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Revenge or Love

Chapter 1: Prologue

Taisho paused from cutting the crops and looked up at the warm colors of the sunset. The view from the high hill was simply breathtaking. Shifting his head towards his right was his village. With the increase of the booming industry and urban cities growth, it was rare to see villages nowadays. People favored more towards the further development lifestyle, such as technologies that gave eases to humans life. The thought of being the leader of decreasing villages gave a sense of proud to the man. They were miles away from civilization and was surrounded with nature. The stars shined brightly as the night eloped the once day sky. That was one of the many reasons why he preferred living with mother nature versus the busy streets that beamed with bright lights. Of course there were some down side of living with nature too. Brushing that thought out, the man grabbed his belongings and hiked down towards his home. Today was his son's 5th birthday and he had a huge surprise prepared for him. He smiled as he wondered what tonight's dinner going to be, but his train of thoughts came to a halt when he looked ahead. At the further left, countless packs of blurs was seen running in high speed from the mountain and down towards his village. He felt his blood go cold. One of the reasons why people preferred living in the safe urban cities has come out; vampires.

Taisho ran as fast as he could, using the high slope to increase his acceleration, praying that he would make it back before the vampires arrives. His heart froze when he heard the first of the many cries the night would hear. The first pack of them has arrived. Unsheathing his sword, he skillfully decapitated a vampire that was in mid of pounding at its victim. Standing up tall and determined, he announced as loud as he could, "Sound the alarms! The vampires has come!"

The night sky blazed in the bright mixed colors of orange, red, and yellow as the fire raised from the small village. The villagers panicking when the loud alarm rang. The surprise attack slowly overwhelmed the villagers. Taisho cursed as he tried his best to distract the creatures of the night while the villagers grabbed their family members and tried to flee. He felt his stamina strength reaching its limit. Even though he's been killing nonstop, the number of them seem to never depress. It was rare for vampires to attack in such a large number. They usually come in small packs that were in their on clans. Judging by their different appearance, this didn't seem like the usual case. Something suspicious was being cooked.

"Gah!" Taisho groaned when he felt piercing sharp nails dug deep into his stomach. His knees gave in and collapsed onto the floor. Painfully, he turned his head upwards towards his attacker. Taisho can sense that his attacker was no ordinary vampire like the others that he easily killed. Just looking at his glowing red eyes sent chills through his body. Struggling to get onto his feet once again, he lifted his sword.

"What do you monsters want?" The vampire merely looked down at him smirking with his long fangs showing.

"Control." The red eye vampire kicked the man down, then slowly circled him. "First the villages, then onwards to the urban civilization. There's nowhere anyone can hide, I'll have control of everything." The creature stomped onto the injured man's chest and chuckled when he heard the ribs creaking and the screaming sound of pain. He then turned, walking away while signaling at his servants. "They're all yours to feast on."

The loan figure emerged from the shadows of the forest, watching from a distance with piercing eyes. A frown pulled on her face. She jumped off the high cliff and rushed towards the disaster. As she arrived at the invaded village, she pulled out her daggers from her holsters and sliced through the vampires that were in her path, slaughtering them nonstop. She paused when she spotted a man that was struggling from being mobbed by the surrounding vampires. Grabbing many of her daggers, she took aim and threw them hitting at its targets, killing 3 of them. The remaining vampires jumped back stirred at the sudden new visitor. Their attention that was once on Taisho was now all on her. She smirked with her piercing fangs poking out. "Come at me boys."

The group slowly circled her, eyeing with lust in their eyes.

"Well hello there, what's a sexy vampire like you doing here?" One of them spoke up, daring to reach out and stroke her hip. He then hissed and clung on his missing arm, Kagome smiled sweetly with her bloody dagger in hand. The other merely dismissed what just happened and still approached her.

"Feisty aren't ya. Just the type I like." The lady scowled in disgust when she noticed their oblivious tent that spring up from their pants. "If you value your family jewels, you'll be smart to get out of my vision." She threatened with a low growl. They merely laughed at the comment.

