Inutori: *yawns* I've started another fic…perhaps this one will be a bit more interesting than some of my others, besides ADD, that is.
Inuyasha: You can untie me now, wench.
Inutori: I could, but I don't want to. Since I can't own you, you'll have to remain tied to that chair until all of my fanfics are finished.
Inuyasha: …
Inutori: Well, peoples, go read the story and tell me what you think. I'll need at least ten reviews for this chapter in order for me to consider continuing.
Inuyasha: Greedy pig.
Chapter 1
The Start
"Inuyasha, you can't mess this up, understood?" The silver-haired demon glared down at his little brother.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru." He was bored beyond imagine as he listened to the youkai drill him for what seemed like the hundredth time on his upcoming mission.
Inuyasha continued picking dirt from under his claws as he sat at the headquarters of the demon base. Trained as a killing machine, Inuyasha had been told for several years that he was going to be sent to the past to change their future. A human by the name of Inuchi Higurashi would bring down the demon empire that had blossomed in this last century. It was his mission to stop Inuchi's life before it even began; he was to kill the boy's mother and father.
Unfortunately, one glitch in his mission was that it was unknown who were the parents of the blasted guy. Basically, he was to go and massacre anyone by the name of Higurashi as well as any relations they might have.
The hanyou yawned again before climbing into the time capsule that would transport him to the past. Snuggling into the chair, he closed his eyes and relaxed.
Kikyou awoke quickly as she listened to her younger sister stomp around like a monster. She had graduated from high school last year, but Kagome was just going into the tenth grade. The nineteen year-old girl sighed and sat up, knowing that with all of that racket she would never be able to get back to sleep.
Kagome burst into her older sister's room, looking bright and cheery as ever. "Kikyou nee-san, can I use your hairdryer?" The teenager's hair was up in a towel at the moment, apparently she had just taken a shower.
"Whatever." Kikyou slid off the bed and stood up lazily. The other girl quickly exited her room and shut the door. Through the wall, Kikyou could hear the hairdryer start. A small smile formed on her lips as she thought about her little sister and the fact that she was about to start her high school years.
The raven-haired woman changed out of her pajamas and into traditional miko robes to prepare for her day's work at the shrine they resided at. It had been her chore since her fifteenth birthday to maintain the sacred grounds and she had kept with her duties all through high school, and still continued to faithfully work at the holy place.
Heading down the stairs, she came across Kagome, who was inhaling a bowl of cereal for breakfast before she ran to school. Her sister was nothing like her on the inside, despite their similarities in their appearances. Kagome was a very emotional girl, while Kikyou kept to herself most of the time. Even though it was Kikyou who had a boyfriend and not Kagome. Onigumo seemed to like Kikyou even if she didn't warm up to him; he came by every day to keep her company and to take her out for lunch.
Kagome ran past her in her rush to get out the door so as to not be late for school. Kikyou merely sidestepped seeing as how this was an everyday occurrence.
"Bye Kikyou, see you after school!"
After Kagome left, Kikyou walked outside and to the back of the shrine, where she met up with two people who were sworn to protect her. Miroku and Sango. Two humans from the future that said she had a vital role to play in earth's future and they couldn't let her die.
She had taken this all in stride, finding out that she was to have a son named Inuchi that would save the world from the tyranny of the demons. It all seemed kind of bizarre, but Kikyou wasn't one to be fooled easily, so she had tested them. They had proved to her what they were saying, except the part where they said that Onigumo was probably the father of Inuchi. Not wanting her family to worry, she had said nothing to them for the last three years since she discovered her bodyguards. She had also put up with Onigumo's presence due to Sango's persistance.
"It's exactly a year now."
Kikyou looked at Miroku with a true poker face. "What's exactly a year?"
Sango answered for the monk. "It is exactly a year until the child will be born."
Kikyou merely shrugged and picked up her bow and a quiver of arrows lying on the bench. "What are these doing out here?"
"Kagome, you're sister, was using them this morning." Sango frowned as she spoke. "Do you know how hard it is to keep houshi-sama away from her?"
"How good is she?" Kikyou was examining her hand carved bow carefully as she spoke, seemingly ignoring Sango's side remark.
"I'd say she's as good if not better than you now." Sango pouted slightly at being ignored by Kikyou, but she was pretty much accustomed to it by now. "She's been working at it since just after we arrived, you know. You should have seen her when she first got started."
Kikyou began to walk away from them casually, but still grabbing their attention.
"What is it, Kikyou-sama?" Miroku trotted up to stand next to her, priest-pole in hand.
"Don't you sense it? We have company."
Miroku channeled his spiritual powers and located a disturbance of demon youki. "You're right, there's a demon here."
Sango cocked her giant boomerang, Hairakotsu, and spread her legs into a better fighting stance. A rustling came from the trees behind them and Sango threw her weapon that way without warning. The boomerang came back to her and she caught it with minimal effort, but nothing popped out of the brush.
