"This makes no sense…" he mused. They all turned their heads toward him with questioning looks. "-I mean, why the demons would just attack. From what I heard everything was okay no tension, nothing." Taro turned back to them.
"Taro, there was one thing that was maybe a cause. The destruction of the Shikon Jewel." Okono stated. Then Cat and Shini thought and nodded in agreement.
"It's true the demon's mad dash to get as many jewel shards as they could, cause destruction of many villages, and millions of deaths…Wait a minute!" Cat mused then exclaimed, "But those are only reasons for the humans to attack the demons not the demons on the humans." At this point Taro was even more confused.
"Wait, what is this Shikon Jewel?"
They all looked at Taro with amazement. "The Shikon Jewel was as to be referred to as the jewel of a million souls. It brought nothing but sorrow; it granted one wish to its holder. The miko Kagome accidentally shattered the jewel and whomever posses a jewel shard was granted lots of power. Five people went to retrieve the jewel shard and mold them back together. The group contained: the miko that shattered the jewel, Lady Kagome, a half-dog demon, InuYasha, a perverted monk, Miroku, a demon slayer, Sango, and the fox demon, Shippo. The half-demon Naraku became the biggest obstacle in their quest. Demon after demon they collected the jewel shards and though they didn't realize that the companions started to feel for each other, Sango to Miroku and InuYasha to Kagome and vise versa. After a long period they got all the shards except for one which was in the hands of Naraku after a tiring battle they got the jewel shard and the jewel became one. Then the jewel afraid of the even more powerful miko, Lady Kagome, it brought her into the jewel to continue the fight inside the jewel between good and evil. But the half-demon, InuYasha used his great sword to find her. Together they rid the world of the jewel and she returned to her own world and he to his. That is the entire story that is known to us."
Taro realized that the journal that he found belonged to his mother and it was their adventures. Then he couldn't help but marvel that his mild mother was the bold miko. Then a single thought occurred to him that he missed his mother.
Taro stood in a field near the well from the earlier, he heard a rustling and then a girl that looked like his mother burst out of bush. "I can't believe him!" she fumed. She trudged to the well and jumped down then there was a flash of light, then someone else came through the bushes and boy with white hair just like his, "She can't just walk away, and I'm going after her!" He too jumped down the well and then was followed a flash of light.
Taro thought to himself, There is something here I'm supposed to be noticing. Next he found himself in the room from the shrine. The girl was sitting on the floor leaning on her bed. The window slid open and in crawled the white hair boy from before. Once the girl saw him she looked away. Seeing this he went to a corner of her room and sat watching her. "InuYasha, go away." She said irritably. He merely blinked and wagged his head no. "Come on Kagome, let's go back. We're so close, and then I can be a fully fledged demon."
Taro watched as the scene fell away, Wha? He wants to be a fully fledged demon. A new scene in a cave appeared, the boy stood in a puddle of acid and the black haired girl, Sango, Miroku, and the fox demon hid under his jacket. Then the white-haired boy suddenly yelled out and his hair was flying everywhere and purple streaks appeared on his cheeks and what was most terrifying was his eyes were red. "InuYasha!" Taro turned to see the black hair girl run out from under the jacket and wrap her arms around his chest. Slowly the red dulled.
"Can you hold me a little longer?" He asked, and she nodded. Taro watched as the acid burned her ankles and he used his sword to send diamonds that tore at the wall. Slowly after a groan everything turned into stone and the acid disappeared, "Kagome we did it!" she merely smiled and started to drop to her knees but to have the boy catch her yelling her name. That's my mother? Taro thought.
Taro woke up the next morning to a man poking him with a stick, "Is it alive?" the man with what looked like black hair asked himself.
"Yes." Taro replied sleepily. The man backed up and looked at Taro's friends.
"Are they alive?" he asked.
At this point Taro was wide awake, "Yes." he exclaimed. The man stood back as they all woke up.
"You should get out of here. Trouble is not too far off your tail." The man said as he hopped off to a tree.
"Who are you?" Cat mumbled.
"People near here call me Inu." He replied.
Cat was about to speak when Taro interrupted, "Do you know where InuYasha is?" The man's ear perks up at the name.
"Taro, why did you ask that?" Cat whispered to him.
"Go along, InuYasha is all I have to go off of right now." He whispered.
"Sounds familiar." The man mused.
"Do you know where he is?" Taro asked with hope.
"Maybe, maybe not. What would I get in return?"
"How about your life, old man!" Cat threatened.
He pondered for a moment, "Not valuable enough." After that everyone felt a teardrop fall on their heads. "How about food, you can only get so far off of corpses"
After that everyone stepped back a few couple yards, "You eat people!" Cat exclaimed.
"Nah, just their rations." He replied and they all felt relieved. The man jumped down and landed perfectly on the ground then Taro's eyes caught a familiar glimmer and saw he too had a sword and it looked similar to his own. The man too seemed to notice that their swords were similar. "Your sword, boy, it looks familiar."
"Your face is familiar for some reason." Taro mused.
Suddenly the man's head turned down the road and a growl rolled up his throat, "I sense the trouble nearing." He started trudging down the road. "Follow me if you dare. I don't recommend it." Taro was about to follow when both Okono and Cat grabbed both his arms.
"Taro, he's right. Wherever he's going is even deeper into demon territory." Cat growled.
"But, he has valuable information we could use." Taro continued and pulled his arms out of their grasps and continued.
"I can't go into demon territory." Shini whimpered.
"Stay back; we'll call you if we need you." Cat said as she ran after Taro. Okono looked at Shini and nodded then her back, and then he ran after both Taro and Cat.
The three followed behind the strange man when the man broke the silence, "You were asking about the half-dog demon, InuYasha." He pondered for a few moments then continued, "Human army general if I remember correctly. The past through here five seasons ago, terrible war waged for another year. I served in that army, then InuYasha's captains suggested since there were already too few of us already that we merely do an all full scale attack. He disagreed with this tactic but having it been his only choice he decided to launch the attack at dawn. We were all slaughtered, few of us escaped including me. Last place I saw him was near a cliff of the mountain fighting their general, and that is all I remember." He shuddered and then another silence fell on the group.
"My father fought in that battle and died, though I don't really know who he is either." Cat said sadly.
"Well that doesn't help me memory!" he said. "My memory has been shattered since that battle; sure I've been picking it up piece by piece. Then again it's the only way I have been surviving."
"Sir, did you know the General InuYasha personally?" Okono asked.
The man pondered for a few seconds then replied while sighing, "Yes, I remember me and him thought so much alike. I was one of his advisers." The man paused in his steps then looked up, Taro and the others did the same and saw a curvy path to a break in the mountains. "Up there is where the battle was. Go look and I will make camp down here."
Taro nodded to the old man and started up the path. After a few minutes Taro noticed Cat was unusually quiet. He turned toward her. "What's wrong, you haven't said a word since we started following Inu."
Her eyes turned down to the road and then she spoke, "That old geezer unnerves me. There's something ominous about it him. I can feel it for some reason, something too familiar." Taro couldn't help, but realize he felt it too. Taro cleared his mind again, those thought wouldn't get him anywhere. The slowly approached the pass. But what they found was more disturbing than they thought.
