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Yo people! This fanfic is based on the Swan Princess with a few perks. I apologize in advance for any misspellings and grammar errors. Now without further adieu, here it is:

Beauty? Is That It? – Chapter 1 (Inuyasha’s POV)

My name is Inuyasha. I am half mortal (human) and half demon, a hanyou. And because of that, I have ears that make me look like a dog, silver-white hair that stopped growing when it reached my lower back, fangs like my father, and claws that make me look like a girl with really long nails.

My father was a demon who fell in love with my mother, a human. Before then, my father was with another woman, a demon, and had a son named Sesshomaru who is my “brother”, more correctly “half-brother”.

My father was killed when I was little. He died slowly after he had slain a morbid enemy named Ryukotsusei, but thanks to my old man, our kingdom was able to rest easier. He was willing to die for his country; he was noble, one of the qualities I respected him for.

Right now, I am on one of the many balconies of my deceased father’s old castle, wondering if my beloved is all right. It has been almost six months since I last saw her, and all that time I have been training…to save her.

Using a sword is easy since I practically grew up with my Tessaiga, the sword that was made from one of my old man’s fangs. He gave it to my mother who in turn gave it to me when I was old enough to know that it wasn’t a toy.

Archery was never my thing, and it still isn’t. If Kagome was here, I would be having an easier time learning that skill and saving me the trouble of learning from my so-called brother, Sesshomaru. Unfortunately, she is the one who needs saving.

It was all my fault! If I had known what to say, she wouldn’t have left and gotten kidnapped on her way home and her father would still be alive. What a disaster!

It began 15 years ago when Kagome’s father from a kingdom across the sea that Kagome called Toh-kee-oh…which was a weird name. Anyways, his wife bore him a baby girl, a princess, and he named her “Kagome”.

When she was one year old, she was presented to my mother and to me at our kingdom. I was three years old at the time, and I didn’t care much about her then. My mother made me give her a necklace that held the Shikon jewel on it. It was an heirloom passed down to the women in my family from generation to generation. I didn’t know why she made me give it to her, but I did it anyway. I wasn’t willing at first, but her constant nagging was beginning to bug me and I wanted her to shut up.

When I saw Kagome, I thought she was kind of “cute”. I was in front of a crowd of important people which was embarrassing, thinking back on it. She got excited when I dangled the necklace over her. At that moment, an idea popped into my mother’s and Kagome’s father’s head. They planned to have us meet every year in the summer hoping for us to fall in love and marry. We would join the two kingdom into a powerful empire. I just thought it was fun torturing Kagome by holding the necklace just above her and not letting her grab it. I know it’s kind of mean, but, hey, I was three.

Little did I know that someone did not like that plan, and decided to do something about it. That person was a man named Onigumo.

His plans were thwarted when rumors spread of someone preparing to overthrow the Toh-kee-oh kingdom and destroy the arranged marriage of Kagome and me.

The king, Kagome’s father, attacked and imprisoned the person behind it. After a trial, he decided to banish Onigumo rather than execute him. Many of his advisors urged the king to reconsider his decision for they feared that the future of the kingdom would be in danger and for it was written in law that anyone who committed treason would be put to death. Kagome’s father would have none of their complaints. He insisted that he would not kill this man. He refused to explain himself to his advisors, but he pitied Onigumo and he was ashamed that he could not do anything more for him. My had-soon-to-be-father-in-law’s heart was too soft sometimes.

Onigumo saw the sympathy within his eyes and declared, “Watch out you bastard. One day everything you own and everyone you love will be mine!” And with that he ran off to who-knows-where.

People have said that he died because of his “old” age, and others have said that he died during one of his magic sessions and was swallowed in the flames. But after some time, people forgot about Onigumo and counted the days when Kagome and I…would have our first “getting-to-know-each-other” meeting.

TBC…

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