The Book of Sorcery
By: BlackShade
Updated:8/18/11
Discliamer: All of the Inuyasha characters are not mine, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I own the plot of the story and my OC's.

AN: Kagome, Kikyo, Sango and Miroku are all youkai in this fic.

Sorry for any grammar mistakes.

Ha! I updated the next day like I said!

An Old Story

Inuyasha was headed for the library, he uaually spends a few hours of his time in the library back at his mother's palace.

He read about all types of things. If it was in a book he read it, but his favorite books were the ones his mother kept about sorcery. His mother kept those in the private section of the library at her palace, where no one would find them. Did she bring any sorcery books with her to the western palace?

Pushing that thought aside he entered the library, but not before looking behind his back. He had this strange feeling that someone was following him. Maybe it was just his imagination.

He gasped at the sight of the enormous library. Then again he shouldn't be surprised everything here seemed to be huge.

There were hundreds of rows of books. No exaggeration!

"Everything, just everything." Inuyasha mumbled, referring to the size of everything in the palace.

He began to look around the huge library, surprised to find that a nice good portion of the books here, he read at his mother's library.

Then a particular book caught his eye. The most familar part being the sybmbol on the cover. It was the symbol of sorcery, made up of three circles each of the overlapping in the center, and in the center a small star. Under the symbol were words written in the language of sorcery.

Inuyasha's eyes widened, it was the book, the Forbidden Book of Sashiki.

Before he knew it, he was at the table, the book in his hands.

"This is it." Inuyasha thought, "the Forbidden Book!"

He was going to open it but a female voice made him freeze on the spot.

"Put that down!"

Inuyasha turned around to see his mother standing in the doorway.

"Mother-" He began, only to be cut off.

"Put that down!" Izayoi hissed in a fierce voice. Making him drop the book.

Izayoi held out her hand, the moment she did the book stopped, hovering a few inches off the ground. Before he could blink the book was in his mother's hands.

"What are you doing with this?" Izayoi asked.

"I- it... was on the table." Inuyasha stuttered, scared beyond belief. Why was she so angry? I can't be at him, can it? Over a book?

"Stay here." Came the soft command, as she went to look around the library.

Once she was sure no one was around, Izayoi returned to her son.

"I'm sorry, Dear. I didn't mean to scare you like that."

Inuyasha stayed quiet, giving no reply.

Izayoi sighed, she knew she had to explain her behavor just now. Even if she doesn't want to. She went to sit at one of the many tables in the library, gesturing for her son to follow. Once they were comfortably settled, she began.

"Inuyasha this book is very dangerous."

"How?" Inuyasha was confused. How can a book be dangerous, it was a book for kami's sake!

"There is a reason this book is labled forbidden Inuyasha. This book is surrounded in dark magic."

"Dark magic?" Inuyasha was shocked.

"Yes. The one who created this book, Sashiki, was a dark sorcerer. This book has every spell ever known to our kind, both dark and sun magic spells..."

Izayoi had gone on for the next few hours telling the story of Sashiki and his twin sister Sakini, the first sorcerers. Growing up Sashiki had been a very bright child as his sister both advanced in their magic teachings, only Sashiki was interested in the dark arts of magic while his sister was interested in the sunlight magic (also know as sun magic). Together they created almost all the spells known to sorcery.

As their lives progressed they became more powerful. They each grew up to become rulers. Sashiki ruled the west and Sakini the east. Soon they fell in love, Sashiki mated with a demoness and Sakini married a human prince. For a millenia there was a time a peace and prosperity. Until Sashiki had tried to enslave the human race, Sakini had tried to convince her brother otherwise but that turned out to be a mistake, for later on that day Sakini returned to the East to find her husband dead, killed by her brother. And in her anger she killed her brother's mate. That had started the war between the demons and sorcerers. The war lasted for centuries and it finally ended with Sakini trapping her brother in his own book, it almost killed her but the war was finally over, only for most of the sorcerers to be gone with it...

"Wow." Inuyasha said.

"Indeed." Izayoi uttered, softly.

"Wait a minute. I thought the lady of the east at that time was human." Inuyasha said, confused.

"That's what Sakini wanted everyone to think. She conceled herself, giving the appearance of a human. After a time she would change her appearance giving the impression she was her own daughter, to keep the charade of being human going. Even though a human may be a sorcerer they would have the same life span of a human."

"What happened to Sakini?"

"No one knows. Some say she was too weak after the last battle and died. Some say the left to heal and never returned." Izayoi answered.

"So you're saying that this is the book that Sashiki is trapped in?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yes."

"I still don't understand, isn't Sashiki dead?"

"No. He is very much alive and all he needs is a sorcerer to unlock the spell. Even though he is trapped he can still use magic but only a very weak amount."

Inuyasha stayed silent, staring at the book.

"Inuyasha, you must never open this book."

"Wh-" Inuyasha started.

"Inuyasha! Listen to me you must never open this book." Izayoi yelled, frightening her son.

"Yes, mother."

Izayoi gave him a hug and left the library, the book still in her hands.

Inuyasha stared at the door before deciding to leave. He needs to clear his head, this was a lot to take in.

As soon as the left Sacura entered having seen everything from the hidden aclove from above the library...

Hello again! I hoped you all like the chapter. I know it's short, but it's something.

Didn't have much time to edit so yeah...

So Sacura knows their secret! Will she reveal it? Don't know?

Thank you to those who reviewed last chapter! And those who added me to their story alerts!

Hint to next chapter: Sacura confronts Izayoi.

~BlackShade~