"Really now? We'll see about that. Guys, it's time to have some fun." The gang pouched at her. Taisho looked away, cringing when he heard the sound of metal slicing meat. Even without seeing it, Taisho can feel the pain from the sound of the awful howls the vampires were making.

"You can look now." Taisho looked up and observed the damages. The vampires weren't dead yet, instead they were all moaning in pain holding onto their now missing manhood. He almost felt bad for them, almost.

"Who are you?" Taisho raised his sword once again in defense mode. The mysterious lady was staring at him calmly.

"Aim your weapon elsewhere, I'm merely just doing my job of eliminating pees." The man's defense never lowered.

"But aren't you one of them?" He question. There was no mistake that he has seen her fangs just moments ago.

"Don't compare me to those low levels." The both of them looked up when a loud cry was heard. "I am not your enemy. Go, I'll handle the rest of this." He watched as the mysterious lady headed in towards the center of the chaos, weapons ready in each hand. Nodding his heads as thanks, he rushed towards his hut where the scream was heard, praying to God that his family was still alive. His prayer was only half heard, when he entered his house, he saw his wife on the floor surrounded with a large puddle of blood with his son clung onto her desperately crying. The 5 years old boy looked up with tears streaming down his face.

"Daddy, mommy is...mom.." The boy chocked on his own sobs and was unable to speak. But even without saying it, the father already knew, his wife was dead.

"Inuyasha, everything's going to be alright. Don't cry." But even he knew that it was a lie. His wife was dead and his village was being destroyed. But since he still have his son, there was still hope.

"Ah, I thought I heard crying. Well isn't this a surprise. I thought for certain that you've been eatten by now." Taisho got up and pushed Inuyasha behind him to shield him away. The chill was back when he glared at the red-eye vampire. His sword once again up. The vampire didn't even blink and was looking quite unamused.

"I would love to play along with you but something unexpected has shown up and is ruining my plans. So I don't have time." In a flash of an eye, the beast pierced his arm into Taisho's chest. The beast drew out his claw and flexed them. "Now die." He dove straight towards the man's heart but stopped when he heard his name.

"I knew I smelt something rotten in the air. So it was you Naraku." Naraku straighten up and looked directly at her.

"Ah, if it isn't Princess Kagome. I should had known it was you that was killing my pawns." Kagome drew her daggers out and went into attack position. "Well it's going to be you that will be killed next."

Naraku merely grinned. "Perhaps next time princess. I must be taking my leave now." With that said, Naraku jumped up to the roof and blurred out towards the forest.

"Oh no you don't!" Kagome was about to jump after him.

"Wait!" Kagome paused and looked down at the man who was on the ground coughing up blood. "Please wait. I have a request. Please." Kagome was torn from going after Naraku, the vampire that she's been hunting for years, or stay and listen to the dieing man. Seeing the struggling man coughing up more blood and the child clinging onto both his parents, Kagome sighed and walked towards them. The man smiled as a thank you gesture. He then looked at his son.

"Inuyasha, you have to be strong now. Even without your mom and I around, you'll grow up as a fine man." The father shifted a bit until he took out his sword. "I'm sorry that all this happened on your birthday, but here take this." He handed his sword to Inuyasha. "This sword, Tetsusaiga has been passed down to me, now it's your turn. This means that you're a man now, and men don't cry. Heads up boy." Inuyasha wiped his tears and looked up as best as he could master.

This made Taisho smile. "That's my boy. Happy birthday son." The men then looked up at Kagome. "Please take care of him. Take him somewhere safe." Kagome didn't get a chance to protest when the man closed his eyes and took his last breath.

"Daddy? Daddy!" The boy bursted in tears again seeing that his father was not moving.

"Stop crying, didn't you promise you dad that you were a man." Kagome demanded with no sincerity in her voice. Inuyasha cringed at that and once again tried to put on a brave face. Kagome's eyes soften at the boy's struggle and sighed. She kneeled down on one knee and opened her arms out. She was getting soft on humans. The small Inuyasha hesitated at first but then ran into Kagome's arm desperate for comfort. Kagome let the boy cry onto her while she held onto his shacken form. It couldn't be helped. The boy was just 5 years old, anyone who had just witness their parents being slaughtered in front of them would react in the same way. Kagome held onto the boy until his sobs slowly turned into hic-ups then to slumber. She gathered the sleeping Inuyasha onto her arms and lifted him up. She looked down at the sleeping boy and sighed.

