InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kaiyoukai Mononoke ❯ Kaiyoukai Mononoke ( Chapter 1 )

Ok ppls, this is my second story ever to be posted on here, so please review and tell me what you think!!! And I know it's not very good, but I came up with this fic at the top of my head so bear with me, k? Ok… here goes!!

An 8-year-old girl with medium length black hair, orange stripes, and wolf ears ran deeper and deeper into the forest. There must be a way to escape this time!! She thought frantically. Finally, as if she had made it somehow magically appear, a hollow log came into view. She ran faster and hid in the dead log. He'll never find me in here!! Her sensitive nose picked up the stench of the youkai coming closer to the log. Can he read my mind?? She felt scared for her friend, a dog demon. He was a half-brother with the youkai that was chasing her. Where are you, Inu-Yasha?! She screamed inside her head. Her thoughts were suddenly disrupted by the transformation of the youkai that had been chasing her. She moved back, and the log she was hiding in started to roll down the hill. She kept herself from screaming, but not for very long because she felt the bumps get bigger and the sun started to shine through the holes in the rotting log. Then she heard the rushing of water up ahead. Quickly, she got out of the log, holding on by her claws. "Inu-Yasha!" she screamed out loud. Then she saw a small flash of red and white. The next thing the hanyou knew, she was being carried away from the river and log. "Inu-" The girl began, but he stopped her. "You, Masako, are going back to your village, understand?" Inu-Yasha was almost ten years old, and he could be really inconsiderate and rude. "But you know what they do to me there!" She moaned. "I'm just going to have to do all that boring nurse stuff again…. Lady Kaede-baba is making me do all these potions and stuff…." "Ah, quit complaining! You wanted to be your mother's apprentice in the first place." Inu-Yasha said, jumping from tree to tree now, over the forest from which she had just gotten out of. "That was when I wanted to be her apprentice. Now, I'm stuck because it's my duty in my family to become a mika." Masako grumbled. "Well, it's not like I wanted to be prince either!" Inu-Yasha growled. "At first I thought, `Wow, I want to be a prince just like my big brother!' " Masako laughed. "You know, you sound a lot like Princess Kagome…" "How do you know her??" Inu-Yasha yelled, making several birds fly out of the trees. "I play with her, of course!" Masako said as though this settled everything. It seemed to too, because Inu-Yasha went quiet. "Well, here you are, so don't run off again." The hanyou said, setting down the wolf girl. "So, I have a question, how come your brother, Sesshomaru, was after me as well?" Inu-Yasha sat there for a minute, then said, "I'm not sure…" Then he turned and left. "Bye Inu-Yasha!" Masako yelled, waving to the hanyou prince. He turned around, gave her a small smile, then disappeared.

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"Argh!!" Masako yelled from inside the hut of Lady Kaede. "Child!" the young woman whispered, "do ye want to wake up the whole village?!" "Sorry, Kaede-baba…" Masako said in a crude voice. Kaede looked at the herbal potion the hanyou was attempting to create. "Hmm…" Kaede looked from the potion to the frustrated teenager. "I suppose it's coming as planned?" Kaede said. "Uh…. Yeah, sure… whatever. " Masako grumped. "Look, this is what thee are doing wrong. `Tis the measurements. Look here." Kaede handed the confused fourteen-year-old the book of herbs and potions for healing. "Start over." She said kindly. "Grandma," Masako ventured, "why am I brought up to be a priestess and not a commoner?" "Well, if I had not let your mother marry your father, you would have probably been forced to be a princess." Kaede frowned. So did Masako. "But that doesn't mean I could change the past… I would hate to be a princess! Inu-Yasha says he has it bad enough, and then his brother basically ruined his life by making him look bad… you'd think he was an untouchable." "You also could've been an untouchable." Kaede pointed out. "Yeah, but I'm not am I? So why am I doing this again?" "Because, my sister, Kikyo, wants her generation of women to be powerful priestesses, so since you are in that generation, you must fulfill your duty, being of her blood. She does not approve, however, that you are friends with Inu-Yasha." "Where is this aunt Kikyo of mine, Grandma?" "She is planning to kill Inu-Yasha. He betrayed her by taking the sacred jewel from her." Masako gasped. "WHERE ARE THEY?!" she screamed in fear for her friend. "They are in front of the old god tree… do you remember where that is, child?" "Yes! I remember! Bye!" and Masako left in a blur.

