Okay now, first, before we get to the story, I have a few words. First, this story is pretty long, and I have ot finished on my computer, in my native language finnish. Translating isn't easy, and even though my english grades have always been A at school, I make grammar mistakes and there might be words that don't fit there or mean something else what I meant. So please, do correct my errors.
Because this chapter is just the prologue, it is a bit short. But the following chapters will be longer, don't worry!
And then, please review. If no-one reviews this, I wont carry on translating. By reviewing you show me that somebody even bothers to read this.
All right, now to the story. Enjoy, review, make me happy! :)

The Guardian Dog

1 - Prologue

It's not been a long time... A month, maybe? Anyway, it feels like it's been forever...
It was just a normal day. Normal for me, pure fantasy book for other people. No one would ever believe me, if I told them that the old, dried well in our home yard can lead me 500 years back in time. And there I went, to the Feudal Japan, right after my school was over. I had been waited for. They told me Inuyasha had been cursing for hours since I was a bit late. He wanted to hurry to collect the shards of the Shikon jewel, so we all got on our way. We, meaning me, Kagome, the demon slayer Sango, the monk Miroku, Shippo the kitsune and Inuyasha the dog hanyou. We got into a fight with a demon, which wasn't anything new to us... But this demon was all different. It was huge, and we were having a hard time to kill it...

"Kaze no..." Inuyasha lift his huge sword from the ground, swinged it, but put it back to it's sheath right away after noticing the demon had turned towards Kagome.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted in shock and rushed to the girl, taking her on his back, running to the forest. He knew the demon would, and did come after them. The hanyou ran faster than ever. Suddenly he stopped and let Kagome off his back. He could hear the demon getting closer. He pushed the girl to a bush. The girl screamed a bit, but knew the hanyou didn't mean any harm - vice versa.
"Kagome, you stay here and be quiet, so it won't find you. I promise", Inuyasha told Kagome, holding his hands in his owns. They were stained with dirt and blood, and their sharp claws dug into Kagome's hands, but the girl didn't take them back. She nodded and examined Inuyasha's face. He seemed to be scared and in pain. Did he really care so much about her?"
"Whatever happens, Kagome, you won't move, you won't let out a sound, got it?" Inuyasha demanded, and the girl nodded. Inuyasha felt the ground shake under his feet. The demon was close. Now he had not a second to lose. The dog boyleft Kagome in her bush and ran off to face the demon.

As the demon arrived right in front of Inuyasha, the boy jumped towards it and scratched it with his claws.
"Sankontesso!" he shouted as he attacked. But the demon was like nothing had happnened. It didn't mind the wounds it had had from Inuyasha's claws. And no matter how many times Inuyasha struck it, nothing helped.
'Damn, what is it's weak spot...? It must not find Kagome...' Inuyasha started running a small path throuhg the forest. The demon came after him, and Inuyasha kept on running. 'I've got lead it away from here... Far away...'

For a long time Inuyasha ran the path. Finally he stopped on a meadow, which was far enough from Kagome. Now he could finish the demon! Or that was how he wished.
The demon slashed Inuyasha with it's claws, but missed. Inuyasha was as fast as an arrow, but couldn't avoind attacks forever. After a few dozen slashes the demon finally struck Inuyasha. It's huge claws slashed Inuyasha from his left eye all way to his chest, cutting his eye, cheek, throat and chest open like paper.

Kagome was still hiding in the bush. She heard a bloodgurdling shout from somewhere far away. She started crying. But she had promised Inuyasha. She wouldn't move nor let out a sound.
'Inuyasha...' Kagome almost looked out from the bush, but suddenly decided she wouldn't want to see this. She had no idea how far Inuyasha had gone.

Inuyasha was thrown against a tree and collapsed on it's roots breathing heavily. After laying there he got up shaking, leaning against the tree.
'I... can't give up now... Kagome...' Inuyasha thought. His throat had been torn apart, and every breath he took made it scatter blood. His left eye was blind, he couldn't see anything with it. But as long as he could move, and see with one eye, he could fight. But now it was unclear was Inuyasha fighting for Kagome's safety or from his own life.
In spite of horrible pain Inuyasha reached his hands towards his sword, pulling it out from it's sheath. It transformed from the old, rusty katana into a huge blade in a blink of an eye.
'Kaze no ki...' Inuyasha flinched. He tried to say it out loud. He said it! He did! But no wound was heard. No matter how hard he tried to scream, no. Nothing. Inuyasha put his sword back to it's sheath and gulped.
'Keh. If this is how it ends...' Inuyasha started to run towards the demon his claws ready to attack. '...I won't die for nothing!'

The sun sat, the sky was filling from black clouds and it started to rain. Kagome was still in her bush, crying. She knew nothing about what had happened to Inuyasha, or was he still fighting, but something inside her told her that everything wasn't okay.
"Kagome-sama!" Miroku was calling out from somewhere. Kagome awoke and opened her eyes. She saw a light nearby. Kagome got up came out ot the bush.
"There she is!" shouted Sango, who was walking with Miroku and Shippo. They were soaked and there were blood stains in their clothes, but they seemed unhamed.
"Kagome!" the little kitsune Shippo cried out.
"Are you okay?"
"Where is Inuyasha?"
"I-I don't know..." Kagome stammered. "He wen't after the big demon and hasn't returned yet..."
"He will", Sango said calm and laid her hand on Kagome's shoulder. "Don't worry."

Far from them Inuyasha was laying on muddy road. The demon had knocked him out, so he was now unconcious, and had been for a while. He was bleeding, and his blood was mixed with the water and mud on the ground. It was a miracle that he was alive. He hadn't finished the demon, but the demon hadn't killed him, just left him unconcous, probably thinking he was dead. But Inuyasha wouldn't die this easy. He would make it.

The rain got heavy. Inuyasha hadn't moved an inch, nor waken up. But slowly he was getting back concious. First everything was black, but finally he could see again with his right eye. He didn't even try to get up, since he knew he couldn't do it.
'What the hell has happened...? And where am I?' Inuyasha wondered. His head was empty. His memories were gone, and he had no idea what had happened, or what day it was. He did remember his name was Inuyasha. But if someone would ask him, who is Naraku, he would just shrug. He had lost his memory, but of course couldn't know it himself.
'And why am I in this condition?' the hanyou asked himself, but fainted again, because he had lost too much blood.

The next time Inuyasha woke up was when his instincs started to warn him from danger. There were three people standing around him, talking. Inuyasha couldn't see who they were, so just laid still like he would be dead.
"It clearly is a hanyou, but eeven more clearly about to die", one man said. "Should we really...?"
"Of course. It will make it. And if not, we wont lose anything."
"Shall we take it? What if it already has it's master?"
"Minor point. Take it with us."
'What...?' Inuyasha thought as he felt someone carrying him away. Whoever it was, Inuyasha didn't care. He was sue he would die soon. Things couldn't get any worse, so whatever.

After he left me into the bush, I haven't seen him. But I promise myself and him that I wil find him. I won't rest before I find him. I don't care about my studies. His life is more important. I will stay here, in Feudal era, and find him. Even if it takes a year or many of them, I will find him.