***Author's note: hey guys, this is my new story, and I hope you like it, and yeah, I know I shouldn't be starting anything new that has chapters, since I'm barely updating every other week in my other ones. But this just came to me. And I'm dedicating this chapter to Drama Kagome, one of my best friends, for helping me maintain the little dot of sanity I have left. I owe her big time from keeping me from going into my depressed state, and breaking down completely. I wouldn't have anything typed at all in any of my chapters if it wasn't for her.
FYI: I don't own Inuyasha, but my characters I do own.
Chapter 1
Kagome woke up on Saturday. It was Christmas break for school, and Christmas was the next week. But today was an important day too. Her mother agreed to foster a seventeen year old boy, Inuyasha Takudo.
His brother was his only living relative, but he wouldn't take care of him. They both got into some trouble after their father, and Inuyasha's mother died. She was close to both of them, and they couldn't handle it. Inuyasha's been bounced around to different foster homes since he was ten. He stayed with Sesshomaru two years after her death, but they kept getting in trouble for fighting.
Kagome felt bad for them. She couldn't imagine what she'd do if she lost her mother. She sighed.
Inuyasha was supposed to be at the house at twelve, and it was ten now. She had to get up and help her family set up the room for him.
So she got up, took a shower, and ate breakfast, then found the others in the room, already making the bed and putting together the dresser they just bought. She went over to the box that held the parts for a desk, took them out and started to put it together.
At noon, they were finished, and they heard a car pull up.
"He's here!" Shippo said.
Sota and him ran down the stairs and looked out the window. The rest of the family walked down the stairs, and heard the knock on the door.
Mrs. Higurashi opened the door, and behind it stood a man with brown hair and dark blue eyes, standing next to a boy with long silver hair with white dog ears, and golden eyes.
"Hello, Mrs. Higurashi," the man said. "I'm the social service agent, Mr. Akane. I just need you to sigh these papers, and I'll be off," he explained to her.
Mrs. Higurashi nodded and lead him to the kitchen, with Grandpa following her.
The boy Kagome assumed was Inuyasha walked into the house. Kagome couldn't help but stare at him, she thought he looked so beautiful. She's never seen anyone who looked like him before.
His gaze suddenly locked on hers, and he scowled. "You got something to say to me?" he demanded. "'Cause you staring at me is ticking me off."
Kagome shook her head. His words just canceled out any good thoughts she had about him. "I'm Kagome," she told him. She saw Sota and Shippo tailing behind him, and smiled. "The dark haired boy is Sota, and the red haired fox demon is Shippo."
"Heh," he said. He waited to see Mr. Akane leave, then asked where his room was.
Kagome sighed. "I'll show you," she told him. She started up the stairs and he followed with his bag. She stopped outside the door.
"This is it. Get unpacked then come back down. My mom will probably want to talk to you."
"Fine," he said. He opened the door and closed it as soon as he got inside the room.
Kagome glared at the door and then stomped down the stairs. She could tell she wasn't going to like him one bit.
Inuyasha set his bag on the bed and looked around the room. It was the same thing all the time. They'd get sick of him, tired of him always getting into trouble, and he'd be moved again. All of the families were the same, except this one was a little different. It was the first human family that had a demon as a family member in it, along with a shrine of sacred things. But they all acted the same.
And the girl Kagome. She looked like Kikyo, who was dead. Murdered. She'd be the same age as him. Kagome looked maybe fifteen. The same age Kikyo died.
Inuyasha unpacked his bag, and shoved the empty bag under the bed. He took his jacket off.
Then he went downstairs.
Mrs. Higurashi told him about the rules of the house, and that they all do some work at the shrine. The curfew was eleven, no girls up in his room.
Inuyasha nodded the whole time, not really caring what she said. He then went to help the Grandpa in the storage room. Kagome was there too.
He ignored her most of the time, but he could feel her staring at him. She'd glance at him, mostly glaring. She didn't like him. He didn't care. She was a stupid little girl. She didn't know the world wasn't perfect out of her own little world. She never had anything bad happen to her. She was small and helpless and weak.
