Preface:

So, I was bored when I made this. I guess I needed something to break my slump amidst my writing fics and shit. Whatever the case, I suppose I should say this is merely a series of drabbles of stuff in between episodes and my rendition of what some episodes look like. Is it a novelization? Maybe. Will it be continued? Maybe in bits and pieces. All I know is that I'm a nerd with too much time on my hands, but even then the updates will probably be sporadic.

Anywhoooo, This was done for fun and to help my creative juices flow some. Inuyasha is an all-time favorite show, and I feel like I needed to upload something to do it justice. I attempted an interpretation of the end of the Final Act, but I lost interest in it years ago. So, I'm 'making up' for it with this something I farted out. So, sue me. I just wanted to share whatever I made for anyone who cares. Constructive criticism is appreciated, so don't be too shy if something seems out of place. Other than that, enjoy what I have here.

Long live Inuyasha bitches.

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Prologue

To say the least, Feudal Japan was just one nightmarish, horrifying adrenaline-fueled learning experience after the other.

Ever since her first moments here in this long forgotten era, host to behemoth monsters, religious ignorance, political collaspe, and bloody terf wars, the girl learned (albeit the hard way) that the only way to survive here was to adapt to whatever curveball was thrown your way. Even as she was dragged into this hellish realm, she had a brush with death itself; the entity in question quite literally taking a taste of the girl before she was thwarted by some untold, unknown power. And then the events afterward, it concreted the fact that survival of the smartest and fittest was indeed its very core; let alone some adaptability, and sheer luck being thrown into the equation.

Still, the very modern girl was trying her damnest at living through one ordeal after the other while keeping a straight face. Kagome should be counting her few lucky stars that she was even still around at all, considering how many times that freaking centipede had relentlessly come after her. She credited herself for being clever enough to endure not so long ago, but her perilous tumult through one fight or flight scenario taught her otherwise. Between the initial shock of realizing she was in ancient Japan, and then winding up here, in-betwixt a deadly 'standoff' so to speak, to say she couldn't be more weary and freaked out was the absolute understatement of the year.

Not too far away from her, Inuyasha's claws glinted maliciously in the moon-shrouded night, his shit-eating leer curling the middle-school girl's nerve. He flexed his talons; because that's what Kagome wanted to call the instruments of Mistress Centipede's demise. His honey-colored pupils ignored the darkness of the hour, his gaze barely passing a significant once-over through the masses that surrounded him. To Kagome's bone-chilling horror however, his eyes would find her and stayed arrested upon her, his teeth- ohmygod those are actual fangs suddenly peeking through his lips.

Okay. Forget honey. More like cold, hard, almost frigid metallic bronze! But seriously, what's up with this jewel? It seems to make monsters more powerful, and even crazier. Is it cursed?

Kagome took the second to (hesitantly of course) briefly remove her eyes from the newly freed Inuyasha, her gaze searching the glittering gem within her palm. Its pearlescent light was subtle and brilliant, but it had an allure within its dephs that even Kagome couldn't help but notice.

Worse yet, why me? Why do I have something conveted by demons inside my body?

"I hate havin' to wait," she heard him say lowly, disrupting the teenager's thoughts. The girl placed her eyes back to the humanoid boy as he lifted his arm, his knuckles popping audibly. Oh gross, she internally voiced. However, his next words were a sure-fire, feral growl that promised something terrible, his brows furrowing dangerously. "And I hate the smell of you," he snarled.

Kagome winced, knowing full-well that his comment was directed at her. She just then made yet another choice as well; her body moving instinctually before she even noticed what her legs were doing.

She hardly turned on the balls of her heels before Inuyasha was already upon her like stink on a corpse: He was a bounding blur of lanky muscle and red-clad greed throwing itself head-long at the frightened mortal trampling through the bracken. The elderly priestess nearby, Kaede as Kagome recently learned, could hardly do a thing as she watched the half-demon rustle on by, his determination set.

