Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Kawaridane ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

AN: Hello this is my second attempt at fanfiction but my first attempt at IY/YYH crossover. I do not own these characters… although Ayako is all mine. I just like to manipulate them for my own selfish means.

 

The screams were everywhere. I could barely hear myself think.

It happened so quickly and at the worst possible moment. My lady had just given birth to the first child when the siege struck.

All the castle staff knew of the hostile Nikushimi, but never believed for a second that he would make even a scratch on the outer wall.

I was cradling little baby Kagome in my arms when a loud explosion struck the castle and the walls shuddered.

My lord ran swiftly from the room grabbing his staff, Karite, as he left. I could hear the distant shouts of battle and the clashing of swords with teeth and claws.

My lady's labour pains were getting quicker and we all knew the second baby was coming. With one final triumphant push baby Ayako came into the world and quicker than can be imagined my lady shoved her towards me as she got up to assist her mate.

“My lady! You mustn't move! You have just given birth to twins; you are in no shape to fight!” I shouted after her.

“I'm alright Nezumi. You must hurry and hide my girls away! You know they come only for them!” she walked over to me slowly, “I am trusting you with their lives, please keep them safe from the Karyuudo.” She whispered to me, and with that was gone from the room.

I got up slowly looking at the other nurses around me. They all looked terrified.

“Go, run from this place or you will surely be slain.” I said, very calmly. I didn't sound at all like myself but I didn't wait around for their reaction either.

I hurriedly ran from the room down the servants passages to the basement where I knew there was a passage that led outside the castle walls.

I passed many wounded and dead but I could not stop to help them. My lady had trusted in ME to keep the babies safe, and I wasn't about to let her down. I found the doorway to the passage and I had to briefly set down the girls in order to shove open the rarely used door.

Once the passage was open to me I gathered them up again and ran as hard as I could through the dark passageway. My heart was pounding in my chest, the blood roaring in my ears as I reached the hatch that led to the forest beyond the walls. This one I knew was locked magically and thus a racked my brain for the chant designed to open it.

At last it came to me and with a few quick words I was up and out and running through the trees.

 

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Nikushimi burst through the doors of the nursery, his eyes blazing red.

He held in his hand his biggest prize the Karite, which he had peeled from the dead Lord's fist. But something deeper was disturbing him. One of his subordinates informed him that the castle had been searched from top to bottom but the Kawaridane were nowhere to be found.

`That lying bitch! She told me her babies had both been stillborn and were being entombed in the family shrine.' His men had searched that as well and found nothing.

A scent caught his attention and he stormed over to the far side of the room. `Yes, that is definitely the smell of newborn and it goes off… that way' He looked toward a hatch in the floor. A servant's passage no doubt.

“YOU!” he shouted at a cowering figure in the corner. “Where does this lead to?”

“M-m-my l-lord?” the servant stammered, obviously not knowing what he was referring to.

“This hatch in the floor you imbecile! WHERE?” he screamed with obvious impatience.

“T-to a passage… outside th-th-the wall my lord.” she managed to reply, and her words caused a frenzy.

Nikushimi turned to his men and said in an almost inaudible voice that dripped poison in each word.

“Find them.”

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The leaves were whipping her face and the roots of trees kept reaching up to trip her. The air was burning in her lungs and the sweat poured from her face.

I could smell them. They were chasing me and they would catch up before long. I knew my endurance was poor but I thought I could at least out run them to the well. At the current rate, I was not so sure I'd make it.

My only hope after feeling my Lord and my Lady's energy vanish was to hide the children. I had heard of a well that absorbs things that are tossed into its depths. I did not know where they would go but I knew for sure that if I left them anywhere in this world they would be found and killed without mercy.

The Karyuudo didn't believe in mercy for the daughters of fate.

Time passed. I'm not sure how much but my sight was beginning to blur and I was falling much more now than before. My shoulders were raw from taking the blows of the ground while protecting the infants I held in my arms. I could smell my pursuer's blood lust. They were very close. And then I saw it.

The Bone eaters well.

I stumbled to a stop at its edge and used the last of my strength to hop to the bottom. I placed the girls on the dirt floor and used the last of my magic to hide their presence from detection.

Slowly, I climbed the walls of the well out into the cold night air once again. I collapsed with my back to the well and looked up at the full moon. The words of the prophecy flashed through my mind as I lost consciousness.

“On a cold clear night, with a full shining orb overhead, their will be born two daughters of fate, whom are neither human nor demon and will seek the destruction of all that is known to claim their birthright, and the Makai will forever be changed.”

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I awoke to someone shaking me roughly.

“Oi Bitch! Where the hell are the Kawaridane!?!” Shouted some pig faced creature with horrid breath.

