Litadrene: Oi! Have you finished that damned chapter yet?
Mrryl: Nearly… just give me a few more seconds….
Litadrene: Well… WORK FASTER! (Whacks Mrryl upside the head)
Mrryl: Hey! What the H! Back off, woman! Or else I'll never finish my first Inu Yasha Fanfic's first chapter! Then I'll pummel you!
Litadrene: Fine! I'm leaving! You call me over when your done and I'll read it! (Stalks away, leaving Mrryl puzzled and confused)
Mrryl: Alright… anyways, everyone enjoy the first chapter!
(The above was the conversation I was having with a friend when I was nearly done this chapter… she wanted to see what "her idea", who is Nekogome, would do)
DISCLAIMER: Mrryl: Hey! Litadrene, did you know I own Inu Yasha?
Litadrene: You wish….
Mrryl: Yeah…
CHAPTER 1: When Worlds Collide
Inuyasha sat up quickly, staring dully at the alarm on his nightstand as it rang in the annoying "BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!" of a bug in his brain. Noticing that the time was 7:20 AM. "Damn! I'm gonna be late for school!" It was the day before his 15th birthday and he was stoked. The excitement of finally being allowed to stay out past 10:00 PM was manifested in that single day, tomorrow. He slid out of bed, jumping into his black school uniform as quickly as possible. Running downstairs into the kitchen he ran face to face with a very angry Sesshoumaru. Normally this wouldn't bother him but he blanched when he found Inutaisho standing beside him, a disciplinary look on his face. Inuyasha knew he was in for it.
"Inuyasha, you can't risk being late! You have alright marks, but you should get an education! It is the most important thing, besides your Shinto training, that you should be working on!" Inutaisho said, his voice reflecting the annoyance at having to lecture his son for waking up late, again. Inuyasha stood there, finding the floor extremely interesting at the moment. Sesshoumaru, however, finally stepped in.
"Father, Inuyasha won't do it again, right Inuyasha?" The words caught Inuyasha physically off guard, Sesshoumaru was actually defending him? "Besides, we don't' really have time for lectures, Inuyasha and I are going to be late as it is! I don't want to have to get yelled at in front of the class by Mr. Houjinki again! Come on— " Sesshoumaru grabbed his hand, leading him out the door "—let's get moving, you can deal with missing breakfast for once." He said as he led Inuyasha down the temple grounds, practically dragging the still sleepy Inuyasha down the street to the bus stop.
As usual, Inuyasha found his eyes caught by the odd feeling he had whenever he glanced at the wellhouse. Finally they reached the bus stop. Sesshoumaru stopped, letting Inuyasha go and saying, "Alright, stand up straight. Father can still see us and he won't like it if you show that you have just awoken. Stand!" Sesshoumaru menaced as he slapped Inuyasha on the back, making Inuyasha jolt upright, to not slouch. Finally, after Sesshoumaru noticed that Inutaisho stopped watching them, he said, "I'm going to go hang out with Jaken and Hojima. See you after school." He then headed off to his two friends, who were on the opposite side of the bus stop. Inuyasha looked a the two, examining the short teenager who Sesshoumaru had shook hands with. Jaken and Sesshoumaru had been friends since preschool and Hojima came along at elementary school. Jaken seemed to be a slave of Sesshoumaru's though. He was constantly fulfilling Sesshoumaru's every desire.
Looking around, Inu Yasha noticed Houjo, the over-friendly kid who was the only person who was really nice to him. Waving at him, he walked over to him, saying, "How're you today, Houjo?" he was greeted with the usual smile that Houjo always seemed to wear and the same response, "Great!" with a happy handshake. After that, the pair were silent, neither talking. When the bus finally came Inuyasha got on and rode it to school, passing through the day quickly and thoughtlessly.
Finally, he came home. Entering the door, he dropped his school bag and went instantly towards the cupboard, pulling out the ramen and filling a kettle with water to boil. While the water was boiling he searched the house, shouting, "Hey! Dad! Where are you?" Upon receiving no answer, he went back to the kitchen, seeing a note on the table.
