InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Eight Summers ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

I DON'T OWN THE INUYASHA SERIES!! But I do own 2 movies and eight mangas of him.

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Chapter 1

I was named by my mother, that's the only memory I can cherish for her sake. Kagome Higurashi, my life, my whole being, my name. My mother was a human my father a demon. He is the Capitan of the ship Ikotakashi. Placing this ship under pirates isn't right. Our ship never poiled and plundered, no one was killed unless they deserved it. The ship is made up of half demons, all assortments. Excluding my father he is a full black dog demon. My father is very indifferent to me than the rest of the crew, me being the only female on the ship and his daughter, he forbids me from stepping one toe on the top deck.

It wasn't always that way; I was allowed to wander anywhere I wanted up until I was eight summers old. There's not much I can remember but it wasn't just me being put out of harms way. All the children on the Ikotakashi were sent home to their mothers, but since I didn't have mine or any other living relatives I stayed with my father. But I was never told why it happened.

I lost my best friend that eighth summer. His name was Inuyasha. We had so many similarities, he was a white dog demon, well half of him was. He also had a human mother who died, but he can remember his vaguely. But he had something I didn't and that was an older brother named Sesshomaru. I met Inuyasha when I was four summers old, and he was five. Little girls at that age want to marry their father because they don't know any better, but me I wanted to marry him.

The ship was docked in the port of Japan, most of the children's families lived there. Distraught I was when my father said he went away, I didn't believe him until I lost his scent in the smell of the sea. For a long time I thought he would just come back but then I realized we were sailing in the Pacific Ocean, across the world away from Japan. Never would I forget his face or his scent because it was engraved into my memory...

Waves crashed against the haul of the Ikotakashi docked in the Bahamas. A seventeen summers old Kagome stands at the top deck of the ship. Just because her father said she couldn't go on it didn't mean she wouldn't do it. Every morning she would wake up at three and just stand at the stern of the ship. But this morning was different, the night when she was most vulnerable. She was human. With her black hair gone replaced with white, and her claws and demon powers missing along with her pointed ears on the top of her head, she sighs because she hates being human, but she doesn't hate them as a species.

She stands there until sunrise, which is in twenty minutes now. People are starting to come alive in the streets of the small Bahaman town.

"They look so happy." She whispers to herself knowing that's the reality she never had.

Leaning against the rail of the ship, she feels a presence somewhere far off behind her. Turning around she sees a man wearing brown pants and a white long sleeved shirt standing near the entranceway to the decks below.

Panicking, she realizes she must get away before he sees her. But just then he turns and stares her way.

He's walking over now getting closer and closer.

(My father is going to kill me.)

Ten feet...five feet. He's less than 2 feet away from her now.

"Hey what are you doing? You're not supposed to be up here."

"Uhh, I." (My father's going to kill me; I'm going to die.)

This man in front of her is very perturbed at the moment, and having this woman sneaking onto the ship makes it worse.

Grabbing her left arm, he starts to drag her to the side of the ship so she can get climb down and go back home.

"Hey let go of me!"

He clearly isn't going to listen to her so she takes matters into her own hands.

"I SAID LET GO OF ME!" Using her free left hand she manages to punch him in the face.

He looses his grip and stumbles just a bit to the side, surprised that she would actually punch him. Did she not know where she was?

"Serves you right for doing that, you should have seen that coming." Kagome starts to walk back to the capitans quarters when the air stiffens and the presence of that man reaches her back. Flipping to her right, she nearly misses the blow he sent her way.

Stunned, she looks back at him and he looks even more angry.

She notices that behind him the sun is peaking out from behind the trees.

(Is it already sunrise? I didn't even notice.)

Sporting a cocky grin in his direction she starts to speak. "Now you're going to regret ever seeing me."

He produces a smirk just like hers and just says, "Keh."

The sun comes out fully from behind the trees just as both of them leap into the air. Shots are deployed and it ends with Kagome being thrown on to the floor with her assailant right on top.

The change has occurred, her demon powers along with her ears and black hair have returned. But why is she the one beaten to the ground.

She has her eyes closed. Not daring to open them, not just yet.

Suddenly, she breathes in and a scent wafts through her nose and it triggers her senses.

Opening her eyes, they are met with another's that don't fit her previous attacker. They were golden not purple, and his hair it was black not silvery white, and he didn't have...little white ears on the top of his head.

She notices the shocked look on his face, and takes another deep breath. The scent she kept with her for all those years is closer than ever.

Except the person connected to scent isn't a boy anymore.

Barely above a chaste whisper she says, "Inuyasha..."

His eyes widen but his pupils get small with shock. His long lost best friend is staring him straight in the face.

"K-Kagome?" He asks uncertainly. Untrusting his nose or his feelings at the moment.

Slowly she starts to rise to a sitting position, he follows suit never braking eye contact.

"Kagome?" he asks again.

Smiling, she throws herself onto him in a hugging embrace. A tear runs down her face, she doesn't know when she started crying but she doesn't care.

He returns the hug happily. He's finally found her.

He leans his head against hers and smells her hair, happy to have her near him again.

"My god Kagome, its really you, you're right here with me again."

Through her tears she can only agree with him, "Inuyasha, this is the best day of my life."

She tightens her hands around his torso, wipes her teary eyes on his shirt, and is only worried about one thing in this world right now and he's not letting her go.

Breaking their peace, a commanding powerful voice yells, "Kagome!"

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