The Family Tree-Ch.1-Generations
Genre:Romance/Adventure
Rated:T for language and violence(suggestive themes also)
Reviews:Hope so :P
Summary: Two names on the family tree, and this is their tale. When Inuyasha and the rest discover Bankotsu, weak and dying, they rescue him to help find Naraku. Only they could get more than that as one taijiya will soon find out...
This is my first story. I hope you enjoy it.
Please note that I would like real reviews on this serial and that this is not an AU like the begining may lead you to believe. The main characters come into play soon enough.
In our era, heroes and knights don't exist. Stories of old are forgotten and lost. Many do not care what happened before, how the story of their generations came. In these days, noone does. In a house near a shrine with a towering oak tree, there is one girl who, since she was little, asked about the enormous family tree she was fascinated with.
She saw all the finely written names shone out with history that begged to be known. The family tree was hung on the wall in the upstairs hallway. Sakura would always gaze at the massive tree that stretched from floor to ceiling. She had a legendary bloodline that traced all the way to the Feudal Era, as she was told by her father and mother who were indeed proud.
Sakura was going downstairs before her date with Hojo. Everyone at school knew he had finally given up on Kagome and tried someone new. She was nervous though, it was only her second date and she hadn't even held his hand last time. Boy was she in trouble...
Her eye caught once again on the enormous family tree. She had asked about the stories passed down, but her father and mother only didn't know one. She didn't know why the most important chapter of the story wouldn't be passed down.
The tree had thinned out at one point, so thin that only three joined left and right. One was "Kohaku" as a brother to "Sango", the other looked like "ko", though there was a hole at the top and bottom so it must not have been the whole name.
Ever since she was nine she had always stared at the spot, wondering "What happened here?" Sakura would give anything just to know. The story looked like a tale of a knight and a damosel, or maybe a hero meeting a woman, sometimes she even played with the notion it was vice-versa.
Of course, she knew she was being childish to think of it. Something she would never know seemed like anything to her, though it was probably a boring tale.
But even though the story was not told to her, it was there unknown to her. This is the tale that will be told in good time throughout the generations once again...
WIND SCAR!
The Wind Scar ripped open a hole in the demons defenses. Inuyasha sheathed his blade and ran straight into the fray, using his claws to tear demons into strips. Sango was using her katana to defeat a large youkai with three horns on its head with a humanoid body. She sliced the arm and before the demon could scream, then she jumped up and made a sloppy decapatation, spraying her body over with blood. She grabbed her boomerang and joined Inuyasha inside the demon lines. There were youkai on all sides, but they fell easily to Sango's Hiraikotsu and Inuyasha's Iron Reaver.
Kagome fired an arrow straight into the eyes of one of the leading demons. The large beast was followed by a large section of youkai in the cramped forest. The demon gave a earsplitting scream of pain as the Sacred Arrow ripped into his stomach and destroyed his body. Kagome jumped back and readied three arrows at the same time. She fired and two of them hit small demons. She suddenly heard a snarl from behind as an enormous demon barred its fangs. The youkai took a swipe, but it stopped suddenly as its body erupted in a blue flame. Behind the fires, Miroku held scraps of paper no doubt used to seal the demon.
Kirara with Shippo riding aboard tore a demon to pieces with its teeth and claw while Shippo used his Fox Fire to keep weak demons away. Inuyasha and Sango were still trapped in the flow of the demons, but they were making very good progress. Sango used her Hiraikotsu to make one demon two as it cut through the wall of youkai and returned, hitting at least 20 marks this way. Inuyasha's Iron Reaver was unstopabble as it cut through any demon who got close. Of course, Inuyasha could have used his Tetsuiga, but he feared he would hit one of his friends battling outside the walls of demons.
One demon with a large head and with a tiny serpentile body to support its flying form swooped down and buried its fang into Sango's shoulder. Fortunately, the fang had barely gotten through her armor and it had impaled itself on her sword by mistake when Sango had swung out wildly.
"Inuyasha!",Sango called,"Its too dangerous here, we need to get out and fight them from outside!". Inuyasha hesitantly nodded and used his Tetseiga to slash wildly to his left. Sango joined him and held her Hirakotsu in one hand to chop up oncoming demons. When enough were killed so they could get out, Sango found herself face to face with Kagome holding up an arrow. "Sango! Get down!". Sango immediantly obeyed as Kagome let loose her sacred arrow right into the face of a serpentile demon shooting beams out of its enormous eye.
At long last the demons fled when their numbers came to less than 20, knowing they were beaten.
And with that the demon onslaught ended. "Keh, took long enough",muttered Inuyasha, withdrawing his Tetseiga. They had been ambushed by Kagura and a large horde of demons. Kagura had fled when the numbers thinned on the demon side.
It was nighttime at that point outside Mt.Hakurei. Naraku had just been reincarnated and had killed Kikyo. In the next half-hour Inuyasha was gone to continue his search for the second time dead priestess. Kagome sighed unhappily and sat on the ground away from Sango and Miroku. Shippo and Kirara were already falling asleep, as being attacked by demons and having the anti-demon aura of Hakurei can do that to you.
"Well im not gonna take this anymore!",said Kagome in a naively determined voice,"I'm going to find that Inuyasha and when I do...". And search then she did as she headed towards the woods
"Kagome wait, you can't just go in search of him at night in the dark woods",said Sango. Too late, the young miko(she is a miko right?im no good with these words..)had already disapeared from view.
"Miroku shouldn't we go after her?"
Miroku sighed and said,"and do what, drag her back? The demons that weren't even Kagura's have been slayed here, the only thing I fear for Kagome is how she takes Inuyasha's split feelings for her and Kikyo."
But Miroku didn't stop there,"Listen Sango, there is a matter I have been wishing to speak to you about...in regard of the wedding we had set".
It was as though Miroku's fist clenched her heart."Well what about it?",said Sango uncertainly. Miroku sat for about a minute thinking on the grassy forest floor. When he made up his mind, his eyes were grim as he looked Sango in the eye.
"I do not think we can carry on like this."
Miroku's hold was tightening on her heart as she stuttered,"W-What?"
"Sango I do love you, but I know I may not be able to stay committed because I always find myself asking women to bear my children and-"
"But surely you can control that..if you tried".
Miroku shook his head grimly,"There is another reason I have been thinking of lately, even in Mt. Hakurei when you were injured. My children will have the burden of the Wind Tunnel if Naraku is not killed. Naraku has been evading us for a very long time Sango, and it might be he's too slippery to catch."
"We will find Naraku and kill him Miroku, don't do this to me, please..."The hand was now holding so hard onto her being it felt like it would burst.
"Sango we cannot carry on like this, but if Naraku is ever killed, we can continue where we left off, but for now its safer if we do not keep going like this now. I had to tell you how I felt. Im sorry."
And with that the hand gave one almighty squeeze and her heart broke into pieces.
Its barely even 2 pages, and I know its short, but if I can get five reviews, ill continue and never ask for reviews again. Btw you might wanna review, next chappie is a hot-springs scenario with Bankotsu introduced.
IMPORTANT:I am afraid I have read many good SangoXBankotsu's and some of them almost influenced my work. For example, I had a scene with an obi tied to Banky's hair when I realized TAKEN. I imagined that Bankotsu would say he was from a demon slaying village like Sango but then I realized DONE. So if I do copy anothers work subconsciously, please report this story to be terminated. I can't stand cheaters, even if its by accident...or even if its me.
Btw check out Kitticat626's "Concrete Angel" Bleach fanfic. 900 reviews and counting. (ITS AWESOME!) Her work inspired me to register XD.
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