I do not own Inuyasha, as a matter of fact; I don't own anything Hollywood yet. You never know the future. I apologize for the lacking knowledge of Japanese names, for I'm not Japanese, but I do watch Inuyasha on Cartoon Network and Netflix. Hope you enjoy!
Five Years Ago
Kota was a wolf demon, a medieval wolf demon. He wreaked havoc among the good people of the village near his forest. He never cared to eat the puny weaklings, because he was 'worried they would slow him down'. Every time he said this, he'd laugh as if there was no tomorrow. His black hair was close to his head, a bit shaggy, unusual for this time period. His green eyes always gave off a dangerous red glint, which made most cower. He had twenty-six comrades, and what seemed like a never-ending amount of wolves.
"Akihiko," he muttered, "what the He** is he good for?"
"He's smart, Kota," Akihiro, Akihiko's brother, reminded. "Remember that food shortage a month ago?"
"Yeah, yeah Akihiro," Kota skipped a stone across the river near their home.
The cave up the mountain howled with hunger, Akihiko rushing to give them all an equal amount of food. Kota sighed when he heard the youngest comrade trip over some stone. He was always a klutz, which was what Kota wanted to avoid in his pack. HowamIsupposedtorunthiswithAkihikoruiningeverymealwithsomeaccident?He thought to himself. Daisuke reached into the river and yanked out two huge tuna. This only proved why his name translated to 'Great Help'.
Eita was trying to help Akihiko with the fallen fish, and all the hustle was driving both Kota and Hiroaki insane on all levels. Some of the wolves came out and whimpered in front of the two, begging for something other than fish. Kota stood, smirking.
"We'll attack the village. Only the men, since the women have to repopulate every once in a while," he ordered.
The wolves howled, and he knew it was out of joy and faith it would go right.
A.N: This is the intro, so the point of why Inuyasha's connected is second chapter.8
The wolves were vicious, ravenous with the lust of human meat. Screams filled the air, and even Kota was smiling at the torture. Jin was laughing his heart out at the sight of the dying humans, when an arrow pierced through his heart. Kota stopped breathing and smiling, staring at Jin. The arrow was stuck in there, and Jin fell to the ground lifeless.
"JIN!" Kota roared.
Kota faced the direction the arrow had come from and bounded forward. Jin was a reliable comrade, someone with a shoulder to cry on if someone beat you in battle, and that only happened once with Kota…once…once alone. Kota kicked a tree and sent it flying, hearing a rough grunt as it smacked against someone's bosom hard and crushed their torso. Kota stalked up next to the tree to see a woman, green hair and eyes, a dirtied face to match what Kota had pictured a warrior to look like. Blood trickled from her cheek, and she was struggling against the force of the thick bark. He recognized the weapon she held was indeed a bow, and he could tell that the arrow that stuck Jin matched the rest she carried. He stomped hard on the tree, making her right collarbone shoot out of her skin and caused her to wince, only wince. He scoffed and stomped again, making the bone shoot out further. Again, she only winced.
ThisisonetoughB*TCH,he thought to himself. He stomped twice in a row, only to get the bone further, and the woman wincing, not screaming. "You know, it's not fun when you don't scream," he pouted.
"That's…the…idea…" she breathed, the tree most likely crushing her right lung.
"Well, no matter what, you will die," he told her. "I will avenge my comrade."
"And…I…will…avenge…my…brother…" she panted, giving up for the moment.
"Your brother?" he cocked his head to the side.
"Kobe…you…killed…him…last…week…you…B*STARD!" she cried, not releasing a single tear.
"We kill for our own survival. It's called being a demon, human," he insulted.
Anger rose in her lungs. She was, on no circumstances, a mortal weakling. Much like her step-mother, who was pregnant with some half-demon. "I'M…NO…MORTAL! I'M AKIKO! AKIKO THE POWERFUL FOX DEMON SHALL AVENGE HER BROTHER!"
