hello fanfiction. please be aware that this story is NOT going to be regularly updated but will be used to get rid of my writters block. whenever i'm stuck on a chapter for my story(ies) i will write up another chapter for this story to help me get past it. WARNING: THIS STORY IS NOT A PRIORITY. if you don't like dont read. also, this story has no set relationship match up thing. so in time, when the story finds itself comming along nicely, I'll ask anyone reading just to give me their opinion on who Kagome should end up with. each chapter will introduce a new character Kagome could eventually go with, so pay attention! i do not own inuyasha.

WHAT EVERYONE IS BOUND TO WANT

chapter 1

INTRODUCTION!

It was the same hot air. It was the same air crushing fall. It was the same excruciating pain I felt every time I had this dream. It was the same. I had woken up screaming from this dream hundreds of times, waking with a start, clutching my chest and gasping like I had just swam from China to Japan.

It always started with clouds, pink clouds, like a sunrise or sunset, and they were always very wispy, thin, not at all like the thick fluffy ones I like. I would be looking up at them from my spot on the peak of a cliff with a lovely view of Osaka. I would be looking up at the sun, seemingly for hours. It never moved, not at all like a setting or rising sun should, but it always gave off such a beautiful elegance that I just couldn't look away. I then would hear a heart wrenching sound, like bones breaking, or someone splinting a tree, and I would turn around, quickly and soundlessly, but no one would be there. When I was to turn back, I would see a small dark dot in the sky, like someone had tossed something up and it was now falling, but something was differently about this dot, it was falling much to slowly for something so small. It would come closer and closer, and with every second it did, I would walk closer and closer twords it, twords the edge of the cliff. When it finally got close enough for me to see what it was... I would slip and fall. The air rushing out of my chest and crushing my heart. My back to the earth, I could see clearly what was above me. At first it looked like a hawk, but it was to regal, perhaps an eagle? No, not the right part of the world.

At one point in my fall it began to dive, right twords me, and each time I would reach my arms out as if to embrace it. Faster and faster it came down at me, and with every plummeting second it became clearer to me, the more confused I got. Such cold blue eyes, but its entire persona just screamed of a scorching fire. I held out my arms farther twords it, hoping that it would come to me, but every time it came close it would flap its flaming red and orange wings and fly away. It was at this time that that damn sun decided to come up from its frozen spot on the horizon, and I was momentarily blinded by it as it suddenly shot up to the middle of the sky, and I could no longer see my destructive flame of a bird. The last word that fell from my dream selfs lips was Nintai, and then I would start the screaming as I fell down to the earth, the air pulled from my lungs, suffocating me as I slowly died...

CHAPPY ONE: INUYASHA

I have never seen a hot air balloon before, and I've definitely never thought that I'd be ridding in one. Yet here Iam, listening to an instructor ramble on and on about how it works and it's fabulous history, my little brother listening intently as he continuously turned his head back and forth, not able to decide on looking at the instructor or the tiny world below us. My Grandfather, taking notes on a small paper, listened with all his heart. Somehow, during the past five minutes he had decided that he wanted to start in the balloon making business... if we're lucky he'll forget about it by tomorrow and go back to studying youkai.

Today, Saturday, was our families errand day, just a simple take Sota to the candy store, and gramps to a book store so mom can shop day. It was only on these days that our whole family could spend a decent amount of time together. Recently, I've been to caught up in school to really pay much attention to them, all that 'getting into a good high school thing' just kinda takes up a lot of time.

"Kagome! Kagome! Look down there! Were so high even all the skyscrapers look like normal buildings!"

I turned my head and walked the 1 small foot to the other side of the basket and looked over. Huh, I hadn't realized we had gotten so high up. "Yeah, imagine how small we are compared to those building, looking at them from here, when their so small, makes you feel a bit insignificant doesn't it?"

I watched as Sota contemplated my words before he slowly began to nod his head, "Yeah, we really aren't all the special from way up here..."

I let out a small laugh and ruffled his hair up a bit, this kid was just to funny... "Don't look over the edge to much, I don't want you to get sick on us, why don't you look at the sky a bit? Its a nice day."

He nodded his head enthusiastically, moving to sit back down so he could lay his head down and gaze up at the clouds.

