Chapter One: Arriving to Disaster

A bullet train whizzed toward downtown Tokyo. On board the speeding train were many people, businessmen on they way to and from meetings, couples and families coming back from trips before the school year began, and new students heading to universities within the big city for the new year. One traveler in perticular, a man. he stood about six foot two and was 20 years old. he wore a dark grey jacket; unusual for the summers heat, black pants and a hat on his head. only a small portion of his strangely colored hair shown out of the jacket collar. mostly silver, with the occasional black strip that would fall past his lower back should it be seen. Another strange feature about him were his eyes. A stark contrast of blue against lightly tanned skin, speckled with shards of yellow.

They glanced about the oncoming city with an unnerving tension. He had gone through so many places in the past year and a half. Always moving in with his stuff, playing the new guy and hiding his indentity. But every time someone would find out the truth, the horrible truth. Fate had not been kind to him in life, he was half demon. The usual way it would go was someone would stumble on him with his hat off. Of course under his hat were the most obvious sign of his mixed heritage. His ears. Oh how he hated those ocurrsed ears on top of his head. Attepts at hiding them with a concealing spell had worked after many a try, but it was exausting. He wore a hat most of the time because using a concealing spell all day takes alot of energy. Not that he didnt have any of course, but it meant that he had to sleep at night then. And he liked to stay up, only sleeping a few hours if he felt like it. The first few times it had happened he stayed even though he was exposed. Maybe no one else knew about it, maybe the person that saw him would keep quiet. But every time word got around, and he would be hunted. The last time he allowed this to happen was when he had met Kikyo.

It was about 10 months ago, he had found a university he really liked and kikyo had shown him around. She had been really nice to him, taking care not to confuse him and even shouted in his defense when someone critized him for being new. But then she found out. she came on him in a wave of fury, bringing a few other students to help finish him off. she was a priestess and said she had a duty to destroy the evil of demons and fithy mixed breeds like himself. She attacked until he was hanging on the verge of death and left him with a guard to die. The man had only been instructed to make sure he did not get away, but decided to finish the job himself. A lucky break for him, because he was able to overpower the man and escape with his life.

He cringed at the memory, it was certainly not the best thing to think about when he was trying to prevent it. He had to focus on not screwing up this time, maybe if no one found out, he could finish school and get on with his life. He pulled out the key the university had given him. they had not said anything about his roommate, which was not unusual. It was probably just some random guy they picked for no reason. fine with him, he hadnt intended on getting to know his roommate that well anyway.

3 hours later

'Man that took forever' he thought with a sigh. Because he had been deemed suspicous, due to his jacket wearing in the middle of summer, the train stations personel had been kind enough to search his bags. Sighing deeper, he continued to trudge along toward the university. The train station had been nowhere close, and he did not want to waste his money on a cab so he carried his 2 suitcases in one hand and rolled the third along behind him, which also carried a fourth. He was walking through one of the worst parts of town, he could tell. the street was dimly lit, now being early evening and had garbage skewn everywhere.

Dispite it being well past dust, he noticed the sky continued to grow darker. 'must be about to rain' he thought to himself. Sniffing the air lightly, he confirmed his suspitions 'yup, definately going to rain'. The rain always seemed to calm him, dispite the horrible memories that came attached to it. He felt his posture relax at the smell, why was it always so relaxing? His mother always told him it had rained the day he was born. Something in his mind argueably shouldnt have happened. It was raining the day he was seperated from his mother too. He cringed, what an awful memory. And it had also been raining when Kikyo had tried to kill him... A sound snapped him out of his thoughts.

His ears swiveled under his hat when he heard a muffled cry from behind him. Setting down his suitcases, he turned instantly; ready to fight. What he saw sickened him, he felt like he was going to vomit. A man was tieing a scarff around the mouth of a young woman, who looked to be about his age.The man was obviously drunk, he continusly fumbled with the knot and reeked of alcohol. The womans shirt had been wripped apart, probably by the man and she struggled against his weight, trying to get free. It made his blood boil, something about taking advantage of the vulnerable made him increadibly pissed. He swept toward the man and yelled, "Let her go!". The man turned and chuckled darkly.

"You think you can stop me punk?" he slurred. Oh yea, he was definately drunk

"I know I can!" he shouted back and tore the mans wrist from the girls neck. The man attempted to strike back, but the half demon stepped back, out of his reach. Unfortunately in doing so, his already loose hat feel off his head. 'Shit!' he shouted to himself and scrambled to catch the stray article of clothing. The man staggered backwards, obviously afraid.

"D-demon?" he studdered. The half demon froze, 'shit, shit, shit!'

"Demon! DEMON!" The man yelled. Immedately people stepped out of their houses and quickly dove inside, the men ran for their guns. Yea, this difinately wasnt going to be a good new exprience for Inuharu.