Smile For Me

Chapter 1: Where Am I?

I do not own Inu-Yasha; it belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

Crying,

What is to it?

The warm, salty liquid that comes out of your eyes,

Emotions,

How do you feel?

People take in and respond to a situation,

Pain,

I hurt,

What's pain to someone who faces any enemy fearless?

Kagome lit a note from Hojo on fire with her lighter and watched it sizzle on the sidewalk as she lit up another cigarette.

"Hojo, you faggot" Kagome mumbled as she saw him walk by.

"Shut up, Tar Lungs" He said as he spat on the ground near her feet.

"Baka" Kagome mumbled stomping out the little fire that was left.

Kagome walked back into the school building, trying to figure out which class to go to late this time.

"Ohh, shit" she said, looking at the gum on her boot, "To the bathroom"

Bathroom

Kagome looked in the mirror at herself, and took out the black eye shadow, lipstick, eyeliner and nail polish out of the pockets of her baggy black pants. Her shirt was a V-neck, with the words, "What Are You Looking At Faggot?" in red and blue flames.

She applied the make up to her face and the nail polish to her nails.

"That's better" She said, satisfied, "It is…2:30p.m." she said, looking at her watch, "I'm outta here"

Kagome left the bathroom and looked for anybody in the halls, but there was no one around, so she walked down the hall and the steps, until she ran right into the principal.

"Young Lady!" Mr. Gate said, "Wash that grim off of yourself and get back in class!"

"What class?" Kagome asked as the bell rang, "Later Mr. Alli-Gator" She said, walking past him out the double doors.

"You better be in here tomorrow morning, bright and early Ms. Higurashi!" He yelled out the doors.

"Whatever" She said, watching all the students leave the building.

Kagome walked home the way she usually did every other day or week, from school. Across this street, that street, past the Old Tree, and to her house.

Kagome's House

"You're home hunny?" Ms. Higurashi asked, seeing her go up the steps.

"Yeah" Kagome answered going up the steps to her black room.

Kagome's Room

"Stupid Hojo, Stupid Principal, Stupid Everyone" Kagome said, plopping down on her bed, "Man, I'm tired, I need a cigarette" She said, looking at her ceiling.

Kagome got up and went to her window and climbed out onto a tree limb and sat in the tree and smoked a cigarette while watching her grandpa come out from an old Shrine.

"Kagome!" He yelled up to her.

"What!" She yelled back, hiding her cigarette in her hand.

"Get out of that tree before you fall!" He yelled back up.

"No! Go to mom old fart!" She yelled back down.

"Kids these days" Her Grandpa mumbled as he walked inside.

"What was that old fart doing in there anyway?" Kagome asked to no one.

Kagome climbed down the tree and snuck across the yard and into the Shrine. Her grandpa had always told her and her little brother to not go in there, and Kagome wanted to know what her Grandpa went in there for.

Kagome opened the Shrine's door to an empty room, with a walkway going around the walls, and a big black inside with steps leading downwards.

"What the hell is this?" Kagome asked, "Looks like some place bad, damn"

Kagome walked down the steps and grabbed a torch that was lighting up the walkway.

"Why are there torches here? Haven't they heard of lighting?" Kagome said out loud to no one.

She suddenly fell down and hit the ground,
"AHHHHH" She screamed, not knowing where she might fall to. She landed in a small little rectangle room, where you could just sit down.

"Where the hell am I?" Kagome asked looking around.

Kagome looked up and saw light and birds flying overhead, "I must have fell down a hole in the ground or something" She said.

Kagome looked around and saw 5 or 6 torches beside her on the ground. She climbed up the loose bricks in the walls and got out of the top.

"Huh? What the heck!" Kagome looked around to see vast grass and trees.

"Hey! Where am I?" Kagome questioned, "Wait!"

Kagome thought a minute, 'Mom said the way to get home was by going to the big oak tree', "That's it!" Kagome jumped out of the well-looking thing and ran towards the tree.

When she got there, she saw vines covering the tree trunk and squirrels crawling up and down the tree, but then they scurried away when she approached.

"What?" Kagome said, feeling something underneath the vines.

She pulled away some branches and saw a hand.

"Oh my God!" Kagome screamed when the hand moved.

"Who's there?" A voice said.

