InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ Boom, questions, and a trick at the end ( Chapter 2 )
Disclaimer: No I don't own Inuyasha. I wish, I wish, I wish, but I also wish about the lottery. So oh well. Read and review nicely please. I know it isn't very long. But I can only seem to keep up any scene for about 3 pages at a time it seems.
Chapter 2) Boom, Questions, and A trick at the end.
Not far from Kaede's village. Near a winding stream. ~
Inuyasha, and Kagome were coming back from a successful shard hunt and were feeling exceptionally good towards one another. Smiling, Kagome was riding her bike casually with her huge yellow pack strapped on the back. Inuyasha lazily striding beside her, yet still alert when she stopped and went all wide eyed. Curious Inuyasha looked back at her expression and pondered the weird sound that seemed to be increasing in volume and the oddly foreign youkai streaming through the forest. "What is it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked with a puzzled look on his face. Seconds later a rather large force pushed him back and even more puzzling, he felt wisps of something like smoke wafting up from him. In shock Kagome watched as smoky whisps of red energy pulsed up from Inuyasha and drifted up into the sky, disappearing just above the trees, after a few moments this stopped. Realizing Inuyasha wasn't being harmed and getting edgy and worried, she was even more shocked with the sudden recognition of what that sound was. She had heard enough times the jets going over her home and that sound so often to not recognize a sonic boom when she heard it.
Looking about she watched Inuyasha get into a protective position near her as she got off the bike.
So suddenly that they had no time to react, a wind blew by them and a sonic boom echoed as the wind whipped around them. Suddenly in a whirl of dust at least 3 yards away a figure appeared and the strains of an unidentifiable song wafted toward them. The figure grinned in a smile shockingly like inuyasha's and pushed a button on the little device at its hip that Kagome recognized as a weird CD player.
Inuyasha coming back to himself pulled out tetsusaiga, transforming it as he did so, standing in front of Kagome and bringing the sword up. "Who are you and what do you want?" Inuyasha growled at the newcomer, focusing his ears and full attention on her. Flipping her hair out of the way, the newcomer walked up to almost the point of the tetsusaiga, she seemed to sniff a little, as Inuyasha's growls got worse the closer she got. Suddenly with a curious light in her strange blue eyes she asked, "Are you the son of the once ruler of the Western lands here?"
"Yeah, what of it?" Inuyasha barked back suspiciously, widening his stance.
Suddenly an even wider grin passed over the new youkai's face. She sniffed a little more and grinned like she would break something, a mischievous light lighting her eyes. Curious Inuyasha sniffed back and got a real shock. She smelled of his father's blood, of his linage, but to his knowledge there was only he and his brother. This really puzzled him. A look of almost motherly affection passed over the youki's face at the return sniff. Suddenly she then seemed to focus, and turn to the side.
"By the way," she said looking behind Inuyasha at Kagome,"you can call me Lina." Sticking out her hand cautiously because of Inuyasha's tenseness, she faced Kagome. Slightly shocked at the newer western offer of a handshake, Kagome came around Inuyasha slowely and briefly to shake the hand offered. "My name is Kagome and this overprotective one is Inuyasha," Kagome said playing the part of the peacemaker.
Smiling briefly and smiling just as wide as she met the suspicious glare of Inuyasha she replied, "Nice to meet you Kagome, I already have heard of Inuyasha though." Kagome accepted this and Inuyasha's eye glinted warningly.
"By the way," said Lina, "would it trouble you much if I tagged along with you?" With a surprised look from Kagome and a suspicious one from Inuyasha, Lina continued to wait for the question that she knew would sooner or later simmer up from Inuyasha. With a questioning look and flattening of his ears Inuyasha finally asked it after a tense silence. "Why do you smell like my father?"
Sighing a little and straightening herself, Lina stared directly at Inuyasha with her storm cloud blue eyes and delivered a shocking revelation. "Inuyasha." She said with frank authority, surprising him with the suddenness of it. "I am your great, great, great, great, ect. Great grandmother and I am here to visit. Also I am here to teach you some things I know have been left out of your education and to carry out a promise I made to your father about you and your brother."
Suddenly Inuyasha and Kagome's jaws seemed to drop, after a tense few moments, and a look of disbelief, Inuyasha made a response Lina was waiting for. "Yeah right, and I'm supposed to believe you. Feh." Chuckling outright at this response and wiping a tear from her eye Lina replied, "Ah… I expected that. So much like your father, but if I must I will prove it."
Looking straight at Inuyasha and with a look of infinite patience, Lina started to speak. "I know you do not believe me and I know there is little you remember about what was once your home, but I made sure that there was a way if I ever had to prove my identity to my family." Looking at Inuyasha with a strange fire and a pointed look she continued, " If you remember the origin legend of your family you will know of what I speak. "
With a sudden thoughtful look and hard concentration, Inuyasha tried to remember the legends of his family, while keeping an eye on the intruder. So many legends had been passed down through his family and his father made sure his wife knew all of them. One was told to her and then the little Inuyasha more than any, that being the origin story. His father had seemed to almost cringe thinking about the story at times, when he told it to little Inuyasha as a bedtime story.
