Author's Notes: First off I'm going to say this...I. Don't. Own. Inuyasha!!
Although I would give up my bal....errr arm if I could. Well here it is after all this time, so I hope you enjoy it.
But you guys have to review my story...or else I just may stop writing all together...
Ha!! You see! Now I'm holding my own story hostage!! How do you like that!!
I am the Alpha and Omega...
The beginning and the end...
The first and the last...
"You wouldn't belive the feelings of jealously I felt..."
Darkness fell over the mountain side as the sun descended below the horizon, a cold wind blew from the north and whipped throughout the forest covering the summit.
On this summit was the castle that Inuyasha and his family resisded in, the sound of laughter came from one room in particular as the night fell all around them.
Inuyasha shivered as he pulled the covers closer to himself as the brisk wind blew through the castle, he looked over at the far north wall as he once again heard the sound laughter coming from the adjacent room.
Within that room sat the many nobles and ladies that had been in the courtyard earlier, they laughter grew even more as they enjoyed a fine dinner of exotic food and drinks.
At the far end of the table sat Prince Onigumo, to his side sat his beautfiul sister, both were quiet as they slowly ate their food.
"Hear, Hear!" said one of the nobles as he lifted his glass upwards, "A toast! To our wonderful host who has provided us with this fine dinner."
The other nobles lifted their glasses up and thanked the young prince for his hospitality, Onigumo only nodded in aknowledgement as they drank deeply.
One of the ladies who sat next to the young princess, Inuyasha's mother, leaned over and whispered into her ear.
"My lady...where is you fiance??"
The princess turned towards her and gave a sharp look, the man whom she would soon be betrothed to was indeed not there at the moment.
"I'm sure he has some business he must take care of..."
Although down inside she didn't know what he was doing, in fact she had never even met the man she would be married to, all she knew was that he was a very powerful lord.
The thing that worried her the most was what her husband would think of her child, what would he do with her half demon child?
She could feel her heart tremble as she also thought of the demon that had given her the child, what would he think of her new husband?
Not that she knew where he was at that time, Inuyasha's father hadn't seen his child for many years, not since he had impregnated her did she see him...
"Where are you..." She thought as she looked down at her balled up hands, she wouldn't let it show but she still cared for that demonic figure that had wooed her all those years ago.
"Mama..." Suddenly the laughter and gossip stopped as the nobles heard a feeble voice call from outside, the door slid open as Inuyasha meekly made his way inside the enclosed room.
"I was jealous of that strength..."
The nobles and their companions quickly turned around and stared at the child, all eyes were upon Inuyasha as he bowed his head to avoid their piercing stares.
"Sister..." Onigumo closed his eyes and drank deeply from the cup in his hand, "You should really keep that thing on a leash..."
The room suddenly erupted in laughter as the nobles heard Onigumo's jab at Inuyasha, Inuyasha only blinked as he heard the insult.
He had no idea what the nobles were laughing at, much less as to what his uncle had asked to keep on a leash.
His mother gave a sharp glance at her brother as he quietly sipped his drink, the other noble's laughter soon dwindled in intensity as the looked to the princess and her child.
"How dare you!" She said as she took Inuyasha by the hand, "This child will one day become your prince!"
All laughte stopped as they heard her cry, the other nobles turned their glances back down to their plates and resumed their eating, they all knew of the grand fortune that would await this child's future.
Onigumo only closed his eyes and drank quietly as he heard his sister's loud exclamation of Inuyasha's furture, the future in which he would rule an entire domain.
Proudly she turned around and dragged Inuyasha outside of the dinner hall., Inuyasha whimpered as his mother quickly led him back outside the room.
"Mother..." Inuyasha sniffled as his mother pulled him back into his room, "What were they laughing at?"
Inuyasha's mother closed her eyes to hold back the tears, she could once again feel the sadness racking her body.
She had been crying alot since of lately, all that was happening to her was much to much to handle for her mind.
She quickly bent down and hugged her child close, the laughter and insults always hurt her much more than they did Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha..." She said as she grasped him close to herself, "One day you'll become a great prince..."
Inuyasha blushed as he heard his mother solemnly promise him his own title of nobility, although he had no idea what a prince did nor what it would mean to his social status.
All that he cared about was his mother...he felt as if things would remain like this for the rest of his life...
His mother and him would never be seperated from one another...
Poor Inuyasha...
He had no idea what would lie in store for him, he had no idea of the suffering that would make up his life, of the people who he would find dear to his heart, of his dear dear Kagome...
But right now...there would only be sadness...
Muffled footsteps fell across the floor as a silent figure slinked throughout the shadows, quietly it moved towards a room on the far wall and opened the door.
The unseen figure moved through the darkness of the room like a shadow, the entire room was a way for the shadows to control the area, an area were only evil ruled...
Suddenly their could be seen a light in the dark recesses of the room, a crimson light that illumnated each corner, a flickering light of a circle of blood red candles.
In the middle of the circle of candles sat a figure wrapped in robes, from the depths of the robes could be heard the muffled sound of chanting.
The figure that had slipped through the door now lifted itself up from the shadows and revealed itself from the darkness to be none other than Prince Onigumo.
The figure in the middle of the circle only kept itself perfectly still as it's chanting grew louder and louder...
"So..." Onigumo wrapped his robes closer towards himself, "You are the preistess that I've sent for...the...demon preistess..."
Suddenly the chanting stopped as Onigumo revealed his knowledge of who the figure was, he could see the robes being ruffled and moved as the preistess pulled back the cloth to reveal her face.
If there was any face to be seen that is...her hair was flipped over her forhead so as to hide her entire face, the only that could be was a singular glowing eye shining in the darkness.
"Why have you sent for me??" The preistess said in a dry raspy voice, "What is the purpose of bringing me here!?"
I wanted the power...
Onigumo smirked as he heard the outcry of the demonic preistess, she would soon know of why he needed her dark powers.
