InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Wish Upon A Star ❯ The Beginning ( Chapter 1 )
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By: FluffyLady 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.22.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 554 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.22.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 554 | Status: Work In Progress
Hey everyone! This was the actual first story I ever wrote. It's almost completed and if you want more all you have to do is review. Feel free to laugh because I'm guffawing over here. I look back on this and smile. So please read and review.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters. Now please let me go back to my mental hospital where I can claim that I do and nobody sue me for it. Looks audience in the eyes. But I do own the original characters: Dilynn, Kari, Casey, and all the others you will meet.
FYI: Sesshomaru has 2 arms in the story. He will explain later how he got his arm back.
To Wish Upon A Star
Chapter 1: The Beginning
“Prom night 2007, here we come!” cried a blue-eyed teen as she walked arm-in-arm with a brunnette and a redhead up the stairs of the building.
Tonight was special; all three cousins had completed their finals and were through with school, at least until August. Summer stretched out before them like a seemingly endless road. They all knew, though, at the end of the road lay their Senior year. It would be their last year together before they went their separate ways for college.
“So, Dilynn, what are we gonna do after Prom?” asked the brunnette Kari.
“Yeah,” Casey chimed in, “what are we gonna do?”
“Well,” the blue-eyed Dilynn replied, “I was thinking we could go see a movie at the local complex, or head over to Teen Tower for some fun.”
The three girls stopped and looked at each other before doubling over in laughter.
“Yeah right!” they said together.
“I wish we had that stuff here. It would be a lot less boring around here if we did,” Casey sighed wistfully.
“It's too bad all that Litttletown, Texas has to offer teens is a run-down two screen and a Wal-Mart,” Dilynn pointed out.
Suddenly two familiar presences appeared at the top of the stairs.
“Can I help you Miss Casey?” said a young man with a smile. He extended his hand invitingly to her.
“Yes, Jake. Although you don't have to ask. My dad shouldn't have had to remind you before we left to treat me like a fine lady tonight. That is what boyfriends are supposed to do right?” Casey giggled as she took his hand.
“Yeah, Tyler,” Kari pointed out to her boyfriend. “You guys promised to treat me and Casey like ladies tonight, but you did not open the car doors when we got here nor did you offer to help us up the stairs until the very last step! Honestly, you are so ignorant!”
Dilynn just smiled as Casey and Kari ranted at their boyfriends.
Out of the corner of her eye she spotted something. Turning to look, she saw a shooting star in the sky. I wish I had a man to love me the way I know those boys really love Casey and Kari. Dilynn wished longingly.
Suddenly, and quite unbidden, an image of Derek popped into her mind. In the young woman's eyes, Derek was a hunk. The 6 foot tall teen was 1 year older than Dilynn, who was 17, but still in the same grade because he was born 1 month after the cutoff date for determining who goes into what class. Casey and Kari were born just before the cutoff date, Dilynn reflected. And I'm glad they were. I would be lonely without them.
“Alright, let's go!” Dilynn flinched as she was shaken from her thoughts by Casey's loud voice in her ear.
“Right!” Dilynn said with a smile. Looking up she found Kari and Casey on the arms of their boyfriends smiling back at her, waiting for her to join them on their march inside.
Sometime around midnight, after Kari and Casey had kissed their boyfriends goodbye for the night and had climbed in to Dilynn's mustang, the girls laughed and sang to the radio as Dilynn pulled onto the dirt road that led to her family's ranch.
“Tonight was perfect wasn't it, Kari?” a love-struck Casey asked.
“Ya, it was. It totally rocked,” the equally love-struck teen replied.
The only thing that marred the evening was seeing Derek dance in the arms of that witch Meagan, thought Dilynn with disdain.
She had to admit, though, those two really made a cute couple.
As they pulled up the driveway, the girls noticed that the lights were on in the house.
“My parents must have waited up for us,” Dilynn thought out loud.
“Hopefully my mom isn't there waiting,” Kari wished.
“It would be really screwy if my parents, or your mom, came all the way from the city to the ranch just to wait for us,” Casey pointed out.
