Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyahsa. *sniff*
A/N: I know I should be working' on my other fic, but it hardly gets anymore reviews… -_-()
!! EDIT- 4/2/04 : This chapter has been edited. I realized that I wrote it over a year ago, so my skills were still a little choppy.. which just makes me angry, so I had to fix it... !!
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Kagome was walking in Wal-Mart after school with her younger brother, Souta. "C'mon sis! I wanna new action figure!" Kagome only sighed at his remark. Would she never get him home?
"Yeah, yeah. Let's just hurry! I gotta study for a big algebra test!" Kagome replied. "Just you wait 'til YOU have to do algebra….I'm completely confused!" She ranted on while Souta ran down an isle in the toy section. Kagome sighed yet again as she followed him down to see a wide selection of action figures and model racecars.
"Wow…. Look at how many they got!" She exclaimed in bewilderment as she started to look through them. "Batman…Spiderman…Actionman…What kind of a crappy name is 'Actionman' any way?" She said aloud as she peered through the masses of tiny figures in awe. She then glanced at her watch, her algebra test still on her mind. "Hurry up! I said I have to study and you're too slow! How long can it take to pick one out!? Just grab one!" She commanded.
"You see how many there are! Okay well… This one!" Souta said as he triumphantly held up a box with a man in it.
"Let's see," began Kagome as she took the toy from him. "It says here… Shikon hunter action figures… This one's Inu Yasha and he comes with his sword Tetsusaiga and this tree beside him…"
" Hey! It's the God tree!" Souta cried out as he peered at the tiny tree inside the plastic. It had an arrow in it and vines around it, like a cocoon of vines.
"What do you know…It is! Wow… Now they're making action figures out of legends…" Kagome said as she began to read the back of the box. "It says that you can put Inu Yasha in that vine-cocoon and put that arrow in a little indention in his kimono."
"Legend? You mean that's the same Inu Yahsa from the legend!? Too cool! Sis! I gotta have him!" Souta cried out. Kagome could have sworn that she saw Inu Yasha's ears flatten back on his head when Souta yelled, but she decided she just needed more sleep.
"Okay, Okay… He's just 1,000 yen anyway…" Souta jumped for the box, but she began to walk off while examining the new toy. He had platinum hair that was almost waist-length and shocking golden eyes that pierced through her soul. 'It almost looks like he can really see me…' She thought. He wore an old red kimono that was magic according to the silly legends of her grandfather. It was suppose to be fire-rat or whatever. The little toy stood about 6 inches tall. He had little silver dog-ears on top of his head, claws, and a tiny fang sticking out of his half-smirk. 'He's really kind of cute… Too bad he isn't real…' She thought with a slight blush.
She decided to look more closely at him later as she walked to the checkout. She bought it while Souta cheered and they were off once again. She held the bag that contained the action figure in one hand and grabbed Souta's hand in her free one as she started off towards The Higurashi Shrine that they called their home.
She made it there in no time at all and ran to her room to study. Souta went to his room and opened his Inu Yasha action figure up right away. He looked at it closely and his first thought was, 'Inu Yasha no ni-chan.. They've made figures in your likeness.. How cool is that?!' He ran his thumb along his kimono and long plastic hair, but stopped at his ears. 'Dog-ears.. I remember these..' He pulled the God tree from its confines in the box and set it up, but a piece of paper fell from it. "What this?" He said aloud as he opened it up.
"Inu Yasha… An inu hanyou who fell in love with a powerful miko, Kikyou… Though he was to become human for her by use of the Shikon no Tama, which was a powerful jewel that the miko protected. If it fell in to the hands of a demon, it could have devastating effects and power it up, but if the jewel was to be used for good, it could be completely purified and vanish. This is why Kikyou wanted Inu Yasha to use the jewel to become human…So that it would be used for a good cause and it would vanish and she could live her life as a normal woman with Inu Yasha…
"But a thief, Onigumo had fostered desires for the young miko, but was badly burned and confined to a cave, never to walk again. So he called forth youkai that devoured his body and he was reborn anew as a hanyou, Naraku… Onigumo had wanted to see the Shikon no Tama tainted with evil, so when he was reborn as Naraku, that desire and the desire for Kikyou still remained in his heart. Naraku took on both Kikyou and Inu Yasha's forms and turned them against each other. Thus, causing Inu Yasha to attack the village that the Shikon no Tama was held and Kikyou to seal him to a tree…The God tree… But Kikyou also perished that day, fore Naraku had dealt her a deadly wound and she was cremated with the Shikon no Tama."
