A/n: This was written for me. I missed this. This was the first anime I ever watched and the first one I finished, but that's a story for another day, maybe I'll tell it to you guys sometime.

But for now this it. It is a series of related oneshots, all connected but there's no definite storyline. And no this is not AU. It will be updated whenever the urge strikes me and thats about it.

Just a summary: Just another addition to the many chronicles that has shaped Inuyasha's life, before Kagome there was Kikyou. Before Kikyou there was an adventure.

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In Life if you aren't in exactly the right place at the right time Destiny could throw you in a completely different direction than originally intended. You could change your entire future with one glance or pause and alter your fate forever.

There is a time and place where he was in exactly the right place at exactly the right time to begin an adventure that would stretch for over 500 years.

In the forever to come he would never know just how close he was to this life that he led being ripped away from him before it ever began, he would never be able to fathom just what he might of lost.

Because he isn't the type to dwell on such things or ask questions. He lives by the motto 'what happens, happens'.

So he will never know that Everything hinged on the whims of an eight year old girl playing pretend.

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Prisms

The Beginning

The morning was crisp and the smell of rain and the charge to the air remained as reminders of the storm that had passed the night before. A young girl, excited to be going back to school in a few days bounced around the shrine's courtyard barefoot, her toes sliding across the cold wet grass and squelching mud between her toes. She spun and ran and pretended that she was a Ranger from her favorite television show, combating evil and kicking butt.

She zoomed around in wide circles, arms spread like wings pretending that she had the power to fly.

Finally she came to the doors of the old well house where she heard something coming from inside. It wasn't exactly a sound more than a lack thereof. A charge not felt outdoors, a sort of pulsing warmth that drew her curious young mind to the old structure.

She slid the wood aside and peered through the darkness, and then suddenly she didn't have to. Through the gaps in the wood a pale blue glow radiated between the cracks, shining beams of light that refused to be kept in containment.

The child, mesmerized by the sight, let her curiosity take over and scurried up to the well and peered inside.

Unfortunately she was too short and had to leap up to lay her stomach against the lip of the wooden well to see inside. At the very bottom was the source of the light. She leaned forward to peer deeper and deeper down into the darkness, if she could just get a clear look…

Then suddenly she was weightless and falling forward.

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The young hero of our story- a hanyou who bears the name of the legendary lord of the western lands Inutaisho -the boy Inuyasha, collapsed under the protective shade of the tallest tree in the forest. Though he was a little over a hundred years old, his body remained in the early throes of pubescence and required more food than was normal for him. This was sustenance that he was unable to procure in such hard times.

For the first time in what felt like forever he allowed himself to succumb to the exhaustion and fall into sleep. He would be in dire need of food and water when he awoke but slumber was his immediate priority.

When he awoke it was to the sound of crunching. His eyes flicked open, his body feeling far too heavy to do much else.

There, sharing the shade of his tree was a little girl. She wore similar pants to his own and a loose white peasant's shirt; her feet were bare. She blinked up at him through sky colored eyes as she munched on a bloody red apple, juices dribbling down her chin.

They simply stared at each other for a few moments before the girl spoke. "Are you okay mister?"

It occurred to the young demon offspring how haggard he must appear but was the quickly overshadowed with curiosity as to why she wasn't afraid. He was, after all, a demon.

He didn't say anything.

Blinking in confusion she held out a tiny hand, in it was magical looking bottle with clear liquid on the inside. "Here," she handed it to him. "It's water." He drank it greedily.

The girl then dug around in the pocket of her black hakama-like pants and procured yet another red apple. "Mama said this was a snack for later, but you can have it."

Unable to push past the hoarseness of his long unused voice he nodded his thanks and ate it as quickly as he could.

"What's yer name kid?" he asked her.

"I'm Kagome!" she grinned when he spoke to her.

"Well Kagome, shouldn't you be home with your Mama? Didn't anyone ever tell you that these woods are dangerous?" he asked gruffly. 'That I'm dangerous?'

"Well, I don't really know where I am. I just sort of appeared here." She waved her arms around to illustrate her point. "Like magic!"

"Sure kid." He shook his head disbelieving.

"And if it's so dangerous, then why are you here?"

He ruffled her hair as he mustered the strength to stand. "I'm not so welcome in the villages. I don't really have much of a choice, besides," he shot her a raucous smirk when he realized her height only reached to his elbow. "I can take care of myself."

As if on cue the forest floor shook with tremors and the crashing of trees barked through the air. An enormous bear youkai crashed into the clearing and gave a roar. Out of some long-burried instinct he pushed the little girl behind him and brandished his claws- the paws that marked him as what he was, the parts of him he couldn't hide.

As if he were a fly the bear swatted him out of the way with his massive paw. Flat on his back the demon towered over him, roaring in unexplainable, instinctual fury that the youkai race was tainted in him.

The bears claw was about to come down once again in a killing blow when suddenly the little girl- Kagome, he had to remind himself –leapt in front of him and covered her head with her arms, palms out as if trying to block the attack.

Inuyasha had never been more scared than in that moment.

But suddenly the world is colored pink as light shines from her hands and burns the demon attacker who screams in horror, shock and pain. Every surface of it the light touches slowly disintegrates.

Slowly, hesitantly, Kagome moved her arms away from her head and looked around in confusion. Her eyes soon fell on him. "Are you okay?"

He sputtered, "Am I-I okay!?" he gripped her skinny little shoulders, "You stupid little human, you just jumped in front of a demon!"

"It was gonna eat you though!" he sighed and stood, ruffling her hair.

"It was not gonna eat me." He deadpanned with a twitch of his eyebrows.

And the brat had the nerve to raise her eyebrow in a sort of mocking way, as if to say 'uh huh, suuuuure.'

"So what's your name?"

"Inuyasha."

She grinned a thousand watt smile.

And he realized something, "You're a miko…" at her look of confusion he shook his head, "I've been lookin for one of you for a really long time kid."

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A/N: Confused? So am I. Let's just go with it for now.

All will be explained (ominous much?)

~Sier(Rawr)