The two girls were relieved to find that their parents hadn't come for them.
“Looks like they got ya'll's message that you would be staying here tonight since it would be so late when prom was done with,” Dilynn mentioned.
As they walked into the living room the red-headed, blue-eyed teen smiled sweetly as she saw her little brother, Aaron, asleep on the couch.
“Aaron,” she said, gently shaking him to wake him up. “Aaron, did you feed the horses like you were told?”
“Hm?” asked the half-awake eleven year old.
Dilynn repeated her question.
“No, I forgot. Sorry,” he mumbled before falling back asleep.
“Great,” Dilynn heaved an exasperated sigh. “Guess that means I'll have to do it.”
“We'll help!” Kari offered.
“What do you mean `we'?” Casey asked, a little nervous of the implication. She really wasn't that great a farm hand. In fact, she sucked at it.
“Just what I said. We will help Dilynn finish the chores,” Kari shot back.
“Fine, let's just get this done with. I hate rats and that old garage, were all the feed is, is absolutely full of them.”
“Thanks you guys. I really appreciate it. And, as a token of my appreciation, I'll let you in on a little secret about my herd of horses. From some weird quirk of nature, they can fly!” Dilynn almost shouted.
“Yeah, sure, and youkai, like some of the silly Japanese anime shows, really exist,” Kari said sarcastically.
“What do you mean `fly'? Like with wings and stuff? Like the Greek horse Pegasus?” Casey asked.
Kari shot Casey a look that told her not to encourage the obviously insane Dilynn. Casey shrugged, so she was curious, where's the harm in that?
“No, not like that. Here let's get out of our dresses and I'll explain as we get the food,” Dilynn said.
Once they were in the garage, Dilynn explained that here horses really could fly but the didn't need wings or anything. They could just fly away if they wanted, and when they did fly, there was some sort of silver clouds around their hooves.
“Oh yeah, then what's keeping them here?” asked a suspicious Kari as she got a feed bucket from the closet.
“The fact that my family and I take such good care of them and never force them to do anything. If we want something, we simply ask and explain it to them. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Most of the time they do, though,” Dilynn explained as best she could, knowing Kari wouldn't believe her.
Kari was about to take another breath to argue against such “logic” when Casey shrieked in terror.
“What?! What is it?!” the other two girls asked at once.
“There...was...this...huge...rat!” Casey said in between gasping breaths. “It went that way!” she pointed to the back of the garage toward a strange wall.
“Well we better get it before it gets into the food. Kari would you please hand me the shotgun? It's over there on the wall,” Dilynn pointed toward the corner. “The ammunition, too.”
Handing her the gun and ammunition, Kari asked, “Um, Dilynn, don't you think the shotgun is, um, ya know, a bit overkill? I mean, well, it's just one rat after all.”
“Nope, not at all. I swear I saw a rat in here at least once the size of a medium dog.”
Suddenly, there was a low growl from behind the group. The three girls froze. They turned around slowly to find Valentine, Dilynn's four year old Golden Retriever, and Annie, Dilynn's three year old Black Lab, growling at the strange wall.
“Um...Dilynn?” Casey asked nervously.
“Ya?” Dilynn replied just as nervous. Something wasn't right. Annie and Valentine were so sweet and harmless, Dilynn had never seen them growl at anything before, unless in play. Now, though, they were growling at the strange looking back wall of the garage.
Dilynn had always wondered about that wall. Legend has it that before my family lived here, a Japanese family lived here. One morning, they had all disappeared and noone ever heard from them again. The stories say that the family was in the garage when they disappeared. But surely that couldn't be true, could it?
Dilynn decided to risk it all and open the door.
As she stepped closer, with Kari and Casey clinging to her in fear, the dogs moved with her. Dilynn was relieved that what ever had the dogs upset didn't seem to scare them too bad.
When she got closer, she noticed something odd about the windows of the door. They seemed lighter than the windows on the other side of the garage. Now that didn't make sense.
Slowly, Dilynn reached down and pulled open the garage door. As soon as she did so, a blinding light enveloped her, her cousins, and the dogs.
