InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Crossing Paths ❯ Halfbred outcast ( Chapter 1 )

“Halfbreed, you know better than to use a weapon!” They all shouted at her. She couldn't help it. Her two younger siblings were going to starve if she didn't find food for them. They weren't accepted into the clan because they were adopted and not of their own. This clan, this so called `family' she was born into, was rejecting something she cared for. It might have been because she was only half of what she could be, because her mother mated a human and she was born of her decision . To the clan, she was considered deformed and they only accepted her because her mother was the leaders sister. When her mother died, she was left alone to fend for herself and her adopted brother and sister. Allowed to stay in the clan only because she was of her uncle's blood. But now she was in for it. She broke a huge rule of this mob of nitwits, no female is allowed to bare a weapon, if found guilty she could and would be cast out of the clan. And she would be found guilty. And she condemned herself to death for having hunted with it.

 

Later that night, when the lynching mob was upon her, she made one last and grave decision, she would flee and find shelter then return to her brother and sister to bring them with her. They were all she had left. She would kill anyone who dared harm them. She kissed her sister on the cheek and brushed her bright green bangs from her face.

 

“I'll be back to get you when it is safe”. She went to her brother's sleeping form and nudged him awake.

 

He opened his teal eyes to her and yawned, “what's wrong Oniie?”

 

“Take care of Azriel. She needs her big brother. I'll be back before long.” She went to stand but her grabbed her tail. Pleading eyes met hers and she fought the tears that bit at her eyes.

 

“Shh, I have to leave, there is a mob after me for hunting with my sling for food. You must watch your sister till I return, can you do that Sato?”

 

He shook his head, a tear falling down his cheek, he knew what she meant, he was the one that had heard when the leader, his adopted uncle Shralin, was brought the news of his eldest sister's defiant ways.

 

He released her tail and hugged her, “Hurry back, Onekan.” He let loose the tears behind his eyes that were begging to come loose. She rose quickly when she heard the repetition of many feet, bounding their way toward her little cave. Thankfully it was on of the upper caves on the cliff and they would have to climb the cliff a ways before they could reach her.

 

She grabbed her sling, her knife and her pelt, stuffing them in her sack then fled into the dark night under cover of the rain so they couldn't track her scent through the downpour.

 

`I'll return to you as soon as I can' she thought as she made her way across the cliff's front and over the ridge, `I promise you'