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: Well well well. I wrote this in like December…and sadly I am no where with the next chapter Especially since I started my FMA fan fiction "Angels Shouldn't Play With Metal. Lol, I love the title. OK, this isn't an author's note so lets get with this summary….Serenity meets her mom's best friend who just kinda sheds some light on Serenity's background. She'll prove to be of importance later…if I remember to write her in that is. And our darling Inuyasha was playing the brother part so well when he was a little mutt! Aw….ok, this chapter will make you all (you all being my girl IcyGirl…lol, sorry I just watched Shark Tales…still some hip hop Oscar lingo in me) HATE ME! I know it will…because I just had to make a certain someone grow interest in our beloved Serenity. Blame too many years of Law and Order: SVU, and Lifetime marathons O.K.!
Sarah's Old Friend Inashiand Naraku, Prince of Deceptions
Before Inuyasha left to chase after Serenity, her grandmother gave him weapons to give to her.
"They were given to her mother for her safety. It's from the gods. This staff is where she is to place the crystal, and this knife transforms into a powerful sword." She told him. "Please, Inuyasha. I realize I made many mistakes in the past, and treated you terribly, but protect my granddaughter. She is your blood too."
Serenity is my sister? Inuyasha pondered this as he chased after her. Everything that she learned today. It must be painful for her to have those memories brought back.
Soon Inuyasha found himself by a clearing, where Serenity stood at the edge of a lake. He stepped up to her.
"Serenity… I'm…"
"I remember that day she spoke of. The day I broke the spell and woke up. I remember feeling this power surge and then …" Serenity broke into another fit of tears. "I couldn't control myself! I killed…I killed these villagers! One man had with him a small boy, and I killed the man! I'm a murderer Inuyasha. I'm no better than Sesshomaru and Naraku."
"Serenity you couldn't control yourself. It's not your fault."
"I'm just like them Inuyasha! Admit it!"
"NO!" Inuyasha dropped the weapons and grabbed Serenity by the shoulders and shook her. "Don't you ever say that! Don't you ever compare yourself to those murderers. They kill for the pleasure of seeing someone suffer. You're not like that!" He pulled her into a tight hug, his hand stroking her head. I remember this…I remember this feeling. This feeling that I too was needed and wanted by someone. It's her. It really is her.
"Inu…yasha?" Serenity pushed away a little to look into Inuyasha's face. "I remember coming upon you stuck to that tree with an arrow in your heart. I tried to pull it out but… I couldn't. Seeing you, dear brother, that day, broke me out of that demonic trans." She hugged tighter to Inuyasha.
"I'm sorry." He said to her, and then explained why after she looked up at him puzzled. "I promised you long ago that I would protect you, and I failed."
"Inuyasha." She squeezed him playfully. "You did. You did protect me. You always have."
By the time they both returned to the camp site, Kagome and the rest were already stirring from their full night's rest. Inuyasha forced Serenity to nap for a while. Once everyone had awoken, he told them all of the night's events.
"So Serenity really is your sister Inuyasha?" Sango asked, looking over at the now sleeping hanyou sibling.
"Yeah, so she stays with us."
"I do believe I recall hearing about her story. It was said that from the egg of a powerful witch, the sperm of a powerful demon, and the Gods interference, the most powerful, gorgeous baby girl was born. She was considered a Celestial maiden, and daughter of the gods. The story states that she holds power beyond any living beast. But power such as that must wear her out fast, considering she is part human."
"Yeah. That's why I have to protect her."
"Inuyasha, I fear for the safety of Lady Kagome." Miroku looked over to where Kagome and Shippo had walked over to in search of fire wood to keep the fire going so as they could boil water. "You say that many demons will be after her. Well, what if something is to happen to Kagome because she is here?"
"You can't expect me to just abandon her like everyone else has! She is my sister! I made a promise to protect her!"
"And besides, I wouldn't want Inuyasha to have to abandon her because of me!" Kagome said, appearing suddenly up behind Inuyasha. "Talking about me behind my back are you!"
"Don't look at me! Miroku started it." Inuyasha backed up from Kagome.
"Huff, whatever." Kagome stuck more fire wood into the fire, and began boiling some water. "So," she nodded over to where Serenity slept. "Should we wake her up?"
