Static covers your vision to reveal a theater to reveal the author...sitting by a well?
*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome to a story you all may know from Wattpad, Hanyo of Snow.*
*Now before you may be asking why am I posting this story and do I have the author's permission. Well it is because I am the author, on Wattpad I am known as Mukuro7. I have said that several times previoulsy on my other works, but it couldn't hurt to be careful.*
*Anyway I started this story a year ago as I was bored and just started Inuyasha. So I thought I try my luck at writing a story at it. And to my surprise I had struck gold. Now 1 year later and 18 chapters in it has surpassed From No One To Someone in popularity, something that I can see Familiar of Twilight doing so in the future.*
*Anyway as to how this story is going to go down, unlike my other stories this is told from multiple points of view and as the traditional formula of Male Reader stories on Wattpad. But I have seen that it doesn't quite fly as well here, so the reader name will be Touma instead of Y/N. Touma Yukinokouji has a nice ring to it doesn't it.*
*Also as a part of this story there is some gender bending, if you wish to leave now then do so.*
*As for what this story covers, it covers the entirerty of Rumiko Takahashi's master piece and I only call it that as that is the only one of her works I've read/watch. So the anime, some bits of the manga, the movies, and the Cursed Mask game. So expect to be in the long haul.*
*Anyway enough explination, let us begin.*
*I do not own Inuyasha, it belongs to the amazing Rumiko Takahashi.*
*So anyway just relax, maybe put some music on and enjoy.*
*Normally I would ask you to sit down, but for this chapter I'm going to have to ask you to look into the well.*
You comply with the author and see a pool of water at the bottom.
*I thought that this would be approprite for this chapter. So just stare into the water and I'll see you all at the end of the chapter.*
The author sticks the tip of a halberd into the water and the pool ripples as the screen changes fades to black.
Hanyo of Snow
Down the Well
(Touma POV)
"Come on where is it?" I said while looking through my closet.
It had been a simple plan. Wake up a bit earlier then usual, get everything ready for school, and then stop by the Higurashi Shrine to hid Kagome's present in the storehouse til after school. So I had gotten everything done with plenty of time to spare.
It wasn't until I had finished drying my hair when I realized what was wrong.
I had forgotten where I had put Kagome's present.
So I had to spend the next half an hour looking for it.
I had just finished looking in my closet when I noticed that a corner poking out from under the dresser. Removing it up I saw that it was the present I was looking for.
Wondering how I missed it, I tucked the present under my arm and then proceded to lock up. I didn't have to worry about anyone else coming back as no one else lived with me and Mrs. Higurashi had my spare key.
"Hopefully Kagome hasn't left yet." I muttered to myself as I wrapped my blue scarf around my neck and began to walk to her family's shrine as it was only about a block away from home.
As I was walking I began to reminisce about my housing situation and how my friendship with Kagome began.
Considering that I'm literally carrying all that my mother had left to me, It wasn't that hard to think about.
My childhood minus a few major bumps and what I inherited from my mother was fairly average, aside from my parents that is.
My father was a kind, yet eccentric man who loved to travel and had a bit of a horrible penchant for secrets. So I didn't get to see him that much, but he spent every waking moment that he could with me when he wasn't traveling. He was perhaps one of the best archaeological professors in Japan and was known for snagging the hearts of his fellow professors and students alike without even trying. But he had to break all of their hearts as he wasn't interested in them.
Not that he was dense, but none had met his tastes. So he gently brushed them off.
He kept this up until during a trip to Hokkaido were he met mom and fell in love soon after.
I don't really remember her that well, because she passed away when I was very young. But from what dad described was that she was somewhat aloof along with being very caring.
He often described what was his favorite thing about her was her laugh. Se rarely laughed at all, but when she did he described it as something that could even make the most cold-hearted of humanity to bust a gut at it. One of the reason's they fell in love was their matched sense of humor, something which I hadn't inherited from either of them.
The fact that dad was a very handsome man or the fact that mom was a legal loli and was WAY older then him also helped.
