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Chapter 1

Kagome stalked through the forest not really in the mood to care where she was going. Kagome looked around fighting off the urge to punch a tree. It wasn't that she knew that she shouldn't because it was pointless, but because she knew that if she punched a tree it would really hurt her hand. Kagome felt overly betrayed and hurt. She had the last straw with the man she use to think she loved.

Kagome knew better now, she knew that her love for Inuyasha was just a waste of time and she should have stopped it long before she was practically discarded like yesterday's trash. She could still remember all the words that were said as they rang in her head loud and clear.

~~Flashback~~

Kagome smiled as she looked up at the warm afternoon sun. She had spent a week in her own time due to the fact she had her graduation from High School and that was something she really couldn't miss. Kagome still wasn't exactly sure how she had graduated but she wasn't going to complain.

Kagome climbed out of the well and stretched as she stepped on the grass and felt the slight breeze. She picked up her large yellow bag that was freshly stocked with the supplies she needed to have in order to travel in the feudal era.

Kagome began to walk towards the village figuring that everyone would be glad to have her back though she knew that Inuyasha would be in a pissed off mood because he always seemed to hate it when she left to go home to her family. Kagome was rather use to it so she knew how to ignore him.

It wasn't long before Kagome was in the village and she said hello to all the villagers since she had come to know them rather well and she thought they were all really nice people. Kagome walked towards Keade's hut because she knew that was where every one would be.

When she got there she smiled as she walked in and instantly got attacked by a small brown fur ball. She hugged him to her and smiled softly. "Hello Shippo, Did you miss me?" she asked with a soft smile.

Shippo hugged Kagome back. "YES!, of course I missed you Kagome!" he said quite happily.

Kagome smiled softly as she looked around the room and smiled at Sango and Miroku. Sango got up when Kagome put Shippo back on the ground and hugged the woman she considered a sister to her.

"Welcome back Kagome" she said softly as she let her go.

Kagome smiled softly. "It is good to be back" she then looked towards Miroku as he stood up and walked to her.

"Lady Kagome, It is an honor to have you returned to us" He said happily as he hugged her and sneakily reached his hand around to have his hand rub her butt.

Kagome instantly tensed up when she felt this and took a step back from him easily breaking out of his embrace and slapped him across the face as usual.

Kagome and Sango just shook their head as they watched Miroku rub his cheek whimpering a bit as if he wasn't use to being smacked all the time for what he did.

Kagome looked around the room and noticed that Inuyasha was missing which was weird since he was normally the first one to greet her when she came back and yell at her about how she took way to long.

"Where is Inuyasha?" she asked looking at Sango.

Sango sighed a bit and Kagome knew instantly knew she wasn't going to like what Sango was about to say.

"Well.. He is off with Her…"she said not saying much more than that.

Kagome raised and eyebrow and sighed when she realized just exactly who 'Her' was. She knew right away that Inuyasha was off seeing Kikyo and she felt her heart break a little more like it did every time he ran off to find the undead priestess.

Kagome sighed as he put her bag down and headed out of the hut figuring she might as well go find him and tell him that she was back knowing he would want to know first thing. As soon as she excited the hut she spotted Inuyasha and Kikyo walking into the village and this raised Kagome's suspicion easily due to the fact she knew that Kikyo would barely ever be seen with Inuyasha in front of others unless she and another motive.

Kagome walked up to them with her old normal grin on her face hiding her pain that Inuyasha would seem to refuse to understand. "Hello Inuyasha, Kikyo" she said softly resisting the urge to say it in a cold tone when she said Kikyo's name.

Inuyasha 'fehed' as he stopped in front of Kagome. "Your Finally back huh? God you were gone forever! We need to be out looking for Jewel Shards!" he practically yelled.

Kagome sighed knew that it would be one of the first things he said. "I am sorry Inuyasha, but my family needed me back, it was a very important event that I could not miss." she said hoping that he would just drop it at that but she knew better then that.

Inuyasha just rolled his eyes. "Yeah well whatever, I decided that Kikyo is going to join our group, so that way when you go off to you family we can still look for jewel shards.. Besides she is the original protector of the Jewels anyways" he said with a huff.

Kagome was honestly and horribly shocked as she heard the words slip out of Inuyasha's mouth. She had never thought she would hear him say such a thing. Kagome knew that Inuyasha was ignorant to her feelings but to honestly go that far?

Kagome shook her head and she could feel her anger rising and her blood begin to boil at just the thought of being in the same group as the woman who actually got Inuyasha's love and attention and that was just something she could not stand.