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"You betrayed me, Inu-Yasha!" Kikyo brought out her bow and arrows, and then pointed to him. "No! Kikyo, it wasn't me!" Inu-Yasha backed away from her, bumping into a tree. * Dang! * He was at a dead end. "Kikyo, I swear-" He began, but was cut off by one of her arrows missing him by inches. "This next one hits your heart, Inu-Yasha!" Kikyo yelled. "I thought you loved me!!" He yelled. "Die, Inu-Yasha!" At that exact moment, Masako ran towards them. Inu-Yasha sensed her and panicked. * What is she doing here?! *"Masako! Get out of here!" he yelled. "Inu-Yasha! Watch out!" He didn't have time to get out of the way, so she leapt forward in front of him and took the blow. "Masako!" Kikyo yelled. At least she thought she did. Inu-Yasha went up in front of her and got pinned to the old god tree, while he knocked Masako out of the way…. And down the Bone Eater's well. "Masako!" Kikyo yelled again. *Please!! Please, don't let her have gone forward in time! * Too late, though. She had disappeared into the black nothingness of the well…never to be seen again…

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Inu-Yasha pushed Masako out of the way of the arrow, pinning him to the old god tree. *Masako, I never…. got to say how good a friend you were to me…. * were his last thoughts before he let the enchanted arrow consume him into a deep sleep…

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"Masako!!" a small girl screamed into her sister's sensitive wolf ear. "Masako! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Unh…." The hanyou woke up to find her little sister looking hopefully to a pile of presents at the foot of her bed, then back at her. "Yay! It's you'we biwthday, wemembew?" she asked, putting on a funny face that was supposed to be pleading. Trying hard not to laugh, Masako sat up straight and said, "It's not my birthday!" "Yuh-huh!" the little girl protested. "Mommy even bought you a pwesent!" "Gasp! She did?!" Masako asked with fake surprise. "Yuh!" her sister ran to the pile of presents and pulled out a small box wrapped in shiny rainbow-colored wrapping paper. Masako took it and smiled. "OPEN IT! OPEN IT! OPEN IT!" the 3 year old screamed at the top of her lungs. "SSSSHHH! Grandpa's sleeping! Not right now!" the raven-haired girl whispered. "Shh…?" her sister questioned. Masako laughed inside her head, but nodded. She got up and shooed her sister out the door with her and downstairs to the kitchen. "My, you're up early!" Mrs. Mitsumi said with the same tone of fake surprise that Masako used earlier. "Happy birthday, sweetie." "Thanks, Mom! Hey! You even cooked me my favorite breakfast!" "Sasuki-Chan, please run to the closet and get me that big box for your sister." "Okay Mama!" " `Big box'?" Masako repeated, confused. "Well, your Grandpa wanted you to do the old tradition, and since your big sister Sesame is away at college, we want you to try her-" "I CAN'T WEAR THAT KIMONO TO SCHOOL!!" Masako burst. "You're not going to wear it to school. You just slip into it after you get home…and remember, you do it for-" "A whole week…. fine." *I thought this would be a good birthday! Now I have to wear one of those awful kimono-thingies! But I guess it's tradition, so I'll do it…. * She sighed and went upstairs after breakfast to get ready for school. * Yeesh…you'd think I would get to stay home too since it was my birthday…. *

When she got to school, all of her friends ran up to her. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" they shouted. "You guys!" she said partly embarrassed, partly surprised and mostly happy that her friends remembered her birthday. "SWEET SIXTEEN!" one of the girls yelled. "Thanks, girls!" she said blushing. "You can't say `thank you' until we've given you presents!" Said her friend that had yelled "sweet sixteen". "Oh, okay." Said Masako. "Umm… where are they?" "Oh! We only got you three..." One of her other friends said. "Here are two of them from us……… we all had to pitch in." A small box and a large box were behind the girls.

