'

Everyone turned to look at the half-demon as he continued. 'I've been to a lot of villages which said the sort of thing and I go to defeat the half-demon only to find some defenceless being and to learn that the villagers are just lying bastards. What makes your village any different?'

Kagome, Miroku and Sango looked at InuYasha sadly as he kept his nose in the air. Sure, InuYasha was trying to act tough but wasn't just talking about those incidents. He was talking about his own childhood, his own past. Of course his heart would give out to any other half-demon. He had been shunned his whole life for the exact same thing.

The man looked at InuYasha probably realising what he was hinting at and bowed his head. 'I know that you probably despise us and that you probably won't believe me when I say this but we have tried to co-exist peacefully with this girl. We really have. But because of the past, she can't let go of her hatred for us. She won't let us live in peace. We don't know what to do. Please. You said you slay demons. Please. Help us.'

The group looked at each other unsure what to do. Should they believe the old man? Was this half-demon really vengeful towards the village? Finally, Sango spoke up. 'Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt to take a look.'

Miroku nodded. 'Sango's right. Besides, we don't necessarily have to kill her. We can just talk to her and ask her to leave the village alone.'

'Yeah!' Shippo agreed 'and no matter how strong this demon is, she can't be strong enough to kill us!'

'Yes. We'll convince her to leave the village alone.' Kagome confirmed smiling at the visible relief on the old man's face.

'I'm not going anywhere.' InuYasha huffed sounding sceptical and annoyed. The others turned to look at him.

'InuYasha...' Kagome started but she never finished.

'I'm not going anywhere!' InuYasha repeated with a bit more force. The man's force dropped and suddenly InuYasha's tone sounded subtly softer. '...Unless you can swear to me that this really is happening and this girl really doing all this. Can you swear that right now?'

The man looked into InuYasha's golden eyes. '...Yes. I can swear that what I say is true.'

InuYasha continued to glare into the old man's eyes and for five seconds the others were pretty sure he'd refuse. But then the half-demon sighed and stood up. 'Fine. This had better be worth my time.'

The man's face it up. 'Oh, thank you. Thank you. We are truly in your debt.'

...

'Are you sure this is where she lives?' Kagome whispered to Miroku as they crouched down behind the fence.

'Yes. This is where the old man said she lived.' Miroku replied.

'If we only going to talk to her then why are we waiting here?' InuYasha grumbled.

Miroku smiled sheepishly at him. 'Well, I thought maybe that we should wait for to come out and then go and talk to her.'

'You idiot! That could take all day! I'm going to her!' InuYasha jumped up and strolled down the path way.

'InuYasha, wait!'

Suddenly five kids appeared at the other side of the house, jumped over the fence and run to the front door. InuYasha stood in confusion. 'Huh? What are these punks doing?'

The little kids picked little stones and began to throw them at the door, hurling insults while they did so. 'Half-breed witch! We know you're in there!'

'We know what you did to that kid, you murder! We're not afraid of you come out, you coward!'

'We know what you really are, you monster!' The children continued this with InuYasha and co frozen to the spot unsure of what to do. Suddenly, the paper door slid open with a bang causing the kids to jump. A small cloaked figure appeared at the doorsteps staring at the children. 'Well well. What's this? You little boys and girls want to challenge me? Well, here I am.'

The children froze, the bravado vanished quickly. The figure chuckled.

'What's wrong? Where has all that confidence gone? You have called and I am here. Isn't that what you want?' The children were visibly shaking now, backing away as the figure moved forward. 'Now, now. Don't be frightened...' Suddenly she reached out and grabbed a girl by her neck. The other children wailed her name as the figure began to strangle her. 'I don't kill you. So don't make me. Heh heh.'

InuYasha gritted his teeth. He'd seen enough. He was acting. Now. 'Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!'

The figure looked up to see InuYasha raising his claws to attack them and let go of the girl, narrowly dodging the attack only for their cloak to be torn to pieces as a result. The children grabbed the girl who had fallen, back off and ran away, screaming for their parents. InuYasha smirked at the figure huddled up at the door. 'Didn't your mother ever tell you not to bully other kids? I can teach you that for...what?'

The others raced towards InuYasha to help him. 'What is it, InuYasha?' Kagome asked 'What's wrong?' She looked at the figure and gasped.

Kneeling in front of the bemused group, was a little girl who looked around twelve years old with wide lilac eyes, pointed ears and large green hair in two pigtails, wearing a small plain cyan dress. There was an uncomfortable silence before InuYasha broke it.

'It's a little girl?!'