Prologue: Battle Royale

Year: 2010

A.N: This is an introduction to Battle Royale for those of you who haven't watch the first movie yet. For those who watched it… I changed the game by a lot… but of course, the main idea is still there. I personally didn't watch the first movie yet, but heard a lot about it.

I know this part focuses more on HYD characters, but as the story progresses, the focal point of the story will be on Inu-Yasha instead of HYD. I PROMISE!

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Battle Royale is a program that the Japanese government has designed and created for the common goods of the society. It is also a fast and profitable way of distinguishing the losers and the winners.

Once the program was created and evaluated, students of grade 9 were required to take an exam that occurred for two weeks. The exam was then broken into three parts: written, oral speaking and fitness. If any of the students failed one of the three categories with their marks ranging from 15-25%, they were sent to another school by the government in the following year. In there, they had the chance to redeem themselves with rewriting or retaking their failed category- under the supervision of the official examiner that the government sent to that specific school. If the students passed, they were sent back to the school that they attended. If they failed, they have to stay in that specific school.

That was the first step in determining the losers and the winners of the society of Japan.

The grade 10's of Etioku High was randomly selected from the list to participate in Battle Royale with a total of 48 students participating.

They were the first class to be sent to the slaughterhouse.

Parents knew about the program and those that went against the program were silenced- their children would be orphaned and were told that their parents died in an accident; of course, the government planned the 'accident' well. Surprisingly, many parents accepted the mindset and the philosophy of this program, even without being told what the government would do to them if they refuse.

With the new government in power, when each of the parents was a child, it was taught to them by their sensei that one has to earn glory, respect and honor by themselves- even if it means dying for a tedious cause.

After a while of 'settling' in the new school, the students were informed that they were going to a camping/hiking trip. The students bought all their necessities and extra gadgets that will help pass the time in the bus such as Discmans and snacks.

They realized something was wrong when the bus made a right turn of the tunnel to a highly secured premise. Dogs such as German Shepard barked at them loudly and violently when the students were forced to walk out of the bus in confusion as their two homeroom sensei pushed them, leaving no time for them to gather their belongings.

Soldiers walked along with them with rods in their hands and guns in their holster. A few wanted to run away, but the soldiers quickly clutched on to them with grips as tight as iron, making the more petite students winced in pain.

The calmer students started to question the soldiers, yet they were ignored and many of the tenderhearted students were silenced with the deathly cold glares that were shot from the soldiers.

One of the boys, Doumyouji Tsukasa, realized their questions were being ignored and did the inevitable thing- at least, coming from him; he punched an unprepared and surprised soldier across the face that stood beside him. That action was quickly brought to attention and another soldier struck his hands with the rod.

Many of the students feared the soldiers. How dare they hit Tsukasa-kun with such force? He was one to be feared by in school.

The soldiers tried to reform their scattered group of nervous students. After a while, the soldiers' task completed with threats of striking the students with their metal black rods.

The students were then brought to a caged room. In there, they were explained and were taught about the rules of the program after being gassed. Each student fingered a one-inch chrome colored collar around their necks that they couldn't take off no matter how many times they've tried jerking off. There wasn't even a clasp that provided a mean of removing it.

The philosophy of the program was the survival of the fittest.

The objective of the program was to survive.

The rules were simple; kill if one wishes to live and fight if the chance presents itself.

Each student was given an AK-47, a bulletproof vest, hamlet and their choice of two other hand-held weapons. After that they were sent to an island- an abandoned city, really and kill within the time frame of a week. If one were to refuse to compile and abide to the rules of such a program, the metal collar would be activated and in less than 30 seconds, one's head would explode. The base of such a program tracked each of the students, since their metal collar was also a tracker.

The students had two 'rest periods' per day for an hour starting from 12 pm and 6 pm. They can sleep in their hideouts at nights, but if caught by another student, one of the two students would not walk out of the fight alive. The announcer would wake each of the students at 6am by the earpiece with a thin microphone attached. Each of the students was also given a grace of 24 hours in their hideouts. After twenty-four hours, if they were still staying in their hideouts, they were given a warning from the base. If they chose to ignore, the metal collar would be activated with the means of decapitating its wearer.

The local news followed closely with the names of the corpses, their killers and the body count each night as parents watch with excitement. Parents called their child(ren) losers if they died. They were looked down by the society for producing such useless offspring.

After the week was over, only five students survived- Doumyouji Tsukasa, Hanazawa Rui, Mimasaka Akira, Nishikado Soujirou and Makino Tsukushi. Every night, the local news as well as the city TV of Japan talked about them, labeling them 'TF4', also known as Tsukushi and Flowers-4. The F4 were the guys, since they had built a reputation in Etioku High for being as pretty as flowers.

The pretty boys proved themselves to be more than just flowers throughout the program- as they outlived their comrades. The girl Tsukushi was rumored to be the girlfriend of Tsukasa- another rumor set off that it was he that protected her from afar and killed those who were after her, always staying the shadows so Tsukushi's life would not be in danger. She, herself was known to kill a few on her own as a self-defense, proving that her being a petite girl didn't mean she was useless.