They moved so Masako could open the smaller one. "Wait `til you get home to open the bigger one." A boy said from behind her. She jumped and turned around to see the guy she'd been crushing over for the last three months was standing next to her and was holding a present for her. His name was Shinjo. He had short spiky black hair and blue-green eyes. She turned around to look at him. "Umm… hi." She stumbled. "Here." He said happily, giving her the present. He smiled, and Masako's heart skipped a beat. *He's so hot! * She thought as she smiled back and took the present. "Don't open it either until you get home." He suggested. "Okay." She said. A horn honked and Masako turned to see that it was her mother. "DO YOU WANT ME TO TAKE THEM HOME FOR YOU SWEETIE?!" her mom yelled from her parking space. "YEAH! THANKS MOM!" Shinjo helped her take the big box to the trunk as she gave her mom the two smaller presents. "Have a good day sweetie." "Okay, Mom! Bye!"

"Was that my third birthday present?" Masako asked Shinjo. "What?" The one that you gave me." "No. I was the `third present'." "What?!" "Yeah… umm… so, will you except me?" "Of course!" Masako took his hand and ran to the front doors of the school building. "Shall I introduce you to my friends?" Shinjo asked. "Sure!" "Okay, meet me after school at the old gas station across the street." Masako shivered. That was the creepiest place she'd ever seen and never went anywhere near there. Not on her life. But since she had a boyfriend now and he wanted her to go there, then of course she would. "Okay! Well, see ya." "See ya babe."

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A girl with raven black hair named Kagome was in her last class of the day earlier than anyone. Masako-who had just switched to this class to be with Shinjo-walked in to find the girl sitting in her desk, and writing something that looked very important. "Hi." Said Masako, sitting next to her. The girl jumped and looked up. "Oh, hi." She smiled; a warm smile that would most likely fit her personality well. The raven-haired girl must've looked at her ears because she gasped and said, "Cute ears!! I have a friend who has almost the same ears as you…. Except he's got dog-ears…" she smiled. "You know someone like me? Cool. I thought I was the only person in this whole world who had animal ears." "Oh, I'm Higurashi, Kagome." "I'm Mitsumi, Masako." Suddenly, the door opened and the rest of the class filed in. "I know we've just met," Kagome said hurriedly, "But do you want to come over to my house tonight?" "Umm…I can't, but I'll come over tomorrow." "Sounds good! I live-" "In my neighbor hood! I've seen you!" "Oh, yeah! Okay…Eleven o'clock sound good?" "Yeah, sure."

The bell rang. "Okay class, settle down." An old man stood in front of the classroom. *Where is Shinjo!? * Masako noticed that the seat behind her was empty… the place where he was supposed to be sitting. "We have a student who just switched into this class. Please welcome her." Everyone smiled and waved at Masako… everyone except for a group of girls. They were giggling and staring at her ears, which twitched. *Preps, I bet. * She thought angrily. The door swung open quietly, but her wolf ears heard the hinges squeak. Mr. Hall (the teacher) was droning on, and had his back turned from the class and door. Shinjo slipped in and quickly sat down behind her. The preps waved at him and batted their eyes like they had something in them. He didn't seem to notice them because he leaned forward and whispered to Masako, "Sorry." "Where were you?" she whispered back. "I got called to the attendance office during lunch." He kept his voice to a very quiet whisper, so only she could hear. "I don't believe you." Masako turned to ignore him. "Does this mean we're already done?" "No. I didn't hear any announcements." "Fine…I was out buying something for you."

"You can't leave campus!" she kept her voice at a whisper, but almost said it out loud. "I didn't. We have a store in the school you know." "Where?" "On the other side of the building." "Oh… but isn't that where the staff goes to buy school supplies and stuff?" "Yes, but my father is the cashier there and they sell more than school supplies." "Really?" "Yeah. I'll have to show it to you." After what seemed like hours, the bell finally rang. "See ya later babe!" Shinjo said to Masako. "Bye!" she turned around to see that Kagome was giving her a suspecting look. "What?" "I really don't think you should trust him." "Why not?" "He's trouble big time." "I just barely got asked out by him!!" They walked to Kagome's locker. "How long are you gonna be?" "Huh?" "How long are you gonna be today?" "Oh, umm…'til about six… Wait! How'd you know!?" "I accidentally over heard you talking to him this morning."