"No let her sleep. From the story Inuyasha has told us, she had a very troubling night." Miroku passed a cup of cold green tea to Sango.
"Yeah, you're right. Besides, Kilala and Shippo seem pretty happy sleeping next to her. They all are so cute!" Kagome gawked at the slumbering group.
"Keh." Inuyasha snorted. "Pass me the ramen Kagome!"
"And Inuyasha… What do you say?"
"And make is snappy!"
"URGH! INUYASHA! SIT BOY!"
With the group back on the move again, Serenity found it easy to just fall into the background and let the rest of them lead on. After about two weeks of not finding any jewel shards, the group began to get restless.
"Maybe Naraku collected all the rest of the jewel shards." Shippo commented.
"Well, let's hope that isn't what happened." Miroku said. "Because then that would mean that he has gotten stronger than before."
A little behind the group, Inuyasha and Serenity walked together. Inuyasha had noticed that she had grown very quiet ever since she met up with her grandmother. Serenity kept swinging her new weapon, a dagger with a star tip.
"How the heck am I suppose to use this in battle!" Serenity began getting frustrated, and when she did, Inuyasha noticed that the crystal would react with her emotions.
"Serenity, maybe you should calm down a little."
"Me? Calm down? Sure, easy for you to say! You've got the Tetsusaiga!"
"Serenity, you know Inuyasha had to learn how to transform his sword too. It really looks like a worthless rusty sword but it transforms into the Steel-Cleaving Fang. You just have to be patient and believe in yourself. Just like you did when you figured out how to retract your wings." Kagome smiled at her friend.
Serenity sighed. Earlier she had been trying to figure out whether she could control when her wings should appear, and she somehow retracted them. But Kagome was right. "Kagome, you are too nice for your own good."
"Kagome look!" Sango said, pointing at an upcoming market place.
Kagome and Shippo both smiled wide and jumped. "SHOPPING!"
"Shouldn't you be going crazy like Sango, Shippo and Kagome, Serenity?" Miroku questioned the girl.
"Why?"
"Well, don't most females like to shop?"
"Keh." Serenity crossed her arming in front of her. "Shows how much you know about women."
"Yup. You're definitely Inuyasha's sister." Miroku sighed.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN!" Both Serenity and Inuyasha yelled at once.
"Serenity!" Kagome called. "Look at all of these!" Kagome pointed to many candles, herbs, crystals, and other things at one of the booths.
Serenity approached the booth. "Oh wow! This is perfect. I can get all the ingredients I need for my spells." Serenity pulled out an ancient looking book from her messenger bag.
"Oh, what's that?"
"Oh, it's a spell book that was also passed down in my family. My grandmother gave it to me. That was after she brought me to the future and erased my memory." She said loosely.
"UH!" The woman behind the booth gasped as she looked at Serenity. You wear the ancient Celestial Prism, do you not?"
Serenity grabbed the crystal around her neck. "Yeah, what of it?"
"Well then you must be part of the Danka tribe, are you not?"
"Yes, I am."
"Here." She handed Serenity a bag full of ingredients. "Everything you need is in that bag. No cost."
"Why are you giving this to me?"
"Because, you are a Danka. I was once friends with one of the leaders." The woman looked closely at the girl.
Though with old age this woman's memory was slipping, she recalled that the crystal had been lost. So why would this young girl have it? Pushing more over the wood counter, the woman pushed the girl's hair out of her eyes. She spotted out of the corner of her eye, a red cloaked boy push forward, his hand on the handle of his sword. The old woman concentrated on the girl. The star birthmark at the corner of her eye was all she needed to prove she was right.
"Ser…serenity?" The woman choked out, her eyes filling with tears. "Oh, the lords have shined down upon me today. They have brought back Sarah's kin!"
What are you talking about?" Serenity flinched as she was being squeezed into a hug by the woman. "How do you know my name?"
"I can tell you are Sarah's kin! Your star birthmark under your eye tells me you must be, and that spell on your right wrist. Plus, you look so much like your mother. But I thought you had died the same day as she."
"Wait, you knew my mother?" Serenity felt her body shake and it took Inuyasha's help to keep standing up and still.
"Yes princess. Your mother and I had been good friends. Oh, and you must be Inuyasha. I'm Inashi. Come inside."
