Inuyasha
By: melissa bonnar
chapter 1: past times
Durring the harsh times of the year 1534 Japan, when demons, angels, celestial beings, and half kinds were among the humans on Earth. There was a small village in the western part of Japan called "Coricos", a young maiden of 14 named Kaiya lived there, she was blessed with beauty beyond comparible her long light brown hair was always up in a messy ponytail with strands hanging down in her face, she had dark blue eyes as blue as the night sky but as deep as the ocean, and her delicate pale skin was as soft as water. All though she was indeed blessed with such beauty she also had a curse, she was not human at all not even the slightest part of her, her mother,Miyoko, was a true Celestial Being which is where her beauty came from, but her father,Kisho, was full blooded wolf demon which is where here other features came from :wolf ears atop her head instead of normal ears, fangs, unusual blue eyes, and claws. Her parents broke the rules of humanity, there wasn't very many occasions of which demons would be with humans or celestial beings and when it happened the child had unusually bad and depressing events take place in his/her life. On the night after Miyoko gave birth to Kaiya, she went to a shrine and prayed that the gods would not let her daughter fall into misfortunes, of which she named her Kaiya meaning "Forgiveness".
1477
Everything went alright after that, Kaiya lived in a huge manor in the Forest of Spirits with her mother and father, then her father being a General, was called off on duty the Panther Tribe was going against the Dog demons wanting their land in the Western Plains, the Wolf General was friends with the Dog General and stayed in his territory so of course his troops were at the Dog army's service. Six years passed nothing happened, another year went by and Miyoko became ill, then one of their servents ran in the room that Miyoko was resting in with Kaiya and another person trailing behind. The other person was not Kisho, he was the Dog demon General Inutaishou, he went to Miyoko's side and sat next to her.
"Miyoko, I have no sympathy for losses in war, but as Kisho was a strong ally I shall take all the sympathy necessary. I'm sorry but...Kisho was ambushed his camp was attacked, Kisho is dead." Inutaishou's voice went off track.
"In my heart...I knew it would happen...Inutaishou...I knew that the misfortune would befall us, because we took it for granite...will you do me a favor?" Miyoko asked softly, her dark brown hair was dischevled and messy, her sad golden eyes filled with sad tears.
"Anything."
"Inutaishou, make sure Kaiya gets a place to go...I don't have much time to live so please take her someplace safe I don't want her to be here when I go." Tears poured out of her eyes, Inutaishou nodded. "Come here Kaiya dear." Miyoko gestured for the small seven year old to hug her Kaiya held her mother tightly as she spoke. "Kaiya you are going to go with Inutaishou, listen to me you won't see me again. Here take this and never take it off." She took off her necklace it was a red sphere. "This will bring you luck in the most unusual of times. I love you dear Kaiya." She kissed her daughters head and she kissed her mother's head back.
Inutaishou took Kaiya away after that, Kaiya had tears in her eyes she had no idea that she had just lost her only family she had ever known. Kaiya at the time had dark brown hair, gold eyes, her hair was kept in a bun that turned into a twisted briad at the end with red lace, she wore a white kimono with red outlining. Kaiya was taken on a long journey of which she got to know this Inutaishou, even though she was young she understood most of what he meant. Inutaishou taught Kaiya what kinds of animals were good and what were dangerous, what kind of herbs healed and what kinds were to poison. Kaiya learned all of this even though she was only seven years old. Soon they found themselves in a huge village that was very busy, Inutaishou walked through the village to a huge manor on the eastern edge of the village, he gestured for Kaiya to wait outside. She listened and stood waiting, a few minutes passed and she got bored eventually as children do she wandered off. She found a small red ball next to a tree by the bridge, she took it and went to play, after a few moments a small boy about the same age as her with long silver hair, a red kimono, and gold eyes walked up to her.
"What are you doing crazy girl?" He asked with a cocky tone.
"Uhh...umm..." She was scared of this boy, he had silver dog ears at the top of his head, fangs, and claws, and even though she had the exact same things she was afraid of him.
"Forget it, wanna play with me?" He smiled sweetly.
She smiled back. "Yes!"
They played ball for a while throwing it to eachother, then Inutaishou showed up and watched them. He was accompanied by a beautiful human woman, with long black hair and a pink kimono, with dark brown eyes, she watched with a smile on her face like it was the first time she had ever been happy.
"InuYasha, it seems you have a new friend." She said happily. Inutaishou went over to Kaiya.
"Kaiya this is my son InuYasha, soon you shall meet my other son Sesshomaru also. But I have to take leave of here and go back to my post, This is InuYasha's mother Izayoi, she will take care of you though." He patted InuYasha on the head, kissed Kaiya's forehead, and kissed Izayoi's soft pink lips. Then he took leave. Izayoi extended her hand to Kaiya, Kaiya accepted it, InuYasha grabbed his mother's other hand and they walked to the manor. Inside the manor smelled of freshly cooked food.
