InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bound By Destiny ❯ Early Years ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

The next day, InuYasha Saitou did return to play with the girl next door who he claimed did not have “as many cooties as other girls”. And through the midst of summer’s days, they became closer and closer. In the hanyou’s eyes, the boring neighborhood of expensive Tokyo never seemed brighter with his new friend. Izayoi noted InuYasha woke up extra early to brush his teeth and pick out his clothes and then ate his breakfast quickly, said goodbye to his father and ran out of the house.

InuYasha spent whole days at Kagome’s house, it was almost incredible, in Izayoi’s opinion. Even InuTaisho peeked out the window to try and catch a glimpse of his son and the little girl.

“He really likes spending time with her doesn’t he?” InuTaisho asked his wife, who curled her legs underneath her as she took a sip of her tea.

“He certainly does. Does Mrs. Higurashi mind?”

“Not at all, honey,” Izayoi muttered, flipping through a home decoration magazine. “I want to re-do the living room and the kitchen,” she said mostly to herself.

A snort was her reply.

Izayoi’s entrancing dark eyes rose to meet her husband’s bright golden stare. She giggled before rolling her eyes. “Why do you feel the need to re-decorate?” InuTaisho grouched, leaning back against the black leather couch of the living room.

“Because----we’ve had this same living room for almost a decade. And the kitchen, Kami, InuTaisho, that kitchen is at least two decades old.”

“So?”

Izayoi sighed, closing the publication and lightly throwing it on to the coffee table. “So its time for a change.”

He groaned. “Woman, you’re going to be the death of me.”

“Ah, but you still love with all your little youkai heart.”

InuTaisho looked at her from the corner of his eye, but smirked. “Damn straight I do.”

They heard the front door slam hard and then a streak of silver run past them. InuTaisho’s hand shot out, catching his son by the back of his black tee-shirt. InuYasha made a little chocking noise before his ears twitched.

“Ow!” He complained, rubbing his neck and scrunching his face in to a scowl. “What was that for?”

“Where the hell have you been?” InuTaisho demanded, crossing his arms over his chest and slapping on his most menacing face. “You’re seven years old, you can’t be out of the house all day.”

InuYasha blinked innocently, making small circles with his foot. “I like playing with Kagome, Dad.”

He raised his eyes to his father, blinking quickly. ‘The puppy face----figures, that sneaky pup’ “That doesn’t matter. You aren’t allowed to go there anymore, you’ve gone there everyday for over a month now. Mrs. Higurashi, I’m sure, is getting annoyed by now. Only on weekends, okay?”

“InuTaisho----”

“Do not question me on this, Izayoi” He said, turning his head slightly to look at his mate before turning back to the hanyou pup before him. “Do you understand me, pup?”

InuYasha sighed deeply, his ears flattening against his skull. “Yes”

Once his father jerked his head, InuYasha sped to his room and jumped on his full sized bed, digging his face in to his pillow. He had to admit that playing with Kagome all day, hearing her laughter and watching her face light up when they played was comforting. Being with her was like being reunited with an old friend he’d always known and even as a child, he understood that maybe what he felt was ‘special’.

‘Why?’

‘Kagom e is just fun, right?’

Yeah, he figured. He had woken up extra early to take a shower and be clean for the long day ahead. He had eaten his breakfast quickly and sped out to see his new best friend. She had already been waiting for him on her front steps, dressed in little white shorts and a pink tee-shirt. She was always shy for some reason, repeating that she didn’t feel comfortable in her shorts with her chubby frame.

“I already said you didn’t have cooties, what more do you want?”

Kagome had laughed, happiness twinkling in those big sapphire orbs of hers. InuYasha growled in to his pillow. ‘Dumb girls! I knew there was a reason I didn’t like ‘em’

He missed Kagome terribly the next day, sighing all day around his mother who had smiled sadly. He had been kept home until school started, which was only two weeks, but InuYasha would come to realize those two weeks changed everything. Izayoi had taken her son to buy his school supplies and pick up his uniform for when he started the second grade. And when Izayoi came early one day, InuYasha begged her to take him to Kagome’s house.

Izayoi had agreed, but upon arriving next door, Mrs. Higurashi informed them that Kagome left three days ago to live with her father in the family shrine so she was closer to her school----an all Mikos Academy. She said Kagome had wondered why InuYasha did not return, but that she sent her goodbyes and hugs for him. Izayoi saw the sadness in her pup’s face, his ears were slumped for days and he moped around. He hadn’t been able to say goodbye to his best friend.