Shaking her head to clear her vision, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. There was an open field with flowers in it and butterflies everywhere. The most amazing thing of all, though, was that it appeared to be daylight!
Kari and Casey dropped their holds on Dylinn's arms and gaped in awe at the scene before them.
“This cannot be happening!” Kari said, “It is midnight and yet here it is, bright as day!”
Suddenly there came a scream from the middle of the field. A young girl with black hair in a side ponytail, no more than nine years old, was running from a very big and very ugly thing.
She looks so frightened! Dilynn thought. What can I do? She suddenly remembered the shotgun she still held in her arms. She didn't know how effective it would be against the creature, but she had to take a chance.
“Lord Sesshomaru!” the young girl screamed in Japanese.
Without a second thought, Dilynn raised the gun, sighted and fired. Her aim was true. It hit the beast's head and went straight through.
The creature stopped pursuing the child to turn and look at its assailant.
Oh crap! Dilynn thought, hurriedly reloading. What did I just get myself into?
As the creature came closer, Kari and Casey screamed in shear terror. The dogs growled low and menacing but the creature didn't seem to care.
Dilynn fired two more shots as the creature lumbered towards them.
The shots hit the creature's head with dead accuracy. It paused for a moment, not knowing it was dead. Then suddenly it crumpled to the ground and lay still.
The girls breathed a collective sigh of relief and followed the dogs to the young girl.
She was cowering in the middle of the field in something like a fetal position, rocking back and forth.
“Lord Sesshomaru?” the girl asked in Japanese looking up.
“No, I'm Dilynn and...” Dilynn began but she stopped when the girl gave her a curious look.
She doesn't know English! Kari realized and made the comment to the others.
Dilynn nodded and switched to Japanese. All those lessons finally got me somewhere, she thought. I still wish we could have gone on that vacation to Japan but it conflicted with finals.
In Japanese this time, Dilynn began again, “My name is Dilynn, this is my cousin Kari and my other cousin Casey,”
“Duhlin? Karee? Casee?” the young seemed to have a little trouble pronouncing the foreign names.
The cousins just smiled and nodded. She said them well enough.
“Oh, Duhlin! Thank you so much for saving me! I was so scared, I got separated from Lord Sesshomaru and Master Jaken and Ah-Un--that's our two headed dragon, they are very sweet but not much taller than me at their shoulder--when I went to pick berries and flowers. Then this huge ogre started chasing me! Oh thank you, thank you so much! Oh my name is Rin, by the way!” Rin smiled sweetly at the girls before noticing Annie and Valentine.
At the sight of the dogs, she gave a small squeal of fright and hid behind Dilynn. Dilynn laughed and called that dogs to come closer which only made Rin more nervous.
“Don't worry, Rin, Annie and Valentine are Dilynn's pet dogs. They are very sweet and just want to say hi,” Casey gently explained. She showed Rin how to hold out her hand and let the dogs sniff it.
Rin laughed when Annie licked her hand. This encouraged the lab to come closer and lick the child's face. Everyone was having a good laugh at this when a raspy, nasally voice rang out: “Hey you filthy mutts! Get away from young Rin!” The voice belonged to a green froggy-thing with a wierd beak and ugly bulging eyes that was waving a stick with two heads on it. He wore brown haori and hakamas with a dorky little black hat that stood straight up in the center of his head--like a servant's outfit.
The girls stood in front of Rin and the dogs in front of the girls. The dogs lowered their heads at this new...thing that was yelling at their masters and their new friend.
The froggy-thing gulped and took a step back. “I'm warning you! Get away from her!”
“And I'm warning you, don't threaten me! I don't know who you are or what you want with Rin, but the last thing I saw looking like you was trying to attack her! So I don't trust you!” Dilynn said, reloading her gun.
Oh great! Now what am I supposed to do? Lord Sesshomaru will kill me if don't get Rin back, but I can't get to her with those females in the way. And if they weren't bad enough, there's two dogs there too. I can't use the Staff or else I might hit Rin. Oh what am I going to do?
Suddenly, a cold voice demanded from behind him, “What's going on here, Jaken?”
