Facing My Past
Summary: After Naraku goes into hiding InuYasha and his friends decided to enjoy a short rest back at Kaede's village. But that is cut short when a man with an unsettling connection to InuYasha's past comes seeking aid.
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha. The works of Rumiko Takahashi inspired this story. I own only my original characters that will be added in later.
I am Rewriting this Story!
InuYasha's Past
Once InuYasha was away from Hideaki's meeting hall he stopped and took a deep, shuddering breath as the tension in his shoulders melted away. He had talked a good game but as Kagome had once said, could he back it up?
Hideaki had always been a source of terror for InuYasha when he was a child. You would think that a child only a year and few months older then another child couldn't do anything but Hideaki had had guards and servants on his side and he had had only his mother, his beautiful, kind, loving mother.
InuYasha closed his eyes and his mother's face came to the forefront of his mind. Her loving smile and her tear filed eyes.
InuYasha shook his head and huffed then continued toward where his pack would be rooming for the night.
He came up to the room that had Kagome's scent coming from it and stopped. They were taking.
"I wonder what's taking InuYasha so long." InuYasha's ears perked up when Kagome's melodic voice reached them. He always loved her voice.
"I'm sure he's alright," Sango said. "InuYasha can take care of himself."
He could imagine Kagome agreeing while bighting her bottom lip in worry.
"Usually that's true." Miroku commented.
"Usually?" InuYasha thought with a bland look on his face.
"I'm sure we've all noticed that InuYasha had been a little more uh… tense… I suppose."
"Yeah!" Shippo said. "He's been way to quiet and serious. It's not like him. Kind of creepy."
It was then InuYasha slammed the door open with an outraged expression on his face.
"Creepy am I?" He shouted and then commenced to chasing Shippo around the room.
"WHAAAAA! KAGOME HELP!"
Kagome sighed as InuYasha attempted to catch the kit as they circled around her screaming. "MAD DOG! MAD DOG!"
"I'LL SHOW YOU MAD DOG!"
Finally Kagome couldn't take it and just as the door opened to reveal a maid and Akihiko the young miko rose up on her knees and screamed.
"ENOUGH!"
With that the two demons froze, Shippo was held by the angry half demon by his fluffy tail, and InuYasha was watching the miko he cared for with weary eyes.
She sighed and fell back to her bottom. "Thank you," she said before she looked up to see Akihiko and the other woman watching her with awe inspired eyes. The way she had tamed the demons with a single word impressed them and made Akihiko fall even more for her.
Kagome ignored the visitors as she got up and took InuYasha's hand.
"Come on." She said. "We need to talk."
Kagome lead the half demon pass the prince without a backwards glance, her eyes for the man whose wrist she held alone.
As the disappeared Akihiko watched them with anger and jealousy, How dare his future wife willingly be alone with such a dangerous beast?
Once the couple made it out into the night air InuYasha took his wrist from Kagome and then lead her to a garden he knew all too well. It was run down, the koi pond in the middle of the a walkway was dirty, the fish long since dead and gone.
The flowerbeds and plants were overrun with weeds. Weeds choking the snowball bushes, only the sakura tree was still standing, bigger then it was when he was child.
"Wow," Kagome whispered. "It's beautiful."
"Feh," InuYasha said as he moved to sit on the old veranda outside the rooms that were his mother's apartments. "It'd look better if they had taken care of it."
Kagome sat next to him as InuYasha looked around. He had look in his eyes, like he was occupied with is own memories.
"She always loved the flowers." InuYasha looked to Kagome. "These were my mother's gardens."
Kagome's eyes widened as she looked around once more with a new appreciation.
"Lord Hideaki was my mother's younger brother."
Kagome looked down and then up at her friend. "Then he's your uncle and Akihiko is your cousin."
InuYasha scoffed. "Yeah right they may be blood but that is all."
Kagome put her hand on his shoulder and he looked at her.
"What happed here InuYasha?"
InuYasha sighed. He never liked to talk about his childhood; he preferred to just forget it.
"I was born at my grandfather's castle at the other end of Hitachi province." InuYasha said. "They sent her there when they found out that she was pregnant with me. They were ashamed of her."
