Hello my readers! This is a story that is Inuyasha reversed! Read to figure out what the hell that means!
The hut exploded and as the roof caved in a girl in all red leaped from the smoldering ruins and flew towards the woods. She landed on the balls of her feet then began to run. Her silver hair flew out behind her and her golden eyes gazed triumphantly at the glowing jewel in her clawed hand. Finally! A way for me to become all demon at last! She thought to herself. She was just passing the God tree when suddenly: "KAGOME!" she heard before she was slammed into the tree from a hit to her chest. The jewel flew from her hand and she reached in vain to grab it. No… She looked up her hand still reaching out and her vision starting to blur. She hung from the tree pinned by an arrow and the man who had shot the bow was standing a ways in front of her. "Sesshoumaru…but I thought…" she gasped before the spell of the arrow stopped her heart.
The man stumbled forward and picked up the jewel. His shoulder bled heavily and he was shaking. "I forgot what I…and now look what…" He muttered to himself. Behind him the villagers ran to assist him.
"Lord Sesshoumaru!" "Brother!" He heard calling. "You're badly injured."
Sesshoumaru shook his head and clutched the jewel tightly. "I won't live." He pressed the jewel into his little sisters hands and tried to fight the pain. "Take the Shikon no Tama. It must be burned with my body so no one will abuse its powers!" He managed to say before finally with one last gasp of pain he crumpled dead on the ground.
My name is Inuyasha Higurashi and I am just your average student, or at least I thought I was, until today.
My 15th birthday. The day started like just any other; I got up got dressed, tied my hair back so the school officials couldn't carp about its unusual length and had breakfast. Normal right? Well that was the only part. I was walking through our home, which was an old shrine built hundreds of years ago. It has tons of outside huts. Inside one was an old hidden well, it was this one that started all the trouble. As I walked past it my sister Boutan stuck her head out and waved me over.
"Inuyasha the cat is stuck in the well and I can't…umm find him." She said.
I came over and tousled her hair. "To creeped out to go down there huh?" I asked jokingly.
She pouted at me then stuck her tongue out, rolled her eyes and shrugged. I took this to mean 'shut up but yeah'. I laughed at her before putting my bag down and heading down the few steps into the bottom of the well house. The cat came over to me as soon as I touched dirt but as I was bending down to pick her up I heard a strange noise coming from the inside of the sealed well. What in the world? I thought and straightened. I had just fully turned towards the noise when the op exploded off and many arms shot out and grabbed me. Dimly behind me I heard my sister screaming but my main focus was the face before me. I would be the first to admit that my first thought on seeing this 'things' face was a mask. It was as white as plaster and as deadpan. Then came the realization that the naked torso, 4 extra arms, and a freakish face, were the parts of her that were normal. The rest was beginning to resemble a green and purple centipede. And when I say 'beginning' I mean it started as bones and grew flesh.
The woman turned her freakish face to me and gasped in wonder. "Oh to live once more. You must have it." She said and a long tongue slipped from between her lips to lick my cheek. "Give it to me!"
From that moment I just was freaking out. All I could think was 'gross what the hell gross what the hell'. I shoved my hand into her face to try and get that disgusting tongue away from me. "Let go!" I shouted. In truth I didn't think anything would happen but to my surprise a blue light shot from my hand and the thing fell away murmuring about how it wanted a 'sacred jewel'.
So now Inuyasha is sitting on the bottom of the well unable to explain what he has been staring at for what seemed like hours. It was one of the centipede-woman-things..? arms.
Finally Inuyasha snapped out of his daze and looked towards the top of the well. "Hey Boutan…you there?" He yelled. He got no answer and turned to the stone sides. I am getting out of here. Inuyasha thought grabbing vines and stones to climb the sides. No way am I hanging around to have that crazy lady look for her arm. But when he climbed from the well he got the second biggest shock of his life, the first, of course, was the freak in the well: Inuyasha was outside, not in the well house and as far as the eye could see there was nothing but forest and mountain and clear blue skies; none of the metal glass and smog that he had grown up with.
Inuyasha turned in a circle facing every direction before spotting it: the tall branches of the God Tree, showing higher than the other trees. "Whatever the hells going on, I'll figure out when I reach the tree. I can get home from there." He muttered shoving his way through the dense bushes on the ground.