He blinked, then noticed the squished fox tail behind her rump. He blinked again and huffed. "My comrade killed by a mere fox demon? That's just dishonorable…"
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" she demanded.
"I said 'My comrade killed by a mere fox demon? That's just dishonorable…'," he repeated in mockery.
She went at pushing the tree off once again and came up with nothing. She sighed and he stomped on it again, making her only wince. He roared and smashed her leg until it faced an odd angle, making her wince a bit more.
"What will it take to make you scream?" he demanded.
"An army…a powerful one…" she teased, smirking as if to irritate him.
He snarled and turned. He had to admit, she was tricky, the type of women he wanted to never meet. He heard a whimper and turned. It was some half-demon, a baby even. He could tell it was a half fox demon, due to the fact of the tail attached to it's rump, but this had a different aura then Akiko. He glanced at her and stomped on the tree again, making her wince.
"Once more, and if you don't scream, the half demon will," he threatened.
She bit her lip, and he stomped. She refused to scream. He took the tyke and slid his sword out. "NO! DON'T PLEASE! I'M BEGGING YOU!" Akiko cried.
He didn't hesitate to slaughter the baby. His own flesh and blood didn't get to live…why did hers deserve to? "NO!" she screamed. "NO!"
"Now you scream over some half-demon?" he laughed. "Pathetic!"
He dropped the lifeless carcass and started walking. "YOU B*TCH! I HATE YOU!"
"Keep telling yourself that, Akiko," he teased. "Besides, I saved him some suffering."
"YOU…YOU…"
"Check for yourself to see what I mean," he stopped. The tree rolled off her body with the nuzzle of a black wolf and it immediately went to Kota's side. Akiko raised a green brow and he walked away. She crawled over to the baby and gasped at the sight of something she hated the most: disease. She could see the sign in his infected left ear. She scoffed.
"Guess that wench owns me an explanation," she laughed. "I will avenge Kobe, but I will avenge my baby brother."
8
8 seconds, that's how long Kota had until he slumped in missing Akiko. He didn't understand a deep feeling buried deep inside, so he decided to turn back, but he bumped into the wolf that accompanied him.
"What is it?" he asked.
The wolf howled at the sky, making Kota turn and run for the village. Something happened, he knew it. He slid to a stop and gasped. The sight before him was terrible. His comrades were all dead, wolf or demon. The humans were dead as well, but that didn't explain his comrades. He blinked and crumpled to his knees, his wolf companion howling. A chuckle rang in Kota's ears and he turned.
"Well…well…a survivor," a female voice cackled.
A young woman appeared, her choice of wear combined with red, pale pink, and some other colors not really to Kota's taste. Her hair was black and her eyes bright crimson. She was pale and carried a fan by her side, resembling some demon by the smirk on her face.
"Who the F*CK are you?" Kota demanded.
"The name's Kagura, but you won't live long enough to get to know me better." She opened her fan. "Dance of Blades!"
Harsh wind patterns flashed by as if they were blades, he dodged them all, being the fastest of his group. He skidded and ran, knowing he had to find some help. As prideful as he was, even he had to admit that to himself. The wolf panted in it's haste and an arrow whizzed past Kota's head and struck the evil wind demon (it is sort of obvious if she made wind patterns). Kota kept at running and spotted Akiko. Savedbyahuman?HowmuchdishonordoesthisB*TCHbring?
"Stop hesitating, Akiko!" he called, grabbing her wrist. "This B*TCH is not kidding!"
"What demon isn't?" she sighed, thinking he was daft.
"LET'S JUST GET A F*CKING MOVE ON!" he roared, hauling her onto his back to make the escape faster.
"All right, all right!" she huffed, thinking him also a push-over.
"You can't run from the wind!" Kagura teased, releasing another harsh pattern of blades.
"We are now, aren't we?" Kota called back.
Akiko stared at him. Was he this ridiculous? She shook her head and they kept at running. She took another arrow and both the arrow and the bow pulsed. A blade stuck Kota's leg, making him cry out. Akiko's face writhed with anger an the bow and arrow pulsed again.
