Welcome ladies and gentlemen. I hope you will enjoy the revised versions of my work. I'm happy to report that I have also been slaving away at revamping 'I'm at the Bottom of the Glass' and hope to have them fully completed within the week :).

I do not own Inuyasha or the characters from it, but this story line is mine; please keep it that way.

Your humble serving author,

Pearl Knight

There was a time long ago when man ruled the world…

Though many have forgotten over the generations this small fact is true. There was a short time in the vast life of this world that humans held rank above all else. There was a time when technology took the place of the sword and man kind ruled and the populace with it. The created a working economy that thrived based singularly on this piece of man made power. Within this time there were laws, rules, regulation, and most importantly consequences for ones actions. This are the only tools that worked to hold the people to a strict life style conforming to the idea of good and evil. Slowly these strict guidelines became blurred… they faltered… and ultimately they died.

There was a time when man ruled the world. Each land a different ruler, a different title, different numbers… but it was all governed by the same idea; greed. Man had long ago pushed back the Darkness and forced it to a slumber but in doing so they forgot the dangers it represented. They made a peaceful thriving world of their own… and that world crumbled as their laws, their rules, their regulations, and their all important consequences were relaced by the darkness that they had fed over time as they became lax. Greed, power, lust, and indifference laid its seed within their very soul and determined their fate with how easily they rooted.

When those seeds came blooms the darkness was fully regenerated and eagerly reawakened. Man fed off the evil within themselves and brought it from mind to reality in action. They allowed the darkness to be set loose upon the world… I want to tell you the story of that darkness and what happened after the fall of man kind that led to this new world we are beginning to take for granted once again...

Golden eyes took in the world with sympathy and welcomed anyone into open and warm arms protecting each individual from the cold ruthlessness of the others. How could the purity of this world become so tainted and harsh? These golden orbs dedicated everything to protect the innocents… fought off the darkness and spread the word of good…

These golden eyes gave and gave and gave… until there was nothing left to give. The people these golden eyes loved so much disappeared and they blamed the darkness… finally these golden eyes gave their last luster and in a show of love, anguish, and passion forced the darkness away; hopefully for good. Amber eyes tainted with reality could stay the darkness only so far… it had inhabited the body of purity and made it tangible…

There in place of the unidentifiable purity with golden orbs for eyes was a man.

This man was unique and unashamed of the sacrifice it made. This man was not a man but a youkai of great power and hope… They called him Taisho.

Taisho stayed by the side of man through everything and taught them anything gleefully. Taisho watched them grow and slowly Taisho felt himself weaken.

Man, women, child, and even lesser youkai that had made it through his destruction of Darkness called upon his aid, they wanted, and wanted, and wanted… and he gave them everything again until there was nothing left to give.

Taisho was disturbed by the greed that had once again grown in them right before his very eyes. He could see the darkness taking root again and he had not the strength to fight it… the children of tender ages were pure and carefree… but something happened to them as they grew… something horrible and twisted took residence in the back of their minds… and it grew… and grew… and it manifested in double words and hidden agendas… nothing was as it seemed anymore. Taisho was in agony.

All the work he had done had amounted to nothing, somehow the darkness had slipped through him… somehow his teaching couldn't touch them all. The few that could be saved were by him and he separated them from the rest. Though time and work they became pure and untainted. He trained them in every way possible. He made them wise, he made them caring, he made them hopeful, he made them loving, he made them tender; he made them firm in their belief but understanding of others. Taisho was so very happy with his village of students that he forgot the others over time and slowly his visits to them stopped… with his shining light gone, the Darkness moved in to take hold of what they had already clung to weakly.

Over time they were changed, laws and governments where created. People were divided into different areas and called them territories. They advanced in their science and forgot his teachings… he became a fairy tale legend…

Taisho watched over his people happily and they enjoyed his company for many generations. It was on the one hundredth generation that he found anomalies in his people… some of them were gaining a strange power within them…

Taisho watched them closely to attempt to better understand what was happening. It was with the birth of twin girls that he was sure that there was indeed something entirely new and unexpected; they were imbued with a strange unnatural ki much like his own…

Taisho took one into his care, as her mother died during birth, and allowed the child to grow and live within his small home. The other was given to the woman's only cousin; Kagura.

Taisho named the girl Midoriko and kept her close to his heart. He was still involved with the others but not as much as before, slowly he became a stay at home father and taught Midoriko all their lessons to catch her up to the others as she grew. Kagura grew resentful of the children and of her cousin for dying. Taisho now didn't have the time for them that he did before. Kagura was having trouble finding a man to stay with her now… the child was consuming her life… and her patience.

