Hello again (title of a TVXQ song). I recently fell in love with the Sango x Kagome coupling and a story idea hit me yesterday. So here it is my second fanfic. And I'd also like to forewarn that this is again a Yuri fanfic and coupling so don't like don't read it. And if you flame me I will kick your sorry butt using my DDR leg muscles (I could kick a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do between 2 and 3 feet back when I was practicing kicks and she had a huge body pad to block her from the kicks even when I wasn't trying my hardest so be forewarned of that too^^)

Disclaimer: Kono kyarakutaa wa watashi no kyarakutaa jyanakute. Kono pon sutorri kyarakutaa wa Takahashi, Rumiko-san no. (Translation these characters are not mine. The original story and characters is Takashi, Rumiko-san's.)

Character profiles:

Yukimori, Sango: a 19 year old demon slayer on the run. She is forced to move to Tokyo to hide from her pursuers and decides to go to the University of Tokyo to avoid further suspicion she also disguised herself as a boy (she wasn't willing to cut her hair so she usually puts it up into a ponytail and wears a cap over it) and finds herself in an interesting predicament when she becomes a certain someone's apartment roommate. Her alias is Miyamoto, Kaoru. She is a freshman in college.

Higurashi, Kagome: also a student at the University of Tokyo, she has been looking for an apartment roommate for sometime when she accepts an applicant she mistakenly takes "him" for a "her" because she forgot to add a gender question to her applications (note Kaoru can be a boy or girls name but is mostly a boy's name). She is 18 and soon to be 19 and a freshman in college.

Kinyama, Inuyasha: is a longtime friend of Kagome's and he is secretly fighting his feelings for someone he desperately wishes he doesn't have feelings for a dear friend. He is a half-demon, dog. He is 21 and a junior in an all boys' college.

Kinyama, Inutaisho: father to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru is a famous demon all in his own right for being big business owner and he is legendary in the business for having made it to the top at the young age of 20 and he is now 50 and training his oldest son, Sesshoumaru, to be the heir to his company. He still doesn't look a day over 25 though due to his demon blood he will age slowly after stopping at 25 for the next few hundred years.

Kinyama, Sesshoumaru: is Inuyasha's older brother and though he has a cold indifferent front he does love his brother and would do anything to protect him (not that he'd ever admit it). He is full blooded dog demon and he is 24 years old.

Urusagawa, Kouga: is a longtime rival of Inuyasha's but they are still good friends despite their rivalry. He is full blooded wolf demon and he is 22 and also a junior in college with Inuyasha.

Fushicho Faction: this group named themselves the Phoenix (Fushicho is the Japanese word for Phoenix) Faction because as the name Phoenix their ability to appearing not to exist and being able rise ashes of their dirty work.

I might add new characters at a later time.

Prologue: Sango's family is a prominent demon slaying village during modern times and one day Sango comes back from training in the mountains near her village to find that everyone has been slaughtered and a note saying that they were going to find her and kill her too. She has now moved to Tokyo and goes to a university there.

Sango's pov

I arrived at the apartment I was to room with whoever had rented out and chosen me. Apparently it located on 1st floor and room number 8 at the end of the hallway. She/he had told me she kept a spare key inside a plant by her door. I looked around when I had no response when I knocked to announce my arrival. It wasn't under the plant … so maybe she had it hidden in the plant …? And luck had it I found it after digging a little bit. Hmm … she's a clever girl. She seems to have street smarts thinking to do that. I didn't want to bother thinking of my new roommate as she/he so I just thought of this person as a she. I assumed this because the person in question had said their name was Kagome but left it at that. I suppose that was also another street smart thing to do so no one could follow you or stalk you. Neither did she give out her address … just a description of the apartment and only told me the address by e-mailing it to my account, which was and that's how I ended up here.

I unlocked the apartment's front door to find it was no one else in the apartment. I walked in and yelled "Hello? Is anyone here?" I listened for something and when I heard no response I walked into the apartment a little more. I looked around and saw computer desk in a corner of the room with a few pictures on the desk as well as a printer and computer and its hard drive and little speakers on either end of the computer. It seemed there was a little CD/DVD rack as well on the desk and a desk lamp. Everything was so … neat. It seems my new roommate is a very clean person, not excessively so though to my relief. Street smart and neat, I'm just learning things about her by looking at her things and being inside her … no our apartment for the past few minutes.

