InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Long Awaited Reunion ❯ Shared Visions of the Past ( Prologue )

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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters in the manga/anime. However, there is an original character in here, so I do own her (I haven't seen her name used before, and she is original, so don't write me saying you came up with her first).

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Key:

~*~*~*~ = scene change

"Example" = spoken words

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Prologue: Shared Visions of the Past

"Inuyasha!"

It was the last thing he heard before the arrow speeding towards him took him in the heart, pinning him to the tree behind him.

"Kikyou?!…How…dare you," was all he could say as his world went black. Then he heard it - the sadistic laughter coming from the shadows, taunting him. He recognized the hated voice - Naraku.

With a silent scream, Inuyasha was jolted from sleep, breathing heavily. "Not this dream again," he thought to himself as he tried to settle his racing heart. When he finally managed to calm himself, he leaned back against the trunk of the tree he was sitting in sighing to himself, "Why do I have to keep reliving that day??"

Little did the hanyou know, that not too far away, there was another who was reliving that very same day in her dreams, the only difference being she could not wake herself up.

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In a forest only about two days away from where Inuyasha and his group was camped, there was a nightmare taking place, much like the one that our favourite hanyou had just experienced, however there was some variation…

"Inuyasha!"

She heard someone call his name, and instantly recognized it as the miko that had won the said hanyou's heart. But what confused her was the sheer hatred that emanated from the woman's voice. She then heard what she thought was the sound of an arrow flying through the air. When she heard the arrow make contact with it's target, she also heard something that made her heart stop beating.

"Kikyou?!…How…dare you."

She ran towards the voices as quickly as she could. When she reached the scene she stopped and froze in her tracks. There, pinned to a tree with an arrow through his heart was Inuyasha, who was now apparently dead. She stared for a moment, unable to register what she saw before her. When she finally came to her senses, there was only one thing that she was feeling - complete and utter hatred. She quickly turned around, facing Inuyasha's attacker, Kikyou, the miko who had just fallen to her knees from what she could guess was a fatal wound.

"Kikyou!!! You bitch!! How dare you do this to him!! How dare you kill my brother!!!"

At that moment the nightmare ended, but the dreamer did not wake. Instead, the nightmare began again, replaying every moment from the beginning over and over again in the dreamer's mind. This was how it had been, ever minute, of every day, for the past 51 years for the female inu-hanyou, pinned to a tree, with an arrow in her heart.

Standing on the ground just in front of her looking up, was a man with long, raven coloured hair, wearing a white baboon skin. He had an evil smile on his face as he said to the seemingly peacefully sleeping hanyou,

"Soon, very soon, you will be what finally rids me of that accursed Inuyasha and his group of pathetic friends. Yes, you will be the one to rid me of your troublesome brother, my dear Inukigo.