Disclaimer: Dragonball Z and its characters are properties of Toriyama Akira, Bird Studio, Viz Communications Inc., etc. Inuyasha and its characters are properties of Takahashi Rumiko, Shogakukan Inc., Viz Communication Inc., Sunrise, etc. I do not own them and I don't make any money out of this. This is written for fan entertainment and the fans around the world! However, I do own this story.

Writer's note: Goodness, long time no see! I haven't been much of an active writer lately… Sorry for that, the lack of inspiration, writer's blocks and laziness, not a good combination. XP Let's just say that I will write whenever I feel like. Okay? Okay. And now, I feel like to write! XD A crossover fic! My first DBZ x IY crossover! For some reason, my love for DBZ has returned and I still love Inuyasha… So, why not make a crossover out of them? ((grins))

Also, I would thank couple of authors here, who've also wrote good DBZ x IY crossover fics! They've inspired to write this as well!

Again, apologizes to all the readers of "Demon-Priestess". I've lost my interest on the fic. Reason? There's no actual reason. I just got bored with it. No inspirations to continue with it.

Pairings: Goku x Kagome + others

Rating: K+

Category: Romance, adventure, action, AU, crossover

Fiction note: A DBZ & IY CROSSOVER! Therefore, this fic is going to be complete AU. Let's say that before meeting Chichi, Goku met Kagome first when he was a kid. As for Kagome, well, she won't be going to Sengoku jidai. This fic starts after defeating Cell and Goku didn't get killed from Cell's blast. This fic MAY seem weird because of the changes in it, so try to bare it, okay?

Also, this fic is un-beta-read. Sorry for the grammar and spelling errors.

Warning: Slight anti-Chichi-fandom… I just don't like Chichi… not one bit. There are some good about her, but I think Chichi is most of the time a bit… bitchy and selfish.

Summary: Kagome is remembering her times with Goku, from their childhood to their present time.

A Dragonball Z & Inuyasha Crossover Fanfiction

"New Kind of Beginning"
Part 1

Written by M.K. a.k.a. Fall Angel © 2006

Kagome watched with interest as the two last remaining saiyajin – Vegeta and her husband Goku – sparred at Bulma's place. Oh, but it wasn't one of their actual fights. More like a friendly fight, at least in Goku's part it was. Kagome could see from Vegeta's face that he was serious about their spar. It all happened because Goku stole some of Vegeta's food from the saiyajin no ouji's plate, which angered Vegeta and he punched Goku across the Brief family's garden.

They have kept going on with their "spar" for half an hour until Bulma finally growled in frustration and lost her patience. "That's IT, Vegeta! You better stop this right now or else I will rip your precious gravity chamber into PIECES! You hear me, vegetable head!"

Vegeta heard her and turned around sharply to growl back at her. "You touch the gravity chamber, and you're dead, onna!"

Bulma didn't look concerned about the threat. "Yeah, yeah! Whatever, Vegeta! Just, stop fighting Goku-kun! There's still plenty of food back inside!" The blue-haired woman huffed in annoyance and glanced at the giggling Kagome next to her. "Mou, Kagome… why didn't you do anything?"

Kagome shrugged. "I thought it was fun to watch them fight like this. I don't know about Vegeta-san, but Goku seemed to have fun fooling around a bit with him."

Bulma chuckled. "Yeah, it sure looked like that in Goku-kun's part. Oh well, I better ask the droids to bring out more food for those two. You want to come along, Kagome?"

Just when she was about to give her answer to the heiress of Capsule Corp, a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, lifting her up from the ground. Kagome let out a mild yelp of surprise, which soon changed into gentle sound of giggling and joy as Goku spun her around a bit. "Goku!"

"I guess you won't be coming after all, Kagome," the blue-haired woman winked slyly at her friend, "Well, I'll be going then. Be right back soon."

Goku set Kagome down, nuzzling his nose against her hair and taking in the sweet scent of her shampoo – the scent of fresh lilies. "Sorry Kagome. I couldn't help it." Goku grinned widely.

Kagome pouted at him, her eyes shining with mirth. "Mou…"

Goku kept nuzzling his face against hers, breathing in her scent.

"Hey, Goku!" Krillin yelled out to capture his long time friend's attention interrupting their moment.