"Wha…What are you?" Kagome asked, afraid to know the answer.

"I'm a freakin' human being!" The voice said as a body came out from behind the vines.

"Who are you?" Kagome asked as a black-haired boy, about her age come out.

"I'm called Inu-Yasha, but most people call me Inu-Ya…" He said, smiling evilly.

"Why?" Kagome asked.

"Because that's all they get to say before I kill them!" Inu-Yasha said grabbing Kagome and putting his hands around her neck.

"What!" She yelled.

"I'm just kidding, girl" He said, letting her down.

"You scared me for a minute" Kagome told the cute looking boy.

"What are you doing here? And how did you get here?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"Uhh…I fell down this hole and climbed out of a well" She responded.

Inu-Yasha just stood there with his eyes wide, and mouth hung opened in shock.

"What?" Kagome asked.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Inu-Yasha screamed in a high-pitched voice.

Kagome covered her ears, because the sound was deafening.

When Inu-Yasha had stopped his screaming, Kagome took her hands off her ears and looked at him. He was smiling.

"What the heck did you do that for!" She asked, looking at him and wondering why he was smiling.

"You'll see", he said smiling and looking over her shoulders.

"Hey Inu-Yasha! You called?" A girl with black hair said jumping off of a flying fox, landing near Inu-Yasha.

"Inu-Yasha, what'd ya want?" A boy wearing beads on his wrist and hand said, approaching the pair followed by a little kid with a tail and ears.

"What the heck!" Kagome yelled, "You jumped of a flying fox?" She said to the Girl, "You have a tail and ears?" She said to the little kid, "And you, you, you! You just dress weird!" She said, talking to the older boy.

"Girl, these are my friends. They got stuck here along with me. Although we didn't get here the same way you did…" Inu-Yasha said.

"What?" Kagome said, "How'd you get here? And where did you come from?"

"Girl, what is your name?" The older Boy asked.

"I'm Kagome" Kagome said, "And yours?"

"I'm Miroku, and this is Sango", He said, pointing towards the Girl, "and this little guy is Shippo" He finished.

"Hey! I'm not little!" Shippo said, looking up at Miroku.

"Okay, now that we all know each other…" Inu-Yasha said, "Let me explain how I got here…"

FlashBack

Inu-Yasha was walking down the streets of Tokyo, looking in the windows of shops and seeing what all he wanted to buy.

"That's looks cool" He said, looking at a black hat.

"Hey You Kid!" An old guy said.

"What!" Inu-Yasha asked.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" The Old Guy asked.

Inu-Yasha thought about this, 'No I don't', "What does it mean to you?" Inu-Yasha asked looking suspicious at the old guy.

"I have a grand-daughter that needs a guy like you", The Old Guy said.

"What!" Inu-Yasha said, "Why do you care?"

"Here's her picture", The Old Guy said, showing Inu-Yasha a picture of a beautiful girl.

"She is pretty…" Inu-Yasha said, not knowing he said it out loud.

"Would you like to meet her?" The Old Guy said.

"Uhh…sure" Inu-Yasha said, handing the picture back to the Old Guy.

"No, No, keep it" The Old Guy said.

"Ok…" Inu-Yasha thought.

Inu-Yasha walked with The Old Guy to a house and Shrine. They walked into the Shrine and went down stairs.

"You first" The Old Guy offered.

"Okay…" Inu-Yasha said, taking a torch.

"AHH!" Inu-Yasha screamed, falling down.

"You be cursed to the Old Oak," He yelled down to him.

"What did you say you Old Fart!" Inu-Yasha yelled back up, but only saw light and trees, instead of the Old Guy and the torch, "What the heck?"

Inu-Yasha was pulled up out of the hole and hit a tree, hard.

"Oww…" Inu-Yasha said, feeling the impact and went unconscious.

When Inu-Yasha woke up, there were three other people looking at him.

"What?" He said, "What are you doing here?" He looked at them.

"Did an Old Guy trick you into going into a Shrine and down these steps and you fell?" The Girl asked.

"Uhh..yeah" Inu-Yasha said, confused.

"Same here for all of us" The Boy said.

"Well, except me!" The kid said, "I'm really 15 1/2, but that Old Guy made me have ears and a tail, and he made me smaller!" He finished.