A/N Ooooh! suspenseful! Who asked Jaken? Like you don't already know. Thank you! R&R but don't please no flames, this is my first fanfic ever and I worked real hard to get everything right and not have too much of one character and not enough of the others.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters. Now please let me go back to my mental hospital where I can claim that I do and nobody sue me for it. Looks audience in the eyes. But I do own the original characters: Dilynn, Kari, Casey, and all the others you will meet.
FYI: Sesshomaru has 2 arms in the story. He will explain later how he got his arm back.
To Wish Upon A Star
Chapter 1: The Beginning
“Prom night 2007, here we come!” cried a blue-eyed teen as she walked arm-in-arm with a brunnette and a redhead up the stairs of the building.
Tonight was special; all three cousins had completed their finals and were through with school, at least until August. Summer stretched out before them like a seemingly endless road. They all knew, though, at the end of the road lay their Senior year. It would be their last year together before they went their separate ways for college.
“So, Dilynn, what are we gonna do after Prom?” asked the brunnette Kari.
“Yeah,” Casey chimed in, “what are we gonna do?”
“Well,” the blue-eyed Dilynn replied, “I was thinking we could go see a movie at the local complex, or head over to Teen Tower for some fun.”
The three girls stopped and looked at each other before doubling over in laughter.
“Yeah right!” they said together.
“I wish we had that stuff here. It would be a lot less boring around here if we did,” Casey sighed wistfully.
“It's too bad all that Litttletown, Texas has to offer teens is a run-down two screen and a Wal-Mart,” Dilynn pointed out.
Suddenly two familiar presences appeared at the top of the stairs.
“Can I help you Miss Casey?” said a young man with a smile. He extended his hand invitingly to her.
“Yes, Jake. Although you don't have to ask. My dad shouldn't have had to remind you before we left to treat me like a fine lady tonight. That is what boyfriends are supposed to do right?” Casey giggled as she took his hand.
“Yeah, Tyler,” Kari pointed out to her boyfriend. “You guys promised to treat me and Casey like ladies tonight, but you did not open the car doors when we got here nor did you offer to help us up the stairs until the very last step! Honestly, you are so ignorant!”
Dilynn just smiled as Casey and Kari ranted at their boyfriends.
Out of the corner of her eye she spotted something. Turning to look, she saw a shooting star in the sky. I wish I had a man to love me the way I know those boys really love Casey and Kari. Dilynn wished longingly.
Suddenly, and quite unbidden, an image of Derek popped into her mind. In the young woman's eyes, Derek was a hunk. The 6 foot tall teen was 1 year older than Dilynn, who was 17, but still in the same grade because he was born 1 month after the cutoff date for determining who goes into what class. Casey and Kari were born just before the cutoff date, Dilynn reflected. And I'm glad they were. I would be lonely without them.
“Alright, let's go!” Dilynn flinched as she was shaken from her thoughts by Casey's loud voice in her ear.
“Right!” Dilynn said with a smile. Looking up she found Kari and Casey on the arms of their boyfriends smiling back at her, waiting for her to join them on their march inside.
Sometime around midnight, after Kari and Casey had kissed their boyfriends goodbye for the night and had climbed in to Dilynn's mustang, the girls laughed and sang to the radio as Dilynn pulled onto the dirt road that led to her family's ranch.
“Tonight was perfect wasn't it, Kari?” a love-struck Casey asked.
“Ya, it was. It totally rocked,” the equally love-struck teen replied.
The only thing that marred the evening was seeing Derek dance in the arms of that witch Meagan, thought Dilynn with disdain.
She had to admit, though, those two really made a cute couple.
As they pulled up the driveway, the girls noticed that the lights were on in the house.
“My parents must have waited up for us,” Dilynn thought out loud.
“Hopefully my mom isn't there waiting,” Kari wished.
“It would be really screwy if my parents, or your mom, came all the way from the city to the ranch just to wait for us,” Casey pointed out.
The two girls were relieved to find that their parents hadn't come for them.
“Looks like they got ya'll's message that you would be staying here tonight since it would be so late when prom was done with,” Dilynn mentioned.