"Silence..." Onigumo's smirk left his face as he silently hatched his plan in his head, "I'll tell you what I need for in due time..."
Without warning the priestess stood up from her prone posistion and covered the area in her own dark power, Onigumo watched lazily as she extended her power of the area.
"Fool!!" The demon preistess cried out in now a much more harsher voice, "I'll kill you!!"
The priestess rushed forward and pulled a long knife from the confines of her robes, but as she stepped over the circle of candles she was instantly pushed backwards by a powerful barrier.
"What the-" She said now in her previous raspy voice, "So...you've managed to erect a barrier around me..."
Onigumo nodded and stepped forward as he inched forward slowly, he stopped himself just outside the circle and looked down upon the fragile looking form.
"Now then..." Onigumo said as he stepped backwards and sat down on the floor in front of the preistess, "As I was saying...I need you to perform a job for me..."
The priestess also sat down onto the floor and looked hard at the young prince...
How strange it was for a human to successfully trick her into a barrier...
This human...
He was different from other humans...
"Very well then..." The priestess said as she reached her hands deep inside her robes, "What is it that you want me to do??"
Onigumo smirked as he heard the demonic priestess fall into submission, he would soon gain the power that he desired, soon he would become the ruler of the castle.
"I need some information..." Onigumo said as he watched the priestess sit there, "Particularly...I need you tell me how I should gain power of this castle..."
Suddenly the priestess's body shook with laughter as she heard Onigumo's request, his smile was abolished as the demon's laughter filled his ears.
"Hahahahahaha...." The demon laughed heavily, "Is that all that you want!! How very foolish!!"
Onigumo's hands began to shake with anger as the priestesse's laughter resounded in his ears, quickly he stood up and glared down at the laughing priestess.
"Well!!" Onigumo cried as he pulled out a knife from his robes, "Tell me now or else I'll slice your throat!!"
The priestess's laughter stopped suddenly upon hearing Onigumo's threat, she lowered her gaze back down to focus upon the angered prince.
"Very well then..." She quietly said, she reached deep within her robes and produced from them a web made up of many silvery strands.
The web streatched from fingertip to fingertip as it could be seen even in the darkness of the room, it gave off a demonic glow as it shimmered between her palms.
The priestess once again began to chant as she held the web in her hands, meanwhile Onigumo watched patiently as her chanting grew louder and louder.
The web shimmered once again as a series of lights and colors began swirl around the center of the web.
Soon the intracate designs of the web began to swirl together in myraid of indistinct shapes and colors, Onigumo watched in fascination as the swirling colors began to take form.
I saw it all...every single detail...
Inuyasha snuggled his head closer onto his mother's lap as she lovingly stroked his hair, his eyes grew heavy as he lay contently next to his dear mother.
She continued to stroke his silverly white hair as he slowly began to drift into a deep slumber, she smiled slightly as she felt his breathing grow slow and rythmic.
She very carefully took his head into her hands and removed from her lap, she scooped the young child into her arms and cautiously set him back down into his bed.
Inuyasha murmured slightly as his mother pulled the blankets up over his shoulders, she looked down lovingly as she watched her dear child move in his sleep.
"Goodnight..." She whispered as she bent down to kiss his forhead, "Dear Prince..."
Suddenly she felt the presence of another person behind her, quickly she turned around to see a figure just outside the door of the room.
The figure pushed it's way through the doorway and walked slowly towards the princess, as the figure came into view she realized that it was her younger brother...Onigumo.
"Sister..." Onigumo quietly whispered, he looked down onto his sister as she shrunk away from him. "I need you to see me later..."
Onigumo slowly turned around and looked over his back, his sister was know bent down as she pulled the blankets closer to the young Inuyasha.
I hated both of you...
Inuyasha turned once again in his sleep as his mother gently pulled the covers over him, she bit her bottom lip as she thought of her brother's request.
"Brother..." She thought deeply as she watched Onigumo disappear into the darkness, "Onigumo...what has happened to you."
Indeed her brother had grown much more estranged over the years, his constant stares, his insults, his very exsistence had become a testemant to the evils of mankind.
She looked back down to her son as he mumbled in his sleep, she placed her hand onto his forehead, his restlessness ceased as he felt the warmth of his mother on his head.
"Inuyasha..."
She cautiously made her way out of the room so as to not wake Inuyasha, carefully she pulled away the screen covering the door and made her way into the courtyard.
She stopped abrutly when she saw Onigumo standing in the middle of the courtyard, the moonlight shone onto the courtyard thus highlighting everything around it.
There were no shadows now that could hide Onigumo now, he stood like a statue before his sister, yet he still exuded around him an air of darkness.
His face was fixed into a sinister posistion as he watched his sister exit the room, his hands were hidden deep into his robes.
"Onigumo..." She whispered quietly in an effort to not wake up Inuyasha, "What do you want from me?"
Onigumo pulled his hands from out of his robes and spread them from side to side, his smile became even more sinister as he looked at her.
"What?" Onigumo asked slyly as he held his arms out to his sister, "Aren't you going to give your younger brother a hug?"
She only glared at her brother while he opened his arms to attempt to embrace her, she stood several feet away so as to not be hugged by her brother.
Onigumo's smile soon faded after his sister failed to walk over and embrace him, he lowered his arms back into his robes and casted his eyes downward.
"Quit kidding around Onigumo!" She cried in a low voice to try to keep Inuyasha asleep, "Now what do you want!!!"
She quickly turned around to see if she had woken her sleeping child, upon seeing that he was still asleep she breathed a sigh of relief and turned back towards her brother.
She gasped quickly though as she turned around to find Onigumo's face only a couple inches away from her own, her eyes grew wide as she quickly stepped backwards several times.
Onigumo smiled sinisterely as his sister took several frightened steps backwards, he grinned even more as he stepped forward to have himself closer to his sister.