'Wow! Sounds rough! So that's the legend, ne? I never heard the whole story before..' Souta wondered as he checked the other side of the page… 'There's more!?'
" But one way or another, though not for sure how, the Shikon no Tama resurfaced and was broken in a fight to get it back from a youkai. Inuyasha was freed after being sealed to the tree for 50 years and searched for the shards along with others who had faced many miseries in their pasts… Miroku the monk, Shippou the kitsune, and Sango the youkai exterminator soon teamed up with Inuyasha in the quest for the shards and united for a common cause… Kill Naraku…He was the source of their pain for one reason or another. But they weren't the only ones looking for the shards…Kouga the wolf youkai and several others joined in the hunt. Many youkai became enemies to Inuyahsa and the others, including their only siblings… Even the once dead miko, Kikyou was revived by an ogress, and even though she knew Naraku tricked them, she still wanted to take Inuyasha to hell with her."
'That's all of it! Woah… Look's like I gotta collect them all! Now I have to convince Kagome to lend me some money…'
"Souta!" Kagome called through his closed door.
"What!?" He demanded as he looked up from Inu Yasha.
"Dinner time!" Kagome called.
"Oh boy!" Souta yelled as he scrambled to his feet. "Gomen, Inu Yahsa no ni-chan, but I'll play with you after dinner, okay?" Souta said to Inu Yasha as he ran out the door and downstairs to the kitchen. Kagome was already there eating on the steaks her mom had prepared. She smiled as they continued to eat and she began to talk about algebra until her brother 'had' to interrupt.
"Gramps! You told us about the legend of Inu Yasha, right?"
"Yes. About the 1,000 year old God tree and the hanyou pinned to it?"
"Yeah, that's the one. Well you see he was pinned because his love thought he had betrayed her and attacked her, when it was really this evil demon, Naraku." Souta began to babble on about the legend and ended up having to do the dishes, while Kagome tuned out his blabber of the silly legend.
"I never did get a closer look at that action figure…" Kagome said softly as she crept inside Souta's room and walked over to Inu Yasha. She knelt beside him and saw the paper depicting his life…His legend… She read it and tears soon threatened to break through the barriers as her heart clenched in sadness for this boy that in her mind, was only a legend… She picked up the tiny plastic tree that symbolized the one on the shrine grounds.
"You never deserved to be stuck on a tree for fifty years…" She said softly as she choked back a sob for this poor boy and hurled the tree against Souta's bed. She saw his sword, Tetsusaiga, laying idolly to his side. She saw a bit of fur on the handle of the sword and she picked it up. She felt the fur and was surprised that it was fluffy and not plastic. She ran her finger along the tip of Tetsuigua and let out a small yelp when it nicked the side of her finger.
"It's sharp!" She whispered hoarsely through her tears. She couldn't stop crying no matter what as she stared at Inu Yasha and sucked on her finger. It was just something about him... She felt a strong pull in her heart just looking at him and hearing about his story... Yet, she felt something was missing. A piece of the story.. A piece of what happened. She couldn't place why she felt this way or what it was, though.
She picked him up gently with her free, unwounded hand, and held him to her gaze. "I don't even know you and I'm crying for you…Heck, you never even existed and I'm crying for you… What's gotten into me?" She choked out as she wiped her tears away angrily and stared at Inuyasha for a long time. To her, it looked like he was breathing and his amber eyes grew soft as he watched her cry. She frowned and decided she had just been studying too hard that night. She placed Inu Yasha down in a sitting position as she left Souta's room and headed for her own.