As they walked into the living room the red-headed, blue-eyed teen smiled sweetly as she saw her little brother, Aaron, asleep on the couch.
“Aaron,” she said, gently shaking him to wake him up. “Aaron, did you feed the horses like you were told?”
“Hm?” asked the half-awake eleven year old.
Dilynn repeated her question.
“No, I forgot. Sorry,” he mumbled before falling back asleep.
“Great,” Dilynn heaved an exasperated sigh. “Guess that means I'll have to do it.”
“We'll help!” Kari offered.
“What do you mean `we'?” Casey asked, a little nervous of the implication. She really wasn't that great a farm hand. In fact, she sucked at it.
“Just what I said. We will help Dilynn finish the chores,” Kari shot back.
“Fine, let's just get this done with. I hate rats and that old garage, were all the feed is, is absolutely full of them.”
“Thanks you guys. I really appreciate it. And, as a token of my appreciation, I'll let you in on a little secret about my herd of horses. From some weird quirk of nature, they can fly!” Dilynn almost shouted.
“Yeah, sure, and youkai, like some of the silly Japanese anime shows, really exist,” Kari said sarcastically.
“What do you mean `fly'? Like with wings and stuff? Like the Greek horse Pegasus?” Casey asked.
Kari shot Casey a look that told her not to encourage the obviously insane Dilynn. Casey shrugged, so she was curious, where's the harm in that?
“No, not like that. Here let's get out of our dresses and I'll explain as we get the food,” Dilynn said.
Once they were in the garage, Dilynn explained that here horses really could fly but the didn't need wings or anything. They could just fly away if they wanted, and when they did fly, there was some sort of silver clouds around their hooves.
“Oh yeah, then what's keeping them here?” asked a suspicious Kari as she got a feed bucket from the closet.
“The fact that my family and I take such good care of them and never force them to do anything. If we want something, we simply ask and explain it to them. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Most of the time they do, though,” Dilynn explained as best she could, knowing Kari wouldn't believe her.
Kari was about to take another breath to argue against such “logic” when Casey shrieked in terror.
“What?! What is it?!” the other two girls asked at once.
“There...was...this...huge...rat!” Casey said in between gasping breaths. “It went that way!” she pointed to the back of the garage toward a strange wall.
“Well we better get it before it gets into the food. Kari would you please hand me the shotgun? It's over there on the wall,” Dilynn pointed toward the corner. “The ammunition, too.”
Handing her the gun and ammunition, Kari asked, “Um, Dilynn, don't you think the shotgun is, um, ya know, a bit overkill? I mean, well, it's just one rat after all.”
“Nope, not at all. I swear I saw a rat in here at least once the size of a medium dog.”
Suddenly, there was a low growl from behind the group. The three girls froze. They turned around slowly to find Valentine, Dilynn's four year old Golden Retriever, and Annie, Dilynn's three year old Black Lab, growling at the strange wall.
“Um...Dilynn?” Casey asked nervously.
“Ya?” Dilynn replied just as nervous. Something wasn't right. Annie and Valentine were so sweet and harmless, Dilynn had never seen them growl at anything before, unless in play. Now, though, they were growling at the strange looking back wall of the garage.
Dilynn had always wondered about that wall. Legend has it that before my family lived here, a Japanese family lived here. One morning, they had all disappeared and noone ever heard from them again. The stories say that the family was in the garage when they disappeared. But surely that couldn't be true, could it?
Dilynn decided to risk it all and open the door.
As she stepped closer, with Kari and Casey clinging to her in fear, the dogs moved with her. Dilynn was relieved that what ever had the dogs upset didn't seem to scare them too bad.
When she got closer, she noticed something odd about the windows of the door. They seemed lighter than the windows on the other side of the garage. Now that didn't make sense.
Slowly, Dilynn reached down and pulled open the garage door. As soon as she did so, a blinding light enveloped her, her cousins, and the dogs.
Shaking her head to clear her vision, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. There was an open field with flowers in it and butterflies everywhere. The most amazing thing of all, though, was that it appeared to be daylight!
Kari and Casey dropped their holds on Dylinn's arms and gaped in awe at the scene before them.