"STAY AWAY FROM KOTA!" she blurted absentmindedly.
She flung the arrow and it burst in fox fire. Kagura smirked and rose her fan too late, for the arrow pierced her shoulder and it hurt. Kagura gasped. That never happened to be hurt by a mere arrow. Kagura snatched one of her feathers and flew off, leaving Akiko to deal with Kota's escape route.
"You're hurt," she observed.
"NO, I'M NOT!" he roared, fatigue.
"Don't lie to me, I can tell," she hugged his neck tight, making Kota think if that he lied, he'd be hit with an arrow next.
"All right…so it's a little wound that stings…so what?" he smiled.
She gaped. She didn't believe he could be nice, but he was.
8
It had been a month since the incident, but the leg still didn't heal. Akiko loathed all the time her step-mother spent with him. Thatslut,Akiko thought bitterly. One day, Kota hid from everyone in Akiko's hut. She tried going in multiple times, but she always heard some growl. She'd always back off, afraid of what she would see. She went into the forest for a bit, gathering berries and herbs for Kota's wound. The bushes rustled, although she was not even the slightest bit of alarmed. Something nudged her leg, so she turned around. She screamed, loudly.
Kota heard it. He roared loudly, since he couldn't let Akiko get hurt. He rushed out of the hut, not being able to be seen. Thoughts of what had happened rushed through his head, feeding him fury and adrenaline.
She was running and shooting arrows at the same time. The demon that was pursuing her was reaching out for her, it's eyes sad and furious at the same time. She tripped on something and fell, back forward and she skidded to a halt. She screamed and covered her eyes, knowing she couldn't escape it in time. Suddenly, something was over her, and a clash rang in her ears. She uncovered her eyes gradually and gasped. A black wolf was attacking the demon that was after her. She thought the wolf was brave, considering that the demon was one of those earth shaker demons from the south. He was pale with pale yellow hair, which she knew was rare here. His eyes were black and he wore the clothing of a warrior. She looked at the wolf and saw one of it's legs were injured. Picturing the front legs as arms, she gasped.
"K-Kota?" she stuttered, astounded.
He turned once his name was called, his fangs dribbling with blood. His eyes were dark green, unlike the kind, green shade they were before. He roared and bounded for her. She dodged and he growled, the same growl she heard in the hut. She didn't understand why the earth shaker wanted her, and why he was so thin in the first lace. She didn't understand why Kota charge at her, or what was happening to him. She backed up into a tree and the earth shaker went to grab her waist and drag her away. She screamed again right before he could and Kota sank his teeth into his neck, making the earth shaker try and through him off calmly. Akiko wished under her breath.
"Please, all the light of the rumored Sacred Jewel, help Kota," she prayed.
A pink light glowed inside her, and her body pulsed the way her bow and arrow did a month ago. She gripped her bow and arrow absentmindedly and notched the arrow. She aimed it at the scene and idiotically fired, not sure who it'd hit. The pink light grew brighter, and she was fully awake. Her hair ruffled and she charged, grabbing her mother's sword, who was also a fox demon, but a warrior at heart. Akiko slashed at the earth shaker and the arrow's path was at him. The arrow went through his arm and he winced, much like her. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her behind him, which he hoisted her on his shoulder.
"Let go!" she cried, the pink light fading.
Courage,love,wisdom,and…whatwasthatlastone?She thought hard and pushed away from the earth shaker, who obviously wanted her for something. Kota charged at the earth shaker and bit at the throat, a stream of blood coating his fur. Akiko began running, trying to keep away from the two. Her father caught the sight of her from the corner of his eye and charged for the two.
"Father, no!" she cried.
"Kota, stop!" the father cried, tugging at Kota's black wolf tail.
Kota swiped at the father, but the father dodged. Something rattled in Akiko's body and she gripped at her heart as it clutched.
KIKYO!A voice inside her cried harshly, and even more harshly each second. She wanted to shut it out, but she was swallowing too much darkness. She widened her eyes and a burst of demonic aura burst out, making her light headed.