I decided to go down the hallway and see which of the two bedrooms she had mentioned would be mine. Upon walking a few feet down the hallway I saw a door to my left and knocked softly, hearing no answer I opened the doorknob to find the room filled with various things, the theme being pink and blue. It seemed my roommate was a girl and I had guessed right. I didn't look for longer than necessary not wanting to invade her privacy. I guessed that the room down the hallway a little further to the right was my room. Wrong it was a bathroom instead with a bathtub and shower stall separate from each other. This bathroom was a decent size for being in an apartment complex. It looked to be about 12 by 6 over all. There was a double sink to my right and a large mirror fitted to be the same length of the bathroom's double sink. I could get used to this.

I walked down the hall a little further and found that my room was at the very end of the hallway and the door was located to the left, so I guessed that her room was located right next to mine. There seemed to also be a small little closet across from the door to my new room. Curious I opened it and found it to be a supply closet full of toiletries as well as things for the kitchen and so on. I finally walked to my room to find it empty but for some furniture including a bed, a desk and chair, a wardrobe, and a little side table with a small located on its center. Perhaps it was a reading lamp? There was also a larger lamp located to the right of the desk. I started unpacking my suitcase and satchel with what was left of my possessions from home and a few things I managed to buy with a secret stash of money in my house that amounted to a fair sum of yen.

I finished unpacking within ¾ of an hour. I just remembered I hadn't locked the door to the apartment in my exploration of this apartment. I went to relock it, when I got three feet within the door the doorknob started turning and I jumped right next to the door, landing silently due to years of training and crouched into a defensive and at the same time offensive position and braced myself for an intruder. I found myself shocked into quite the surprise when I had in my arms a young woman about the same age as me. I flushed in embarrassment and covered her mouth before she could scream and kicked the door closed. "Please don't scream." I said in a desperate attempt to calm her so she was a girl after all. When I was sure she wouldn't scream I gently righted her, seeing as I was the only thing keeping her from falling the way I had grabbed her left her leaning on me with almost all of her weight, which wasn't much I might add, and she had the heel of her sneakers against the ground alone, and let go of her mouth.

"Just who are you and what are you doing in my apartment," as I was about to reply she continued, something seeming to have clicked in her head, "wait are you supposed to be my roommate?" She asked I nodded my head once to indicate that she was correct. "B-but … y-you're a-a … b-boy," she stuttered nervously at me, I felt a small smile tug at my lips because of her face and reaction, "I thought … thought that … you … were a … girl." She continued hesitantly this time rather than nervously, her blush still very present and I was very conscious for the first time that she was beautiful. I hadn't taken time to look at her face earlier but now that I did, I could see she was very beautiful and adorable. The way she was acting right now was just too cute for words.

Glad that I had a naturally deep voice for a girl I lowered my pitch just a pitch, low enough for a guy but still high enough to be a girl's voice as well. I said "I never said I was a girl in my application," I explained to her and noted that she had an adorable puzzled look on her face, "you never had that question in your application either way." I said looking at her. She seemed to be in her "thinking" pose and it was, again, the most adorable thing I had ever seen. She tilted her chin to one side and had an index finger placed on her chin as she contemplated. "I … uh … I can move out if you feel uncomfortable with me being here, you know?" I said slowly cursing my luck once again. I had apparently startled her out of her thoughts with my suggestion. She looked at my face, shocked, and shook her head vehemently.

"No. No that is unnecessary, but thankful for being so thoughtful," she said looking at me and smiling a sweet smile at me. I felt my heart stop for a minute and I didn't understand why I was feeling this way, feeling so … flustered. I blushed seeing her cute and beautiful smile, "you don't seem to be a bad person and it would be very mean of me to kick you out just because you're a guy and when you'd only just arrived too." She added that last part as an afterthought, I think. "Besides, you don't have anywhere else to go do you?" She asked me curiously. I shook my head sadly, a small sad smile hedged at my lips. She looked confused by my sudden sorrowful countenance and then gasped as if she had just learned a great secret. "You … don't have family … do you?" It was more of a statement than a question but I nodded nonetheless. "Do you … mind telling me … what happened to … them?" She asked me gently and added quickly, "That's if you don't mind. And um … why don't we have a seat on the couch and I'll make you some tea?" I thought it over for a moment as we headed to the couch.

