hey everyone! ok,this is my brand new story,"Beauty and the Hanyou" it's a lot like the famous story (and movie) Beauty and the Beast but, of course, the characters are changed to Inuyasha characters,and I have a few different things planned for this story than the original ones so you won't be hearing the same old Beauty and the Beast story again,well,I hope you guys like it! enjoy and pleeease review to tell me how good,bad,or ugly it was.thanks!

It was around midnight or so when prince Inuyasha had finished his usual pampering before bed, he at the moment, like always,had his head in his mirror making sure that his usual overwhelming handsomeness had not stopped glowing throughout his entire body.While admiring his charming completion, he heard his royal doorbell chime, he waited to hear Miroku, his new butler, answer the door.

He heard the door open and a quick chat between him and the new arrival, suddenly he heard the door shut, footsteps coming closer to his large, royal bedroom door, and a knock on the door.

"Prince Inuyasha, your majesty, there is a woman at the door who would like to speak to you." Inuyasha smirked, for he thought that it was just another one of his many admirers.

"Oh, it must be the Princess Jade of Iris, coming to have a late dinner with me perhaps? I'll be down shortly" Inuyasha spoke in his charming, brave, and lion-like voice that he had perfected to sound quite kingly over the years.He put on something suitable, his best royal blue kimono shirt, his good royal blue kimono pants to match the shirt, and some nice black shoes(though he hated to wear shoes he wanted to look presentable) and walked out of his bedroom with nice postured steps.

He arrived at the front door, he looked back at the huge mirror behind him and straightened his crown before he nodded for the servants to open the door, he still faced the other way though,

"Why hello Miss Jade, and how are we this late ni- ?" he became silent when he turned to see who- or in his opinion- what,was actually at the door instead of the enchanting Princess Jade.

There, stood a hunch back hag, her body, so very short and plump, curved around because of her hunch back and her crooked neck, she had black, curly and very messy, for it had obviously not been combed in a long time, hair that was once in a neat bun he figured, but now it lay about on her neck in scrunches with little hair still up in the bun. She wore peasants clothes made of very scratchy material, (he figured it was scratchy because she could not stop scratching herself) her dress was an ugly green and she had a very simple Shaw, which was really just a cloth of purple, draped over her shoulders, she wore black tights on her surprisingly skinny legs, and had brown peasant shoes. She had hair growing in her ears and had a big crooked nose with a wart on it and her skin was a nasty yellow color,

but there was a very strange thing about her eyes, her eyes contrasted completely with the rest of her appearance for her eyes were remarkably beautiful, such a beautiful glowing blue, and without any imperfection to them.

"Hello ,your majesty!" she said in her scratchy- yet cheery,old hag voice.

" You see, you majesty, I have had an unfortunate occurrence, I was riding in my wagon with Mary Lou- ER, my donkey, and then it started raining, I tried to make it back to my village but the rain as you see has gotten very fierce, so I beg of you to let me stay at your beautiful mansion just this night? Or at least until the storm lets up?" Inuyasha was sickened by the thought of having that hag, that ugly, repulsing hag, staying the night in the mansion, his mansion! And she expects for him to let her actually breath her bad smelling, hag-like, breath in his royal and highly respected mansion?

Never.

"Ha, crazy woman, you amuse me, you think that I would ever let someone with the appearance of you in my mansion? Let you breath my air? Eat my food? Sleep in my imperial house? Are you truly as absurd as you look to be? Get out of here! Out I say! You disgusting wench, I fear that I will have scary dreams this night because of you having to show your repulsive self to me!" He barked at her, the woman's eyes turned a mixture of sad and angry,then anger swept over them as her eyes beaded

" Fine then, but are you sure? For you must know that things aren't always what they seem." she asked kindly.

"Yes, I am very sure that I don't want a creepy wench in my mansion to scare the life out of me and to poison everything I own by her simple touch." he said with a very bored tone,

he started to turn away when he heard her chant magical words that he thought sounded like a miko chant, and when he turned around there was not a hag there anymore, for, a beautiful woman remained there,

She had long, black hair in a ponytail, beautiful fair skin, and nice a nice red and white miko outfit. But the prettiest thing about her was her eyes, such beautiful glowing blue eyes with no imperfections in them, wait! Were those the eyes of the hag he had just seen? Was she the very same woman? surely not! Surely he was just imagining it! But then again...

" Hello, Inuyasha" she spoke with a calm, soothing voice

"I am Head priestess Kikyo, I am the hag that you had just spoken to. I came to your castle because I am searching for true love, for a person who does not care about what I look like, but for who I am, I came here to test you and now that I have I can tell you that you have certainly failed, you judged me for how I looked, not who I was, and now I shall punish you for your behavior."

"..."

she continued

"From next mourning on you will have the appearance of an ugly beast, your mansion will turn into a scary castle, and all that live here now will be turned into objects, I will give you an enchanted rose, this rose will bloom until your 24th birthday, then the petals will wilt and fall off, if you can not learn to love and make someone love you before the last petal falls off, then you will be doomed into being a beast forever."

Before Inuyasha had time to say something, a bright pink light appeared and she was gone . The only thing that remained on the doorstep was a small glass dome, that contained a red, enchanted rose, still a small rose bud.

The next morning he was to awake just as the priestess Kikyo told him he would, the beautiful mansion had turned into a dark, scary castle surrounded by dead trees, the servants, the butlers and maids, they all were now household items, furniture, and decorations throughout the house. And of course, just as she had said, Inuyasha, Prince of Shikon no tama, was now a hideous beast, his flowing silver hair was now a dull brown, his demon ears were replaced by big, ugly bull horns, his teeth were not the white sparkling ones he once new either for now they needed cleaning desperately, and he now had the clumsy claws of a bear replacing his previous dog claws. Though all of this had changed his eyes remained the same, glowing amber orbs that he had always had.

Within four years he would have to find true love and get them to feel the same way towards him, if only, he thought, it was really as simple as it sounded, for acheiving true love was something that did not come easy, and anyway, how could anyone love a lowly, repulsive beast?