My name is InuDienku, but everyone who knows me just calls me Dienku. I am the eleven year old son of the hanyou InuYasha and the miko Kagome. My raven black hair blew softly behind me in the gentle breeze as I sat atop the hill overlooking the village. My father was due back from a trip to the small mountainous region a few miles from the village, on business he had stoically refused to even hint about. I stood up suddenly, turning to my best friend who was sitting beside me. "Hey, Sangi" I said "Let's get in a bit of sparring before father returns" Just then, my snow white dog ears picked up the unmistakeable battle cry of a fairly pissed off youkai. My sensitive nose soon told me the same. "Never mind sparring, let's go kick some youkai ass!" I said, leaping into the air towards a nearby tree. Sangi, scrambling to his feet, quickly yelled back "Hey, wait up Dienku! Unless you've forgotten, I'm not a hanyou and I can't jump like that!"

Twenty minutes later, I was leaping through the air, claws flashing, avoiding both the youkai's flailing tentacle-arms and Sangi's oversized boomerang. "Sankon-Tesshou!" I cried, inflicting a large wound in the youkai's stomach. Purple blood oozed out of the slash marks, and the youkai screamed in anger. Before I knew it was coming, one of the thing's tentacle limbs wrapped it's self tightly around me, pinning my arms to my side. "Sangi, finish him off!" Sangi whipped his weapon over my head, severing the youkai's arm. I fell about twenty feet through the air, landing easily on my feet and preparing to attack. Just as I was about to finish the disgusting thing off, Sangi's boomerang flew back towards him, decapitating the thing along the way. "All right! We got him good!" Sangi shouted at me, catching his weapon. Then I caught a familiar voice on the wind. "Father's back!" I shouted, taking off in the direction of the village.

"Hey, Pup! Where were you?" When I explained what we had been doing, he congratulated the both of us on our 'Kickass' victory. "Later on we're going across the well for your twelfth birthday party. I want to give you your present..." Father started, but was cut off by my mother "Wait, InuYasha. I want you to wait to give him the surprise. He can see it at the birthday party." "Ok, fine, but can I pleeeeese give him the other part of his gift now?" Father begged. Mother agreed, and father handed me a badly wrapped package. I opened it, to reveal a robe much like father's fire-rat cloth. Mine was blue, thought, instead of red. "It is the cloth of the water-rat. That rope gives you the power to breath underwater, keeps you dry, and you will never outgrow it." I was in awe, speechless and frozen. If that was just a little side gift compared to the 'big surprise', I couldn't even fathom what it could be. "Wow, thanks dad!" I exclaimed. This was going to be the best birthday ever.

Translations: youkai-demon
sankontesshou-soul scattering iron claw (iron reaver soul stealer)
hanyou-half demon
miko-priestess
Author's note: Sangi is pronounced San-gee
InuDienku is pronounced Inu-dee-en-cuu
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