"It's simple...my dear sister..." Onigumo put his hand aside her cheek and stroked it gently, "I want control of this castle..."
She quickly brushed his hand off and took another few steps backwards, her hatred for her own brother was growing by the minute.
"You idiot!" She screamed out loud now, she had abandoned the effort to stay quiet now, "You know that when I am married my husband will be the ruler!!"
Onigumo quickly stepped forward once again and pushed his face in front of hers again, he smirked as he ran his fingers through her hair.
"I'm sorry to say...my dear sister..." He whispered into her ear, she shuddered as she felt his hot breath wash over her.
She weakly tried to step backwards to try and escape from her brother, but her knees failed her as she toppled over backwards thus hitting the floor hard.
Onigumo's entire presence had shockingly changed in one night...he exuded from himself the air of a...a...
A demon...
His eyes...his terrible eyes...they shone even the blackness of the night, they glowed with a demonic glow as he advanced upon his incapacitated sister.
She managed to crawl over to the wall beside her and prop herself up against it, she could feel the tears welling up in her eys as she watched her brother edge closer and closer.
His power...his power numbed her legs and paralyzed her arms, his power was no longer that of a mere human...it was the power of one that had seen the darkness of the human spirt.
His entire figure was shrouded now in the darkness of the shadows, she could barely make out the shape of her former brother...all that was left was the demon that had been released.
My soul was filled with darkness from that point on...
How could her brother who had been so docile and gentle all those years before become so filled hate and malice!?
Onigumo now towered over his paralyzed sister who whimpered as she felt death coming closer and closer, his eyes glew a crimson red in the shadows of eternal black.
He leaned down and grasped his older sister roughly by the chin, his other hand was hidden in the pocket of his robe.
"P-Please...Please Onigumo..." She cried as the tears ran rampant down her cheeks, "Please don't kill me!!"
He smiled as he pushed the wild strands of hair that fell over her face out of the way, he looked into her eyes deeply as his evil smile was spread across his face.
"It's not use..." He pulled his hand from out of her hair and stroked her cheek gently, "Nobody's listening..."
Suddenly her robes were blotted with crimson blood as Onigumo plunged a knife deep within her abdomen, her breath came out in shallow chokes as her insides heaved with pain.
Tears ran down her face as Onigumo twisted the knife around and quickly pulled it out, the blood gushed out from her wound in waves as it gushed freely.
"I-Inuyasha..." She said as extened her arm to grasp something behind Onigumo, he turned around to see what she was so desparetly reaching for.
Inuyasha...
Inuyasha stood only a few feet away from his dying mother, he had seen his own uncle brutally murder his
own mother...he had seen her violently stapped in the stomach.
His lower lip trembled as he watched his mother desperatly reach out to him, he cautiously stepped past his uncle and grasped his mother's hand.
"Momma..." Inuyasha cried while holding onto his dear mother hand, "Please Momma...please be okay..."
Her mouth silently gasped out her young child's name as she lost pint after pint of blood, her grip grew loose as her eyes became dead and lifeless.
Slowly her head lowered as she felt the life slowly draing out her, her felt onto the floor below her with a loud thump as her life slowly came to an end.
Thus was the end of Inuyasha's mother...
Thus was the end of Inuyasha's innocent childhood...
Let us lament the fall of innocence...
Inuyasha knelt his head down into her hair when he had seen her die, his body became racked with tears as he felt her body grow limp and cold.
Her heartbeat slowly came to a stop as Inuyasha buried her head deep within her hair, he cried aloud out into the dark as his mothers life was quickly snuffed out.
I would not let you be so lucky as to suffer the same fate...
"Silence!" Onigumo sneered as he quickly bent down and roughly grasped Inuyasha's mouth, "Stop your crying foolish child!"
Onigumo quickly picked young Inuyasha up by the face and slammed him backwards into the adjacent wall, he lowered his demonic glare into the young child's eyes and squeezed his face painfully.
Inuyasha desperatly grabbed at his uncle's arm and tried weakly to remove his hand from his face, Onigumo gritted his teeth as he felt Inuyasha's claws dig into his skin.
Onigumo winced as Inuyasha failed to weaken his grip onto his arm, he squeezed the young Inuyasha's face even tighter as he relished in the sadistic pleasure of giving the poor child even more pain.
"Now you listen here you little bastard!!" Onigumo whispered slighly so to not wake any of the vassals, he grabbed a knife from his pocket and held it before his right eye, "I should cut you up right here and now!"
Inuyasha whimpered as he tearfully watched the knife that his uncle was threatning him with, he lowered his hands slowly from Onigumo's arm and submitted to his will.
"Good..." Onigumo slowly lowered the knife from Inuyasha face and flung the boy roughly into the courtyard, Inuyasha whimpered as he painfully lifted himself up.
Onigumo faced towards the downed Inuyasha and slowly advanced towards him, his eyes still glew with the evil that lay within himself.
"From now own things are going to be different..." Onigumo bent down and grabbed Inuyasha by the neck of his shirt, "From now own your no longer a prince..."
Inuyasha nodded his head in submission as heard of his own future in the castle, yet he had no idea of what other horrible things would await him.
Onigumo moved his hand from Inuyasha's collar and grasped a large portion of Inuyasha's hair, Inuyasha cried out in pain as his head was pulled backwards.
"From now on your one of the slaves..." Onigumo dragged poor Inuyasha along the ground by his hair, Inuyasha cried out as he struggled and twisted around to try and escape his grasp.
Onigumo approached the hut where they kept all of the castle slaves, the hut was small and worn looking, this was most certainly not the place for a prince to sleep.
Onigumo leaned down to the struggiling Inuyasha and whispered into his ear a solemn threat, a solemn promise.
"If you tell anyone what you saw...I'll kill you..."
With that he pulled opened the door of the ravaged slave hut, several slaves looked up sharply when they heard the sharp sound of Inuyasha's cry.