Souta got there about a minute later and picked up Inu Yasha. He placed Tetsuigua in Inuyasha's hand and went to fetch his other action figures. Inu Yasha was always the hero. In one scene of Souta's, Batman had gone evil and kidnapped one of Kagome's stuffed cats. Inu Yasha, of course, killed Batman with his sword after a long battle and rescued the cat. Then the cat turned into Catzilla and tried to eat Inu Yasha, so he had to kill the cat too. Souta made sure to yank its head off for good measure and throw around the stuffing also.
"Souta!" called Kagome through the door, as Souta was dancing a victory dance on the poor toy cat's remains. 'Uh oh.' He thought as he watched the door slowly open.
"Souta, time for bed." Kagome said as she opened the door all the way to see Souta with the cat's head on the end of a pencil. "Ahh! What did you do to her!?" Kagome cried out as she leapt for the head and tackled Souta down. "You know better than to go through my stuff!" She cried out as she got him in a headlock and attempted to strangle him.
"I'm sorry, sis. Me and Inu Yasha were just playing and it tried to eat him!" Souta defended.
"None of your excuses! Toys can't move!" Kagome roared loud enough to get their mom in there to brake them up and force Souta to apologize.
"Apology NOT accepted!" She screamed as she stomped back into her room and plopped down on her bed, the head of her stuffed cat still in her right hand.
"I'll never understand her…" Souta sighed as he, himself got ready for bed. He looked at the God tree, but decided not to leave Inu Yasha pinned to it. He was his hero, and wouldn't be defeated by a mere tree. He laid Inu Yasha down on his nightstand beside his bed. "Tomorrow, I'll show you the real God tree…And you can go to school with me too…We'll have lots of great fun…" Souta yawned as he clicked off the light and slowly drifted to sleep.
Kagome was now sitting at her desk once again. 'I should go to sleep…' She thought as she yawned. 'It's late and I have school tomorrow…And an algebra test!' She began to look at the book again, but found she couldn't concentrate without that toy's legend popping into her mind. It seemed so real…Like it really happened, though she couldn't put her finger on just why. Her mind drifted to all the things it does before she goes to bed.
Her old life…
Where they were a family…
Before her father died..
Now nothing was the same…
And she couldn't remember part of her life...
Her eyes watered at the last thought… Her mother had often asked her what could make her smile a gueniune smile again… She had just hid the sadness once more behind another fake smile and said, "But mother, nothing will every take away the pain." Then she watched in horror as her mother ran out of the room crying in her hands. Kagome had just looked on emotionless and blocked out the world. She never got over her father's death…The images would remain in her mind forever…
…So she had withdrawn from the world…
It seemed like something had happened to her.. Like a huge part of her was missing.. And to fill that void were memories of her father's death. But.. It felt as if her heart had been hollowed out and the very core stolen away by the wind..
She hid behind a computer screen night and day in hopes that the pain would ease… She read stories and fanfics about her favorite anime'. She never chatted though… She never felt like talking to people… She became quiet and shy.
Can you blame her? If you were in so much pain wouldn't you withdraw from the world and go into your shell? Wouldn't you regret being alive and sit and cry all night.
Then Gramps took away her computer… They said she was hiding… They said she was addicted to the Internet… She just thought it eased the pain…
She frowned at her thoughts as the tears broke free once again and traveled down her porcelain cheeks to trace her jaw line before hitting the ground. Once again she was crying…This pain she couldn't bear… She wanted someone to come and comfort her, yet she turned off her lamp and got into bed… The last thing she wanted to do was make anyone worry. She cried into her pillow, until a voice snapped her out of her fit.
"What do you have to cry about…?"
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A/N: What'd ya think? I promise it gets better.
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"So you mean there's more like you?"
"Yes." Inu Yasha replied. "We were put under a curse and I want you to help me, wench."
"Wench!?" Kagome whispered back hoarsely.