However, when the soldiers were sent to retrieve them, they can no longer be found. The tracking system proclaimed them dead after a few days of fruitless searching. The government dismissed the idea of spending more of the taxpayers' money to search for the kids and ordered the soldiers to return, there was simply no point in searching continuously; besides, the parents didn't request for their sons and daughter's bodies.

However, the government overlooked the background of a certain boy in the TF4- that was proven to be a great mistake.

Hanazawa Rui was a bright student and truly a computer genius. He failed the oral part of the exam because of autism. He couldn't have presented the text no mater how many times he retake one of the 3 components of the exams.

The idea of Battle Royale had sprouted in the minds of the government fifteen years ago. They chose 'the perfect' urbanized island for the program to take place. They 'cleansed' the island by forcefully pushing its inhabitant out of their homes and leaving everything behind to the mountains on the outskirt of Japan.

The government didn't care about the assets of the island and left it there even when the Battle Royale was taking place. There wasn't a trace of a paper anywhere to be found- they made extreme care that all paper works were removed.

In an abandoned skyscraper, another mistake took place. The survivors traveled together on the ghost town to search for anything that was useful for them in their escape from Japan the hour after the Battle Royale had officially been declared over.

They found a laptop. Rui turned on the laptop with shaking fingers, hoping against all hopes it would turn on.

For the first time after a week of carnage, they smiled. Not only did the laptop turned on, it was high on battery and guaranteed wireless internet service.

Rui typed in a few keys here and there and got himself in the government program that held each of the tormented students for captive and 'modified' the tracking system. He covered his tracks well and just 'officially' killed them all- since the metal collar measured their body temperature; he just lowered those digits. By doing so, the metal helmets loosened their clasps and the metal collars of each of the survivor fell on the ground with a long high-pitched beep.

Had the ground found the laptop sooner, Rui would have been able to rescue most; if not all of the students' sanity. They would not have to kill in order to protect one's life. A few students were martyred by the metal collars that they wore and by the guns of students. Some students refused to come out of their hiding places; the others that were murdered by the guns of other students when they were discovered and refused to fire a shot, retaliating the brutal attack by the offense.

"Just kill me, please." Rui heard the girl's voice in his head. The others were talking amongst theirselves; the girl's voice in his head was louder, covering their voices.

She pleaded him with her mournful eyes. Her hands were caked with dry and still running blood; her fingernails were stained with a brownish hue. She plunged the dagger into the body beside her. The body was a male. His bulletproof vest was ripped apart- a sign of suffering continuous abuse of the AK-47. After all, a bulletproof vest can only take a certain amount of abuse, but no more than that.

"I… can't." Rui stammered, walking backwards and away from the girl.

A monotone beep filled the air.

It was his metal collar. The person back in the base heard his answer through the tiny microphone. The microphone that was under the metal helmet can only be removed on ten pm- their sleeping time.

"I fyou don't, I'll kill you." She yelled as she charged at him with the dagger that she ripped out from the body.

It was only instinct.

It was only self-defense.

The girl fell on him. The girl choked on her blood as she continued coughing blood on him.

"Thank you." She managed to whisper in his ear. His ear was wet. He didn't have to look to know it was her blood.

A putrid metallic odor filled the air, to the point it was overbearing his senses.

Rui looked at his hands, his right and left hands were still holding the handle of the short sword that punctured through her stomach.

The beeping of his metal collar stopped. A female monotone voice announced in his earpiece, "Tsukyashi Sakura #6 is dead. 24 are still alive. Hanazawa Rui's first kill."

He pushed the corpse off him and brushed her eyelids down tenderly with his hand.

He walked off. His face reflected the torment that he was going though.

He had never expressed his emotions in his life before that day. He was always known as the cold, frigid Hanazawa Rui.

He had declared before that he had no interest in other people's business.

How much he regretted saying that.

"Are you ok, Rui?" Tsukushi tentatively put a hand on his shoulder.

"You're still thinking about…" Mimasaka Akira's question was cut off by Rui's frozen glare.

"Yes, I was thinking about Tsukyashi Sakura."

"You don't have to hold it inside you, it will be a little better if you talk to us about it. We care about you, Rui." Akira patted Rui's other shoulder.

Rui stayed silent.

Soujirou and Tsukasa caught Tsukushi and Akira's eyes. They stared warily at a Rui that was in his own world that was full of sorrow.

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Theme Song: Hero

Singer: Chad Kroeger

I am so high,
I can hear heaven.
I am so high,
I can hear heaven.
Oh but heaven,
No heaven, dont hear me.

And they say that
A hero can save us,
Im not gonna stand here
And wait.
Ill hold onto the wings
Of the eagles.
Watch as they all fly away.

Someone told me,
Love would all save us.
But how can that be?
Look what love gave us.
A world full of killing,
And blood spilling.
That world never came.

And they say that
A hero can save us,
Im not gonna stand here
And wait.
Ill hold onto the wings
Of the eagles.
Watch as they all fly away.

Now that the world isn't ending,
Its love that Im sending to you.
It isn't the love of the hero,
And thats why I fear it won't do.

And they say that
A hero can save us,
Im not gonna stand here
And wait.
Ill hold onto the wings
Of the eagles.
Watch as they all fly away.

And they're watching us (watching us)
They're watching us (watching us).
As they all fly away. (repeat 2x)

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