Chapter 2

The Legend is True

It was early in the morning, everyone else was still asleep. Serena was sitting in the God tree looking at the fading stars as the sun began to rise over the horizon. She looked down at the ground and wasn't afraid of the height she was at in the tree. The branch she was sitting on had always been strong enough to hold her weight. She had climbed this tree as easy as she did when she was young. She loved this tree. For some weird reason she felt connected to it.

She heard a noise from down below. When she looked down she saw Inuyasha. At night she couldn't tell what it was he was wearing. Plus she was only paying attention to his face last night. But now that it was day, she could see he was wearing a red kimono outfit. A sword was his hands, and yet it looked familiar too. Why was his sword and name so familiar, like she read it somewhere?

As he came into the light, he looked up and was surprised to see Serena there. She had a puzzled look on her face. "How the heck did you get up in that tree?" he asked.

"What?" she was pulled away from her thoughts when he spoke.

"I said how are you able to get in that tree?" he repeated, getting annoyed.

"I've always been able to climb this tree." She replied. "Since I was little I would always climb this tree to get away from my parents or to simply see the sunrise. It's so nice up here that I've even fallen asleep a couple of times."

He stood at the base of the tree and looked up at her. As soon as he did, she saw his whole entire body pulse. His black hair turned silver and his ears disappeared as little doggy ears popped up on his head. His fingernails grew into claws and his eyes turned a golden yellow. She was so shocked by this transformation that she fell out of the tree. She waited for the impact on the ground but it didn't happen. Something red and fast rushed toward her in midair. The moment they stopped moving, looked up at the face of her rescuer. It was Inuyasha.

She blinked a couple of times to get over the shock of the fall. She was so stunned that she didn't say anything for a while. Something was stabbing her in the stomach. She looked down and released that it was the handle of his sword.

"Ummm…..thanks Inuyasha." she said quietly. So quietly that she doubted he even heard her. But apparently he did. He nodded a little and released his grip around her waist. As he turned around, there was definitely something about him that she knew from a book that she read. She followed him back to the house and went to her room.

Her room was in the attic. She liked it up there. No one could burst in and surprise her unexpectedly. She pulled on the string hanging on the ceiling. The stairs came out of the ceiling and she caught it before it could hit her in the head. She lowered them the rest of the way and went up to her room.

Her room was dark, the blinds were still closed. She went over to them and opened them. The sunlight revealed a room that looked gothic. The walls were painted a dark purple. Her bed was by the window with a night stand next to it. On the walls were pictures of her old high school friends, posters of her favorite bands, and drawings that she did by her self. On the other side of the attic was a desk with her computer. Beside it was a bookshelf full of books on technology and mythology. She loved to read myths and legends, it was the only thing she would read when she was little.

Her favorite book was about demons and monsters that existed in feudal Japan. She went over to the bookcase and pulled out the old leather bond book. As she turned around, she looked at the picture that she drew above her bed. As she gazed upon her work she realized that it almost looked like Inuyasha. The sword the figure was carrying looked impossible to carry and looked like a giant fang.

She went to her bed and let the book flop open in her hands. It fell open to the part about dog demons. As she looked at the few pictures that were in it she began to realize why Inuyasha was so familiar. He was in this book.

She looked up from her book and starred at the wall across from her. On that wall was a pair of swords she found at the base of the god tree when she was little. The top sword looked old and the leather straps on the handle were frayed. And then it hit her. That sword was the same sword that Inuyasha had!

She placed the book on the bed, got up, and went to the sword. She took it off the wall and looked at carefully. Serena remembered when she was little and found the two swords buried together in a box at the base of the god tree. She was planning to bury something of her own in that spot but found the swords instead. When she opened it she found them wrapped up in a white kimono and a red kimono. The sword she was holding was wrapped in the red kimono. She still had the box and the kimonos in her closet.

She was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard someone climbing the stairs to her room. It was her younger brother Souta. He came into the room and looked around.

"Wow!" he exclaimed. He had never been in her room before. "This is so cool!"

She smiled at him. He then noticed the sword she was holding in her hands. "Hey, I know that sword." He said pointing at it. "Inuyasha has one just like it."

"Oh really."

"Yeah. I think it's called Tensaiga?"

"Tetsusaiga!" called Inuyasha from the stair well. "Why are you guys talking about my sword for away?" he then saw the sword in her hands and looked at his sword. He was very confused that there was two Tetsusaigas.

Her mom just called up saying that breakfast was ready and Souta ran down the stairs. Inuyasha looked around her room while Serena sat down on the bed to close the book. He starred at the picture of himself and asked, "So where did you get that sword?"

The sword was lying next to her on the bed. She looked at him and said, "I found it years ago in a box at the base of the god tree. It was wrapped in a red kimono."

They were silent for a while until she continued, "I still have it and a white kimono as well."

"A white kimono?"

"Uh huh. The white kimono was covering the sword there on the wall."

He went over to the wall and looked at the other sword. "This sword belongs to my brother, Sesshomaru." he growled angrily. To her, it sounded as if he absolutely hated his brother. "This is the sword that is called the Tensaiga."

Their conversation on the swords was cut short when her mom came up and told them to come down for breakfast.