"AKIKO!" a growl sounded.
She saw the wolf bounding for her, but the earth shaker kept him at bay. "AKIKO!"
"Kota…"she mouthed.
She was absorbed in the darkness. She saw three figures surrounding her, one was human, one was a half-demon, and the third was demon. They all looked like her, but only she was a ball of half light and dark. She turned suddenly and jerked to a stop in front of the human side of her. She fought for the demon, so it obeyed and shot for the demon. She felt her heart burn and the aura shot back in her in a rush, making her eyes grow red along with her hair, like it always did when she was in a power overload. Her fingernails became claws and her skin was on fire. She took out a smashing top and threw it at the earth shaker. He was forced to the ground and winced at the fake pain. She screamed and Kota winced with mental pain.
Her cries were horrible, and he wondered why he even wanted to hear her scream in the first place. He cringed and leapt at her, taking a full on blow by her flaming bow. The father was stumbling back, amazed at her power. Kota weakly looked at her and her looked up, the night had arrived. The fur was erased and he was the normal wolf-demon again, not the stupid curse version a priestess put on him in her last breath. He supported himself with the palms of his hands and his knees. He looked from the ground and back at Akiko, who looked ready to burst when she was clutching the sides of her head.
"Akiko…"he weakly muttered before he collapsed.
She screamed and flung her head up, the flames slowly subsiding. The pain of that transformation always made her hate, but that pink glow fading to black made her calm back. It went back to pink and she crawled to Kota, weak.
"Kota…wake up…" she begged silently. He didn't budge. "Kota…"
She wept silently, worried that she killed him, even after he'd been so nice to her after the past month. She felt something grip her wrist, which was flat on the ground like the rest of her body, and she looked up from the dirt. Kota was weakly smiling, staring kindly at her. She stopped crying and smiled as well. They heard a rustling in the bushes and a separate demon appeared.
"THE SACRED JEWEL! WHERE'S THE SACRED JEWEL?"
Akiko gasped. Did her body make a separate Sacred Jewel? Kota stood and she gazed at him. He walked in front of her boy and dragged out his sword. He charged.
"NOBODY TRIES TO KILL HER BUT ME!" he cried.
Akiko smiled. "Very funny, Kota…"
8
She waved good bye to her papa and went off to the forest to pick berries for Kota. His wound was slightly less deeper, but not really by much. She ran into her step-mother.
"There you are, Akiko," she snarled. "Listen, where's my baby?"
Akiko's heart stopped. She completely forgot her plan for revenge against her step-mother for granting the baby the illness. "Died of illness that you gave him." Akiko thought that'd be good enough, just loosing the baby in the first place. She didn't want that black glow to come back.
"LIAR!" the step-mother screamed. She charged at Akiko with a spear and it was deflected by the blade of Kota's sword. Akiko looked next to her to see Kota himself, blocking the attack with his sword.
"I'd prefer that you didn't skewer Akiko," he smiled teasingly. The step-mother shook with anger. Akiko smiled kindly and patted Kota, making him turn to her. "Don't do that."
"Sorry," she giggled.
He rolled his eyes and kicked the spear out of the step's hands. He turned to Akiko. "Do you ever think of leaving this place…I mean…just to travel for a while?"
She nodded. "I always wait for Pa, though."
Kota smiled. "Well, with all the demons attacking the villages, why don't we go and do a little exterminating? It'd boost up some abilities."
She nodded and ran to tell her father. He approved and walked off with the two others, leaving the step to deal with the hut. Kota and Akiko went off with Akiko's Pa, but Akiko was very precarious, because she was afraid of what produced that pink glow. Then she thought, HowcanitbetheSacredJewelifI'mademon?
A.N:FirstChapterdone!Can'twaittowritethesecondandhearyourreviews.Pleasenomeanones,though,IlikeInuyashatheshowandthought 'Whynotmakeafanfiction?',soI'mtrying!