Lone Wolf

I stand alone…..

By Crystal Arrow

Disclaimer- You will notice that there are a lot of original characters in this story, along with the characters form Rumiko Takashi's 'Inuyasha'. Please get it through you thick skull that I don't own any of the Inuyasha characters, but all of the original characters, which I am hoping you're able to discern on your own.

Chapter One: Where it all began…..

The story you are about to be told, began long before it takes place, about seventeen years before to be exact. It began in England, in the year 1983. By this point in time, most demons had been wiped out around the world, leaving a planet ruled by humans. However, some demons remained, lurking in the country side, living in secret worlds hidden from humans, who had now gained the power of advanced weapons which could kill even the most powerful of demons.

Though very few demons remained, the ones that did were strong and proud, which is how this story began. It was in the bare country of England where an English demon vixen gave birth to a single pup under the protective eye of her mate, a demon with the power of darkness tamed within him. With the sun rose the next morning, providing light for the demon couple to see their new child, they were horrified. The tiny child the vixen held had no demonic features or power emanating from her, the little girl actually looked and smelled every bit like a human. She was human! The demon couple was horrified by the child, and scared of what their demon neighbors would say when they saw them with a human child.

After much debate between the couple, the father made a deal with the teary eyed new mother, to get rid of the child. The kitsune stayed behind as her mate flew away, as far as he could get with his newborn child. From England, he flew all the way to Japan where no one would identify his or his mate's traits in the child, him being a rather well known and powerful demon in England. By the time he made it to a city, the child was shivering and cold, huddling close to him for warmth. He ignored the tearing of his heart as his daughter he would never know cried out to him as he left her on a park bench in the middle of Tokyo. He quickly disappeared from Tokyo, leaving the shivering child alone with nothing but a thin blanket in the cold nights of spring in Japan.

It was not until late dawn when a man going for an early morning jog came across the freezing newborn. In shock of who would leave a newborn out alone on such a cold day, he ran the child to the nearest hospital where she was placed in a heated incubator for warmth. She was all over then news, the cute foreign baby left abandoned in the park that needed a loving family. She got sympathy from nearly everybody in Tokyo, but no home. After a few months of being passed from nurse to nurse to be cared for, the child was sent to an orphanage.

Over the years, the little girl grew as she was passed from orphanage to orphanage all over Japan. She would happily congratulate her friends when they were adopted into living families, then cry every night in despair and longing for a home. She had no name, for no one ever named her, she was called child, baby, girl, orphan and countless other names that could be used for any other orphan, yet when used by the other children or nurse maids at the orphanage, they always knew it was her being spoken of.

As the girl reached four, she began to be separated from the other the other orphans for they constantly teased and mocked her for not being wanted, and because she looked different. Her eyes ere green and large, which was very odd, and her hair was very curly. The other girls didn't play with her and often forced her out of the bed chambers or shower rooms resulting in her sleeping alone in the halls without a blanket and becoming rather dirty from lack of being cleaned. Despite all of this, she smiled at the other girls, and always wished them a happy future in their new homes.

At five years old, the girl ran away from the eleventh orphanage she'd been at. She climbed from the third floor windows just before dusk and ran towards the city. She didn't know why she didn't just run towards the country side, no one would ever bother her there, but she felt that her future would lie in that city. She went unnoticed by all of the caretakers, so no one came to look for her when the sun rose the following morning revealing her alone and scared in the shadows of an ally as gangsters searched for her, wanting to have some with the innocence of this child that intruded upon their street in the slums of the city.

It was approximately seven o'clock in the morning when a couple turned into the street the gang claimed as their territory. The woman was tall for a woman, and had a regal look to her. Her husband was taller than her, and also had a regal feel to his image. In fact the woman was descended from a line of powerful priestesses and her husband a descendent of one of the advisors to the emperor of Japan some where back in time. The woman, Ayaka, was in her early thirties. Her husband, Kazuki, was a few years older than her. As Ayaka and Kazuki walked down the empty street, Ayaka was crying on Kazuki's shoulder in desperation, for they were returning from the hospital after their seventh try on having a child. For the past ten years, this Japanese couple had been trying to have a baby, but each time Ayaka became pregnant, the child would either die just moments after birth, or die in miscarriage. The doctors had actually begun to suggest that the couple give up on having children, for it seemed impossible for them. Two nights ago, their seventh child died exactly fifteen minutes after birth, for reasons yet to be identified, which brought Ayaka and Kazuki to their present location on the gang's street on their way home.

Walking silently down the street, they were confronted by four teenage boys with Mohawks, tattoos, baggy clothing and piercing in the oddest and most disturbing places. They began to threaten to rape and kill Ayaka if Kazuki didn't give them all of his money and just turn away and leave his wife to them. Teary eyed, Ayaka hid behind Kazuki as he lowered himself into a fighting stance before the four boys. With a deathly glare, the most fearsome looking of the gangsters called out to unseen members of the gang. From out of windows, doorways and allies, more gangsters crowded the narrow street. Within a minute, Kazuki and his wife were surrounded by twenty some fearsome looking teenagers and adults, all glaring at him.