She furrowed her eyebrows and took a step towards the thick woods.
"Don't, Sango." Miroku blocked her path with his priest pole as he continued to stare unblinking at the forest. His purple robes rustled slightly in the stiff breeze, but otherwise, he remained completely motionless.
Kikyou was the same, and Sango looked at the both of them, wondering if they had some sort of ESP going on between the two. They stood there for at least five minutes before any of them spoke.
"Well, whatever it was, it's gone now." Kikyou let her arm holding her bow relax and drop to her side. Over the last few years she had become so tense and weary of attack that very seldom did she ever have time to let it all out. Even now she still had her guard up in case of attack.
Inuyasha let out his breath after he was a good distance away from the group of humans. Two of them he had recognized as leaders of the human forces in the future. Which concluded that the woman with them must be the mother of Inuchi. She was fair with raven hair just like the rebel leader, so the hanyou was easily able to make the connection between the two.
He pulled down the baseball cap on his head and stepped out of the woods and into a park a few miles from the shrine. Taking a look around, he saw a small lake surrounded by willows and a paved path that weaved through the trees and circled around the body of water. Quite the serene place and definitely more appealing then what this same place looked like in the future. Eventually this was all going to be ripped out and the lake filled in, and then an armory would be built to supply the demon army with the finest weapons possible.
Stuffing his hands in his pockets, he began to shuffle along the path around the lake. Right beside the park he spotted a brick building with a wire fence around it. A little curious, Inuyasha walked around to the front of the building and read the sign attached to the fence that surrounded the rickety place.
"Sawati High School, Built 1923." He shrugged, not really caring anymore than usual.
The rest of the day he kind of meandered around the park waiting for night to come so that he could attack the girl. Towards evening, the said girl, or so he thought, was skipping around the park towards a boy with sandy brown hair. She was wearing a schoolgirl uniform with a green skirt that came to mid thigh and a long-sleeve white blouse.
He hopped through the trees to listen in to her conversation. His first thought was that this boy was going to be the future father of Inuchi. The kid was also wearing a school uniform.
"Hey Hojou-kun, fancy meeting you here!" The girl's cheery voice carried up to him on his perch nearby.
"Y-yeah…Higurashi-san, I got this for you." The boy called 'Hojou' pulled a small trinket out of his pocket and held it out to the girl. He was obviously blushing, but the 'Higurashi' kept smiling at him; it was almost as if it was a fake smile…
"Thanks Hojou-kun!" Higurashi took the package from him and looked like she was about to leave.
"Higurashi-san, will you go out with me?"
Inuyasha almost fell out of his tree. In three months this girl was supposed to conceive and she was just NOW getting a boyfriend?
The girl's smile faltered. "Um…gomen, Hojou-kun, but I'd like to just stay friends for now."
The boy seemed unfazed by this and continued smiling broadly at her. "That's alright. When you change your mind, just tell me!" At this the boy trotted away from her down the pathway while the girl just stared at his retreating figure.
Since the girl was now alone, Inuyasha took this opportunity to hop down from the tree and charge the girl from behind.
The girl jerked around and gasped when she saw him, and he took pleasure from seeing the fear in her eyes. Just then, an arrow shot at him and hit him in the shoulder, causing him to stumble to the side and grab at the cause of his new wound.
"Stay away from my sister!" A girl who looked very similar to the one he had been about to attack stepped out of the trees and glared at him. She had another arrow notched on the string and was aiming for his heart.
Inuyasha was frozen in confusion. The two girls looked a lot a like, only the one that had the bow looked maybe three or four years older. Which one was he supposed to kill?
The woman released her arrow and Inuyasha watched as it flew towards his chest. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the younger Higurashi jumped at him and shoved him out of the way of the arrow, getting herself hit in the ribcage with that very same object. She let out a piercing scream as she fell to the ground, pulling Inuyasha with her and at the same time waking him up from his trance.
They hit the ground with a thud and Inuyasha shoved the small girl away from him and leapt to his feet to run away. He heard the screaming behind him of what sounded like that Major, Sango, as they all rushed forward to tend to the now-wounded girl on the ground.
So maybe that schoolgirl wasn't the one he was after. What a stupid mistake to make. It was her older sister that was being guarded by the humans from the future. But what stumped him was why that girl had pushed him out of the way of the arrow. His mission would have been short-lived had it not been for her.
Inutori: Yes, I know. This sounds uncannily like Terminator, but that IS what I got my inspiration from, so there. :-P
Inuyasha: Shouldn't you be finishing Another DogDemon and not be starting new fics?
Inutori: Yeah…you're point?
Inuyasha: …
Inutori: Remember, if you want more, you HAVE TO REVIEW. I probably won't even start writing the second chapter until I have ten reviews for this one. Ja ne!
