Prologue

Author's notes: This is another attempted fic. It's a Yusuke/Kagome/Kurama triangle tho. You need to vote on who she should with actually hehe. Sry, Hiei can't do because . . .you need to find out in this prologue why. Oh yeah, there will be some in Japanese meaning and some just plain English. I err . . .guess it could be confusing somewhat. Oh yeah, this is also a mix of genre, but you on your own have to decide on what genre it is. '

Disclaimer: I never will own these great animes'.

He smiled slightly and fingered the small sapphire ring. It's beautiful. Walking to his home, his mother waited there. The moving van was there and they started to pack their furniture. He was leaving today to Shukoku. It's farther away from Tokyo. "Suuichi-kun, come on we're leaving."

Turning around, he stared at the shrine. He'll really miss this place and his friends especially her. "Suuichi-kun!" He looked at the ring in his hand and smiled at it.

'I'l be back Kagome-chan, I promise.'

Kagome sighed. There is nothing interesting anymore. After retrieving the last shikon no kakera, she was thrown back into this world. Not much of a shocker to her since she was expecting this anyhow. Though, she really misses Inu Yasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippou, Kirara, and the others.

There isn't anything left to do, but to . . .sigh. Okay, I'm getting over depress here. Again, another sigh escaped her lips. "Kagome-chan!" She looked up suddenly, a bit startled. Yuka waved her hand in front of her face a couple of times just to get her attention.

"Huh? Wh-what is it?" she asked blinking.

Yuri sighed. "You haven't been listening to us have you Kagome-chan? We were saying how great it is to finally go to high school. You did pass all your classes in summer school right?" The dazed miko nodded. "Oh, I am so glad we won't have a friend that dropped a grade." Kagome laughed nervously.

Ever since she came back to her world, she had to go to summer school to make up some of her classes she missed. Thanks to Houjo, Yuka, Yuri, and Ayumi she was able to pass English, History, and even Math. Though there was a price, and that was to buy her friends lunch and go on a date with Houjo-kun.

Kagome waved goodbye to them as they climbed on the bus. She turned around and looked at the shrine longingly. She missed Inu Yasha so much. He would always come and get her at her school or wait at her house and take her to Sengoku Jidai. Shouldn't she be happy? There won't be any hanyou to come and bother with her studies anymore or embarrass her.

Come on Kagome, snap out of it. You're stronger than this. Yeah, I just need to keep telling myself this. Trudging herself on the shrine's steps, she did not notice that she walked straight to the Goshinboku tree until she had actually stopped. Looking up, her eyes wavered just for a second.

Shaking her head, she turned from the tree and started to head back in her house. There isn't much to do after school, but hang with her friends. And her life is back in order, shouldn't she be glad that it's all over? Instead, depression fell over her. She wants to be with her friends in Sengoku Jidai and travel around all of Japan collecting shikon no kakera.

Lifting up her right hand, she placed it on the left of her waist. It went back inside her once the last piece combined with it. She should feel happy, so why is she so sad about it?

Walking in her house, she took off her shoes. "I'm home!" She called out. When she didn't hear any response, she walked into the living room. Souta didn't came back to school yet, she just saw her Ojiichan sweeping the shrine's steps, and here her okaasan is looking through a box. "Okaasan?"

"Ohayo Kagome-chan." Curiosity got the better of her as she walked up behind her mother. Kagome jumped, startled when her okaasan swiftly turned around with a thick photo album. "Ah, Kagome-chan, just in time. I want to show you this."

Blinking in surprise, she sat down next to the woman. Coughing slightly when her mother blew the dust out of the book. "This is so old, I don't think you remember much of it."

Kagome watched carefully as her okaasan opened the book. It was Kagome as a baby. Kagome smiled at the pictures. "You are so adorably Kagome-chan." Smiling, Kagome flipped the pages and saw a picture of herself wearing nothing but boy's clothing. She looked up at her okaasan when her hands started to shake.

Her hands were shaking uncontrollably. "Please don't hate me Kagome." Furrowing her eyebrows, Kagome flipped the pages. A gasp escaped her lips. A youkai? Red, dark ruby eyes, long silky black hair, and he was holding her against his chest when she was an infant.

"Err . . .I don't get it kaasan." Kagome looked carefully at the picture. She took the picture in her hands and stared at it closely. He sort of looks like someone, but who? Looking at it carefully, her eyes began to widen. "He looks like me!" She flip the pages again, but this time she saw a little boy with spiky hair and red ruby eyes. He was glaring at the camera it seems.

"What is this? Okaasan?" Kagome whispered.

Her okaasan smiled. "Well, y-your a hanyou." Kagome had to bite her lips from screaming. A hanyou! Kagome stuttered. "Th-then who is this boy?" Kagome pointed to a the boy with spiked up hair.

"He's your half brother, Hiei. Unlike you, he's a full blooded youkai." Kagome's head started to spin. She has an aniki along with a otousan that is a youkai? What in the world is happening? I thought I live in a normal life now. Before she knew it, she fainted on the couch.