"You know Kagome," I turned my head away from Sota, squeaking in surprise when Grampa's head was found not even an inch from my face, "With the way that boy always listens to you, I would think that you've gone and put a spell on him..."

I rolled my eyes at him and sat down next to Sota. "You know its immoral to cast spells on people, you guys raised me better than that."

"You better believe we did young lady! There was no way in heaven that I would allow my beautiful grand daughter to be some sort of lying, disgusting, magic using, Mik-"

"Excuse me, but is you grand daughter a tier?"

I looked over to the guy who's balloon we were in, is it wrong that I forgot he was here?

"A tier? HA! Don't be absurd!" Grampa scoffed, waving his hands around in an attempt to make his words sound more dramatic.

The guy, um, Kei, I think...looked at him incredulously. "Oh, sorry, I didn't know you guys were against the Act-"

Grampa didn't give him a chance to finish. "Boy! Don't' interrupt your elders. Now, as I was saying, my Kagome isn't some lowly tier, she's a Miko damn it!"

"A Miko? Isn't that the highest ranking Heaven Tier in the world?" he asked, turning his head to me and starring at me directly in the eye.

Caught off guard by his question, it took me a second to come up with a good response. "Um, we're the strongest of the holey Tiers, its us and youkai that are at the top..."

He looked me over for a second, trying to figure if I was really what I said I was. "So, what high school are you going to then?"

Smart question. There were only two schools for Heaven tiers in Osaka, which one you went to told people of how strong you were. There was Tengoku Academy, which was pretty much in the heart of the city. It was a pretty damn wealthy school, but the only problem was any one with enough money could get in. The whole place is full of stuck up tiers who can't even use magic, leaving me with only one other choice, Takahashi Institute. Sounds like a psycho ward right? Well, I can promise you that its anything but. No one knows much about the school itself, or the man who owns it, but there are five things that no tier would ever forget.

First, if you want in on this school, you can't just sign up, enroll, or call up the administrator, you don't get accepted into Takahashi. If they want you in their school, they find you, and as creepy as it sounds, they don't mess around with recruiting the top tiers in the world. Second, the only way for you to know if you can apply to the school is if they send you a letter, and this isn't any letter either, these things are fricken legends, small envelope, silver paper, elegant hand written calligraphy, and the Takahashi's seal, a small, silver dog, howling at an invisible moon. Third, if they really want you in their school, as in, your so ridiculously talented/powerful they'd do anything to have you, then they'll offer you a full scholarship. They pay for your dorm room, your uniforms, books, living expenses, class trips etc. these guys will do anything to get you. I've even heard that there was this kid who's family was so indebted to the government, that he was just going to drop out of high school and get a job. But then Takahashi offered to pay for his schooling, get his family back on their feet, and even pay for their house so they wouldn't have to move! Umm, where was I? Oh! Fourthly, the school is absolutely gorgeous. Its at the very edge of the city, and is sat in the middle of a ridiculously large piece of land, land that supposedly is all owned by Takahashi. The grounds are breath taking, full of well taken care of gardens and amazing wild life. The school itself is enormous, taking up at least half the property it sits on, like an entire neighborhood squashed together to make dorms, class rooms, and anything anyone would need to be happy. And fifthly, the schools an absolute legend. Its only been around for three years, so any people in their first class would still only be Juniors at this point. This is one of those schools that only exist in stories and manga. For example, if you were to see someone wearing one of their uniforms, people would be staring and whispering about them like their was no tomorrow. . .

"Excuse me, Higurashi-san?"

Oh yeah, he asked me a question. I shook my head lightly, trying to clear it of all the wonders of the schools so I could focus on what was going on. "Um, Sorry, what was you question?"

He smiled at me before repeating what he had already said. What school was I going to. The whole question that had started the movie theater of my mind.

"I'll be starting at Takahashi institute this month, full ride, all expenses paid." I murmured. I hated when people asked me these sort of questions, no matter how my answers came out, it always sounded like I was bragging a bit, and if there was one thing I hate more than snooty rich tiers it's people who brag all the time.

"Seriously! Your that good?" he asked.

