Chapter One,
First Mistake

"Shit..." A handsome boy sitting at a computer desk grumbled pushing his laptop away, he brushed a hand through his long silver air and sighed in frustration.

"What?" Another boy looked over at him from a couch, he had short black hair pulled back in a little tail, a purple laptop on his lap.

"Feh, nothing Miroku.." The first boy tilted his screen down.

"What is it...oh!" Miroku put his laptop down on a coffee table in front of him and walked over to his friend glancing at his screen. "Hahaha Inuyasha, you made yourself a girl character!"

"It was an accident! How the fuck do I delete this?" Inuyasha responded embarrassed and flipped the screen back up glaring at the female character standing in the middle of it smiling at him.

"You can't, that's your main character." His friend explained trying not to laugh, "You're stuck with it until you level up enough to unlock another character spot." Unlike Inuyasha he had actually bothered to read the instruction book.

"Can't I just delete the account or something?" Inuyasha asked desperately, he was never the best with computers but this was by far the worst mistake her had ever made.

"Not unless you have enough lying around to actually buy the game?"

"You know I don't..."

"Just play that character."

"A girl? No fucking way."

"Come on... it's cute."

"I will fucking kill you."

"Here," Miroku leaned over and pointed at something on the screen. "See? As soon as you get a helmet you can barley tell It's a girl character, plus she has really small boobs."

"Shut up!" Inuyasha's face went a little red.

"Here you can make them bigger by clicking this..." Miroku grinned making the character's chest enlarge with every click of the mouse. He didn't stop till Inuyasha punched him and made him deflate them back to what they had been. "How boring." He grumbled retreating back to his safe couch. Inuyasha glared at his screen for awhile longer until he got tired of Miroku's whining for him to hurry up and finally began customizing his character. Long silver hair, sharp gold eyes and tall stature, she was strong and looked as much like him as possible for a female character. He clicked continue and tried to decide his class, their was a large number of races and sub-races and an equal amount of jobs. He was too impatient to really read up and figure out the pros and cons of each race and class so he chose the first that stood out to him. "Race: Dog Hanyou, Class: Warrior" scrolled across the top of his screen and his character modified slightly to suit it, she gained a pair of white dog demon ears and traditional red fire rat clothes wrapped loosely around her body. She did a cute little spin that made him want to throw his laptop across and the room and stood ready to enter the online feudal world.

"I'm so excited, I can't believe not only did we got these systems free, we also get to beta test the game!"

"Yeah were really lucked out, those things are hella expensive..." Inuyasha glanced over at the systems that were connected to their laptops. They were quite small for such advanced technology, but a rule of thumb with tech nowadays was the smaller the better. It was beyond Inuyasha why an iPod needed to be the size of a paper clip to be better. They were a blindingly bright white and about the size and shape of a walkman. The words "Feudal Online" were glowing on the side of it, it came with one wire to connect into the laptop and another to connect to a head set that was the soul contributor to the virtual experience. Inuyasha still felt sketchy about the entire thing but Miroku was blissfully oblivious. It wasn't that the system seemed unsafe, or like a scam, no it was obviously authentic there had been a ton of buzz about these systems for months, also they had received the systems through a random draw from their school along with a few other kids. It was just... virtual reality? Was this really going to be as real as advertised?

"Do you think this is really going to be virtual reality?" Inuyasha spoke his curiosity out loud, his character pointed to a door excitedly that had the words "ENTER" written above it, an admin had appeared on his screen instructing him to put on his head set.

"It better be, this system is worth about eight hundred thousand yen." (Around ten thousand dollars) Miroku commented reminding himself to be careful with it. He was right, there was no way this could be some kind of crappy 3D-ish game and cost that much. It had to be real.

"Come on let's goooo!" Miroku pulled his purple head set out of the box and place it on his head, it looked really cool. It had a very high tech future vibe, built with two large earphones, a microphone and an eye shield.