In fact after he found out what she truly was, they immediately got married soon after and I was born a year later.
For most of my early life I spent traveling with them all over Japan until I was 2.
During a trip to Osaka mom died from heatstroke, but not before making the scarf I always wore.
After that dad changed his and my last name in order to honor her and also he decided to permanently settle down in Tokyo, were it was cooler and so that he wouldn't lose me the same way as he did mom.
Soon after that he took me with him on his first visit to the Higurashi shrine. There he met and quickly befriended the shrine's caretaker and his family. I was quickly introduced to Kagome, who is just a little older then I am.
At first we didn't get along with each other, but not even 5 minutes later we were laughing and playing together and have been friends ever since.
After that however I couldn't interact that much with Kagome afterwards. She lived quiet a bit away from the shrine and we both were in different school districts soon after. So the only times I really got to interact with her was when there was no school, whenever she visited the shrine, or when dad left me with the Higurashi's to go on one of his trips.
That changed however when we both turned 8.
Both Kagome's father and grandmother had died in what was tragic traffic accident that also took the lives of a few other people.
So she and Mrs. Higurashi had to move into the shrine with Grandpa and Kagome was enrolled into my school afterwards. A few months after that Kagome's little brother, Sota was born. And followed up a few weeks later by my farther dying.
He was at an archaeological convention in Las Vegas when was done in by food poisoning, so was nearly everyone else that ordered crab that night.
He had left me the house and a considerable amount of money, but he had also left me alone. I had no other family besides the mentioning of my mother having a sister, who neither me or my dad had ever seen before as the two of them stopped being on speaking terms long ago.
Either way as I was too young to manage the house on my own,so I had often stayed with Kagome and her family at the shrine until I was old enough to manage the house. With them I grew closer to Kagome and to Sota, as we consider each other brothers in all but blood due to growing up together.
With them I was able to move past my father's death and I eventually moved back into my house at age 13, discovering somethings soon after and cursing my father's penchant for secrets soon after.
I broke myself out of my musings when I realized that I had arrived at my destination, the Higurashi shrine.
There wasn't really anything special about that shrine that wouldn't see outside of some of the bigger Shinto shrines, minus an ancient tree with a sizeable bare patch and a well house. Other then that it was literally a second home to me.
I was about to head inside the house to see if Kagome was still home, when I saw Söta snooping around the wellhouse.
What is he doing around the wellhouse? He is even more creeped out by that place then I am.
Truthfully I'm not really bothered by the building itself, but by the Bone Eater's Well itself. It was built to dump in the remains of yokai and demons that were either very dangerous or proved to be near impossible to be killed. Just the thought of one of those things were still alive at the bottom of the well was scary enough, but the sense of raw ambient yoki surrounding it is just increased the unsettling factor.
I've shared my opinions about this in the past with Kagome, but she has always told me that I was a scaredy cat for being scared of such things.
Sadly I would have agreed with her if I didn't know that such things actually existed in real life.
Shaking my head to clear my thoughts, I decided on the simplest method to get Sota's attention.
"Hey Sota what's wrong!"I asked.
As soon as Sota heard me, he came running towards me. When he got closer to me I noticed the bowl in his hand was filled with cat food and figured out what had him so upset.
"Buyo is inside the wellhouse, isn't he?" I sighed out, getting a nod in response.
"I think that he is stuck inside the well. Can you please help me get him, Big Bro?" Sota asked, getting me to nod and secretly wonder how in Yomi did that cat get inside the well. He was too fat to have climbed into it after all.
"Sure I'll help, but let me stash Kagome's gift somewhere in the warehouse first." I replied with a small smile, trying to eases his worries.
Well I might be a bit nervous about approaching the well, but I'm willing to get over it to help out me little bro. But at this time Kagome's gift comes first.
I spent the past month just to make this for her. The only one who has seen it before was Sota and he thought that it was the perfect gift for her.
"Alright, but please hurry up Big Bro." He said as I began to walk away.
"Don't worry I will." I called out to Sota as I got further away.