“This cannot be happening!” Kari said, “It is midnight and yet here it is, bright as day!”
Suddenly there came a scream from the middle of the field. A young girl with black hair in a side ponytail, no more than nine years old, was running from a very big and very ugly thing.
She looks so frightened! Dilynn thought. What can I do? She suddenly remembered the shotgun she still held in her arms. She didn't know how effective it would be against the creature, but she had to take a chance.
“Lord Sesshomaru!” the young girl screamed in Japanese.
Without a second thought, Dilynn raised the gun, sighted and fired. Her aim was true. It hit the beast's head and went straight through.
The creature stopped pursuing the child to turn and look at its assailant.
Oh crap! Dilynn thought, hurriedly reloading. What did I just get myself into?
As the creature came closer, Kari and Casey screamed in shear terror. The dogs growled low and menacing but the creature didn't seem to care.
Dilynn fired two more shots as the creature lumbered towards them.
The shots hit the creature's head with dead accuracy. It paused for a moment, not knowing it was dead. Then suddenly it crumpled to the ground and lay still.
The girls breathed a collective sigh of relief and followed the dogs to the young girl.
She was cowering in the middle of the field in something like a fetal position, rocking back and forth.
“Lord Sesshomaru?” the girl asked in Japanese looking up.
“No, I'm Dilynn and...” Dilynn began but she stopped when the girl gave her a curious look.
She doesn't know English! Kari realized and made the comment to the others.
Dilynn nodded and switched to Japanese. All those lessons finally got me somewhere, she thought. I still wish we could have gone on that vacation to Japan but it conflicted with finals.
In Japanese this time, Dilynn began again, “My name is Dilynn, this is my cousin Kari and my other cousin Casey,”
“Duhlin? Karee? Casee?” the young seemed to have a little trouble pronouncing the foreign names.
The cousins just smiled and nodded. She said them well enough.
“Oh, Duhlin! Thank you so much for saving me! I was so scared, I got separated from Lord Sesshomaru and Master Jaken and Ah-Un--that's our two headed dragon, they are very sweet but not much taller than me at their shoulder--when I went to pick berries and flowers. Then this huge ogre started chasing me! Oh thank you, thank you so much! Oh my name is Rin, by the way!” Rin smiled sweetly at the girls before noticing Annie and Valentine.
At the sight of the dogs, she gave a small squeal of fright and hid behind Dilynn. Dilynn laughed and called that dogs to come closer which only made Rin more nervous.
“Don't worry, Rin, Annie and Valentine are Dilynn's pet dogs. They are very sweet and just want to say hi,” Casey gently explained. She showed Rin how to hold out her hand and let the dogs sniff it.
Rin laughed when Annie licked her hand. This encouraged the lab to come closer and lick the child's face. Everyone was having a good laugh at this when a raspy, nasally voice rang out: “Hey you filthy mutts! Get away from young Rin!” The voice belonged to a green froggy-thing with a wierd beak and ugly bulging eyes that was waving a stick with two heads on it. He wore brown haori and hakamas with a dorky little black hat that stood straight up in the center of his head--like a servant's outfit.
The girls stood in front of Rin and the dogs in front of the girls. The dogs lowered their heads at this new...thing that was yelling at their masters and their new friend.
The froggy-thing gulped and took a step back. “I'm warning you! Get away from her!”
“And I'm warning you, don't threaten me! I don't know who you are or what you want with Rin, but the last thing I saw looking like you was trying to attack her! So I don't trust you!” Dilynn said, reloading her gun.
Oh great! Now what am I supposed to do? Lord Sesshomaru will kill me if don't get Rin back, but I can't get to her with those females in the way. And if they weren't bad enough, there's two dogs there too. I can't use the Staff or else I might hit Rin. Oh what am I going to do?
Suddenly, a cold voice demanded from behind him, “What's going on here, Jaken?”
A/N Ooooh! suspenseful! Who asked Jaken? Like you don't already know. Thank you! R&R but don't please no flames, this is my first fanfic ever and I worked real hard to get everything right and not have too much of one character and not enough of the others.