"Well, it's not that I'm good at it or anything, it's just that...I guess I have the potential to be that good?" I tilted my head up, to look at the sky. That was what my letter had said, 'we are aware that you have not been as involved as others, but we believe you have the potential to be one of the greatest Miko in history...'

Kei continued to ask Grandpa questions, giving me time to just catch up on my thoughts. I looked up at the sky, the sun was currently being covered by some of those wispy clouds I don't like, leaving it still bright, but dark enough to look at the glowing white ball in the sky. If I squinted my eyes in that odd way people do, to where your looking threw your lashes, I could make out hundreds of little rainbows. The sun began to look like little black dots were covering it, a sign that I had probably been staring at it to long. I refocused my eyes, preparing to sit back up when something caught my eye. Those small black dots had disappeared now, well most of them. There was one little dark speck that was just to darn stubborn to leave. Was something wrong with my eyes now?

I kept on watching the little speck in the center of the sun. Was it getting bigger? Like something was falling... To quickly to be possible, those thin clouds seemed to disappear, leaving me blind as the hot spring sun tor its way threw the small shadow that had been blocking me from its rays. I took a quick step back, closing my eyes for a moment, watching the colorful bright yellows and greens behind my lids.

"Ya know Kagome, it's not good for your eyes to stare at the sun." Sota called to me.

I opened my eyes back up, squinting a bit as they readjusted. I looked over at him and nodded, promising not to stare at it for to long again as I stepped back up to the edge of the balloon and looked up, pulling on my sunglasses. The little dot was still there, much bigger than before, something really was falling!

"Sota! Come here for a sec, theres something falling in the sky!"

Everyones head was probably turned to me, but I was to busy trying to figure out what that rapidly growing speck was to really notice the others. I was barely aware when Sota latched onto the edge of my shirt, trying to keep balanced as he leaned over to try and see what I was seeing.

"I can't see anything, its too bright." he pouted, well, I pictured him pouting, I was still gazing up at the dot.

It was considerably closer now, I could almost make out what it was, something circular, and falling very fast, it was about the size of a basket or soccer ball. Grampa walked over to us to, ignoring the protesting instructor when the balloon began to tilt from all our weight on one side. An unusually strong gust of wind blew on the side of the balloon, causing it to tilt even farther and knocking the basket almost completely on its side. All four of us fell backwards onto each other, successfully pushing the balloon back into place.

I rubbed my head, trying to get balanced on the gently rocking basket, when I glanced to the side, it was as if everything froze. Right before my eyes the object fell, not even a foot away from the balloon. In that split second it passed us, I saw it clearly and perfectly. It was an interesting little thing, just the size of a ball, very smooth, and shinning in the sun. It was shaped like an egg, painted with hundreds of different shades of reds and yellows. It was beautiful and elegant, and as it fell past the balloon and down to the city below us, I knew what I had to do.

Before anyone even realized what I was doing...I climbed over the side of the basket and jumped.

(Inuyasha pov)

Like every other day this week, it was hot. The sun shinning down from the sky created a sparkling paradise, causing all the tall buildings around me to shine with an unreasonably bright glare.

In my hand I had several plastic bags, all filled to the brim with ramen. With school starting back up soon, I had to stock up. Thanks to father and his wonderful new health regiment, the school no longer sold 'junk food', leaving me with exactly one month during the winter to spring break to buy everything I could get my hands on.

I made my way threw the busy streets of Osaka as fast as I could, not wanting to get a ticket for parking in front of a fire hydrant again. What? Its not my fault there are no fricken places to park in this damn city! It would be a hell of a lot easier once school started again, but at the same time I wouldn't really be able to drive my car around campass...

I heard a woman scream and turned around with a start, nearly dropping my precious ramen in the process. Huh, looked like she just fainted. People surrounded her, a man shook her lightly and asked if she was OK, I waited by for a second, a bit curious as to why she had just dropped. I was only a few feet away from her, and saw when her eyes flitted open. When she looked up, away from the man who woke her up, her eyes widened and she pointed a shaky finger twords the sky. Everyone around her turned their head up to look at the sky, when my eyes finally looked away from the fear stricken ones of the women to look up, I did drop my bags.

Holy shit.

