Shinjite

by: Enchanted Kagome

Summary

Youkai now rule Tokyo. Five years ago, Kagome watched helplessly as youkais slaughtered her grandma, raped her mother and brutally beat her brother. She had long lost all belief in justice and hope. What happens when she meets one hanyou who's different from the rest? This is a story of belief and love, lost and found.

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Chapter One

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She ran up the stairs of the Shrine, with an growing dread tugging at her heart. She flipped open the door to find a sight she had thought possible only in nightmares. She watched in horror as a youkai advanced towards her brother and began pounding him.

"Souta!"

"Kagome, ru---" her grandmother's sentence was cut off by the youkai who was focused on Souta moments before. Her grandfather quickly moved in front of her grandma.

"Jii-chan!"

"Kagome, take Souta, and run!"

Kagome automatically reached for her brother and turned and ran, but not before hearing the sickening sound of blade against flesh and the scream of her mother as a youkai forced himself onto her. She felt Souta's hand clinch in fear. She ran until her legs refused to carry her further and fell down onto the cement sidewalk. The two siblings clung together, weeping their broken hearts out.

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Kagome jerked awake, clutching herself. It hadn't been the first time those memories came back to haunt the 16-year-old. She had never forgotten and doubted that she would, or could, ever forget. Nor had she and her friends been allowed to forget, even for a second, the power and supremacy of youkais.

She sighed. It's only 5:30 a.m. and she's already up. Stretching, she decided to "rise and shine."

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He's eyes narrowed as he watched them corner the poor schoolgirl and frightened the wits out of her. Even from this far, he could still here the frightened pleas of the girl.

"P-Please...what...are you going to do to me?"

"Shut up girl! You have no right to talk to us that way."

Inu-Yasha growled from his vantage point. The raven-haired girl heard nothing, but the sensitive ears and noses of the two youkais caught it all. He jumped down from the top of the building.

"Leave her alone," Inu-Yasha spat out.

"But...she's just a human, nothing special," one youkai said.

"She's my girlfriend, OK?" Inu-Yasha sighed in his head. He's been "dating" too often during the past month.

"Then...does that mean you're done with the other one," the other asked curiously.

The other one? Inu-Yasha wracked his brain. Which one was that again? Oh...right, the girl he was supposedly dating three days ago. He knew if he said he was finished now, they'll be off to harass her in no time.

"No."

"Then, you wouldn't really be off with this---"

"I'm a playboy, OK? You want to challenge that? You guys play around with human women all the time, so can't I?"

The other two muttered something unintelligible and scurried away after a quick bow. He sighed and turned around to look at the raven-haired girl.

"T-Taisho-sama...a-arigato," she said.

"Well, you're free from them now," he replied.

"...arigato," she repeated.

"Is 'arigato' the only thing you can say?" Inu-Yasha asked in frustration.

"...uh..." The girl let out a frightened eep. Inu-Yasha sighed. He finally understood. She was afraid that he will do something worse than the youkais. Turning around, he left.

"Eri!" He ears perked up upon hearing someone call to the young girl. (***A/N: You all thought she was Kagome didn't you?***)

"Eri, are you OK?"

"Well, looks like she'll be OK," he said to himself before taking off.

"Eri, who was that? Did he do anythign to you?" Kagome asked in concern.

"No. That was Inu-Yasha-sama."

"A Taisho? What was he doing here?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know. But..."

"I swear...if he did anything to you, I'll kill him!"

"Kagome! If a youkai heard that you'll be dead."

"You forget that they've already killed me five years back, mentally if not physically," Kagome replied coldly.

Inu-Yasha watched from his favorite rooftop as Kagome comforted Eri. His ears caught Kagome's promise to "avenge" Eri. He was intrigued. No human had ever dared to threaten a youkai, even when none were in sight. This girl will prove to be interesting. His eyes trailed the two girls as they headed towards their school, Shikon High.

"Kagome..." he whispered softly, memorizing the name.

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