Inashi directed everyone to the back of the long, wide booth. Serenity sat down next to Inuyasha, feeling the need to hold her brother's hand in order to keep herself from falling apart in front of this woman.
"Sarah was a lively one. I gotta tell ya, when I found out what had happened that day, it nearly broke me in two. My tribe had to keep me from killing every demon in sight."
"Wait, you knew Inuyasha's name? Then you know…"
"That ya two are siblings. Of course. Why I helped deliver you!"
Serenity smiled. This woman. She seems nice. "What was my mother like?"
Inashi smiled. "Now there is a story to tell."
Inashi told of all the adventures and quests both she and Serenity's mother had gone on. And Serenity had told her everything that her grandmother had done. A little while later Miroku, Shippo, Sango and Kagome went out to look for some herbs at the other booths, while Inashi told Serenity about her mother. Inuyasha stayed, sitting next to Serenity. While he listened he'd pet Kilala, who happily purred in Inuyasha lap. He noticed that Serenity had a genuine smile on her face. He too couldn't help but smile. His sister was finally beginning to heal, and she was the happiest he'd seen her in a while.
"So Inuyasha. You've been very quiet. I remember when you were just a little mutt. You would do everything with Serenity. You always made her hold your hand while you two would explore the forest, or when you guys would jump on the rocks in the stream. You were always protective of her." Inashi smiled at Inuyasha.
"Yeah." He kept his head down, but smiled. "She was pretty high matience if you ask me."
"HIGH MATIENCE!" Serenity shrieked. "YOU WERE THE ONE ALWAYS PULLING AT MY ARM!"
Inashi smiled as she watched the hanyou siblings argue like brother and sister. If only Sarah could see these two. She'd be so proud of the young lady Serenity had grown up to be.
Suddenly Serenity stopped talking. She grew alert and silent. Her crystal glowed. She knew a jewel shard was nearby and so was danger. She got up and pushed open the flap of the back of the booth.
"What's the matter princess?" Inashi sat up.
"Inuyasha, get ready to use that Tetsusaiga of yours." She said, looking to the sky.
"Right." Inuyasha pulled out his sword. "Inashi, stay here." He pushed her back into the tent booth.
"O.K."
Serenity held the crystal in her hand and placed it at the tip of a small stick the length of her finger that she kept on a leather cord around her neck. It transformed suddenly into a staff with the crystal tightly held in place at the top. She concentrated really hard, and braced herself for the ripping feeling she got when her wings emerged out of her back. She swooped up into the air to look above the city.
Yes, Inashi thought to herself. Your mother would indeed be proud. You are so much like her.
"Inuyasha!" Serenity yelled to her brother who ran below. "I see Kagome and the others!" But what I don't see is where the heck the jewel shard and demon are!
"Kagome!" Inuyasha rushed up to her and the rest of the group. "Where is the jewel shard?"
"Jewel shard?' Kagome looked at him puzzled. "Inuyasha, I don't sense any jewel shards anywhere."
Serenity scanned the sky and grounds. I know I'm not crazy. I know my crystal sensed a jewel shard, or at least a demon, danger, destruction…something!
"Serenity! What's the deal?" Inuyasha looked up at his sister, but she wasn't answering. "Hey SERENITY!"
"Shhh…."
"What?"
Serenity swooped down, clasped her hand over her brother's mouth, and tweaked his ear. "Hear that?"
Inuyasha listened. He heard the faintest sound of rushing air. "What is it?"
"A cloud." She said. "An ominous cloud of despair and destruction."
"Meaning?" Kagome looked at the two.
"Meaning a swarm of demons are heading this way!" Inuyasha took off to the edge of the village where they saw over the forest, a black cloud began creeping up over the village market. "Finally some action!" He put the Tetsusaiga in front and ready to strike.
"Shouldn't he be grateful that we haven't had the need to put ourselves into danger?" Sango asked rhetorically.
"You'd think that." Miroku replied.
Serenity kept looking around and around. She felt like someone was just watching her from the shadows.
"Um, you guys go help Inuyasha, k?"
"Serenity, where are you going?" Sango watched as she walked passed her.
"I'm just…um…" She looked over her shoulder.
"HEY! I COULD USE SOME HELP OVER HERE!" Inuyasha yelled to the others.
