Kagome: Welcome to the story "The Darkness Within Our Hearts!"
Inuyasha:...
Bankotsu: Shut up!
Inuyasha: Wha'd you say!
Jakotsu: Yay! The Shichinintai are in here too!
Inuyasha: Uhh...
Jakotsu: -Gasp- Inuyasha! I lllloooovvveee you!
Inuyasha: Shut your face!
Sango: Please R&R.
Miroku: Oh, yes. -Touches Sango's butt- the author does not own Inuyasha...
Sango: -SLAP!- Hentai!
Kirara: Mew!
Shippo: Let's get on with the fic. Shall we?
The Darkness Within Our Hearts - Chapter 01: A New Enemy.
My name is Kagome Higerashi. A 15 year old girl attending junior high school. I live in a shrine in Tokyo with my mama, little brother. Sota. And of course my loving grandpa.
"I'm sorry. Kagome is in a coma today..." Grandpa said in the background on the phone.
But he does make lame excuses for my friends and to the school. I'm ALWAYS 'sick' with something weird, who knows where he gets these ideas!
"Oogi-san! Stop making lame excuses for my friends!" Kagome snapped. But grandpa just chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.
"Hey, Nee-chan! Did you hear about the girl who went missing? She's been gone for about 10 years now!" The small raven haired boy named Sota announced. "And they still think she's alive!"
"Yeah. Yeah. I have to get going Sota. Inuyasha and the others are waiting for me." Kagome stated and packed up the rest of the boxed lunches into her VERY LARGE yellow bag.
"Here's one more dear." Kagome's mother smiled and handed one more black box to Kagome.
"Arigatou-gozaimasu, ooka-san!" Kagome smiled and closed her bag and lifted it up with much difficulty and swug it over her shoulders.
"Ittekimasu!" Kagome announced and closed the sliding door behind her, and entered a small shrine with an old well in the center. Kagome jumped into the dry well, entering a blue light.
Oh, I almost forgot! Inside the shrine is a well called the Bone-Eaters Well. It is some kind of dimension that brings me 500 years into the past! The feudal era of Japan is filled with many youkais and people with evil within their hearts.
Kagome climbed out of the old well, and grabbed a pink bike resting agianst a tree, jumping on the pink device. The raven-haired girl rode down the dirt path towards a small village.
In this era, I'm on a mission to collect all the shards of the Shikon Jewel, which I kinda acciedently broke. Getting the shards also means preventing a demon named Naraku from achieving his goal, Oh! And I also have my friends to accompany me on this exciting journey!
"I'm back!" Kagome announced as she ran up to her friends.
"Okaeri nasai! Kagome-chan."A female greeted with a warm smile.
"Mew!" A small two-tailed cat agreed in delight.
This is Sango. Sango is a youkai exterminator. Her village was destroyed by Naraku. Her brother Kohaku was killed along with all the other exterminators. Sango used a shikon shard to stay alive. She was tricked by Naraku into thinking Inuyasha destroyed her village. Well she found out the truth and is seeking revenge against Naraku with Inuyasha, Shippo, Miroku, and me! Sango also has a a small two-tailed cat named Kirara, but in battle Kirara tranforms into a big youkai cat and fights along side with Sango.
"Ah. Kagome I see you've returned and safely too, thank the gods." A man holding a staff and dressed in black robes of budda.
"Yup! And I've brought my moms special lunch for everyone!" Kagome chirped
"Yay! Kagome your the best!" Smiled a small youkai fox.
Miroku is a monk...well he should act like a monk more often. You see, he is well...a perverted monk. He always touches a womens butt and asks them to bear his child. He has a good reason for his actions though. His ancestor was cursed by Naraku and had to live with an air void in his right hand that could suck up anything. But sooner or later the air void in his hand will suck him up. Miroku's ancestor was cursed, so was all of his descendants, including Miroku. The reason Miroku is perverted and always asks a pretty girl to bear his child is because if he is sucked up by his own air void before he can defeat Naraku he wants his son to do it or anyone else for that matter to lift the curse.
And this is Shippo. Shippo is a very young fox youkai. Shippo's father was killed by The Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Mantan. He can make duplicates of himself, transform into things, or play tricks by using fox magic. He often helps the injured and his crew with Kirara.
"Mmmm. Kagome this rice ball is delicious!" Sango said and took another bit of the rice ball.
"Thanks! My mom's cooking is the greatest!" Kagome turned her attention to the man in red with dog ears. "How do you like it Inuyasha?"
I almost forgot! This is Inuyasha, a hanyou. As a child he wasn't accepted by humans nor youkai. Inuyasha fell in love with a miko named Kikyo 50 years ago, but Naraku set a trap to turn them both against each other. And his plan worked. Inuyasha was scealed to a tree with an arrow pierced into his heart, and Kikyo died on the same day. But now Inuyasha was awoken from the seal and is out after Naraku, just as much as the rest of us.
"Well Inuyasha? Do you like it?" Kagome asked again.
Inuyasha gave Kagome a slight glare and continued to munch down all the food. Kagome was about to ask again but was interupted.
"Where is it?" Inuyasha asked.
"W-where's what?" Kagome blinked.
"You know what I mean..." Inuyasha said as he crawled over to Kagome's yellow bag and searched through it, until he found what he was searching for. "Ha! This is it!" The hanyou pulled out a cup of instant ramen.
Kagome gave an evil glare at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha can be an asshole sometimes...
"Uh oh. They're gonna fight again." Shippo mumbled to Kirara, making her 'mew' in agreement and began to nibble on a peice of meat given by Sango.