"Ohh…Could you help me out with this?" Inu-Yasha said, "I'm kind of stuck…"

"We can't" The Girl said, "You just have to wait until it wears off…"

"What!" Inu-Yasha said, "Who are all of you?"

"I'm Sango" The Girl said.

"I'm Miroku" The Boy said.

"I'm Ken, but everyone calls me Shippo" The kid said.

End FlashBack

"Then you came a 6 months later" Inu-Yasha said.

"You didn't get stuck though" Sango said.

"Did you see the old guy?" Miroku asked.

"No…what old guy?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know what he looked like…he has his face hidden" Inu-Yasha said, "but he was kinda short"

"What did you do with that picture he gave you?" Sango asked Inu-Yasha.

"I still have it" Inu-Yasha told her, pulling it out.

"Let me see that!" Kagome said.

Inu-Yasha gave it to Kagome and she gasped.

"What?" Shippo asked.

"That's…that's…" Kagome said, in shock.

"That's what?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"That's me!" Kagome finished.

"What!" Miroku said, taking the picture from her and looking at it, then Kagome, then the picture again.

"No…it can't be" Miroku said, "Wait, if you take off all that black stuff…"

"That was me about a few months ago" Kagome said.

"What!" Inu-Yasha said, "Then do you know the Old Guy?"

"Yeah, I'm his grand daughter!" Kagome said.

"What?" Inu-Yasha said.

"Yeah……" Sango said, amazed.

"So, the Old Guy was your grandpa?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"Yeah…" Kagome said, in awe.

"Then we have to get him!" Inu-Yasha said, furious.

"Wait…" Kagome said, thinking to herself.

"When did you all get here?" Kagome asked.

"I got here two years ago" Sango said.

"Me 2 1/2 years ago" Miroku said.

"Me about 3 years ago" Shippo said.

"And a 6 months for me" Inu-Yasha said.

"I just got here though. There seems to be a pattern here. Everyone seems to get here about 6 months apart from each other, but there are two people missing, if the pattern fits" Kagome thought out loud.

"That's sound about right" Sango said, thinking too.

"Then we have 6 months to wait until we can get back" Shippo said.

"What? 6 months!" Kagome said, "Why? Can't we just go back through the well thingy?"

"Nope, we tried before" Miroku said, "A lot of times, and its never worked"

"What?" Kagome said, shocked.

"Uhh…" Inu-Yasha mumbled.

"What are we going to do until then? I'll get older by then…" Kagome panicked.

"No, you won't" Miroku told her, "You don't age here"

"What?" Kagome said.

"Yeah" Shippo said, "Do I look like I got older to you?"

"No, younger, if you were 15" Kagome stated.

"No, since I've been here, shouldn't I have at least got a little bit taller?" Shippo reasoned.

"Well, that's true" Sango said.

"Is there anyone else here?" Kagome asked.

"Nope" Miroku said, "Just grass and trees and some other stuff, and the only way that people get here is through that hole, so we stay close to it" He finished.

"Ohh…" Kagome said, "Just great"

"Let's get back to the house thingy" Shippo said.

"What? You have a house thing?" Kagome asked.

"Yep, we had to build it, well Shippo built most of it, but it was really tiny, so when I got here, I made it bigger" Miroku said.

They all walked through some trees and brush until they came upon a little house hut thing, made from branches and sticks.

"We made a fire by using Shippo's claws to spark a rock" Sango said.

"Yeah, and it hurts every time!" Shippo cried.

Miroku went into the hut and came back out with a bowl of berries and fruit.

"Here, you look kind of hungry" He offered to Kagome.

"Hey, since we're going to be here together for a while…why don't we get along and try not to fight" Sango said, "We already been there before" She said, looking at Miroku and Shippo.

"HeHeHe" They both said, looking really embarrassed.

"I got to stay here and they went out there by themselves, well they came back after 2 hours" Sango chuckled.

"Ohh…" Kagome said.

"Where do we go to the bathroom at?" Inu-Yasha asked, "For some weird reason, I didn't have to go or get hungry being attached to that tree…" He thought about something for a minute.

"Well, the guys got trees" Miroku started, "And the girls…well…" Miroku went inside and came back out with a shovel-looking thing, "Dig a hole, find a left, and make sure you cover it good"

"WHAT!" Kagome exclaimed, not believing what he had just said.

