InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ New Playmate ❯ Past Experiences ( Chapter 10 )

It was always difficult to sleep during his vulnerable time, how he had feared discovery, huddled up in some filthy crevice in an attempt to hide. Darkness swallowing up the world around him, threatening to devour him, to engulf him in cold shadows never to glimpse the warm light again. He had still been too young to know what it meant, why his world suddenly went black and he couldn't hear or smell anything. He felt as though some huge blanket had been thrown over him and wouldn't let him out.

 

He had learned to love the sunrise, the slow leak of light back into his world. He hadn't known what time it happened or why, just that sometimes his world went black and then it went bright again. He hadn't known that it was only once a month, he hadn't understood the phases of the moon or that he changed appearances. Only that his world went black, and he couldn't find a way out of the darkness.

 

So that's where he stayed, huddled up in a grimy hole with the rats and lesser youkai who couldn't even speak let alone throw insults at him about his blood. They could have killed him, he knew that now, but they hadn't. Instead they had shown him how to survive. He had learned to search, to steal; he had learned to hide his fear and pain behind anger and the need to survive, to grab what he could when he could and make sure there was a lot of it.

 

He surfaced from the sewers once a month, when the world went black and he could walk among the humans as their own. As invisible as every other homeless street urchin with pleading eyes and outstretched hands. Except his hands, though calloused, remained unscarred, his face so smooth and pale beneath the grimy sewer filth caught the passerby unaware.

 

Yes he had perfected deception at an early age, had learned to hide his hardened heart and distrustful eyes behind a veil of tears and dry coughs. All for a bit of bread.

 

He wasn't alone in his escapades to the surface. Every so often he would be accompanied by Onigumo, a war cripple who, even dirtied by the sewers presence, still exuded the power and authority of one who should have been a hero.

 

And so he would be watched by this powerful and frightening soldier as he went about his monthly chore of searching for scrapes of food and coins to help support their little settlement of outcasts beneath the city. But Onigumo was not long for this world, as he had discovered many humans weren't, and soon the ratty years of sullied food scrapings and foul living conditions threatened to wither out the frail cripple who looked after him alongside the small cluster of youkai. He hadn't wanted to see his friend die, and Onigumo had not wished to die in such a disgraceful situation. So on the eve of the new moon when he had gone about his duties above grounds Onigumo and the youkai came to a decision.

 

And Naraku was born. A joining of lesser youkai and a desperate human. And they had never lived in the sewers again.

 

Inuyasha sat up in his bed and gazed into the darkness in the direction he new Naraku to be. Kouga had not come back yet and he didn't really know if he wanted to be here when he did.

 

He contemplated waking Naraku and asking him to help get rid of the ookami, but he didn't want to deal with explaining his sudden change of appearance to the kumo. As much as he loved Onigumo and the youkai who had raised him he didn't see Naraku as either. Naraku was a completely different entity, a combination of everything. It's like combining your father, mother, brother, sister, and the family dog and treating the product of such a union as though they were all still separate. It couldn't be done. It's just…too weird.

 

Finally having reached a decision he rose, adjusted his bedding, then stumbled through the windowless cabin to the door and out into the slightly brighter night.

 

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YES! I have returned! OMGs I just sat down and this poured from me like I was an overflowing water bucket ready to be emptied onto the roots of my sprouting stories. The doc says I can write again, and my arm doesn't ach …that much (the agony! Nooo!) Kidding! ^^'

 

Actually I feel rather better after getting this down. Next will be an update for Free Game and Photo Opportunities then it's off to my M/F fics for a week. Gods I've left those things alone for half a year now. Damn my m/m obsession and you ever fabulous readers. Hardly anyone in the M/F fandoms give me any thought. I thank you all. You make my life worth living.

 

Also if anyone is interested I'll be posting my doujinshi Deadly Challenge on the y!gallery So just search the latest Inuyasha works or e-mail me if you wanna see. I promise I'm not “That” bad of an artist. *snicker*

 

Love you all!

-Rin^^