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Tokyo, Japan~
"Onii-sama you ...." A raven haired five year old boy whispered, shocked. He didn't have any shoes and wore dark red cargo pants and a matching elbow length shirt.
"You came for me.." he murmured obviously relieved. The older brother in question looked like he wasn't really grounded in this moment.
"In--..." He struggled with something and his eyes flickered from red sclera and teal green Iris to white sclera and amber iris. A violet crescent moon on his forehead.
Behind him, seemingly attached to his body was an enormous giant silver dog with features and markings similar to the ones the eight year old boy had. The eyes shared the same red sclera and teal irises, strange jagged magenta colored stripe marks around the corners of his mouth. And finally a plume of silver fur wrapped around his body and extended to the floor.
The dog, likely reacting from the boy was snarling and angry about something. The boy slumped to the floor on his knees.
"Inu...yasha" the boy rasped struggling to speak, to stand ... To be in control.
The younger gulped and strengthened his resolve. He walked determinedly and fearlessly toward his brother, stopping in front of him when he was less than a foot away.
He fell forward nearly overwhelming the smaller boy with his weight.
"I'm here, onii-sama. I'm here. You can call me Inuyasha as often as you want." He threw his arms around him, trying to get a response from him but no acknowledgement was made, verbal or otherwise. He recalled how his older brother had repeatedly referred to him as such.
In the beginning he despised it. No one ever said his actual name. But it was obvious that name held a lot of meaning for his adoptive older brother.
'Inu....yasha....' he thought. He tested the name on his lips, mouthing it.
Hibikin held his brother tighter even if he didn't understand that his touch would help ground his older brother.
"Daimaru.... I'll be your Inuyasha, please go back to your normal self!" Hibikin Inumoriya vowed.
Anything to help stable him from... whatever this was.
After a long moment of silence, Daimaru hugged Inumoriya back.
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10 years Later Year 2025 ~
"They ganged up on me and I'm getting in trouble?!" Hibikin nicknamed Inuyasha yelled in protest. He was in junior high and stubbornly ignored the teacher trying to placate him.
"Now now Inumoriya-kun we're aware of your track record to have reasons for getting into fights. That said you will still have to face suitable punishment for this repeated behavior,"
"This is bull-" he scowled then gulped noticing all the adults present.
"Uh.. this is unfair," he amended. He ran a hand through his messy black hair. It was normally less unkempt but he'd been in a fight recently.
"We'll have to call your listed guardian," she huffed. "Maybe he can make you see reason."
"More like see an increase in body count." Hibikin mumbled.
"What?" The teacher asked sharply.
"Nothing!" He replied quickly.
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Even with Daimaru appearing to put the fear of God in the school staff, Hibikin still got detention for fighting in class.
He didn't mind it as much since Daimaru told him to drop it, albeit grudgingly. They were on their way back home when someone stopped them.
"Oh sirs! Wait up! Can I interest you in a Shrine talisman?" Asked a woman dressed in the traditional red and white garb of a Miko.
"A talisman?" Hibikin asked.
"This is the Shikon no Tama! The jewel of four souls. It has the power to bring luck and grant wishes." The woman attending Higurashi Shrine beamed.
'Oh gods not this crap again -' he grimaced.
"Wait I'd like a talisman!" Hibikin stated making Daimaru sigh in resignation.
Hibikin paid for the talismans and gleefully smiled at the purple jewel.
In slight half awareness, he looked at the one Hibikin had shoved in his hands.
He stared at it. Orange.
He thought bitterly. 'Like the pattern on the first kimono I gave Rin.'
He gently turned it over in his hands. The little label with the kanji reading 'Shikon no Tama' on both sides. He rolled his eyes.
"Moroha! Don't run out and approach visitors like that!" The woman scolded.
Moroha as she was named didn't mind. Beaming up at him with all the smiles and childish glee of Rin when she was that age.
Daimaru tried not to feel the stab of nostalgia.
"What are you gonna wish for on your Shikon Jewels?" She asked.
"The courage to ask Banouin Hinami-san on a date!" Hibikin blurted unapologetically.
"Date?" Moroha blinked at him curiously.
