'How can something so pure as one's love for another be tainted by the evil of another's revengeful rage? And how does one's wish break the spell of a life long curse? It is such questions that will start our story today and bring new meaning to the word love. It is used quite often, but how often is it truly from the heart?'

Chapter One

It was a peaceful night in the sengoku jidai. The stars seemed to shine especially brightly in the sky, and Kagome noticed this. She gazed up at their shining brilliance in awe. They were like tiny diamonds on a black backdrop. Clustered together so closely, and so perfectly. It was the most amazing sight she had ever seen.

She turned her to see her sleeping companions as she lay in her warm sleeping bag. She looked at her friends peaceful faces, Sango, who lay against the two tailed nekogen youkai. Miroku, who sat with young Shippou asleep on his lap, leaning against a tree. And finally, InuYasha, who also slept leaning against a tree. She stopped and gazed at the slumbering figure. He looked so calm when he slept. His face seemed almost angelic, but his features that of a different tale. A tale of a man who had been ridiculed and laughed at his whole life. A man who never really belonged in normal society. And perhaps it was this that made her love him.

The Young mans face seemed to captivate her and hold her attention as though time itself had stopped. His long silver hair gently draped over his shoulders. His red horai wrapped around his shapely and muscular body and flowed onto the ground. And Kagomes favourite feature, his dog-ears, sat perched on the top of his head. Kagome thought of him as a masterpiece then. A picture of the one whom she loved so dearly, and she wished she could stay like that forever.

Eventually she pulled her gaze away from him and back up to the sky. The stars were so majestic 'this night, is almost perfect'. She took one last look at the stars and gently closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and brought in all the scents of the wild flowers, fresh grass, and the sweet smell of the midnight air. Then she let out a deep sigh as she heard the sounds of the wind blowing through the grass and the crickets playing their sweet songs. As she did this sleep started took overcome her. The sounds faded as she entered a world of magic and wonder in her dreams. The young miko slept soundly that night.

The next morning she woke up to the sound of her name being called repeatedly. As she left her world of dreams she opened her eyes to see Shippou right in her face. When the young kitsune kit saw that she had awoken he yelled happily and smiled.

" Kagome you're awake! Good morning!"

" Good morning Shippou. Why the wake up call?"

" Well you've been asleep for along time and I thought you should be woken up before InuYasha gets angry and wakes you up himself."

"Oh good call, could you get off me now so I can get up?"

"Uh, sure Kagome, I'll just go and play with Kirara."

Shippou jumped off of Kagome and ran over to Kirara in a nearby field to play in the flowers. As Kagome got up she looked down at her clothes. Her school uniform was torn and tattered and seemed a little to revealing. So she walked over to her bag and pulled out a dark blue mini skirt, a bright orange T-shirt, some 'under clothes', and a pair of orange and blue striped knee high socks. She then walked over to a tiny shack that was nearby. It was abandoned and out of shape and was roughly two meters squared. She quickly changed and exited the shed and put her uniform in her bag.

Well I'm gonna leave you here for now with a promise that the next chapter will be longer and have some action in it. My sister is bugging me for the computer so I have to go. Please R & R and tell me what you think of it.

TTFN – aku doujou