InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Generation Unrealized ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

Author's Note & Disclaimer: Let's get the boring part out of the way. I do not own Inuyasha. I never did. I certainly wish I did but hey, this is close enough.

But what the hell, you'll still get the same amount of humor, action, romance, and what not that you usually do. At least I hope so…………

Dedication: To those in my generation who were told we couldn't do it, but we did it anyway………..

A Generation Unrealized

By Toby

Prologue

"Kagome! Duck!"

"Miroku!"

"Move, Kikyo!"

"Shippo, Kanna's behind you!"

"Lord Sesshomaru, the half-breed is behind you!"

"Kagura, attack now!"

"Sango!"

It was hell.

Blood stained the ground. It dripped from timbers. It stained the stone walls. The ground itself was torn and scarred. Large gouges were mixed with piles of up turned earth. Bits of clothing were scattered on the ground with chunks of weaponry, the most prominent being Sango's Hiraikotsu, which was cleaved in half. Kohaku's chain scythe was lying a few feet away. On the opposite side of the court yard where these weapons lay, the sheath for the Tetsusaiga was lying on top of a sheath of arrows, broken cleanly in half. If these were not enough to tell you that a battle of insane ferocity was taking place, then the actual combatants would push you well out of doubt into shocked belief.

Inuyasha raised his Red Tetsusaiga and thrust it downward with a cry of rage. The Wind Scar exploded outward from it, slamming into Naraku's barrier. Said barrier held, but then was assaulted by a powerful miko arrow. Unable to block both in such a short span of time, it wavered and then collapsed. A blast of miasma came from where the barrier had once stood, catching Kagura off guard, hurtling her into a tree, where she fell with a sickening thud, unconcious.

"How do you think you can beat me, Inuyasha?" Naraku asked, smirking. He waved his hand about them, gesturing to the numerous warriors gathered about them. Sango held her brother, Kohaku, in her arms as she wept. Shippo and Kanna grappled, her mirror lying shattered a few feet away. Sesshomaru leaned heavily on Touki-jinn, his right leg torn off and lying under some rubble. Kikyo was supported by numerous Soul Gathers, badly hurt, her clay skin cracked and crumbling in places. Koga, the Wolf Lord, lay with on the ground, huge gashes all over his legs. The only three even close to battle ready were, Inuyasha, who stood with his shoulders squared but breathing heavily. He was worn and tired, numerous gouges and slashes all over his body. Kagome stood near him, her bow cocked with an arrow, looking for another opportunity to strike. Miroku was also bloody and bruised; a large cut across his forehead, pouring blood into his eyes, which he blinked away as fast as he could.

"Tell me what your plan is when your allies fall like the flies they are?" Naraku asked, in that smug voice of his. He stretched out his right hand toward Miroku, palm open. He suddenly snapped the hand closed, a loud crack sounding in the courtyard. Miroku fell to his knees with a gasp. A loud cracking began to emanate from his hand, lines spreading from where his Wind Tunnel was as the beads were blown back and then sucked in as the Wind Tunnel began to grow.

"Miroku!" Kagome screamed, and went to move to him, but he shook his head violently.

"No, you'll be sucked in too!" he cried, and another scream was torn from his throat as the Wind Tunnel grew in strength.

"Damn you!" Inuyasha snarled, swinging at Naraku again, who leapt out of the way. His baboon pelt flapped around him as he gently set down, smirking.

"Tell me Inuyasha, what chance do you think you have? A clay miko who is crumbling? A hysterical demon slayer and her dead brother? A monk who will be sucked into his own weapon, like his father and his father before him? Your crippled brother and his harlot, who is my own spawn? A weak battle trained miko?" Naraku demanded and threw back his head, laughing. Inuyasha ground his teeth and stood to his full height facing Naraku.

"I face you for all the ones you have killed, Naraku. I face you for them and most of all, I face you for ME!" Inuyasha, screamed, swinging the Tetsusaiga down again, the Wind Scar exploding again at him. Naraku leapt out of the way, but the Wind Scar seemed to arc to him and it clipped him in the side. He skidded when he landed, his side red as Inuyasha smirked.

"Now who's the one worry about the chance he has?" Inuyasha taunted. Naraku smirked at and glanced at Kagome.