And then his own schooling began. Back with his old friends----Miroku, his closet friend who’s father was a monk. Sango, a girl he didn’t particularly like much, but her parents were youkai exterminators, a job that made InuYasha’s skin crawl. Kouga, a wolf demon he had befriended the first day of school the previous year. And a new friend, an exchange student from Kyoto by the name of Bankotsu. And as the months flew by and the little hanyou was caught up with his school work, the memory of those few weeks spent with the girl next door were suppressed in to his young mind.

He did not know if she returned the following summer because InuYasha and his parents spent the summer in France, Italy, and Germany due to his father’s business travels. He had returned to Japan only three days before school started again. As he grew older, his dislikes for the opposite sex changed. He adopted Sango as a sister, a freakishly strong sister in his mind. Miroku started to like girls before InuYasha did. Kouga shared InuYasha’s ideas about girls. And Bankotsu didn’t know where he stood. He always said he never minded Sango around.

And as the years passed, the group of friends grew together, separating during the summer only to happily be reunited in the fall. The face of the one girl that had made his little heart flutter faded in his mind, but he still sometimes dreamt of her voice at night. And as much as the fourteen year old boy tried, he could barely remember those summer days he spent with her. ‘With who?’

He didn’t miss much sleep over it. He started high school tomorrow and he needed his sleep for a brand new phase in his life.


‘Where is he?’ Kagome wondered as she sat on her front stairs, bringing her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. InuYasha always came early, but it was nearly noon and he hadn’t appeared. ‘Maybe he got sick?’

She made a face. ‘No. Hanyous don’t get sick do they?’

“Kagome, darling, come inside. Lunch is ready,” Mrs. Higurashi said as sat besides her daughter, who just slumped her shoulders in response.

“Where is he, Mama?”

Sakura sighed softly. “Maybe his mother didn’t let him go out today. Kagome, darling, you can’t expect him to be here everyday, his parents might not like it much.”

Kagome’s bottom lip quivered. “B-But I like playing with him, Mama! Make him come!”

She sighed, patting her daughter’s back. “I’m afraid I can’t do that honey.”

Kagome stood up slowly and walked back in to the house, leaving her mother smiling sadly behind her.

He never came that day, or the next day, or the day after that. Come to think of it, he never came again. She missed him terribly, sitting on her front stairs everyday until her mother informed her she’d be living with her father for her schooling.

“No! I need to be here if InuYasha comes back!”

Her wailing had not stopped Mrs. Higurashi from putting her in her father’s car and having him drive her away to the family Shrine. She was sad for a few days, until she started school----an all Mikos Academy. She trained her powers, learning how to expand them and learning through books legends of some Mikos. And her most favorite legend, the tale of the Miko from another world that had freed a hanyou from a spell his first love had put him under. Not much was known about the Miko of Legend, expect that it was written from the hanyou’s perspective and he always described her being “beautiful” and “full of life”. Not many scrolls remained, most were lost through time, but the ones that remained fully showed that the Hanyou loved that Miko more than anything else in the universe.

Kagome kept a copy of the writings with her always, reading and being sucked in to a different world. ‘I want someone to love me as he loves her’ She found herself constantly sitting on the lowest branch of the tree on the shrine ground, the grand Goshinboku. She felt protected when in that tree. She felt a safe blanket surround her, sing her to sleep in an ancient language she did not fully understand.

The following summer she returned to her mother’s manor and waited on the stairs for him, but he never came. And her hope was lost. And after that, she did not return to her mother’s house, except sometimes on weekends. She spent her summers training, growing, wanting to expand her powers exponentially.

The boy she had shared that fateful summer with faded in to her deepest memories, new ones taking its place. She made friends with some of her fellow Mikos, but was always a little envied for being the most powerful Miko in the Academy. Her best friend was Kikyo, a Miko that rivaled her power. She was like Kagome’s sister, always around and always doing the mischievous things Kagome prided herself in doing around the school. Their close friends were Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi----three low powered priestesses. She trained rigorously, learning quickly from the head mistress of the school. She only saw him in her dreams, but not his whole form. She dreamt of golden eyes, eyes which captivated her entirely. ‘I don’t understand’

And tomorrow she started high school and she would be transferring to Tokyo High School, a prestigious school which accepted anyone. Most of her classmates would go on to the all Mikos High School, but Kagome chose to go to a ‘normal’ high school. Kikyo, Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi chose to support their friend by choosing to attend there to. And Kagome had changed greatly, no longer being her uncomfortable little self. She grew semi-tall, with a lean frame and long raven-black hair. Her mother always said Kagome still had much to blossom, but everyone knew Kagome was a pure promise of beauty.

Kagome giggled as she screamed in to her pillow a muffled version of “I’m so excited!”. She quickly clicked off the lights of her pastel pink room and closed her eyes, relaxing against the welcoming warmth. Going to sleep meant drifting in to a land where the boy with the golden eyes haunted her----excited her, kept her safe in a world that did not exist.

‘My hero’