InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets ❯ The Painful Beginning ( Chapter 1 )

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I do not own any of the characters from the InuYasha television series. I claim only characters that I have made using my own intellect.

 

 

Chapter 1

 

"I'd like to introduce a new student. Her name is Higame Higurashi. She comes from America," my new teacher states before giving me a seat in the back of the classroom.

I am the new student and live with my uncle that I've previously never met. My mother had told me about my Uncle Souta and deceased grandmother and great grandfather, but she never visited them, as if she had been running from something in her past.

I sigh, looking at the window, my reflection looking back. Uncle Souta had said I looked the splitting image of my mother, Kagome. I love having some way to remember my recently deceased mother, especially the pretty pink half of a jewel that I wear around my neck along with the chocker I never take off. My Uncle Souta called the jewel the Shikon No Tama, a valuable family heirloom.

"What's the answer to problem twelve, Higurashi," the teacher suddenly asks, pulling me out of my thoughts.

I quickly find what I need to answer correctly, making sure to stay on task and leaving my thoughts for another time.

 

 

I get back to what is my new home with a sigh, going into my room to change to find that I haven't unpacked any of my clothes yet. I let out a huff of breath and grumble to myself, hooking up my ankle upholsters and sticking my Sais in them.

Then I go outside to start my daily work out.

I finish soon after, strapping my Sais back to my ankles and going to search the grounds.

The place is rather pretty, especially the tree of ages as my uncle had called it.

One place in particular catches my attention though. It is the small shrine housing, what Souta called, the Bone Eater's Well. I look around to make sure no one's watching me before I enter the shrine, carefully peeling off a paper sutra off the door. Once it's off, it disinigrates.

Shit, I think, quickly getting in and closing the door behind me. Maybe no one will notice.

Then I take a calming breath and walk into the middle of the shrine, looking down into the infamous Bone Eater's Well. I look closer to see something glowing in the bottom.

I, being curious, climb down the ladder and step onto the well floor, kneeling and reaching for the glowing object.

As soon as I feel my hand grasping the object, the weirdest thing happens. My body feels like it's floating and I'm surrounded by glowing blue lights and darkness.

Then I'm once again at the bottom of the well and in my hand is a little shard of something glowing pink, my jewel half around my neck also glowing pink. I put the shard against the jewel half and watch it mold together to form 2/3 of a jewel.

Then I stand, seeing no ladder. I'm confused and then I push my thoughts aside, using vines on the sides of the well to climb out. I'm extremely shocked and confused when I jump out and find myself in a forest clearing instead of the inside of a small shrine.

"What the ------," I start, stopped by a flash of color and then suffocated by a large, red jacket.

I struggle to get loose and end up right hooking the person, or thing, and flipping away, stopping to crouch down low with Sais in hands.

"What the hell, Kagome," a young man, about 18, with dog ears, asks me angrily.

"Kagome," I think aloud, wondering how he's connected to my deceased mother.

"Where the fuck have you been," the dog man growls, obviously irritated by my lack of response.

"How did you know my mother," I ask, bewildered that my sweet mother would know or even associate herself with this arrogant ass of a young man.

"Mother," the dog man replies absentmindedly, his turn to be confused and shocked.

"Yes, I'm Higame Higurashi. Kagome was my mother," I reply, curiosity getting the better of me as I watch the man's cute doggy ears twitch.

"Was," the dog man asks, my fingers itching to touch his cute dog ears.

"Yes, was. She died a month ago in a car crash," I reply sadly, my mind sidetracking as a little boy, with fox tail and feet, catapults into my arms.

"Kagome," he squeals, clinging to me as he cries. "I missed you so much!"

"Um . . .," I say, at a loss of words as a Buddhist monk, a cat-like thing, and a woman carrying a huge boomerang come into the clearing, all of them greeting me by my mother's name. "I'm Higame. Kagome was my mother."

As soon at the words are out of my mouth I regret them. The poor little fox boy in my arms cries even harder.

Then I remember some of my mother's stories from when I was a kid. They talked of people like this, but I had never imagined that they could be real.

I look at the dog man, speaking the name Inuyasha. He seems to respond to it and I know it true that my mother's stories and the people in front of me are one.

I look from person to person, thinking the names and descriptions my mother had told me. Inuyasha, the half breed dog demon; Miroku the cursed, perverted Buddhist monk; Sango, the demon slayer; Shippou, the orphaned full fox demon cub; and Kirara, Sango's constant companion and fire cat.

"What happened to Kagome? Why did she leave us," Shippou wails in my arms.

I try to think of a logical explanation and instead I come to a story my mother told me.

"Well, a story my mother told me might hold the explanation. Well, to why she left anyway," I reply, not sure if the cub is ready to hear that my mother is dead.

"Okay," Shippou sniffles, cuddling into me to hear my tale, the others sitting down to listen.

"Once upon a time, a beautiful priestess and her half breed lover were tricked, the beautiful priestess, Kikyou, dieing and the half breed, Inuyasha, becoming entombed to a tree. Then one day a teenage girl falls through a well into the feudal era and sets Inuyasha free. The girl falls in love with Inuyasha but refuses to admit it because he's still in love with his lost Kikyou that had been reincarnated into the girl. The girl eventually works up the courage to tell him when she finds him kissing a clay figure with a part of Kikyou's soul in it, the lover's reunited. The girl can not bear the heart break this causes and jumps through the well, taking a precious jewel half, and sealing off the well forever," I say, knowing the story by heart.

"It's all Inuyasha's fault," Shippou cries angrily, glaring at Inuyasha.

"Feh," Inuyasha growls, walking off into the surrounding forest.

"So Naraku and the shards and everything . . . they're real," I ask, still feeling a little dazed.

"Yes, but for now we rest," Sango replies, looking up at the darkening sky. "Yes, we should return to the village."