InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hagakure ❯ Prologue

Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha or any of its characters. I simply abuse them for my own twisted means of amusement.

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Prologue

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"Mother, may I go out and play?" the young Inu-Yasha asked his mother with big dewy eyes.

She smiled brightly. "Go ahead, son. Be careful."

"Oh, I will mother!" he assured her as he left to go play with his only friend.

Now where to find her? She was normally creeping around somewhere, trying to get out of work. She was definitely not a girly type of girl and household work did not suite her, nor did it please her.

"Hagakure?" Inu-Yasha called out timidly as he rounded a bend in the path.

He smelt her. He knew she was somewhere nearby, but where?

"Here I am, Lord Inu-Yasha." a sweet voice came from the trees.

"Don't worry, Hagakure. I'm here alone." he assured her.

"So you are." the girl said, still up hidden in the tree somewhere.

Inu-Yasha glanced up in the tree and figured out exactly where she was. He tried to jump up and join her but his half human nature made him a little clumsy; he got caught up in the branches.

"Damn!" he cursed.

"Temper, temper, Inu." Hagakure teased him, her face hidden by shadows but her piercing amber eyes blazing through.

"Oh shut up."

"Why should I, Lord Inu-Yasha, who is caught up in a tree?" she asked as she came out of the shadows. Her black hair accented her features but hid her black ears from view.

Inu-Yasha growled at that add-on to his name.

"We'll see who's caught up in a tree!" he growled.

"But I already do!" she giggled.

Inu-Yasha growled several indecipherable phrases before finally giving up and asking for help. Knowing Hagakure, she'd never let him live it down. Once on the ground, they started to wrestle.

"Ha! I win, Inu!" Hagakure shouted victoriously from her position over the young hanyou.

"Not…for…long!" Inu-Yasha growled as he shoved her off himself.

After much rolling and kicking, Hagakure was again the victor.

"Pinned ya!"

Once again, Inu-Yasha managed to throw her off. And once again, Hagakure managed to win.

"Pinned ya again!"

"How come you always win? I'm two seasons older than you!" Inu-Yasha whined.

"Because I'm a girl, and the gods always favor the innocent little girl to win the fights." Hagakure said pointedly.

"You wish!" Inu-Yasha shouted as he went for another go.

The two kicked, bit, and rolled around until they became aware that they were being watched. They both stood up with Inu-Yasha in the front and Hagakure in the back. They eyed the demon in front of them a bit nervously.

"What are you two doing out here?" he asked in a rather icy voice.

Hagakure gulped and looked down at the ground obediently. Inu-Yasha, however, stood straight up and defiantly eyed the demon with a bitter glance.

"Sesshomaru, don't you have better things to do than bug us?"

"I, Sesshomaru, heir to the Western Lands, have no such time to waste. Besides, it is you, little brother, who interrupted me when you and that girl rolled in here, biting and kicking…" He looked over in the girl's direction. "Take leave of us now, girl." Sesshomaru ordered.

"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru."

She bowed to each of them in turn before backing away. Little did Inu-Yasha know that this would be the last time he would see her for quite a while.

"You have no right to be so mean!" Inu-Yasha protested.

"Were you not my father's child," Sesshomaru growled, "I would have killed you long ago."

"Well I am," Inu-Yasha growled at his older brother, "and as long as father's alive, you'd better not make any funeral plans."

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This is just the prologue. My other chapters are longer. Oh, and "two seasons older" means two years older. And here's my gripe… I'm really pissed at my computer and MM right now because (as the summary says) this is a repost. I had to delete this fic once before because of updating and page loading issues. HOPEFULLY I won't have to do it again, but if it does happen, I'm just not going to post chapter stories here. I have a ff.net account where this (and my other chapter stories) is posted (and that account gets first priority anyway). My username there is: LadyNetiri Cross your fingers that it doesn't come to that!

--Lady Netiri