"I … I don't mind telling you," I said as we sat down next to each other, "and no thank you, I don't want any tea at the moment." She nodded her head and turned it in my direction to show me that I had her full attention. I started off slowly telling her I had been out by a mountain nearby my village, not telling her what kind of village it was, and how when I walked back to the village once I had finished I discovered a sea of blood and that everyone in my village had been murdered, no child, no animal, nothing had been left alive. Only I had survived. I knew I had to run away because they could be nearby for all I knew. I went to my house quickly and grabbed my family's hidden stash of money and went as far as my legs could carry me. I only stopped when I had arrived at a neighboring village several miles away and by the time I stopped and made it to this village it was nearing midnight. I found a kind couple willing to let me rest the night at their house. They told me to rest as long as I needed taking in my haggard and weary looking body they offered to feed me in the morning after I woke up. They also gave me some food for the road because they could tell that I was going to be going on a long journey. "They had done so much for me but when I offered to pay them some compensation they refused telling me to use it for myself on my journey." I sighed weary from reliving the horror and pain of that day little more than a week ago. When I looked up into her face I saw that she had been crying for a while now. She smiled sadly at me and took my hand and gave it a little squeeze. I felt my face warm and my heart start racing at the little comforting contact. I ducked my head down and said in a soft whisper "that was a little over a week ago. I wanted so desperately to give them all a … a decent burial … but under those circumstances who could?" My voice had started cracking mid sentence, not once but twice.

She looked at me with such pity in her eyes I wanted very much for her to become my friend. I almost yelped in surprise when I felt her arms envelop me into a warm embrace, which I returned a bit hesitantly, but I returned nonetheless. I her murmur something that sounded suspiciously like 'smells so good' and I wondered if I had heard her right when I remembered I had splashed a little bit of cologne on my cheeks. "Um … thanks," I said shyly and hesitantly. I was glad that I had a shy side of me that tended to be the same way a guy would act when embarrassed. She pulled back a little to look at me with a confused expression and light tint to her cheeks. Boy if I thought she was cute when she smiled and blushed red, she looked impossibly cute with a pink blush on her cheeks. "W-what? Is there something on my face?" I asked unsure why she was looking at me like that. She was looking so intently at my face I thought she would bore a hole through it. Her gaze then locked with my eyes.

"Huh?" She looked at me with a dazed expression. "Did you say something?" She asked me slowly seeming to have not heard my question. I looked at her and then flushed yet again, not only realizing that we were still hugging slightly, but also that her face was only few inches from my own. She seemed not to have noticed what little distance was between us.

I looked down and shook my head. "Um … it's … nothing." I said unconvincingly. She looked at me dubiously and ducked her head down so that she could see my face again and her big wide blue eyes were staring into my forest green ones, she looked at me intently as if trying to read my face. She smiled seeing my blush which made my face turn even redder. I could feel my heart beating faster again. "I … um … I'm going … to take a shower. Please excuse me … um …" I looked at her perplexedly only just realizing that I only knew her first name but thought it rude to call as such when she was only an acquaintance. "W-what … what is your … um whole name … Kagome-san? I um … never caught it." I said blushing profusely in embarrassment having forgotten to ask earlier. She blushed a shade similar to mine before she whispered in an embarrassed and shy voice.

"Um … Higurashi, Kagome, but you can just call me Kagome if you want. I'd actually prefer that though. I don't like it when people are too … formal with me." She told me. She looked at me expectantly and then asked me slowly and hesitantly, "um is it ok if I address you as … Kaoru?" A slow smile formed on my lips, she is just too cute. How can anyone be this cute? Really, I don't think I'd ever met anyone as cute as her personality wise or physically speaking either. I nodded slowly relishing the happy smile she gave me in response.

