Disclaimer: I don't know why people make these, I would obviously be making a sequel if I owned Inuyasha. Therefore, I clearly don't. That's why I'm here writing fanfiction. Simple as that ^ ^!

AN- By the way I grew up watching the English dubbed version, so there won't be any Romanization. Probably.

Chapter 1: A Shooting Star

The sky was crying. Letting its cold uncaring tears fall onto the lower beings below.

"Don't you dare come back girl!"

A loud splash was heard as the girl fell onto the pavement.

"You fucking retard, I should have gotten rid of you sooner!" yelled the middle-aged store owner as he talked down to the teen in the rain drenched street. "It's all your fault!" he spat. "No one's been coming to the store because of you!"

He had yelled and thrown her out of the small convenience store he owned, but the girl still didn't talk. What the hell was wrong with her? She was creepy… just as the rumors said. "Dammit." He thought. Just his luck. He cursed under his breath "Mute piece of shit."

The door slammed shut as the teen looked up with apathetic eyes. She got up, out of the dirty puddle she was thrown into, and slowly walked away from the place she once worked at with no destination in mind. Each foot taking her farther down the damp barren streets.

The rain soaked figure clung to the little warmth her dirty brown jacket had to offer. "It happened again." She thought, "What am I going to do now?"

The young girl let out a sigh, and then reluctantly looked up to the cloudy mass above. The raindrops fell so easy, but Rin had lost the ability to shed tears a long time ago. Because there was no point to it anymore, she had already lost everything important to her...

That ugly paralysing feeling was starting to rise up her chest, and there was nothing she could do to ever get rid of it. But there was one thing she had that made things bearable. So, Rin continued to look up, flinching every time she was unlucky enough to have the cold droplets pierce her eyes. She was looking for something, hoping for even just a splash of blue. The blue that seemed endless on better days in the past, where song birds flew as laughter played in the background of her memories. She wanted to feel and live out that memory again, but that seemed unlikely since every square inch of the sky was covered in an ugly mass of filthy gray.

And so, she closed her eyes, feeling the icy rain as it hit her face.

She was poor, her family was… wasn't with her anymore, and she had hardly been able to make ends meet for the past two year. Now, on top of all that she had just lost her job. Rin had barely gotten that job too. It was hard to get work in such an area, and even harder for her. The only reason she was able to score that one, at that horrible man's convenient store, was because he had just recently moved into the neighbourhood and his store was far enough away that the locals in her area would rather frequent a closer corner store. He hadn't had presumptions of her, nor had he heard any of the rumours.

Eventually he did though. All it took was one bored housewife who needed a scratch card to walk in and see her, and everything fell apart. Everyone in the small town shunned her, believing she was cursed. They said things like 'anyone linked to her would suffer'.

The prime example for them, of course was what happened to her family.

People thought she was favoured by the devil since she hadn't died that day. It was the twenty first century, and yet no one wanted to associate with her because of a superstition. She had gone mute after that horrid incident, and instead of showing her kindness and compassion, for some reason everyone hated her. She was alone.

With any kind of human interaction off the table, there was only one thing she could really find comfort in. Her memories. The memories she held dear to her, and quelled all the overbearing challenges she had been confronted with so far.

When things got bad, as they often did, she would look at the simpler things around her that reminded her of a better time, and would live out the comfort she had felt in those memories. Such as those sweet summer nights she had spent with her mother. Those nights where she had taken Rin with her to star gaze, giving the little girl a chance to catch a glimpse of another world full of allusive shooting star that would grant her any wish.

"Because, maybe someone listens to those wishes." She thought childishly as she opened her eyes. A small smile graced her lips at that very thought. "Hopefully these clouds will clear up before tonight. If I see a shooting star maybe I'll be able to wish for a new job."She joked and giggled softly at the thought of a business man coming up to her door and asking her to take a job at his company the next morning. In her mirth she looked back up to the horizon, and suddenly her smile dropped, and her brows knit together. Rin squinted. She swore she just saw-

A movement behind the clouds caught her eye, and then all of a sudden a blue streak of light painted the sky.

The light slashed through the gray film of rainclouds, parting, and revealing the blue sky she had been searching for just moments ago. Then, just as fast as it appeared, the light faded and vanished behind some far away buildings.

She stood there motionless, staring at the buildings in the distance. Staring at where she had seen the light disappear and… possibly drop to the Earth.

All of a sudden, wind was hitting her face, and her lungs cried out for air. She was sprinting. Sprinting towards those buildings as if her life depended on it.

"Was… was that a shooting star?" Rin thought franticly. "Did it really just fall out of the sky?" Soon millions of other questions were racing through her mind, but a dominate thought slowly made everything else fade away. One thought that plagued her for years, ever since the first night her mom had taken her out. "If that really was a shooting star… what do I wish for?"

Rin realized she hadn't thought of one yet. She had always thought she would know what to wish for on the spot if she actually saw one someday. But, now that she might have actually seen one, she had no idea what she wanted. The earlier remark about wanting a new job had been mostly just a sad joke. But if that was a real shooting star- "… It would be a waste of a wish, especially when you could have whatever you wan-"

Abruptly halting her train of thought Rin slowed down to a jogging pace, then came to a slow stop.

"Why are you talking as if shooting stars actually make wishes come true Rin?" Face masked, as she asked herself seriously in a moment of cold awareness. What was she doing? Sure, she was childish, but when it came down to it even she knew there was no way a shooting star could have fallen. There were so many facts pointing to the impossibility. She wasn't stupid, a shooting star falling from that height would have made a bigger impact, and there was no way it could have fallen to the Earth without some kind of warning from the government or something. And even more farfetched was thinking some mystic rock was actually waiting there to grant someone's any wish. Somewhere deep down, where her hope had slowly started corroding away with every passing day on her own, Rin knew it was stupid to keep believing in the notion that shooting stars really granted wishes. She wasn't a child anymore, she could never go back to that time. That's why she knew there was no reason to go, or hope for anything. It wasn't realistic.

Yet, she found herself walking again, then jogging, and soon running as fast as she could towards those buildings once again.

The feeling was back, that paralysing feeling. But this time it was different. It felt as if something was clawing up her esophagus, and it made her throat constrict and throb, her chest started heaving, making her want to collapse onto the ground, and then, all of a sudden her eyes felt a piercing sting unlike that of the raindrops from earlier. A wave of nostalgia hit her as she realized what was happening. She was on the verge of tears, because she knew what her wish was. What it had always been.

If she really could have whatever she wanted. Even though wanting it was painful, and she was almost one-hundred percent sure nothing would be waiting for her, her hope for something to be there was what kept her running and sane for these past two years.

She knew how stupid she was being, but none the less, she couldn't help but hope that the blue light was really something worthwhile. Something that could grant her wish, and save her from the endless misery she lived out daily.

"Please, God…." She begged silently. "If there really is someone that listens to the wishes made on shooting stars, please…" Her tears were breaching the corners of her eyes.

"I don't care if I'm poor. I don't care that I'm hated..."

She thought she had come to terms with it.

"If you had to take away my family-" A sob broke out from her mute throat. "If you really had to do that to me, then please… I... just want one person…" She tried to wipe away the water that blurred her vision as she ran, but failed as more took its place. "I... just want one person. One person that won't leave me!"

Yet here she was, begging. Begging for someone to save her.

"I'm so sick of being alone!"