Greetings and salutations my fine reviewing friends! This is the first fan fiction of the soon to be famous Gin'iro Inu!
I am just starting into my own fictions, though I have experience Beta-ing others (which I'm still doing) and am anxious for response.
This story is a "What if" kinda thing, as in "What if Kagome was the Hanyou in Feudal Japan and Inuyasha the spiritually powerful human from the future?"
There's quite a lot of other "What if" things in my story regarding the other charecters, not all the same as the main charecters, but those two are who the main gist of things are going to focus on. That is how the series goes after all: mostly regarding those two with some side bits here and there.
I am going to start out slow and add in more action later, so I am rating this the highest possible because once I do get the pairings set up I will be having things get a bit steamy.
Also, there will be cussing (I'm going to try to keep the personalities as close as possible to the norm coughInuyashacough) and definately violence (come on, of course there'll be blood and gore with them fighting all the time and killing demons!).
This first chappie will be a kind of recap and intro at the same time. I hope it's not too boring or confusing.
With that, I would just like to say that I hope you enjoy this, because it all begins with...
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The tale of the Hanyou and the Monk.
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Once there was a monk named Hihojojin, other wise known as Hojo, who was the guardian of the sacred Shikon no Tama, the crystallized souls of many demons and that of the late Warrior Monk Midokoro. Hojo was exceptionally powerful and skilled; for all that he was only in his late teenage years. Many demons tried to slay him, to take the mighty power that was the jewel, but the tables were always turned on them and they perished instead. Besides his vast spiritual powers that he used in his thrown, wooden Sutra-blades and defensive spiritual barriers, he wielded the legendary Sword of the Shikon. Though his power was great, he was always disappointed that he could not harness its full power. He knew that in a way it was a good thing, because it was only to be fully active during the time prophesized in the Legend of Great Destruction. On the other hand, he secretly desired power and it irked him that he held it so close and yet could not truly have it.
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One being alone who possessed demon blood escaped total destruction when encountering the powerful monk: the female Hanyou named Kagome. She hated being half human and half demon. All humans feared her and she could not gain their acceptance. All demons hated her and tried to slay her simply for being alive. Never mind that she had not chosen to be born or who her parents had been. She desired the power of the Tama so she could become a full demon. That way she could slay those who opposed her and be accepted even if she was never truly liked.
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Again and again she sought out the jewel, at first for its power to fill her desires, but after a while it was because she knew she would encounter its protector and began to desire him instead. For though she did not understand it or why it was happening, she was growing fond of him. No matter how she tried to hurt him he forgave her. No matter how often she tried to take the jewel, he stopped her without harm. Every day her carefully built defenses crumbled a bit more, letting him in further and further. After a time they grew to enjoy each other's company, becoming friends, and she admitted to herself that she cared for him. Perhaps she even loved him. That he was physically one of the most attractive humans around didn't hurt either.
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Hojo eventually came to care for her back, but also saw her as a way to be rid of the jewel. If she made a wish to become human for him, the jewel would disappear. He knew she hated her human half, but if she grew to love him enough and wished to be human for him, it would be a selfless wish on her part and everything would work out. For a selfless wish was the only way for the jewel of four souls to leave this world forever.
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Day by day he wooed her in his own quiet way, making her fall for him. He cared for her too, or at least thought he did, but it was more that he desired her (after all, she was devastatingly beautiful) so the day he asked her soon came. Having become quite infatuated by now, she of course said yes. This pleased Hojo very much. He told her to meet him by the God tree, he would bring the jewel to her and they would live happily together forever.
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What the couple had not planned on was the machinations of a hate and lust filled Hanyou by the name of Naraku. He had once been the bandit known as Onigumo. Burned to a terrible degree, Hojo had come across him one day and had tended him. The bandit, half crazed with pain, had become infatuated with his caregiver. However, when he revealed his feelings to the Monk, Hojo had to reply that he was not interested in males. In fact, he was already involved with someone else. Needless to say, this did not please the bandit.
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That night, after Hojo's refusal and the day before his proposition to Kagome, he summoned a hoard of nearby demons and made a pact with them: his flesh for theirs. The demons consumed his flesh and merged into his new body and persona: Naraku. However, the soul known as Onigumo had not prepared himself for the hate the demons felt for Hojo. The Monk had slain innumerable hoards of their kind and kept them from the power they desperately desired for so long, their intense hate joined with his anger at rejection and temporarily overcame his lust for the warrior monk.
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They formed into a replica of Hojo's "beloved" Kagome and sought him out as he headed towards the God tree with the jewel. Sneaking up on him, they made a dash past him and slashed at his shoulder. With a cry of pain he fell to the ground, loosing his grasp on the sacred jewel. Naraku/Kagome stood on his hand as he picked up the jewel and taunted him, told him how foolish he was for trusting a half demon, said he was weak for letting his guard down.
