InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Slave to it All ❯ It was not Always like This ( Chapter 1 )

A/N: How are you? Yes, I'm alive and healthy here's a tester chapter to see how you like it. Disclaimer: I don't own character's created by Rumiko Takahashi. I Do own all characters I made up however and If you steal them you better sleep with one eye open. (JK… or am I!!)

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“FATHER, NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!” yelled a small voice. “Please, you can't be dead, if you are they'll make me a slave, or at least I won't have anyone to point the way I don't even know where Big Brother is.”

“Over there,” yelled a low, harsh voice. The small frame stiffened in dread he knew that voice. It was the Higurashi general, Shinnyuusha (Japanese word for raider). He was a feared youkai throughout all the nations. Mostly throughout the Takahashi and Enman (Japanese word for peace) lands.

The boy heard footsteps rapidly closing in on him soon he'd be captured. He'd only be captured because of Daifu Higurashi's mercy. (Daifu means father in Japanese) He saved Shinnyuusha when they was a boy so he swore that he would serve him till the day he died, and since he was a youkai he will serve him for a very long time.

He quickly ducked into a secret passage only royalty knew about. He'd be able to hear them like when visiting dignitaries he would hide out there with his big brother and eavesdrop on his father while he conducted the meetings. One time he tricked them into thinking there was a war council going on with the dignitary from the Enman lands. He and his older brother were so confused they didn't sense their father's approach from behind. He had grabbed them from the back of their collars and scolded them for eavesdropping on his conversations.

“Well, well, well. I wonder who finally put an end to the `great' Inu-no-taisho,” Shinnyuusha joked. The boy was so enraged; tears of fury ran down his chiseled face. Shinnyuusha continued joking, so the time that he was finished the boy's kimono was slightly damp. “So where's his sons?” snapped Shinnyuusha. “W-w-wee-e don't know s-s-sir we s-s-saw Sess-Sess-houmaru fighting earlier but he escaped,” stuttered one of the faceless soldiers in Higurashi's army. “We can't find the younger one, this whole place stinks like Inu, all well just to be expected from the mangy mutt,” Shinnyuusha sighed.

That was the last straw the small boy jumped out from where he was hiding and tried to hurt Shinnyuusha by beating him with his small fists, but the older just laughed at the boy's fruitless attempts to hurt him. The older soldiers circled him and one picked him up by the scruff of his neck. “Well, look who we have here the youngest son of the Inu-no-taisho, Inuyasha is it?” Shinnyuusha mused. The boy responded by spitting in his face. Shinnyuusha wiped the spittle form his face and laughed, “You must be him, you're that weak human's child, which makes you a hanyou.”

Inuyasha responded by spitting in the generals face again. He wiped the spittle off his face once more and lifted him out of the soldier's hand by the neck and said, “I could kill you, you know? I could tell Lord Higurashi that you died when part of the castle caved in. He wouldn't check so the only people who would be us. What do you think little hanyou?”

Inuyasha scowled at the general, but kept his mouth shut all the same. The general laughed and dropped him where he fell on his butt.

“You know I don't like it when people pick on my little brother,” came a voice from the doorway. All the heads turned towards the doorway. There was a figure silhouetted by the bright light from the full moon. The figure raised his arm and a glowing green whip suddenly shot out and killed the soldier who was manhandling his little brother.

Suddenly the figure rushed the platoon of soldiers drawing a sword that glowed a menacing, dragon blue. The figure had slain 9 out of the 10 soldiers so that all remained was the general. “GO!” snapped the figure who was trying to fend off the general's powerful slashes of the sword.

“No!!” cried Inuyasha, “I don't wanna go. I wanna stay with you, Sesshoumaru.” Sesshoumaru offered the naïve boy a small smile. “I don't want to leave you either, Little Brother, but… I would rather have you escape,” said Sesshoumaru, strain of battling the general evident in his voice. “Ok,” sniffed Inuyasha.