A/N: I know I should be working' on my other fic, but it hardly gets anymore reviews… -_-()
!! EDIT- 4/2/04 : This chapter has been edited. I realized that I wrote it over a year ago, so my skills were still a little choppy.. which just makes me angry, so I had to fix it... !!
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Kagome was walking in Wal-Mart after school with her younger brother, Souta. "C'mon sis! I wanna new action figure!" Kagome only sighed at his remark. Would she never get him home?
"Yeah, yeah. Let's just hurry! I gotta study for a big algebra test!" Kagome replied. "Just you wait 'til YOU have to do algebra….I'm completely confused!" She ranted on while Souta ran down an isle in the toy section. Kagome sighed yet again as she followed him down to see a wide selection of action figures and model racecars.
"Wow…. Look at how many they got!" She exclaimed in bewilderment as she started to look through them. "Batman…Spiderman…Actionman…What kind of a crappy name is 'Actionman' any way?" She said aloud as she peered through the masses of tiny figures in awe. She then glanced at her watch, her algebra test still on her mind. "Hurry up! I said I have to study and you're too slow! How long can it take to pick one out!? Just grab one!" She commanded.
"You see how many there are! Okay well… This one!" Souta said as he triumphantly held up a box with a man in it.
"Let's see," began Kagome as she took the toy from him. "It says here… Shikon hunter action figures… This one's Inu Yasha and he comes with his sword Tetsusaiga and this tree beside him…"
" Hey! It's the God tree!" Souta cried out as he peered at the tiny tree inside the plastic. It had an arrow in it and vines around it, like a cocoon of vines.
"What do you know…It is! Wow… Now they're making action figures out of legends…" Kagome said as she began to read the back of the box. "It says that you can put Inu Yasha in that vine-cocoon and put that arrow in a little indention in his kimono."
"Legend? You mean that's the same Inu Yahsa from the legend!? Too cool! Sis! I gotta have him!" Souta cried out. Kagome could have sworn that she saw Inu Yasha's ears flatten back on his head when Souta yelled, but she decided she just needed more sleep.
"Okay, Okay… He's just 1,000 yen anyway…" Souta jumped for the box, but she began to walk off while examining the new toy. He had platinum hair that was almost waist-length and shocking golden eyes that pierced through her soul. 'It almost looks like he can really see me…' She thought. He wore an old red kimono that was magic according to the silly legends of her grandfather. It was suppose to be fire-rat or whatever. The little toy stood about 6 inches tall. He had little silver dog-ears on top of his head, claws, and a tiny fang sticking out of his half-smirk. 'He's really kind of cute… Too bad he isn't real…' She thought with a slight blush.
She decided to look more closely at him later as she walked to the checkout. She bought it while Souta cheered and they were off once again. She held the bag that contained the action figure in one hand and grabbed Souta's hand in her free one as she started off towards The Higurashi Shrine that they called their home.
She made it there in no time at all and ran to her room to study. Souta went to his room and opened his Inu Yasha action figure up right away. He looked at it closely and his first thought was, 'Inu Yasha no ni-chan.. They've made figures in your likeness.. How cool is that?!' He ran his thumb along his kimono and long plastic hair, but stopped at his ears. 'Dog-ears.. I remember these..' He pulled the God tree from its confines in the box and set it up, but a piece of paper fell from it. "What this?" He said aloud as he opened it up.
"Inu Yasha… An inu hanyou who fell in love with a powerful miko, Kikyou… Though he was to become human for her by use of the Shikon no Tama, which was a powerful jewel that the miko protected. If it fell in to the hands of a demon, it could have devastating effects and power it up, but if the jewel was to be used for good, it could be completely purified and vanish. This is why Kikyou wanted Inu Yasha to use the jewel to become human…So that it would be used for a good cause and it would vanish and she could live her life as a normal woman with Inu Yasha…
"But a thief, Onigumo had fostered desires for the young miko, but was badly burned and confined to a cave, never to walk again. So he called forth youkai that devoured his body and he was reborn anew as a hanyou, Naraku… Onigumo had wanted to see the Shikon no Tama tainted with evil, so when he was reborn as Naraku, that desire and the desire for Kikyou still remained in his heart. Naraku took on both Kikyou and Inu Yasha's forms and turned them against each other. Thus, causing Inu Yasha to attack the village that the Shikon no Tama was held and Kikyou to seal him to a tree…The God tree… But Kikyou also perished that day, fore Naraku had dealt her a deadly wound and she was cremated with the Shikon no Tama."
