This is a combination of all of my Inuyasha ideas, I think I finally have mastery of it. I do not want him to be too tied to the main characters, learn magic but be unique and tied to the lore. He needs his own path, a future and be from the future.
Heavensmercy was a huge help here.
This is the most superior story I have written for Inuyasha, it really helps to have a sounding board.
Mewt never planned on dying, he was only fourteen after all... but falling in the woods and cracking his head against a rock was not something you could expect. He was just hiking, happy to be starting his new life as a transfer student in Tokyo the next day, when he tripped over a root and boom, he was dead. He found himself floating over his body, chubby and cherubic and bleeding profusely moving upwards and towards the endless sky. He stopped suddenly as panic set in.
"The hell!" He called out... "I'm dead... I am freaking dead... how the hell did this ... I..." He sobbed for a good long while...
Then he felt a tugging. It was like a magnet in his soul, in his chest, pulling on him away. He could not resist it and he flew away, up and to the east, towards a massive tree in the center of the Forest, a Tree he heard called a Tree of Ages. Sacred, the people put tape around it for safety. No one was allowed to touch it, the tree was five hundred years old, growing from the remains of an older tree that were destroyed years ago.
Faster and faster he flew, the tree started to glow a soft blue and he flew right through it... and into a long tunnel of star like energy, swirling into infinity. There was a moment of darkness and then he erupted out of the tree and into the sky. He continued to fly, farther and farther, across endless forests and small uncivilized villages. He saw huts but no buildings or skyscrapers or anything of that nature.
"Where am I?" he wondered. "Is this the after life... or is this something else?"
Soon, he saw a set of mountains and he knew the magical call was coming from there. He saw smoke rising and he felt the magic pulling him closer and closer to it. Mere moments passed before he was rushing into the rocky face, and into what looked like a kiln. He saw fire and smoke and ash and heat. He was terrified, even if he was dead, he swore he could feel the heat.
"What is happening?" He screamed, and then he saw the object center of the kiln. It was pulling him, it was the magic pulling him. Instinct made him reach out to touch it and so he did, only for life and light to vanish and iron coldness, an impossible heaviness to overtake him. He was trapped, stuck somewhere and he could not even scream, he could barely think...
The Darkness lasted only a moment though before something pierced the darkness and he saw light once more.
Something powerful, greater power than anything he had ever felt permeated his very soul, and then the vessel holding him fast crumbled away. He reached out for the light without thought and grabbed onto it. Power surged into him and he rose, floating to the surface. The light burned in his hands and he looked about, seeing that the firey kiln was empty of fire, in fact it was cold.
Before him was a woman, ugly and old and dressed in a blue kimono. She held a scythe in her hands and radiated energy that he could feel in his soul, but she looked angry. "You are not my creation, what are you? I did not call your soul forth!"
Mewt shivered, terrified. "I don't know, I died... I tripped... and something pulled me, I felt it, like a magnet in my chest and well..."
The woman nodded, holding her chin. "I can sense that you possess a strong will, one that allowed you to tap into the magic of my soul calling spell... strong enough to not be separated into a Haku and Kon. It allowed you to stop the cycle of rebirth,... you have a strong desire to live, that alone would allow you to hijack the magic and reshape the clay soldier into your true state without the need for bones or graveyard soil. A very, very rare instance of will indeed." She approached. " You are young, but a strong will is needed for a great many things. I could use another servant, but what would you do. Enju creates my clay soldiers and Kawarmaru fights my battles... what would you be, my son?"
Mewt froze for a moment. "Can I learn magic? I mean you are a witch, right? You revived me... I am sorry if it is rude, but that... I... I always wanted to learn magic and that would make me the most useful to you, right? I am only fourteen, without a trade."
She laughed. "Impetuous, but right... I do need an assistant to gather the herbs, prepare my potions and so on. You could be taught magic to protect my home or heal my wounds, yes... I was mortal once as well, swayed by powerful magic to become a demon. I am no stranger to the power of human will." She kneeled. "Will you be my servant, my son? Will you serve me and learn through and from me? Will you be all I need you to be?'
"Do I get to live, to actually... live... and learn magic? I had no parents before, no friends. I had a future but... now that I am dead, this sounds great... a future, a purpose... power... please."
She nodded. " I will teach you and one day you may very well join me as a demon yourself. Call me Mother and rise, my son."
He nodded, standing. " Thank you... Mother."
"Your lessons must begin immediately, magic takes time to learn and you must earn your keep. We will start with a lesson on herb and minerals while you begin to acclimate yourself to your new vessel, and then... then I will teach you to harness the power of magic, not demonic or spiritual but pure magic! That alone allows you the means to be great, to control life and death itself! Now come my son, it is time you learned! Oh, first we must clothe you."
And so he went with her, adapting without choice, choosing only to embrace his new life and new roles and the magic to come. He could figure everything out later, for now... it was time to adapt and settle in as he knew it was going to be the most bumpy of rides.
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was so much fun to write, my best Inuyasha story since I have a full idea of the entire story.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.
