Hey everyone! My name is Kristin. I hope you like the story! Granted I work on it at 12 midnight while listening to either my Inuyasha soundtrack, or my Good Charlotte/Simple Plan cds, so bear with me if it isn't always written great. Anyway, I would really love reviews, especially on how I can improve and if you guys want me to continue with this story, so please write me! Click either on 'Summit a review' at the end of this page, or email me!
Summary: Inuyasha never had friends when he was younger till he met Serenity and everything changed. But once Serenity is taken away from him, he loses the ability to love, and begins to grow deep with hate in his heart, wishing to become a full fledge demon for revenge. Now more than 50 years later, he still wishes that. Kagome's new friend, that may in fact be from Inuyasha's past, joins the group and brings back Inuyasha's suppressed memories. Together they try to help each other piece back their lost pasts, and heal from them too. Along the way they reveal their past's secrets. Hers possibly being the most shocking, from her identity to what really happened in the present. Secrets that change everything from the brewing relationship between Inuyasha and Kagome, to what they once thought to be the truth...
This chapter's summary: Inuyasha and the gang head off with their newest member in search of the crystals. Then end up in a village, with surprising twists and turns around the corner. Serenity can smell blood and hear screams from miles away. Just once of the advantages to being a dog demon. An advantage, but not a happy one. And an encounter with their not so favorite person may leave Serenity on someone's "Special" list.
A Travel to a Village: First meeting
"Who is this girl really, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked. "Should we trust her?"
"Hm…I don't know. Why are you coming to me for all the answers?" Inuyasha's gazed blazed over at Miroku.
Both of them were sitting by the side of a stream, watching Kagome, Shippo and Serenity play around in the water downstream. Serenity's wings glittered in the sunlight.
"You just seem to know her. The way you look at her. Seems to me you are trying to bring back some past memory she was apart of."
"Keh." Inuyasha snorted, looking toward Serenity. I really don't know if this is her. Could she truly be the Serenity I thought had died, or another reincarnation? If not, then what was she doing in Kagome's time?
Inuyasha, stare at me long enough and you will burn a whole through my body.
"Wha…" Inuyasha's eyes widened. Did…did Serenity just send me a telepathic message?
"Ah hem…" Serenity suddenly was tapping on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ahh!" Inuyasha backed up into Miroku lap.
"Mind telling me, dog boy, why on earth do you keep staring at me? Because it's really irritating knowing that your every move is being watched!"
"Well what do you expect! I mean you come her, we find out that you are really a half demon, half human, you fly away in a trans, then show up in some field where my stupid brother happens to be and you take some ancient jewel thing from him. Then you blast him and then refuse to talk about any of it!"
"Oh, is that what happened?" Serenity sat down, pondering what Inuyasha said.
Inuyasha moved off Miroku, and crawled wide mouthed over to Serenity. He got into her face. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'OH IS THAT WHAT HAPPENED'?"
"You mean you don't remember any of last night's events Lady Serenity?" Miroku stared at her.
"Everything was sorta foggy. I remember flying, and then I was high up in a field. Then everything got really bright and I felt this surge of energy go through my body. Almost like a lightening bolt hit me."
"Hum… I've never heard of such a case as this." Miroku looked to her jewel.
"OWW!" Miroku rubbed his now reddened cheek. "I was merely reaching to examine your stone."
"Yeah….uh-huh. Try asking next time!" Serenity looked down at the stone around her neck, rubbing it over and over. "It's like I suddenly feel, I don't know, power from this stone. Is that weird? All I know is that this is not a fake. This stone is real. But I don't understand something." Serenity looked at Inuyasha. "Why did your brother have my family's heirloom?"
Inuyasha sat in the tree not too far from the campgrounds later that evening. He had been contemplating whether he should tell Serenity about how the Serenity he knew died. But she wanted answers, some that he may actually be able to answer.
"Interesting. Shall this be an ongoing thing between us Inuyasha?" Serenity leaned against the tree where Inuyasha was sitting on its branch. "Oh. Silent I see…" She smiled, and let out a small laugh. "Inuyasha, most people I am able to see right through. But you… You are different. But take Kagome for instance. Kagome, a young teenage girl who's head is filled with worries about completing mind-numbing, worthless exams, only to success in going along with the crowd. But here in this time period, it doesn't matter. You need street-smarts, as they say in her time period, to last in this era. Yes, Kagome was somewhat easy to see into. Yet, she is very hard to see through completely.
"She has a deep concern for you Inuyasha. I can tell she worries about you constantly."
Kagome… worries about… me? "Hum, so I guessed right. You are a mind-reader and can send telepathic messages. You also can move things with your mind." Inuyasha looked over at the young girl where she was standing on the branch. Isn't that how you retrieved your family's crystal?
Yes. "You are smart. Took me a couple of years to control it. I still can't completely. I never told Kagome. Couldn't possibly bare my only friend in this world looking at me like the rest do. Like a freak."