Without another word, Sango and Miroku rushed off to go help Inuyasha. Serenity thought that she too should go and help her brother, but something compelled her to want to follow her hunch. So she continued walking. Halfway through the village, Serenity didn't even seem to realize where she was going. She lost total control of her body. As much as she struggled, she couldn't walk in the opposite direction, or scream, or fight. She found herself walking into the dark shadows on the outskirts of the village, and then suddenly everything went black.
"URGH!" Inuyasha pushed back the demons that kept swarming from the clouds.
"HA HA…Inuyasha, how pathetic!"
"Kaugra!" Miroku called out.
"And Kanna." Shippo added.
"So Naraku sent these demons!" Kagome rushed to Shippo, and picked him up.
"Ha. I thought Naraku normally sent his demon puppet. Oh, but that would be you too I suppose."
"You shall pay for that one, Inuyasha! BLADES OF WIND!"
"BACKLASH WAVE!"
Inuyasha threw Kaugra's attack right back at her. Kaugra grabbed Kanna and jumped onto her feather that transformed to a size big enough to fit them both, and they flew away.
"I'll leave you all to take care of these." She said to Naraku's demons.
"Sango?"
"Yeah Kagome?"
"Is it just me, or was that too easy?"
"I agree." Miroku stepped in front of the girls, and hit an oncoming demon. "This is ridiculous! WIND TUNNEL!"
"Miroku! What about Naraku's…poisonous insects?" Kagome looked around. "Where are they?"
Inuyasha stepped over to the group. "I don't know. Something doesn't seem right." Inuyasha searched the skies. "Damn that girl!"
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?"Shippo eyed him questioningly.
"You tell me? Do you see our feathered friend?"
"OH MY GOD! SERENITY!" Kagome yelled.
The group took off looking for her.
When Serenity opened her eyes, she was surprised to see where she was. She found herself somewhere in a field of flowers. Though in somewhat of a daze, she stood up, and walked through the flowers, toward a man who was sitting not far off from where she was.
"Excuse me? Sir?" Serenity approached the man. "Sir?" Her legs gave way underneath her.
The man caught her in his arms before she fell to the ground. "Well, hello." He said, smiling at her.
Serenity was overtaken by his charm, and brilliant smile. "Hhh…hi."
The man helped her sit on the log he was sitting at. They both together looked over at a nearby pond, where a mother duck was wadding in the pool with her ducklings, and on the other side of the pond, some animals came out to drink from it.
"This place." Serenity felt herself slip into a very drowsy, yet conscious state. "It's so peaceful here."
"Yes, I come here quite often to calm my nerves. But I have never seen you here before."
"Yeah, I'm Serenity." She smiled at him.
"I'm Naraku." He said, entwining his hand and hers.
"Naraku…that's sounds like a name for a prince." She giggled.
"Well, I guess I am in a way. My father was a royal." He squeezed her hand gently. "But, I could use a princess. And your name sure sounds like a princess name."
Serenity giggled again. "Sure, I'll be your princess." She leaned against him.
He pulled back a little, and placed his hand under Serenity's chin. "My princess." He drew her face to his.
Serenity closed her eyes, and as her face came closer to Naraku's, she suddenly remembered who he was. The dream was over.
Serenity woke up as she fell from where her body had laid hovering. Naraku had placed his hands over her, and put her under a spell. Serenity rushed to get up and face him, her crystal now glowing vibrantly in the darkness.
"Naraku! I'll never be your princess!" She drew her dagger, and swung, and swung, and swung. Damn, why won't this thing transform?
Naraku stepped closer to her; his hand reached and touched her face. "But you shall be my princess." He smiled sickly.
Serenity's whole body stiffened and she couldn't move or scream as his face, his lips touched hers. Inside, she screamed loudly, but no one could hear her. No one could stop Naraku. Serenity felt herself slipping into the dream world he had created yet again. His lips pressed harder against hers. He held on to her, parting his lips a little. He pressed her body against his chest, trying to draw her into his fantasy.
Let me go! Please! Serenity sent him the telepathic message, knowing full well that he could hear. A tear traveled down her cheek as she closed her eyes and wished everything to stop. But then she felt rage in her boil up. She was sick of being used like this. Sick of the sexual abuse that she had received from foster parents, and the abuse in school. She was sick of always thinking she was too weak and couldn't protect herself.