Onigumo then picked poor Inuyasha several feet into the air by pulling up on his hair, he then violently flung the struggling child onto the dirt floor of the hut.
"All you listen up now!!" Onigumo cried out as he watched the slaves look at him attentivally, "From now on Inuyasha is a slave...and I expect you to treat him like one!!"
After that Onigumo abruptly turned around and slammed the door shut behind him, Inuyasha whimpered as he picked up from the floor.
He looked around into the dark at the many slaves that had at one time been his servants, they stared back at him with malice as they realized that his social status had been lowered to their own.
He was no longer a prince...
His once cozy life as a prince was now over...
Now only pain and suffering awaited him...
It was almost a year later...
"Where my food!!" The prince cried as he seated himself at the table, he looked around the room to see where his dinner was.
At the table sat the usual group that he surrounded himself with, nobles and ladies from across his domain sat patiently at the table waiting for him to get his food.
From the hallway could be heard footsteps heading quickly towards the room, they could also hear the heavy breathing of a small child.
From within the hallway emerged a small boy with long silver hair, protruding from his hair were two dog-like ears, in his hands he held a collection of plates intended for the master of the castle.
The boy was Inuyasha...
The prince...Onigumo...
"Finally!!" Onigumo cried out angrily as Inuyasha tumbled into the room, "Boy!! Bring me my food!"
Inuyasha nodded and stepped towards his uncle to hand him his food, suddenly he stumbled several steps forward as he tripped over his own feet.
The food went flying everywhere as Inuyasha hit the floor hard, but most of it went flying right into Onigumo's face.
Onigumo sneered as he pulled a small cloth out of his robes and wiped the food free from his face, he stood up slowly and towered over the fallen Inuyasha.
"You...." He growled as he reached down and lifted poor Inuyasha up by his hair, Inuyasha struggled desperatly to try and escape his uncle's grasp.
In one swift move Onigumo punched Inuyasha quickly in the gut and tossed him onto the floor, Inuyasha lay on the floor then grasping for breath as he hugged his injured stomach.
All noise was silenced in the room as the nobles and their ladies beheld the abuse that was given unto him, not a hand was lifted as Inuyasha lay beaten on the floor.
Onigumo smirked as he looked at the pitiful figure that lay now before him, he could hardly belive that this child was a half demon, much less that he was next in line for control of the castle.
"Now go get me some more food!!" Onigumo swiftly kicked Inuyasha in the abdomen and turned around and sat back down at the table.
Inuyasha weakly stood and bowed to the table of nobles, he quickly made his way out of the room to fetch his uncle some more food.
Inuyasha wiped away his tears as he rushed headlong through the hall, it had been one year since his mother's murder.
One year since he had lost all that was his childhood...
His uncle had brutally murdered his dear mother, and no punishment had been paid to his crimes.
His uncle had told everybody that a theif had come into the night and slain his mother, thus he became the next successor of the castle.
Then there was Inuyasha...
Inuyasha's fate had been reduced to that of a common slave, he was treated no better than a dog and was beaten everyday for nothing more than being a half-demon.
He quickly ran into the kitchen and approached the head cook, a large brooding man with a very impatient personality.
"E-Exscuse me..." Inuyasha timidly said, "I-I dropped the food..."
The cook angrily turned around and stared the frightened child down, Inuyasha shrunk backwards as the brooding man towered over him.
The man growled deeply and turned around to fill the plate with food once more, he turned towards Inuyasha and shoved the plate into his hands once more.
Inuyasha bowed and ran back towards the room that his uncle was in, he bursted into the room and ran towards his uncle.
Onigumo sneered once more as Inuyasha placed the food onto the table, Inuyasha turned around and then walked outside the room.
It had been a long night and Inuyasha wearily made his way towards the slave house, the old ravaged hut that he now called his home.
He pulled open the door and walked slowly into the room, several of the slaves who had once been asleep quickly raised their head to see who was there, but upon seeing Inuyasha they lowered their heads.
Inuyasha lowered his gaze to floor as he entered the hut, he hoped to himself that there would be some blankets left to keep himself warm tonight.
He looked around at the other slaves as he walked towards the back of the hut, the other slaves slept on piles of hay while covered tightly into the blankets.
His gaze grew desperate as he realized that there were no blankets left for him, he shivered slightly as cold wind blew into the hut.
Despondently he laid himself unto the floor and wrapped his arms close to himself, the night was growing as the air around him grew cold as well.
At one time he had been the prince of the castle, at one time he would have been wrapped up in several warm layers of blankets on a cold night like this.
But those day were over now...now he was no better than the slaves that had once been there only to serve him.
No...he was worse...
He was a half demon...a half breed...
I had all the power that I wanted...
Inuyasha's breath labored as he labriously lugged the large barrel of supplies across the court, every several feet he would lower the barrel to catch his breath and then resume to carry the load.
It was the next day, although everyday was the same to him...
Everyday was a day in which he would be forced into physical labor, everyday was yet another torture filled day that he had to suffer through.
Physical labor was not an activity that a prince should have to go through, yet he was subjected to this day after day...month after month...
Suddenly his feet flew out from under him as the large barrel flipped him unto his backside, the contents of the barrel went all across the yard as the barrel slipped from his hands.
One of the slaves that were working the yard as well looked over at the fallen child, she was big burly women, one who had worked for Inuyasha's family for years.
She had at one time been the direct servant of Inuyasha himself, she served each and every single whim that he so desired.
If she hated him before...she hated even more now...
Now that she had the right, now that he was no better than she was, she was allowed to beat and abuse the child as she wished.
Revenge for all those years of unthanked servitude...
"Dumb kid..." She sneered as she approached the injured Inuyasha, "Come on!! Get up!!"
She roughly kicked Inuyasha in the ribs as he struggled to get up, he coughed several times as he twisted around grasping for breath.
She smirked and turned around to resume her daily chores, she was satisfied in her daily abuse of the poor child...his throne was taken away from him...and he was no better than a common slave now.