A few minutes later I had finally found a place to hide my gift when something fell down from the shelf with a resulting clang. I looked down to see that it was a sword that was stuck within it's sheath.
"When did Grandpa get this? I don't remember this being here yesterday and I helped him with inventory." I said as I took a good look at it. Maybe it had arrived here this mourning, as that was always a possibility. Grandpa did say that he would have done some work here earlier in order to clear up some space for the gift.
At first it looked like an ordinary sword to me, until I grabbed the hilt. The entire thing released a soft glow before it's weight seemed to double.
After a few seconds I of getting adjusted to it's new weight, I removed the sword from it's sheath to see a beautiful black blade with a red hamon.
After admiring the beauty of the blade for a few moments, I took a few practice swings at the open air and noticed no other effects what so ever before putting it back in it's sheath
So besides having some sort of seal on it, there seems to be no other enchantment on this sword or at least none that curses the wielder, a typical feature on most of Japan's enchanted swords. At least those forged by human hands that is.
I checked the time on my phone and I had sometime to kill before school started I decided to check how Sota was doing before seeing if Grandpa knew anything about the sword.
As I exited the store house, a feeling of dread emerged once I felt a surge of energy coming from the wellhouse.
With no time to lose I broke into a full sprint with my hand resting on the sword, reafy to draw at a moment's notice.
When I got to the wellhouse and all I heard was Sota yelling out one word that caused me to quicken my speed.
"Sis!"
Something had happened to Kagome inside the wellhouse and I had to find out what was going on.
I had found the door wide open and a violet glow coming from the Bone Eater's Well. And it was quickly starting to fade.
So without a second thought I rushed passed Sota and probably scared a life or two in Buyo's case before jumping into the well after Kagome and right before the light vanished completely.
The moment after that I found myself in a void that was the perfect mixture of darkness and violet energy. From where I looked there was no exit back to the well, so I decided to look in the direction gravity was taking me and found Kagome.
However she was not alone and what I saw filled me with dread.
Judging by the appearance of what had grabbed Kagome was a multiple armed woman with the lower half of a centipede, I figured out that I was dealing with an ōmukade.
I had heard about them from stories dad used to tell me as a kid along with tales about other yokai found in his notes. He described ōmukade as an often vicious type of yokai who sometimes grew hundreds of yards in length and had a preference for choking the life out of their victims with their long bodies.
Now considering that I don't exactly have enough power to take her on directly, all I could hope for was to stay out of the ōmukade's reach, take her by surprise, and then get Kagome as far away as possible. From there I'll have to make it up as I go and figure way to get us out of here.
After I had figured out my best course of action, I unsheathed the sword and gently descended along the centipede half, silently hoping that I would go undetected.
A few moments later I had found a a good spot and gently placed my free hand on one of her legs and frost and mist began to appear and spread out from my hand.
As I was doing this I focused on what was happening with the õmukade and Kagome.
"You have it, don't you?" The ōmukade questioned Kagome. "Don't you?"
With that she began to bring Kagome closer to her face and began to lick her, as if to taste her.
Before I could do anything to help however, Kagome acted first.
"Let go of me! You're disgusting!" She shouted as she batted away the õmukade's tongue. "Let go of me! I said!" She continued. Kagome managed to get a grip on the yokai's face and tried to push her away.
It didn't do anything to her, in fact she seemed almost amused that her prey was trying to fight back.
Until Kagome's hand started to glow purple.
Both me and the ōmukade were taken for surprise, even more so when she the yokai seemed to be falling faster and one of her arms was torn off. However the yokai quickly regained her bearings and tried to attack Kagome.
She never got her chance.
I sliced off the now frozen leg, causing the ōmukade to roar out in pain and to fall faster into the void now.
"Touma!" Kagome called out to me, finally noticing that I was here.
Before I good reply back to here, the ōmukade yelled from far below us.
"The two of you will not escape me! I will have the Shikon no Tama!" The yokai said as her face disappeared into the endless abyss beneath us, followed by her centipede half soon after.