Centering all her energy and emotion, she pulled away from Naraku's lip lock, and swung her sword. Finally it transformed into its full form. It had an irregular shape. A winged handle that had encrusted star gems on the handle, its blade was long. At the tip, it then went out in the form of a crescent moon, with crystals also encrusted into the blade.
She swung it at Naraku, and the sword unleashed its power in a blinding yellow light. "MOON BLADE!"
Naraku was barely able to dodge the blow. Serenity's nose filled with the smell of his blood. She smiled. She enjoyed the fact that she had been able to draw his blood.
"Serenity!" Serenity knew that Inuyasha was coming, even before he yelled out to her.
"Serenity!" Kagome yelled from somewhere close by.
Serenity was about to strike Naraku, but something held her back. She didn't know what it was. She turned and yelled to the others that she was there. When she looked back, Naraku had already fled. On the ground where he once stood were two jewel shards in a puddle of blood. Using the glow that the crystal from the top of her staff projected, Serenity knelt down and picked up the jewel shards, sniffling around. Her fingertips now had blood on them, but she didn't notice.
Inuyasha rushed up behind her. "What the hell were you thinking running off like that?"
"Here." She placed the jewel shards in his hands.
"What?" He watched her walk away, taking the soft glow of light with her. Before the light was gone, Inuyasha looked at the jewel shards in his hands, and they were covered in blood. But surprisingly, he couldn't tell whose.
Serenity had yet again become very quiet. Inuyasha pestered her to tell him what her problem was. She would only just reply by telling him that she was fine. Though she never seemed to explain why her clothes were covered in blood.
The group traveled on back to Kaede's hut, since Inashi had given them a package to give Kaede. There, Serenity took some clothes from Kaede. She and Kagome sat in the hut, while the others stood outside.
"So Inuyasha, young Serenity is your sister then?" Kaede had been informed about everything that he and Serenity had learned from her grandmother.
"Yeah." He said icily.
"And ye have no idea how that blood got on her clothes?"
"She said that she rushed off after a demon that was going into the village, and attacked him." Inuyasha huffed. "But the blood didn't smell demonic."
"Well, whatever happened, at least she is ok." Miroku looked over to the hut. "Ah, there are the fair maidens now."
Serenity walked over. "It's incredible what you can do with a pair of scissors, needle and thread." She twirled around to show off how she had transformed the old priestess's pair of red pants and white kimono top into a red long sleeved kimono similar to Inuyasha's, with a white skirt and white undershirt.
"Wow that looks amazing Serenity!" Sango said.
"Thanks. I always had to mend my old clothes since I didn't have too much money to buy new clothes. So I have practice!"
"So Serenity. Ye now are able to control your sword?"
"Yes. Once I focused, and channeled my energy and emotion and centered myself, it transformed. It's surprisingly quite powerful!"
"O.K. Enough chit chat." Inuyasha stood up and took his sister's wrist. "It's time to…AHHH!"
"Inuyasha!" She sighed as the group watched Inuyasha running around, blowing on his burnt hand. "Have you forgotten the protection spell?"
"Idiot." Shippo sighed in Serenity's arms.
A/N: To IcyGirl- I know...It killed me to have to make Serenity Inuyasha's sister. I would have LOVED to make him and her an item...but alas, my wanting-to-keep-to-the-original-story-line side took over. Besides, I wouldn't really have anywhere for Kagome to be. Because you got Sango and Miroku together, Kagome and Inuyasha, and in my twisted mind I put Kilala and Shippo together too. I mean, I could have done a Kouga and Kagome, or even Hojo and Kagome, but then Idk, the story would be ehhh-ish. But maybe I'll write a short short story w/ Inuyasha and Serenity...might be weird after reading this as them being family and then another as them dating... (insest...lalalala...insest) -lol, don't ask, my friend alyssa made the song up to make fun of our friend elise who thought her cousin-once-removed was hot...idk how i end up being friends with these people! Wow this is long!
Anyway, O.K. so the next chapter is...ta-da-> Kayla Dies in a Burning Building...I swear, these titles! They're my best lately. lol, I so love myself! I'll try to finish the chapter and get it posted but I got the new FMA story mindyou again, so that might take up more interest, at least until I get the story rolling...which in a way, I'm still trying to get this story rolling...wow. Bye guys! Keep reviewing!