He got to the small clearing around the tree and stopped dead in his tracks. There was a girl sleeping against the tree. Roots bound her waist and shoulder to the bark a few feet off the ground and an arrow stood out from her chest seemingly piercing her heart. She had silver hair that seemed to reach her knees and blew gently in the breeze. She wore red, blood red, an old fashion jacket and balloon pants. But the thing that captivated his attention were her ears. They sat atop her head and were triangular dog ears. Uncontrollably he found himself, almost running forward in eagerness. Inuyasha reached forward and gently grabbed the silver velvety ears. For a few moments he just scratched till finally he was able to pull himself away. "Now that that is out of my system…" Inuyasha said turning away. He leaned back into the girl suddenly as arrows thunked into the wood around him. Oh shit…
"Who are you? Get away from her!" He heard behind him.
It wasn't long after that that Inuyasha found himself tied up and plopped into the middle of a small village. Now he wasn't sure about other people but he didn't normally see wooden villages with planks and rocks for roofs very often. Not only that but the women all wore kimonos and the men had top-knots. Top-knots…what the hell is this? Feudal Japan? Someone in the crowd around him was talking about war, another a demon, then someone's voice shouted above the others. "Make way for High Priestess Kaede!" Oh…my…god… Inuyasha thought as he saw the ancient woman heading through the crowd to me.
She wore a white shirt and red pants, identical to what his grandmother wore…a priestess outfit. She took the bow from her shoulder and its quiver and handed them to the man who had followed her through the crowd. Turning her wrinkled face back to Inuyasha, she stared at him through her one good eye before reaching into a pouch and throwing salt at him while saying "Demon begone!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Cut that out!" Inuyasha yelled shaking my head.
"Ye are not a demon?" She said and came closer. She grabbed Inuyasha by the chin and turned his face side to side examining him closely. So similar in looks. The old priestess said. "Look clever boy or be ye a half-wit?"
Excuse me? Inuyasha thought angrily and glared at her.
She straightened and said to herself, "It is there though I know not why." Then she motioned to the men to untie him and led him back to her hut. It was much later before she actually talked to him. She handed him a bowl of stew which he gratefully accepted.
"Oh good, food!" He thanked her.
"Ye must bear no grudge child, though I see now ye mean no harm, no one may come among us without being greeted with great distrust in these times of war." Kaede said.
"I guess I'm not in Tokyo anymore than huh?" Inuyasha muttered.
"Tok-y-o? Is that where ye are from?" The woman asked looking at him.
"Yeah…I should get going…" Though how I have no idea, Inuyasha thought grumpily.
From outside there was a loud noise followed by people screaming. Kaede and Inuyasha ran outside to see what the commotion was. Kaede gasped in horror, "Mistress Centipede!" The centipede turned to us and threw the horse from her jaws to our feet. It landed with a meaty thunk, its ribs poking through the torn muscle and skin.
"Give me the sacred jewel!" She screamed.
"The Sacred Jewel?" Kaede said picking herself up from where she had fallen. "Ye have the Jewel?" She yelled turning to me.
"I don't know, I'm not even sure what it is!" Inuyasha said. He leaped to the side as Mistress Centipede dived towards him. A few villagers shot arrows at the demon trying to kill it but they bounced off harmlessly. "It doesn't work!" One yelled.
Kaede stood and leaned on her protector villager. "We must lure it to the dry well!"
"The dry well?" The one I came out of! Inuyasha thought. He spun looking in all directions. "Where is it? Where the light is shining right?" He said then sprinted towards the forest where a glow shone from the tree tops. "I'll draw her away!"
Kaede stared after the running youth, he was running straight for Kagome's forest. How can he see the demonic light of the forest?
Inuyasha was running as fast as he could down the path between the rice fields. "Dad, grandma, Boutan? Somebody please, help me!"
Deep in the forest beneath the god tree the girl pinned by the arrow pulsed. Once, twice before her hands clenched and unclenched her claws ready for slashing. She opened her eyes and the golden orbs glared out at the night. "I can smell it. The blood of the one who killed me…and it's coming closer!" Her hand moved to pull out the arrow but it zapped her hand away. She was still pinned.
Inuyasha began running up the hill towards the forest edge while behind him Mistress Centipede yelled again to give her the Jewel. "I told you I don't have it!" Inuyasha yelled. Mistress Centipede dove into the ground beneath his feet and he found himself flying forward and landing beneath the large god tree.
"Hello Sesshoumaru…playing with bugs now are we?" A voice filled with disdain said above his head.
Inuyasha looked up and met the angry eyes of the girl with the dog ears. Did she just talk? "You're alive?" He whispered.
"Why don't you kill her like you did me?" She said then frowned. "You look pretty dumb there Sesshoumaru. The Sesshoumaru I knew wouldn't waste his time."
