Author's Note: If you're a returning reader, I went back and edited/added to/and rewrote the whole story. The main plot is the same, but nearly every little grammatical/spelling mistake has been fixed, as well as plot holes that used to conflict with things in earlier chapters. The entire story has morphed, particularly the key plot chapters. However, I would highly recommend re-reading it from here, since a lot of things have changed. Plus, it's been a while, so I'm pretty sure many of you will be confused in future chapters if you don't. There's also a video trailer for it now, so feel free to watch it. Also, the original version of this story was written by a writer named Kaena Blaise. It's called Tears Left Uncried.

You should definitely go check it out.

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Tears Left Uncried: An Inuyasha Story

Written by Aaron Ledgers
Dedicated to Julie Iverson

Original story by Kaena Blaise

PART ONE: THE PRICE OF HATRED

"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
And thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
—Thomas Jefferson—

Prologue: The Girl Who Never Cried

There is something that I want to tell you all today... something important.

In fact, it's so urgent that my hands sweat even as I write this down in anticipation.

My heart is racing... my ears are burning... and my mouth is trembling.The important thing I mentioned is behind my behavior, as well.

Do you want to know what it is?

Well, it's simple, really: everyone knows the story of 'the boy who cried wolf'.

I mean, if you look at it from my point of view, it seems kind of ridiculous that an old fairy tale could be remembered for hundreds of years when things that have happened much more recently can be forgotten within a few months. For those of you extremely few and rare people who have absolutely no idea what story I'm talking about, allow me to explain the theme: 'the boy who cried wolf' is about a kid from the middle ages who discovers that he can get a kick out of freaking people out through lying about a wolf.

However, when a real wolf actually shows up, nobody believes him.

He's eaten alive in some renditions of the child's story; he ends up learning from his mistake in others.

However, what if that particular tale had been a little different?

What if it had been about a girl?

You see… there is another, much more recent story that everyone seems to have forgotten: it's about an Irish albino girl who became orphaned in Japan and was savagely abused because of her differences. However, no matter what was being done to her, that girl never cried or shed a single tear despite the pain she was enduring.

In fact... not even once, in her entire life, did this girl cry: it could have been that she didn't know how, or it could have been that she fought against the urge to unleash her emotional pain, but in the end... she never once shed her tears. Whenever someone hurt her, she merely looked at them until they left her alone; whenever someone hit her, she merely rubbed the bruised spot on her body and silently continued on her way.

"I am ugly on the outside," she would murmur gently, "and you are ugly on the inside: I am content to be a disgusting creature in body because my soul is infinitely kinder than yours will ever be. I am satisfied to be ugly if it means I can love people, so if ugly is what I am, wonderful: you will never break me."

After that, she would either walk away or allow herself to be beaten up: the albino never fought back or raised her fist against another person because she was terrified of the consequences that would befall her. However, nobody who mattered knew that she was suffering greatly inside… or even that an unexplainable pain was crushing her. Nobody knew that she was actually starting to break under the torment and abuse she was being put through. Nobody knew that her mask was slowly beginning to collapse… or even that her non-existent tears had actually been there all along.

Nobody knew anything at all about her hidden pain.

You've all heard the story of the boy who cried wolf... but now it's time to remember the girl who never cried at all.

This is her story, so let me go back to the beginning and explain it.

Foreigner… Outcast… and Freak: these are the three names that Miharu Tachibana was called before she disappeared.

Even though she had become a legal citizen of Japan at the age of ten and had even gotten her birth name changed, the pale albino girl had slowly come to loath her existence: she had started hating herself because she wasn't able to fit in due to her overly striking appearance. Over a span of many years, Miharu Tachibana became extremely quiet and refused to socialize with people because of how much they would harass her.

In fact, around the time of her vanishing, the girl tried to avoid even being seen by the public eye if she could help it. However, even though she did her best to stay out of the spotlight, people targeted her because she stood out.

She had been perpetually branded as an outcast because of her unusual eyes and hair.

If her classmates wanted to become popular, they used her as a target for dares to gain acceptance from their peers: they tossed her books in the trash for no reason, harassed her when nobody was looking, slapped her around since the teachers wouldn't really try to stop them—and once, people actually went too far and almost killed her.

Rue hated all of it: she hated the people who hurt her everyday, she hated the adults who knew what was going on and still turned a blind eye, and she hated being loathed by everyone around her for something that she couldn't control... but most of all, she hated herself for being weak.

At an early age, Rue had bought multiple diaries to write in so she could get her feelings out: she'd needed some way to prevent herself from snapping under the pressure of keeping her emotions bottled up.

As mentioned before, she wasn't capable of crying.

In fact, the girl refused to show any emotion at all in front of her tormentors: she'd trained herself to keep her face perpetually blank.

On the afternoon that she disappeared, Rue and her classmates had been on a field trip to a place called the Higurashi Shrine. People remembered seeing the small albino girl dazedly walking off towards the tree-line with her backpack on her shoulder—but later on, when someone realized that she wasn't with the group, the teacher sent three of her classmates to go find her.

Upon following her path and moving into the woods, the three girls who'd been sent to look for Rue found her backpack lying open in front of an enormous tree—with all of her schoolbooks and diaries scattered everywhere. It looked as though the pack had been ripped out of her hands.

After conversing about it, the three girls got a nasty idea to read Rue's diaries: that way they could use her own thoughts to blackmail her into doing what they wanted.

However, when they sat down and read the first few pages of her diary, they were unconsciously drawn into Rue's tormented mind. As they read, the girls found themselves slowly being riveted with shock: all of the horrifying experiences that the girl had ever been put through came to life through her written words.

Abuse after abuse was relived, and there were even things that nobody had realized was going on outside of her school life... horrible things, such as the fact that the pale girl had been struggling with receiving a death threat that had been directed at her mother.

Sadly, the one thing that became apparent was this: everyone around her, classmate and not, had never been there for her.

After realizing just how much agony the doll-like girl's heart was in, the three Japanese girls felt mortified by their actions: Rue had been a balm for dares, taunting, anger, teasing, violence, and harassment for so long that everyone had pretty much forgotten that she was a human being just like them.

All three girls decided to apologize and befriend her the moment they realized just how badly everyone had messed up, but unfortunately... they'd already lost the chance.

Rue, you see, was nowhere to be found.

When the girls returned to their class and a rumor spread that Miharu Tachibana had disappeared, the teacher called the police and a frantic search began.

Days slowly began to pass with no sign of the frail albino girl, and several people slowly started to grow more anxious and worried.

However, nearly three days after her disappearance, the small girl's face was put in the newspaper—along with full copies of her diary entries—and people all over Japan were publicly stunned by all of the abuse she'd been put through.

Police officers and detectives searched all over southern Japan for the missing teen, but nobody had any luck in finding her.

They searched for months with no result... and a year later, the authorities finally gave up on her and declared the girl either dead or overseas.

Everyone was crushed—because nobody would ever get the chance to apologize for what they'd done. Miharu Tachibana—a small, tormented fifteen-year-old girl with peculiar golden eyes—had left behind only the haunting pages of her diaries and the footprints of her pain in the heart of Japan.However, unknown to any of the people who'd hurt her, the girl wasn't dead or even missing: she had disappeared more than five hundred years into the past.

And this, my friends, is where an amazing story begins.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or anything that was originally within Kaena's story. All other story situations and original character concepts belong to me.