A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about the fanfic. Flames are allowed. Next chapter the story will have a big turn.
Kawaii Youkai Miko: Thanks for the review. At least I know someone had read it and liked it :-) . Fate will be nicer to lil' Inu soon, but not in this chappie; I know I'm mean...
Vocabulary:
o-ka-san = mother
Chapter 1:
The sun burned hot on his beaten body and his fine demon ears picked up the joyful songs of birds. He felt so worn out and tired, he couldn't even think on moving his clawed fingers nor opening his eyes. InuYasha just laid there feeling under him the barren ground and listened to the birds' music and the splashing of a nearby river.
'A river…? There wasn't a river near the village I spend the last days.' He thought and surmounted himself to open up his golden eyes. He laid in the middle of a big meadow with high grass - high enough to hide the little hanyou, even when the boy stood. With effort InuYasha sat on the ground and looked up to the sky shielding his eyes against the bright rays of the sun. He couldn't believe it, the sky was everything else than grey and rainy. It looked like a wonderful summer day and so felt it – it was really hot. His wet clothes must have been dried by the warmth of the sun.
InuYasha twitched his dog-ears in the direction of the water splashing. Where water was, there were fishes. So he decided to use his claws to hunt for his meal – not that he had done this before – at least not successful. But this was better than starving and collecting berries that would still keep him hungry.
He gathered all his strength and stood up on his own shaky legs. Looking around he saw a big river and he instantly ran towards it, totally forgetting his tired body. When he arrived at the shore, he saw that the water flowed too fast. It was too dangerous even when he would have his whole strength. He walked along the water until it became slower and finally was able to enter the river safely. The boy waded into the cool substance, not far away from the save ground, and began to prepare himself for the hunting.
He placed himself facing the water rush towards him and held his hands only millimetres above the surface. Then he stood still not even jittering slightly and concentrated on the flow beneath him. The hanyou's breath slowed when his mind became free from disturbing thoughts and his eyes watched like hypnotised in the water. After some moments a big fish swam towards the boy. InuYasha saw the animal and waited until it was directly under his claws to dash forward with all his might and grasping past his prey. The boy slipped forward, loosing his balance and fell with his whole body into the water. Diving under he panicked and opened his mouth to gasp for oxygen only to allow water to flow into his mouth. With his claws he tried to grasp for hold just to find nothing but water around him. After a moment he realised that his knees had contact with the river ground. InuYasha groped with his hands for the stony ground. When he finally felt it he pushed himself up, entering the outside of the water. Still kneeing, his head looked out of the surface. He coughed and took heavy breaths trying to get all of the water out of his lungs.
Until he got to his feet again the fish was far away and out of sight. The child carried his tired body to the shore and fell to the land coughing. 'No fishing any more!'
"Are you ok?" an unknown voice asked concerned.
InuYasha looked up to the two little girls standing next to him. He sat himself on the stone and grass covered ground and took a closer look on them.
One of the girls, the taller one, giggled. "You have doggie ears."
The young hanyou didn't know what to say, but he didn't have to think about that very long. A mature female voice called: "Naomi, Sakura. Where are you?"
"We are here, o-ka-san." Answered the smaller girl and waved to a woman. Their mother approached the three children with a light smile that instantly vanished when she saw the boy's ears and hair.
"Girls, come here! At once!" Throwing a sharp glare at Inuyasha she added. "Stay away from my children, demon." Then she took a long wooden stick and pointed with it at the helpless boy.
Knowing what was to come the hanyou slowly rose to his feet and stumbled away into the high grass. When the girls hided behind their enraged mother, the woman threw the wood into the meadow, hitting the boy on his arm.
Holding his arm tight InuYasha went back to the place he had woken up. There he let himself fell down on the flat grass staring up at the sun. After some moments of rest he picked himself up again. 'There must be a village near by.'
He decided to give this village a chance - or more he hoped that this village would give him a chance. He would beg them for food; but he already knew their answers. But he was so hungry he even considered stealing now. His mother had always told him that stealing would be one of the worst things someone could do, except from murder a person. But hunger and despair drove him to this deed.
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Tree days had past and InuYasha still had only berries to eat. The villagers had caught him when he tried to steel bread from the market. As always they'd chased him away. At the moment the hanyou was sitting in one of the trees near the village. He looked down at the high grass that grew at the west-side of the community towards the shore of the river. Next time he will hide inside that meadow. Then his gaze travelled back to the market with all its delicious goods. One of the selling-tables was near the grass and no one except the sales clerk was there. Most of the customers had gathered around two wanderers who had entered the village some minutes before.
He decided that it was time to start another try.
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