Author's corner- I'm back again and I know that you all think I've probably died, but I'm going to start uploading all my new chapters I have written.

Thank you and here be my new story...

Disclaimer- I do not own InuYasha, although the characters I make are mine. Thank you.

P.S. All the characters are human except for InuYasha, Naraku, and Shippou.

Title: Castle

Characters: (From Major to Minor)

InuYasha

Kagome

Sango

Miroku

Naraku

Kikyou

Shippou

Kohaku

Kouga

Jiro- Own Character

Nami- Own Character

Nyoko- Own Character

Prologue -

Once Upon a time, in a forest, not far of from the old villages of France, there once held a majestic kingdom, full of wonder and happiness. The people were fed and clean with everything they would every want or need.

The family that held the power were good and kind for many years, always thinking of the people first and foremost. Yet, as all kingdoms are want to do a single person in that line was full of greed and he would not think of the people first and foremost, he thought of himself. He used his jewels and gold for sports, horses, grand balls and feasts. No thought for the sin he did ever entered his mind and he soon he was to be married to the neighboring kingdom's princess, who was said to be a great beauty and would give them even more wealth.

With the greed in his mind, the king could only think about the gold he would acquire from this act. The old king, his father, could only shake his head with fear and sadness. His great kingdom was falling at the seams, all the common folk were slowly leaving for the bordering kingdoms or dying from starvation and disease. Yet his son did not see any of this, he only saw the things he was receiving from his position as being king.

Yet, months before the princess was to arrive at the castle the king was wandering around the castle grounds and a few children from the ages of 5 to 10 began to scream and yell around him. He was already in a rotten mood from an argument with his father. And so he grabbed the closest to him and became ready to whip the child for its insolence. But a woman's voice stopped him in his tracks.

"Stop! Don't touch my sister!" The voice called with a tinkling sound to it.

"What do you mean Stop?!!! I feel that this brat rightly deserves what I am about to give out! Now move back peasant!" And as he said the last part he turned about to see a petite young woman staring at him with lip trembling in fear and sadness.

And as he watched he fell captivated into her green gaze and he felt a little of his selfish heart break apart under her own stare. He didn't know what was happening, but he did know that he needed to get to know her. So, with a short sigh, he let go of the little girl that he had been about to hit and dusted her off with his own white gloves, then he turned with an embarrassed grin to the woman.

He knew then that he wouldn't be able to tell her that he was king of all that she lived on and owned. For she would hate him. So he decided to forget that part.

"I'm sorry, let's start over. I am Teruyasu. How do you do?"

She glanced up through her lashes at him and smiled with a dimple, "I am Akina."

Every day for the next three weeks the two of them could be found together from the moment they woke up to the moment that they would retire. Teruyasu soon found himself going out of his way to make her smile and feel her laughter rain on him. And he felt his once cold heart begin to feel in one corner a slight twinge when ever she was near him.

But he knew that he would be married soon to the princess in the neighboring kingdom and so he told her one day that he was indeed the king of the land and that he wanted her for his mistress. She looked at him warily and told him quite rightly that if he was the king then he needed to have his greedy heart and his mean eyes. But this man didn't so she laughed and told him his joke was wonderful. He felt full of despair as he knew that she thought of his real self as nothing but a bore and an evil man.

That night he felt her laughter weighing down on him, and he could not forget her laughter and so he decided to show her that he was indeed the king.

He called forth all the women in the kingdom the next day and watched as she finally entered the room and when she saw him, she began to weep for she knew that she could never be with him. For over the past few weeks she had fallen in love with him.

He saw her leave the room and fell into despair, what had he done wrong now? Did she still not believe him? However not?

He walked to the gardens where he had met her the first time and the twinge in his heart came back full force, What was the twinge? Was he sick? He turned to leave the gardens ready for the following day when he would finally meet his bride, when he saw from the corner of his eye Akina sitting on the ground in the shade of a apple tree.

He slowly walked towards her and sat beside her on the damp grass waiting for her to take notice of him. When she finally turned to him he felt sick with guilt as the tears continued falling down her face.

And he asked, "Why do you cry? Are you not happy that I am king, I can grant you any wish that you might want. I can give you anything that you might need."

"I cry, because you are to be married in 8 months time and I am but a peasant and you are the king that is greedy. You have hurt my family so much, I have lost three siblings because of your greed. After I lost my sisters and brother I told myself that I would never think of you as anything but a tyrant. But fate is cruel and I fell in love with you, and now look at me."

Teruyasu laughed at her with delight, "Is that it? All I have to say is that I have found a new wife and the princess will have to return to her kingdom and I can keep you as my wife."

Akina sat in shock before him and looked him in his deep blue eyes, "Why would you do that? Do you love me?"

"I don't know what love is, I've never been in love, I feel sick much though. My heart twinges whenever I think of you and I can't seem to stop myself from trying to make you smile I've used more of my money these few weeks of knowing you for noble causes, including food and health supplies for my people... is this love? I don't know." His face turned a bright red and he shuffled his feet in a patch of dirt by him.