"Oh… well, I'll come over to your house at seven then. How does that sound?" "Good." "Okay. Bye Kagome." Masako ran off before Kagome could warn her. She ran across the street to the old gas station. *He'd better not be late! * She thought as she waited. She was there for about ten seconds, when Shinjo grabbed her by the arm and led her away from the gas station. "You need to leave!" He said hurriedly. "Why?" "Because… there's just a misunderstanding, that's all." "What?" "Just go! Please! Before…before you get hurt." "What?! No! I won't leave you here if your friends are gonna hurt you!" "I don't want them hurting you! That's why I said to leave! Hurry!" It was already too late. A gang was coming around the corner. They looked masculine and tough. There were three girls that looked pretty tough as well, but with out the muscles. One of the three she recognized. Her friend Sakura from the sixth grade. "Well, well." She said, making one hand into a fist; the other one clenched a pistol. "If it isn't Masako Mitsumi, my old friend." "Sakura Mirumi." Masako said, claws forming from her usually short fingernails. Fangs showed as she smiled. "You always were a weakling." Said Sakura, relaxing her hand to crack her knuckles. "Not this year, old friend." Masako said as her eyes fired with rage. "Yes, but this year, you only have Shinjo, a halfling as well." "He is not a halfling!" Masako muttered, scars starting to show. Her youkai side was deciding to show at the right time because the other two girls had fear in their eyes… especially Sakura's. "Who is this gal?" one of the guys in the gang said, cracking his neck and knuckles. "Shut up. This is between Masako and me. I should have finished this a long time ago!" Sakura lifted the pistol and aimed it at Masako's heart. "I've been waiting to see the day when you would even dare to point anything lethal at me." Masako laughed.

She laughed again as Sakura's finger moved to the releaser. "You wouldn't be able to… c'mon Sakura, shoot me… unless you're scared." "DON'T YOU DARE MOCK ME, MITSUMI!" Sakura screamed. She shook, but kept her hold. Suddenly, Shinjo stood in front of her. "Don't, Sakura." "Whadda ya gonna do to me, Shinjo?" "Nothing. And Masako isn't either." Masako stared at him in disbelief. What was he thinking?! Sakura was probably going to strike at any moment once he turned his back to her. "Don't move Shinjo…" was all Masako said. "I'm not gonna shoot him, stupid." Sakura said, "I wouldn't waist one bullet on that hottie. I'm saving them all for you Masako Mitsumi." "What?! Shinjo, you're not…not cheating on me?…. you're not playing with me…. Are you?" He didn't say anything.

Masako didn't cry. Not even tears formed. Her heart shattered. She looked down at her watch. It was almost six o'clock. She looked over to the moon that had come out early. She knocked Shinjo out of the way and flew into the air. Just as she had figured, Sakura shot in surprise of this. "I guess no one really cares for me then." Masako shot daggers at Shinjo. "You're just one present that I don't want." Shinjo stared back at Masako in a pleading way. "I don't like Sakura." He said. "Fine with me." She replied, "Just don't think I want to be friends with your friends anymore." "Does that mean-" "I don't know, Shinjo…. I'll think about it." She flew off to meet her friend.

"So, who's gonna take us?" "What do you mean `who's gonna take us?' We don't need anyone to take us; we go through the old well." Kagome pointed to the well in the shrine they were in. "How does that help?" "You'll see." And Kagome jumped. "Kagome?" she looked down into the darkness. "Kagome ??" she called again. "Kagome!!" an old voice called from the other side of the door. Masako jumped back, tripped and fell into the pool of black.

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She woke up to find that she was still in the dark, but there was light coming from the top of the well. She climbed out to find that the well house was gone, and she felt like someone was playing tricks on her. I'm supposed to be at home, she thought, putting on that kimono and wearing it all day… hmm… maybe if I go back through, I'll be home. But before she could jump, a familiar voice yelled, "Shut up, stupid monk!!!" a boy of about 17 with white hair and dog ears in a red outfit was jumping up and down yelling at a pleasant young man, who appeared to be the "monk." Suddenly, a memory from long ago sprang into the thinking part of her brain. Linu…no…Hinu…no…Inu…Inu something… Yoshi??… Yashi… Yasha. Inu-Yasha.

