Tesse: okay back again!
Hero: thanks to me!
Tesse: also, this whole chapter revolves around Koji, with an occasional refrence to his mom, dad, sister, uncle, and anyone else from the previous chapters.
Hero: and no Tesse does not own Inuyasha
Inuyasha: Heritage
Chapter Eleven: The Outsider
Koji was an unusual boy, he never fit in, and was treated with little respect.
It had all started 14 years ago...
The wail of an infant rang across the fields. A middle aged woman stopped in her track. She lifted her straw hat to look along the bank of the river. The wails continued. Her curiousity had finally gotten the best of her. Her late-husband would have been furious with her but was one of the reasons she did it. As she approached the bundle of rags the wailing stopped. She looked down at the tiny baby boy. He was most unusual, with a pair of adorable white dog ears that sat atop his head and a tuft of black hair.
Immediatly she fell in love with the tiny boy who stared up at her with handsome gold eyes. She gently reached down and took him up in her arms. She had been unfertile since her first try at child birth which had ended with a still child. Ever since she had been unable to conceive. Now she held a healthy little boy in her arms, and she was determined to raise him as her own.
Six years later, the boy whom she had named Ichira, sat at her bed side, seeing her to the after life.
"Ichira, there is something that I should tell you," she rasped, she could feel death at her side.
"Yes mother," Ichira answered. She could no longer see him but she knew he was there.
"Ichira, you will always be my son, but it pains me to know that I was not the fortunate woman to give birth to you," she could feel his silent shock. "I have loved you and raised you as if I were. But I found you down on the river bank. I know not who left you there, or wither it was an accident or intentional."
Ichira was so shocked to hear what he never wanted to hear. He was only six and to hear the real woman who'd given birth to him had abandoned him so carelessly.
"Ichira bring me bag in the corner," the woman said. Ichira obeyed. He brought back the bag and gently placed it in her lap, she blindly open the bag and pulled out a tattered blanket. "This is what I found you in. I don't know what clues it will give you. But it may aide you in finding your true family." Then the woman Ichira had always called
mother died.
A priest had come bless the widow Meanae and pray for her safe passage to the afterlife. Then she was cremated and buried her ashes by the river bank.
It was another week until young Ichira had pulled out the ratted old blanket. It was toren and sodden gray, but Ichira put his face into and took in the sent of the river. Tears began to flow from his eyes as he searched his memory of his real mother and father. But there was nothing. More tears flowed from his golden eyes. As much as he wanted to, he
couldn't remember them.
He buried his face into the blanket, but he drew it back quickly in shock. Embrodered in a light green thread read the words I love you, Koji. Ichira brought the blanket closer to his face. Even if he couldn't read as well as he would of liked he could this. Questions ran through his head, questions like... Am I Koji? How did my mother do this? Does
this mean that I wasn't abandoned on purpose?
Eight years later, Ichira had taken the name of Koji and had spent most of his life searching for these parents of his. An old man had told him that he should go to Inuyasha the hanyou and his mate Kagome the miko. They lived in a village to the east.
Koji knew he was getting close to his dream. He rehearsed what he would say when he finally laid eyes on his mother and father... and if the rumors were true than he would meet his sister too.
But upon arriving at his parents village he found that it was nothing but rubble. He searched for any survivors because he knew that the damage was recent.
He came across a small hut that belong to a smaller family. He combed through the rubble finding very little. As he was about to give up he tripped over a small box. In scribbled handwriting obviously that of a child's. It read Kayori's Secret Box- Keep Out! He gently reached down and picked up the box. With shaky hands he opened it. He
was shocked by what he found... little pictures, they weren't painted, they were perfect pictures of actual people. He picked one up, it was a picture of two teenage girls, both of them were very beautiful, one was wearing a simple kimono with giant boomerang strung over her shoulder the other was wearing an odd arrangment of clothing- a green skirt that was clear up to her thigh and a white sweater. She wore a bow and quiver over her shoulder.
He flipped the picture over and it read on the back Kagome (15) & Sango (16) Koji read it over and over again, they and told him to seek out Inuyasha and Kagome whom they said might be able to give him answers he needed. He set the picture down and looked through some of the others until he came across one that contained Inuyasha. He looked at it harder and he became certain that this man was indeed his father. It was as if he were looking into a mirror image of himself. He searched through the other pictures coming across one that had supposedly been forgoten. It was a picture of Kagome, she was much older than in the first one. She was holding two small bundles of blankets. On the back it read Koji and Kayori's Birth. He looked back at the box. Kagome and Inuyasha were his parents and Kayori was his sister. But after working so hard and long to reach them, only to find them dead.
He kept the tears out of his eyes as best as he could. He was leaving the village when he felt a sharp prick in the back of his neck. He slapped at it. Then looked at his hand, a squished flea lay there. But it wasn't your ordinary flea for this one moaned and then popped back to his usual form and stood on his own two feet.
Koji blinked. "Lord Koji, oh it has been years since I last saw you, my, you have grown so fast," the flea said. "I'm sorry, I am Myouga, a loyal servant of Lord Inuyasha," the flea bowed.
Koji's eyes grew wide as he stared at the tiny flea, "You served Inuyasha?" he said in disbelief.
"SERVED?! I am still loyally serving him and I well also serve you seeing as how you are his heir!" Myouga said with a 'no duh' sort of attitude.
"Okay I get, so where is he?" Koji asked looking back at the village.
"It was that bastard Naraku responsible for this mess. But the good news is that Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango are still alive even if they are in Naraku's prison. And Kayori and Ryku have slipped past Naraku and are conspiring against him, but I don't know where they are or where exactly they're heading," Myouga said.
"Who's Naraku?" Koji asked.
Myouga slapped his forehead, "My goodness, I forgot how much you don't know!" Koji gave a dark and annoyed stare, Myouga flinched. "You are Inuyasha's son, you don't know how many times I've seen that stare!" Myouga plopped down in Koji's hand, and cleared his throat. "It's a long story, but it begins like this..."
Tesse: DON DON DON!!!!!!! Naraku well be the name of the next chapter, don't worry it's nothing that you probably haven't heard before- but Koji well meet his father's greatest enemy face-to-face.
Hero: But you'll have to REVIEW to read it.
Tesse: that's right, I wanna see more reviews for this chapter. I'm thinking about discontinuing this story if nobody reviews, but if you wanna give me your email I'll send you the future chapters.
Hero: in other words-REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!