InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Hanyou of the Forest ❯ Our story begins... ( Chapter 1 )

Our story begins…

It begins on a dark night, two long boats float through the placid water near the docks of the feudal era city.

But nearby stands a muse as he watches the happenings with wise eyes and an emotionless face, even as he begins his musical illustration. The city's morning bells ring in the distance

Mornin' in Japan, the city awakes

To the bells of Musashi

The fisherman fishes,

The baker man bakes,

To the bells of Musashi

To the big bells as loud as the thunder

To the little bells soft as a song

And some say the soul of the cities

The toll of the bells,

The bells of Musashi

"Listen, there beautiful, no? so many colors of sound so many changing moods. But enough of them, there is a more important story here, one of greed, betrayal, outcasts, and even love, a tale of a man and a monster"

"A man and a monster, Sesshoumaru-sama?" a little girl asks as she stares after the boats as they glide through the water.

"Yes, Rin, but as for who is the man and who is the monster is for themselves to decide, but watch as this story unfolds..."

Dark was the night when they're tale was begin,

Near the docks of Musashi,

Four frightened demons slid silently under,

The docks near Musashi

"Quiet the child, Izayoi!"

"Please don't cry, little one."

"Guard, we bring leverage for safe passage through Musashi" the one guiding the boat states to the man at the docking pier. As they proceed nearer, the man standing at the pier smiles the most evil smile ever to be created.

But a trap has been laid for the Demons

And they gazed up in fear and alarm

At the figures whose clutches were iron

As much as the bells of Musashi

"Naraku, Kikyo, what is the meaning of this?" Inutaisho growls at the man and woman placed each on a horse as dark as their souls. The evil woman laughs outright at the man who was once a great lord.

"That's Lord and Lady, mind you." She states haughtily at the now angry demon.

"I told you and your kind to stay out of all Musashi, and this is where you come?, such disrespect to my kingdom, tsk tsk…" the one called Naraku corrects Inutaisho, which only succeeds in angering him further.

"Last time I checked this was still the Higurashi Kingdom, Naraku." The demon spits every word as if it were venom at the king's advisor.

"And last time you checked you still had an ounce of power to control the western lands, but enough talk, its time for your punishment for the horror your kind has laid upon all humans, Inutaisho." Naraku declares with a smirk as he reins his horse to stand directly in front of the now restrained Youkai Lord.

"The only one who is hurting the human race is you and your so called Judgment!"

"Be that as it may, the people need someone to blame, demon filth, it may as well be your kind!" Kikyo spat at him as she, too, reins her horse in front of the Demon. She then glances at Naraku for their next move, and it isn't long to wait.

"Take them to the prisons; I want them broken by morning!" Naraku orders the youkai holding back their once lord. As they start to lead him away Kikyo notices that they haven't touched the human woman that was with the escape group. She wants to make sure she is taken as well.

"Take the whore as well, she is as bad as the rest of them, plotting with them and even mating with one of their kind!" she orders as the youkai guards stare in pity at their queen before drawing near to her to escort her. Inutaisho sees their hesitation and lunges from the grip of the other guards and tries to stop the youkai trying to grab his Izayoi, he succeeds in backing them off even as he tells her the last thing he would ever be able to tell her before his death.

"I love you, Izayoi, take the boy Inuyasha, and run, please RUN!" he screams at her to comply. She just stares blankly at the wounded Demon, her mate.

"Inu…Yasha…" she repeats.

"YES, now RUN!, you must protect our child!" even as he screams at her, something finally clicks in her head. Inuyasha, her, no their, only child's single chance for survival was her. Even as she realizes this she runs with the devils spawn themselves chasing her, but not before she tells the man she loved, just that, that her love is forever, over her shoulder. The always proud Inutaisho smiles at her retreating form even as darkness crowds his vision, even as he dies, his last thought is, "I have lived my life as much as I could" before his mind and soul slip from him, and death greets him at unconscious's door.

"Well done, my love." Naraku says to the so-called lady, Kikyo. As she replaces her bow on her horse's saddle.

"Why, thank you, my Lord, and now about that woman…"

"Ah yes, we should probably go after her shouldn't we?" He asks with feigned disinterest. They both take off after the fleeing woman as they see her running eastward.

