Dislaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, I never will, and…ITS NOT FAIR! (goes away to cry in a corner)
Italics stand for thoughts, flashbacks, or emphasis.
Chapter One : History of a Hanyou
Not many people like it when two different kinds of people get married.
Take a demon and a human getting married, for instance. Many people would immediately protest this kind of marriage. After all, they would argue, shouldn't humans and demons get married to their own kind? Not each other?
Well, there was a couple that not only got married, but they even had a child. A boy, who was half-demon, half-human, which the couple named Inuyasha.
It is no wonder why the majority of the people in society instantly rejected him.
A Hanyou? Disgraceful, those closed-minded people commented to each other. A half-breed! He doesn't belong with our kind, both humans and youkais protested. He's a freak.
The talk got no better over time.
Now, it just so happened, that after a few years of being happily married, InuYasha's mortal father got killed when he got thrown off a horse while riding with a few of his friends. And so the Hanyou's beautiful Youkai mother had to raise him by herself.
Realizing that Inuyasha needed a male role-model in his life, the wealthy Youkai lady made a "respectable" marriage to another Youkai named Naraku, who had 2 daughters, Kanna and Kagura (whom Inuyasha instantly disliked).
What the lady didn't know was that when she married Naraku, she was basically sealing her and her son's fate. She died a few weeks later from a poison that mysteriously found itself in her drink…leaving Naraku with all her wealth.