Kagome somehow knew she couldn't out-run a halfling weirdo, demon or no; but it still wasn't going to stop the girl from damn-well trying. Still, her clumsy self managed to catch on one of the centipede's ribs; leftover from Inuyasha's last assault. Her body propelled itself forward until she was on her belly; her momentum carrying her a good ways across the forest floor. Her wound on her waist was jarred from the impact, and a fresh stream of blood emerged anew from it.

Perhaps her clutziness was what saved her that night as well as endanger her; all things considered: Inuyasha's glistening blood-stained claws had swiped right where her torso had been less than miliseconds ago. His miss carried him a short ways away, but his smile was still in place as he straightened up. Kagome blinked away her fright and puffed, her ragged breath lifting her hair out of her sweaty face.

The dog-eared wonder smirked some more, as if his miss was nothing more than a playful swipe. And then he added with yet another ominous crack of his knuckles, "Want me to scratch your back?"

Is that... a joke...?

Kagome crawled to all fours, her forearms shaking like mad. Her rich brown eyes then moved to Inuyasha, her words a muted denial of the previous last few seconds. "Y-you... You really tried to hit me just now, didn't you?"

"Shoot him! Shoot him now!"

The frightened village archers released a volley of arrows; the resounding twangs bouncing around Kagome. She'd forgotten they were there, but it mattered not: Miraculousy, the whistling arrows did nothing to cow Inuyasha; he merely snorted and flung out his corded arms. His robes caught the shafts of the arrows, and it broke them into a bunch of splintered dust right before her eyes. His freakin' clothes!

What the heck is he? If even his robes are so abnormal, then how can he even be considered half-human?

Kagome's breath stopped mid-way in her throat as she watched the shattered wood fall to the grass, her eyes never leaving the object of her newfound fear. Every minute that Inuyasha was free was givng her a new reason to regret her previous decision of letting him go. She was then getting up, her nerves frayed and her fear at a new fever pitch.

Inuyasha was then darting forward, his claws raking the air around the crowd of men. She really would've thought he'd strike the humans on purpose too; but instead, his power projected into something like beams, cutting through the tree trunks nearest the crowd. The majority of the crackling wood began to topple, the trees' descent creating a rude roar of jagged noise that sent the village men scattering like cock-roaches.

Kagome took advantage of the freak's attack; the seconds Inuyasha took to distract himself with the hapless villagers gave her enough time to get her butt in gear. She was already beyond the tree-line quicker than she thought possible in just seconds; a speed she never achieved back in school if she had anything to say about it.

The half-demon meanwhile then threw himself onto one of the ragged trucks of a broken tree, drawing himself to his fullest height. He jerked his thumb to himself, his snort derisive, "HMMF! Who do you people think I am? D'ya think you can hurt me like I did that centipede?"

"Lady Kaede, methinks mayhap we might have chanced the centipede," croaked a pikeman behind the old woman, his arms lowering his weapon in resigned acceptance.

Kaede however could only shake her head, her one eye calculating. She sighed, her back creaking as she moved, "Somehow, I knew that eventually we might come to this." She withdrew an item from her sleeves, and then proceeded to follow Kagome to where she'd gone into the forest.

As for poor Kagome herself, she didn't think she'd ever run this fast in gym class before; but then again, she didn't have a pissy half-demon tailing her during those times. Inuyasha had noticed her departure before, but you can bet he merely let that happen for a reason as preverse as a headstart for his prey. He didn't mind letting the idiot girl have a head-start at the very least.

Oh how curteous of him!

Kagome's breath came out in a continuous stream of puffs, her arms pumping as she sprinted through the darkness nearly sightlessly. It was like running through a literal nightmare; a something she could've swore she dreamt once. And yet its so real, she thought. I'm actually being chanced by a potential murderer! And he just so happens to have REAL, freaking superpowers.

"Prepare yourself!" came Inuyasha's voice through the foliage. His volumous robes caught the air currents as he moved, letting the girl know generally where he was; not that it comforted her or anything.

"P-prepare? For what?" She retorted, but mostly to herself. Still, her mind just had to snarkily tell her Ya damn well know what he means by that. Kagome however ignored it and begged her fatigued form to move yet faster still.