"InuYasha show Kaiya where to sit at while I get supper ready." Izayoi went away after that. InuYasha took Kaiya's hand and led her into a room with a long table with four cusions placed down, he sat on a cusion and Kaiya sat by him. Moments later a young boy about a few years older than Kaiya and InuYasha walked in and sat on the other side of Kaiya, giving her weird looks.
"Who are you?" He asked snottily.
"K..Kaiya.." The boy had long silver hair like InuYasha but his eyes were darker gold, his ears were normal except for the unusual point at the tip, a blue cresent moon shape on his forehead, and he had two strips of purple marks on each of his cheeks, and red above his eyes.
"Okay." He smirked. "I'm hungry Ms. Izayoi!"
"Hold on Sesshomaru." Izayoi said, a few moments later she and another woman walked into the room with plates of food and set them down infront of everyone. Izayoi then sat down between Sesshomaru and InuYasha, and the other woman smiled and dissappeared into another room. The food was good, bowls of rice, fried fish, and other meats, salads of the finest vegetables, and pure mountain water. After they ate it was time to wash up.
"Sesshomaru this is Kaiya, she will be staying with us for awhile, would you and InuYasha mind showing here where the spring is and wait for her to get done but don't watch her. Then you two can bathe."
"Alright mother." InuYasha happily agreed.
"Sure thing I guess Ms. Izayoi." Sesshomaru said quite plainly.
Izyaoi got a small girl's kimono and gave it to Kaiya.
"Wear this to bed dear and I'll have a brand new kimono made for you."
Kaiya accepted the kimono and gave her thanks. She knew she would like having two new friends and a new protector. Kaiya followed Sesshomaru and InuYasha to the hotspring not far into the woods by the manor. The night air was warm, and the stars were out so bright with the half moon. Sesshomaru and InuYasha soon came to a stop, infront of them was a spring with steam comming from it.
"We'll wait here while you bathe just set your clothes on a rock and then go wash, if you need anything just yell for us." InuYasha smiled.
"Alright, thanks." Kaiya said and turned away from them and went to a big rock that was taller than herself. She undressed behind the rock and slipped into the water, it was nice and refreshingly warm. Kaiya's mind began to wander, she looked down at her chest which the red necklace hung off of her neck, the sphere was beautiful but she remembered her mother's last words of not to take it off. She cried softly remembering of how she will never see her mother again, or for that matter her father. She had no parents, her mind wandered back to its place as she bathed more.
InuYasha sat on the ground playing with sticks and rocks, Sesshomaru, being 10 at the time, on the other hand had taken a liking to this new girl, he tried to watch her but everytime he tried to InuYasha would look at him weirdly. Kaiya finished and got out of the water and went to dress in the kimono Izayoi gave to her. She put it on, it was beautiful made of rich silks, it was dark red with black trim, she let her hair fall down and drip. Then walked out to meet the boys where she left them.
"How was the water?" InuYasha asked.
"Warm. You should try it." She smiled at him.
"I will. Be back in a minute." InuYasha said as he walked off to the spring.
Sesshomaru stood there with Kaiya. He was actually afraid to talk with her, he never had this problem altough he never liked a girl just usually he called the village girls ugly worthless humans. Kaiya was different though, she was not human or all demon. He couldn't find the words to talk to her.
"Nice night huh?" Kaiya asked Sesshomaru.
"Yeah, I like the stars.."
"I'm tired do you think you can take me back now before you bathe?"
"Sure. InuYasha I'm taking Kaiya back to the manor!"
Sesshomaru then lead the way back.
"So is Izayoi your mother too I never heard you call her mother?"
"No she is not, I'm only here because after my mother died my father found a new love with the human Izayoi, and soon afterward she became pregnant with my younger brother InuYasha, I don't claim any of them as my family I only show respect for Izayoi because my father told me to." Sesshomaru said.
"Oh."
"So what about you I know your father was the Wolf demon General Kisho but who was your mother?"
"Her name was Miyoko, she was neither human nor demon." Kaiya was silent after that, Sesshomaru walked her to the porch then left.
Kaiya walked in and found Izayoi feeding the fire.
"Ms. Izayoi where will I be sleeping tonight?" Kaiya asked politely.
"Come I will show you." Izayoi lead her down a hall and came to a stop at a door. "This will be your new room, if you need anything just find me or one of my three servents, Nato, Ishla, or Izoni. They can be found anywhere. Or you can always ask Sesshomaru or InuYasha."
"Goodnight Ms. Izayoi." Kaiya said hugging her then dissappearing into the room.
"Goodnight Kaiya." Izayoi went back down the hall.