Kagome gasped sharply and as for Goku, he looked over his shoulder in puzzlement for a second before his face broke into wide smile. "Krillin! Hiyah!" He had his hand over Kagome's shoulder, leading her to Krillin.

"Oops. I seemed to interrupt something, huh?" Krillin scratched his head in embarrassment.

Kagome blushed slightly, "It's alright, Krillin."

"Ah, well. How've you two been lately? After the battle against Cell and all?"

"All is good, Krillin. We have been relaxing most of the time and sometimes I spar with Gohan." Goku smiled widely with a child-like innocence on his face.

"Good to hear that, Goku." Krillin grinned.

"Well, I will leave the two of to talk. I'm going to sit on a chair." Kagome patted on Goku's chest.

"Ah! You need a hand, Kagome? Let me…"

"No need, Goku. I'm quite alright. And so is he." Kagome pointed at her slightly round belly with a smile.

"My gosh, Kagome. It's starting to show off!" Krillin exclaimed in surprise. "Say, how do you know it's a boy, anyways?"

Kagome giggled. "A mother's institution." Kagome gave them a slight wave and went to sit. She exhaled in relief. She wasn't exactly telling the truth to Goku and Krillin. Her ankles were a bit sore from standing up still. She wriggled her feet free of her shoes and rubbed her ankles a bit. Leaning back against her seat, Kagome watched as the two childhood friends talked, remembering their past and their adventures together.

As they talked, Kagome's own thoughts also wandered off to her memories. Back to her childhood, at the time when she used to live with her uncle the Ox King and her cousin, Chichi.

Ah, those were the days…

"Mou, I wonder where can I find the home of uncle's famous Mutenrooshi-sensei? Uncle could've given me some more details about the direction. "Forward to the beach", he said. Humph." Eleven-year-old Kagome murmured thoughtfully, looking at the map before her for a second, before letting out a sigh of defeat. "I'm lost. This is one "battle" I can't fight. Finding the right direction."

Kagome was wearing a red and white sleeveless Chinese shirt with matching red wristbands and black pants, her black shoes matched with her outfit. Half of her shoulder-lengthened and midnight-black hair was held back in a ponytail while the rest of her hair was loose. Unlike her relatives, she refused to wear any armor or anything revealing like the one her cousin, Chichi was wearing. Or anything as embarrassing as the one her uncle Ox King has on. Kagome shuddered.

"Well, looks like I don't have any choices here. Gotta keep on moving now." Kagome folded the map and stuffed it back into her tiny backpack. After she walked couple of feet forward, she heard someone approaching her from behind. Kagome became alert and went to her self-defending position to fight anything that is life-threatening to her. But what she saw before her, made her gapped in amazement.

"Oi!" The boy with a monkey tail on a yellow cloud shouted out. "Are you Chichi?"

"Eh? Err, no! I'm Kagome…"

"Ooh? So you're Kagome? Well… your dad, Ox King…"

"He's not my dad. He's my uncle." Kagome corrected him.

"Well, he asked me to find you and help you out… but I don't see this Chichi-person anywhere…" The boy scouted out for the other girl from his cloud.

Kagome couldn't help but to stare at the strange boy before her, riding on a cloud, nonetheless! And he has a tail as well! Not to mention his hair looked like a bird's nest to her, black and wild as if it hadn't been brushed for every long time. He was wearing dark blue clothes and on his back there was the Nyoibo-stick.

"Anoo… who are you? You seem to know my name and my relatives, but I don't know you."

"Oh! I'm Son Goku!" The boy grinned widely with his hands wrapped behind his head.

"Nice to meet you, Goku-kun." Kagome smiled back to him. "So… you're going to help me to find Mutenrooshi-sensei?"

"Yep! I know where to find him! I met him before! C'mon! Hop onto Kin-to-un!"

Kagome poked at the cloud, which seemed to tickle the yellow cloud. "Can it really carry me?"

"Sure! If you got a pure heart then it can carry you!"

"Oh!" Kagome's eyes widened with joy. "Then there won't be any problem to me!" Kagome hopped onto the cloud and sat down next to Goku.