"She is a dear, isn't she? Her powers have grown beyond far what they first were but they have fallen far short of what Kikyo has no?" Naraku asked, waving a hand at her as his Miasma exploded from his body toward Kagome.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha screamed, lunging at her, dragging Tetsusaiga with his left hand as his out stretched right arm slammed into her as he enveloped her. The Miasma then didn't just hit them but curled upward and slammed down, exploding like a grenade, enveloping them in a purplish haze that blocked them from everyone else's sight.

"Do you like it, Kagura?" Naraku said, seeing that his incarnation had regained consciousness. At her confused expression, he continued. "I was hoping to use it to teach you very fine lesson, it slowly tears one apart, piece by piece, till nothing is left. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!"

Naraku began to laugh and turned away from the rapidly shrinking sphere of Miasma and turned his attention to the others who were trying to mount a counterattack. Miroku was trying to scramble away from the others but to no avail as spidery lines were slowly moving up his arm as the Wind Tunnel continued to grow. Naraku smirked. Even if he was killed now the foolish monk would be cursed with the hole for the rest of his days it had gotten so large. Out of the corner of his eye he saw that the demon slayer had unsheathed her sword for her side and was slowly circling him, making her way for where her brother's chain scythe lay. He would deal with her in a matter of moments before she could get a long distance weapon. The wolf demon was trying to make his legs work as the demon lord was on his good leg using Tenseiga to re-attach his severed leg. Amused, Naraku watched this display, as the leg damage to his body slowly healed.

"Impressive. Your father truly was a great demon. I doubt I even could have defeated him." Naraku praised, firing a small blast of Miasma at the chain scythe, melting it just before Sango reached it.

"My father was a fool I have far surpassed him in power and skill. I merely wield power he left behind with my skill." Sesshomaru stated as he sheathed Tenseiga again, removing Touki-jinn from the ground where it was jabbed. It pulsed as it was removed and Naraku smirked.

"But arrogance is your own entire trait, die!" Naraku said leaping at Sesshomaru. Naraku snarled as Sesshomaru slowly drew Touki-jinn to meet his blow and blade met his right fist with an explosion of youkai energy. Had he not seen the ears he would have been killed but he raised his right hand and blocked the Tetsusaiga with his left hand, the force driving his feet into the ground.

"Hey, how you doing, you bastard?" Inuyasha said, grinning in only his pants. A quick glance showed Kagome to be clothed in his fire rat robes.

"Clever for mutt." Naraku growled. It was clear to him he was not going to win this battle, so he threw them back away from him with all his might and blast of Miasma. He was going to call to his own means of travel when he felt a sudden heaviness settle upon him. Shock settled in upon him as he glanced at Kikyo and Kagome who had clasped hands.

"What one can not do-" Kikyo began.

"-two can finish." They said in unison as they held their scared jewels pieces near each other, the barrier they had created to trap him was the strongest ever in existence.

"I still have more than half of the Shikon Jewel and I will kill you all and take the last pieces for myself!" Naraku bellowed, gathering all of his Miasma into himself. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru readied their weapons to strike but Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga pulsed in unison. The brothers stared in wonder at their swords as they pulsed again, wondering what it was they were meant to do until Kagome called out to them.

"Onigumo died when the demons used his body to become Naraku!" she cried over the screaming winds of the Miasma's power and Naraku's laughter. Inuyasha turned to Sesshomaru who cast a disdainful look at his half-brother.

"Could it be so stupid?"

"Solutions to things in life are sometimes easier than they appear to be, half-breed." Sesshomaru called over the winds as Naraku rose into the air, preparing to fire a shot that would kill everything in the barrier, except him. Sesshomaru drew Tenseiga, and leapt into the air at Naraku and Inuyasha did the same, Tetsusaiga raised over his head.

"NOW!" The brothers screamed in unison and the mikos dropped the barrier to avoid the backlash and Naraku fired his Miasma. With no sound what so ever, Sesshomaru instantly slashed at Naraku with Tenseiga, quiet instantly settling over Naraku. Inuyasha, however was the polar opposite.