(Kagome pov)

That flaming red egg was right in front of me now, if I just reached out my hand I was sure that I could grab it. I don't know how long it took me to catch up with it, but I do know that when my arms finally wrapped around the hot, flaming red egg, that it would only be a few seconds before I came upon the first top of one of Osaka's many towers.

I turned my self in the air, trying with all my might to regain my breath. When I had jumped, I hadn't really thought about the landing. But now that I was here, falling threw the sky into the city, I couldn't stop thinking about it. This was exactly like my dream, only this time around that brilliant flaming bird was still in its egg. Not two seconds after I jumped had the air been torn out of me, leaving me breathless and trying to catch my breath with short, quick little pants. The only thing that had kept me conscious during my fall was my determination to get to the egg before it fell to the earth and killed what ever was inside.

My back was to the earth, and I gazed up at the sun once again. I could see the balloon in the sky, now it was the small black dot... Oh Kami, they probably thought I was going to die. Hell, I thought I was going to die. The wind pushed at my back, making me feel like I was being broken into two. The hot sun on my face didn't help when my body began to go numb with an unnatural cold, nor did the wind keep out the terrible screams that assaulted my mind. Screams that were most likely torn out of my own throat.

When I past the top of the first building, I knew that the people below would be able to see me. I heard a few screams, and once that had passed, nearly a hundred of smaller shrieks, yells, and panicked crying. Was it me they were crying for? I was hardly worth it, its not like anyone but my family would even remember me after this week any way. Once they scraped my body off of the pavement below, it was only a matter of time before they began discussing how to get the nasty red stain I would leave on the cement out.

Great, wasn't my life supposed to be flashing before my eyes or something? Instead I'm here, falling to my death, and thinking about morbid thoughts such as my dead body splattered all over the earth. The wind wasn't as harsh now, most likely because some of it was being blocked by the towers surrounding me, but it still stung my bare legs and back. This is what I get for wearing a dress today. Not like I planned on jumping out of a hot air balloon, though.

(Inuyasha pov)

Everyone around me broke out into yells. I saw one man pull out his cell phone, hopefully calling the cops or something. It bothered me that he was the only one, the others just talking and pointing. A couple next to me started chatting, the women asking if the person was committing suicide while the man argued that it looked like he fell from some place higher than the buildings. Others that hadn't seen the guy until he reached the city limits began going on about how he wasn't worth saving if he committed. Where these people fricken serious?

When one woman said 'let him die' and began walking away, I finally had enough. Walking up to that same women, I stuffed my ramen bags in her hands. She looked up at me with wide eyes, asking me if I was a demon. I looked down my nose at her and replied, "Of course I'm a fucking demon you wench. Please watch those for me, I'll be right back." And before she even said another word I began leaping up the sides of the buildings next to me to reach the poor idiot that was falling from the sky.

Once I was in the shadow between the buildings, the air around me grew considerably cooler, odd when it should have still been hot here. I jumped closer and closer to the person, now able to make out small little details. Who ever it was was wearing white, and had long black hair... was this a fricken woman? I was still pretty far away from her, but at the rate she was falling, it would only be a few milliseconds before she was in my arms. The shifting sun in the sky began to slowly get rid of the shadows and cold air around us, and when the whole street between the buildings was covered in sunlight, I reached up my arms for the small girl above me, taking one more leap off the building to my right.

The moment her body fell into place in mine I could smell her perfectly, like sweet spring rain and Sakura trees. Looking down at her, she was absolutely gorgeous. Slim waist, decent chest, plump pink lips, long eyelashes, and a cute little nose. In this white dress she was in, she looked like an angel, like a small messenger sent from the Kami.

Once I had her in my arms, I quite jumping and let us just fall to the ground, using my youkai to keep us from falling to fast. Some of the people below us began to clap, while others were completely stunned into paralysis. I could see the colorful lights below from the police cars, no ambulance, considering they weren't planning on finding this little angel alive. As we got closer to the streets, people began to move to the side so we had a nice large area to land in, not that I needed it...

When I finally hit the ground, we were automatically surrounded by cops and news reporters, causing me to growl lowly in my chest and hold the girl tighter.

A women holding a small note book came up to me and asked, "Why did you save her if she was committing suicide?"

I looked down at her, shocked, "She wasn't committing, she fell from higher above the buildings here."