Inuyasha managed to get up somehow and catch his breath, he glared at the retreating women as he grasped at his injured side.
"I'll get her one day..."
He whispered himself that silent promise as he turned to pick up the mess that had flown out of the barrel, he sighed as looked over the job that had to be done.
Suddenly he heard a small sound to the side, he turned his head to see a small girl off to the side.
She looked about his age although her clothes were much cleaner looking, her face and hands also were missing the cuts and scratches that most slaves possessed.
She had shoulder length black hair that looked very well taken care of.
Inuyasha blushed and looked down at his own tattered worn clothes, he looked at his own calloused dirty palms they had come from performing hard labor.
She cautiously made her way towards Inuyasha and bent down to pick up the many pieces of debrie that littered the floor, she went over to the overturned barel and placed the debrie into the barrel.
"Hello...what's your name?" She turned towards Inuyasha and smiled, a small blush crept up her face as she looked upon Inuyasha.
"M-My name??" Inuyasha blushed as he struggled to remember what is own name was, "I-It's Inuyasha..."
The girl laughed and crossed her arms behind her back, Inuyasha laughed as well as she continued to laugh.
"That's a funny name..." She laughed and uncrossed her arms, "My name "
Inuyasha looked up to see a tall stern looking man towering over the two, it was apparent now that she was the daughter of the noble.
The girl looked over her shoulder to her father and nodded her head obediently, she looked back at Inuyasha and smiled once more.
"Well...see ya later!!" She quickly turned around and ran back to her father, he took her by the shoulders and hurried inside.
Then as they entered the building the noble looked over her shoulder and muttered something in a low voice.
"Half breed..."
Inuyasha winced and looked down at his feet as the noble and his daughter entered the building, humiliated her turned around and started to pick up the debrie.
"She was pretty nice..." Inuyasha blushed as he remembered the young girl, "But the dad was a jerk..."
Thus Inuyasha continued his tedious work, for his work was the only thing left for him in this world.
It was the beginning of the end...
It was later that night...
Inuyasha shivered once more as he found himself without a blanket to keep him warm in the cold winter night.
He looked over at the women who had kicked him earlier, she lay on pile of warm hay, snuggly wrapped up in the thickest blanket the slaves possessed.
Inuyasha stood up and looked at the abusive women, he clenched his fist in anger as looked upon the contently sleeping woman.
He sneered and walked outside of the hut into the even colder courtyard, he looked around to see the outside of several huts that littered the castle.
His eyes focused on to the hut that had once been his mother's, but now everything that was once theirs was now his uncles...
All of it...
But something drew his attention as he stared at the hut, something black and like a shadow slinked through the dark and across the court to the hut on the far wall.
Strange...he had never really noticed that hut before, all of the other slaves seemed to avoid that paticular hut as if it were an unspoken law.
Slowly the figure of shadows approached the hut and silently opened the door, it slipped into the darkness of the hut as the door shut slowly behind itself.
"What was that??" Inuyasha asked as he witnessed the figure enter the room, he cocked his head to the side while he tried to figure out what was in the mysterious hut.
Inuyasha looked around quickly and cautiously tiptoed to the hut, he looked around to make sure that nobody else was awake.
Convinced that he was the only one left awake he made his way towards the hut and peeked through the door, he could barely make out two forms hidden in the shadows of the room.
But he could he still distinctly hear the two voices of the shadowy figures, one was low raspy voice that could barely be heard.
The other was...the other was voice that he knew all to well, a low smooth voice that simply exuded an existence of dark confidence.
It was the voice of uncle...Onigumo...
"Have you decided to tell me what I want to know..."
"..."
"Well?"
"Yes...I have..."
"Good..."
The entire room was filled with a reddish glow as the demonic priestess accessed her powers, Inuyasha could clearly see the two now, they stood several feet away from each other as she chanted quietly.
Inuyasha's eyes grew wide as he realized that the something evil was going on, but despite common sense he still kept watching the fascinating scene between the two evils.
The priestessess chanting was growing in intensity as the reddish glow was growing as well, the area around the hut was bathed in light as the chanting grew.
She pulled from her robes something made up of a silverly stringy type of substance, soon Inuyasha could faintly see that it was a web made up of several thin strands of webbing.
The inside area of the webbing began to flash and swirl with colors as the priestessess chanting became rythmic and consistent with the pulsing glow of the demonic light.
"Now tell me..." The demon growled as she raised her one glowing eye to met Onigumo, "He who has no human soul..."
"What is your demand..."
Onigumo smiled as he heard the demon fall into submission, it was true though........
His human soul had long since been banished from his very body, he was the human whose soul was no longer that of a human being.
"I want..." Onigumo laughed to himself as he thought of the request of his that would soon be answered...
"I want to know how to become a demon..."
The priestess laughed to herself quietly when she heard Onigumo's question, this foolish human...all he really desired was too gain more and more power...
It seems as if Onigumo had grown tired with the limits that a normal person suffered from, he had come to the obvious conclusion that his body was no longer useful to him.
She quickly stopped her laughing and went into her normal routine of looking into the future, images began to appear in the spider web as her power extended over the room.
Her eyes began to flutter while her the images and the sounds began to appear in her mind's eye, her lips moved silently as her head was flooded with images.
"I see...I see..." The priestess spoke softly while she saw events that would happen in the near future.
"............I see...A jewel...Shikon...Shikon No Tama..."
Onigumo eyes squinted as he tried to remember what the Shikon No Tama was, he had heard the name before but what it did was totally beyond him.
Then his eyes widened as the use of jewel finally hit him like a ton of bricks, this jewel...this jewel of lost souls and mortal sins...
This jewel had the power to give strength to the weak and power to the powerless, this jewel could even grant the most vainest of wishes.
Even turning a human into a demon...
After all...what he desired most was to gain more power...through any means neccessary...even if it meant giving up all that which made him human.