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Before Naraku/Kagome could leap off with the jewel and attain ultimate power, however, Hojo stabbed his/her hand with a sutra-blade causing the evil half-demon/imposter to drop the jewel in surprise and pain. Village hunters coming from the forest stumbled upon the scene and shot their arrows at a now much weakened Hanyou. Naraku could not hold the form most hurtful to his desire/enemy, deal with the sutra-wound, and these humans all at once... he had yet to fully assimilate his form. He was forced to flee in the direction of the God tree until he was out of sight before he changed directions. He knew the real Kagome was in that direction and figured that since he had had to leave the jewel behind, he could at least cause the most damage possible by bringing about her death.
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Though the humans wished to rush him to the village for help, Hojo knew that his wounds would be fatal and that he had to pursue the Hanyou and strike him down before he died. If he did not, the jewel would fall into his possession anyway for the humans would not be able to defend it. When he came across the real Kagome standing in front of the God tree, he did not think to wonder why she was not wounded by his sutra-blade, why she looked happy to see him at first, why she was even waiting around instead of fleeing when she should know better. He was filled with too much pain and hurt to see past the damage to the facts in front of him.
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He cried out her name and let fly some of his sutra-blades, she was just barely able to dodge- her reactions were dulled from her shock. Kagome had gone to the tree to wait, faithful, patient, and completely trusting. It was a state she had only recently reached, having shut herself off from the world much of her life due to her half and half heritage. Now, when she was most emotionally vulnerable, she was betrayed by the man she had trusted the most! Unshed tears burned in her eyes as she fled the pursuing Warrior Monk, the person she was going to change her fate for, to become that which she hated the most out of love for him alone.
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She decided, in a flash of hurt and anger, that she would take the jewel; fulfill her original wish to become a full demon; and use her new strength to slay the one who had caused her pain. Leaping into the village, she dashed into the shrine; grabbed the jewel (that the hunters had brought back at Hojo's order); and fled back into the forest once again with the vengeful monk closely on her heels.
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As she neared the God tree once more, Hojo put on a burst of adrenalin powered speed that brought him within range. With every ounce of his power left, he threw a blade filled with a sealing spell (the strongest spell he could achieve with the power at his disposal). Right before the blade struck, she turned a bit to see behind her as she passed the thousand year old tree and the blade struck her in the shoulder. It pinned her to the ancient trunk and made her drop the jewel as she fell into a deep coma like state. She did not see Hojo fall from his wounds and not get up.
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Hojo managed to live until the village hunters/warriors who had followed him caught up, long enough for them to fetch his little eight year old brother Karada who had lost his right eye when Kagome had attacked. With his last breaths he said goodbye and told them to burn the jewel with his body. He could not let it fall into the wrong hands and since there was no one strong enough to protect it right now, that was the only way. Then he breathed his last...
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The villagers did their great protector and guardian of the jewel of four souls had asked and when the last of the pyres flames died down, there was nothing left but ashes: the jewel was gone.
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The Hanyou Kagome was sealed to the God tree in an eternal sleep, both imprisoned and protected by its wards.
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The Hanyou Naraku, angered both by the loss of the jewel and by the weakness that had allowed the demons of his body to rule his actions through anger, slinked off to nurse his wounds and commit other acts of cruelty to vent his frustrations.
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For fifty years in the Feudal Era, things passed relatively peacefully in The Village of the Shikon Temple.
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That is… until a strange light appeared from the dry well in the forest of Kagome.
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That was my version of what happened between a Hanyou and their human love. I thought it would be cool to see what things would have been like if the players were switched around a bit.
Oh, don't worry, I'm not through yet. This is just a begining to the story I have planned.
Note 1: The events involved in the original series will only influence the plot of my tale so far. After all, a lot of things would be different because of gender, not the least of which would be weapons. I bet all of you reading this are just dying find out about their blades and bows.
Note 2: I don't own Inuyasha or any of it's trademark/patented/coprighted or whatever charecters. I only own the charecters I create/ recreate/ changes I make to existing ones. This will be my only disclaimer for this story and I put it at the bottom because I felt like it.
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Some Japanese words, meanings I got for them, and reasons for them:
Hihojojin- person subject to a limited guardianship... I figured that was apt and was fairly close to Hojo
Hojo- assistance/ support/ aid/ auxiliary...In this it's kind of like a nickname, a shortened version of his real.
Midokoro- highlight/ promise... Farily close to Midoriko and I needed a male version name
Karada- body/ health... He looks like Souta at this age and seemed apt for a male counterpart to Kiede.
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