Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. If you think I do, compare Rumiko Takahashi and me, then tell me that I look like her.
I know, I'm working on 3 other stories, but I don't have
ideas, people are not reading them, and I had to write this. So there. Questions?
Comments? Okay, on with the show.
(Whoops, got carried away…^-^)
I was surveying the garden, regarding it with my usual thoughts. I was having memories, inspired by the black roses blooming on the bushes. I had acquired these strange flowers, from a youkai merchant eager to sell the blossoms quickly. I fear they had an enchantment, for now whenever I lay eyes on them, memories come back to me. Memories of 'them'. As I walked closer, my mind played back the times of my childhood, and I sat down. Trying to block them was futile, the enchantment told me to remember, against my will.
A small boy ran through a meadow, slicing at the birds feeding. With every strike, a high voice called out 'Sankon Kessou!' An escaped bird flew out, pecking his hand.
Looking at his hand, the child touched a finger to the wound, getting blood on his long nails. With a yell, he jumped up, striking the birds with longs spears of red light. 'Hijin Kessou' he cried, again and again until no birds remained. The boy, turning around, smiled at me. His red haori blew around his arms, revealing his own blood on his claws. One puppy ear lolled over his head, the other up at attention.
"Ani-chan? Was that better?" he said, walking towards me.
"Satisfactory." I replied, getting down from my perch in the tree I had occupied. He sprang back, grinning, expecting me to attack him. I just patted his head, and went back towards the village we were staying at.
"Let's go, father is awaiting us, Inuyasha." I called, watching as he pouted.
"Aw, I wanted to play some more…" he said, kicking up some dirt. He followed me, watching some birds off in the distance. His limp ear stood up, and started to twitch.
Walking a little faster, his gaze reverted to me.
"When is otusan going to teach me to transform, like you, ani-chan?" he asked, ears going limp again.
I sighed, knowing this question would arise soon.
"Inuyasha, I do not think father will teach you to become an inu-kami," I replied, turning to face him, ready for the explosion of questions to come.
"Why not? Was Inuyasha bad? Inuyasha promises to not be bad anymore, Inuyasha wants to be a inu-kami!!" he cried, lowering his head. He was referring to himself in the third person now, as if he were in trouble.
"Inuyasha, it is not your fault, at least it is not something you may change. It is because of your okasan, that father will not teach you." I said, stopping.
"Why, what did okasan do? Did she make otusan mad? Is that why?" he asked, looking at me.
"It is because…. Well, do you know why your okasan does not have claws? And her teeth are all the same?" I asked. Father had told me not to reveal to my brother about his heritage, but I suspected he knew already. Just to be safe, I decide to find out indirectly.
"She doesn't have claws… because she is a n-nin- a ningen." he said, stumbling over the word.
"Well, and you know that otusan is a youkai, correct?" I asked.
"Uh huh… I know, because he does have claws, ne ani-chan?" he said, smiling.
I laughed quietly at this, it would seem that Inuyasha told humans and youkai apart by looking to see if they have claws.
"Yes. That would be a way of putting it. Well, Inuyasha, it means you have ningen and youkai blood. When that is the case, a hanyou, as they are called, gives up some youkai powers to retain his human ones." I said, starting to walk again.
"Oh. I just thought that otusan wouldn't teach me, because I wasn't old enough." He said, following me again.
I stopped dead in my footsteps, making Inuyasha bump into me. 'Baka, I could have just told him that!' I thought, mentally slapping myself. 'Now, I put him through all that, just because he asked me about the inu-kami form….' I muttered, turning around.
Inuyasha was on the ground, looking up at me curiously. He hadn't gotten up, from when he bumped into me. "Ani-chan, why did you stop?" he said, shaking dust out of his hair.
"Demo… ani-chan?" he tried again, tugging on the sleeve of my haori. I looked down at him, snapping out of my train of thought. "Huh?" I said, a little startled.
"Ha, ani-chan is funny!" Inuyasha declared when he saw my bewildered look. He ran off, and started to chase some rabbits down the path.
End o' the first chappie, next one we see what made Sesshomaru hate just about everything! Anyways, tell me what you think!