"BACKLASH WAVE!" Was bellowed at voice louder and deeper than anyone thought possible from Inuyasha and had anyone been there from when the brothers' father had ruled, they would have thought the esteemed ruler was back. His Wind Scar sliced the Miasma exactly up the middle, enveloped it, and surrounded Naraku who just smirked. Then, Naraku's smile dropped as he felt his body shake. A look of pure anguish hit his face as he bag to scream. His body disappeared to be replaced with a naked man with long hair, with a large, spider shaped burn scar on his back. This didn't last long as the scar exploded outward, a hundred demons exploding out from the man, all in various stages of disorient. They disappeared as they were vaporized in the Backlash Wave made of Miasma.

Both brothers landed one after another, Inuyasha sheathing Tetsusaiga and hurrying over to check on Kagome and Kikyo, Sesshomaru gracefully walking stopped to gaze over the battlefield. He resumed walking, this time to Sango, who was clutching at the lifeless form of her brother. With the jewel shard removed from his back shortly before the battle, he had died within moments, but not before whispering apologies and his love to his sister. The reason why this drew the demon lord's attention was because his ward was also crying.

"Rin." Sesshomaru said quietly, the silent command spoken between the two. She looked up at him and sniffled, wiping her eyes on the sleeve of her kimono. At the beginning of the battle, Jaken had taken her on the back of Ah-Un and gone high above. When it was finished, she had forced the little youkai to land and she had run to where Kohaku lay. She now stood before her surrogate father, silently begging for the boy's life.

"Move away from the boy, the both of you." He commanded, raising the Tenseiga. Sango scrambled away as Rin quickly stepped to the side as Sesshomaru slashed downward, the ghouls appearing a second before, as he slashed the away. Kohaku's body convulsed before drawing in one, then two quick breaths, before letting it out. Sango let out a cry and clutched Kohaku to her chest.

"Sis?" he asked, weakly. His voice sounded weak and confused. Sango continued to cry as Miroku, clutching weakly at his right hand, where he his much smaller, less dangerous, permanent Wind Tunnel now was contained, walked over to them. The scars from where his Wind Tunnel tried to envelope him were red up his arm, a bit bloody, but no longer freely flowing.

"Rin, we must be off." Sesshomaru said, scooping up the wind Kagura into his arms. The wind demon gestured to where Kanna lay and seemed to whisper to Sesshomaru for a few minutes.

"Jaken." Sesshomaru called. The little toad demon came hurrying over with Ah-Un in tow, and Sesshomaru gently set Kagura atop the dragon mount. Rin also came hurrying over to them as Koga got his feet as best he could seeing that most of the group was getting ready to depart. He sniffed the air smelling that Ayume was rapidly approaching from the north.

"Yes, me lord?" Jaken asked Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru picked up Rin and set her behind Kagura, then turned to his toad servant. "We will be leaving now. Fetch Kanna as well and see that she is brought along." The toad demon scurried off to bring the small demon girl and help her sit next to her sister.

"Oiy, where do you think you're going, you fucker?!" Inuyasha called up after his brother as the demon lord began to fly away with his ward, retainer, and Naraku's surviving incarnations. There was no reply as they disappeared. The hanyou shook his head as he turned his attention back to Kagome and Kikyo. The two mikos held the Shikon pieces between each other, and Inuyasha was surprised to see Shippo hand them Naraku's large piece as well.

"He brought it to us while you watched your brother leave." Kagome answered his questioning gaze. He nodded to her, watching as the two mikos brought the pieces together, closing their hands around it. They closed their eyes, and there was a flash from their hands. When their hands and eyes opened, the sacred jewel was whole. Both mikos looked to Inuyasha who swallowed.

"I've dreamed of this moment for years, to hold that very jewel between my claws. Can I really………….?" He asked, nervously, holding out his clawed hand. Kagome smiled, her face full of love and trust for him, she slowly handed him the jewel. Kikyo watched thoughtfully as her Soul Gathers fed her shattered and crippled body more souls to restore it. Inuyasha gently rolled the Shikon Jewel along the tips of his claws, dangling it sometimes from the string it hug upon, sometimes rolling it on the tips of his fingers. He was unaware that everyone who remained at the battlefield was watching and waiting for him to do something this jewel, which everyone's lives had been touched by, in one way or another.

"Koga?" Ayume asked, appearing suddenly at his side. The wolf lord was surprised but accepted her help to his feet. She draped his arm over her shoulders and helped him to his feet. The two wolf demons watched the others before turning to look at each other.

