Author’s Note: I am a huge fan of both Aladdin and Inuyasha, so bear with me as I merge these two wonderful animations together with my own imagination. I’ve placed the characters from Inuyasha into a story line following that of Aladdin. I’m doing my best to preserve the wonderful Disney movie, but there will be quite a few differences in the way I bring the story about seeing as it has to also make sense with the characters from Inuyasha. If you are a fan of Disney and anime then this should be a wonderful story! Remember, reviewers are highly appreciated.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters used from the anime Inuyasha nor do I own the wonderful Disney movie Aladdin. Please, do not sue me; I am but a simple 16 year old with a love for both!

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Inuyasha: An Aladdin Analogy
A Diamond in the Rough

Stars plastered themselves over the sandy domes of the desert below, giving the atmosphere a chilly look as a dark figure pulled into site on a slumped over horse. The moon above glinted slightly, casting its glow down upon the figure, exposing a rather strange site. The being slid off of the animal and to much surprise, a white pelt covered his entire body while a mask of a baboon’s skull hid his face except for the small exposure of his mouth.

The silence of the solitude man was broken as another horse trotted to his side. Upon the saddle of the animal sat a dignified woman. Her black hair was plastered back into a messy bun, sporting a small white feather. The grim line of her lips clearly stated she wished to be else where, as did the small twinge of annoyance in her blood red eyes, but she stayed non-the-less. She was about to open her mouth, but was quickly interrupted as another horse joined the duo.

A small, pudgy man flung himself from his trusty steed and bowed before the creature before him, not completely knowing of what the being was.

The man before him spoke with such evil in his voice that it would cause any pure soul to cower away in darkness. “You’re late.”

“Forgive me mi’lord.” The dark haired man bowed before the baboon pelt, burying his face into the sandy dome. As he rose he continued to speak. “What you sought was not easy to find and I went through great trouble to recover it.”

The woman behind the two furrowedher brow at the lengthy conversation, not expecting her master to even be this friendly, though a normal human being wouldn’t consider the exchanged words exactly a conversation at all.

Sensing the woman’s annoyance, the man in the baboon pelt opened the white fur slightly, just enough to extend his left arm to retrieve a valued object. “Hand it over.”

The pudgy man slid his hand into the worn and torn shirt her wore, pulling forth an unusual object, which formed to be half of an odd looking beetle coated in gold with a small indention in the center of it. “Not so fast.” His voice became suddenly brave. “Where is my reward?” He too extended his hand, expecting a large amount of money to be placed in his greedy palm, but after a few moments looked up at the unusual man with confusion etched across his facial features.

Having waited long enough, the woman behind pulled forth a fan, clutching it tightly as if it were a valuable piece of gold. The object spread open, and with a flick of the wrist, a large gust of wind shot forth from it, sweeping the golden bug out of the thief’s hands and into the air, only for it to land gently in the palm of the man she had arrived with.

“Thank you, Kagura.” His compliment all but sounded grateful as he watched with amusement as the pudgy man looked on in horror at the woman’s ability.

She smirked inwardly, knowing fully well he had assumed she would do such things after growing impatient with the human. A silence fell over the trio before the man, who now possessed both sides of the unusual golden bug, slid the two pieces together. They fit perfectly and at first touch immidately lit up with a bright orange glow. Suddenly the beetle became whole and it’s wings once more taking flight as it fluttered about the three furiously before taking off towards the west, leaving a streak of gold behind as it’s only trail.

The man sporting the baboon pelt quickly slid back onto his horse. The animal roared up in fright at all the sudden commotion before the man’s heals dug deep into its ribs causing it take off in the same direction. “Quickly! Follow the trail!” Kagura was the first to take off after the man as the pudgy man followed close behind her.

The enchanted beetle reached a large dome of sand and as it was about to run straight into it, it quickly broke into two pieces again, circling the head once before slamming into the front of the dome. The earth beneath the three began to rumble, causing the horses to rare up, knocking all three riders to the ground and then fleeing in the opposite direction. Just as they did so, the large pile of sand rose up, taking on the eerie form of a jaguar, the two pieces of the beetle serving as its eyes.

Once the strange beast had settled down, its jaw dropped to the ground, exposing a large staircase into a well lit cave that seemed to be full of treasures.

