InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Silver Lining Of War ❯ Ch-1-Trickery ( Chapter 1 )

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The Silver Lining Of War
 
Ch1-
 
So I sat there, with my eyes closed waiting for something, anything. I knew I could open my eyes at any moment and I might see smiling faces, snickering at how worried I' am. Or I might see nothing, just desolate land and bodies all around. My ears were twitching and I couldn't stop them, I couldn't help it, my hearing had gotten much worse, perhaps even as bad as a human. It was to be expected since I refused to put cotton in them; it was only recently that I did. Well, I had to open them eventually so I gritted my teeth and my eyes flashed open. I was on my knees staring down into my ember eyes in a glinting reflection to what looked to be at the time a mix of piss or blood. I looked around, they were gone, and my entire squad was gone. Nassu, Tam and Kiju, all gone, we were the last remaining four of the eight and each had a reason to go home. Nassu's mother was terribly sick, he had to go home and take care of her. Tam's fiancé was eagerly waiting his return but what he didn't know was that she had gotten into a car accident. And Kiju. Kiju's case was the worse; he left his wife and newborn girl alone in the world that day. And me? I had to go home and take care of Shippo; gods knew he was scared to death of me being here.
 
I couldn't believe my eyes though, they were all gone, not only was it each of our jobs to protect each other, but they were my friends. I looked to my left and saw Kiju, or at least what was left of him, his body was slightly hunched over mine, which is how I had ended up in a pit, I was bleeding heavily and began to shake. Not because of the blood but because Kiju gave his life for mine. Kiju saved me from that grenade while the rest of them died a fast death. While I was going to die a slow and mental one. I stood up and sighed, I didn't have time to be sad, I had to check around, see if there was any one left, or if the enemy was around. I picked up my gun, and wiped the dirt from my silver bangs. It was going to be a long day.
 
 
I walked about three miles until my knees gave out and decided to just sit there. No sign of the enemy, no sign of comrade. Just death in its worse form. Silence. It was then that I saw a tank pull in, one of ours. The hatch opened and there was the serious, cruel face of the very person that had drafted me. My brother Sesshomaru. He smirked.
 
“It seems you're the last left little brother.”
 
My face scrunched, it was like salt in an open wound and that bastard knew I was attached to those who died because he told me not to be.
 
“Those humans actually took them all out? At least you got rid of most of them, who knew they'd be so tricky..”
 
I couldn't stand it; he was actually comparing which side lost the most! I snapped.
 
“Will you shut the fuck up?! They died and all you can do is be thankful that more of the humans died?! Have a heart for once in your fucking life.”
 
 
Sesshomaru stood up, looking ready to snap, I could tell since our dad had died it was always the same face. He walked up in front of me and pulled me up by my now short hair, my helmet rolled off revealing my fuzzy ears and I dropped my gun. I knew he was my commanding rank, but I didn't think I owed so much respect at the time.
 
“You listen to me you half breed piece of shit. Your lucky you were even allowed to fight in this war, I could have easily not concealed your dirty scent and had shipped you off to a pen where dirt like you belongs. You listen and listen good with those puppy ears of yours, your “friends” died for their people, they didn't run, they stood and fought like men. If you can't handle the fact that I'm thankful for that then you can shove that gun up your ass, cuz' you don't belong here.”
 
He took it too far. It was demon against human and if you were in-between that's exactly where you went to; either a pen run by humans or by demons. Because my father made my half-brother swear to keep me safe before he died, he had to, despite how much he hated me. Despite who my mother was.
 
He let me drop to my knees once more and shoved my gun and helmet into my arms, knocking the wind out of me.
 
“Get in the tank private, we're heading back to base, I have to report this to Colonel Naraku.”
 
If there was anyone I hated more. He just had to mention that name. I felt like telling him that I had rather gone to that pen, rather had died in between then die killing my other race. But I didn't, I stood up and crawled into the tank, closing my eyes once more, wondering what waited at that base. Wondering what the hell Col. Naraku would plan next, after all it was his idea to have those pens.
 
 
We pulled up slowly in the tank, shots were blasted from it every so often but because we had moved base further ahead it was now hidden by thick forest, good for the hiding of our base, bad for humans who wandered in unsuspectingly. I jumped out of the hatch and was heading straight to the medical tent until Sesshomaru stopped me.
 
“You'll be fine, lets go tell Colonel what happened on your mission.”
 
I nodded my head, keeping it low as to show him I have somewhat respect. I followed him slowly. The fact that my brother could rat me out and they'd ship me to a pen wasn't what scared me. Leaving Shippo in a mine was what scared me.
 
The world went into shit in the past five years. Before that humans and demons lived in somewhat peace but soon more and more conflicts started. Demons stole this, demons killed that. Don't get me wrong, sure lot of demons are scum but what humans didn't realize was that their race was just as bad, perhaps even worse in some cases. So the day a demon from federal prisons escaped, raping and killing eighteen girls, it was the last straw. The president declared demons to leave the United States and when they swarmed into other countries, more and more conflicts arose. Most of the time it was with the humans and their racism and so a war was declared but instead of country against country it was race against race.
 
