Author-chan's notes: HI EVERYONE!!! Can you believe it? I am writing a new chapter!!! YIPEE!!! GO ME!!!!!!! Anyway, enjoy the new chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. But I wish I did. His ears are so cute!!!!!! Sometimes I dream that I have cute doggy ears like him! ^_^ (*And please remember that Mira, Takashi, and Bara are my original characters, and you cannot use them without my permission. *)
* Important Note! Must Read! *: Okay, this chapter takes place a few weeks after the first one. The setting in the beginning of this chapter is just outside the walls of the village that Akiko, Mira, and Bara live. The setting will change later in this chapter so pay attention!
The Golden Stare of My Brother
(Chapter Two: Takashi)
"Hey, you!" a voice yelled. Mira turned to face a boy a few years older than her. More children, ranging from ages 7 through 10, surrounded him.
"Are you talking to me?" Mira asked.
"I don't see any other purple eyed freaks around," the ringleader sneered. Several other children snickered with him. One boy in the group (one of the children that didn't laugh) glared at the ringleader.
"Stop being mean, Onii-chan," the new boy said.
"Shut up, Takashi!" the ringleader snapped, "Everyone knows that she's a freak. She's probably a youkai!"
"That's not true!" Mira cried, "Okaa-san and I just have purple eyes! We're not youkai!"
"Then what are you? A witch? A dark miko?" the ringleader sneered.
"No! No!" Mira cried, backing away from his hungry, bloodthirsty eyes.
"Onii-san! Stop it! You're scaring her!" Takashi cried, tugging at his brother's sleeve, "Let's go home. You're not playing nice."
"Shut up, Takashi!" the ringleader snarled, hitting his brother. Takashi fell on the ground.
"Are you alright?" Mira asked, rushing over to help Takashi.
"Yeah," Takashi mumbled, rubbing the cheek that his brother hit.
"Why did you do that? He's your brother!" Mira yelled at the ringleader.
"Why do you care, wretch?" the ringleader sneered, "You don't even have a brother."
"Well, if I did have a brother, I wouldn't treat him like you do! You're just plain old mean!" Mira yelled.
"Shut up, freak!" the ringleader yelled, punching her. Mira collapsed in a heap next to Takashi. Takashi put a protective arm around the girl. The two eight-year-olds held on to each other for support, as the ringleader raised his fist.
"Help us!" Mira cried out in her mind, "Somebody, please, help us!!!"
*A Few Miles Away*
"Help us! Somebody, please, help us!!!"
"What in the seven hells was that?!" Inutaisho asked out loud. Glancing around, Inutaisho saw no one except his traveling partner, Yuta.
"Something wrong, Inu?" Yuta asked. Inutaisho looked at his friend. Although Inutaisho would have trusted Yuta with his life, he did not trust Yuta with his name. Inutaisho's name was too infamous in Japan. He didn't want Yuta to run away screaming from him as if he had seen a youkai.
"No pun intended," Inutaisho thought with a slightly twisted smile. For you see, Inutaisho was a youkai. He was Inutaisho, the Great Demon of the Western Lands, one of the most powerful youkai living. And because of this, Inutaisho's name was respected and feared by both youkai and humans. So Inutaisho simply told Yuta that his name was Inu. Judging by the skeptical look Yuta gave him when they first met, the human did not believe him that his name was Inu. But Yuta seemed to accept Inutaisho's lie. After all, Yuta also had secrets of his own.
"Are you alright, Inu?" Yuta asked, "You blanked out for a moment."
"I'm fine, Yuta," Inutaisho muttered, "I was just thought I heard someone calling for help."
"I didn't hear anyone," Yuta shrugged.
"Still, maybe we should try to find out if someone really did call out for help," Inutaisho said. Yuta laughed.
"You really are man's best friend," Yuta said, "Only the most faithful dog in the world would go off to help a human who probably doesn't even exists." Inutaisho growled at his friend. Yuta teased him too much about his name. But Yuta was right about one thing. Inutaisho had an odd hobby for a demon: he liked rescuing humans. In fact, that's how he met Yuta…
Author-chan's notes: Okay, the next chapter is going to be a flashback, about how Inutaisho met Yuta. I read from somewhere that Inutaisho really is the name that Rumiko Takahashi gave to Inuyasha's father. So I didn't make up his name. Yuta isn't my original character either. He's from another anime by Rumiko Takahashi called "The Mermaid Saga". You don't have to read "The Mermaid Saga" to understand this fic. I'll probably tell you enough about "The Mermaid Saga" later in this fic for you to understand, so don't worry.
(Quick note: "Inu" means "dog" in Japanese, just in case you didn't know. "Inutaisho" translates into something like "dog general" or "dog leader". And you probably already know that Inuyasha's name means "dog demon".)
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