Taisho was unaware of the issue slowly brewing in the heart of Kagura and was not there to stop her when she left the village with the child in the dead of night to return to the home of her great ancestors that he had abandoned.

Kagura found them and in finding them she found the Darkness. It was within this darkness that she changed and morphed as the others had and the child grew dark and angry. The child named Kana was taught aggressive attacks to destroy others and gain more land. Kana was heartless and unmoved by anything…

Taisho discovered their absence and at once decided to search for them… but his ward Midoriko would suffer from his absence… Taisho had trained Midoriko in her growing gift to heal and help things grow. He realized slowly that in teaching her to heal and defensive abilities that she began to feed off the energies of nature. The earth started to lend her strength and feed her soul, her ageing slowed to near nothing and she was frozen at sixteen years old. She could create barriers which they used to help them in the winter or when horrible storms approached. She could heal illness and mend wounds with a touch of her hands. She could even help nature grow and bring life to a plant. She was the quintessence of purity.

Taisho spoke to the people and they all agreed to protect the women carefully. He left that night hoping the people would in fact be able to protect her and show their kindness at all times as he had shown both them and her…

Taisho traveled great distances until he came upon the village ruins from before… it had been so long since he had been there and he was astonished to see it decayed and ruined. As he entered he could feel life… this horrible rubble had people living within it? There were towers and building… time had changed outside his little village. Man had created metal sky scrapers and he felt sure that his little old fashioned village was the last of its kind… given how large this place was he imagined they would not have remain hidden for long… the buildings were now hideous and destroyed. Windows were shattered and metal was twisted and rusted. Carriages made of steel and on round things were crashed all over and in the center of the carnage was a small enclosed village much like his own under guard by men with weapons. The Darkness had over taken these people… Taisho felt firmly that it was his fault and sought audience with the people… it was there that he found Kana

Taisho entered the metal village hesitantly and began his search. This place was a huge mix of darkness and fear… he could tell there was little hope…

Midoriko stayed with her people protecting and loving them as Taisho had desired but worried greatly for her beloved father figure. She settled into a family and mothered a single daughter but for all her fretting she began to wither away... The people grew fearful of the absent minded women whose wake left dead flowers and plants. Her sadness came out into the lands around her mirroring her inner turmoil... the people could take little more of this...

Taisho looked night and day within the decrepit dwellings of those long forgotten... it was as he moved across these dark lands that he began to loose himself... his connection to his people waned and his soul became tormented with grief... Slowly Taisho lost his luster and forgot what it was he was searching for... his connection to his beloved ward was sending her his pain, forcing her to feel the agony in his heart... and so he severed it with the hope that she would be able to find her way...

Taisho never returned to his people...

They say one day Midoriko seemed to awaken from her stupor and became the greatest healer of all the lands but as her daughter grew and showed her traits to be similar she felt the people had no more need of her. Midoriko left the village in the capable hands of her daughter and to find her guiding light and beloved spiritual leader... Those of the darkness have shared their telling of the day when their life lights met once more, they say the darkness that had ravaged him was purged by Midoriko and they found a love unlike what they had when she was a child... They say that in their combination they to had found a light within themselves to bring them to the other side of the battle... They attempted to leave behind their anguish and find peace to be able to return to their village but the darkness, though removed, had warped their ability to see the purity in the world... they would not be able to resist for long... They brought into the world a son, to be the savior of the masses. Within his body was the power to protect the world from the darkness and bring forth the power of the one whom would be able to destroy the Darkness once and for all... Taisho had missed his chance but the people of this world would not loose hope. Into this boy he gave his immortality, his body faded but his son would live out his purpose...

In despair of the reality to these dark times Midoriko gave her last breath as well and showed her energy unto the world around her. Within her energy she gave her gifts to the children of the planet she believed could once again be pure… for the hope of salvation to the world she showered her strength into the lands to prevent the death of the life giving creatures of the planet. She poured her purity into the lakes and she allowed her very soul to shatter and disperse through out the people until it could nestle into a child a million miles or years away. A child that from the moment of conception would feel the need for completion from the only source she is meant for. From womb this unknown child would be the soul-mate for the son she would never see grow... The animals will live, for she deemed it to be so. The plants will thrive, for she deemed it to be so. The waters shall be pure, for she deemed it to be so.

May the Darkness be expunged by the combination of our power amplified in time…

Thank you for reading

Pearl Knight