Her smile during his entire escapade continued to grow and grow until it was a full blown laugh and she knocked him down with loving kisses everywhere on him, and soon they were in a heated embrace forgetting everyone and everything.

That night she lay beside him knowing that he loved her, even if he did not that didn't matter. For he would soon.

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The following day when they both awoke they felt eyes watching them from the door and they both turned to see who might be there and they both jumped when they saw his father and mother standing there with looks of dismay on their face. The yelled at him, as he yelled back and finally the ushered her out of the room and down to another room down the hall, as they continued talking to their son.

Akina knew that within her might now be the future prince of the land, the future king and she knew that her love would never leave her alone. He would always be there for her.

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Princess Kikyou looked out of her carriage window as the forest around the carriage continued to grow more and more dense, she hated the forest. She couldn't wait until she could make more houses and shops open in these forests and spread it out. She was to become a queen and she would have almost all the power, after the king of course.

She turned her mind back to thinking of what the king might look like. They had said he was very handsome, but they could have lied.

Suddenly she heard yelling around the carriage and she looked from her window to see what the excitement was and saw many peasants yelling at the fancy coach and throwing old tomatoes and squash at it.

'What in the world?' Kikyou thought with annoyance.

As they passed down the streets the yelling only seemed to get louder and louder until they finally got to the gate of the castle where a large group of peasants seemed to take control of all the other peasants around them.

The carriage went through the gates and passed down the cobbled lane to the front steps of the large castle where she would live forever and ever. Ever since nine months ago when she received the message of a marriage between her and the king she had been imagining what the castle would like and she finally knew.

Kikyou flew up the stairs and flung open the large double doors to her new life and expected to be taken immediately to her rooms but the whole castle inside was a whirlwind of noise and movement. Every servant was racing up and down the stairs with blankets, cloths, and herbs.

Anger flew in her as every single lowly servant continued to ignore her in all her grandeur and in a fit of temper she ran after the servants going up the stairs, she followed them down the hall, barely looking around to see all of the paintings and furnishings displayed around her. She had only one thing in mind, to get to the bottom of all this mess.

One servant seemed to know where she was going and what she was doing as did the male beside her. They were rushing with smiling faces to the last door on the right where, as Kikyou neared it, she could hear voices raised in encouragement radiating from the closed door.

The lady servant and the man opened the door and walked in as Kikyou stayed in the shadows looking in to the lit room. As she watched she could make out an older man and older woman standing side by side with a young girl sitting on the edge of the bed with anxious eyes. Kikyou's eyes followed over to the woman in the bed, who you could tell was in the thorough of labor.

She was a beautiful woman who -as Kikyou watched- raised her hand and eyes to a man that sat on the closest chair next to her. Kikyou slowly raised her eyes to look at who the man may be and she felt herself reel as she saw that the man had a crown on and was obviously the king of the kingdom.

'Oh no!' She thought.

After a few minutes the woman in labor finally gave one last push and out came a squalling mess of limbs attached to the main head. The king next to the woman jumped up and raced around the room whooping and laughing in joy, he lifted the wrapped baby from the nurses arms and showed every person in the room the baby.

At last he stopped by the woman now smiling in exhaustion but love as he placed the baby in her arms and leaned down and pressed a kiss to her mouth.

Kikyou had, had enough she pushed the door open with a bang and glared around the room. They all looked at her in surprise and she felt her anger bubble up anew.

"Do you know who I am?! Do you even have a clue? I am Kikyou, the princess that was supposed to marry the king. But obviously I'm to late, or is this just a game that you all play on all the princesses that come to marry the king."

The man in the crown slowly rose from his place beside the whore in the bed and he looked over at her.

"I'm sorry Princess Kikyou, I fell in love a month or two after we had made the arrangement to be wed and I couldn't help myself. Akina and I were married during that second month and you had already left to come to my kingdom that I couldn't possibly get a hold of you. Do you understand?"

Anger is a strange emotion, it can make you do very strange things, things that you may regret, and this is the kind of anger that Kikyou felt at that point in time.

"Do I UNDERSTAND! I understand perfectly, you pitiful man, watch what I do with your pitiful excuse for a life, you greedy, ungrateful man. I've heard what you were like before this change of heart you were a selfish man that was killing off all of your people."

She lifted her arms over her head and a great purple light materialized around her as she was doing this she saw the king protect his child and wife and the old couple in the back cower before the light. The man who she had followed in seemed to have been one of the soldiers and he was racing towards her to kill her off, but when he brushed against the purple in her mind she wished him to be a small insect that she may squish him with her shoe. In a flash and a scream of agony the man dropped to his knees and he slowly transformed into the small insect that she wished for.

Kikyou laughed and turned to the young couple. "This spell, no this curse will last through out your family until the time when one of your first born sons can find the cure. But before even that every first born son shall go through what you go through. He shall be human at first and then slowly change into a beast until the year when he can not stand it and then he too will become a full monster.

"Heart of stone,

Eyes of Fear,

Soul of greed.

Exterior may shine,

With beauty divine.

Yet interior, full of sin.

In place of beauty,

Replace with dread.

Hands to claws,

Teeth to fangs,

Hair to white,

Eyes to pain.