Soon after the void was suddenly replaced with the bottom of the well. With that also came an increase in gravity and I landed on my face. As I didn't fall far, I quickly got up to see Kagome standing over me.
"Are you alright Y/N?" She asked.
"I'm fine Kagome." I replied back. "But what about you, we just went through some kind of void while you were dragged down by an ōmukade. So are you fine?"
Kagome paused for a few moments before answering.
"Honesty Y/N, I'm not. I was dragged into the well by, what did you call that centpede woman?" She asked.
"An ōmukade." I said, getting her to nod.
"I was dragged into the well by the ōmukade. I wish that what just happened was a dream, but with you being here and that dismembered arm and frozen leg over there just proves that I'm not dreaming." Kagome said somberly, before fixing me an inquisitive glare and said something that I've been dreading.
"So if I'm not dreaming, then were did you get that sword and how did you freeze that leg?"
I wanted to tell her, but not like this.
Still I will oblige to her request, but not right now.
"I will tell you Kagome." I sighed out. "But first we need to get out of the well before that ōmukade comes back. Besides we also need to see if Sota is alright. Since I can't hear anything at the top, he must've ran away to get Grandpa. So we better get out of here to show them we are alright." I said, getting her to nod.
After I said that the both of us began to look for a way out the well. A few moments later Kagome a vine large enough and strong enough for us to climb.
She was about to climb up first, but she stopped and gestured for me to take her place.
Seeing how short her skirt was, I could understand why.
As I was climbing, I began to reflect on something the õmukade said before she disappeared into the abyss.
The Shikon Jewel or the Jewel of Four Souls.
If I remember correctly it was an item of great power that Grandpa based his tacky keychains off of. A quick repainting quickly fixed those pathetic excuses of a souvenir anyway.
Anyway from what little I know about the Shikon Jewel, was that it was cremated along with a miko named Kikyo a little over 500 years ago. Considering how old the well was it wouldn't be strange for the õmukade to know about it.
But this raised a very concerning question.
If it was destroyed over 500 years ago, then how did Kagome have it?
While that is troubling, I can worry about it later. For now we have to tell Sota, Granpa, abd Mrs. Higurashi that we were all right.
As me and Kagome continued to climb, we noticed a few white butterflies fluttering around us. Which should be an impossibility unless they had flown in from the wellhouse door.
About a minute later I finally climbed out and was immediately took in the surroundings.
Instead of the dark and quiet wellhouse, the well was instead located in a clearing in the middle of a forest.
I made another quick look around as Kagome was climbing out of the well and saw that we weren't at the Higurashi shrine anymore.
If we aren't at the shrine anymore, then where in Japan are we?
If we were still in Japan anyway?
The water settles and you look up to see the author leaning on his halberd.
*Hakuorofan7 here and I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. Anyway I believe that it is time to get down to buiness, shall we.*
*For update time you don't have to worry about long delays as I will always post the next chapter release date and I will only post a new chapter 1 year after it has been released on Wattpad. So by my count the next chapter should be out by...* The author pulls out a watch before closing it. *May 18th, so expect that and just a heads up it will be a lot longer then this one.*
*As for the harem, it has mainly been decided. Ironing out some kinks and might add just one or two more but what I have is definite. Still if there is any suggestions I am always open to any suggestions.*
*Anyway I will be moving on back to my other works starting with Familiar of Twilight which might be out before the next chapter of this. So I hope you all look forward to that.*
*Well that is all for now, if you have any questions let me know through review or PM and I will get back to you later.*
*So until next time, ciao!*
The author puts the halberd into the well and a tower of water erupted and the sreen was soon covered with mist, ending the chapter.
Harem: Kagome Higurashi, Inuko (Female Inuyasha), Sesshōmaru (Female), Miroku (Female), Sango, Yura, Abi, Hari, Kanna, Ayame, Kikyo, Koga (Female), Tōran, Kagura, Tsubaki, Kaname Kururugi, Suijin, Enju, and a surprise.