Author's Note: Hi, its me again with another fanfic! I spent my summer playing Okami and Okamiden and it inspired me to make this thing. It'll be heavily based from the games so yeah, just enjoy reading ^^
But first, let's give you dear readers some introductions and basic stuff. I'll be using my own characters from my Public vs Private series (minus Natsu and Satoshi):
Makoto: heir and son of the Great Sun God. He's more like a god in training, and is also the main protagonist.
Hinata: son of the two warriors who had once defeated the evil demon Onigumo alongside the Sun God and is Makoto's best friend and partner.
Tora: Sango's ancestor and the one who fought alongside the Great God Inutaisho a hundred years ago.
More characters to be revealed soon :3
Inuyasha is by Rumiko Takahashi, Okami/Okamiden are by Capcom. Most characters/places are made by me.
Let's start!
Here's a tale that most of you, and I, know.
100 years ago, an evil demon named Onigumo awoke and caused the whole land of Nippon to be covered in despair and fear.
He released his evil spirits in the land, and cursed every part of it with his maliciousness.
But the Great Sun God Inutaisho raised forth and set to defeat Onigumo, along with him was the brave warrior Tora, who fearlessly fought alongside the god.
The battle lasted for a long time, but not long after, Onigumo was finally defeated, and peace and harmony retured to Nippon.
However, it wasn't the end of the story.
Years later, Onigumo once more reemerged and started to go about on his revenge. Four new heroes were set on permanently taking him down, the reincarnated Sun God Inuyasha and the miko Kagome, along with the prophet from the Moon Tribe Miroku and Tora's distant descendant Sango. Once more Onigumo was defeated, and afterwards the god and his miko returned together to the Celestial Plains, whereas they continue to live in peace once again.
But unfortunately, evil still lurked around Nippon, and there seemed to be no hope, until now...
at the quiet village of Hanako, nine months later
"Come and get your own Great Sun God paintings! Come right up here to get your own!"
A little fox kitsune hopped about the village, showing off various pieces of paintings depicting the battle between the God of the Sun and Onigumo. He went about, his voice loud and clear.
"Hang them in your wall in your house for protection! Put it in your moneybag and watch your wealth grow! No family should be around without one! Or two! Or even three!"
A little girl then decided to approach him, and he sighed and stopped hopping, facing her.
"After all that effort, I only managed to attract one person? " he mumbled tiredly, then took out a painting.
"Hey kid, wanna have a painting? Its on the house." he handed the painting to the little girl, who smiled and gleefully accepted it.
"I can't believe humans. Nine months was all it took them to forget so quickly. Being a Celestial Envoy is hard work."
"What's a Celestial Envoy?" the little girl asked. Shippo looked astonished for a moment before answering.
"You don't know what that is? Well, its a person that paints pictures of gods to preach about them to people."
"I see. Is that why you're painting pictures of the Great Sun God Inuyasha?" the little girl asked once more.
"Yeah, that's right!" Shippo nodded.
"Well where is he now?"
Shippo sighed again and crossed his arms. "He's at the Celestial Plains with the Miko."
"I thought the Celestial Plains were destroyed?"
"He's been fixing it. It sure is nice to be hanging around with him though. Without me, Inu's constantly just napping."
The little girl laughed. "Good luck getting there. And thank you for the painting!" and with that, she left.
Shippo looked bummed out. "Thanks... but the Celestial Plains isn't just a place you can go to as you please!"
He tiredly laid down on the ground, looking up at the sky. "Inu... I wonder how you're doing up there."
Yawning, he finally closed his eyes, deciding to rest and continue his envoy duties another time.
A loud croak suddenly woke him, and jumped up to find two green imps dancing about him threateningly. He panicked and was frozen on his spot.
"Demons?! Here? I thought Inu already took care of the rest of you!" He shrieked, unable to find a way out when suddenly a flash of white appeared, and the imps looked down to find their target had disappeared.
Shippo opened his eyes to find himself hoisted on the back of a white... puppy. But it wasn't just any puppy, for it had the orange and black marks familiar to the kitsune. He stared at awe as the puppy growled at the imps.
"I-I don't know what's going on, but we have to stop them!" Shippo then noticed the hauntingly familiar disc on the back of the puppy.
"Wait... you have the same Divine Instrument as Inu! Its not for looking pretty you know! Do you even know how to use it—whoa!" He held onto the puppy's fur as it jumped and to his surprise, threw the flaming disc at the imps, injuring them severely in the process amd finally, defeating them.
Shippo looked amazed and shocked as he climbed down from the puppy's back and it backed away, a bright light surrounding him. In the place of the white puppy, a very recognizable little boy around his age appeared, with black on the tips of his silver hair and the cute little puppy ears.
"You ok?" the boy asked, and Shippo nodded, still surprised.
"Good. You had a tough one out there, huh?"
"Y-yeah. How did you defeat them so easily?"
The boy grinned and winked. "I got my ways." His extremely noticable tail wagged around amusingly, mirroring his emotion.
Shippo saw his tail was laced with black ink and his eyes went wide. "That ink... Do you know how to use the Celestial Brush?!"
"Celestial what now? Oh, that. Yeah. Probably."
Shippo facepalmed at the boy. "Ridiculous."
Just then the boy went running off to the top side of the village. "Catch up with me and I'll show ya!"
"H-hey! Wait up!"
They stopped at the base of the mountain and looked up to find the sky in an frightening shade of purple. Shippo trembled and hid behind the boy.
"That sky can't mean anything good... if Inu were here, he could just call forth the sun and bring light back."
The boy then sparked an idea. "Maybe I could do the same."
Shippo looked at him with disbelief. "Oh please! Only the God of the Sun can use the Celestial Brush. But if you wanna try it so badly, then be my guest."
The boy shifted back into a puppy, his tail in the air, pointing to the sky. Shippo sat down next to him with arms crossed.
"Just try drawing a circle in the middle of the sky. Simple."
More enough the puppy started to draw into the air, and black ink marks appeared magically into the sky, orange mist surrounding it and in a flash, a sun appeared, shining throughout the village and the purple color vanishing completely.
The puppy changed back into a boy, sitting down next to Shippo as the kitsune stared with his jaw dropped. Hurriedly he jumped and distanced himself from him.
"A-a-are you Inu's kid or something? How did you manage to call the power of Sunrise that easily?" Shippo asked, and the boy smiled.
"I'm Makoto, and yep, I'm Inuyasha's kid alright!"
Shippo did a face fault. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?! These are the types of things that you need to tell me FIRST!" he yelled, agitated. Makoto only shrugged.
"Anyways, my name's Shippo, and I'm your father's Celestial Envoy. And a darn good one at that!" Then a thought crossed him. "Wait, so if you're Inu's son, then who did he..." his face turned red and he quickly shook his head, leaving Makoto to look at him confused.
"N-not that its my business! Anyways, I'll be your guide here for whatever reason you've come here, so make sure you give me some respect!"
Makoto only yawned at Shippo's authority and the kitsune looked agitated once more.
"Hmph! That aloof attitude... you're Inu's kid alright." He looked down from where they were and spotted the large sakura tree from a distance.
"We better go and talk to Miss Midoriko about this. She'll know what to do." Shippo hopped on Makoto's shoulder. "Let's go!"
Makoto grinned and started to dash, making Shippo cling tighter to him. "S-SLOW DOWN!"
It was going to be an adventure of a lifetime.
End Chapter