"Shikon...No...Tama..."
Inuyasha removed himself from peeking into the room and took several steps back, now he knew of what his uncle was plotting.
He was plotting on how to transform himself into a demon, while his soul was that of demon's, his body was
still weighed down by human limitations.
He recited the name of the jewel over and over again in his mind, while he had no desire to allow his uncle to possess it, he could think of things that it could be used for.
Because for the past year he had only thought of one thing and one thing only, this thought possessed every single minute in his head.
The thought of his mother slowly dying due to his uncle's deception was enough to make him puke, but he this thought was what kept him going each day...
Revenge...
He would get his revenge...and would show his uncle what pain really was...
"I-I...I will become..." Inuyasha's fists shook with delirium and rage as he conjured up a plan in his mind...
"I will become a full fledged demon..."
He knew what he had to do...he had to take this mysterious Shikon No Tama, he had to take it and transform himself into his own vision of power...
For he had no more use now for his human half...
He was sure of only one thing when he heard of this powerful new item, this item would change his destiny forever.
"I'm going to get that jewel..." Inuyasha said through gritted teeth, "I'm going to kill him!!"
Suddenly Inuyasha was pulled upwards by the scruff of neck several feet into the air, he struggled around desperatly to see who had attacked him.
His eyes grew wide as he twisted around to see his uncle Onigumo, Onigumo grinned wildly as he tossed Inuyasha several feet in front of him.
"So you were going to kill me were you!?" Onigumo yelled aloud with no concern who heard him, several slaves abandoned their old hut to see what the commotion was.
"What did you say you were going to do!!" Onigumo's eyes widened with anger as he looked at Inuyasha, now more people emerged from their rooms to see what was happening.
From one room in particular the young girl that Inuyasha met earlier appeared, her father appeared from behind her and pushed his daughter behind her.
She grasped the leg of his robes and peeked shyly past him, she gasped when she realized that it was Inuyasha who was being beaten.
Inuyasha wrapped his arms around his chest and gasped desperatly for breath, he opened his eyes weakly and glanced at the frightened young girl.
A girl that for a least a moment he had taken for his first friend, but friends were not a thing that a half-demon could have...
Nay...all that he had to himself was the pain that he was forced to endure...
Several guards appeared from the castle and surronded their former prince and his uncle, they pointed their spears at the throat of Inuyasha's as he lay writhing in pain.
"My lord." One of the the guards looked at Onigumo while holding his spear, "Is their a problem?"
Onigumo stroked his chin while pondering of what he should do with the child, how easily he could have this child killed in a instant.
For he started to become concerned with how the child's demon powers were growing, each day brought Inuyasha closer and closer to his powers.
It was just those power that Onigumo had begun to desire, it was those powers that Onigumo had also secretly grown afraid of.
"....I have no more need for this child..." Onigumo turned around and walked back to his room, he turned his head over shoulder and looked at the poor child.
"Kill him..."
The guards nodded their heads to each other in agreement as they raised their spears in unison, Inuyasha simply looked up in fear as he watched the spears descend onto his body.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
Inuyasha screamed out in pain as he felt the many spears suddenly pierce his chest, blood spurted out of wounds as the guards buried their spears into his body.
The guards kept repeatly stabbing him over and over again, their minds were taken over by the delirious abandoment brought on by killing a person.
He looked over to his side as the spears wracked his mortally wounded body, he could see the young girl clearly now as she watched Inuyasha stabbed by the spears.
Slowly the life drained out of him as the spears kept hitting him over and over, blood gushed from his numerous wounds and stained the ground below him a deep red.
His vision dimmed as he coughed up blood, he was almost certain that he would die now.
Die like a dog...
Vision flashed before his eyes as the guards lifted their spears from his form, all the event that had happened in his life appeared before him.
Every single gruesome event that had ever happened to him was revisted him, he watched as his mother was killed once more in front of his eyes.
The last thought that ran through his head was one of a pleading child, a child pleading for his life...
"Help me..."
Suddenly a voice rang out into his head, a raspy lowtone voice that eminatted deep from within him...
"You can only help yourself..."
"Who are you?"
"I'm you...the better you..."
"I...I...don't know what you mean..."
"You do...I've always been with you..."
"You have?"
"They don't deserve to live..."
"Who?"
"All of them...men...women...children..."
"What do you mean??"
"Kill them...You must...to survive..."
"Kill them...I can't do that!?!"
"Why not?? They were meaning to kill you..."
"But...I can't..."
"Human are such foolish creature...they don't deserve to live..."
"But my mother was human!!"
"She was weak...you don't want to be like her do you?"
"My mother..."
"If you ever want to become a full demon...then you must..."
"A full fledged demon..."
"You must!! Kill them all!!"
"I must..."
"That's it..."
"Kill them..."
"Every single one of them..."
"Yes..."
The guards laughed to one another as the walked back towards their designated rooms, the spears were still dripping with Inuyasha's blood.
Tears streamed down the little girl's cheek as she looked at Inuyasha's dead body, her father took her by the shoulder and slowly led her back to her room.
"It's okay dear..." He said as she looked back at Inuyasha's corpse, "He was only a slave..."
Onigumo smirked as he looked at Inuyasha laying dead on the ground, now there would nobody to stop him from taking the jewel.
His eyes widened though as he watched Inuyasha's hands twitch slightly, Inuyasha slowly but surely picked himelf up off the ground and rose to his feet.
"I'll kill them all!!"
Inuyasha directed his deadly gaze at his uncle who stood there paralyzed, Onigumo just couldn't belive that the child was still alive.
Those eyes...his eyes were free of the innocence that once possessed him, his eyes were free of the human mentallity that had once weighed him down.
Inuyasha clenched and uncleanched his fist continuosly as he glared at his uncle, he could feel his claws digging painfully into the skin of his palms.