"Wait, you said, 'in her time period,' as referring to Kagome's era. But you come from it too."
"Inuyasha, please. Isn't it obvious that I wasn't meant for her era? I mean look at me!" She stepped out on the branch, her arms held out wide. "Do I look like one of Kagome's people? I don't even know what I am! Half dog demon, half human-angel… I mean really! What am I?! Have you ever seen a creature like me?! Certainly no one from Kagome's time looks like this!"
"What exactly are you saying? That somehow you were placed into her time and originated from here?" Then that WOULD make her…
"Well, have you any other explanation?" Serenity sat on the branch now, her back leaning against the tree. "Inuyasha, I beg you."
Inuyasha looked up. Serenity's eyes were pleading, crying out.
"Please Inuyasha. Tell me that there is someplace I could possibly belong to. Tell me that somewhere, maybe here, I have family, or some sort of past."
Come to think of it, the way Sesshomaru acted around her; all cocky-like… it was almost like he too recognized her. "I…" Inuyasha looked at her, his heart breaking for her. Then he jumped to the ground, and said coolly, "I just don't know."
"WHAT?!" Inuyasha stood panting, arms and legs outstretched, ready to pounce. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE HAVE TO TAKE HER WITH US?!"
"Well Inuyasha, we can't exactly leave her!" Kagome stared him in the eye.
"SEND HER BACK! WE CAN'T BE BABYSITTERS!"
"Inuyasha, do you really wish to be rid of me already?" Serenity stared at the glowing embers of the dead fire from their camp last night.
"IT'S NOT THAT!" Inuyasha stood down. "It's just… look, we are looking for the Shikon Jewel. We can't exactly have every friendly demon tag along with us."
"Keh, yeah… demon. Can you really classify me under that?"
"Well um…" Inuyasha stared at her. She poked at the dying fire with a stick, her wings seemed weepy, her glow from that night encounter with Sesshomaru gone. "OH! FINE! You can come!"
Serenity perked up. "Really?"
Shippo ran over to her, and jumped into her arms. "YAY! Serenity's staying!" He whispered in her ear, "I would have just tagged along even without Inuyasha's say in it."
Inuyasha appeared in front of them, clutching his fists, with the appearance of fire whirling behind him. "WHAT…DID…YOU…SAY?!" He said through clenched teeth.
"Sit boy."
"AHH!"
Kagome stepped over Inuyasha and took hold of Serenity's hand, leading her along the path with Miroku traveling next to them. "Don't mind him." She said as she placed Shippo in her bike basket and hopped on. "He's normally grouchy in the morning. Come on, hop on."
"Kagome I can fly along side you remember?"
"Oh yeah! Hehe." Kagome smiled wide, her arm flying back over her shoulder. "Totally forgot!"
Serenity smiled. Normally people would stare, but not this girl. Well, at least one of us can forget.
The group traveled forward.
"HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME!"
An older woman looked away from her crystal mirror, where she spied on the traveling hanyou.
"So you have indeed come back, young one. And you are traveling this way."
Miroku fell back into Inuyasha's pace, behind the group. "So Inuyasha, is it just me or does Lady Serenity seem somehow empty, depressed maybe?"
"Yeah, I noticed that." She looked happy when I said she could come along, but it felt almost fake her smile.
"HEY SLOW POKES!" Kagome yelled at the boys that were falling behind. "You want to speed things up a bit."
"Kagome, how long have you been traveling with Inuyasha?" Serenity walked alongside her friend, who rode slowly on her bike.
"Oh not too long." Kagome thought hard. "Hm…guess I haven't really thought about it. I think I've been here in the feudal era for a couple of months maybe."
"Well, I guess this all explains why you are never at school." Serenity smiled. "Too busy saving the past with three handsome boys."
Shippo jumped up from the basket. "He he, me handsome?"
"Of course Shippo! And cute too. "Serenity smiled even more, and rubbed under Shippo's chin.
"Well, I must say, you do have great taste in men." Miroku suddenly appeared alongside Serenity. The group stopped as he knelt down. "I ask you to please contemplate something for me." He reached out and grabbed her hand. "Will you… OW!"
Inuyasha hit Miroku over the head with his Tetsusaiga . "Miroku, you leech! LET GO OF HER!"
Serenity smiled again. I like this place. These people, this land. I think Inuyasha and the rest of them have already begun to care for me. I think I really want to stay. Serenity walked a little off from the arguing group, to the edge of the path. Yes, I will stay here. It's funny. Serenity looked at her hands. I've never been accepted by anyone before. But these people, they all accepted me instantaneously. I feel almost like I belong in this era. Like, I've been here before.
Someone screamed off in the distant village Serenity lifted off into the air.
"Did you guys hear that?" She yelled over to the group. "Ugh…tell me you at least smell that!" What is that?
"Yeah," Inuyasha stepped forward to where Serenity was, pulling out the Tetsusaiga. "I smell that alright. It's fresh human blood."
