Like 99.9999999999999999% (which is mathematically equal to 100%, by the way) of all fanfics, this takes place in a world that the author of the fanfic prefers to the the actual thing. This list right here is a list of the things that are different and things that I want you to remember are the same. The list contains mild spoilers because I like watching people react to spoilers. It's kinda funny.
My little OC is a girl dog yokai that InuYasha kinda "adopted". He's not really her foster dad or anything like that, more like her older brother. They were travelling around, then they stopped by Kikyo's village and she went around walking in the forest, fell in the well, and ended up in Japan in 1959. She lived in the streets for fifty years (she still looks like a little kid) before finding the well again, falling through, finding InuYasha again and meeting the rest of the gang, then discovering several pretty neat powers that I will force you to read about to find. Then Naraku tries to do mind-control and make her his slave because she has such powerful skills (she can even beat up Sesshomaru. WOW. I thought it was about time someone kicked his ass.) so she joins the conflict, while helping look for jewel shards.
Her name? Itsumo. It means "always" in Japanese. She's got silver hair, a little tail, and leaf-green eyes and she wears a green and kimono.
And here is the list.
I don't know what year in "real life" Kagome first fell in the Bone-Eater's Well, so here I will assume it's 2009.
Kagome is still a whiny damsel-in-distress that depends on InuYasha for everything and doesn't remember she actually has her own powers until he is almost dead. In fact, I'm using my dear little OC to make fun of her. (Yes, I'm a fan of the Inu-Kikyo couple. You got a problem with that?)
The Kikyo that the witch Urusae resurrected is still around. Outside of the story, I will call her "zombie Kikyo" and if I'm talking about something about when Kikyo was a normal person, I will just call her "Kikyo".
Miroku is still a pervert.
Naraku is nowhere near dead. Nor are Kagura or Kanna. Naraku will die. Kagura and Kanna might live, I haven't decided yet.
Poor Kohaku is still being controlled by Naraku. I'll save him by the end, though, don't you all worry.
Shikon Jewel? Shattered in about fifty million pieces? Check and check.
Sesshomaru, Jaken, and Rin will be around a good bit. Jaken will be more or less the same; as will Rin. The only difference with Sesshomaru is that he still has his left arm. I just felt like doing magical literary surgery. But if anybody can tell me what the fluffy thing on his shoulder is, please do!
I've only (gasp) watched the anime up to #94 or something and I've never read the manga (unless you count Wikipedia summaries). So if you think someone should be there that I've never heard about, or if you're wondering why so-and-so never uses a certain power, now you know why I can't help you. I'm waiting for the person I'm subscribed to on YouTube to get off their butt long enough to upload all the episodes before the staff swipes their account. And I can't read the manga because my parents think manga ruins your brain. In fact, I wait until 'round midnight to do any "forbidden" stuff on the computer just so I stay alive.
If I want to add a little comment inside the story, [I will use brackets.]
And here is the actual crap.
"Oh."
Kagome has just explained to me that the Bone-Eater's Well is a time traveling device and told me about Kikyo sealing Inuyasha to a tree for fifty years and a summary of the events that followed, including the shattering of the Sacred Jewel and all about Naraku. InuYasha's sulking in the corner. Miroku's hand is sneaking towards Sango's bottom, but she's too busy sharpening her katana as Shippo and Kirara watch Miroku's hand with a slight air of amusement. Kaede stirs a pot of stew. I don't really want to know what's in it, but at least it's edible. I think. Or, rather, I hope.
"How did you like the 'modern' world, Itsumo?" InuYasha smirks.
"Not at all," I snort.
"I thought so," he says in a gentler tone, and messes up the hair on the top of my head like he always did in the old days.
"Well," Kaede says, "Since the stew will need to, well, stew, for quite a while, I might as well tell a story."
"What story?" asks InuYasha warily. Miroku's hand finds its mark, and so does Sango's. Shippo sighs, like this has happened millions of times before, which it probably has.
"Have any of you ever heard of the Onyx Leaf?"
"No," we all say.
