InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Law of Breeds ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

A/N: Yeah, yeah I know, another story? Why can’t you just finish the others? You know when you have a homework assignment due and can’t seem to work on it until the day it is due? Well I am having problems like that with procrastination. Go figure. I am working on the next chapter of Rockstar….so there!

Well, like in my other story I will be listing the names of the pairing in the beginning. If any of you want to rant and rave or just say something go ahead, hell, flames will be accepted. Can’t be an artist without a few haters.

Prologue:

Inu no Tashio/ Izayoi

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She cradled the newborn child to her chest, sad and afraid for the child she carried for so long. She knew this day would come. It came for all of his breeding. She glanced over at her demon mate, pacing as she looked out of the window into the darkness that was the night of the new moon. It would always be his time of weakness. It always was that way, a child born to a human mother and a demon father was born human, so the sharp claws the newborn would have could not harm the mortal woman’s womb. The baby was wrapped up in a scarlet blanket, the black hair that marked him as human glistening in the candlelight, a witness to the bath he had received earlier. She looked over at her mate, her husband and to the product of their love.

With a snarl, the silver haired demon turned to the door, restless of being kept in a room like an animal. She knew he could leave at any time, but he stayed for her and his son. He looked over to her, his molten gold eyes dangerously tinting red as he growled and huffed at the situation. “Love, come sit with me, please?” she asked him softly.

“I thought they didn’t care. They informed me that my son was exempt from the old laws.” he said as he made his way over to their bed. She lifted the child up to him, and he grabbed the boy. “InuYasha, that will be your name.” he said as he lay the infant back in his mother’s arms. Grabbing a broken necklace that had been set aside for repair he used his poison to melt the gold into a disk. With one claw he delicately carved his child’s name into it and punched a hole in the top. He took on of his wife’s hair pins and pinned it to the baby’s blanket. It was customary the child was to be named.

“He is strong, he will return.” the demon remarked to his mate as he turned to the door. Tomorrow morning they would come, as soon as the child’s demon blood pulsed in his veins. They would sneer at him, look at him like an abomination. When in reality, and he knew this, a half-breed would be stronger, far stronger then a full demon. Half-breed could only be conceived in love, they could never be brought about through rape and that love is what controls their demon blood. Full demons may have full control from birth but a hanyou, a half-breed, would never take it for granted, he would learn to control the powerful beast raging inside by the greatest teacher of all; life. That was why full bloods feared them so.

He hated to admit, as he loved both of his children, the younger would be far more powerful then his older, purer demon brother. However he kept that information to himself as he did not want to his mate to get false hopes that this child will survive the great odds thrown against him. He looked out of the window, framed by billowing white curtains, the handiwork of his mate who lay close to tears, at the darkness just beginning to lighten.

“Love?” her voice wavered as he stood facing the great white marble fireplace.

“Yes?” he asked without turning, he was staring up at the swords he had crafted from his fangs, the life giving Tensaiga and the death dealing Tetsusaiga. Both crafted to cancel each other out. With a sigh filled heavily with sorrow he pulled the death dealing one down and carried it over to the bed. Carefully, almost cautiously he pricked the young pup’s finger and pressed the blood to the sword’s blade. His wife and mate clutched the babe to her as she glared at him, soothing the wailing infant. He ignored it as he had much more pressing matters to attend to. He lifted the sword, still wet with the blood and whispered to it with his very soul. With a subsonic heart beat only demons would sense the sword replied and absorbed the infant’s blood and became the hanyou’s seal. Although he could hold it now, while the child was human, he knew the sword would never allow a full blooded demon to hold it, while the hanyou was alive.

“What are you doing?” she finally asked him when the baby was quiet.

“Assuring that he will have something to protect himself with and seal his blood when he comes of age,” the Great Dog Demon said as he lifted it back up to the customary place it held. It pulsed in response to being so close to it’s brother, as if warning it away. “assuming he finds it before then.” he whispered. He walked over to the bed and sat next to her.

“Are you saying he will live?” she asked as he pulled her into his lap. He held the tow of them for a while before speaking.

“He has our blood.” he stated simply as if that answered all questions.

“That still does not guarantee that a demon will not kill him as a child.” his wife growled low. He chuckled to see how much she resembled a female dog demon at that moment. “What are you laughing at?”

“You just seem so much like a demoness right now, my love.” he said as he smoothed her hair and her nerves. “Don’t worry, he will not be alone.”