It wasn't enough.

The air whistled around, preempting a warning to the teenager: Kagome craned her head just in time to see the half-demon sailing through the air with an arm raised, his teeth bared as well. Kagome squeaked like a frightened rabbit and ended up throwing herself just ahead of the strike, feeling the air behind her rent through as the demonic swipe cut both it and the dirt below. It created a shockwave that finished hurling her away from it, helping further her escape from bodily harm. Gracelessly she fell onto her front yet again that night, the girl unable to keep track of just how many stinking times such an event occured. The Jewel however clinked as it rolled away from her hand, stopping just a yard or two in front of her.

Kagome rolled onto her buttocks and couldn't help but gawp; Inuyasha's claws had blown a ragged series of huge rifts into the soil, easily longer and wider than an entire charter bus. Her mind raced at the thought of what that could've done to her fragile little human body, but then she considered the centipede before her and felt the bile surge to her throat.

"HA! Now its mine!"

The girl snappped out of it upon hearing him; suddenly grimly noting just how much stronger her current foe could be with jewel in hand. She turned and started towards the jewel again, but took pause when she heard a new sound cut through the dirt-clogged air: She couldn't really describe it at first, but it was like a humming noise that both sang and bellowed with a shrill screech, a flurry of what she easily could mistaken as pink stars flashing by. She barely had enough time to make the comparison before the lights settled around Inuyasha's throat, the rosy colors dimming into something else entirely.

He settled in front of the girl, coming to stop just shy of the jewel. "The heck are these?" The half-demon muttered with a tug at the new necklace, his flinty eyes incredulous.

"Quickly child! The word of subjugation!"

Kaede's winded, exhausted voice snapped Kagome out of her reverie completely; the girl crawled towards the jewel and hardly registered the elderly miko's words as she moved. "Huh? What word?" she stuttered as she inched along, snatching the jewel up in front of her.

"It matters not! Your word has power to hold his spirit," continued the other cryptically.

Kagome continued to run ahead, once again taking the advantage of Inuyasha's distraction. She rushed by him and then jogged to a muddied hill-side, her mind barely comprehending a little too late just how unstable the ground was. She yelped as it gave way beneath her, crumbling away into broken chunks all the while dragging her further down the cliff side not so far away from a torrent of raging white water. From its edge she came to a abrupt stop, her bruises and open wound acting up with every shock passing through her body. Sadly, the jewel was shaken from her death-grip as well, bouncing coyly away with its tinkling indicating just where it came to rest. It was of course right out in the middle of a rickety bridge, out in the open, above frothing rapids, way too far away for the girl to madly dash to without being beat by Inuyasha.

And possibly incidentally torn apart. Just great.

Apparently the half-demon had recovered from his initial shock as luck would have it; because then he was flying through the air with yet another snort and his anger boiling to new highs. "HUH! How can you overpower me if you can't sit up!?" He barked.

Kagome rose to her feet, knowing full-well she'd never beat the high-flying interloper to the jewel. She quickly pondered aloud Kaede's words, "A word to hold his spirit? But how will I know which one?"

Her eyes tracked Inuyasha as he floated through the night time air, the clouds having freed the moon from their shrouded vice at some point. With it shining brilliantly behind the half-demon, jointed with a shrieking gale that rippled around him like a howling wolf-dog, Kagome would've been hard-pressed to believe that this was in fact real life as she heard the gale thrill through her body with its reverbrations. And even as powerfully as he'd thrown himself, still Inuyasha landed with an almost quiet, feline grace that belied his usually brutish methodology. He bent down, the jewel moving towards the man as he lightly jostled the bridge.

"Um, uh, uhhhhh..." Just as her eyes caught the wiggle of his very canine ears, she couldn't help but think of yet a pair of words she'd use for any feisty, misbehaved dogs under any other normal circumstance. They were intrusive thoughts, but then she was mouthing the words without a thought to anything else; desperate to keep the jewel from falling conviently into the hanyou's avaricious hands.

"SIT BOY!"

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