She couldn't believe that the one she thought she loved would do something to her like that. To not even take her feelings into consideration. She figured that he would at least know that she had feelings for him but apparently he was either really that dumb or just that much of a jerk.

Kagome couldn't take it she knew she couldn't be in the same group as them. She looked at Kikyo and noticed that she was giving her a death glare and Kagome decided right then and there what she was going to do about this whole situation.

"Fine," she said as she turned from Inuyasha and went back into the hut, she picked up her bag and walked back out of the hut walking right past Inuyasha and the rest of the group not saying a word to any of them.

Inuyasha was pissed at the idea of Kagome leaving for obvious reasons. "HEY! Wench! Where the fuck do you think you are going?" he yelled towards he as he began to go after her.

Kagome whirled around when he spoke to her. She gave him a death glare and it made Inuyasha stop dead in his tracks. Kagome was now officially over her breaking point when it came to Inuyasha's bullshit.

"First of all, you know for a fact that my name is not Wench, and second I am leaving, I refuse to be a part of a group where I am no longer needed, Kikyo can sense Jewel shards just fine.. And as you said the Jewel was originally hers to protect." she said in a cold emotionless voice.

Inuyasha was shocked at first but then easily shook it off. "Well then Hand over the jewel shards and we will be done." he said not caring that Kagome was leaving because he figured she would be back in an hour begging to come back into the group and to be under his protection.

Kagome smirked. "No, I don't think so, I shall hold on to these ones and when you have gotten the rest I will gladly hand them over so the Jewel may be complete until then.. Goodbye" she said in the cold tone she had use before.

Kagome then walked away and into the forest with everyone just starting at the spot where she had stood not believing that Kagome was not acting like herself and just left the group.

~~End Flashback~~

Kagome sighed as she shook her head as she tried to get the whole entire afternoon out of her head. She looked up at the sky and knew that it would be dark soon and she had done well so far but she knew that some one could easily kill her in her sleep but she knew that she would have to try and figure something out.

Kagome froze when she sensed Naraku in the area. Kagome knew that she probably wouldn't stand a chance against the half demon, but she knew that she would not die without at fight. She took a couple of deep breaths as she pulled and arrow out and got it ready looking around the area trying to spot him.

Kagome managed to put a small barrier around herself hoping that it would give her some protection since she was still working on how to use it properly.

Finally Naraku showed him self as he stepped out into the clearing wearing his normal baboon suit that he just seemed so fond of. "ah.. Inuyasha's little wench… out all alone?" he asked in a amused tone.

Kagome's anger over what had happened early with Inuyasha easily spiked back up and she glared at the half demon before her. "I DO NOT belong to Inuyasha.. And I never will" he said with a growl. "My name is Kagome!" she said getting irritated.

Naraku seemed amused at her little outburst over being called Inuyasha's. Naraku could sense her anger at the other half demon and wondered what could have happened to make her act in such a odd way from her normal self.

"Ah… Well then Kagome… you should know it is very dangerous to travel by yourself… especially as night is falling…. People… might want to hurt you" he said trying to hold back his amused laughter as he smirked down at the human.

Kagome just rolled her eyes a bit. "Oh please, Naraku I can take care of myself… besides I don't want to be anywhere near Inuyasha ever again… "she said in a rather cold tone

Naraku was a bit set back he had never heard the little Miko talk in such a manner. He thought for a minute as a plan formed in his head thinking of a way he could hurt Inuyasha using the girl that was before him.

Kagome growled she could tell he was thinking about something and she had a feeling she wasn't going to like whatever twisted plan was forming in his head.

"If you are going to kill me then just do it all ready" Kagome said getting rather irritated as she went and shot one of her arrows at him in hopes that it would actually work but she doubt it would.

The arrow hit his barrier and reflected right off hitting a nearby tree. Naraku just laughed a bit. "Oh dear.. Dear Kagome to just kill you would be no fun at all.. I would like to make a proposition to you, if you would be willing to hear me out." he said wondering if she would or not.

Kagome looked at him oddly wondering what he had up his sleeve. "Whatever it is I doubt I will be interested in it" she said in a rather annoyed tone.

Naraku expected as much and just smirked. "Well Kagome, I have noticed that we have grown a common enemy since they last time we met..Inuyasha.." he said taking a small pause. "I want to call a truce and to team up to take down Inuyasha together since we cant seem to do it on our own" he said telling the truth.