"Hold on! How will I know which character is you?" Inuyasha enquired scanning his friend for a response but Miroku seemed dead to the world, the eye shield was lit up and Miroku wasn't moving in front of his computer screen which was showing an amazing world, other than the slow rise and fall of his chest that showed he was still breathing his friend was absolutely still. The entire situation was really weirding him out but he didn't want to leave Miroku alone in it, he pulled out his own red set and only hesitated for a second before putting it on.

"Miroku?" Inuyasha stared around rubbing his eyes, there had been a blinding white flash and he now found himself standing in a field of unrealistically green grass. Inuyasha looked down at his hands and let out a high pitched scream, he then covered his mouth horrified. He really was a girl. He didn't dare look down at his chest and instead focused on the furry little ears on top of his head, for some weird reason they just felt right.

"What's a pretty thing like you doing in a place like this?" a man's voice called out from behind him and he turned around ready to fight. His guard dropped as soon as the man came into view, he was wearing a dark black and purple robe and was holding a long staff.

"Miroku..." Inuyasha smirked at him, deciding to forget the "pretty" comment.

"How did you know?" He smiled back patting his face, it was true he didn't look as much like the seventeen year old boy sitting in their living room really did, but Inuyasha had known Miroku for a long time and there was just something in his eyes, his grin, that just screamed Miroku. He wondered if, despite his female form, it was the same for him. His character had black hair pulled back in a short pony tail and pretty much looked like an older, stronger form of his best friend.

"You chose to make your character look a lot like you." Inuyasha noted.

"Yeah, you too," Miroku chuckled, "But sexier." Inuyasha hit Miroku across the head who grumbled, "Owww.."

"That hurt?" Inuyasha looked at him surprised.

"Yeah.." He frowned rubbing his head, "But in a sort of unreal way."

"That doesn't make any sense." He studied his friend annoyed by his answer, "Hit me."

"I'm not going to hit a girl." Miroku looked at him shocked.

"I swear to god if you don't hit me in the next five seconds I will log off and kick your ass in real life, and it will hurt!"

"Fine fine..." Miroku pulled out his staff and struck Inuyasha on the head, he had to admit despite his initial resistance it felt really good.

"Huh.." Inuyasha rubbed the spot thoughtfully, Miroku was right...It felt like pain, but not. He felt like his character was receiving damage, but not his real self. "Virtual reality is weird..."

"That it is." Miroku agreed and Inuyasha noticed his friend studying him.

"What?"

"You chose to be a Hanyou, eh?" His tone was a tad cocky.

"You can tell?" Inuyasha looked at him surprised.

"If you would have bothered to read the instruction book and introduction manual..."

"They were fucking huge!" He defended himself, Miroku laughed, such dimwitted words coming from such a fierce looking hanyou.

"Yes, but useful. Also my character poses advanced IQ."

"Oh yeah?" Inuyasha mumbled obviously losing interest, "What's up with the beads and staff?"

"My race is Cursed Human, and my class is Monk. So these are my Shakujou and Rosary Beads, their constant with the Buddhist Monk class."

"Cursed Human?" Inuyasha gave him an odd, almost worried look.

"Yeah, it seemed interesting...the class has a pretty complicated character design and game play."

"Whatever makes you happy." Inuyasha waved him off obviously tired of talking and sensing a lecture coming on, he stared at the world around them. "This still feels so unreal..."

"I know." Miroku joined in, forgetting the long character lecture he was about to give his friend. "What weapons do you have?" He asked, excited to get the game started. Inuyasha looked down at himself and shrugged. "Open your inventory, you can carry a vast amount of items in there." Inuyasha continued to look at him confused. "You have an internal inventory, just think about it and you'll have access...jeez." He did not revel in the thought of holding Inuyasha's hand through the entire game. Inuyasha looked like he was concentrating far too hard for a few minutes and then looked disappointed.

"I don't have any weapons." He replied downhearted and more than slightly annoyed.

"Oh right! You're a dog hanyou, so you start with just your claws." Miroku conveniently remembered.

"My claws?" Inuyasha questioned looking down at his hands, sure enough on the end of each delicate finger was a long, sharp dangerous looking nail. He clenched his fist, excitement bubbling up inside him, "Well let's go kill some shit then!"