'Wow! Sounds rough! So that's the legend, ne? I never heard the whole story before..' Souta wondered as he checked the other side of the page… 'There's more!?'
" But one way or another, though not for sure how, the Shikon no Tama resurfaced and was broken in a fight to get it back from a youkai. Inuyasha was freed after being sealed to the tree for 50 years and searched for the shards along with others who had faced many miseries in their pasts… Miroku the monk, Shippou the kitsune, and Sango the youkai exterminator soon teamed up with Inuyasha in the quest for the shards and united for a common cause… Kill Naraku…He was the source of their pain for one reason or another. But they weren't the only ones looking for the shards…Kouga the wolf youkai and several others joined in the hunt. Many youkai became enemies to Inuyahsa and the others, including their only siblings… Even the once dead miko, Kikyou was revived by an ogress, and even though she knew Naraku tricked them, she still wanted to take Inuyasha to hell with her."
'That's all of it! Woah… Look's like I gotta collect them all! Now I have to convince Kagome to lend me some money…'
"Souta!" Kagome called through his closed door.
"What!?" He demanded as he looked up from Inu Yasha.
"Dinner time!" Kagome called.
"Oh boy!" Souta yelled as he scrambled to his feet. "Gomen, Inu Yahsa no ni-chan, but I'll play with you after dinner, okay?" Souta said to Inu Yasha as he ran out the door and downstairs to the kitchen. Kagome was already there eating on the steaks her mom had prepared. She smiled as they continued to eat and she began to talk about algebra until her brother 'had' to interrupt.
"Gramps! You told us about the legend of Inu Yasha, right?"
"Yes. About the 1,000 year old God tree and the hanyou pinned to it?"
"Yeah, that's the one. Well you see he was pinned because his love thought he had betrayed her and attacked her, when it was really this evil demon, Naraku." Souta began to babble on about the legend and ended up having to do the dishes, while Kagome tuned out his blabber of the silly legend.
"I never did get a closer look at that action figure…" Kagome said softly as she crept inside Souta's room and walked over to Inu Yasha. She knelt beside him and saw the paper depicting his life…His legend… She read it and tears soon threatened to break through the barriers as her heart clenched in sadness for this boy that in her mind, was only a legend… She picked up the tiny plastic tree that symbolized the one on the shrine grounds.
"You never deserved to be stuck on a tree for fifty years…" She said softly as she choked back a sob for this poor boy and hurled the tree against Souta's bed. She saw his sword, Tetsusaiga, laying idolly to his side. She saw a bit of fur on the handle of the sword and she picked it up. She felt the fur and was surprised that it was fluffy and not plastic. She ran her finger along the tip of Tetsuigua and let out a small yelp when it nicked the side of her finger.
"It's sharp!" She whispered hoarsely through her tears. She couldn't stop crying no matter what as she stared at Inu Yasha and sucked on her finger. It was just something about him... She felt a strong pull in her heart just looking at him and hearing about his story... Yet, she felt something was missing. A piece of the story.. A piece of what happened. She couldn't place why she felt this way or what it was, though.
She picked him up gently with her free, unwounded hand, and held him to her gaze. "I don't even know you and I'm crying for you…Heck, you never even existed and I'm crying for you… What's gotten into me?" She choked out as she wiped her tears away angrily and stared at Inuyasha for a long time. To her, it looked like he was breathing and his amber eyes grew soft as he watched her cry. She frowned and decided she had just been studying too hard that night. She placed Inu Yasha down in a sitting position as she left Souta's room and headed for her own.
