InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ My Story: A Human 'Tail' ❯ My Story ( Chapter 1 )

My Story

Chapter One

 

Disclaimer: I do Not Own Inuyasha…

 

A/N: Hey Guys, this is my first attept at actually writing a story. Hope its good. If its not, please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Actually this is not the original…the original is something I wrote for Fictionpress, but I decided to turn it into a Inuyasha story as well

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There are many stories told of my people, some good and some bad. The ones told in early times made up by sailors, those are the stories of Mermaids of unbearable beauty, and with their enchanting voices they would lure sailors to them, only to sink their ship or deceive them. Soon the myth of the deceiving mermaid was turned into a fairy tale, a tale told to children to put them to sleep at night, such as the tale of the little Mer girl who lived as a beloved princess in Atlantis, with King Triton, ruler of the seven seas as her father. Then she fell I love and longed to become human to be with a prince, so she made a deal with the Evil sea witch, gave up her voice for legs, and had three days to win his love or all was lost and she would lose all her dreams and never return to the land or her family at sea. And then when every thing looks as if all hope is lost, love prevails and she pulls a happily ever after.

 

Actually none of those stories have an ounce of truth in them either. Most merfolk bare no hate towards humans, but tend to shy away from them anyways. Another, the sea isn't the most peaceful place, like they tell you in stories. We have our problems too. And what is this about Mermaids with indescribable beauty, and voices that could hypnotize an entire army. Most of the merpeople down here have horrible singing voices, and there are plenty of fat, awkward and even just down right ugly looking mermaids around here.

 

I wish I could tell you this story is like that of the little mer girl, where I fall in love, and give up everything for my dreams. I wish I could say that when every thing is done I will have my happy ending and live happily ever after like in those told in stories. But sadly this is not one of those stories.

 

My name is Kagome, and my story is far from happy.

 

Much like the land dwellers, we under the sea are ruled by a king, King Merric of the seven seas, my father. But unlike most Royal families or even normal ones, I was never spoiled or cherished, heck my parents didn't even want me, and as far as they are concerned I do not exist. I have three sisters that seemed perfect to my father's eyes and a bother who was next in line to be king. I was the undesired child, and they all hated me, so at the age of two I was cast from my home, never to step foot in my palace again.

 

To you Two years of age might be a very young age, but for us merfolk, its not. Not long after we are born we are able to swim, and be left alone, we can talk and understand mermish at that age, as well as find food and live. We are actually a quite intelligent race; we just don't flaunt our intelligence like humans do.

 

Also we age differently then the average human. If we lived a strong, healthy life with no problems, we could easily live to be 500 years old or older, but I'm getting off the subject now. What was I saying before? Oh yes…

 

Well, my family didn't just decide one day that we'll just get rid of our 4th daughter and pretend she never existed. Nope, my parents didn't want me because I was different. And our race hates things that are different. When things are different, it scares them, because it's unknown to them.

 

Instead of having a greenish tinted skin, light turquoise or green hair, a bluish green tail and dark blue or purple eyes, like the average merperson would have, I was born different. I was born with a bluish tint on my skin instead of green, I had blue hair that was a darker shade then it should have been with lavender streaks through it, and instead of a blue or green tail, mine was purple. And instead of dark purple eyes I ended up with the most enticing silvery blue eyes that could stare straight through your sole… Well at least, that's what Souta told me.

 

Souta is my brother, real brother in fact. He and Kai, my best and just about only friend, were the only ones that liked me. In secret my brother and his friend would sneak off and find me to just talk to me, help me, teach me, and even just to be keep me from being too lonely. They both, my brother in particular would teach me things, that I probably would have never known, but decided to do so anyways.

 

Unlike the average mermaid, the royal line was given special privileges, and powers. So, Souta helped train me with those, especially one in particular, transforming. Out of all the mermaids and mermen in the ocean, the only ones that could transform were those of Royal blood, meaning in simple terms that I had the power to transform my fins into legs, my skin into a fairer color, my markings will fade, my gills will turn into lungs, and I will become human. Along with these transformations came a great deal of pain, but I had to learn them any ways, for there were many times in which I was forced use this power to save my life. Along with the ability to turn human, I was taught to speak not only my primary language, mermish, but also the language of those that live on land. This is taught to all merfolk, but I was unable to, for obvious reasons.

 

With the help of Souta, I was able to survive in a little cave, and for 17 years I lived there, learning to survive with only my fins and my claws.

 

Did I mention that we have talons? Though we are a very intelligent race, we have extreme difficulty handling any kind of weapon, and usually must depend on our muscular tails or talons for any kind of protection.

 

When I reached the Age 19, I was forced out of my cave, and had to run. The Sea had under gone a civil war, in hope to destroy all traces of the royal line. My family, and unfortunately my brother included, were all killed. When they found out that one of King Merric's blood still lived, they hunted me. And that is where my story begins.