Author-chan's notes: HI AGAIN!!! Please enjoy chapter four! *Pulls Inuyasha plushy out of nowhere and begins to coo over plushy*
*Disclaimer- *All of a sudden, Seto Kiba appears out of thin air*
Seto Kiba- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am Seto Kiba from Yugi-Oh! Due to the fact that the author known as Author-chan is at the moment cooing over her Inuyasha plushy, I shall do the disclaimer for her. Do not worry, Author-chan should be able to come back in time to write the chapter.
*A director pops out of nowhere*
Director- *whispering* Hey, Kiba-san! Hurry up and do the disclaimer already!!!
Seto Kiba- *glaring at the Director* Stop pestering me!!! Author-chan does not own Inuyasha or any other anime. She does however own the plot of this story as well as any Original Characters that she has created.
Director- Feh! I've heard better disclaimers from three-year-olds! Why did Author-chan hire you anyway?
Seto Kiba- *glaring at the Director again* Are you mocking my acting skills?
Director- *sneering* YES!
Seto Kiba- *pulls out his Blue-Eyes White Dragon card and brings it to life* Go my Dragon! Attack the Director! *Dragon fries the Director with its attack*
Director- *slowly recovering* Impossible! How did you bring your card to life? You don't have that kind of power!
Seto Kiba- *smirking* I do now. Keep attacking that Director, Blue-Eyes! *Dragon continues to fry Director*
Director- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
A Clean Slate
(Chapter Four: Inner Conflict)
Inside Inuyasha's Dream
A five-year-old human Inuyasha glanced around the Dreamscape. The Dream world seemed to be completely black and endless.
"Huh?" Little Inuyasha thought, "W-where am I? Who am I? I don't remember anything! What's going on here?!"
"I'd like to know the same thing, kid," a voice behind him muttered. Little Inuyasha turned to face the speaker. The speaker was sitting in the lower branches of an ancient tree that Chibi Inuyasha didn't notice before. The speaker jumped down from the tree so that Little Inuyasha could see him more easily. Little Inuyasha observed that the stranger closely. He wore a red kimono, a sword was at his hip, he wore a rosary around his neck, and a silver bracelet surrounded his wrist; just like Little Inuyasha. The stranger also wore his hair down to his waist, like Little Inuyasha. But that was where resemblance ended. The stranger was a lot older than Little Inuyasha; he looked to be in his late teens, but for some reason, Little Inuyasha was positive he was much older than that. The stranger was tall while Chibi Inuyasha was short. Chibi Inuyasha couldn't even reach the stranger's waist on his tiptoes! The stranger's eyes were a piercing gold, rather than Chibi Inuyasha's soft violet. Chibi Inuyasha also noticed that the stranger had white fluffy dog-ears on top of his head, and that his hair was as white as his ears. And Chibi Inuyasha didn't fail to notice that the man's hands were clawed, and that he had fangs. (AN: If you don't know who I'm describing, I'm going to be very sad.)
"W-who are you?" Chibi Inuyasha asked, "What are you?"
"You should know that!" the stranger snapped, giving Chibi Inuyasha a quick glare.
"Well, I don't!" Chibi Inuyasha snapped back, "I don't know anything! I can't remember anything!" The stranger's eyes softened for a moment.
"My name is Inuyasha," the stranger said, as he absent-mindedly fingered the bracelet on his arm, "And I am a hanyou."
"Oh," Chibi Inuyasha said, blinking, "Um, do you know my name?"
"Yeah," Big Inuyasha nodded, "Your name is Inuyasha."
"Huh?!" Little Inuyasha said, his eyes widening, "How come we have the same name?"
"'Cause we're the same person," Big Inuyasha retorted.
"B-but that's impossible!" Chibi Inuyasha sputtered, "You're older than me, and we don't share a body! We're not even the same species for Kami's sake!"
"But we are the same age, and we do share body, and, believe it or not, kid, we are the same species," Big Inuyasha retorted, "Whether you like it or not, we're the same."
"Not true!" Little Inuyasha said stubbornly, "I know I'm human, even if I don't have a memory. And we don't look the same age, and if we were sharing a body, how can we be talking like this?"
"Look, brat," Big Inuyasha snapped, "All of this is a dream. That's how we can communicate like this!"
"If this is a dream, then this isn't real," Chibi Inuyasha concluded. Big Inuyasha growled, and smacked his Chibi self lightly across the head.
"Baka!" Big Inuyasha snarled, "Look, even though this is a dream, everything I tell you here is real. A little while ago, an enemy of mine –er, ours –called Naraku came and slapped this stupid thing on my wrist!" Big Inuyasha, waved the arm with the silver bracelet on it in the air.
"So?" Little Inuyasha shrugged, "What can a bracelet do? It's just a piece of jewelry."
"Baka!" Big Inuyasha yelled again, "I can't believe you're me!"
"Well I can't believe you're me either!" Chibi Inuyasha yelled back.
"Look, brat," Big Inuyasha growled, "You have to listen to me. What I'm telling you is the truth. After all, I won't lie to myself."
"Fine! Whatever!" Chibi Inuyasha growled back.
"This bracelet isn't just a piece of jewelry, kid," Big Inuyasha said, "It's got some heavy duty spells on it."
"Like what?" his Chibi self asked, finally interested in what his Big self was saying.
"The bracelet has four major spells on it," Big Inuyasha replied, "One of them makes it so that I can't attack that freak, Naraku without getting hit by lightning. The others are all sealing spells. I hate sealing spells!"
"Why?" Chibi Inuyasha asked innocently.