Souta got there about a minute later and picked up Inu Yasha. He placed Tetsuigua in Inuyasha's hand and went to fetch his other action figures. Inu Yasha was always the hero. In one scene of Souta's, Batman had gone evil and kidnapped one of Kagome's stuffed cats. Inu Yasha, of course, killed Batman with his sword after a long battle and rescued the cat. Then the cat turned into Catzilla and tried to eat Inu Yasha, so he had to kill the cat too. Souta made sure to yank its head off for good measure and throw around the stuffing also.
"Souta!" called Kagome through the door, as Souta was dancing a victory dance on the poor toy cat's remains. 'Uh oh.' He thought as he watched the door slowly open.
"Souta, time for bed." Kagome said as she opened the door all the way to see Souta with the cat's head on the end of a pencil. "Ahh! What did you do to her!?" Kagome cried out as she leapt for the head and tackled Souta down. "You know better than to go through my stuff!" She cried out as she got him in a headlock and attempted to strangle him.
"I'm sorry, sis. Me and Inu Yasha were just playing and it tried to eat him!" Souta defended.
"None of your excuses! Toys can't move!" Kagome roared loud enough to get their mom in there to brake them up and force Souta to apologize.
"Apology NOT accepted!" She screamed as she stomped back into her room and plopped down on her bed, the head of her stuffed cat still in her right hand.
"I'll never understand her…" Souta sighed as he, himself got ready for bed. He looked at the God tree, but decided not to leave Inu Yasha pinned to it. He was his hero, and wouldn't be defeated by a mere tree. He laid Inu Yasha down on his nightstand beside his bed. "Tomorrow, I'll show you the real God tree…And you can go to school with me too…We'll have lots of great fun…" Souta yawned as he clicked off the light and slowly drifted to sleep.
Kagome was now sitting at her desk once again. 'I should go to sleep…' She thought as she yawned. 'It's late and I have school tomorrow…And an algebra test!' She began to look at the book again, but found she couldn't concentrate without that toy's legend popping into her mind. It seemed so real…Like it really happened, though she couldn't put her finger on just why. Her mind drifted to all the things it does before she goes to bed.
Her old life…
Where they were a family…
Before her father died..
Now nothing was the same…
And she couldn't remember part of her life...
Her eyes watered at the last thought… Her mother had often asked her what could make her smile a gueniune smile again… She had just hid the sadness once more behind another fake smile and said, "But mother, nothing will every take away the pain." Then she watched in horror as her mother ran out of the room crying in her hands. Kagome had just looked on emotionless and blocked out the world. She never got over her father's death…The images would remain in her mind forever…
…So she had withdrawn from the world…
It seemed like something had happened to her.. Like a huge part of her was missing.. And to fill that void were memories of her father's death. But.. It felt as if her heart had been hollowed out and the very core stolen away by the wind..
She hid behind a computer screen night and day in hopes that the pain would ease… She read stories and fanfics about her favorite anime'. She never chatted though… She never felt like talking to people… She became quiet and shy.
Can you blame her? If you were in so much pain wouldn't you withdraw from the world and go into your shell? Wouldn't you regret being alive and sit and cry all night.
Then Gramps took away her computer… They said she was hiding… They said she was addicted to the Internet… She just thought it eased the pain…
She frowned at her thoughts as the tears broke free once again and traveled down her porcelain cheeks to trace her jaw line before hitting the ground. Once again she was crying…This pain she couldn't bear… She wanted someone to come and comfort her, yet she turned off her lamp and got into bed… The last thing she wanted to do was make anyone worry. She cried into her pillow, until a voice snapped her out of her fit.
"What do you have to cry about…?"
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A/N: What'd ya think? I promise it gets better.
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"So you mean there's more like you?"
"Yes." Inu Yasha replied. "We were put under a curse and I want you to help me, wench."
"Wench!?" Kagome whispered back hoarsely.