"What am I going to do with you?"

2 years later

Inuyasha panted heavily while looking right to left. His eyes widened and made a mad dash towards his right, merely missing from getting a dagger imbedded in his stomach. He felt tears slowly forming at the corner of his eyes. He looked up at the rustling bush and backed away from his attacker.

"Are you trying to kill me?" Kagome responded by taking out more daggers from her pouch. "Either dodge it or use your sword to reflect it from hitting you." Inuyasha looked down at his new sword tetsusaiga. Still unfamiliar with it, he took off the scabbard and held the sword in front of him. Shaking as he looked up at his master with terror in his eyes. Kagome took aim and threw the weapons towards him.

3 years later

The now 8 years old Inuyasha swung at Kagome with Tetsusaiga. Kagome merely side stepped it and kicked him down. He fell on his butt for the 20th time today. Inuyasha growled in frustration, he got up and swung at her in random furious swings. Kagome kneeled down and swung her legs across, doing a low kick gracefully, knocking Inuyasha's feet. This made Inuyasha's 21 time of falling.

"Focus boy. Never let your anger do the fighting." Kagome waited till Inuyasha took a deep breath and got up; focus in his eyes. Kagome smirked, he was learning slowly.

4 years later

It was a surprise for Kagome when she found Inuyasha practice swinging at the dummy. They usually train during the night because the daylight irritated her. So it surprised her to see him practicing on his own at the back yard. She frowned when she noticed Inuyasha dropped tetsusaiga and gripped his hands in pain. With the constant strong gripping of the swords, it was no surprise that his hands was full of blisters and bleeding. Kagome watched as Inuyasha reached for tetsusaiga again with shaking hands this time and continued striking the dummy.

It wasn't because Kagome was super strict but coming from her world, it was survival of the fittest. She did promise to take care of the boy so she was going to make sure that he'll be able to defend for himself.

Kagome found Inuyasha huddled in the corner of a room, secretly crying while holding dearly to his sword. Looking closer, she noticed that he was actually asleep assuming that he was having a nightmare. Recalling the date, Kagome frown. Today was Inuyasha's 9th birthday which also meant today was the anniversary of that day. Kagome scooped the boy up and placed him on the bed. She was about to return to her work but felt a tug on her shirt. Looking down, the boy was still sleeping, but was clinging on her shirt. Sighing, Kagome got onto the bed and pulled the covers over both of them. The boy haven't had comfort for years, it was the less she can do for him.

5 years later

Inuyasha side-stepped the daggers and swung full force at Kagome. She reached down and aimed for a low kick but Inuyasha flipped backwards, avoiding it. The both of them was sweating from the sparring. Inuyasha was able to defend himself from all of her attacks. Beaming, Inuyasha stuck tetsusaiga out and pointed it at Kagome.

"How's that master? I finally caught up to you." Kagome narrowed her eyes and smirked.

"I'll admit that you've grown, but-" Kagome flashes pass Inuyasha and did a round horse kick on his head. "You'll never reach to my level." She smiled down at the boy who was clinging onto his head from pain.

"Never let your guard down during a fight." Inuyasha scrowled at his master but got back on his feet.

"It's not over yet master. I'll beat you in the next round." Kagome smile dropped when she heard that. Unfortunly it was almost over. Inuyasha can now defend himself against the world, her job was finished. She had delay the chase of Naraku for 5 years and she surely couldn't bring a young boy along with her, the trail ahead was deadly. She did not want Inuyasha to face danger.

That night, Kagome knocked Inuyasha's on his head till he lost conciousness during a sparring. She then gathered him in her arms. She looked down from the high cliff, down at the beaming lights of civilization. Making sure to hide her face with a hood, she rushed down towards the lights. After 30minutes of running, Kagome slowed down in front of a door. Laying the unconsious sleeping boy down, she kissed the boy on his forehead.

"Goodbye Inuyasha, until next time." Kagome smile sadly. She then rang the door bell and rush off.