"Yeah a - ah! It's not something you'd get," he amended at Daimaru's glare.
But Daimaru then found himself under Moroha's stare of intrigue.
He stared at her curiously in turn. "My wish cannot be granted by the Shikon Jewel.." he started but took in the dismay on the little girl's face.
"But I'm certain it'll bring me happiness anyway," he smiled gently.
Moroha lit up like a light bulb and looked between them.
"Hn," he turned away.
"Let's go Inuyasha," Daimaru remarked blankly.
"Okay...." Hibikin remarked.
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Once at home he scolded Hibikin.
"You really shouldn't worry about your luck with women and really focus on your education," to prove his point he grabbed a porn magazine from the deceptive encyclopedia book cover and pulled out a sheet of paper displaying math questions and notably marked with a B-.
"Gah! My private area!" Hibikin recoiled in embarrassment.
"How did you know to look there! The point of putting it there was to deter you!" He protested.
"Fufu you're too obvious dear brother," he remarked nonchalantly. But he let him snatch the paper and the magazine back.
"Hey ... How do you feel about accompanying me to the School Festival?"
"Hm?" He blinked."Accompany?"
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However he found he couldn't enjoy the food.
He was being followed.
'A demon possessed Dark Priestess'... His eyes observed the demonic auras of the people he couldn't see.
'A spider demon'...
"..And a six tailed kitsune...." He muttered.
"What is this?" He said warily.
"I thought you might be alert to the deception, and yet you still let your brother attend school here, Inumoriya Daimaru,"
"Yoshihiro? The play director!?" He blinked in surprise.
"Or rather... Lord Sesshomaru..." He smirked.
His eyes widened. 'Okay they know my identity... What for?'
'That paper crane is imbued with a curse. I can't say what would happen if I let it hit me.' he noted and sent out a wave of demonic energy.
'... Just to test the limits of these three idiots.'
The paper crane disintegrated.
The man grimaced. "Your demonic energy has become more potent in this day and age. I'm impressed," he sounded smug. Probably proud he wasn't forced to his knees.
Daimaru sneered at him. "What are you after?"
"Naturally to reset the balance, we'll be sending a chosen one back in time, to fix the horrible error that has transpired. To undo the mistake of a certain Miko tied to everything."
"And who better than someone with a lot of attachment to the past?" His eyes turned from silver blue to red. A twisted smile graced his features as he glanced at Hibikin who he definitely knew was Inuyasha's reincarnation.
He blinked dully at them. 'They don't mean me,' he reassured himself.
'But.... Inuyasha did a lot of things in his time and knew three mikos...' he wavered confused.
"That doesn't..." He shook his head trying to act perplexed to gather more information.
A different crane appeared distracting him from his thought.
'Another curse!' he caught it and willed his hands to generate that familiar line green poison.
It melted into a unpleasant clump pooling on the ground.
In front of him was a girl with pink hair and matching pink foxtails.
She didn't wear the school uniform of Hibikin's school or one he recalled immediately. Her uncanny teal eyes stared at him as she stood on her tiptoes and kissed him. Briefly he could see her tails. 'Ah the Kitsune....'
A number of small pink demon flames appeared around him.
'Oh no! I need to cancel that ability..!' He startled and shoved her off, the numbness in his arms going away.
He could hear a commotion coming from the stage.
"...Inuyasha..?" He muttered surprised. He turned his attention from his opponent and regarded the scene a distance away.
However a light was beginning to stream from the floorboards.
His pulse quickened. 'Oh no,'
He jumped off the bridge, uncaring of the offended noise from his enemies.
Inuyas- Hibikin mattered more.
He ran through the crowd who were milling around, gaping at the unraveling chaos.
"Is this part of the play?"
"Watch it!"
"Are those kids okay?"
He shoved past people ignoring their complaining that he was being rude or the questions about the situation entirely.
He shoved Hibikin off the stage, Kazamachi who he hadn't known eas there caught him ensuring he had a safe landing and promptly stepped on the stage as well.
"What the hell are you-" before he could yell at Kazamachi for joining him when it wasn't safe, they were teleported in a beam of light indigo light.