"Well then, if thats the case where did she come from, I see no planes around!" she yelled like I was lying to her.

"She's a gift from the Kami, of course." I smirked then, adjusting the girl in my arms slightly so people could see her better.

Some gasped at the little beauty in my arms, while others just broke out into more questions about her, only one though, caught my attention. 'what is that in her arms?'

I hadn't noticed there was anything in my tenshi's arms. I looked down at her, and sure enough, clutched to her chest was what appeared to be an egg. It was a flaming red and orange-ish color, covered in golden designs all across its surface. For such an egg to exist, one that was radiating with heat and life, was insanely odd.

One of the police officers, a young man maybe in his early twenties, came up to me and held out his arms. My eyes narrowed automatically, and I took a step away from him. "Your not taking her away from me." I growled.

"Umm, sir, we need to take her to a hospital or something, what if she's injured?" he asked slowly, like he was talking to some idiot who was holding someone at gun point.

I kept my eyes on him as I bent down slightly and quietly sniffed the girl. Just as I thought, she was perfectly fine, just unconscious. Her heart rate was normal, she was breathing fine, nothing seemed wrong with her entire being. "She's perfectly fine."

"Listen here, you! I don't care if you think she's fine or not, its protocol for us to take her down and-"

"And what? What is that stupid hospital going to do for her that I cant?" God, this guy was looking at me like I was absolutely insane.

Both of our heads shot down to the girl when she let off a soft moan. She began to move around a bit, and after a moment, she opened her eyes and looked directly into mine.

(Kagome pov)

I'm not exactly sure when I blacked out, but when I woke back up I was relieved to find that my egg was still in my arms. Now, how the hell was I alive? When I first opened my eyes, everything was a bit blurry, I could hear a few people talking around me, but it was almost as if I couldn't focus or care enough to really listen. Warm arms were wrapped around me, and I could feel someones fingers lightly rubbing circles in my left arm. It was nice, and I wasn't cold anymore. When my eyes began to focus right, the first thing I saw was two, large, amber eyes. A demon? Had a demon saved me?

"Um, d-do you mind, ah, putting me down, please?" I murmured quietly, coughing at the dryness in my throat. The boys eyes widened slightly and he nodded his head lightly, moving very slowly as he set my legs down next to him. His arm still wrapped around my waist helped me balance back on my feet, and I was grateful that he didn't let me fall when I stumbled.

A cop a few feet away from me reached out his hand and lightly grabbed my arm, almost like a reflex I took a quick step back, bumping into the demons back, but thankfully away from that to hot hand. Is it so weird that I don't want to be touched right now?

He looked at me, shocked, before quickly apologizing and taking a step back, "Um, Miss, do you mind coming down to the hospital with us, to make sure your alright? We should also contact your family and let them know your here..."

Heh, yeah right.

"No, that wont be necessary, thanks though." My voice came out much stronger than I thought it would, considering that it hurt like hell and felt like it was on fire. I bowed down to the officer before quickly turning on my heal and walking shakily twords the sidewalk. The demon who had saved me walked quietly behind me, lightly reaching out to steady me when ever I would stumble. Hovering over me like a silent protector.

"Hey, slow down."

I stopped at the sound of his voice, and again turned quickly to face him. He was almost a whole foot taller than me, and thanks to our close proximity, I had to crane my neck just to see his face. He smirked down at me with laughing eyes, I don't think he realized how short I was either, but he didn't comment on it.

"You shouldn't be moving around so much after falling so far, hell, you probably shouldn't be moving at all, ya Know." He smiled, looking down at my frowning face. I didn't want to rest. All I wanted to do was move, to walk, maybe even run. For some reason, that fall hadn't made me scared or feel sick. For those first few minutes I was back on my feet, I did feel a bit off, but now I was fine. Exhilarated, alive, like I could run across Japan if I wanted to, I was energized, and happy, and I knew for a fact that I didn't want to stop moving.

"Your a demon, shouldn't you have no trouble keeping up?" I asked, half jocking, half serious. He let out a long breath, as if he had been holding it for a long time, then very slowly he reached up and tapped the small egg in my arms. Damn, I had forgotten about it, and now I felt a bit like a mother who had forgotten that she had to pick her baby up from school. What a terrible feeling.