Kagome walked over to her bike and hopped on. "Hey Kagome! Where are ya' going? Boil up some water will ya'?" Inuyasha shouted at Kagome.
"Inuyasha..." Kagome growled through her teeth. "Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! Oswari! OSWARI!"Kagome yelled. And each time Kagome said that word, it sent Inuyasha face first into the ground.
"Inuyasha you asshole!" Kagome yelled again before storming off with her pink bike.
"Who saw that coming?" Sango asked with sarcasim in her voice.
"D-damn it!" Inuyasha cursed and tried to get up.
"Inuyasha...don't you ever consider her feelings?" Miroku sighed. "Huh?" Miroku turning his attention away from Inuyasha and looked off into the distance.
"Houshi-sama? What is it?" Sango asked.
"I...sense Jaki..." Miroku stated. "Very powerful Jaki."
Inuyasha stood up and dusted himself off. "Ah. I can also smell blood...lots of it."
Everyone got their belongings and started to head towards a smokey village. "What about Kagome!" Shippo asked.
"Forget her! We'll get her later!" Inuyasha yelled and quickened his pace.
"Could it be the Shichinintai?" Sango asked as she rode on Kirara.
"No...this is the work of a youkai!" Miroku said.
Inuyasha stopped running and looked at his surroundings. An empty burned down village with many corpses lying around and blood scattered everywhere. But nearby a large rock sat a girl in red, she seemed to be minding her own business, watching the clouds drift by slowly in the sky.
She blinked, noticing a group of people glaring at her, the girl in red turned her attention to Inuyasha and gang. She blinked. "Oh? You must be Inuyasha..." A smirk drawing across her lips.
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A young man dressed in the colors of a white and blue kimono dashed across the snowy field with his halberd close to his side, with many men in thick armor chasing him, holding large swords over their heads.
The man weilding the helberd stopped and turned around, facing his opponents. Having the oppurtunity the armoured men surrounded the young boy.
One man stepped forward, holding a scroll before himself and his foe. He appeared to be the leader of this small army. "The leader of the Shinchinintai, Bankotsu, you have commited far too many sins, killing many innocent people, for your crimes you shall be judged!"
The man adressed as Bankotsu, merly smirked as a reply.
"In the name of Xiyou-sama I sentence you to...death!" The leader annouced.
Bankotsu's grin widened in amusment, as he held his halberd in a deadly matter. "Heh. Sounds like fun..."
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A young girl with long raven hair was roused from sleep by a vague feeling of unease. She got up and gathered her belongings. Then she reached over and picked up her katana, and put it through her red sash around her waist, keeping it at her side. Before she started walking, she wiped her blade with a rag and sheathed it. Then she started walking. She was dressed simply in loose-fitting white and black with bits of red cotton robe, tied with a red cotton belt. Her hair was tied back in a high pony-tail that reached down to her waist.
She walked down the dirty road until she came across two mere travellers. She stopped and both male travellers standing on each of her sides, eyeing her up and down.
"Hey, girl, it's dangerous for a pretty gal like yourself to be traveling alone." One man smirked.
"We'll escort you to our village, Xiamen, there we can...have some fun." Another man offered, chuckling. Eyeing her reveiling clevege in a perverted matter.
"..." She stood silent. "The village of Xiamen is near, huh?" She thought.
"Aww, don't be shy," The first man chuckled wrapping his arm around her shoulder. "Come on, it'll be fun-"
The man was cut off, from the girl moving from his grasp unsheathing her katana, the long silver blade striking his neck, killing him instantly, leaving him on the ground with a split open bloodly neck and his friend screaming in horror.
"Oyasumi..." She whispered, bring the final man to his holy grave.
End of chapter 01.
Bankotsu: That's it? You see no more of ME!
Kagome: Ha! I thought it was so funny when I told Inuyasha to "OSWARI!"
Inuyasha: -Falls face first into ground- KAGOME!
Kagome: Oops! Gomen! Gomen!
Suikotsu: We're not even in this yet.
Jakotsu: Not fair...
Renkotsu: Ditto...
Ginkotsu: Geshhi!
Mukotsu: Hey! At least your IN the fic.! Mehmehmehmehmeh...
Kyoukutsu: Yeh! We're already dead!
Jakotsu: That's what you get when you get killed off so early in the episodes...ha!
Mukotsu and Kyoukutsu: Shut up, Jakotsu!
Bankotsu: And if you have any questions for me or the other idiots here...just ask and we'll answer.
Jakotsu: And look forward to the next chapter!
Mukotsu and Kyoukutsu: We TOLD you to shut up!
Jakotsu: Fuck you.
Mukotsu and Kyoukutsu: GASP!
Translation:
Oogi-san - Grandpa.
Nee-chan - Older sister.
Arigatou-Gozaimasu - Thank you very much.
Gomen - I'm sorry.
Ooka-san - Mother.
Ittekimasu - A phrase you say before you leave the house. In other words "I'm leaving."
Youkai - Demon.
Okaeri nasai - Welcome back.
Miko - Priestess.
Hanyou - Half demon.
Ramen - Instant noodles.
Oswari - Sit.
Houshi-sama - Monk.
Jaki - Evil engery, evil arua, ect.
Hentai - Pervert.
Oyasumi - Good night.
Shinchinintai - Seven Man Army.
Halberd - A halberd is a two handed pole weapon that came to prominent during the 14th and 15th centuries..
Katana - The katana is the Japanese sabre or longsword, although many Japanese use this word generically as a catch-all word for sword.
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The Darkness Within Our Hearts: Chapter 01 - A New Enemy. Complete!
Date posted: May 13, 2005
Disclaimer: Does not own InuYasha.
Copy Right of author, Rei Aiyanami.