Shippo came into my hands by chance. I was thirteen when the war started, my brother thirty-three. Of course he was already involved in the war while I stayed in the now ruins of Japan. He came home to check in on me when I was fourteen, this time bringing with him a toddler. Of course, he told me rationally that the boy's father was in the war and had died, leaving his son all alone in a boarding school. Since Shippo's father was dead and there was no one left to take care of him my brother was going to ship him off to do mine work. The world had fallen into poverty, almost everyone who wasn't in the war juggled three jobs, so free labor was perfect. Neither damned race would give in. Shippo and me got to know each other and I gave up half my room and clothes at the cost of keeping him. The years went by slowly, my brother always away at the war was paradise, I picked up another job at fifteen and we lived fairly well. Sadly the humans were getting more resourceful and before I knew it I was drafted into the war at seventeen. I needed to get back home; I hadn't seen Shippo in a year. He was alone with his nanny, one of my only friends, Kirara. Of coarse he was a handful so I had to come back alive. At any cost. A life for two seemed fair at the time.
 
 
I marched reluctantly into a rock solid building where soldiers scurried doing paper work, many on computers making routes. The sound of life was refreshing to my swollen ears. I took off my helmet and we went to the top floor where the Colonel was. We opened the door where he talked with two other men; he saw me and smirked, dismissing them. They pushed me with hatred, but smiled making it seem like a joke.
 
My brother and me saluted, I with more hesitation but my brother's glare told me I better give this man respect. We stood there with out a blink until he told us at ease. We sat and Sesshomaru began to speak first.
 
“Private InuYasha's squad was doing fine until the Air raid.”
 
“Air raid?”
 
He looked at me with the same anger, but smiled, happy to see I was bleeding and in pain.
 
“Yes, they had gotten old busted planes and threw grenades, we almost had all of them taken out but those took us by surprise.”
 
I told him and again his face lightened up saying the exact same thing Sesshomaru said,
 
“At least we killed the most, All right, your both dismissed.”
 
I think I really wonder sometimes if he knew I was a half-demon, he sure does act like it.
 
We stood up in unison, saluted and marched out the building, again I was heading to the medical tents and again I was stopped.
 
“Don't bother, It's not that bad, you have another mission, your going to infiltrate the enemy's base and see roughly how many weapons, supplies and men they have.”
 
I squirmed, another? With another squad?
 
“So I'm basically going to spy?”
 
I rubbed my arm, it burned, all I wanted to do was go home, be anywhere but here but my brother smiled.
 
“Yes, others from here are already there. Oh and good job little brother, you actually can hold your tongue every once in awhile.”
 
I didn't answer, I took a few steps forward, put on my helmet and jumped from tree to tree. Did I mention what a long day it was going to be?
 
 
I squatted in a tree and looked down at the pitiful humans. They were really getting low, even putting people as young as fourteen in their army. I saw a boy scuffle; he was rather scrawny and fell forward when they threw a gun at him. He was practicing his aim. At that point there was no sign of the rest of my new squad so I jumped behind crates, sniffing about them trying to make out what they were. I had to do my job whether I liked it or not.
 
My ears moved, instinctively my body went straight to the ground, crouching, my claws digging into the mud. Gunshot was fired, did they see me? Was I toast? I was low on ammo, I couldn't take on that whole damn base on my own, I needed backup, Where was the rest of my squad? What would they tell Shippo? I believe at that point my whole police record flashed before my eyes until I realized only one bullet was fired. I peaked from behind the crate and saw the kid from before had missed his target. Then my eyes narrowed, I sniffed the air and realized a gas was leaking out of the crate he had shot. It smelt sweet, an inviting aroma, but suffocating too, I knew what it was; it was the gas at those pens. I had read all about them, they'd lead them into rooms making them think they were going to give them a feast and then fill the room with enough gas to suffocate them. I knew what they were but it over whelmed me, filling my head with all those negative thoughts that I had blocked out before. I should have died hours before. I should of. But I didn't and now death was inviting me and I couldn't turn away, I closed my eyes, maybe fate took a hand was what I thought as I collapsed behind bushes and crates, positive I was dead.
 
I woke up hours later to the inside of a medical tent, for a moment I thought it was one of ours, until I caught the scent of human. I sat up frantically as my vision began to clear. A human nurse dressed in white stood at the far end of the room, staring at me. Her hair tied up in a messy bun, her eyes looking like she hadn't slept for days. She regained her composure, trying to act tough I guess, she dusted off her dress and walked over to me with a wet cloth in a bowl of water.
 
“Where am I? And why are you here?”
 