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"What are you!? Stupid!" He yelled at Kazamachi. They'd been dropped in a grassy field in the middle of nowhere. Well nowhere was inaccurate, they were at the edge of a village and near a familiar well he hoped to be wrong about.
He probably could have handled being where he was but Kazamachi for whatever reason had joined him. That put a hiccup in things.
Kazamachi always reminded him uncannily of Naraku in his appearance. Which he supposed made sense.
Naraku was a pathetic thief it stood to reason that he stole the appearance he kept copying from some demon...or human.
But right now Kazamachi pissed him off for a different reason.
Similarities to a certain disgusting spider be damned.
Kazamachi just smiled cryptically. "You were going to be alone in whatever situation you were getting yourself into. I consider us friends so I jumped in too. Besides It felt like the thing I needed to do." Kazamachi explained.
He stared at Kazamachi.
"You were putting your brother first and I wanted to be there too," he spoke, dark orange eyes regarding him with a fondness that seemed familiar to him.
He felt his cheeks heat up and bit back a scowl at the comment.
He pulled out his phone and called his brother.
"Daimaru!"
He cringed at the use of his name. At least he answered.
"Inuyasha are you alright?" He asked first.
"A few scratches -" some static. " -I'm fine,"
"Inuyasha this may seem odd but I need you to get out of the area, don't stick around to explain, don't try flirting with your school friends," he stated plainly, ignoring the "Hey!" of protest.
" just leave," he sighed.
Hibikin said something in reply but the static came up, drowning it.
He grit his teeth, pulling the phone from his ear to glance at it.
Fully charged.
Ongoing call... Low service. Poor connection.
'I just need to get through one conversation with him, please.' he thought frustrated.
He closed his eyes channeling a fraction of demonic energy into the device. The static ceased but that wouldn't last.
"Inuyasha this phone is losing its connection, feudal Japan doesn't have cell towers for such a device."
"Yeah just- wait what!?" Inuyasha demanded. There was a familiar clang sound of the bell chiming as his bike hit the ground.
"Did I stutter? I'm very far in the past. It seems I was ambushed by some demons who want to change the outcome of something and intended to send you to the past. The specific point in time where the event they want to change happened. Since I took your place I'll have to figure it out in your stead."
"Whoa...." Hibikin breathed. "But we need to be able to call each other! I still need you! You're my older brother! You're the one who looked after me all these years! I can't just up and not communicate with you! You've always been there! Ever since-"
"Inuyasha you know how to defend yourself, how to cook, how to manage money. You will not die like a plant if I leave." He deadpanned.
"This ain't about that!" He snapped.
"You know what I mean! I'm not -"
Static again. He cursed. He focused and channeled more demonic power into the device, ignoring that it began to heat up.
Kazamachi regarded him. "You're handling it really well,"
He glanced at Kazamachi and tried to hide his unease. "I have to,"
"I ... Know of a way where you can continue talking to me.." he focused his attention.
"At least until I get back," he muttered.
"The tree at the Higurashi Shrine."
"The what??" Hibikin blurted.
"The tree, get there and wait for me to contact you,"
"How will you -" Hibikin started to ask but it was drowned out by his attention being grabbed at the unintentional behest of a bike coming out of the Bone Eaters Well.
Kazamachi gasped in surprise at the sight.
As for Daimaru:
Dread etched into his expression.
The girl.
The girl! She wasn't wearing her normal school uniform. Wearing instead a black long sleeved shirt with a turquoise skirt of equal length as her school one.
Riding her pink bicycle. The damn thing.
She was babbling to herself about something.But with that alone he knew what time this was exactly. And knowing demons, had an idea about what they wanted fixing.
That stupid fucking jewel that better served as Shrine merchandise for tourists. Or people who believed in things like fate or charms. Or worthless marbles with silly fairy tales.
Suddenly he could understand that feeling of dread the baristas at the coffee shop felt when he ordered two cups with sixteen shots of espresso.
(He'd been helping Inuyasha with some summer school work and had the genius idea that coffee would help them solve the questions faster. At 2:26 am. Fun times.)
"Ka....gome," he said under his breath like an incantation.
Kazamachi looked curiously at him.
"No way," he whispered.