"Well, that's just great" Kagome stated, looking down.

"You'll get used to it" Sango said, looking at Kagome.

The Sun was setting and it was getting dark and cold outside.

Night Time

Kagome got closer to the fire and covered her bare arms with her hands.

"Here" Inu-Yasha said, giving her his coat, "You'll need that, it gets cold here"

"What about you?" Kagome asked.

"Naah, I'm used to it here" Inu-Yasha said, "I was at a tree with no fire, and vines around me, it wasn't too warm there" He finished.

"Ohh…" Kagome said, looking away, "Thank you"

"Sure, any time" Inu-Yasha said, looking around trying to find something to talk about, and noticing that everyone else was already asleep.

"Everyone's sleeping already…" Inu-Yasha said.

"Yeah, why do they go to sleep at dusk?" Kagome questioned.

"I don't know…" Inu-Yasha started, "I guess they've been here a long time" He looked at them sleeping, "They must wake up at dawn, or something" He finished.

"Yeah…" Kagome answered.

"Well, I'm not too tired right now" Inu-Yasha stated, "Are you?"

"No…" Kagome answered, "I just kind of miss home…"

"Yeah, it happens to me all the time, and I bet everyone else here, especially him" Inu-Yasha said, pointing at Shippo, "He's been here the longest, maybe there are other people here, but they told me that they haven't seen anybody else" Inu-Yasha finished.

"Ohh…" Kagome said, the air was tense and all you could hear was to crackling of the fire.

"Do you like to climb trees?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"Huh?" Kagome looked at him and her eyes shined from the fire's light, "Yeah, I have a tree right outside my bedroom window"

"Come here" Inu-Yasha said, reaching his hand out to hers.

"Okay…" Kagome said, taking his hand.

"Uhh…" Kagome stuttered.

"What?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"This is the first time I held a boy's hand" Kagome blushed.

"Yeah, me too" Inu-Yasha admitted.

"Where are we going?" Kagome asked.

"Just follow me" Inu-Yasha answered and smiled at her.

"Okay" Kagome answered, feeling weird that a boy smiled at her.

Inu-Yasha led her to a very tall tree that looked to go on forever.

"Where are we?" Kagome asked.

"I seen this tree, from where I was stuck on the other one, and I wanted to climb it whenever I got free" Inu-Yasha said.

"Looks cool to me" Kagome said, looking at Inu-Yasha in the eyes, "Shall we?"

"Sure…" Inu-Yasha said, just looking in her eyes, 'Wow, she really is beautiful, even with that stuff is on her' He thought.

They started to climb up the tree, and when they got up high enough, they stopped and just looked around.

"Wow!" Kagome said, "This is so beautiful…"

"Yeah, so are you…" Inu-Yasha said, not realizing what he had just said until a minute later.

"What?" Kagome said, looking embarrassed.

"Nothing" Inu-Yasha said, looking away, to hide his blush.

They stayed up there and just laid on a big branch talking.

Kagome sat up, "You never had a girlfriend before?"

"Nope, I never really liked anybody at my school" Inu-Yasha said.

"Do you now?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah…" Inu-Yasha said, "Since I've been here, I've liked someone"

"Ohh…" Kagome said, looking at him, "Who's that? Can you tell me?"

Inu-Yasha sat up, "Yeah, she has black hair"

'Must be Sango' Kagome thought.

"I've liked her since recently" Inu-Yasha said.

'Yep, its Sango' Kagome thought some more.

"Her name is…" Inu-Yasha looked away.

"Huh?" Kagome said, "Who is it?"

"Kagome" Inu-Yasha said, looking at Kagome.

"What?" Kagome asked.

"That's her name" Inu-Yasha said, turning red.

Kagome was speechless.

Inu-Yasha just looked at her in the eyes.

"Kagome…" Inu-Yasha said, searching for anything in her eyes.

"Uhh…" Kagome mumbled.

"I've thought about the girl in the picture everyday, and after a while, I fell in love with her" Inu-Yasha said.

Inu-Yasha put his hand on Kagome's cheek, and looked at her in the eyes.

Kagome closed her eyes. Inu-Yasha knew what to do…

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