InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Tears of Blood ❯ First Snow and the Legend of the Hanyou ( Chapter 10 )

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Tears of Blood
By. DemonGirl-Setsuna
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!
Who said anything about love? (Looks around and notices human-side whistling innocently) You! I could I forget you being the romantic part of me! You love romance too much! (Demon-side snickers) And don’t think you’re so innocent either! You love blood and gore too much!
Demon-side: Hey! Admit it! You love it! Heck, you enjoy it when InuYasha goes youkai (Full demon)!
Human-side: Yeah! You love the romance; though rare, between Kagome and InuYasha!
DemonGirl-Setsuna: Um… (Blushes) So what! It’s because of the two of you!
Both: That’s right, because we are you!
DemonGirl-Setsuna: Well… Here is Chapter 10!
Please Enjoy!
All three: And remember, Kikyo killed InuYasha, not us!
DemonGirl-Setsuna: I dislike you two! (Demon-side and Human-side shoot spit-balls at her).
Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha or anything belonging to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Ch. 10
First Snow and the Legend of the Hanyou
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T he Next Day…
Iya runs up the shrine stairs.
“Sorry, I’m late!”, he says.
“What happened? I was expecting you sooner!”, she asks.
“I had a kendo class”, Iya replies, scratching the back of his head.
“You’re forgiven”, she smiles.
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A Few Minutes Later…
Kagome and Iya stand in front of the sacred tree.
“Wow, this tree is really a thousand years old?”, Iya gasps.
“Yep!”
A light snow begins to fall.
“Snow?”, Kagome questions.
“I’ve heard somewhere that when a boy and a girl are together when the first snow of the season falls, they are destined to be together forever”, Iya says, looking up at the snow.
“That isn’t true”, she states, looking at her charm bracelet, ‘I said those same words about the first snow to InuYasha’, she thinks.
“You always look at that whenever you’re thinking about him. Don’t you?”, Iya asks.
“Yeah”, she nods.
Iya looks up at the sacred tree, “This tree reminds me of a legend”, he says.
“What legend?”, Kagome asks.
“The one about a hanyou and the strange girl from another world”, he replies, “Would you like me to tell you it?”
“Sure”.
“The legend begins with the hanyou being sealed to a tree by the priestess he was in love with and he fell into a deep sleep, the priestess died afterwards. 50 years later, a girl arrived from another world, and awakened the hanyou; freeing him from his seal-ment. A jewel that the hanyou desired, appeared from a cut on the strange girl and while it was in the girl’s care, it was shattered into shards that spread all across Japan. As the two of them traveled together in search of the jewel shards, they met a fox demon, who decided to travel with them, then a demon resurrected the priestess and they thought the other one betrayed the other. Then the small group of three met a monk who was cursed by the demon who was responsible for the priestess’s death and the hanyou’s sealing. While the now group of four was trying to track down the demon behind their problems, they encountered a female demon slayer who was tricked into believing the hanyou killed her family and destroyed her village, by the demon they were hunting. It goes onto say that during the journey, the hanyou and the strange girl slowly fell in love with each-other, and that they and their companions defeated the evil demon and completed the jewel”, he takes a breath, “But the strange thing is the legend doesn’t say what happened afterwards”, he glances over at her.
“I know what happened”, Kagome replies bitterly.
“Huh?”
“They returned to the village where their journey began and the hanyou went off into the forest to think about what he would wish for on the jewel. The girl warned him to be careful before he left, but while he was gone, the hanyou under went his monthly time of weakness”, she says.
“I remember that, he turns completely human once a month, but only for the night”, Iya adds.
“Also during that night, his first love; the priestess, found him and injured him”, she continues, tears brimming her eyes, “He struggled to return to the village, when morning came, his last words were, I love you, then he died in the girl’s arms after he said them to her”, tears spill down her cheeks.
“I always thought they lived happily ever-after together”, Iya says, standing in front of her, “You shouldn’t cry, it doesn’t suit you”, he wipes away some of her tears with his thumb, then he leans forward to kiss her on the forehead.
A blush flares on Kagome’s cheeks.
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Well? What did you think? Please review!
The next chapter is called; ‘Snowball Fight’.
Catch you readers next time!