"Hehehee! You're nice! Okay, let's go then Kin-to-un! To Mutenrooshi's house!" Goku cheered up the cloud to go top speed and Kagome hold onto him so she wouldn't fall of the cloud. "By the way… are you a girl?"

Kagome giggled at the memory of Goku's innocent question. Boy, was he a clueless boy back then. Couldn't even notice the different between a girl and a boy.

They did find the famous Mutenrooshi and asked for his help to put out the fire on her uncle's home. When that was done, Kagome made a decision of her lifetime then.

"What? Kagome-hun, are you sure about this? Your momma won't like this one bit." The gigantic man bowed down to stare into his niece grey-blue eyes.

"I'm sure, uncle. I want to go with Goku-kun and the others! I want to see the world with my own eyes! Please, uncle… I want to go…" Kagome gave the begging look to him. "I promise, I will be careful… you know that I'm strong to take care of myself!"

Ox King scratched his neck helplessly while Chichi frowned at her cousin. "Well… sure thing, Kagome-hun. If you really think you can take care of yourself…"

"Yay! Thank you, uncle!" Kagome hopped up and down before jumping at her uncle, giving him a big hug in gratitude.

"Hey! How come Kagome can go and I don't?" Chichi complained, frowning at her father.

"Oh, no! You aren't going anywhere, Chichi-hun! You still got lot to learn about martial arts! Kagome, on the other hand, have been training martial arts much longer than you have!"

"Really?" Mutenrooshi stepped forward. "Say, little girl, who is your master in martial arts?"

"Well… my father was before he died. Higurashi Shigure."

"Ooh? Him? You're his daughter? My, my… your father was one of the greatest fighters, next to me, of course." Mutenrooshi coughed with pride.

Kagome sweated along with Bulma and Oolong. 'Yeah right…'

"You will come with us, Kagome? Cool! C'mon then! Let's go!" Goku grabbed onto her right wrist and pulled her on top of Kin-to-un. Kagome let out a tiny "eep" when she was pulled in.

"Hey! Wait for us!" Bulma shrieked and hopped on their vehicle, which was given to them by Ox King.

'What adventure it was… looking for those dragonballs… seeing other places and meeting new people. It surprised me when Goku changed into that giant ape. But at least we managed to change him back to normal again… or something like that. But I've to admit, I miss good old adventures like those. Hmm, maybe we should've a family trip together someday…' Kagome rubbed her round belly thoughtfully. 'After this little one has born into the Son family.'

After finding the dragonballs and seeing Shenlong the eternal dragon for the first time, Kagome and Goku went to Mutenrooshi to become strong and learn more about martial arts. At Mutenrooshi's place, they met Krillin and became friends with him. Back then, Krillin had a crush on Kagome but Kagome being a clueless girl, had no ideas about it.

They became strong from Mutenrooshi's silly trainings and as a final test of their strengths; all three of them were signed into the World's Strongest Tournament. Kagome did get to finals, but she lost as she fought against slightly stronger female martial artist, Tsubaki.

But that fight gave her another opportunity to become strong.

"Ugh…" Kagome wobbled her way to Goku and Krillin. "I lost…"

"You did great there, Kagome!" Goku cheered her up as he went to help out his friend.

"Yeah! You really held your ground against her! An adult woman!" Krillin praised her.

Kagome smiled sweetly at her friends. "Thanks, you guys."

"Indeed, you did well, young girl."

"Eh?" All three of them turned to look at the direction where the old woman's voice came.

The old woman in her sixties smiled thoughtfully at Kagome. She had an eye patch on her right side and dressed into a white gi and a red hakama, which reminded Kagome of a shrine priestess' outfit.

"Anoo…" Kagome started, staring at the old woman in puzzlement.

"Forgive me, child. Where are my manners? My name is Kaede and I'm a miko."

"A miko?" Goku asked.

"Yes. I'm a shrine priestess who watches over a shrine, protects and helps people."

"You, ma'am? But… aren't you old for that?"

"Krillin! Mutenrooshi-sensei is old as well!" Kagome scolded at her bald friend. "And show some respect!"

"Oops! I'm sorry!" Krillin bowed down in apology.

Kaede chuckled, amused about the three friends. "As I was about to say, I would like you to become my apprentice, young girl."

"Eeh? M-me?" Kagome pointed at herself, as Goku and Krillin gapped both at Kagome and Kaede in amazement.