"Okaasan, I'm home!" He called out taking off his shoes. As he walked deeper into the house, he saw his mother rummaging through some boxes. She was tossing anonymous object over her shoulder almost hitting him with some. He blocked and when he finally reach her, he sees he holding a photo album?

"Oh Suuichi-kun, you're just in time." He inclined his head in confusion. His mother gestured him to the sofa and he obliged by sitting next to her. His mother coughed at the amount of dust she blew on. "Do you remember?"

He furrowed his eyebrow. "Remember what exactly?" He asked curiously as his mother slowly opened the photo album. He looked down and was surprised to see him when he was only around six years old. A small girl had an arm around his shoulder as a friendly gesture with a peace sign.

Blue eyes. He looked closely at the picture, but his mind were blank. The girl in the picture somehow seems familiar, yet, he could only draw blank. He looked at her smile and then at himself. It amazed him to see that he was blushing furiously. Never have he caught himself blushing as he was now inside the photo. He was red as a ripe tomato.

As he looked closer, his eyes widen at the sapphire ring the girl was wearing on her middle finger. He lifted his hand slowly and touched the small ring which hung on his neck, make-believing as a neckalice. He thought that his mother bought it for him along time ago. It turns out this girl gave it to him.

The girl in there seems to be a few years younger considering she seems small. "So this is where I got this ring from?" He asked eyeing the ring in his finger.

He looked towards his mother Shiori, who was grinning at the photo. She turned to him with a warm smile. "You truly don't remember her do you?" Is her simple question. "Well, I can tell you who she is, even though I haven't seen that small adorable girl for eleven years or so now." Her eyes started to become dreamy, "I wonder how my daughter-in-law is fairing . . ."

Da-Daughter-in-law? Doesn't that mean . . .

"Oh Suuichi-kun, you will love your fiancee! She is so sweet when she was small and very cute, right now she must've grown to be a lovely young lady . . .

He already tuned her out. Kurama doesn't want to be disrespectful for ignoring her, but once he heard that he has a fiance his mind started to run. I have a fiance? But what about Botan?

"Suuichi-kun, are you listening?" He blinked and turned to his mother with a smile and nodded. "Well, I was getting to the part where you really became attached to Kagome-chan."

He blinked. "Ka-Kagome?"

His mother nodded. "Yes, that's her name. You two were so inseparable at a very young age. You used to be very distant with people when you were young, but ever since you met Kagome-chan, everything seem to have changed for the better." She smiled and clapped her hands together. "Oh yes! I remembered something, you had cried two days straight and wouldn't eat anything when we first moved here. You told me that Kagome-chan is the most dearest person to you besides me."

Kurama almost fell over. Him? Crying? How is that even possible? Wasn't Youko there to keep his emotions in check. Wait, if he was young then, wouldn't Youko know of her? Why wouldn't Youko show him his childhood memories?

She soon pointed to the necklace that hung around his neck. "This used to be hers given to her by her father. She gave it to you for you to remember her by."

He fingered the small ring.

Yusuke yawned in the park. So what, Keiko dumped him, what's the use now? Even though he fought all those battle sometimes for her. Now she just end up and dumped him just because he doesn't spare any time with him. That's just ridiculous. Well, it didn't matter to him now. He lay down on the bench and heaved out a sigh.

He was actually going to pass middle school for some bizarre reason, yet, it doesn't feel right. He looked up at the clouds and another sigh escaped his lips. Why the hell do I have to sulk here? He picked at his ear out of frustration.

"Puu." He glanced up at Puu who floated above him. His blue spirit beast seems to be depressed. Of course, I'M depressed. He sat up and slouched.

"I wonder if Kagome's home this time?" He question to himself as the small spirit beast plopped itself on his head. He's known Kagome for awhile now. After helping her with those demon, she probably didn't realize it was them, she offered to bandage him up. It was a few months ago, but he remembered her cherry face. They had a few arguments, but she only said that she's used to attitude like his.

Well, Kagome is actually his 'secret' best friend. He haven't told anyone even Kurama. What he heard from her, her love life seems to be worst than his. He notice that she's always missing. He sometimes heard from that old superstitious fart that she moved to some country or something. But the next day he arrived at the shrine, she was right there glaring daggers at her grandfather. He guessed the old fart was lying.

"Nah, I'll visit her some other day."

Kagome woke when she felt small droplets of water in her eyes. Slowly, she opened her eyes only to face with her okaasan. "Anou . . .Tell me that was just a dream." She whispered sitting up on the couch.

Sadly, her mother shook her head. "I'm sorry Kagome-chan, but you are a hanyou and you do have an aniki. But, I doubt that that boy remembers. Even you don't remember."

Kagome rubbed her temple. Another headache is starting to build up. "Okaasan," Kagome whispered. "Is there anything else you want to tell me before I black out once more?" She asked, groggily. Her okaasan laughed nervously and that indicated nothing good.

"Well, you also have a fiance."

"Nani!" Kagome screamed shaking the whole house. She started to feel dizzy again when she jumped out of the couch. She plopped on the couch and shook her head. "Why all this time and you didn't told me?" Kagome looked at her okaasan. If the woman in front of her wasn't her mother, she would be glaring murderously at her right now.