He gritted his teeth hard against each other while he looked at the people around him, he licked his tounge over his teeth to discover that his canines had lengthened into sharp fangs.
He found himself fueled by only one thought as he stared down the group of humans, all he desired was to see each and every one of them dead...
Inuyasha found himself delightling in the idea of slaying each and everyone single human on earth, all he desired was to see the blood of humans staining the walls.
Onigumo could feel his entire body shaking with fear as he stared at Inuyasha, his fear was rising as Inuyasha started to slowly step towards him.
(So this is his true power...)
How dare that little boy cause him to shake with fear, how dare he...
Then the guards who had assumed Inuyasha for dead just a few moments ago came back, they raised their spears once again to strike down the poor child.
Suddenly they stopped just before descend their spear right upon him, Inuysha had seemingly disappered from the spot in which he had been standing.
Blood suddenly gushed from the guards throats as they one by one dropped to the ground, the people who had been watching gasped in fear as they fell to the ground...dead.
Onigumo frantically looked around to try and see where Inuyasha went to, in a split second Inuyasha had disappered and then killed several trained guards.
"You're all going to die!!!"
With no warning Inuyasha descended from the sky and landed in the middle of a group of people, the turned around to face him but by that time it was too late...
They could feel his claws across their back as Inuyasha killed them in less than a minute, their corpses hit the floor while Inuyasha rushed towards another group of people.
It was pure panic while Inuyasha picked off person after person, the walls were stained red with blood while Inuyasha's anger was dealt upon everyone.
No place was safe now...all were doomed to die under Inuyasha's fangs and claws...
His tiny form moved like a blur as each person he came across suddenly found themselves covered in their own blood, the blood gushed out in every direction while Inuyasha killed all.
"Oh my god!!"
"My arm!!"
"Help us!!"
"He's everywhere!!"
Their cries were sweet music to Inuyasha's ears as he slashed and clawed his way through their ranks,
somewhere someone knocked over a torch and the buildings quickly caught on fire.
Now the area was bathed in light as the violence was spread from corner to corner, people's shadows reflected their own pain and torture as they were violently slaughtered.
He could see the slave women who had abused for so many months, he stopped just before her as she fell over backwards to the ground.
Desperatly she tried to crawl backwards as Inuyasha raised his blood covered claws to his face, hungrily he licked his blood splatered fingers as he rested his glance upon her.
"P-Please I-Inuyasha..." She stuttered as she tried to crawl away from him, "Please l-let me g-go!!"
Inuyasha slowly advanced upon the frightened woman, he continuosly licked his bloody claws as his eyes looked over her hungrily.
"Their is no escape..."
In one quick motion he sliced open her throat and tossed her corpse into the flames, he then looked over to the flame covered damage he had dealt to the area.
The castle was covered with the bodies of his victims, the same victims who had abused only day earlier, the same victims who supported his traitorous uncle.
"Father..."
Inuyasha quickly looked over to where he had heard the small voice, he readied his claws for yet another attack that would surely end with death.
The young girl who he had met earlier now crouched beside her slain father, she looked at her palms that were now covered her father's own blood.
Her head shook with fear as she looked at Inuyash who was covered in blood, the flames were all around them and their light casted mysterious shadows upon him.
"I-Inuyasha..." She said as she looked back down at her father's corpse, "W-Why..."
Inuyasha's eyes were hidden by the shadows casted by the flames around them, he clenched his fist together while digging his claws into his palms.
"You all must die..."
The girl grasped her side as she felt a stabbing pain in her abdomen, she looked down quickly to discover a long gash on it.
Blood poured from the wound as she weakly glanced behind her, Inuyasha stood there holding his claws in front of his face...his grin spread from ear to ear.
Slowly her frail tiny body fell over onto her father's body, she let out a last and final gasp for breath as her life was slowly extinguished.
This was the destiny that Inuyasha had decided for himself, all he wanted now was to become a full fledged demon...
All he needed now was himself...himself and the Shikon jewel...
I alone escaped...
It was so many years later...
The demon priestess...she discovered me...
"SO ONIGUMO!! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD HIDE FROM ME!!"
The pain...is was immense...
I was engulfed in flames as she unleashed a wave of fire upon me
I wandered for days...burnt beyond recoginition...
Then...Kikyo found me...
Ahhh...Kikyo...
Imagine my surprise when I found out that she possessed the Shikon Jewel...
My surprise heightened as I found out that you were there as well...
You had grown quite a bit...but apparently...you had forgotten all about me...
I hated both of you...
I desired Kikyo so...yet...she chose you over I...
I desired both her and the Shikon Jewel...
So I decided to give my body up to the demons...
And become...Naraku...
With my new powers I gained strength...and knowledge...
I saw it all...I saw...the future...
"Well Inuyasha..." Naraku said as he released Inuyasha's face from his grasp, "Do you understand now!!"
Inuyasha gasped for breath as he felt Naraku's paralyzing gas leave his lungs, he stabbed his sword into the floor and leaned up against it.
"I understand..." Inuyasha wheezed out as he felt his strength returning, "More like I remember...I remember what you did to my mother...!!"
Naraku simply smirked as he glared down at the exasparted Inuyasha, he once again began to unleash his poison miasma from beneath his robes.
"Come now Inuyasha..." Naraku said as he pushed his hands within his robes, "What I've done doesn't even hold a candle to what you've done..."
"Inuyasha..."
Inuyasha looked desperatly backwards to see Kagome staring strangley at him, her eyes were filled with an emotion he couldn't quite grasp.
Hate...
Pity...
....Love?
Inuyasha stared back down at his feet as he remembered what he had done to those people, he had slaughtered all them in cold blood.
What was worse...he enjoyed it...
Even now when he had grown more and more sympathetic to humans he still delighted in the memory of those people falling to the ground.
Memories of his first friend who had betrayed so willingly, he had killed her father and then killed her in the same exact manner.