"Human blood?" Serenity stared at Inuyasha puzzled. "How am I able to smell that, and hear from such a far distance?"
"Because we have sensitive noses." Inuyasha told her. "And we can hear better than any human or demon can."
We…, Serenity thought. I'm like someone else.
"HUH!" Kagome lifted her head up. "Inuyasha, I sense a Jewel Shard."
"O.K. Then, let's go."
The group took off down the path, Serenity flying high above them.
"Up there!" Kagome pointed and she pettled harder. "In that village!"
As the group entered the village, chaos had taken over by then. Humans lay sprawled on the ground in army uniform, dead.
"Oh, god." Serenity covered her nose.
"Yeah, you'll get used to it." Inuyasha pressed forward, moving around the bodies. "They were trying to protect the villagers."
Serenity saw villagers fleeing their homes and heading for the forest that was close by. Suddenly she felt her crystal glow with an intense heat. What? Why is it doing that? Serenity looked forward. "Look Inuyasha! Over there!" Oh my god, my crystal senses the jewel shard! I may not be able to see it, but it, like Kagome, can sense it too.
A huge monster appeared from the clearing, running toward the fleeing villagers. Serenity saw Inuyasha and the others take off after him. Wait, something is wrong. The demon is going that way, but my crystal is pulling me the opposite direction. What's going on?
Serenity flew up higher into the air, so as she could see the whole village. From up there she saw who really was the demon. It looked as though a man was covered in a baboon skin. She flew toward him, swooping in behind him.
"Hey you!" She hovered a little before placing her feet onto the ground. Pointing her finger at him, she stepped forward more. "You're who's behind that puppet demon aren't you? And you have a jewel shard right? Hand it over!"
"Such powerful words for a powerful-looking girl. Hum, but are you really all that powerful?" He rushed at her, his hands reaching out and grabbing around her neck.
"No…let…go!" She struggled in his grip, her hands pulling at his arms. What was I thinking? I have no weapons! Now I'm in trouble!
He made her look straight into his eyes. Pretty, pretty little girl.
Her eyes opened wide. Did he just send me a telepathic message? He can do that too? She struggled a little more so as his grip loosed around her throat enough for her to scream.
"WIND SCAR!" Inuyasha swung his sword at the huge demon.
"Heracouse!"
"SANGO!" Kagome yelled as her friend, Sango the demon slayer and Kilala, the two tailed cat demon swooped in and landed beside her.
"Nice of you to join us!" Inuyasha said between gritted teeth as he pushed the demon's energy ball back at him.
"Sorry Inuyasha. I had to check on my old village."
"BACKLASH WAVE!" Inuyasha threw the demon's power back at it, causing the demon to fall.
"Inuyasha, look!" Kagome ran up to the now disinagrated demon, picking up a wooden doll with hair wrapped around it. "Naraku!"
Off in the distance Inuyasha heard a scream. He suddenly realized that Serenity wasn't with them.
"SERENITY!" He rushed off back to the village, with the rest following after him.
"Err!" Serenity felt the grip around her neck grow tighter and tighter. Spots formed around the edges of her eyes. I need air! If I don't get it soon I'll pass out and who knows what he will do to me then if I even survive!
"Let her go Naraku!" Inuyasha thrusted his sword forward in Naraku's direction. But Inuyasha knew he couldn't strike with Serenity is his grasp.
"Inuyasha…" Serenity barely managed to get out, her eyes looked pleadingly at him.
Not again! Not this time, and not by Naraku's hand! "LET HER GO!"
"Inuyasha. You and I both know you wouldn't dare using your sword, since it would take out her as well." He looked back at her again. "Hee hee. Who's going to save you now princess?"
Suddenly Serenity's eyes looked at him with a fierceness and courage she had never felt before. "Me," she said smiling maliciously.
Suddenly both of them were lifted into the air. Serenity's crystal glowed with intensity. It shot its power directly at Naraku, who immediately lost his grip around her neck and flew into the air. There, his body discinigrated, and something dropped to the ground.
Miroku rushed over to the fallen object. "It's another puppet Inuyasha. The coward will never show his real face. At least we got a jewel shard out of this."
Serenity dropped fast to the ground, hitting it hard with a THUD that caused everyone to flip around fast. Inuyasha rushed over to her, but she had already blacked out.
Naraku from the safety of his castle, watched his demon puppet slice in half. Hum…that girl is strong. I want her power. She'll be perfect for me.
A/N: It's about 1:04am that I am revising this. Please excuse the spelling. At this point, due to some bad events of yesterday, I'm pretty much in a, "Ah, screw it!" mood. But I did have fun writing the next chapter. It will explain everything, granted it was hard for me to figure out how to word in properly so I could fit all the information necessary. I've already gone over it twice to revise it, and I now feel the need to again. Anyway, it's been a horrible and tiring night emotionally. So I'm going to bed.
Next Chapter: Answers to a Forgotten Past