InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Animal I've Become ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

A/n: This is the first chapter! W00t! I hope you like it so far. Hopefully chapters for this fic will be longer than my other two fics! This idea came to me one night while I was lying in bed. I don't know how it really came to be, but I like it. Warning: Later chapters will be semi if not all mostly depressing, BUT there will be romance and later on Kagome falls in love with a certain Youkai.

 

 

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from InuYasha

 

 

 

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It was my seventeenth birthday; I've been traveling in the Sengoku Jidai for two years now, it doesn't seem that long. I walked up the shrine steps with groceries in my arms, InuYasha next to me carrying them as well, we had just returned from the store. My mother had asked me to go, though she had everything that she needed for the next two months, but I did as asked. I slipped off my shoes opening the shoji door walking it, with InuYasha in tow. InuYasha and I then put the groceries in the kitchen and walked out into the living room, where I saw my friends I use to go to school with, Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi.

 

 

You see, since I had missed so much school when I was fifteen, my mother decided that it would be easier if I was home schooled. I didn't need to explain about InuYasha being there; I had finally broke down and told them all about the Sengoku Jidai, they didn't have a doubt I was lying, fore which I was relieved. Of course that didn't meant InuYasha could go everywhere without his hat, he had to wear it whenever we left my house, and usually when my friends came over; they loved to play with his ears. My mother came into the living room, a broad cheerful grin on her face, so that's why she sent InuYasha and me out to get the groceries. I quickly sat down next to my friends and they instantly struck up a conversation, InuYasha being InuYasha, just stood against the wall, eyes downcast and deep in thought.

 

 

I talked with my friends for hours until it started getting dark, so I walked them to the door and said my good-byes. I walked back into the living room, there was my mother sitting on the couch seeming to be waiting for me to return. InuYasha had left to return to the Sengoku Jidai, to see Kikyou. They had been together for a while now, of course I didn't mind, I now only love InuYasha as a dear friend and that's all it will ever be. So I sat down next to my mom, she looked nervous? We sat there in silence for several more minutes before she spoke.

 

 

“Kagome, dear, there is something important I need to tell you,” she adverted her eyes to the wall, not looking at me. I answered with silence, so she took that as her cue to continue.

 

 

“Well, how should I start, the beginning, so as not to confuse you. You father, wasn't killed in a car crash, he was murdered by Menomaru, a moth demon. You see, your father… and I are both demons, Inu Youkai to be exact. I went into hiding, along with your grandfather, you and Souta. I was going to tell you this sooner, but I was so afraid for you.” She took a calming breath and continued, “Youkai who go in hiding don't show their Youkai selves until they reach the age of seventeen. Now I can no longer mask you Youkai sent. I understand if you hate me for keeping this from you.” She got up from the couch and went into the kitchen; I could tell she was holding back her tears.

 

 

I followed my mother into the kitchen; my nose was instantly attacked with a strong scent of tears, which seemed to be coming from my mom. I walked over to where she was at by the sink and gave her a hug. Sure I was upset that she kept that from me, but she is my mother, she was only trying to protect me. Suddenly I was keeling over, and dropping to my knees. My mother spun around, she didn't do anything, and she stood there watching me. When I looked up I could see so many things in detail, smells assaulted my sensitive nose, and I raised my hands to my face and could see claws instead of human nails. My mother smiled at me, offering her hand to help me up, which I didn't use, I stood on my own. All she told me before I was shoved out of the kitchen was “go look in the mirror,” which I did.

 

 

I walked in front of the full length mirror, what I saw was… amazing! My once shoulder length hair was now down slightly past my waist, the markings on me were just as amazing, I had a black crescent moon on my forehead, dark purple scratch like markings on my cheeks, pointed ears, and my once chocolate brown eyes, were now a deep blue. After examining how I looked, I walked straight to my room. When I entered there was a book, lying innocently on my full size bed. I walked over to it; more like strode, and sat down gracefully and read it. Three hours later and I found myself completely finished with it. It was about my “powers” and my clan I'm from. I turned and looked at the clock, since I was a Youkai; I decided to return back to the Sengoku Jidai.

 

 

I walked downstairs to see my mom washing dishes; she looked up and smiled at me warmly. I had gone down there to say good-bye, but she beat me to it. “Kagome, returning are we? Well before you go I have a present for you, I might seem… revealing, but it's what marks you as a member of the Toshiie Clan.” Several minutes later she came back into the kitchen with a bundle of silk. The pushed me into the downstairs bath room to change into it. I walked back out now wearing all white, it consisted of a long silk skirt, with slits going up on both sides to my upper thigh, and the top was like a halter bathing suit. My mother then came and handed me a small case, opening it I saw two silver anklets, which I put on. My mother also told me that for our clan, we didn't need shoes that our feet never got dirty no matter how much we walked, for this I was grateful. I learned that she had told InuYasha I was a Youkai, who in turn told everyone else.

 

 

I walked with my pack, now smaller than usual, to the well; soon I arrived there and jumped in immediately without thinking. Once the usual blue light disappeared I jumped back out. As I stand here thinking, I take in the delicious scent of the now blooming Sakura trees, and the near by streams full of fish. It seemed like no one knew I was there, so I walked the beaten path towards Kaedes' village, I soon picked up a conversation off to the left side of the path, so I listened to it.

 

 

“InuYasha keep you voice down, now tell me what you had just said,” it sounded like Kikyou talking.

 

 

“Damn it! I'm tired of Kagome being around, now that she is Youkai; she doesn't need to be around us anymore. Besides she might turn on us, her being older and, jealous of you,” my eye was twitching; I was pissed, so I ran in the other direction before I heard anymore of the conversation. The nerve of that half-breed, wait when did I start calling him that, doesn't matter anymore. I stop running several minutes later; I had gone at least two-hundred miles from Kaedes village. So that's the briefness of how I now travel alone, not meeting staying to long in once place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vocabulary
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Sengoku Jidai = Feudal Era or the Warring States Era

Youkai: Demon

Inu: Dog

 

Side note: Menomaru came from the first InuYasha Movie