InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Letting Go ❯ chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and its characters are created by Rumiko Takahashi, not me. I do not receive money of any type for my writing.

Chapter 1

Tired blue eyes watched the fast approaching runway of the airport. He prepared himself for the chaos that was about to ensue. With the ease and swiftness of a demon he made his way from the airport to his hotel. Only after his bags arrived and he knew that he was safely alone did he allow his body to slump and fall back onto the comfort of the bed.

The once wolf prince had returned to the land of his birth. A humorless chuckle escaped his lips at the thought. Kouga had not been a prince in many a year. He was king of all the wolf demons. He had not been ready to take on this duty, but none the less it had been thrust upon him in the flash of a blinding light.

Kouga rubbed his chest as a phantom pain squeezed his heart. The land, sky and water would be his death if he lingered here for too long. The demons that survived the blast and not fled the lands learned of a new way to die; radiation sickness. Even after all these years he could feel the poison surrounding him.

He would not have returned if the dreams that haunted him had ended. Sad dreams of what could have been or perhaps a better word is should. The warm laughter and smile of a carefree miko danced in his mind. A tear slipped from the corner of his eye. This time he would find out the truth of what happened to her. He would kneel beside her grave and…

Kouga sighed as the vibration of his cell phone tingled next to his skin. He did not even have to look at the ID to know who was calling. With a swipe of his finger he answered his phone and waited.

“Wolf” A disenchanted voice sounded in his ear.

“Dog” He simply replied in the same bored tone.

“You must return at once. This is a fool's errand.” The voice barked

“That would be me. A fool for all times” Kouga said softly

A dark growl rumbled through the phone.

“Kouga, she is long dead.”

Kouga squeezed his eyes tightly. “I know.”

“Then return home before one of my pups or I kill your betas. Ayame is worried for you and what you might do.”

“Thanks Sesshomaru, for everything. Tell your mate not to worry.” Kouga replied before disconnecting the call and turning off his phone.

Meanwhile at a shrine not to far from the hotel a young priestess has stopped sweeping the stairs. She raises her hand to touch the jewel on her necklace that has started to glow and pulse. Excitement fills her soul as she starts to bounce on the balls of her feet. She quickly tosses her broom to the ground and races toward her home.

“Mama! I can feel someone!” The girl screamed.

Kagome was fifteen years old when she learned that demons and magic are real. She was twenty when that world was lost to her. How fitting that on the one year anniversary of the wells closure she would feel the first demon in her time.

The well had given no indication that the magic would stop. The miko had returned home to gather supplies. When she tried to return to the past nothing happened except a nasty bruise on her leg. It was a short time later that her grandfather found her crying at the bottom of the well. If not for his words Kagome was sure she would have fallen into a deep depression.

“Kagome, I can not imagine the pain you must be feeling at this time, but if the well has closed then perhaps you are needed here. You may be the key that unlocks the magic that has been lost in our world.”

Kagome hiccupped out a sob and rubbed the snot from her nose onto her sweater. She looked up from the darkness of the well to see her grandfather haloed in an ethereal light.

“You think that maybe I will find them. That they are not lost to me?” She asked with a hope growing in her heart.

“Well you did a great job finding those jewel shards. I don't know how an entire group of…beings could not be easy to find. I think that your true journey is about to start.”

“Okay” Kagome said as she climbed to her feet and out of the well.

She grabbed her grandfather in a big hug. He patted her on the back and looked at the old well. He had told his granddaughter the truth about the demons. It was on the day of Kagome's birth that he had a vision of her greatness. He was a man of the light, but he knew that without the darkness the world and universe would lose balance. The world was in chaos and only she could restore what had been lost.

Kagome paced the top stairs of the shrine nibbling on her lower lip. Earlier she had raced around the house trying to find just the right outfit to wear. It was only when her brother had asked her a question that she froze in her tracks.

Leaning against the door frame of her room Souta frowned watching his sister.

“So, did the jewel tell you this was a good demon? I mean all those stories you told me about demons. I seem to remember you getting into a few fights.”

So now she was pacing and questioning if she should go and meet this demon. In fact she was so much in thought that Kagome had not noticed the jewel growing brighter.

“Kagome?”

The sound of name dragged her back to the here and now. Her abused lower lip dropped from her teeth. She looked down the stairs to see a man hesitantly walking up the stairs. His bright electric blue eyes held her in place.

“Kouga?”

A/N: I have not written in a long time. I hope that you enjoy the story.