No child should be forced to watch their father die, no child should have the blood of their parents splayed across their hands.
No child should die in a state of fear...
This child...she was the very marking of the end of Inuyasha's humanity...
How Kagome who was so beautiful and kind of a person possibly fall in love with he? How could she even stand to be near him...
Nothing was left for him now...was once again he was alone...
Miroku lay passed out on the floor only a few feet away, his death would surely be executed in the next hour...
Sango lay immobilized on the ground outside, her wounds were serious and any more stress would surely kill her...
He turned back towards Naraku and glared at him with a demonic glare, his eyes were the same as they had been those many years ago...
A demon...
"That's Inuyasha...." Naraku cooly said as he fiddled the Shikon jewel between his thumb and forefinger, "Show me that hideous strenghth!! Glare at me with those cold eyes!!"
Suddenly the jewel burst into a flash of light that eminatted from his robes, the light was so intense that Inuyasha was blinded for a second.
But almost as soon as the light appeared it dimmed and grew black, the area around Naraku that was once filled with light was now filled with an uhequaled blackness.
Naraku grinned wildly as he produced the Shikon jewel from his robes, it's once pure and crystalline shape was now a black and evil looking form.
But the power that eminatted from it was beyond anything that was ever seen before, the power that was sensed was not one of goodness either...
It was pure evil...
"Don't you see Inuyasha!!" Naraku screamed loudly as he lifted the jewel into the air, "I planned all of this!!"
"All those years ago!! I saw it all!! Everything I have done was to bring the jewel into this state!!"
Inuyasha lifted his bruised and battered self up from the floor and glared at Naraku, he had no idea of what he was talking about much less as to why the jewel was like that.
"What do you mean Naraku!!" Inuyasha screamed out in anger as he readied his sword, "What happened to the jewel!!"
Naraku dropped his view from the jewel and glared at Inuyasha, he was still a foolish little boy even after all these years.
"Don't you get it!?!" Naraku screamed even louder than Inuyasha as he lowered the black jewel, "The Shikon jewel grows more powerful when it's surronded by malice and hate..."
"Letting Kikyo die with the jewel...Never taking the jewel when I had the chance...I did all so that the jewel may encounter as much evil as possible!!"
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he realized the truth as to why Naraku never stole the jewel, he had been letting them keep it so that the jewel would grow more twisted and evil.
Sango...
Miroku...
Kagome...
They had all helped in the making of this new and more evil jewel, they had all donated to the evil that now lay in Naraku despicable hands...
But he was the most to blame of all...
That last bit of hateful emotions...the murders that he had commited so many years ago...the unspeakable evil that he was alone responsible for...
He was just like Naraku...
Nay...worse...
"Now with the Shikon jewel I will realize my true power!!" Naraku yelled with wild abandoment as he once again raised the jewel into the air.
All Inuyasha could do was stare helplessly as Naraku prepared to become a full demon, there was absolutley nothing he could do to stop it...
"Die Naraku!!"
Suddenly his hair was blown forward as a streak of light blew past him, this streak of light went directly for Naraku's heart.
Moving quickly though Naraku was able to dodge the light and move to the side, he looked up to see who had launched the attack on him.
Kagome stood in the courtyard defiently as she readied yet another arrow, Naraku gritted his teeth angrily together as he stared at the stupid girl.
Die...
Kagome's bow clattered onto the ground as she felt a sharp stabbing pain on her left, she looked down to discover a large brownish claw piercing her chest.
Her lips trembled as she looked over her left shoulder to see the claw reaching out of her back, it was completly covered in her own blood as it began to extract itself from her body.
"Inu-Inuyasha..."
It seemed like a dream to Inuyasha as he watched Kagome topple forward, but it became more like a nightmare as he realized that this was no dream.
Kagome...was dead...
Naraku retracted his claw back into place as Kagome hit the ground, the claw transformed itself back into his hand as he placed his tounge on his palm to lick at the blood.
"It's sweet...how delightful..."
Naraku smirked as he looked at the destruction that he had caused, now there was only one thing left to impede his goal.
The jewel...
"Hey Naraku!!"
Naraku looked backwards quickly as he realized that he no longer had the jewel, apparently the jewel had
been knocked from his hand due to Kagome's attack...
Inuyasha stood there shaking with anger as he held the black jewel in his hands, his eyes had abandoned all that was human in favor of his demonic powers.
Inuyasha lifted the jewel into the air and held his view onto his most hated enemy, his body shook with anger and anxiety as he readied the jewel.
"Shikon jewel!!" Inuyasha eyes widened with exictment as he looked up at the jewel, "Transform me into a full fledged demon!!"
In one swift movement he he opened his mouth and shoved the jewel inside, Naraku could see his throat move as the jewel pushed it's way down his esophogus.
"H-He swallowed it!!" Naraku said in disbelif as Inuyasha looked back down at him, in an instant Inuyasha presence had changed dramatically.
Naraku's expression hardened as he glared at the boy, he would kill that foolish child before he had the chance to transform!!
In an instant the room was filled with the inky black smoke that could kill in a second, it covered Inuyasha body and he soon disappeared within the confines.
Naraku could feel Inuyasha's presence disappear from exisistence, his miasma had quickly disposed of the demonic hopeful.
Suddenly Naraku was blown backwards unto his back as a flash of light knocked him over, his miasma disappeared in an instant as the flash widened.
Naraku looked up to see a gray blur spinning towards his head, he dodged to the right just in time to see the object slam into the floor.
The Tetsusaiga...
With no warning the light subdued and shrunk back to it's point of origin, behind it was left a very large crater.
His miasma...the deadly smoke that killed all...was gone...
And all that was left was Inuyasha...
Author's Notes: Holy guacamole folks!! This is where it gets interesting!!
Well I know...that was hella long...and I know...I have a very dark view of the world...
But hey...at least the story is good...
But you people got to review this one, I need to know that my story is actually being read!!
Come on!!!
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