Kaede smiles. With her old, creepy face, eye patch, and the firelight, she looks really creepy. "A thousand years ago or more, a powerful priestess named Sakura [pretty common name, I know, but keep reading] found an ore of onyx jewel that held enormous magical potential, which means it could store magic and energy for an extremely long or indefinite period of time [corny, huh?]. She crafted it into a leaf, stored her powers in it, but died from not leaving enough in her body to sustain life. Her life force is inside that leaf, so it is an extremely powerful magical object that can only be used by the one it selects as its holder."
For some reason, everyone glances at my green eyes. Feeling uncomfortable, I ask, "Where's the leaf now?"
"It vanished. Nobody is sure when."
"That was a pretty short story," InuYasha mutters.
"And how do you know if the leaf picks you as its holder?" I press on.
"It will appear to you, but it hasn't appeared to anyone for a very long time."
Kagome gasps. "Itsumo! You're glowing!"
I look down at myself, and I see that I am surrounded by a green aura. "Uh… what's going on?"
The green aura gathers in front of me and makes the shape of a leaf. It darkens into black and solidifies until it plops on the ground.
"You jinxed it," Kagome says to Kaede in an awed voice.
I pick up the leaf and I can almost feel it vibrate from the energy inside of it. "Now what?"
"You go out there, and kick Naraku's ass for us, that's what!" InuYasha yells indignantly. "Come on! Let's go look for him now!"
"But I don't even know how to use this thing yet!" I protest.
"It is commanded by the power of your will," Kaede says.
"No more excuses, Itsy!"
"I don't know if you still remember, but I hate it when you call me that!"
There's a loud rumble outside. I sniff, and smell someone whose scent is a little like InuYasha's but isn't quite the same.
"SESSHOMARU!" InuYasha hollers, and runs outside. Everyone except Kaede goes outside too, and I scamper after them. Who the heck is Sesshomaru? And why does he smell like InuYasha?
At an open field not far from the village, someone with long, white hair like InuYasha stands in the tall grass, with a small human girl and some kind of freaky looking demon with a freaky looking staff. I think he's a toad. Anyway, the person who is apparently Sesshomaru draws one of his or her two swords. I think it could be a man, but, I can't tell from here.
"Who's that?" I ask Kagome.
"InuYasha's older half-brother," she says.
I burst into laughter, rolling on the ground. "That's your brother, InuYasha? He looks like a woman!"
"He can hear you, ya know!" he growls.
"Yes, wench, I can hear you," Sesshomaru says, and is here in a flash. "You will pay for that insult.
Time to test this leaf. I hold it out in front of me and say plainly, "Make him go away."
Green lighting shoots out from the leaf and pushes Sesshomaru right back where he came from. The girl rushes to him, crying, "Lord Sesshomaru? Are you all right?"
"Of course he is, Rin!" the toad snaps.
Where the lightning hit him, Sesshomaru's clothes are burned and smoking.
"Hey. Itsumo," Sango says. "Why don't you try something else?"
"Like what?" I ask.
"I don't know. Humiliate him. I could use a laugh," Shippo shrugs.
I talk to the leaf again. "Uh… make him look funny."
Pop! A small cloud of magical green stuff, and Sesshomaru is… in a pink kimono. [I think he had that coming for being such an egotistic asshole. Oh crap. Bad mental images.] Everyone on my side, including myself, burst out laughing their heads off, especially InuYasha. "So, first she calls you a woman, now she puts you in a kimono! How's that feel, bro?"
Sesshomaru just stood there with no emotions detectable in his face. The girl, Rin, stared up at him wonderingly. Jaken's eyes have more or less fallen out of their sockets.
"Let's go," Sesshomaru says icily, and with a sudden breeze, they disappear.
Everyone looks at me with new respect now, which sort of makes me a little uncomfortable. "Yeah, uh, let's go eat," I say hurriedly.
But the only thing I'm thinking about is weird things are going.
Yeah, this one is shorter cuz I got lazy with the detail. Next ones should be better. Love y'all. No, not really. I don't know you people. That would be creepy.
~Cindy