Despite his position on the ground, the man who had caused the beetle to join together pulled himself up to his knees, watching in awe at the beast before him. “At last, after all my years of searching! The Cave of Wonders…” Before he knew what was happening, the pudgy man pulled up beside him staring at the same creature with just as much, if not more, wonderment. This caused the baboon to pull forth from his own gawking and snatch the man up by the collar of his shirt. “Now, remember, bring me the lamp!” He then inhaled deeply through his nose as he shook the man in his tight grip. “The rest of the treasure is yours, but the lamp is mine!” With that he pushed the thief forward.

The man regained his footing and quickly looked up at the sand jaguar that towered over his tiny form. He brought his hands up, rubbing his greedy palms together while looking forward with a sense of excitement in his eyes. Once he approached the structure, he found a set of stairs leading down towards the bottom. He began to climb over the lip of the beast when a large gust of wind from inside its mouth blew him backwards. The man took flight, rolling backwards in the sand a few times before coming to rest on his hands and knees. He looked on in horror as it began to speak.

“Who disturbs my slumber?” its voice coming out as solid as a rock.

When the man first began to speak, his voice cracked, but he soon began to regain composure. “It is I, Gazeem, a humble thief.” He once again buried his face in the sand, much like he had done so before his employer.

The structure began to speak again. With each deep breath it took and exhaled, the man before it was forced to grab hold of the sand. “Know this. Only one may enter here, one whose worth lies far within, the diamond in the rough!” Once it finished speaking, its mouth laid open yet again.

The thief before it stood and began approaching yet again, this time succeeding in climbing over the creature’s lip, all the while the two forms behind watching with great interest. He began his stride down the stairs, taking the first step over the small platform just as he entered. As he stepped down he huddled over, clenching his hands into white-knuckled fists, unsure of how the beast would react. Just as he was about to relax, the structure roared with all its might and the earth began to shake again. The pudgy man turned and stumbled to free himself from the beast’s mouth, but it was to no avail as the creature came crashing down, a great amount of sand pushing down on the man’s form, surely suffocating him.

As the two pieces to the golden beetle fell forth from the previous places on the jaguar’s face, the beast began to speak again as its voice faded off. “Seek me out, the diamond in the rough…”

The two figures left pulled themselves from the sand, the woman instinctively shaking her clothing free of the mineral as she walked seductively over, reaching down and retrieving the two separate pieces. “I don’t see why this is such a big deal.” her voice coming out in a steady hiss.

“Because, Kagura, without the lamp I will never be able to retrieve the Shikon No Tama.” He held out his hand, accepting the pieces as the woman dropped them into his palm without a second thought.

“Naraku, the only way is to find the one worthy to enter into the cave.” She paused a moment, feeling foolish for having stated the obvious, but watched the man before her with intent eyes.

A smirk formed upon the small part of his lips that were visible to the ones around him. “Then it seems we must find this ‘diamond in the rough’.”

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A loud and strong voice echoed through-out the local city as a young man slid to a skidding stop just before he plummeted over the edge of a rather high building. “Stop thief!”

His silver hair flew before his face as two canine ears twisted in the sound’s direction. His thin, but tone body sported a red jacket and pants made of rags with a simple white under shirt. Amber eyes gazed over the building, taking note of the height he would have to jump from. “All of this for a loaf of bread?” The same beautiful orbs glanced down at a stale loaf of bread resting in clawed hands, but before he had time to react a large group of men formed behind him.

Without thinking again the man leapt into the air, the wind causing his beautiful silver hair to billow out behind him, and after he jumped he realized his calculations were slightly off. Said man found himself falling through a number of clothes lines and landing in a basket of clean laundry. He poked his head out of the wicker basket, glancing up at the building he had just escaped from. Four men towered over the lip of the building, their hands out and claws bore. “You won’t get away so easy dog turd!”

The insult stung the young man on the ground, but he would never allow such things to show on his face and he quickly scurried to his feet. Three women to his right began chuckling, though the man wasn’t sure if it was at his unusual landing or the insult sent by the head palace guard. His thoughts were jerked away as the same voice began directing orders to his men, sending them in all directions.

The man stumbled towards said women, kicking off blankets and stray articles of clothing as he did so, but merely passed them by. His sensitive canine ears picked up on their conversation during his run.

“That Inuyasha is always getting himself into trouble.”

The elderly woman followed, her voice full of sorrow. “Yes, it’s a shame his parents died when he was so young.”

