InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness Falling ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

A/N: This is a COMPLETE rewrite, so bear with me. I wrote this back in '05, and have only recently begun editing. It will take forever, but for those of you willing to wait, it's definitely (in my personal opinion, at least) worth it.

Disclaimer: This is for the entire fic (since I'm rather forgetful and won't put it in every time). I own neither InuYasha nor Yu Yu Hakusho, only my originals. That is all. Enjoy!

Darkness Falling: Prologue

History tells of an era in Japan called the Sengoku Jidai: the Era of the Warring States. History considers this era just like any other feudal era, and like any other feudal era, it has its hiccups, its...blank spots.
History recounts proven facts from the winner's standpoint. Legends tell of everything else.

It all started with a small, pink stone. This stone was formed not by the earth, but by a human. Many, many years before, a miko battled with three very powerful demons. The only way to stop them was to trap them within her own soul, forming the Shikon no Tama. This tama was protected by miko throughout the ages. One such miko is where this part of the tale begins...

Years before me, a miko lived in a feudal village in the West. This miko was the guardian of the Shikon no Tama. Any demon that came near it was killed by her power-loaded arrows, but for some reason, she could not bring herself to kill a single hanyou, even though he tested her patience numerous times. Soon, though, that reason became clear.

The miko and the hanyou. What a wonderful, forbidden couple. Did they ever realize what would happen to such star-crossed lovers as themselves? Did they ever wonder what would happen to a child of their union? Both were orphans. Did they ever think for one moment that their fate would not descend upon their children?

The hanyou had promised her he would wish upon the tama to become a human so that they could be together always. But they did not include fate, nor evil, in their equations. Evil incarnate had heard of the miko's weakness, and, perhaps partially jealous of her lover, disguised himself in his likeness.He attempted to steal the tama, inflicting a fatal wound upon her as he told her how he would use the tama to become a full demon, as he had originally planned. The miko hunted down her lover and used her remaining strength to seal him to a goshinboku.

That is where the legend stops. But it is not, by far, the end of the story. It is only where my own begins...