InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Yozora ❯ The Burning ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Info: Okay, now you can disagree with me, but I shall be referring to his red outer shirt as a kariginu, not as a haori, because from what I've learned, it'swrong. From wikipedia, as far as I know, he wears a hitoe (outer shirt) in the fashion of a kariginu and his white undershirt is a kosode. His pants are in fact hakama like Kaede and Kikyo, just gathered at the ankle. The sash high around his waist is an obi. Just look it up and if you find anything wrong, review and tell me okay ^_^

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and I in no way gain any profit from writing this story. Inuyasha and co. belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I OWN NOTHING!!!!

Chapter 1

The Burning~**~**

“Inuyasha! Why do you have to be such a jerk to everyone?” Demanded a very irritated teenage girl. Her brown eyes burned as she glared at the poor dog-eared boy in front of her. Her raven hair waved with her green skirt in the spring breeze making her look even more fearsome, as if she had her own personal demonic aura.

His fiery amber eyes locked on hers as they silently struggled for dominance. The boy was about a good half-foot taller than her, dressed in a crimson kariginu and prayer beads. His hair was longer than his waist and silvery white, and beautiful enough to make any girl green with jealousy. He merely crossed his arms and broke eye contact. “Keh!”

“Is that all you can say?” Kagome rolled her eyes in exasperation with this beautiful hanyou. He could slay demons, blow up mountains, wield a gigantic sword, laugh in the face of cold, terrible death, and never show an inkling of fear and yet she couldn't get him talk in full sentences!

“I told the runt I wanted to be left alone! It's not my fault he didn't get the message!” He defended. `Why was it that little things always blew up into huge arguments?' He wondered for a second.

“You could have just told him nicely! You didn't need to knock him over the head!” Kagome could feel a headache coming on, as it always came when she chastised the stubborn hanyou. “Why can't you even just pretend you like him and be nice? Jeeze, you have no skills as a parent whatsoever! Could you please just try to learn some compassion for him?”

“Look, it's not something I need and ever will need, so why learn it?” He argued, “I ain't havin' kids, not now, not ever, so why should I waste my time learning how to take care of `em?”

Kagome was speechless at this remark, how could he say such a thing! “Do you really hate kids that much?” She gasped. He scrunched his nose in a frown.

“I didn't say I hated kids, I just said I'm never having them!” He tried to clarify, but only succeeded in digging his grave deeper.

“Y-You mean… you cant, uh-um...” She stuttered, embarrassed.

Inuyasha turned the same color as his kariginu, putting his hands out, waving them. “N-NO! I don't mean that! I mean, I'll just never have kids!” His eye was twitching in mortification. Inuyasha could have sworn he saw a look of relief cross her face.

“Why?” She couldn't help but ask. What was his reason for not wanting children ever?

“No reason, just don't want `em.” He turned away and walked away. He couldn't tell her the real reason, no, he didn't want her pity. He knew if she found out, she'd treat him differently and that was the last thing he needed.

The real reason was that he'd never have the chance. Ever since he had found out `how' pups were made, he knew he'd never partake in anything of the sort. Who would ever be foolish enough to mate a half-breed?

Deep down, the moment he had realized that, part of him had died and thanks to it, he had learned to effectively hide most of his drive until he had a moment alone. Though this probably was why he was irritable so much. He had laugh when he remembered when he'd first met the monk, what had his words been during the first time they had talked, ah, `You need to get laid.' The monk didn't understand the way dog-demons worked at all. They couldn't just mate left and right like foxes and humans. They had rules; the breaking of many of them meant death.

He sighed, there was only one woman he wanted, however the gods were so cruel and he knew the tragic truth that like the rest of the world, she would never love him as he wanted her to. Her name flowed off his tongue, “Kagome…”

He looked around, it was already dark. How far had he wandered? He took in a deep breath. Immediately he choked and coughed. “Smoke?” He rasped and looked to where the sound of crackling fire was coming from. His eyes widened, someone's hut was on fire! It was spreading to the forest fast, but what disturbed him more was the smell of blood. The smoke smell was too thick for him to determine whose it was. He heard running behind him.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome called and she reached his side, panting, the others beside her. “That village is burning! We have to help them!” He nodded. If the fire wasn't taken care of, the forest would go down in flames.

“Miroku,” He demanded as the monk stared at him gravely. “Go try to help them put out the fire! Make sure it doesn't spread. Shippo, Sango, help him.” They nodded and ran to check the damage. Inuyasha pulled the girl onto his back and they ran into the village, in the direction of the blood.

“Where are we going Inuyasha? The fire is over there!” She asked as she pointed to the village.

“I smell blood. I doubt that fire was an accident.” He said. She looked shocked, why would anyone try to burn their neighbors to death?! Inuyasha flew by the trees, a red and silver blur. Kagome grunted as he suddenly stopped. About 20 feet away was a bloody form. Finally, Inuyasha could decipher the scent. He let Kagome down.

“It's a bitch.” He stated. Kagome gave him a disapproving look. “I meant a female dog-demon!” He rolled his eyes and to a step neared to her, holding his hand to Kagome, telling her to stay behind. “Bitches are unpredictable and dangerous when they're injured.”

Kagome watched his slowly go over to the fallen woman, cautious and carefully he rolled her over to see her face. She had been impaled, with numerous burns to her body. The blood had stained her kimono and the ground beneath her. Inuyasha could hear her faint heartbeat, but he knew it was too late for her; she'd lost far too much blood, even for a youkai.

Her eyes were a dull silvery color that stood out from her dark blue hair, stained darker with blood. A long black stripe went down her face from her forehead to her nose. Under her left eye were three stars in the shape of a triangle. A small smile graced the femme's blood stained lips.

“Please…” She croaked, her soft, helpless voice striking a chord in the hanyou. Her clawed hands gripped her arm as she pulled herself up; he wondered what she was going to ask. Inuyasha's eyes widened as he felt her razor sharp fangs sink deep into the flesh of his arm.

He tried to pull back, but this bitch was determined and she quickly scooped some of her blood from her gaping wound and slapped the hand over the bite wound, rubbing it in. Inuyasha bit his lip as the pain seared his arm like liquid fire.

The woman fell back to the ground with a grunt as she growled at him softly, tears glistening in her eyes, smiling as her life slipped away. In that moment he knew what she'd done and as he looked around frantically, all he could wonder is `WHY ME?'

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AN: My present to all of you readers! Itisa special day todayand I am giving you two chapters of this new fic and two chapters of `Begin Again', or `Back to Start.' Whichever is the one you're reading. Yeah, I'm a ditz; I named the same story two different things without noticing. I'll get around to fixing it some time.Either way,you can just press that next chapter button. ^_^ you're welcome.Also, the chapter art for this story is at photobucket(dot)com. Search for Fullmatal_chibi_chan_ under albums.

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