"Yes. I can see you have potential to become stronger and become a miko as well. I can feel your hidden power deep inside you."

All three of them were speechless, their eyes wide and mouths wide open. "Wow." They managed to say out together.

Kagome agreed to go with Kaede but only if she could stay at the tournament to watch its end. Besides, she wanted to see Goku's fight against Jackie Chun. There was something about the old man that seemed familiar to her, but she shrugged it off her mind and kept watching the tournament with Krillin.

In the end, Goku lost his fight with Jackie Chun but that didn't matter to the audience. Sure, they managed to destroy most of the arena, since Goku transformed into a giant ape again. But they did give the audience a good fight and a great show. Kagome also thought that Goku fought bravely.

"Hey, Goku-kun! You did great!" Kagome jumped at the boy, hugging him close.

"Hehehee! Thanks, Kagome!" Goku hugged back.

"Well… I'm afraid this is goodbye for now. I'll be going with Kaede-sama."

"Already? Aren't you going to say 'goodbye' to Mutenrooshi?"

"Yeah, well…"

"Oh? What is going on here?" Speak of the devil.

"Mutenrooshi-sensei! Where were you? We didn't see you anywhere at the end of Goku's fight!" Krillin wondered.

"Well, I was in the middle of the crowd so it's no wonder you couldn't see me there." The turtle hermit explained.

"Ah, I see."

"Now then, what is talk about Kagome leaving, huh?" Mutenrooshi leaned forward at the youngsters for better explanation.

"She's coming with me to my home, Mutenrooshi." Kaede spoke out behind the turtle hermit, which made him jump in surprise and turn around.

"Ka-Kaede! Lo-long time no see, eh?"

"Hmm… Indeed, Mutenrooshi… still as dirty-minded as before, eh?"

"W-who? Me? No! Why do you think like that?"

Kaede stared at him with suspicious look in her eye. To which, Mutenrooshi coughed in embarrassment, his withered cheeks turned slightly pink.

"No matter. Come along, Kagome, let us leave now." Kaede was about to go ahead when suddenly Kagome stopped her, yet again asking if they could stay to celebrate their first experience at the World's Strongest Tournament. Kaede, being kind-hearted old lady, agreed to it and went to eat with Kagome and her friends. When the celebration was over, it was time for the friends to say goodbye.

Not only Kagome but also Goku wanted to leave to look for his grandpa Gohan's four-stared dragonball.

"Hey, okaasan? What are you doing here by yourself?"

"Oh! Gohan! You startled me. I was just thinking something, that's all. Now, why are you here? Weren't you with Piccolo-san just few minutes ago?" Kagome chuckled and blushed slightly in embarrassment.

"Well, I was. But I came to look for you. Bulma asked me to."

"Oh? Is something wrong?"

"Well… she said that Chichi is driving her crazy and she needed someone else to talk with." Gohan chuckled in a same way like his father does.

"That Chichi… she seemed to have changed a lot since the day I beat her at the World Strongest Tournament."

"Oh? Was Chichi-obasan different back then?"

"Well… A bit, but what was because… Oh, let's just say we both were interested on a same person…" Kagome winked at her firstborn.

Gohan blinked for few times clueless of what she was talking about, but then he realized and gapped at his mother. "W-what? No way! Otousan?"

"Bingo!" Kagome smiled knowingly at him.

To be continued…

Translations:

1. saiyajin - a Saiyan
2. saiyajin no ouji - prince of Saiyans
3. –kun - a suffix used for people of equal/younger age and equal (social) standing
4. onna - woman
5. mou - a mild curse, or an expression of frustration or anger; drat, rats, geez, gawd
6. –san - a polite suffix meaning Mr. Miss or Mrs.
7. sensei - master, teacher
8. oi! - hey!
9. anoo - an interjection; well, um
10. gi - a tunic-like garment, worn with a hakama with the tails tucked in
11. hakama - a wide-legged pants
12. miko - a priestess
13. –sama - a more respectful (even reverent) version of –san; means lady, ma'am, mistress, lord, master or sir.
14. okaasan - mother
15. obasan - aunt
16. otousan - father

Started: August 9, 2006
Finished: August 11, 2006