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Battleheart: Chapter two, Executioner

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Inuyasha sank to the ground as another line of prisoners trudged to the pits. He just shot Kikyo! His lover! They were engaged! He just had to serve two more years in this God-damned war, and he would be able to retire, and settle down. No more though, the love of his life was dead. He felt a boot connect with his spine, sending him sprawling into the icy mud of February.

"Get yourself together!" the officer ordered. Inuyasha stood and took his gun. What did it matter now anyway?

"READY!" Inuyasha raised the GC again.

"AIM!!" A small child, just a babe, started to cry in his mother's arms. Inuyasha readied the trigger.

"FIRE!" Multiple shots resounded around them as the prisoners fell backward into their shallow grave. Blood spattered the ground, seeping into the snow. A man beside him offered Inuyasha the rest of his surpy. Inuyasha refused, having never smoked before.

"You'll need it before the end." The man finished off the rest and loaded his gun. Inuyasha and the others followed suit. The line of prisoners came forward.

"It's screamingly ironic," said Inuyasha told the man who offered him the ciggarette. "that the very woman I saved and was put here because of it, is standing in front of me."

"Hm."

"READY!" Again, Inuyasha raised his gun.

"AIM!" Inuyasha aimed at the woman's eye, wondering if it would bleed a lot.

"FIRE!!" The shots were fired. The prisoners fell backward, a fountain of dark blood streaming from the woman's eye.

"Yup." said the man beside Inuyasha. "The eye usually bleeds a lot. Try the neck, it will spray all over the place." they both laughed humorlessly.

Line after line after line. The executions went on into the night until Inuyasha's vision started to cloud from lack of sleep.

"PARADE REST!" The executioners came to rest, and then, the best word Inuyasha had ever heard in his life. "Dismissed!"

That night in the barracks, even though his body screamed for sleep, Inuyasha wrote in his journal. Kikyo gave him the journal on the night of his proposal. He wrote in it every night ever since. Finishing, Inuyasha rolled over and fell into a troubled sleep.

The man who offered Inuyasha the surpy. ("Call me Garrett.") woke Inuyasha before the sun.

"Damn it's cold!" Inuyasha shivered as he got dressed.

"This will warm you up." Garrett gave Inuyasha a Surpy and a match. Lighting up, Inuyasha took a couple of puffs, coughed, and puffed some more.

"Wow. It does warm you up doesn't it!" Inuyasha took out the little white tabbaco roll and stared at it. Garrett lit up his own and smiled at Inuyasha.

"Are ya knew at this?" asked the old man.

"Um, I came into the service three months ago. I used to be a lueteniant. My first time on the front."

"Well, bein' a green lueteniant on the front o' this war ain't the easiest thing in the world to come out of in one peice. You sure are lucky."

"Am I?" Inuyasha asked as the two went to a tentlike shelter that was the cafeteria. Inuyasha sniffed the food he was given. "What is this?"

Another man, passing by, winked and said, "you don't want to know."

Grumbling something about poison and bad luck, Inuyasha grudgingly ate the steaming white mush in a brown bowl in front of him.

"So you're the former lueteniant?" asked a young man with messy copper colored hair.

"Yeah," said Inuyasha, shaking his hand. "Inuyasha's my name."

"Nice to meet you Inuyasha. I'm Kurt, and this is my brother Ryan."

"Hello," said Ryan. He looked almost exactly like his brother.

"Hey, Yash!" said Kurt. "Can I ask you something?"

"Go ahead." said Inuyasha reluctantly.

"What's with your ears?"

"I've been wondering that meself." added Garrett hopefully.

"Well, I've never told anyone this before," said Inuyasha. It was a lie, he told Kikyo. "but I'm not exactly human." The other men were speechless. They stared at Inuyasha wide eyed, until Ryan burst out laughing.

"HAhHAHAaAHA! Oh man! That is rich!! HAHAHAHAAA!!" He wiped tears from his eyes. "So, really, what's the scoop? Freak accident? Or is it a headband?"

"Are you saying my ears are fake??" Inuyasha growled, and the objects of question flattened against his head. When he did, his fangs showed clearly.

"Okay! We get your point! The ears are real!" said Garrett pacifyingly. "So, if your not human, what are you?"

"I'm an old-world demon." Inuyasha gave them an evil smirk. "My great grandfather himself was the King Echanah, the one who brought about the destruction of mankind.

"The triggerer of the apocalypse?" Kurt, Ryan and Garrett looked at him in awe. By now, their conversation was being eagerly monitered by many curious ears. Soon, a torrent of people came forward, bombarding Inuyasha with questions.

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Well, that's it for this chapter! I would make it longer, but I can't think of what to write. Gomen!

Here are some things you should know (Battleheart dictionary)

surpy: a small, green, three-leafed plant, surpy is most commonly used to smoke with. It boasts a rather bitter flaver, with a mildly sweet after taste. It has either a slightly sedative, or a slighly narcotive affect, depending on when it is harvested.

King Echanah: A demon lord, King Echanah wanted to abolish all evil from the face of the earth. In the year 4089, the King had completed the project of building the means to achieve this. In he very same year, he unleashed it apon the whole world. All of evil was wiped out, as was every human and many demons. No fauna or flora were harmed, for these pure things could not even grasp the meaning of evil. 500 years later, a section of the ape-tribe ran away from the mainland. They evolved, over a thousand years, into very modern looking humans. Slowly, the race of mankind repopulated the world, and evil came again.

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