"All right then … Kagome. I'll go head off to take a shower then. Um …" I stopped to look at my watch and saw that it was about 10 till one p.m. and as if on cue I heard my stomach growl and felt my face burn from embarrassment. She smiled at me and started giggling much to my dismay darkening my already red cheeks and adding further to my embarrassment. I liked my dry lips, and swallowed hard, my throat felt dry too, I noticed. "I … uh … guess I didn't realize how … hungry I was." I looked down at the hands on my lap and heard her giggle die down a little.

When she had calmed down enough to talk she said to me cheerily "that's ok I'll go cook us a late lunch while you shower, is that all right with you?" She looked at me patiently awaiting my answer. I nodded not trusting myself to speak at the moment. She smiled and looked down as she murmured something that sounded vaguely like the thoughts I had been having about her since meeting her a little over an hour. It sounded a lot like she had said 'so cute' but I wasn't sure this time either if I had heard right because she didn't blush much or maybe it was because it was such a slight pink I couldn't tell. I stood up slowly and when I was about to walk away I felt her hand grab mine. I turned around to see a faint blush on her cheeks again and she looked like she was surprised by her own action. "Um … I was … um … wondering if it would be okay if I made some udong? Are you ok with spicy food?" She asked me hesitantly before looking up at me again. I nodded slowly and I felt another smile creep up my lips.

"I love spicy food. Yes I would like that very much …" I paused for a moment and then looked down at her thoughtfully, "isn't that a Korean dish?" I asked and at her nod my smile brightened. "I love Korean food! Almost every dish they have there are spicy!" I said in such excitement I failed to notice the soft giggle she started until it turned into a full blown out fit of laughter. When I noticed I smirked wickedly at her laughing figure and shoulders shaking from mirth. I took a step so that I was standing in front of her laughing figure and she was too busy to notice my hands slowly creeping down to her sides until I started tickling her. Surprised she yelped and fell back against the couch in an effort to get away from my merciless hands. It was my turn to laugh this time around and I leaned over to get into a better position to tickle her. She was laughing so hard she could do nothing to stop my attack. She used her leg to trip me and desperately stop the assault, but her plan backfired as I fell on top of her instead. I used my hands to try and balance myself and not fall too hard against her lest she figure out that I'm really a girl too. Because I was taller than her by a good 3 – 4 inches my face landed not an inch away from hers and my hands had unintentionally landed in between her arms and sides and if anyone was looking in on this scene it would look like I was a guy about to kiss my girlfriend. I knew I was in an awkward position but I couldn't help that I had closed my eyes some time during my fall. I could feel her hot breathe against my lips and it had a dizzying affect on me. I could feel my face turn into a warm inferno and my heart beat had sped up considerably. Her breathing was shallow and slow. When I finally opened my eyes I forgot how to breathe looking at her stunning sky blue eyes looking at mine. I could see her eyes had a glazed look to them and I wondered if I had hurt her somehow. Reluctantly I pushed myself up and held my hand out for her to help her up. She was still looking at me in such a dazed manner, her eyes never leaving mine for a second as she lay there. I wondered what she was thinking behind those brilliant and bright eyes. I smiled at her because even in such a dazed state, and I couldn't fathom how but, she still looked so adorable. She was the essence of cute times ten.

She still lay there even though my hand had been there for a while now. Worried I leaned down again and waved my hand in front of her face. "Hello? Is anyone home? Kagome, Ka-go-me, is anyone one home in there?" I asked and she seemed to come out of her stupor and then she blushed at seeing how close I was to her face yet again. I noticed that for a moment her blue eyes had darted down to my lips and then back up to my eyes. "Um … I uh … was trying … uh … you know … help you … up … from the couch." I said quickly and my eyes darted away from hers for a moment before returning when I felt a hand on my arm. I looked down at her again and saw that ever present cheerful smile on her face. I then straightened myself up and pulled her up using the arm she had been gripping to do so.

"I … um … think I'll go take a shower now." I said signaling that I was leaving by pointing in the direction of the bathroom and I walked around the table after she gave me a nod. I knew this was going to be one heck of a year living with her. I sighed when I got into my room and leaned against the door before I went to get my essentials.

With that thought I went to the bathroom to take a shower. Deep in thought I didn't notice that Kagome was standing in the middle of the hall near her door just as deep in thought.

Well here's my first chapter to Hesitant Love^^! Hope that you enjoy it!

Hikaru