Kaiya found a lit lantern by a bedroll and blankets, she laid down and covered up then blew out the lantern. She was roughly woken from a deep sleep by InuYasha, by him were Sesshomaru and Izayoi, Izayoi and InuYasha's face were filled with fear, Sesshomaru's was of anger.
"Whats going on?" Kaiya whispered.
"Demons are attacking the village we have to leave." InuYasha said.
Kaiya took nothing only the kimono that she had on. InuYasha took his mother's hand while Kaiya took her other hand, Sesshomaru ran alone as he wanted it. They went out of the manor through the back way but demons still were there. It was as if they were looking for Izayoi, as if they were enemies of Inutaishou. Sesshomaru cleared some of the demons from their path, as he was young he was still a full blooded demon. Then just as they might have gotten away a giant demon appeared before them and threw Sesshomaru all the way to the other side of the village.
"Sesshomaru!" Yelled Izayoi. Even if Sesshomaru didn't like her and was not her son, she still treated him as she would InuYasha.
"You human, you are the wife of Inutaishou the Dog General are you not? And the Sesshomaru you speak of and the other silver haired one are his pups are they not?" The demon spoke horridly. Kaiya began to cry.
"Yes. Please let us go!" Izayoi yelled.
"I can not do that, you all must die." He sniffed the air. "And that girl, she is the daughter of Kisho the Wolf General? I had great pleasure in taking his life."
"You killed my father!" Kaiya yelled while tears streamed off of her face.
"Yes I did, you see I am the demon Gatenbaru, chief demon in the war, but I was sent here to kill all of you it seems I have killed Sesshomaru for I'm sure if he was Inutaishou's son he would have came back to kill me." The demon blew fire from his mouth and tried to burn them but Izayoi threw InuYasha and Kaiya out of the way then jumped out of the way herself. The demon slashed his claws at InuYasha and Kaiya, they turned to await their fate when they heard a rip. They turned back around to see Izayoi laying on the ground with a giant claw sticking out of her stomache.
"Mother!"
"InuYasha listen to me run run away as fast as you can take Kaiya with you protect her, I love you!" Izayoi then lay motionless on the ground. InuYasha took Kaiya's arm and ran as fast as he could, which was pretty fast for a kid, the demon was right behind them though. Gatenbaru slashed and knocked Kaiya far away from Inuyasha then knocked InuYasha a different way.
Kaiya woke up two days afterward to find she was in a hut. She walked out of the room to find an old woman sitting by a fire.
"Who are you?" Kaiya asked.
"I found ye in the forest when I was going to get some herbs and brought ye back here. My name is Akina, do ye have any family young girl?" Akina asked handing Kaiya a cup of herbal tea.
"My name is Kaiya, no I do not have any family, they died. Did you find a young boy anywhere near me?"
"No I did not I only found ye, well if ye don't have any family then ye are welcome to stay with me as long as ye like."
"Thank you, but don't you even want to know what I am and where I'm from first?" Kaiya asked confused this woman would take her in so willingly.
"I will find out more about ye as time passes. Now I guess thats settled then, I will teach ye many things and I see ye have come out of rough times as yer kimono shows. I shall make ye one soon enough."
Kaiya was taught many things, her mind wandered from time to time, she forgot the names InuYasha and Sesshomaru. But never forgot the boys themselves, and she never forgot the name Gatenbaru. The old woman died with time but she did learn many things about Kaiya's past, and left everything to Kaiya for she had no children of her own. But Kaiya didn't stay in the village she went to find Gatenbaru to get revenge for her father's death. Kaiya lives forever and stays as young-looking as 14 forever because of the celestial being in her. She was educated in swordfighting and learned how to use a bow and arrow, she knew more about herbs.
1534
57 years later Kaiya is staying in Coricos, her beauty yet blemished, her long light brown hair was always up in a messy ponytail with strands hanging down in her face, she had dark blue eyes as blue as the night sky but as deep as the ocean, and her delicate pale skin was as soft as water. One day she walked into the village tavern and ordered a round of sakai. As her order came round she listened to two mens conversation, the men looked like travelers.
"Yes for the last time Anay, the seal of InuYasha has been broken by the incarnation of Kikyou the Priestess. InuYasha the formidable half demon is released once more, but he has joined the incarnated priestess's side and they are in search for the Shikon Jewel. Accompanied by a monk, young fox demon, and a demon slayer."
Kaiya stopped in the middle of her drink and spit it out. "InuYasha!" Her memory of the name jumped and she remembered his name. She laid money down and avoided the stares as she walked out. Kaiya quickly got her things and set out to find her long lost friend...
A/N: I know thats not how Izayoi died but had to make it go with my story. The next chapter will be caught up with the rightful ages. Thanks for reading hope you enjoy. :)