"None of your business, brat!" Big Inuyasha automatically snapped. Chibi Inuyasha glared at his Big self.
"It is my business, Inuyasha!" Chibi Inuyasha growled back, "I'm you, remember? I should know about myself!"
"So, you're finally accepting that you're me?" Big Inuyasha smirked.
"Feh!" Chibi Inuyasha snorted, "Don't push your luck!"
"And don't push yours!" Big Inuyasha countered.
"Fine!" Little Inuyasha snapped, pointing to his bracelet, "So what else does this stupid thing do?" (AN: In case anybody thinks that this phrase is familiar, it is. Inuyasha asked the Naraku puppet the same thing in chapter one just before he lost his memories.)
"The bracelet seals off my youkai blood, making me human," Big Inuyasha answered, "It also seals off my age and my memories. That's why you're a clueless human kid."
"Okay, then how come you are still a full-grown hanyou with all his memories?" Chibi Inuyasha asked, "If this spell was placed on you, er, me, um, us then how come you're not affected?"
"I am affected, baka," Big Inuyasha sneered, "All those spells on the bracelet are sealing spells. The spells didn't erase my memories or my demon blood; they just sealed them away. I represent the part of us that was sealed away. You represent what was left of me –or us –after the spells took place. I can only exist in the dream world, until this stupid piece of jewelry is taken off."
"This is confusing!" Chibi Inuyasha sighed. Big Inuyasha shook his head and sighed.
"I forget you're just a pup," Big Inuyasha muttered.
"So are you!" Chibi Inuyasha retorted, "I'm you, remember?"
"So are you finally going to believe me, er, yourself?" Big Inuyasha asked.
"Maybe," Chibi Inuyasha shrugged, "But I'm just wondering; when we wake up, will I remember this dream?"
"Probably not," Big Inuyasha admitted, "Naraku maybe a bastard, but he's not stupid. This bracelet probably makes it so that if you begin to remember anything, it will get resealed. We need to get rid of this stupid thing!"
"How?" Chibi Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know," his older self admitted. Chibi Inuyasha sweat dropped.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?!!!!" Chibi Inuyasha yelled. Big Inuyasha clutched his sensitive ears.
"DON'T YELL!!!" Big Inuyasha roared back. Chibi Inuyasha clamped his hands over his ears. Both versions of Inuyasha glared at each other.
"This isn't getting us anywhere," Big Inuyasha growled after ten minutes of glaring, "And we'll be waking up soon."
"Feh," Chibi Inuyasha snorted, "It's your fault. You started it."
"SAY WHAT?!" Big Inuyasha yelled, giving his Chibi self a glare that could melt steel.
"You heard me," Chibi Inuyasha replied smugly, his chubby little arms crossed over his chest. Big Inuyasha growled.
"If you weren't me, I'd give you such a pounding," Big Inuyasha threatened. Chibi Inuyasha stuck his tongue out at his older self. Before either one of them could say anything else, bright spheres of light floated into the dreamscape, illuminating everything.
"W-what's happening?" Chibi Inuyasha asked.
"We've talked to long," Big Inuyasha muttered, "We're beginning to wake up."
"What?!" Chibi Inuyasha's eyes widened. Big Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but more light filled the dreamscape, blinding both Inuyashas. And then Chibi Inuyasha woke up.
***
Inside Kimiko and Aki's hut
Little Inuyasha's eyes fluttered open. He moaned in pain; his head hurt. He knew that he had just had a dream, an important dream at that. But he couldn't remember it. All that he recalled was a misty figure. Chibi Inuyasha shrugged mentally. It was just a dream after all; it wasn't important. Chibi Inuyasha tried to remember the last thing he did, but he couldn't. He realized that he couldn't remember anything! Not even his own name. He sat up in the cot he was resting in, and put a hand to his head.
"Who am I?" the boy asked himself quietly.
"I'd like to know the same thing, kid," someone close by muttered. Chibi Inuyasha felt a chill go down his spine as he experienced déjà vu. Little Inuyasha turned his head to face the speaker.
"Hello," the stranger said with a kind smile, "My name is Aki."
"Um, do you know who I am?" Chibi Inuyasha asked.
"I was hoping you would tell me that," Aki laughed.
"He must have lost his memory, Onii-san," Kimiko piped up as she walked towards the cot.
"I think you're right, Kimi-chan," Aki agreed. He turned back to Inuyasha.
"Do you remember anything? Anything at all?' Aki asked the little boy. Inuyasha thought for a moment.
"He had golden eyes," Inuyasha muttered half to himself and half to Aki, "Glaring golden eyes." Then, Chibi Inuyasha fainted.
Author-chan's notes: Confusing chapter, ne? Short too. So, Big Inuyasha got to talk to his Chibi self. This is going to happen a lot in later chapters. And Inuyasha finally met someone just as stubborn as Kagome; himself!
I'm planning on having a different anime characters do the Disclaimers from now on. That's why Seto Kiba did the Disclaimer on this chapter. I want you people to vote on a new character for each chapter, and I'll see if I can hire him/her to do the Disclaimer. They can come from any anime, although I would like it if you nominated someone from an anime I know. Don't worry though, I've watched a lot of anime shows, so it's very likely that I'd know your character, or a friend of mine does. But even if I don't know the character you choose, or no one I know does, then I'll probably look it up on the Internet if I have time (school can just get in the way sometimes!). When you nominate a character, please give the name of the character, and what anime he/she is on in your review. If no one votes, I'll just ask my six-year-old nephew to pick someone, and his first choice is Pikachu from Pokemon. So unless you want to see "pika, pika" in my next Disclaimer, give me someone I can work with! Ja ne for now!
