Tainted

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Dear God, I wrote another series. Okay, I couldn't help myself. This is an AU universe with the lovely Kikyou and Inuyasha in it.

Please tell if you like it. No Flames however, because quite aware of how many despise the pairing. I'm not interested in hearing it.

Rated: M (for future lemon)

Prologue

She only wished to live her days out as what she was: an untainted young woman. Those days however were numbered when she happened to catch an eye of an irresistible man.

Kikyou wasn't much for the things girls her age were. Instead of busying herself with searching for a husband, she was always behind closed doors, studying.

Her mind was set to worry only of wanting a career in medicine. Not, matrimonial.

It was pure irony that she'd run into him while she was busily running toward the local library.

Not so gracefully, either.

Books flew about into the sky as her paperwork floated about her, taunting her.

There was a husky laugh followed by a pair of legs standing before her. He hadn't bent down to help capture the papers he could. "I'm sorry; I wasn't watching where I was going." He mumbled apologetically.

"More like you ran into her, pal." The voice of the laughter said beside them. Kikyou looked up to find a young man with coal black hair twisted into a tiny tail at the back of his head. His smile however was the luring type to catch any woman in a woo. She on the other hand was immune.

The man barked at his friend to shut up before quickly apologizing again. Kikyou however found this one different. Swiftly he piled the papers together and then went a little farther out into the street to pick up the remainder. "Thank you." Kikyou said, surprised to find a smile on her lips as he handed her the pile.

Heat flooded her when he returned the favor and gave her a beautiful smile that had her knees weak.

Long strands of silver light hair had been pulled into a tight tail behind his head as he flicked his amber eyes toward her.

What was so different about him than all the others? And why did she suddenly have a fancy to kiss those kissable lips of his?

"It's not my fault you're an idiot who can't look where he was going," The blacked haired man stated.

The other turned quickly and snapped. "Well maybe if you hadn't been running off another one of you're perverted jokes I would have been watching instead of trying to shut you up."

Both men looked back with wonder when they heard a light giggle.

Had that just come from her?

She giggled again when the one with the long hair slapped the other in the head before turning back to her. "Please don't mind my friend, he's a bit extreme."

"Ha, Inuyasha don't start on extremes."

Inuyasha ignored the comment as he helped Kikyou with the rest of the books and placed them gently in her arms. "You need any help with them?"

Suddenly irritation went through her blood. Once again another man thinking a little labor was not for a young woman. Ha, what a laugh that she actually thought she'd found someone who thought differently.

Kikyou bit her tongue. "No." All humor was lost from her face. "Excuse me." She gritted through clenched teeth as she walked passed the two men.

"Aw, now look what you did. One time the woman doesn't bat long thick lashes at you and you piss her off."

Inuyasha clenched his hand as he watched the woman quickly make her way down the street with a firm stiff back to him. What the hell had he done to suddenly change her mood towards him? And here he really liked her.

"Shud'up Miroku. At least I don't go grabbing every woman's ass."

Miroku frowned, perplexed by his friend's comment. "That's a problem? To me it works just fine."

Once again ignoring his friend's rueful comments, he went in the direction of the woman in spite of his usual ways of acquainting himself with a woman.

Inuyasha wasn't a player but he also wasn't a saint. However this one particularly prodded his interest with earnest.

Who ever she was, his foot stumbled on to something nearly making him trip forward and crash his face into the cement ground, had just had nearly wrung his neck with a book?

He pulled the book from the ground, touching the front that had embroidery along the top in silver of a name.

"Kikyou."

tbc