A Test of Faith, love and Destiny.

By: Samantha Bustamante

(This is my first fan-fic! I tried to make the story as realistic as possible. Pleeeeeeese tell me what you think. Italics mean the person is thinking. This is an inukag sangomirouku pair. Sorry I'm not a Kikyo fan. There's only so much sympathy I can give her before I start to dislike her for her actions.)

(Note: this story takes place after the group defeated Naraku. They are still looking for all the shards.)

A cool breeze blew the raven-haired girls tresses as she thumbed through her mini-calendar looking for important dates. The group was once again searching for the shattered Shikon no-tama. (The jewel was shattered by Kagome, who fell through her families well, to feudal Japan and broke the spell on the hanyou Inuyasha set by his past love Kikyo. But that's another story to tell.) Inuyasha was up front, Sango (the famous demon exterminator) and Mirouku (the flirtatious monk) in the middle and kagome with shippo (the young fox-demon) lagging behind. They all met in different ways but agreed to stay together because each person had the same goal, to kill Naraku. (An evil half-demon, who pitted Inuyasha and Kikyo to betray each other, killed all of Sangos family and uses her brother as a puppet, and put a curse on Mirouku's family with the wind tunnel. (Shippo lost his family to the thunder brothers so he unanimously joined the group. Each person was affected by naraku, except the young miko who was thrown into this mess when she broke the jewel. She now must live a double life, one in feudal Japan and one in present day Japan. "Ahhh! I have finals in a week!" Yelled the miko, anxiety written all over her face. Each member stared at her, confused, until Inuyasha spoke. "What's a finals?" he questioned Kagome had calmed down enough to explain to him how deadly they were. "Finals are like giant tests you have to take at the end of the year over everything you've learned. And the worst part is that it counts for one-third of your grade!" The hanyou took a few second to register the information, not know what grades were, but brushing it off. "What does that have to do with anything?" he demanded, arms crossed and eyes closed. Before he could even finish the sentenance Kagome was in front of him, hands locked together with a puppy- dog face plastered on her. 'I hate it when she does that face. "Inuyaaaaasha." She said sweetly. "What?" He answered, eyebrow twitching. " I need to go home for two weeks so I can study and take my finals. I need to take this if I ever want to pass the 11th grade!" 'Please let me go' " You cant go home, were in the middle of hunting the jewel shards!" yelled the inflamed half-demon. "Yeah but if I pass my finals I'll be out for a few months, which means I wont have to go to school to take any tests." She replied, hoping that he would let her go.

Sango and Mirouku watched them argue some more before one responded. "Here they go again arguing." Said the small kitistune while throwing his hands in the air and sighing "Do you think Inuyasha will let her go?" Whispered Mirouku. "Not willingly." Replied Sango. "Why do they always have to argue?" interrupted shippo. "I think its because they like each other," Replied Mirouku with a sly grin. "The way they're yelling they must love each other," whispered Sango sarcastically. "Yeah," agreed Shippo while Kilala (sangos neko cat) meowed in response.

"There's no way your gonna leave for two weeks!" Yelled the hanyou. "Oh yeah whose gonna stop me!" "The hell I will. You just want to leave so you don't have to look for the shards. You're being lazy!" sputtered Inuyasha, confident that he came to the right answer. 'Baka' "WHAT! I can't believe you!" yelled kagome while staring daggers at him. "Humph, Kikyo would never shirk her responsibilities, she's much better," muttered the hanyou, immediately regretting what he just said. Sadness mixed with anger constricted the young miko. She stood silent, focusing on not letting him see her cry as she bit back tears. 'Why does he always have to compare me to her. Kikyo's not the one who's living a double-life. I know I'm not as good as her and I know he doesn't care about me the way he does for her. But still its hard to hear it out loud and coming from him.' Finally she regained her composure and thoughts for one last response, "Fine if that's how you feel than I'm leaving now." She replied coldly to him. "Sango may I borrow kilala." Sango just stood there with a shocked expression after seeing the look on kagomes face. 'She looks so sad and helpless' She finally snapped out of it thanks to an elbow from the monk and gave the miko kilala. "Thank you sango, goodbye," were the last words the schoolgirl said. Kilala transformed into her larger form and kagome jumped on. Everyone stood in puzzlement as she flew away.

'Why does Inuyasha always have to stay stuff like that. He can be such a jerk sometimes. I guess he really still loves Kikyo. How could he still lover her, she's only living from the hatred she has for him and part of my soul. She's also tried to kill Inuyahsa and me more then once and helped naraku numerous of times. She even stole the jewel shards from me! Yet he still thinks of her all the time. I guess I can't compete with past loves. Still, I love him; I guess I can't do anything about that. I already made a promise to stay with him, by his side. Even though I cannot have him, I am still content with just looking at him and I know that if I go home his visits will stop in time and all I will be left with will be a memory that too will fade and that's something I do not want. Although I do not know if I will be strong enough to bear it, I will remain by him until he does not want me there anymore and even then, I do not know if I would be able to go. I have forsaken my life in exchange for a little time with him. I hope that he, one day appreciates it.' Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts when Kilala growled, singling that they were near the well. 'I guess the time for bitter reflections is over, I must now go to follow the path I have chosen.' Landing softly on the ground the neko bent down to let the schoolgirl off her back. "Thanks Kilala, you can go back to Sango now." Kilala meowed back and began to fly off into the distance. She watched as the cat flew off into the horizon, making sure she made it back safely before jumping into the well. "Goodbye Inuyasha…"

Well what do you think? I know I went into detail a lot but it was the first chapter and I had to explain everything. The story really gets good after this! Pleeese review, I promise to write back and listen to the reviews!

Weird things that go unnoticed in the series and movies.

Where does the group keep hearing all these rumors from the almost never talk to any villagers unless the have to. The beginning of the story always starts with them hearing a rumor.

How come kagomes skirt never flies up I mean come on! She falls down a cliff and all it does is ruffle?

How come in the second movie the whole group acts like the have never met Akie- toki- hojo? I mean he was in at least 4 episodes of the series. I mean come on, would you really forget a guy that you thought you were going to be married to, said he loved you like 5 times, and saved your life?

What kind of mom lets their daughter travel through time, fight vicious deamons, hang out with older and stronger guys, and skip school?

That's all folks

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