They shall know thy deed,

shall run with fear.

Ye shall cower,

Ye shall search,

Yet ye shall never find the cure.

But, I give ye a single truth,

If ye find love,

Ye shall find yourself full,

None dead,

Nor dying.

Only love shall be your savior."

And as Kikyou finished this the purple light entered her body and took all of her life from her. As she began to die she warned them all, "This spell, no this curse will last through out your family until the time when one of your first born sons can find the cure. But before even that every first born son shall go through what you go through. He shall be human at first and then slowly change into a beast until the year when he can not stand it and then he too will become a full monster. Remember only true love may save your people." Kikyou sighed and fell before them all as screams of agony were heard from around the castle.

Teruyasu himself was crouched over his wife and newly born son as he felt wave over wave of sickness roll over him and suddenly he screamed as he felt changes erupt in his body and mind. His body was on fire and yet that wasn't what he was worried about no he suddenly had a need for blood. He wanted to taste it. He turned to the woman in the bed and he heard her gasp with fear and wonder and he thought to himself what was the matter.

"Teruyasu, oh my god! What happened to you?" Akina murmured to him as she brushed her fingers against his face. He felt some of his consciousness come back to him and he turned away from her with quick gasps of air. He was nervous to go to the mirror, because as his gaze fell on every person in the room he saw death or people in agony.

As he watched, the young servant girl that had come in with the Captain, crouched over the bug that he had become. She began to moan in pain and suddenly her whole body began to disappear in front of Teruyasu's gaze.

"NO!!!" The girl screamed and then she was not there. The king could feel panic swelling inside him and when he finally turned towards the mirror in the room he felt himself wanting to swoon, although he had never done anything like that in his life before.

In the mirror before him was not the man that Teruyasu had been just moments before, no, now there was a demon in his place, a beast. His eyes had become a dark amber and on his hands now he held claws that were sharp and kill anyone in his path, his own hair had become a glossy silver white that fell to the length of his hip.

That wouldn't have been terrible if at that very moment the need for blood had not overtaking him. As he watched his eyes began to bleed red and his heart inside his body began to harden against the softness that his wife had given him. And last, his mind began to crumble away to one of an animal's.

He glanced around him and smirked, so many unsuspecting victims for him to feel his need of blood. And with that he pounced on the one closest to him and began to tear away.

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And so the castle was put into great turmoil as person after person died or disappeared from the place. Many tried to run, but in their path was always a great barrier that kept them within their village.

The king, as you might wonder, once he came to after his massacre was filled with horror for around him was his slaughtered mother and father. And behind him he could hear his own wife crying in fear. His son, was also crying but not for the reason being of fear, but for hunger.

Teruyasu turned towards his beautiful wife, he loved with all his heart and knew that he could not put her in jeopardy of himself, for she might be the one killed next.

"Akina." He murmured as he slowly approached her. Her eyes met his above the new born bundle. At first she coward in front of him but as tears appeared in his eyes she knew that he was not the beast he had been moments before and she fell into his bloody arms and wept

"Akina... I must leave... I can not... put... you in the situation... that... my mother and father were in...please... try to... understand." It was becoming harder for him to speak without growls in between words and he knew that before the night was over he would have killed every single person on the castle grounds.

But he could not leave until he knew that she and his child were safe. He yelled at the top of his lungs, hoping that the man was still alive and could help him. Within seconds a soft tapping of feet could be heard coming up the stairs and down the hall and Teruyasu sighed in relief.

The tapping stopped and with a great heave the door to their room was pushed open. An audible gasp was heard from the doorway and in stepped a rugged looking monk. Teruyasu found himself checking the man to make sure that the curse had not found its way to everyone in the castle and everything looked fine with the man except for his hand. It was bleeding and the monk had it wrapped in his sacred cloth and beads.

"What happened to your hand?" he asked with fear in his voice. And the monk after taking his fill of looking around the room and at the king himself came back with a gasp. "I...I... don't know your highness... I was with a maiden and suddenly a searing pain went down my arm and to my hand. I quickly shoved the maiden away, afraid that she had done it but then when she herself began to moan in pain I knew something was wrong. And as I waited and watched my flesh in the middle of my hand was cut by an unseen enemy. As I watched the blood drip down my arm I felt cool air begin to run across my whole body and found my hand sucking in the air. The woman by me felt it too and she turned my hand to her... I ... I ... didn't... mean to...but she was... sucked... within the... hole..."

The king shivered in spite of himself and turned to the woman and child he loved. "Monk, I need you to make sure that Queen Akina and my son are well cared for and to remove all of the dead and dying from the village and castle. I'm... going away and may never come back... Please teach my son the ways of becoming a true prince."

"Yes, your highness." The monk murmured. The king walked over to his only family left and peered into his loving wife's eyes. " I love you and remember I shall always be here for you."

Her eyes began to tear and she nodded slowly.

He kissed her gently on the lips and whispered in her ear. "His name shall be InuYasha."

And with that last word of goodbye he was never to be seen again.

Akina turned to her newborn son as his first bath was one in tears, "My prince, my little InuYasha."