"Let's go home Koga-kun," Ayume said, nuzzling under his chin, and for once, as Koga glanced at Kagome, he didn't feel the need the need to kill dog-turd for her affections. He tightened his arm around the woman supporting him and sighed. Everyone was still watching Inuyasha and his internal struggle with himself as to what he was going to do with the completed Shikon Jewel.

"Kagome, we have to be off now. The pack will be expecting us back by now," Koga said. Everyone turned to look at the wolf demon, and the moment seemed to be broken.

"Oiy, you still here, you mangy wolf?" Inuyasha snarled, curling has hand around the jewel protectively. Kagome huffed and stood, letting go of Kikyo's hands to place her's on her hips.

"Inuyasha, sit!"

WHAM!

There came muffled cursing from the Inuyasha shaped hole as Kagome said goodbye to the wolf demon. While Kagome watched the wolves head into the forest, Shippo helped Sango bandage Miroku up as Kohaku slept between the paws of a fully transformed Kirara.

"Thank you, Sango. How are your wounds?" Miroku asked quietly, watching Inuyasha and Kagome talk quietly with the undead miko. He had no idea what their plans may be but as long as Kikyo held Inuyasha to his vow.

"I'm much better now that Kohaku is back with me, Miroku. Now would you mind taking these off?" she asked, tugging on the cloth on his hand. Miroku's lips' twitched upwards and he couldn't help the words that left his mouth next.

"Why Sango, does this mean you would consider bearing my child?" he asked, and then winced internally, closing his eyes in reflex for the slap he fully expected to receive. Instead, he was rewarded with silence and when he gathered enough courage to open his right eye he saw a small smile playing about her lips.

"We'll discuss that later, houshi." Sango said, checking the bindings that bound his hand and his heart soared. "We need to take these off to see if the Wind Tunnel is gone."

"Trust me, I would know if it was." Miroku said, shaking his head, "I still feel it there, but it is much smaller than it was and it feels like it is no longer growing nor shrinking in on itself." He flexed his hand, testing it, giving a bit of a wince. "It is still a bit tender however. I think I will have to refrain from using it for a few weeks."

"I understand. Come, let's get ready to move. I want to be ready to get Kohaku home as soon as possible." Sango said and glanced at Miroku out of the corner of her eyes. "I was thinking of moving all of the equipment from my old village to Inuyasha's village. Would you like to help us?"

"I would love to, Sango." Miroku replied, getting to his feet as well, picking up his staff. He walked over to the others where they waited, their conversation apparently over. Shippo was guarding Kohaku under Kagome's orders.

"I've come to a decision." Inuyasha said as soon as they joined them. They looked at him expectantly, as he held the jewel up for everyone to see. He stared at the jewel for a long time before speaking.

"For many years, I've dreamt of nothing but this jewel. Of what it could make me, human or youkai. Never what it could do for others. Tonight I can to a decision to what I want." Inuyasha said and looked at the two mikos. "I want my life." He took Kagome's hand and laid the jewel in it with his claw.

"Kagome, the reason why I give you this jewel is because you came here with it. You are meant to either leave here with it or finish with it. But for me, I choose my life, the life of hanyou. Now let's go home. I've killed Naraku and fulfilled my vow to you Kikyo. I'm going home." With those words, Inuyasha turned on his heel and began to walk into the forest.

"He has grown so much in so little time." Miroku commented as he immediately began to follow, Sango keeping pace with him, stopping only to help Shippo boost the sleeping Kohaku onto Kirara's back as they walked on.

"We all have." Sango commented. Kagome smiled and tied the Shikon Jewel around her neck, easily, jogging past to walk with Inuyasha.

"I don't," she added, as she shot past, "I think he's always wanted it this way." As she reached the hanyou, she looped her arm around his. He removed his arm from hers and wrapped it around her shoulders and she snuggled into his chest.

"I think our lives just got a whole lot more interesting." Shippo muttered to Kirara. Kirara meowed in agreement.

As the group vanished into the woods to begin the long journey home, the undead miko, Kikyo, watched as her Soul Gathers healed her body. She watched and thought. Then, after many hours, she too left.

But that is far from the end of our story for you see, not even a scant year later…………..

"I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU,INUYASHA!"

"Oiy, wench, do you have to scream like that? You hurt my ears when you do!"

"SIT!SIT!SIT!SIT!SIT ,YOU FUCKER! YOU DID THIS TO ME!"