Mrs. Higurashi laughed nervously and placed her right index finger on her chin. "Well . . .It just-" She laughed again. "Never came up." Kagome fell down, but picked herself back up just as quickly.

Her mother laughed nervously. "Here, he's really a nice boy, just a bit distant." She ushered Kagome to sit next to her. Kagome groggily scoot over to her mother and looked at the album as she flipped another page. Kagome blinked and looked carefully at the boy. Who is he? She was hanging on him with an arm around his shoulder doing a peace sign. She looked at him. A small smile came to her lips. The boy was blushing furiously, but she has to admit, he is an adorable boy.

He reminds me of Shippou, but his hair is pure red. He is an adorable boy with emerald eyes with short red hair. He was wearing a small red yukata. And she was wearing a sky-like yukata. She's guessing this was taken around a summer festival. She eyed carefully and saw a ring on her finger. How come she doesn't have it now?

"Okaasan, what happen to this ring?" She touched the photo and pointed at the small ring on her finger.

Her mother looked at it and grinned. "This ring was your father's." Kagome blinked and waited for her to go on. "Well, you gave it to Suuichi-kun along time ago though. I believe your aniki has the same one, but his is made out of pure ruby while yours is made out of pure sapphire."

Kagome blinked in surprise. So her father actually gave an inheritance of some sort. I just hope my aniki isn't anywhere near like Sesshoumaru.

Kagome eyes the ring carefully. "Does . . ." She trailed off, "It do anything special?"

Mrs. Higurashi nodded. "Yes, it does. When both ring is put together," She paused. "What your father told me, when both rings are combined, that is when darkness will befall of the three realm. Everyone will be in an eternal sleep, even spirits." Her mother started to laugh lightly. Kagome's lips twitched.

Th-That's special? She rubbed the back of her head in confusion. "Okaasan," her mother stopped laughing and turned to her daughter. "That's nothing special. The three worlds can be out of order, meaning chaos will come, if it's even near each other." She whispered.

Her mother seem to contemplate that. "I guess that is why your father wanted Hiei to leave and never to meet you again, I think I remember that scene." Kagome sighed. Maybe its best not to find out, yet she knows that it can never be hidden for long. With the demon blood inside her and all.

"Oh yes, the rings are special. If in the right time when it's combined together, the ones who hold the ring will have what their hearts desire most."

"Yeah, in my case is traveling through time." Kagome mumbled.

"Well, I'll tell you about all this later. Souta is going to be back soon." Mrs Higurashi handed Kagome the photo album. "Here, look through this. Something might trigger your memories."

He sat on his bed and looked through the photo album. There is multiples of picture of that young girl. Who in the world is she? He have to admit that she is cute, but his fiancee? He already has Botan.

"Hello!" He quickly slammed the album as he felt his heart racing. What in the world? Looking over his shoulder, he saw Botan sitting, with her legs tucked under, on his bed. She was looking over his shoulder with her normal cherry smile.

"Hey Botan, please give me a warning before you that." He brushed his lips against her cheeks which made her blush lightly.

She smiled and soon floated above him with her oar. "Come now, Koenma-sama requested another mission that might needs all of you." She smiled offering a hand. He took it and they were instantly transferred to the spirit world.

Kagome sighed and flipped the page over. A redheaded boy was almost in everyone together with her. He was either smiling or patting her head. There was a few by himself and sometimes with another woman who seems to be his mother. She flipped through another and eyed her aniki. He seems so small though. She smiled when she saw one with her stuffing ice cream in his mouth. It seems to her that Hiei, this Suuichi dude, and herself used to be close. Yet, its all a blur to her.

"Hiei-oniichan." She smiled slightly. "I guess that sounds just about right. Suuichi-kun." She stopped and blinked. It feels like she said that once before.

Okay, done with the prologue. So Kagome can't travel to the Sengoku Jidai anymore, and she just found out she's a hanyou along with having an aniki and a fiancee. What more can come to her? Suuichi finds out he has a fiancee, and he's having a hard time remembering this girl. What will happen to him? Yusuke just got dumped and he wants to see his friend Kagome again.

Preview

Kagome is having a hard time coping with the news of her aniki, father, and a fiancee as she goes with her friends to the amusement park. While there, the Rekai Tentai was suppose to find her and get the Shikon no Tama not knowing her name, who she is, or even an image. Saying that Hiei and Kurama can sense the jewel. At the amusement park, the Rekai Tentai tried to have some fun. And Kurama has been trying to find a chance to tell Botan the news. Kurama, in a fun house mirror loses Botan and ended up lost with Kagome, having no clue it was her and vise versa. Kurama thought she was beautiful, but seems a bit cautious of him. Yet, they both found something in common. They somewhat recognize one another. Once outside of the fun house mirror, they bid farewell to one another without knowing the other's name. Soon, she goes back home to only feel youki, a powerful one. When she looks up at the Goshinboku tree, she saw . . .have to find out in the next chapter even though the preview pretty much a spoiler. Chapter 1: An Awkward Meeting