hi'ya all. I am Rose.
This story was created in a contest between me and my Bff. Hopefully you will read her's to once she's done and posted them
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Inuyasha. Ther i said it it is not mine.
Enjoy :)
Prologue:
1797
A small dark-haired child, no older then eight, kneeled crying on the ground next to his mother's bed. Her once cream colored sheets now a deep red. A wooden arrow piercing her heart, her skin more pale then usual. The villagers had killed her because they thought that she was involved with a demon, but instead of looking for a reason or proof, they simply killed her. The woman's son cried more as he held her cold hand. "Please mother, please wake up." His violet eyes filled with more tears as he called out to her. "Mother! You can't leave me alone, you just can't!"
The child's small hands were covered in his mother's blood, by this point and he had lost all sense of his surroundings causing him to be completely unaware that someone had entered there tiny home. The man's hair was long and ragged; his cold red eye's shone with mischief and curiosity. "It is a shame that such a beautiful woman would come to such a gruesome end." The man said in a deep sinister voice. This shocked the young boy out of his daze, he turned teary eyed on the intruder and scowled at the smirking man.
"Get out of here!" He yelled not once letting go of his mother's hand. "Get out!"
"My oh my, what a ungrateful child. And here I came all this way to tell you that I knew a way that you would be able to see her again." The child's eyes lit up immediately, hope, joy, and desperation could all be seen in those dark violet orbs.
"Rea-al-lly." He stuttered out between his sobs that were starting to die down. The man smirk widened.
"Really, really." He said locking eyes with the child. "But it will take some time, and it isn't for free."
The child looked to the ground, the hope and joy fading from his eyes. "I don't, we don't have anything, no money to give you." His eyes began to fill once more.
"Don't worry child. It's not money that I want. If you promise to work for me I will reunite the two of you, though only once all your work is done of course."
"What could you want me to do, I don't know how to do anything, I can cook but that's it."
The man came over and placed a hand on the young boy's shoulder. "That is not a problem. I will have someone train you; teach you what needs to be done. You have nothing to worry about." He then smiled at the boy, and the child smiled back.
He looked back over to his mother. "I will bring you back, I promise you that mother and I always keep my promises." He looked back to the man as he was signaled to follow, so he did.
1802
"How is he doing Kagura?" Came a deep voice from the shadows of a large room. "He is improving right?"
"Of course my Lord. He seems to be improving quite well in the last three years well you were away. I believe he may be ready."
"I will decide whether or not he is ready."
"Of course my Lord."
"Now where is he?"
"In his chamber. This way my Lord." The raven-haired woman lead her red-eyed Lord through a series of door ways and tunnels till she came across a single wooden door at the end of a long hallway. She placed her hand on the door and muttered a few words in an ancient language, removing the seal on the door before opening it.
She motioned for her Lord to enter and followed in after. A boy with long dark-haired was sitting at a large wooden desk as the two entered; he stood up immediately and bowed to his Lord and teacher. "Welcome back my Lord."
"How does your study go? Learn anything new? I'd like to see them, if you are ready then you may begin to work off your debt and make it one step closer to seeing your mother again."
"Very well." His face lit up at the thought of getting closer to his mother. The three headed off into a large room where the boy proceeded to demonstrate his abilities.
"You have become quite good, and as a reward you will now work for me. Now turn around." The youth was confused but did as told. His master then placed his palm on the others back, and screams erupted from the youth. The color in his hair began to fade and became as white as the snow, his ears started to come to a point before moving to the top of his head in small pointed dog-like ears. Next his nails grew, harder and sharper, and finally as his screams began to die out and the world blurred around him, his violet eyes turn to a bright amber as he passed out from the pain.
Amber eyes opened slowly as the world around him begins to come together. As he tried to sit up a sharp burning feeling engulfs him and he doubles over in pain. "You may feel that for a few days, but it will eventually subside." Kagura said as she placed a tray down beside the boy's bed. "Lord Naraku also told me to inform you that while in this half-demon form you are to be known as Ayashuni."
"What do you mean by half-demon, I am human."
"Take a good look in the mirror once you can bare the pain long enough to go take a look, you'll understand. As for now you should eat something and try to sleep." She then left the room sighing as she went. 'To change a person that young, what was he thinking?' Kagura thought to herself as she approached her own chamber and went inside.
"You wanted to see me my Lord."
"Yes, You had been in bed for longer then I thought you would be. I was beginning to think that you were not ready."
"Why have you turned me into a demon, a dark beast?"
"Simple they have better senses then that of a human." Naraku said in a matter of fact tone. "Plus they are stronger, and faster, just what I need."
"And exactly what is it that you need?"
"Nothing much. Just for you to do as I say without question." He turned his gaze away from his work and focused on the newly turned half-demon. "You do want to see her again right, your dear mother. Well then this is how we do it."
"Yes of course, but may I ask what it is I am supposed to do and, how am I to go outside without being hunted down like an animal when I look like this." He gestured to his appearance as if Naraku hadn't noticed.
"In due time Ayashuni. As for the name, do you like it? I chose it myself." He smirked at the other then returned to his work.
"I do not see the point of having a new name, but I guess it is fine."
"It is so no one out there," He gestured to the window. "realizes that it is you. Now go to Kagura, she is waiting to teach you how to use your new body." Naraku began to laugh quietly as Ayashuni left the room. "Emotions really do make fools out of humans, don't they?"
"197, 198, 199, 200, 201…201 jobs before I can see her again." The youth sighed as he played with the necklace that he had been given. "I guess this is going to take awhile. Good thing that I don't age as quickly as humans do, now being a half-demon and all, otherwise I'd be older then mother once she returns." A smile made its way to the youth's face as he put the necklace on. Though he didn't notice a difference and still saw his long hair as white, Naraku had assured him that any human who saw him would see him as he used to be, a black-haired human with violet eyes. "Wonder what kind of jobs he has planned for me?"
1996
The stench of blood filled the house, deep red was splattered over the walls and carpet of a small living room, one body split in two lay dead on the floor, as a young man dressed is red stood over it with cold eyes looking into the eyes of a small girl. Fear, pain, horror, dread filled her crystal blue eyes along with countless other emotions as they began to fill with tears, but the tears did not fall. There she stood motionless starting into deep amber, not a sound escaped her. She had just bared witness to her mother's horrible death, and she could do nothing but stare onto the scene before her.
The man left before she could take her eyes away, after a few moments the realization hit her and she cried out, tears finally falling, as she fell the her knees, the face of the man permanently burned into her memory. Long white hair, pointed dog-like ears, and cold nearly frozen amber eyes that seemed to pierce your soul with just once look. "Mommy!"
Her grandfather died not long after her mother's murder leaving the young girl completely alone in the world. After that she was sent to the city's orphanage where she would wait till someone wanted her, but because of what she saw with her mother's death, she could not sleep, she would not eat, and all together she began to shut down. Sometime past before the therapist was able to get her going again but since she was still very drawn back from the world it was took awhile for anyone to even consider her, and the longer she waited the more alone she felt.
Her rescue came to her three years later in the form of an older-looking man and a lovely younger woman who welcomed her into the Tama family.