Inu-Yasha suddenly looked over to her direction. *Masako??!! * He ran towards the teenager and realized… "Masako!!" "Inu-Yasha?!" "Wow, you've grown! Last time I saw you, you were like eight years old!!" he laughed. "I remember now…I know where I am… that was the tree my aunt Kikyo shot you… the Shinboku tree." "Yeah… hey um…did you wanna go back to your time??" he suddenly asked, seeing that she was so close to the well. "Actually… I did, but being here makes me wanna see how much things have changed." "A lot since those fifty years had passed…" "FIFTY!!?? No way!" she sat down on the grass. "Fifty years since… that day… My grandma, is she still…?" "Heck yes! That old bat hasn't died yet." Masako rolled over with laughter. When she was able to breathe, she asked where Kagome was. "At your grandma's hut." He said smiling. The wolf hanyou got up and hugged Inu-Yasha. "Thank you!" she said, running off. "Who's that, Inu-Yasha??" Shippou, a small kitsune asked. "An old friend. What of it?" "I didn't know you had friends besides us!" he said with an odd tone in his voice. "So what if I had friends?!" the hanyou said defensively. "Hey, where's Miroku? I'm not finished with him yet!" said Inu-Yasha, pounding his fist into his palm. "I dunno… probably went after that girlfriend of yours." "SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND, GOT IT DORK?" he ran after the poor kitsune, who was running for his life.

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Masako got to the hut to find Kagome and her grandma talking and laughing over tea. "G-grandma??" she squeaked, poking her head through the doorway. "Masako!" said the old woman, getting up and walking over to hug her granddaughter. "My child! You've returned!" Kagome walked up to them, looking quite puzzled. "Umm… can you kinda explain this to me??" "This is my granddaughter, Masako. You should know her by your strange clothes." "Grandma," Masako laughed, "I think you should explain the thing about me being your granddaughter!" Before Kaede could explain, Shippou came running in with bruises all over. "Miroku's fainted and we can't wake him up!!!" he yelled, making whistling noises every time he pronounced his C's and S's. "What happened to you??!" Kagome and Masako gasped at the same time. "Inu-Yasha beat me up, just because I said that Masako was his `girlfriend'." He started to cry. "It's okay… I'm not his girlfriend, so that's why he got mad…poor thing, this is all my fault!" "No it isn't! Inu-Yasha just gets really bad tempered." Said Kagome, getting her first-aid kit out of her backpack. "Hey, I'm gonna go see what happened to that Miroku guy okay?" Masako turned to leave. "Wait, let me tell you something you should know: he's a hentai." Kagome giggled.

Masako walked outside to find the monk lying on the ground, Inu-Yasha next to him mumbling. She ran to the two to see what was the matter. "He won't get up. He didn't faint. He's just a lazy piece of-" "Hold it!" she knelt down beside the monk, looked him over, then sat on him. "Wake up, Miroku." She sang. Instantly, he opened his eyes and heaved and groped for air. Masako stood up; laughing and shaking her head while Inu-Yasha rolled around on the ground laughing so hard he couldn't breathe. "You okay?" she asked the bewildered monk between laughs. "I'll-be-okay!" he puffed. To get her back for sitting on him, he smiled and grabbed her butt. She didn't scream. She didn't smack him. She turned around, smiled and said nothing. "You are so pathetic." She said calmly and walked away, holding her butt. She walked back into Kaede's hut, with a smile on her face, holding her butt. "Did he?" Kagome started laughing. "No, not as quick as he'd like to…" then she laughed as well.

Later that night, she came outside to see that Kagome was making dinner. Miroku was there, watching in amazement. He looked up to see Masako standing over him, smiling. "Hi." She said, still smiling pleasantly. "Hi!" he said cheerfully, forgetting that moment that day. Suddenly(you could probably hear this all the way from feudal Japan to America) she smacked him upside the head. Kagome winced and looked to see an actual goose egg on his for head (not the anime ones that disappear in at least five seconds, a real one that would stay there for a couple of days). `That'll last him a while.' She thought, trying not to laugh. Masako, still smiling, sat down beside him (uh-oh!). "What are we having?" she asked, licking her lips. `Oden please let it be oden!!' she thought. "Oden." "Yay!" Now we all know about revenge; Oh, sweet revenge!! Miroku did his thing and got, in return, another smile. `She creeps me out!' he thought, taking his hand off of her butt.

Inu-Yasha sniggered, and sat down beside Kagome. "Is it ready yet?" he groaned. "Hold your horses!" she shot back. `Hold your horses?! What's that supposed to mean?! I don't got no horses to hold onto!' he thought angrily; his stomach growled.