Kagome thought for a moment thinking on whether or not she could really trust him or if it was just some trap that he had planned for her. But there was something in her gut that told her that he really did want to team up and she figured that she could maybe use this to her advantage.

Kagome figured that she could team up with him and take down Inuyasha since he betrayed her and she wanted to make him pay in the worst possibly way and Naraku was defiantly the person to go to in order to get help with that. And then if she was around Naraku long enough then she could maybe learn some of his weaknesses and find a way to kill him herself so she cold complete the Jewel.

Kagome took a deep breath making sure this was what she really wanted to do. She put down her bow and held out her hand as if to shake it. "I think you have yourself a deal Naraku" she said with a rather evil smirk of her own just thinking about getting her revenge on Inuyasha made her overly happy.

Naraku was a bit shocked that it was so easy to convince Kagome to come along with him but he wasn't going to complain as he smoke and stepped towards her and held out his hand for her to take.

Kagome watched him and was a bit hesitant at first but took a deep breath and took his hand. When she did there was a fog everywhere all of a sudden she was a bit shocked at first but then she remembered that Naraku always seemed to disappear into fog before.

The fog soon covered them completely and soon Kagome was only able to barely see Naraku who was right in front of her. She then felt a pull that she really couldn't explain and the next thing she knew the fog was dispersing and a large castle was in front of them.

Kagome let go of his hand and stepped towards the castle looking at it in amazement. The castle was huge and obviously use to belong to some kind of lord. Kagome was sure that Naraku got the castle to be this way by killing off the lord that use to live in the castle.

Kagome tried not to think about it as she looked back at Naraku "This is where you live?" she asked not sure why she seemed to ask such a stupid question.

Naraku nodded. "Yes, I just got this place because your little group destroyed my last home" he said as he walked towards the front gates that held no guards but Kagome could easily see the thick barrier that surrounded the castle so there was really no need for guards to stand at the gate.

She walked up to the barrier and stared at it nervously knowing she could seriously hurt if it didn't want her to cross it.

Naraku stopped when he noticed that Kagome was not following him. He turned to see her at the edge of the barrier looking at it nervously. "You may pass through it.. I have already altered it to allow you in and out of the castle." he said with a nod.

Kagome looked at him and nodded she took one last deep breath before walking through the barrier. Once she was through she looked down at herself as if to double check that it did not hurt her. Once she was sure she was fine she walked with Naraku up to the gates of the castle where Kagura and Kanna stood waiting.

Kagome could see Kagura's displeasure in her being there, which didn't really surprise her because she was pretty sure that Kagura would not want her around mostly for the fact that she hated her along with the others but she also knew that Kagura hated Naraku and the control he had over her.

When they were close enough she watched as Kagura's glare switched from her to Naraku. "What is this stupid wench doing here.. And of her own free will?" she spat out coldly looking Kagome up and down one final time before turning back to Naraku.

Naraku sighed as he shook his head. "We have come to an agreement and have gained a common enemy, So since she is with us now you must respect her and do not call her such foul names.. Call her but her name" he said coldly back.

"If I am to find out that you are doing anything to threaten or abuse Kagome then I will see to it that you are severely punished" he said easily reminding her the power he had over her.

Kagura glared but said nothing and just stormed off into the castle heading off to her room where she spent more of her time to keep away from Naraku.

Kagome watched all this and was rather surprised when Naraku made it clear that she was to be called by her name and nothing more which was something Kagome defiantly liked.

Naraku didn't say much to Kanna and she just walked off to wherever it was that she goes in her free time.

Naraku walked into the castle knowing that Kagome would follow. He had already decided what room she would stayed in and made sure it had been prepared before he had even went to go talk to her about joining forces.

The trip to her room was full of twists and turns and long hall ways. The trip was also very quiet because Kagome didn't really have anything to say to Naraku at the moment because she was unsure of everything she was doing at the moment. Kagome still couldn't believe that she had joined forces with a man she had spent so long trying to defeat.

Finally they were at her room and he slid the door open and stepped aside looking at her. "Here is where you shall stay, I hope you will find it to you liking." he said encouraging her to go in.

Kagome looked at him with a raised eyebrow since she wasn't so use to him talking so nice and normal. She looked at the door way and walked into the room a little nervous as to what she would find….

Melissa: And that is where I am ending this lovely first chapter. So I hope it is liked. This is the other fanfic that I am starting off and I know we need to get into gear on getting these stories going but it is proving difficult since we live across the country from one another and Meghan is a rather busy person.

Well please review and let me know what you think, the more you review the more I push to get these chapters out to you faster.