* ~ Little Inuyasha is resting in a small bed getting ready to sleep. His royal blue dog pattered comforter plush and inviting to the little pup as he waited for his favorite bedtime story to be told to him by his father. The comfortable chair at his bedside creaked as the Inuyouki sat down and with a look of affection and pained acceptance as he started telling the story Inuyasha asked most for. Since it was the first of a tale of stories that had been told many times, the Inuyoukai was very versed in the telling by now. "Once upon a time, long, long, long ago. A small family came to this land from another far away land. There was a mother and father and a little pup with amazing powers, and they settled into a large valley with many problems that they wanted to help the people here solve. They made a beautiful castle their home and helped many villages prosper, the father was very strong, killed all the mean and evil youki in the area and made the land peaceful, and many enimies. The mother had amazing powers as well and created a crystal ball to repel all evil from the land and held the power of immense good and purity. Their son grew up and became a great warrior to the land and soon the family had the respect and loyalty of all the youki and all the humans of this land. So many respected the family that they were declared the rulers of the western lands, which is were we live today. One day though the mother's crystal ball cracked and blew apart due to an evil so bad that the crystal had problems containing it and the evil escaped from the land after a fierce battle, but swore to get revenge. Most of the shards were sucked up into the good of the land or were dispersed into nothingness, but the mother kept the center crystal of the ball and two shards, in case anything ever happened to the land and to protect her people. Also for the good of the land one crystal was given to the son to protect him but he was of a pure heart and it became a part of him, strengthening his power. While one other shard was made into a powerful jewel with much purity, to protect the humans of this land. The jewel still exists to this day, although it has changed forms many times, and the part of the crystal in the son kept the line pure and true, protecting the land from any turmoil. Every generation now carries a shard inside of them, you and I carry one my son. Laughing at the question he knew was once again coming, "Yes, your brother too." With a sudden affectionate look the Inuyouki also said, "One day you will know what I mean, and you will see for yourself." Gazing up at his father Inuyasha finally asked, like every time before, "What happened to them though?" Laughing, the Inuyouki continued, "Well, the mommy and daddy left one day. Their son was grown up and had a family of his own. Since the mommy and daddy had other homes and liked to explore, and were very old, they left and traveled the world but always returned to see their child. Their son for some reason did not live as long as his parents and after a time though they came back to see their children's children, and so on, every once in awhile they keep coming back. They are very special youki and their powers let them live a reallllly long time." "Even longer than you papa?" Inuyasha questioned wide-eyed. "Sadly yes little one." The Inuyouki replied with a sad look. "Have you met them papa?" Inuyasha continued. "Yes I have. They are really smart and can teach you lots. I met them a really long time ago and helped me become really strong. They can help you too." The Inuyouki said as he pushed a finger against Inuyasha's little nose. Laughing as Inuyasha cross-eyed as he did so. "Go to sleep now. I'll tell you about their adventures tomarrow" "Ok papa!!!" Little Inuyasha said hastely snuggling down in bed, in a hurry to hear tomorrows story. ~*
Suddenly realization triggered in Inuyasha's gaze as he came back from his memories. He watched dazedly as Lina brought out a pink crystal shard from her pack, that seemed to rotate on its own on her fingertip and sparkle with iridescent light. Lina's eyes seemed to light up with a green fire as the crystal rotated faster and faster. Light spilling out of it, as her gaze shifted to the front of Inuyasha's kimono. There shining brightly over his heart was a circle of light that seemed to luminate with the shard. To Kagome's horror though, so did the shards of the Shiko no tama.
"Now do you believe me Inuyasha?" Lina asked as the pink shard stopped on her fingertip, her eyes became the stormy blue again and she put the crystal back into her bag. "Yes," Inuyasha said with wide-eyed wonder. This being the ancestor of his bedtime stories and then suddenly he thought of something else. "Is the shiko no tama the jewel of the legend?" "Yes." Lina answered. "The jewel has been destroyed and remade many, many times. The shiko no tama is one of its resurrected predecessors and thus under my control."
Holding up her hand Lina silenced the questions she knew were bubbling to the surface of Inuyasha and Kagome. "Please might we go to the village I know you currently reside in? I will answer all your questions there and would like to meet your friends I have heard so much of." Lina said with a look of amusement. She also added with a look of amusement, "Would you mind putting down the sword too?"
"Oh," Inuyasha said. Seeming to come back to himself he sheathed the tetsusaiga. With a look of new determination and questions shimmering in his head he turned to Kagome and then to Lina. "Lets get going."
Amusement seemed to wash over Lina's face for a moment as she suddenly suggested something from her frozen position, "I think I know of a faster way to your village." Questioningly she asked, "Is the god tree still near the village?" "Yes," Inuyasha answered, not really liking the feeling he was getting. "Then there is a way, I will show you when we get there, that we may travel faster." With a calming breath and a look of concentration, Lina directed Inuyasha and Kagome to either side of her. After some resistance, Lina explained, "What I am about to do is called "Instant transmission". It is a very fast way to travel long distances. By focusing on a life force you may go to the location of that life force almost instantly. Now I want you to each touch one of my arms and do not let go." With a pointed look at Inuyasha, Lina once again closed her eyes and warned quickly, "You might be a little disoriented when we get there and If you let go you will either be staying here or will only be part-way there when I'm done, and no that does not mean only half of you will get there. I mean you will be halfway to whatever point we are going to." She pointedly looked at Inuyasha, who had opened his mouth to protest heatedly at the thought of parts of him or Kagome being left throughout the forest between here and the god tree. With a sudden quirk of Lina's lips and a concentrated scowl. All 3 of them winked out of sight from the stream, taking the bike and pack with them.