Kagome looked around and sighed. "I'm sorry InuYasha. That sort of thing isn't look on very well in my time either."
InuYasha chuckled. "Your parents would have still cared and supported you Kagome. Hers didn't. We were less the servants. Hideaki was evil, hell they all were. Mother, she liked play with children when she was small. Her mother hated it. Her father use to beat servants," he then looked to Kagome. "This family is evil to the core Kagome, that's why I didn't want to help them."
Kagome hugged the hanyo next to her. "Not all of them, InuYasha, you're mother sounds like she was the kindest person."
InuYasha smiled sadly and then held Kagome by her waist. Her scent calmed him even further; she always had the same effect on him.
"You know I'm here for you right?" she asked. "If you need to talk about anything I'm here." She then pulled away and smiled. "And so are Miroku and Sango."
InuYasha looked the other way but a blush warmed his cheeks.
"Yeah,"
Kagome looked worriedly at her friend.
"Being here has to be hard on you so if you need to talk about anything please tell me."
InuYasha looked over at her gratitude and love shined in his eyes.
"Well, living here didn't exactly leave me with good memories."
In a garden in full bloom, a small child, no more the five, played with a wooden sword his mother had bought him. The boy had dreams of following in his father's and elder brother's footsteps as a great warrior and leader. He had heard tales from his mother and had once heard a stranger speaking of his elder brother; the stories were always full of amazing feats.
The boy, InuYasha, longed to make his father proud of him.
The child swung the toy sword down as if he were cutting in the chest of an enemy. For once so young the hanyo had a natural talent when it came to the sword.
"Hiya!" he yelled. "Take that demon! I am InuYasha, the Prince of the West!"
So enraptured in his game of make-believe that the boy did not notice when another joined him in his mother's garden.
"What are you doing stupid?"
InuYasha twirled around with the graceful balance only one of demon blood could ever hope to obtain and when he saw who had intruded on his playtime the child's tan complexion turned white as the winter's snows.
There stood a boy with dark hair and pale skin. He was dressed in the fine robes of a Lord's heir with his inky black hair pulled away from his face and the eyes that he shared with his elder sister, InuYasha's mother, were watching him with a cruelty that would make grown men tremble.
"What do you want Hideaki?" InuYasha said. He had tried to growl the words but unfortunately they came out as frightened whimpers. Many times Hideaki had bullied, tortured and even nearly killed the child and only his mother had attempted to protect him.
"These are my mamma's gardens why are you here?"
Hideaki smiled as he walked closer to his younger nephew. Oh how he loved they way the half-breed trembled with fear when he was around. His father had told him that it was his divine right to torture his sister's brat for its mix-blood.
"I am the future Lord of these lands, hanyo, where as my sister is nothing but a yokai's whore."
"NO SHE'S NOT!" InuYasha shouted. He had heard those ugly words before from his grandfather and grandmother. He hated them and hated they way the made his Mamma's scent stink of sadness and grief. "DON'T EVER CALL MAMMA THAT AGAIN!"
Hideaki only smirked calmly. He was a true prince and as such he had been taught how to hide such ridiculous things as emotions.
"You want your mommy to be happy mutt?"
InuYasha was at a lost. Of course he wanted his mamma to be happy. She was the pretties and nicest mamma in the whole world she deserved to be happy.
"Yeah, I want mamma happy." InuYasha mumbled. It wasn't until he heard the sound of a blade being drawn that he looked up and suddenly his inu instincts where screaming at him demanding he run and get away from the danger before him.
"Then," Hideaki said with an ugly smile on his face. "Let me cut off those disgusting dog ears of yours. Then you'll look normal and Izayoi will be a member of our family again."
InuYasha whimpered as he stepped away from the human boy.
"No," he said. "Leave me alone!"
InuYasha made to run past the older boy when he was grabbed and thrown to the ground. Hideaki climbed on top of his sister's son and began to try to saw off the boy's ear.
"OW!" InuYasha howled like the dog he was as he tried to get away from the malicious child on top of him. "LET ME GO! MAMMA HELP ME! PLEASE STOP IT HURTS!"
Suddenly InuYasha's demon instinct took over the child lashed out raking his tiny puppy claws down the six year old's chest.
"OW!"