He told himself he hated her.
Kagome had to help Inuyasha put things away and clean them, as told by her grandfather, and she sighed.
As they cleaned, it was an uncomfortable silence, and Kagome couldn't stand it.
"So how are you liking it here so far?" she asked. She wasn't looking at him, but she was looking at the item in her hands.
"Heh," he said. "It's the same as the others."
"Oh," she said. "Did you hate them?"
"I didn't care enough to," he told her. He didn't know why he was telling her this.
"Oh," she said. "Well, I think you'll like it here." She honestly hoped he did, because she still felt sorry for him.
"Heh, I'm not gonna care enough, stupid," he snapped. "It's gonna be like the last ones."
"I'm not stupid!" she yelled at him. She put down her item and stormed off.
Inuyasha looked after her with a glare. He hated her and her questions. He hated her eyes and her smell and her hair. He hated everything about her and her perfect little self. She didn't know what the real world was like, how cruel it could be. He hated her.
Kagome slammed the door to her room. She already thought he was so infuriating. He called her stupid, he was rude and mean. She couldn't stand him already, and he wasn't even here for a day!
She sighed and sat down on her bed. She looked outside at the snow covered grass, and thought it was going to be a long vacation. She stood up and then decided to go help her mother cook dinner.
After the very uncomfortable dinner, with her mother and grandfather questioning Inuyasha about his personal life, it was over, and Kagome started getting her shoes on and jacket, to meet up with her friends, Sango, Miroku, Amaterasu, and Jurou. Jurou and Miroku were Inuyasha's age, and her mother suggested she took Inuyasha with her to meet them, so he would know someone when he went to school.
Kagome agreed, even though she didn't want to, but again, she felt bad for him. He was going to a new school, a new family. It must have been hard.
He glared at her, and she tried to smiled back, finding it almost easy to do so. He glared more and pulled on his jacket and shoes.
Kagome waited for him, and walked with him to the little café where she was meeting her friends. On the way, it was quiet, until Kagome got the feeling that Inuyasha hated her. Really hated her.
"Why do you hate me so much?" she asked. She didn't look at him, and just kept her gaze on the sidewalk before her.
Inuyasha looked at the tiny girl next to him, and glared. He didn't think she'd notice. "Heh."
Kagome turned on him again glared. "I haven't even done anything to you in the last five hours you were here!" she yelled. "I was only being nice."
"Heh," he said again, only making the girl next to him fume even more. "You're such a perfect little stupid girl, who's never been hurt. You wouldn't understand."
Kagome's hands balled into fists. "Really? Do you know where my father is?" she demanded.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Off on business I guess."
Kagome stopped walking. "He's dead, stupid! I'm not perfect, I've been hurt, and I'm not a stupid little girl!" she yelled, glaring at him, hands still balled in fists.
Inuyasha looked down at her, and felt a little afraid. The only person he saw get made like that was his own mother, and frankly, that scared the hell out of him. He almost had the urge to step back, but he held his ground.
"You are a stupid little girl!" he growled. "You act perfect, you act like nothing's ever wrong, but the world's not like that!"
She stepped back, almost hurt. "It doesn't have to be," she said, and tears formed in her eyes. "Everything doesn't always go wrong." Tears fell down her face.
Inuyasha looked at her in horror. Then he covered it up with anger. "Why are you crying?" he demanded.
She glared at him. "Because I'm angry!" She stormed forward, ready to just leave him standing there and find his own way back to the shrine.
He hurried and caught up with her though, and they walked along in silence again. Inuyasha watched her from the corner of his eye, and saw that she wasn't crying anymore. She was just walking along.
When they got to the café, she greeted two girls, one with black hair and midnight blue eyes, and the other with brown hair and brown eyes, with hugs, and then the two boys his age the same. Both boys had black hair, only one had dark blue eyes, and the other had dark gray eyes.
The tiny girl turned back to him with a smile. She waved him over. Then he realized there was one difference between Kikyo and this girl. This girl couldn't hate, no matter how much he fought with her. She forgave everyone.
