Sorry everyone for my absence but I was away at Disney for a week and after that I've been grounded!I hope I didn't lose what little bit of fans I had…If you guys are still here thank you so much for your support!
Now basically this chapter isn't about the story itself but some background info so you don't get confused in the chapters to come.First off I'm going to get a disclaimer out in that InuYasha doesn't belong to me but Rumiko Takashi and Shirokiba belongs to Becky Tailweaver. She wrote the wonderful story 'The White Dog' which was the most inspiration for this story.She invented the character Shirokiba to be Koga's older half brother and the person who found InuYasha after Sesshomaru had done a terrible act of cruelness to his little brother. InuYasha had been left half dead by the act and Shirokiba nursed him back to health for a few years until InuYasha ran away.This is all that is said of their past together. She had not given Shirokiba a past of his own so I basically created one for him along with Sesshomaru's. Shirokiba is also, as mentioned in the story, only half wolf and has the eyes of a dog. This is because he is half dog and half wolf.
The next part is very important. I'm not sure if this idea is in the actual InuYasha or if it was just invented for 'The White Dog', but the whole race of dog demons is divided by color, the purest at the top. The colors include and are ordered like this:
White-ex Inutashio,Sesshomaru,InuYasha
Silver
Black
Brown-ex Shirokiba
Yellow
The clans also fought fiercely against each other and were divided into groups as to who could trust who. The groups were ordered as such:
White-Browns
Slivers-Blacks
Yellow-whoever was in control at the time (they were the chickens of the clans)
So whenever a war broke out between clans they grouped up as such and fought sword,tooth and claws against their own kin.
Now for what will be happening in my story starting next chapter. Inutashio and Sesshomaru's mother, called Lady Nigiri in this story, have already had Sesshomaru and are separate. Sesshomaru lives with his mother who dose bidding with other clan members such as Silvers and Blacks in order to gain even just a little bit of the power she had when she was with Inutashio. InuYasha is not yet even a thought.Shirokiba was recently abandoned by his mother whose new husband disapproved of crossbreeding and forced her to get rid of him. The only place she could send him was to Inutashio and prays that he would care for his best friend's child. Inutashio being the kind ruler (on the inside at least) accepted him and gave him room inside the castle where he lived.
Alright that's about it! Most of the information is here and the rest should be explained in the story.And if anyone wants to read the wonderful story 'The White Dog' it can be found at Wonderland (To find it I suggest you go to google and type in wonderland InuYasha and look for a geocites site.The site should pop up with the characters dressed as characters from Alice in Wonderland.Then go to fans click on fanfiction and it's the 4th story down)
Ninmu Kanryou