Inuyasha grunted then stood up angrily. "Sesshoumaru, Sesshoumaru, who ever he is, he's not me because I am…"
The girl gazed up in to the trees, "She's here."
Suddenly Mistress Centipede dropped from the tree tops straight at Inuyasha. He fell back and threw his arms over his head but Mistress Centipede didn't reach him. A few spears with ropes attached to them had slammed into her side and were pulling her back from him. "So I was saved." Inuyasha muttered.
"You're pathetic Sesshoumaru," The girl said in disgust.
Once again Inuyasha got up angrily. "I already told you! I am not him who ever he is." He started walking up the plants until his face was close to the girls.
"And I am telling you, you have to be. 'Cause if you weren't there is no way you could smell…" She trailed off and sniffed at the boy, now so close. "You're not him…" She said half confused, half worried.
"I know my name is Inuyasha. Inu-Yasha!" He said forcefully.
"You're right. Sesshoumaru was much more attractive." The girl said gazing at him.
Excuse me? Inuyasha thought. But before he could say anything else hands grabbed onto his side and tried to yank him away. Out of instinct he reached out and grabbed what ever he could reach: the girls' hair. "Let go of me!" He yelled at Mistress Centipede.
"Ow you let go of me!" The girl said, she was unable to move forward from the tree but her head was pulled forward trying to ease the pain in her scalp.
Behind the trio one of the villagers turned to Kaede, "Lady Kaede! She has awakened!"
How can that be? The seal should have held forever! Kaede thought in shock.
The centipede growled. "Give me the sacred jewel!"
The girl's eyes narrowed, Sacred jewel?
Inuyasha let go of the girls hair with one hand and fling it into the centipedes face. "LET GO!" The light exploded from his hands again and all the arms fell from the centipede. Inuyasha landed hard on the ground and looked down to see something bright shining from under his shirt. "What's that?" He whispered seconds before Mistress centipede bit into the glow and flung him into the air.
Inuyasha fell hard and saw a small jewel fly from the wound in his stomach. That was inside of me?
They both hit the ground at the same time and Inuyasha heard the girl shout to pick up the jewel. Before he could touch it though, the centipede slung him into the tree and pinned him against the girls' body.
"Don't you dare!" The girl yelled as Mistress Centipede ate the jewel.
"You can do nothing pinned there." She said and exploded.
The girl looked down at Inuyasha, "Can you…pull out this arrow?"
Inuyasha looked up at her and from behind him Kaede yelled, "No, if you free Kagome she'll kill us all."
The girl, Kagome looked at the old woman and snarled, "At least with me you have a chance to live! Mistress Centipede will just eat you all!" She looked down at Inuyasha. "What about you? You want to die?"
Inuyasha shook his head and started to reach for the arrow. "You better be able to fight!" Kagome grinned. Inuyasha grabbed the arrow and began to yank at it. It didn't move for a moment then it exploded into magic dust.
Kagome pulsed a few times then began to laugh. Mistress Centipede screamed and tried to smash us but Kagome ripped open her sides.
Mistress Centipede screamed and turned to Kagome, "Insolent child!"
Kagome grinned and slashed at Mistress Centipede. "Nasty Hag! Iron Reaper Soul Stealer!" Suddenly Kagome was hard to follow as she darted forward and sliced through Mistress Centipede. Damn she is a good fighter! Inuyasha thought watching from where he had been thrown again.
Soon all that was left was twitching body parts that were trying to reconnect. "Find the glowing flesh! That's where the jewel is!" Lady Kaede said running up to Inuyasha. "Else she'll revive!"
"What? Tell me your joking?" Inuyasha said glancing around quickly. He saw the jewel and pointed it out to Kaede. She plucked the jewel from the flesh and pressed it into Inuyasha's hands. "What?"
"Ye must protect it now." She said. Ye who look so much like my dead brother. "Demons will hunt for this."
"Why do I want a jewel that demons want?" Inuyasha asked staring at the small ball in his hands.
A bone shattered behind him and Kagome cracked her knuckles, her amber eyes were wide with glee and her silver hair was hanging around her shining. "Exactly. Give it to me and I won't have to start sharpening my claws on you."
Inuyasha stared at her and backed up a step. "What?" She's not the heroine?
LoL I was sitting in my room one day and was like...I want to switch everyones places! So I did and this is how it came out. Let me know. I don't know if anyone else has done this, I haven't seen anyone elses but I didn't bite it off anyone so don't be mean to me. The characters aren't mine. And most of the story is straight from the show.