"I Can Keep up just fine, but I'm a bit worried about the little thing you have in here. Wont it die if its moved around to much?" He asked. His silver hair lightly blew in the the wind, catching my eye as it floated around him and causing me to look around a bit more at where we were. We had only walked for a few minutes, but we got pretty far and were now standing in front of a small bakery.

Nodding my head once to myself, I walked past the demon and into the bread shop, leaving him looking like a confused little puppy.

The place was very small, but extremely nice and homey. A whole wall filled with breads and pastries, and several cute little tables big enough for only about two people. I found a nice seat by the window, and the demon fallowed silently, looking at me oddly before sighing and taking a seat next to me.

"The egg," I said loudly, perhaps to loudly, because when I spoke his head jerked up with surprise, "it wont get cold. Its a Phoenix egg, so its not fragile or anything..." I trailed off, momentarily forgetting what I was about to say when I felt a small thump come from within the egg.

"A phoenix? You can't be serious, how could you possibly know that?" He asked me. I tilted my head to the side as I looked at him. Well, hadn't I been saved by quite the hottie? His hair was absolutely gorgeous, long and silver, it looked so soft, so soft it made me want to do nothing but brush it. He was wearing a dark red button up shirt, Kanji written all over it making out insane words and sentences that didn't even make sense. His jeans were also dark, plane but definitely fashionable. And he was a demon... that was obvious, that hair and those eyes meant Inu, and those ears...

Without really paying attention to what I was doing, I reached over the table and..

"Your a honyou right?" my voice was soft, almost as soft as his cute little furry ears. And when he answered me, his was gruff and embarrassed.

"Yeah, do you have a problem with that?"

"Nope." I was surprised that he didn't try to get me off of him, reaching over the table and rubbing his ears might not have been the best idea, but why didn't he care? I mean, for kami's sake, I was still doing it!

And then I heard it.

A soft little rumble, vibrating threw is chest to make the funniest little purr I ever heard. He sounded like a little kitten! Was he really enjoying it that much? I kept rubbing them, massaging them with my fingers and tweaking them ever so slightly... and he continued his insanely cute growling.

"Oooh! What a sweet little couple!"

Both of our heads jerked up at the sound of a middle aged woman. She was standing only a few feet away from our little table, and was smiling sweetly down at us. And quick as I could, I jumped back into my seat, blushing madly the entire way.

The woman chuckled softly, handing us each a menu, "So sorry to scare you dear, I just thought that you might want something to eat? I just made some fresh sour dough, and you know, were the only place that makes it in the city." she said, setting one large glass of pink lemonaid in between us, two straws set in nicely, one pink and one blue.

Both me and the demon stared at the beverage for a few moments, before what she said finally registered in my mind, "You sell sour dough?"

Once again I think my voice came out louder than necessary.

"Yes, would you like me to bring you out a few pieces?"

"Umm, do you think we could have the whole loaf?" I blushed again, my large apatite always seemed to be getting in the way of what was really important...and in this case it was finding out who this demon was.

"Oh! Of course you can have it!" the woman laughed at me again, then turned to look more at the demon, uh, honyou.. "And tell you what, because your treating such a lovely girl, I'll give it to you half off." Before either of us could really thank her, she was already walking away behind the counter and into the kitchen.

I let out a small breath, then turned to the guy sitting across the table. "Thank you again for saving me, my names Kagome."

He seemed to study me for a moment, his smoldering eyes burning into my own. And then he said, "Before I tell you my name, do you think you could tell me why the fuck you were falling from the sky?"

Potty mouth.

I ignored the thought,though, being raised as a shrine keeper had me not feeling so nice about cuss words.

"I thought I explained it earlier? I jumped out of a hot air balloon." this guy seemed to tense, maybe if I acted a tad more difficult, I could get a reaction.

"Yeah, I got that, but why?"

Difficult baka.

"Because I saw this egg falling."

"You didn't think that was kind of a stupid idea?" he asked, gritting his teeth in what I assumed was annoyance.

"Well, not when I jumped, I started having doubts when I realized I wasn't likely to survive, though. If something this amazing was about to be destroyed, wouldn't you save it too?" I asked. My hands gently ran over the top of the egg, it was so warm... there was definitely no way I would have let it die.