Their conversation was jerked from his hearing as a strong man snatched a hold of his red jacket, pulling him face to face with the thief. The head guard wore his slick black hair back in a tight pony tail high on top of his head and he, just like the rest of the palace guards, sported an unusual cloak of wolf fur tied around their waist with a tail emerging from the hind ends along with a plate of arm over their chest and shoulders. The same type of fur was tied securely around their shins and their forearms, giving them an appearance of a wolf, which was to be expected seeing as the Sultan had hired the wolf tribe on as their guards.

“Let me go flea bag!”

Before the wolf demon could respond, a rather small and odd looking boy leapt into the air. “Fox fire!” A blue flame emerged from his hand as he landed once again, this time on the young man clad in red’s shoulder. The boy’s fire read hair matched the same color of the odd and fluffy fox tail emerging from his rear end and he too wore rags with a blue ribbon in his hair.

Inuyasha sent the boy a fanged smile as he took off, now out of the palace guard’s grip. “Thanks Shippou.” The boy upon his shoulder puffed out his chest in pride as they once again fled from their enemy.

Each turn they took was blocked by another guard, but the clever thief was quick to avoid each of their attacks with great skill and agility all the while keeping his friend safe. The young man eventually found himself trapped in a corner with guards on both sides and making their way down a flight of stairs. He quickly sprinted up said stairs and dashed into a door. Before giving the guards time to think he leapt over the window sill and glided through the air until landing skillfully on the other side of a stone wall.

Once they landed, the silver haired man broke the piece of bread in two, handing the young boy a piece before munching into his own side. The silver ears atop his head twisted yet again only to find both friends looking up at two hungry children. The boy who had been called Shippou didn’t hesitate to hand over his share of the bread, which a young girl took happily and handed it to her younger brother.

Though the man’s brow furrowed with frustration, his heart won over in the end, and he too handed the children his share of the bread, though it was missing a small piece out of the middle, he knew from experience it didn’t matter if you were hungry enough.

Just as the children’s faces lit up, trumpets sounded from the main street, announcing that of royalty entering through the city. Shippou was the one to speak the obvious. “No doubt it’s another suitor for the princess.”

This caused a loud sigh from the elder man and the two wedged their way into the large crowd of gathered people only to watch a man clad in burgundy strut down the street on his proud white horse, each covered in a numerous amount of gold and jewels. The prince’s lip curled back and snarled at the people before him, but was quickly snapped to his senses when his horsed reared back at the site of the young boy spilling forth from the crowd, his sister following close behind in order to protect her brother. “Out of my way you filthy brats!” The prince pulled his hand back, cracking a whip down upon the orphan children.

As the two huddled towards each other, awaiting the blow, each flinched at the sound of whip meeting skin, but looked up in wonderment when they felt no pain, only to see the man clad in red standing before them with the whip wrapped securely around his right forearm. “Hey!” His rough voice fell from his lips causing the crowd to awe at the site. “Back off!”

The prince’s brow furrowed with disgust and quickly settled his steed before continuing on, pushing Inuyasha over and into the dirt. The silver haired man narrowed his eyes as he pushed himself out of the mud, flinging his arm to rid it of the filth. “Look at that Shippou.” The kitsune turned his face towards the prince awaiting for Inuyasha to finish. “It’s not every day you see a horse with two asses.”

The insult caused the royal man to bristle and he quickly stopped the animal beneath him just as he was about to enter into the castle. He turned his upper body quickly and narrowed his eyes at the boy. “Ha! You are a worthless hanyou! You were born a hanyou, you will die a hanyou, and only your fleas will morn you!” With that as his last statement, and leaving the crowd in a hush, the prince turned once again and entered into the palace gates.

Inuyasha struggled to his feet before bounding towards the gate, only for his white-knuckled fists to meet with the wood of the double doors. Surely he could break them down, but it would only cause for him to be beheaded, and that wasn’t exactly his ideal way to die. So putting what had happened to the back of his mind he turned on his heals and left for an abandoned alley way, Shippou fast on his heals.

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Author’s Note: So, what do you think? How is it coming so far? As you see I reversed the personalities of Abu and Aladdin since Shippou is clearly kinder than Inuyasha and don’t worry, there will be their normal bickering, but for now they just haven’t had time to fight. I also used Kouga as the palace guard because I’ll have him admire Kagome from afar which is practically like how he does in the series because she prefers to travel with the group. Well that’s it for now. Hope it’s turning out okay and remember, reviews aren’t necessary, but they are welcomed and urge me to continue on with my writings! Thanks!

Vocabulary:
Hanyou – A half demon and half human.
Kitsune – A young fox demon.
Youkai – A full demon.