"Gone for the rest of the night, have to bless the new apartment construction grounds in Downtown Tokyo. Don't wait up for supper. Eat. Love, Father/Dad" Inuyasha laughed as he read the note. His dad was a Shinto Priest so Japanese construction companies and the like wanted him to bless their construction site to appease the kami that resided there. But the thing that made him laugh was the mild joke at the end of the note, "Father/Dad". Sesshoumaru always called Inutaisho Father, in his formal tone. Inuyasha called him Dad. So Inutaisho ended up writing both on most of his notes.
As he began thinking about Sesshoumaru, he walked through the door. He nose was a purple-blue color and he had some scrapes and cuts on his face and arms. Inuyasha sighed, "Have you been fighting again, Sessh?" he called him by his nickname (which I will now be referring to him as, because constantly writing Sesshoumaru takes too long!) Sessh usually loved that nickname, it would almost always bring a slight smirk to his face even on his worst days. But Sessh didn't smile this time, instead he raised his fist and slammed it into Inuyasha's face, sending him onto his butt. Inuyasha stared at him in confusion, his eyes beginning to glisten with unshed tears as the fact that Sessh had hit him, not the pain itself. Sessh looked straight at Inuyasha, his eyes twisted into an angry glare as he stared at the kid at his feet. Finally, Sessh's expression softened, he reached down and pulled Inuyasha to his feet, saying, "Sorry, I didn't mean to hit you. I just had a bad day and I got into a fight today and I didn't need someone bugging me about if I got into a fight and—" he glanced at the boiling kettle "how much water is in there? Enough for two?" he asked, Inuyasha found himself laughing lightly as he nodded. Sessh went to the cupboard, grabbing another packet of ramen and turning towards Inuyasha as he threw it on the counter. "Forgive me?" he asked. Inuyasha nodded again and brushed away the tears. When they finally made the ramen and were eating it Sessh stopped, grabbing both Inuyasha attention and his hand.
"If I gave you an early birthday present, would you accept it and treasure it as much as I have? Wear it always, no matter how 'girly' it looks?" Inuyasha nodded emphatically, Sessh had never given him anything besides a sound beating in their spear sparring. When Sessh removed a necklave from around his neck, a family heirloom that had been passed down for generations, Inuyasha gasped. It was supposed to be passed down to the first born child, always. But here the rule was being broken, Sessh was giving it to him, the second. He took it gingerly in his hands, starring at the white oval beads that surrounded the thing black string that held it all together. The entire necklace was surrounded by it, except for the one part that was always his interest. The orb of glistening light was in his hands now, warm despite the fact that the room was cold. It seemed as though swirling clouds of purple and blue, white and black circulated the insides of the jewel. He smiled, remember how often he had sat, watching the colors inside when it hung around his brothers neck. Now it was his.
Sessh watched his brothers expression, noting the subtle wonder in the eyes and the more obvious gaping mouth. He smiled, raising from his place and saying, "Happy birthday, Inuyasha." As he left the room he finished the gift giving with a single statement, "I guess since Father isn't here, you can stay up late tonight, it is Friday after all…." The thought hit him as he stared into the jewel. He hadn't even noticed that tomorrow was his birthday.
The next day he awoke bright and early, slipping out of bed and down the stairs. He had excess energy that day and knew why, it was his 15th birthday! He ran outside, feeling the jingling jewel against his chest, liking the warmth that spread through his chest whenever it touched his skin. When he got outside he went for the shack at the back of the house, grabbing a short-shafted spear. Running back out into the main courtyard he launched into a kata that Sessh had taught him the night before. Swing, stab, jump, kick, punch, jab, leap, he did all these and more in a complicated dance of both athletic skill and deadly srikes. Anyone who walked into the path he moved along would have been killed if they didn't have his skill, which seemed dwarfed by Sessh's skill with the spear. But at the moment he felt like a world-class athlete, boundlessly energetic and highly skilled. He soon attracted a crowd of watchers, some male but most female. He didn't notice however as he was too enamored in his dance. When he finally stopped, sweat drenched and panting, everyone clapped and Sessh stepped outside, smiling as he grabbed a short-shafted spear as well. He started walking towards Inuyasha, spear spinning in an almost hypnotic rhythm. It hummed as he shouted, "Let's spar! I want to see how you have improved!" When they launched into the spar, the onlookers gasped, the spears were obviously sharpened and they were both skilled and determined. But one false move could kill either of them. When Inuyasha finally slipped up, spinning in a too wide swing, he tripped, falling over just as Sessh's spear darted in to land a harmless blow. The blow was off-set and therefore caused more harm than he had intended. Inuyasha gasped as the blade bit into his arm, sending blood splattering across the courtyard. Sessh swore, turning towards the onlookers he said, "Looks like the shows over, everyone please leave immediately." When one person voiced concern over the wound Sessh answered, "He'll be fine, now please leave."