I asked her slowly and reached for my hip where my gun should be but wasn't.
 
“Your in one of the human base medical tents. You collapsed outside when a crate was opened. Your lucky Kohaku and I were the ones who found you and not anyone else.”
 
I looked at her confused and then noticed my shirt and helmet was gone. I looked to my arm; she had even dressed my wound.
 
“That clumsy kid with the gun?”
 
I asked nonchalantly and she nodded.
 
“He can't tell a rat from a squirrel let alone a demon from a human.”
 
I didn't like being toyed with; I began to get angry, were they going to kill me?
 
“Why did you save me then? Why not leave me to die girl?”
 
She looked angry at that point.
 
“I think the correct thing to say is `thank you'?”
 
“No I believe the correct thing to say is to stop messing with me or else.”
 
“How can you threaten me without your gun?”
 
“There's other ways to make a human squeal.”
 
I flexed my claws. She backed away but then stood her ground.
 
“Tell me, why did you collapse?”
 
“Because of that god damned gas girl.”
 
“A human would die instantly, a demon wouldn't be affected at all, but only a half-demon would collapse. Tell me why is that?”
 
Shit! At that point I was positive I was going to a pen, but it didn't add up. What should I do? Kill her and run? Where was that back up? Shouldn't they have found me faster then she did? What if they thought I didn't show up and completed the mission? Either way I had to do something so what other thing does a man do when confronted with a problem where he doesn't necessarily want to kill a woman?
 
“What the hell are you talking about? I must have lost too much blood.”
 
Deny everything.
 
Apparently it was a good choice too, because she considered this for a moment.
 
“Just shut up for a minute while I take all that dry blood off.”
 
She walked up to me slowly and I froze. She grabbed my left arm gently, it felt numb and she dipped the cloth in the bowl and wiped it on my arm, washing away completely the last of the remnants of my fallen squad. She was toying with me. I was sure of it. When she finished I stood up quickly, the room was spinning and I grabbed onto her arm, pushing her toward me so she'd look me in the face.
 
“I'll ask one more time. Why did you save me?”
 
She stared at my eyes, for a moment she looked cross and the next her expression softened. I felt like Dracula, staring my victims down and putting them into a trance. My eyes did that, I felt powerful but dizzy all at the same time. At the exact moment I adverted my gaze from her dough eyes she turned away.
 
“I saw your silver hair, it glints in the sun, I considered killing you right there but you were mumbling things..”
 
“What things?”
 
“Things about your home, your mother, your son..”
 
So that was it, pity, I must of said something about Shippo. She also must of realized I was thinking.
 
“Aren't you awful young to have a kid?”
 
Awful? Oh yes, it's most definitely awful being young.
 
“Not really, he's more adoptive you could say.”
 
I let go of her arm.
 
“You know we live in the same part of Tokyo, its weird I've never seen you before.”
 
Well, I'm raising a kid and juggled three jobs and school, what did she think? I went clubbing on Saturdays?
 
“I don't go out much.”
 
“Oh, well your all fixed up.”
 
I nodded and slowly made my way back to the medical bed.
 
“Aren't you gonna go?”
 
Now that was a stupid question.
 
“How? Your base is swarming with your kind, I have to wait until nightfall.”
 
“No you don't they went to attack your base.”
 
“Then your going to be `awful' alone because by the time they get even near my base it'll be nightfall and we'll have the upper hand.”
 
“We have night vision goggles.”
 
“Like that'll do you any good.”
 
I smirked; she was getting aggravated, so I changed the subject.
 
“Aren't you pretty young to be a nurse in the army.”
 
“Not that its any of your business but my grandfather is very sick, since my mom has a bunch of jobs and the army now offers all this medicine, I send it over to them.”
 
My thoughts trailed off, I guess it was rough all over.
 
“Then I should go.”
 
I tried getting up, I was dizzy and that gas hadn't worn off completely making me feel numb. She must of noticed, because she helped me sit back down.
 
“Here.”
 
She handed me water, I sniffed it just to make sure. Nothing could get past my nose.
 
“Thanks.”
 
She smiled. She was pretty. And when those thoughts crossed my mind I thought I was pretty stupid. She was another race, she was smart and immediately suspected I was a half-demon. But she was kind; kind enough to help injured whom she was supposed to be afraid of. And when she was in a tight situation she thought ahead.
 
I liked her.
 
“What's your name?”
 
“Kagome Higurashi. What's yours?”
 
“InuYasha Tashio.”
 
She put her hand out politely and I shook it slowly.
 
“Nice to meet you.”
 
And so I shook hands with more then a friend and less then an enemy.
 
---end of chapter---
 
 
[Erm. Okay. So this is the first chapter of my first ever InuYasha fanfic! =p
 
Well. I know its not very good but I'm proud of it! Hopefully you all could give me some tips and such? I dunno. Anything would be a great help! ^_^ Thanks for reading this far <33]