`I have to get help, there is no way I can outrun them.' Izayoi thinks to herself. Even as she deliberates her options she sees a priest shrine not but a hundred feet from her. Her heart fills with hope as she climbs the steps and pounds on the doors for entrance.

"PLEASE, open up, I need help, PLEASE!!!" she screams at the unmoving doors. She gasps as she feels hands pull her off the ground by her hair. She slowly spins as she holds the baby tighter to her form, feeling the foul breath against her face she opens her eyes to the sinister face of the horrible Naraku.

"You should have run faster, dear Izayoi." He says as he throws her aside like a rag doll. Kikyo then walks up without her horse and rips the bundle from Izayoi's arms. As the weakened form of the woman reaches for the child, it is dropped to the ground as the life drains from her. Her death caused by the sword protruding from her side. Kikyo sneers at the now dead woman and uncovers the baby only to drop it back on the ground. The baby wails at the mistreatment even as Kikyo backs away in horror.

"What is it Kikyo?" Naraku asks her calmly even as she keeps backing away from the crying child.

"It...It's... It's a...an ABOMINATION!" she shrieks with malice at the harmless child. She then looks to Naraku for his reaction.

"Abomination of what kind?"

"A Hanyou" she spits the word out as if it were poison in her mouth. She is in shock when she sees her accomplice merely laughing. "What's so funny about that?"

"If he bothers you that much, then kill him. Don't whine to me about it." He mocks. Kikyo then catches on to his game and smiles in false contentment, she picks up the baby and walks over to a well house nearby. Opening the doors, she walks to the well itself and holds the baby over the well preparing to drop it in the swirling darkness.

"STOP! Stop this at once!" cries a voice from outside the well house doors. "what have you people done, what is the meaning of the innocent blood of such a pure-looking woman on my shrine steps? What manner of evil are you to have done such a murderous act?" the shrine priest questions the pair. To which Naraku scoffs at the man's audacity.

"How dare you question my actions, lowly priest. I am the king's royal advisor, and you, commoner, have no right to question me," He continues while looking at the priest in disgust, "for your insolence, I shall place a curse on such a fool as you, your family shall be cursed for generations to come, people will fear and despise you, you who have questioned me." Naraku still continues on with a evil glint seeming to grow in his eyes. "forever shall you have a void in your hand, this void will grow even until it swallows you and those around you up, this shall be the male curse of your ENTIRE family!" he finishes with a scary demure about him. The priest then screams when his hand is pierced with the retrieved sword and watches as the whole grows and then stops, a small black hole now evident where skin and bone had once been. The evil pair both smile as the priest runs to his shrine and shuts the gate and door in fear, completely forgetting about the boy, and the dead woman. Kikyo then speaks up with now, uncertainty.

"Well now I just wouldn't feel right killing the poor creature…" she pouts at her partner.

"Then leave him in the forest, it is near the palace so we can watch him grow, and maybe even… maybe this foul creature may prove to be of some use to me…we can maybe even train him to be our own little bitch, ha-ha!!" He says with a laugh, "and this creatures name… yes a name is required…hmm…any ideas dear lady Kikyo."

"Hanyou will do just fine…HA-HA!" Kikyo cackles as she drops the baby, Inuyasha, as his parents called him… into a nearby bush, not really caring where he lands. The two then mounted their horses and ride toward the gates allowing them into the great kingdom of Higurashi, Capitol of Musashi.

Meanwhile…

"Sesshoumaru-sama? What will happen to the `Hanyou'? He seems not so scary to me…He's just a baby, right?" Rin questions quietly to her lost in thought protector.

"Just wait and see, Rin, this is a story that will unfold not so quickly…" he says in a solemn voice. He begins voicing his thoughts with song…

Now here is a riddle to guess if you can,

Sing the bells of Musashi,

Who is the monster and who is the man?

Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells of Musashi!

Sesshoumaru's voice fades as he and his child companion walk into the fogs…

End Chapter

WELL! I hope ya'll enjoy the first chapter and I hope to have the next out soon, so hold onto your seatbelts… Kagome might be in the next chapter… I guess you'll just have to wait and see, now won't you? Kudos and peace!

Jade

Disclaimer- Inuyasha is….never going to be mine… `sigh' o well here is the disclaimer…peace!