Once the people left, Sessh bandaged Inuyasha's arm with a towel he grabbed from inside. But once they got up, they both heard a quick clatter of wood from the wellhouse. Sessh and Inuyasha looked at each other, Inuyasha saying, "It's probably Bozo! I'll get him!" he said as he ran over to the wellhouse, Sessh yelling behind him, "Wait— get that damned cat out of there!" Inuyasha found himself wondering why he heard a note of fear and worry in Sessh's voice when he said "wait". But he merely ran headlong into the wellhouse, looking around when he entered the house. Nothing was there, but he saw what made the clatter, the wooden seal on the well had been obliterated. The wood was broken outwards, splinters that still clung to the well pointed upwards, meaning something had come out of the well.
Before Inuyasha could do anything however, he found himself being hoisted into the air by a great arm. It pulled him down into the well and Inuyasha expected himself to break bones when he hit the bottom, but it never came. Instead he saw a keliedoscope of colors, ranging from the whites, blue, purples and blacks of the jewel around his neck, to the vibrant reds, oranges and greens of nature. When he landed on the ground it was in a far different well. He looked around for what had brought him here, but didn't see anything. When he finally noticed some vines he could climb to get out of the well he found himself on a hill, with a forest surrounding him in nearly every direction. And above the canopy of the forest, stood the large tree that was on the temple grounds.
"Aha! If I get there, I can get home! All I have to do is keep the tree in sight, then I'll be home soon!" So he ran off in that direction, knowing that Sessh would kill him for disappearing like that. He ran into the forest, heading immediately for the tree. But when he reached it, he didn't understand.
At the foot of the tree wasn't his home, there was no house, or anything like that. Instead, standing at the base of the tree, stood a statue of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She was entirely gray, not even painted she was startling. She stood with a pained gasp on her face, frozen forever like that, her left arm was raised in front of her as if to ward off some sort of blow and her right arm was open behind her, as if to swing. Taking a few steps closer he noticed that she had cute little ears and a tail that ran down to her legs. Planted firmly on her chest was a Japanese paper with Shinto symbols he recognized as a seal to ward off evil. Reaching forward, he prepared to pull off the paper, then gasped and pulled his hand back as a sharp electrical burst shot forth from a circle etched into the ground around the statue and into his arm. Quite suddenly, he saw an arrow whiz past his head and burst into flames as it passed the circle. He turned, prepared to yell at the person who shot at him. Instead he raised his hands in the air, 5 men stood behind him, all had arrows trained on him and were ready to fire. One of them, a burly man with a beard asked, "Who are you? You had better come with us!" So Inuyasha merely stepped forward, saying, "I'll come with you, I'm Inuyasha Tojima. I don't know where I am but I'm apparently lost, could you guys stop—" but his words were cut off as a heavy object hit him from behind, knocking him unconscious.
There ya go! The first chapter… sorry for the abrupt ending but I'll have the next chapter up soon. So don't worry! I'm also sorry for the changing the characters so much, and you'll already notice some less obvious differences in the story already, see if you can name them in a REVIEW (PLEASE REVIEW?)
Daniel… #1 on line 43 page 1 you wrote "slapped Inuyasha on the back, making Inuyasha jolt upright, to stand straight up and not slouch" you don't need ", to stand straight up and not slouch" they get the idea. I got it and I'm a moron. Going to bed now good so far … "cough. Cough only read page one so far"