“How do you figure?” she asked him and looked up at him with the deep violet eyes he had come to love so much he would give up his demon blood, if she just asked.

“My loyal retainer, Myoga will watch out for him and report back to us.” he stated, ignoring the fact he had just thought of it.

“The flea?” she asked stunned.

“Yes the flea. He may run like a coward but he always returns and is a good spy.” the dog demon said as his son gurgled in his sleep.

“That is true my lord.” she said as she smoothed out the baby’s hair. “Will I even get to see him in his hanyou form before he gets taken from us?”

“Yes, it is customary to let the mother know how hideous her child is.” he said as she paled. He looked down as he watched InuYasha’s hair fade from black to silver as the room was slowly bathed in light. With a sob she turned her face into her mate’s shoulder.

“Look love, he is cute. He has puppy ears.” he told her and she looked down at him in a sad smile.

“My little koinu, my baby.” she said to him, her voice breaking.

A loud bang at the door alerted them it was time for them to take the child. Before he could answer the door, his oldest son threw the door open.

“Father these, scoundrels,” he hissed the name with distaste, “want to know where the child is.”

“Sesshomaru, he is right here in his mother’s arms, where a child, no matter their race, should be.” he said the last part for the benefit of the three demons standing behind the young dog demon.

“May I see it father, before you have to hand it over?” the young boy, a teen asked cautiously.

“Of course my son, you may it is your right as his brother.” he told his son. Sesshomaru, with long silver hair and golden eyes walked over to them and with a careful look towards his father’s mate, who simply nodded and handed her child to him.

Sesshomaru looked down at the child who so looked like him and his father, except for the dog ears that lay flat in his hair. “A male? Does he have a name?” he asked as he handed the child to his father.

“Yes, InuYasha.” the Dog Lord said as he stood holding the baby wrapped in the red blanket.

“It is time, Inu no Tashio, it is the law that governs us. We all must obey.” a dark man said as he walked in between the three demons. Tashio’s eyes narrowed as he realized who it was. “ You wouldn’t break the law now would you?” The law, a vile excuse to prevent thinning of pure blood, a prevention from allowing half breed’s to rule. It stated that a hanyou be taken from their family and given to the wild. If they came back when they reached adulthood, they were allowed back into society, as they were deemed worthy of their life.

“You,” he growled as he stood protectively in front of his family. “You traitor.” his claws glowed green as they gathered their poison.

“Brother, why so unhappy to see me?” the dog demon asked as he walked forward, his long silver hair with a black streak that ran off to the side asked, his burnt amber eyes narrowed in anger. “ I did her a favor, she didn’t have to live to see you mate a pathetic human.” Sesshomaru whimpered as he realized who they were speaking of, his mother.

“You are behind this, aren’t you?” Tashio spat as one of the bear demons came forward and held out a paw for the infant. He had banished the bastard after the murder of his son’s mother.

“Why of course. I have to make sure Father’s line remains pure.” he hissed. “At least you have one good son.”

“Zurni, you will pay for this.” Tashio said as he handed the child over to the bear and his outcast brother. His claws dimmed down as he realized there was no way to fight the traitor with putting his family at risk.

“No my brother, you will pay in blood for this, this monstrosity you call a son.” Zurni looked back, “however, I may just kill that one there, as everyone knows no half breed abomination ever reaches full growth.” he growled, “It will be payment for stealing my mate.” he turned and walked out of the room.

“She was never yours to begin with.” Tashio spat as the door swung closed.

An older demon, a type of bird demon, probably a stork with those long legs, came forward with a scroll and a quill. “Sir? I need to have you sign this and put his day of birth and his name.”

With a murdering scowl he signed the damned paper while his the only son he was left to raise was curled next to his mate as she sobbed into the boy’s silver hair. The boy looked over at his father with tear filled eyes as the dog demon threw back his head and howled in anguish.

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With a smirk the demon who had taken the child said to one of the bear demons, the one who held the baby. “Just throw it in the river.” he said as he transformed into his energy form and flew off.

The bears looked at each other and back at the castle when they heard the howl. “I will not do that.” he said as he carried the child further into the forest to where he knew she would be waiting.

He reached the smooth rock, a depression in it, large enough to fit an infant and carefully laid the child in it. “Be safe little one” the bear said as he walked away.

As soon as they left the area, a cloaked figure swept in and in the blink of the eye InuYasha was gone, a red blanket left on the rock.

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I am thinking that maybe I will post chapter one on the 3rd of June. However it will be sooner if I get some reviews, you know an authors kibble.