He ran and ran until he was out of the castle and was watching the trees pass. The full moon was on its downward decent as he tripped on a root that he didn't see in the shadow of a huge cherry tree. “Well, look here an Inu in its proper place in the mud,” leered a dreadfully familiar voice.

Shinnyuusha. “What did you do to my brother,” snapped Inuyasha. “Oh, I took care of him all right, he's actually a pretty good swordsman,” drawled Shinnyuusha. “Uncle how could you?” sniffed Inuyasha. Shinnyuusha flinched at the reference to their relationship. “I'm no longer your uncle,” said Shinnyuusha. He leapt down and put his arm around Inuyasha's throat so fast Inuyasha didn't have time to react. Shinnyuusha flexed his arm and Inuyasha gasped for breath his arms uselessly trying to pull the older man's arm from around his neck. Inuyasha fainted but not before he looked up at Shinnyuusha with such innocence and such shock and lips that formed the word “Why?” that the great general of the Higurashi lands shuddered. “I'm… sorry”

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Inuyasha woke to find himself imprisoned in a cage being quartered by four guards armed to the teeth just in case he lashed out. The only problem was he had other thoughts on his mind. Where was Sesshoumaru? Where was Uncle Shinnyuusha? Where was he?

He started screaming. “Sesshoumaru, Sesshou-maru, Seeeeessssshhhhhouummaruuuuuuu!!!!!” His small mind was swimming in a sea of confusion and loneliness. “Inuyasha! Inuyasha!!!!” came a reply. He looked up and saw Sesshoumaru, his arm in a sling, but very much alive. Inuyasha started crying in relief.

“Inuyasha, I'm so happy to see you, but I'm sorry you got caught. If I had only stalled him a bit longer,” Sesshoumaru said, tears starting to form in his golden eyes.

Suddenly, Inuyasha was yanked out of his cage. Sesshoumaru growled at the guard who held him. Surprisingly he was thrown into Sesshoumaru's cage. A guard yelled, “Make him stop crying or we'll sew his mouth shut.” Sesshoumaru growled again at the guard, but he just laughed and walked away. Sesshoumaru wrapped his good arm around him and rubbed his back in comforting circles, until he was fast asleep.

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Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru marched with all the other captured servants and soldiers from the conquered Inu-no-taisho land from the palace courtyard where Lady Higurashi was holding her new baby girl, to the tenements. Sesshoumaru was pushed into a hut unceremoniously, landing on his bad arm. He didn't want to fight; if he did he'd be whipped. Inuyasha was shoved into a hut not far from his brother's. He disregarded the two beds and the other occupant entirely and went into the deepest darkest corner of the hut and cried himself to sleep for what seemed to be the millionth time this day…

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“Inuyasha, Inuyasha are you in there?” joked a silver haired youkai. “(Various mumbles)” replied Inuyasha. “I know how to get up,” said a dark haired male. He unceremoniously dumped an earthen cup filled with water unto the sleeping hanyou. “What, what, what's going on? Is it time for breakfast? Is time to work?” mumbled Inuyasha as he flailed around in his bed. His response was a fit of laughter from the two males. “You jerks, I was having a bad dream about how we all ended up in this dump,” snapped Inuyasha. “Aw!! Does the little baby hanyou, need his binky from when he was a wittle pup?” laughed the silver haired male. “Sesshoumaru!!” snapped an outraged Inuyasha flushed with embracement and rage. “Oh, come on Inuyasha we were joking,” laughed the dark haired male. “Miroku not you too!” snapped Inuyasha about as red as the setting sun. The two intruders left him alone to ponder his thoughts and eat his meager breakfast of bread and water.

`Oh well,' thought Inuyasha, `I have grown up since then 23 years to be exact.' He got up and walked out of his hut into the bright sunshine. `Today's a new day' he thought and headed to the fields.

 

A/N: Well how was it? There will be more don't worry, but I still do want to know what you think. I am working on the other fics to, it's just that I had a bolt of inspiration and well… you just read it so R&R.