From behind a garbage can, the orphan girl peered at the couple that now obtained the full attention of the gang. She was scared for them, but scared for herself as well. She stayed quietly hidden in the darkness as some of the closer standing gang members charged at the man defending his wife. She gasped as he easily defeated all of them. Kazuki was strong, and fast, but that was not enough to defeat an entire gang of street fighters. Soon enough, all of the gang had leapt into the fray in the middle of the street. The orphan was scared. She heard the woman yelling out in protest and the grunting of the man as he fired blow after blow to offending gangsters.

After a few minutes, the weaker of the gang members lay strewn about the street unconscious or in serious pain. Only a few remained fighting the man in the middle. His wife had retreated, and stood several feet away, clutching her hands over her heart in prayer for her husbands safety. Suddenly, the orphan caught a glimpse of one of the gangsters pulling out a gun a an army knife being flicked out. It was in this split second that the orphan made the one decision that would decide her future, she sealed her fate in one moment of true bravery and courage, that proved her to be more than any mere human, she was a demon child.

The man with the gun stepped slightly out of the way of the fighting and aimed his weapon at Kazuki's chest. Just before he pulled the trigger, the orphan girl jumped out of behind the garbage can and yelled out, "Hey, street scum, coward, stop picking on the innocent! If you need a still target for your horrid aim, I'M RIGHT HERE!!!" In that moment, everyone stopped as the gunman turned around to the girl that dared insult him so. He raised the gun to aim at the child's heart and fired three consecutive shots from center, to left, to right. Kazuki ran forward and rammed the man into the ground before he could fire more. All three shots hit the girl, but she didn't flinch as each bullet went straight through her thin chest, each just narrowly missing her heart. Ayaka cried out in fear as the two remaining men ran towards the girl that shed no blood.

With the gunman knocked unconscious, Kazuki knocked out the man closer to him before he could run to the child. The last man ran to the orphan and hit her hard against the back of the head. She fell unconscious to the floor as he prepared to stab her, but he never did, for as he raised the army knife over the child, he fell over dead, with a bullet in his brain.

Kazuki and Ayaka ran to inspect the child that had been shot, only to find, there were no wounds to her chest, not even a hole in her dirty cotton shirt. All they found was a very thin scrape on her neck, as though it had been graze by a speeding bullet….which it had. It dawned on the couple that the child had indeed dodged the three bullets. They didn't know how, nor did they care, this child had saved Kazuki from being shot, which would have resulted in Ayaka being raped. The police and ambulance arrived several minutes later to find a street full of unconscious gangsters, and one dead one.

Kazuki and Ayaka returned to the hospital with the little orphan girl. When she awoke several hours later, she did not remember being shot at, but only being saved from the dangerous gang by this really nice man and his wife that now stayed by her bed side. Then, when the child told Kazuki and Ayaka that she was an orphan that had run away from the orphanage, the couple immediately went to the orphanage. They met with the manager of the orphanage, who kept trying to apologize for not keeping a good eye on the child, which was now asleep in the bed chambers.

After much debate with a doubtful manager, Kazuki and Ayaka told him that it did not bother them that the girl had gotten ,out for it had given them a chance to meet her. So, after a few hours, the couple left the office smiling, for they were finally parents. They had adopted the little orphan girl that nobody wanted, for they fell in love with her that morning.

So when the girl was told the great news, and led to the couple waiting for her out front, she was greeted, for the very first time in her life, with open arms. They were in the front courtyard of the orphanage, with their car parked in the drive a distance away. The day had passed and the sun was beginning to set, tinting the sky in beautiful shades of pink, orange and purple.

Ayaka knelt before her new daughter, smiling happily. She held the girl's hands within her own as she introduced herself and her husband to the little girl. Still smiling warmly, Ayaka asked, "Now, my little one, what is your name?"

"I don't have one." she answered politely.

Kazuki frowned. Slightly worried, Ayaka asked, "don't you remember it?"

"I've never had one," the little girl answered again, "No one ever named me, but you can call me orphan, that's what they know me as."

"Why, that's simply terrible," Kazuki said frowning, he then smiled, "We're just going to have to give you a name."

"I know the perfect name." Ayaka said smiling. Kazuki kneeled beside her, and she whispered something into his ear. He smiled and nodded in approval. "You're name, my precious one, if you so desire, will be Aiko."

They waited for an answer from their daughter. For the first time, they saw her smile at them. " I'd love to be you're little Aiko!" she cried, jumping into their waiting arms. So, little Aiko, with absolutely no possessions except for the cotton shirt and skirt she wore hugged her new parents, crying in her joy as they held her close. She finally had a family, she finally had a name, now she must face her future.

Author's note:

Okay, I finally got the first chapter done. Finally! This chapter was more like a story being told, the following chapters will be more like present time, happening right now. Oh, and for the rating, the story may not seem so bad, but I don't know about the issues in here, and eventually, there's going to be some bad potty mouths, so, just for future reference. Please review, I love to know I have support.

~Crystal Arrow