Disclaimer: I do not own the game Zelda or the manga Inuaysha.

So, this is the new story that I decided to post. I've had the first few chapters written for about half a year now, and I hope you enjoy! Once again, "You Can't Expect me to be Perfect" is still up for adoption for whoever wants to take it from me.

This Simple Dream of Mine

firefox369

A small village stood below them as they watched the villagers' daily routines, columns of smoke rising from a few houses here and there. The sun was high in the sky as they observed from their spot safely atop their gruesome steeds on the nearby cliff. Two beings stood apart from the crowd, their steeds much larger than the others. One had an uncertain look upon his face while another had a sinister smirk across his.

"This is the place?" a smooth voice asked and the one beside him smirked more before nodding. The owner of the voice looked back at the village beneath them, skeptical. "Positive?"

"Are you questioning me and your Lord?" the other growled, narrowing his eyes in distaste. His steed reared in response to his anger.

"Iie... I just find it unbelievable that such a village would-"

"Then we begin at dusk. Remember to only take the girl and her family. If the family resists, kill them, but leave the girl alive. Kill no one else."

"Hai." Although he still held his doubts, he turned around to face the group of men. "Got that? We begin at dusk!"

A loud roar of excitement followed his shout as the small army behind him cried out with excitement.

-Meanwhile-

"Ne! Ne! Aniki(1)!" a girl cried, chasing after the blonde-haired boy in front of her. "Aniki!" she whined. The boy turned and grinned impishly at her, the bundle in his arms giving off a curious amount of laughter and squeals of delight. "Give him back you big meanie!"

The boy pouted. "But you get to see him all day! I almost never get to!"

"He's my family!" she argued, running over and pounding the boy with her fists. "Give him back!"

The boy rolled his eyes at the girl's pitiful attempts of an attack but obeyed anyway. "Hai, hai..." he grumbled, giving the infant back to the desperate girl in front of him."But you could let me have some fun with him sometimes, too, you know."

"I would if you didn't always kidnap him!"

"How else am I supposed to get him?" he questioned, annoyed.

"You ask, poopyhead!"

"I am not a poopyhead! I'm going to be the next village chef!" he announced proudly.

"Chief" the girl corrected and he scowled at her.

"Same thing."

"You wouldn't be able to be a chef because you can't even hold a knife without cutting yourself in the first minute. You also wouldn't be a very good chief because what type of chief goes around stealing babies from their cradle?"

"Me, duh."

"You can't even ride your pony without dying!"

"I'll be able to ride Epona, just you watch! I'm going to be the best rider in the world!" The girl snorted at his proclamation. "Don't cry when you see me ten years from now and I say 'I told you so' in your face" he boasted.

"Don't cry when I beat you to death."

"I'd like to see you try, girl."

"Elf"

"Human."

"Poopyhead!"

"Am not!"

"Uh huh!"

"Nuh uh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Nuh uh!"

"Uh huh!" the girl lgiggled as she took a few steps to the right so she was next to a small creek before sitting down, feet dangling in the water. The boy sat beside her, finding himself not being able to draw his gaze away from her features. He decided to drop the argument for now. The girl noticed and her content, relaxed expression turned into one of confusion.

"Are you okay?" she asked and he nodded. "If you say so..." she murmured, shifting the child in her arms to a more comfortable position. They stared at the setting sun reflecting on the creek's surface for what seemed like an eternity to them before the girl finally spoke.

"Village Chief..." she mused quietly and the boy smiled happily at the thought.

"Yep! I'm going to be the best one yet! What are you going to do when you grow up?"

"I want to explore the world!" she chirped excitedly before pausing for a moment and giggling. "I'm going to find the very best horse I can to go with me, and I'll finally be able to meet my-"

"EEEEEEK!"

Both children shot to their feet and the girl's eyes widened in horror when a steady stream of smoke billowed up from one of the huts.

"Okaa-san(2)" she whispered, glancing at the baby in her hold before roughly shoving it into the boy's arms. She ran off, leaving a stunned boy with a screaming and crying infant in his arms in the middle of the village.

"Matte(3)..." he said softly when he finally realized what was going on. "Matte!" He began to chase after her, following the trail her wet feet made against the dry dirt road when another scream broke the air. He forced himself to run faster and froze after skidding around a corner. He saw some sort of monster on an overgrown boar holding the girl by the collar of her shirt as she squirmed and kicked. The boy gently set the baby down behind another hut before picking up a stick and charging.

"Let her go you big stupidhead!" he shouted. He was easily knocked away and hit the trunk of a tree. Hard.

"No!" the girl cried. The boy struggled to his hands and knees, whimpering in pain. The monsters turned around so that their backs faced him before galloping off, the screaming and sobbing girl in their arms. He began to grow scared because somehow, he knew that if they left than he would never see that girl again.

"...iie" he moaned weakly, wanting to cry. "Matte...!"

"Link...!" the girl sobbed, then screamed as she reached out for him, her voice echoing in the night air. "Link!"

The monsters crashed through the woods and they all disappeared into the darkness of the trees. And then, everything was silent except for the loud roaring of flames as the stolen girl's home slowly burned to the ground, along with all of her belongings.

Another sound was heard though; a loud, pitiful scream of a baby and Link crawled over to the noise, holding the bundle close to him as he cried.

"Sou... Souta...!" he sniffed, curling into a little ball. "Souta!"

An eighteen-year-old boy shot up in his bed, panting, before placing a palm against his forehead and groaning. The dream had once again haunted another of his nights, giving him a restless slumber that made it seem as if he had never gotten a wink of sleep at all.

The girl in the dream had begun to fade from his memory long ago, and all he knew now were a few of her words. Her voice, name, appearance, everything was long forgotten, lost on the blades of time. The only thing he had that made him certain that she even existed was the boy sleeping on the bunk above him, now thirteen. Yes, thiteen years had passed since then... thirteen long, painful years.

Link remembered waiting for the girl to randomly appear for the first one or two years so that Souta wouldn't be alone, but she never appeared. She never came back, and neither did her family. A villager had told him that they had 'gone to a better place,' and when he realized that that meant they were dead, he gave up.

But as Link waited for the girl, the girl waited for a hero, a savior, a knight in shining armor to rescue her from the hell she had been imprisoned in. She needed an escape, whether by her own hands or another's and she would get her freedom no matter what the cost. She was desperate. Just as desperate as the Princess Zelda was for some sort of miraculous break-in.

The girl's heart dropped at the thought.

At least the princess was still remembered. The girl was an unknown female from a hardly known village. She was certain now that no one would come to save her and her eyes filled with tears. Why wouldn't she, though?

She had waited thirteen years.

She screamed with anguish into the everlasting twilight, the only thing that took pity on her as it soothingly whispered her name in response with a gentle breeze that should not have existed in the dungeon she was trapped in. It enveloped her in a gentle hug, bringing in the fresh air from the outside world in the process. The name it whispered continued to echo off the walls, filling the chamber with a soft chorus.

Kagome it repeated over and over again. Kagome...

To Be Continued...

This is the only time I'll have these words' definitions listed, mainly because I'm too lazy to type them over, and over, and over again, lol... I apologize if any of these definitions are off, I'm doing this by memory (also becase I'm too lazy to look them up... heh heh...)

(1) Aniki - older brother

(2) Okaa-san - mother

(3) Matte - wait/stop