She was pure.
Inuyasha walked over silently, and stared at her friends.
"Inuyasha," she said. "This is Jurou and Miroku." She gestured to each one as she said their name. The gray eyed one was Jurou and the dark blue eyed boy was Miroku. "They're in your grade, so they might be in some of your classes." She then pointed to the black haired girl. "That's Amaterasu. She's Jurou's mate, and they're both wind demons."
Inuyasha nodded. He knew they were demons from their scents, and mated.
She pointed to the brown haired girl. "This is Sango, and she's a demon hunter."
He nodded again. She smiled at him.
The girl looked away and to her friends. "So what have you guys been up to during the break so far?"
Amaterasu smiled. "Dates, hanging out with Chiyo, the normal stuff we do. Especially pissing off Mayonaka." She smiled wider. "We were thinking that maybe we can all go to the pond for ice skating during the week. You can bring Inuyasha too if you want Kagome."
Kagome nodded. "I think I will. Get him use to you guys before school starts." She smiled.
"I've been babysitting all week," Sango stated. "My dad had work, and I had to watch Kohaku." She smiled. "It'd be fun to get out and hang with you guys."
Miroku smiled. "Yes, it would," he stated, and his hand travel down to Sango's butt.
Sango immediately turned and slapped him. "We haven't even been here for five minutes and already you're at it!" she yelled at him. "Why can't you give it a rest for the holidays?"
Inuyasha looked between those two, a little confused, he didn't know if they were dating or not, but it seemed the girl Sango was use to it. Then he looked around at everyone else, who were shaking there heads.
"Damn lecher," he muttered. He wouldn't even grab his girlfriend's ass. It was just too far.
Kagome sighed. "Why don't you come over here Sango? He can't grope us from over here."
Us? Inuyasha was so confused. It seemed that Miroku groped all the girls, and wasn't going out with Sango after all. He felt a little mad that he touched the pure little girl at his side.
Sango stood next to Kagome. She glared at the boy across from her rubbing his red cheek with a foolish smile.
So Inuyasha listened to the girl and her friends make plans to go ice skating in three days, and he was invited.
They walked back to the shrine before dark, and on the way, Inuyasha watched the girl closely from the corner of his eye again. He couldn't justify the anger he felt just thinking about the guy Miroku groping her, but he felt that it was only because his mother taught him to respect girls and women. He pushed it out of his mind.
He heard something like a tank coming at them, he smelt the fumes too, and it was coming fast. But it was only heading straight to Kagome when he saw it.
He looked at her in horror, seeing her terrified face put him into motion. Just as the tank was about to run her over, he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her out of the way.
He made sure they were a safe distance away to finally drop his hands away from her waist, but then he heard it again, and then he heard the click of guns and bombs. He saw it again, and saw that it had a face on it, one mechanical green eye, and one normal black one, and red hair.
He grabbed her around the waist again, and then set her down before finding a long metal rod. He shoved the long metal rod underneath the face, and made sure it went through the whole body of the tank. With the speed the human tank was going at, it was easy for him.
It stopped moving and he looked at it as Kagome examined it too. She didn't get too close though. She then looked at him in disbelief, then back to the tank.
"What is it?" she asked.
He shrugged. "I don't know, and I don't care. Come on Kagome, let 's get out of here before another one comes."
She froze, then smiled at him. He'd said her name for the first time.
"What?" he snapped.
Kagome smiled wider. "You used my name this time." She walked over next to him, a little bit more closer to the machine.
"Heh," he said. "It's your name. Don't take it personal." He actually wondered about that too. He couldn't remember when she went from the girl to Kagome.
She smiled even wider, and followed him when he started walking, leaving the human tank on the sidewalk.
Inuyasha just left it there, not thinking of the effects it would have later, because the tank obviously wanted Kagome, and not even realizing what he just did.
***Author's note: hey guys, I hope you like it, and I know I need to post in my other chapters! Don't worry! Homework is sort of dulling down, and I didn't have eight hours of homework today! Thanks for reading and please review!