And then there was the sound of feet running toward them and his mother's voice shriek out in horror.
"What do you think you are doing?!"
Izayoi felt cold fear grip her heart when she saw her son and younger brother. Both boys were covered in blood, InuYasha being cover in it. It stained his beautiful silver hair.
"MOMMA!" the hanyo cried as he reached for her. Izayoi embraced InuYasha and she wanted to cry at the sight she saw. Her poor baby's ear was bleeding horribly. It hurt her heart.
"WHAT DID YOU DO YOU WICKED CHILD!" Izayoi screamed as she glared at her brother who was being coddled by their mother.
Hideaki was crying over a few scratches, not deep enough to kill but they would most certainly scar.
"Good." Izayoi thought has a mother's fury filled her heart. The monster that was her baby brother had hurt her baby, he deserved nothing less then scars and a lot more.
"Do not yell at you brother!" Lady Karin cried outraged. "Can't you see what that little beast of yours has done to him?" the Lady then held her son and kissed his head. "I knew we should have killed that monster the night he was born."
Izayoi stood and stepped in front of her son protectively.
"My child's ear has nearly been cut off! That wicked, evil child is worse then any demon!" Izayoi then stepped toward her brother. "If you ever lay another hand on InuYasha again I'll beat your hide as you deserve!"
"That is enough Izayoi!" Lady Karin screamed. "Take you bastard away I don't want to see either of you for the rest of the night!" Karin then turned to Hideaki.
"Come my precious son, we'll get those cuts cleaned and bandaged."
Kagome's eyes began to water as the image of a little InuYasha being so horribly mistreated.
"InuYasha I'm so sorry."
InuYasha didn't even hear her so entranced by his memories.
"That night," he said. "Mother and I were confined to her rooms. None of the healers would tend to me, even if my so called grandparents hadn't forbidden it."
Kagome shook her head angrily.
"That's not right how could a family do that to someone. A child!"
InuYasha smiled at her outrage. It was kind of funny since she was so small, like a kitten trying to be a tiger.
"She'd be a good mother." He thought as a picture of a little girl and boy, one with black hair and one with silver, one with puppy ears and another with normal human ears, and both with golden eyes. In his mind he saw Kagome. sweet, beautiful Kagome, dressed in a village wife's yukata and wrap skirt feeding them, hugging them, protecting them.
He brought himself from his thoughts.
"It was a good thing mother had always had an interest in the healing arts. She took care of my ear, of all my injuries and illnesses." He reached for the ear that his uncle had attempted to sever. "It didn't stop it from scarring though."
Kagome felt her heart break as she reached up for his ears but stopped short.
InuYasha sighed resigned to his fate as he lay down and put his head in her lap.
"It was the right one." He said and then he felt her soft hands on his ears and in his hair. The feel of them made a shiver run down his spine. His ears were always sensitive which is why he never let her touch them.
Kagome on the other hand was as gentle as possible as she examined the long healed scar.
"How could someone do this?"
"I'm so sorry InuYasha."
The half demon scoffed as he sat up and folded his arms.
"It ain't nothing." He said but when he looked back to the girl beside him and saw the look of absolute despair and pain. He quickly took her into his arms held her.
"It's alright Kagome. It's alright Kagome. Please stop crying, I hate it when you cry, just like I hated it when mother cried."
As InuYasha comforted Kagome and as she cried for the child he had been they were unaware of the angry, jealous eyes of prince Akihiko.
As the prince hid in his dead great aunts old rooms he had to restrain himself. If he appeared now, tried to save her from that, that… things clutches he could seriously hurt her and he couldn't have that.
Then he remembered what he had heard the half-breed say.
"How could my grandfather's sister bring such shame to our clan!" he wondered.
"Come on Kagome," InuYasha's voice pulled the prince's attention back to the couple. "Let's get you to bed, can't have my wench getting sick."
Kagome gave a water laugh and allowed him to pull her up and lead her back inside.
Once the two were gone Akihiko stood and walked out onto the veranda he looked over the decrepit garden and decided that he would speak with his grandfather in the morning.
One way or another he had to get his precious Kagome away from that foul demon.
A/N: Some fluff for InuYasha and Kagome and some angst for Akihiko.
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