His Instinct, Her Heart by Sesshos_Only

Prologue

Prologue

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My grandfather, Kami rest his soul, once told me that in life our trials will lead to triumph and that what causes our hearts to ache will fill us with gladness. To seek true happiness in life, he said to me one day under the Goshinboku, all living beings should proceed with error, ignorance, and most of all imperfection. In order to reach the light, we must first pass through the darkness, because there cannot exist one without the other... such is the way of the world and the way of life.

I was ten years old at the time he said this to me, but comprehension didn't follow until nearly thirteen years later. But for some reason I always remembered his wise words and they became my mantra as I passed through the seemingly never-ending dark.

As a young girl I despised the normal. I hated having to attend school and the constant pressures and expectations that accompanied it. As I grew older I found myself bored with my mundane routine filled life and fantasized something extraordinary happening. The boys at school, when I was old enough to begin to show interest in the opposite sex, were shy and mostly timid when it came to girls. They had no idea what they wanted, no direction, no ambition. I knew what I wanted, and it certainly wasn't any of them or the boring life I was living. I felt as if I were destined for something much greater, for a higher purpose. These feelings and fantasies puzzled me. The purpose of my existence became an enigma to me.

The kamis must have heard my plea, or perhaps it was just fated to happen... but on my fifteenth birthday everything changed and I was dragged down the old, rotted well on my family shrine's property and thrust into a world five hundred years in the past.

I met Inuyasha, the love of my mortal life, and others and we quested for years all over Japan in search of the infamous shikon no kakera, the shards of the jewel of four souls.

I had then what I had only dreamt and fantasized about for the fifteen years before then. Excitement, danger, love... an end to the tedious conundrum that was my life in modern Japan.

But then, in my seventeenth year, as the shikon jewel was nearing completion strange things began to happen. A series of events occurred that would ultimately change my life forever. The sequence of events occurred over a long period of time and I thought nothing of their significance then, but understand the gravity of each now.

Allow me to tell you my story... the story of my youth and of my life. It is no story that will be romanticized to save any of you anguish. It will be told with complete honesty because it is a story meant to disturb you. My story is meant to enlighten you. It is meant to illustrate the complexities of a mating between a human and youkai and the reasons why such a union hardly ever occurs. Take heed, my friends, for perfect endings are made for perfect beings, which only ever live in myth.

AN: Welcome my friends! I thought I'd introduce myself as I am new to A Single Spark. My username states that I am Sesshos_Only, but you may call me Ally. I am a senior in college in the United States and have been writing since I was 13 (my goodness, I'm getting old!). I don't pretend to be fantastic at creative writing; all of my works are indefinitely in progress. I mainly write short stories, but every so often I get the urge to write something a little more substantial. When these urges hit I tend to post said writings online. I absolutely love feedback, suggestions, and even criticism. But I do ask that any criticism given is done tastefully and suggestions are given. For example, if you decide you didn't like a certain scene then that's okay! Let me know why and give me a suggestion as to how you would have written it differently.

About this story:

I can't say how long this story will end up being or how often I plan to post new chapters. I am a full time student in one of the most prestigious state schools in the Northeast, I have a full time internship, and a part time job. My grandparents' health is fading and I honestly do not expect both to be alive and/or well by the year's end. BUT- I already have the first nine chapters planned out... it will be just a matter of sitting down and typing.

This story is rated NC-17. There will be at least one tastefully written lemon and most likely sexual reference throughout the story. The genre will be a mix of angst (more so in the first half of the story), action/adventure, and romance.

The first four chapters, not including the prologue, will be on the shorter side as they are the series of events mentioned above. Afterwards the chapters will become longer.

Please, feel free to ask questions, leave comments, etc. If this story receives enough feedback I will consider setting up a mailing list notifying those interested when new chapters are posted.