"Perhaps, but only if I knew I had an actual chance of saving it. With YOU, though, there was no way you would have been able to if I hadn't been there, if anything you would have just killed both yourself and that thing!" he growled out, pointing accusingly at the little red flame in my arms.

I sat up straiter in my chair, glaring down at him as hard as I could. "I would have been fine either way! The gods aren't planning on killing me anytime soon, there is still stuff I'm needed for here! If anyone should understand, it would be a demon like you! Weather your half or not! And I don't care if I could have gotten killed, I knew I had to save it so I did!" I spoke loudly and clearly, my voice not exactly at a yelling volume but loud enough to mean something.

We glared at each other for a good two minutes before the woman came back out with our bread, smiling until she saw the look on our faces. "Oh dear, please don't fight now, you two have got to be the cutes couple I've seen come in here in a while. Now, why don't you butter yourselves up some bread and make up!" she said, her voice booming and filling up the entire place.

Both of us turned to look at her, but we didn't say anything. She merely sighed and left, muttering something about troubled lives of youths.

"Inuyasha"

My head shot up at the sound of his voice. He looked at me for a moment, then repeated what he had said, "My name is Inuyasha."

He went about cutting the bread in front of us, buttering up a slice and handing me a still warm piece.

"Well, at least were getting some where now." I muttered in reply.

We spent the remainder of our time in silence eating, and after about half an hour, we packed up the remaining bread and left. He gave me a ride home, and it took me a few minutes to process what was going on when we came upon the shrine only to find at least a dozen cop cars.

"The hell..." Inuyasha murmured, parking his car next to the curb and turning off the engine. Before he even opened his door, I was out and running across the street to my home.

"Kagome!" I heard more than saw as Inuyasha quickly ran across the street to me, lightly grabbing my arm to slow me down. I ignored most of the cops that tried to get us away from going up the shrines steps, luckily they only tried yelling at us, most likely to scared to come to close to Inuyasha and I, his piercing glare keeping them a good distance away. As I made my way up the last few steps, the first thing I noticed was the people. They were every where, walking into the house, walking out, a few family friends, neighbors, cops, and people I didn't even know. Inuyasha stayed with me as I made my way threw the grounds to get into the house, but before we were able to walk threw the door, one of the loudest, yet familiar, voices in the loud area shouted my name.

"KAGOME!" as I turned around to the familiar voice, two very warm and sturdy arms wrapped around me, pulling me against a soft feminine body. "KAGOME! What the hell were you thinking! Your whole family has been in tears for the last two hours looking for you! Do you know what the hell you've done? We've been worried sick."

All the panic and excitement I felt threw the day suddenly found itself in the forefront of my mind, and before I knew it, I was weeping into my best friends shoulder and holding onto her like she was my life line. "Sango..."

"Don't Sango me! Your in some deep shit ya know! Your mom's been going crazy trying to find you, once that story got out about some angel falling from the sky, she just freaked. What were you thinking? Jumping out of a hot air balloon, you idiot..." she trailed off when I just cried harder, patting my back to try to sooth me, "How the hell did you survive any way? You haven't learned any spells for defying gravity, you couldn't have possibly known what to do in a situation like that."

I lifted my face from her shoulder and turned twords Inuyasha, gesturing with my hand for him to step up. "Sango, this is Inuyasha, he saved me." I mumbled.

Sango held tightly to my hands, keeping the unusually clammy feel of my skin warm, still comforting me by just being there.

"A honyou? Why would you save a miko?" she asked suspiciously. Growing up as a demon slayer, Sango was raised to be cautious and on guard around demons, not necessarily to the point of actual prejudice or racism, but still weary. The ties between humans and demons were stronger than ever, but being naturally malicious, demons still had some minor issued in our eyes.

"I saved her for the same reason she jumped, because I could." his answer was short and strait forward, to me anyway, but to Sango, who didn't know why I had jumped, he most likely just sounded a bit crazy.

Before she could start asking more questions, he nodded his head to us and said good bye, turning and walking back down the shrine steps and back to his car.

Well, if you did read, thanks. please review, non priority or not i like to hear what you have to say. utukushii...