“Hnn… where you will never find them. You poor excuse for a demon.” I whispered with the last of my breath. I felt him strike me across the face, and I left this world behind me.

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I took a deep breath in. I could hear the sounds of the city far off in the distance, and shook my head slowly. What is our world coming to when you can no longer enjoy the peace of a cold clear night without the sounds of “progress” wafting to your ears from the greedy blind people living in the valley below.

The times of miko like myself were in short supply. No one came to find the peace of nature anymore. Not with the new god “Money” and its consort “Progress” at the forefront of most people's minds.

I took another deep breath and this time, something piqued my other senses. The senses that told me of a person's aura, and potential for holy powers. Only this sort of feeling had not been described in the order for centuries.

It had the hint of demon energy.

I followed the energy and found myself at the doors to the old well house. No one had been in here since the building was erected over 50 years ago. The building was put in place because it was said that the well was a portal that received items, usually bones from another dimension, time, no one knew.

I slid open the doors more easily than I should have. My curiosity was beginning to take over. I slowly descended the steps and peered down into the well holding my candle high to see more clearly. What I saw shocked me more than you could imagine.

There I saw two small newborn babies, wrapped in blankets and sleeping peacefully.

I did the only thing I could think of. I climbed down and brought them up and out, one at a time. Once they were in my arms I noticed something definitely strange about their energy. It seemed to be in great turmoil and so I focused harder to find the source of this conflict.

When the realization hit me I almost dropped them to the floor. Half their aura came from holy energy and the other half was some form of demon energy.

I swallowed hard as a scroll flashed through my mind of a type of hanyou called the Kawaridane.

The Kawaridane was said to be the subject of ancient turmoil when a travelling monk had wed the Lady of the North, who happened to be a taiyoukai cat demon. The birth of twin “daughters of fate” were written about and said to have been slain when Nikushimi besieged and conquered the Lady of the North to become the new lord of the North.

I looked down at the twins in my arms.

`Well, I guess the scrolls are incorrect.' I turned and slowly walked from the well house like a woman possessed. I reached the door to the main temple and pushed it open slowly.

“Rui-sama! You've been gone a long time I was about to send out the search party!” came a small amused voice from the far end of the room.

I looked up at the young miko apprentice Shikari, as I walked toward the fire.

I managed a slight smile and in a voice that did not sound like my own I said “Shikari, will you please get me my personal scrolls and bring them to me quickly.”

She looked confused but quickly obeyed my request. `I have to do something about this energy!' I was beginning to panic. If these two really are the Kawaridane of ancient history there would be some very hostile people after them if they were discovered.

Shikari had returned with my scrolls. I thanked her and asked her to go fix up some tea as to keep her away form what I was about to do. Once she had left the room I found the scroll I was searching for. I ran through what I had been taught of this special type of hanyou. I remembered that they would grow only to the point of a toddler in the first 150 years!

`Alright so I need to think of how we are to keep them secret until their growth spurt.' I also knew that after that early stage was done they would grow to adulthood at a rate similar to a human and reach full maturity by the time they were 171. Or 21 by human terms.

I turned toward the two babies lying on the floor and began to chant the spell that would seal away their demon energy until adulthood. I would think of what to do with them for the next 150 years after that task had been completed.

`Rui, what have you gotten yourself into?'

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150 years later…

Genkai awoke to a very disturbing noise. She swore under her breath as she walked out of her small bedroom and towards the main room of her house where the mysterious sound was coming from.

She rolled her knuckles in her eyes and paused. It wasn't such a strange noise after all, only one she hadn't heard since she shut herself away in the mountain compound thirty years earlier.

It sounded like a child crying.

She stumbled to the front door and opened it to find a little girl with brown curly hair and bright green eyes staring up at her. In her arms were what looked to be her few worldly possessions. A stuffed white leopard and a hand-quilted blanket with the name, AYAKO, written across it in bold lettering. She held in her other hand what looked like a note. It read:

Master Genkai,

Please find it in your heart to raise little Ayako. She has gone through more hardship than one should with a life as short as hers.

`That's it??' she thought. She considered very seriously simply closing the door, or maybe hunting down whoever had left her here and beating said trouble-maker to a pulp.

She looked down at the frightened child and sighed. Her life was about to get a lot more complicated.

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Across the bustling city of Tokyo in the year 1986 Mrs. Higurashi awoke to much the same scene as Genkai. Except in this case there was a little girl with dark brown hair and chocolate eyes looking up at her with a hand-quilted blanket with the name, KAGOME, written in bold lettering.

There was no hesitation and Kagome was instantly received by the young woman and her husband.

They knew not of what they were getting into.