Chapter 2:
New Invention: The Telescope
50 YEARS LATER Inuyasha stared out of the castle window, head resting in his hand. He sighed as he remembered what had happened only a few hours ago."Inuyasha, you need to be wed!" his mother had told him. He was seventeen, ripe for marriage. One of the men in the family did not think so however.
"Aika, who do you have in mind?" asked Inutaisho, Inuyasha's father. "After all, I don't want him marrying some stuck up princess!"
"I have chosen a wonderful princess for him to marry! Her name is Kikyo, and she seems perfect!" Inuyasha had seen Kikyo before. She was pale and almost always expressionless. Though she was pretty, it was as if she didn't care for anything. He despised her. There was absolutely no way that he was going to marry her.
"I think that we should ask Inuyasha. He might have some other princess in mind." They both turned to where Inuyasha was standing, but found he was not there. He had left during their very loud conversation. Which should have included him.
Inuyasha's fist slammed into the wooden table. 'Damn, why should I let them push me around?' he asked himself, filling with anger. But it was no use to be mad at himself. That was pathetic.
He looked at a covered lump on the table. It was a telescope. Some guy called Galileo made it. It had been a present for his seventeenth birthday. (A/N: this is no longer in the feudal era, I made the place different. The telescope plays a big part, so don't flame) It made objects that seemed far away seem closer. It had excited Inuyasha immensely at first, but then he just grew tired of it. He had had it for two weeks. Two weeks to get bored of such an expensive present. But it did prove useful. He could look at the sky at night, the beauty was so calming. And he could look at animals from distances. They were so shy. He could study them in their natural habitat this way.
Inuyasha pulled out the wooden chair and sat down. He pulled the cover off of the telescope. The shiny metal cover glistened in the bright sun of the afternoon. It was smooth and long. When the prince was bored he would look through it to the outside world. The place that seemed to have no problems.
A sigh could be heard escaping from Inuyasha's lips. Marriage. What a stupid thing. Why couldn't he just hire some kid from the village to be his "child?" That wouldn't work. That child could not love Inuyasha as if it was his real child. Too bad.
'Tokyo Castle,' thought Inuyasha to himself. He looked through the telescope to see the burnt castle. He had always been fascinated on how the castle had never burnt to the ground. When he was younger he had asked his parents, but they did not answer. They just gave him cold stares and sent him up to his room with no supper. The memories always burned deeply in his mind.
A pale white could be seen at what seemed to be one of the castle windows. It was hard to tell with all that castle had been through. Inuyasha's mouth hung open and he fixed the device to make the white bigger. It was moving. It, it looked like a person. A girl. Crying for help.