Ok I got this idea recently and I thought it would be fun to write it down for you. I hope you all like it.

Oh and I don't own the characters unless otherwise stated.

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To Give A Rose

Prologue

Kagome was really happy, her mother had decided to take her to the park today to see the rose gardens and the cherry blossoms. They were also going to have a picnic, which the young girl also loved doing. She was only about 4 and as such was full of energy. Running around and giggling in the pink snow caused by the cherry blossom petals falling from the trees. It was late in their season and it was a rare opportunity to see roses blooming along side them.

As she ran Kagome came to the part of the park where the rose garden was and hurried over to it, not even looking back to see if her mother was coming. When she got there she stared in awe at the beautiful red roses and couldn't stop herself from reaching out and picking one, being careful of the thorns. Last year she had gotten pricked when she reached for a rose and had learned that the thorns were sharp. Smiling she held it to her nose and inhaled deeply. She giggled and looked around for more when she saw what she thought was a rose moving on the other side of the row of bushes. Curious she went around to see what it was, making it around she saw that it was not a rose but a head of bright red hair on a boy, not much older than her.

"Hello. My name's Kagome, I like your hair."

The boy turned to her with an impassive look, (AN: Think the kind of expression Sesshoumaru always has only on a five year old.) "Thank you." He didn't say anymore but this didn't bother Kagome at all as she walked up to him.

"Here." She held out the rose she had just picked, offering it to him. "It's the same color as your hair." She smiles as the boy takes the rose and looks the girl over with his bright green eyes.

"Thank you."

"What's your name?" The boy looks at her like he would really like her to go away but he feels that it is below him to be rude to the girl who was only being nice to him.

"My name is Suichi, Minamono Suichi."

She smiles even more, "Do you want to play with me?" He looks at her with the same impassive look as before. "We could play hide and seek, or follow the leader, or tag. There's a maze here also that we could play in."

Not wanting to be rude, but also not wanting to play he answers that he would rather just walk around and look at the flowers. Not deterred in the least Kagome follows him around as he walks through the rose garden and the other gardens in the park.

Thinking that the girl would leave him alone if he started to go further away from the gardens, and by default her mother, than she would stop following him. With this in mind he heads into the woods at the back of the park.

Not even caring that they were heading away Kagome continues to follow Suichi. After a few minutes and the two having gotten deeply into the forest Kagome trips over a tree branch and scrapes her knee as she falls. Holding her knee, which is bleeding a bit, as tears well up in her eyes.

Suichi smells the blood and tears from the girl that had been following him and turns around to see her on the ground holding her knee and crying silently from the pain of her scraped knee. He hardly hesitates before kneeling in front of her and moving her hands slightly so he can inspect her knee. "Its not very deep, but we should clean it before it gets infected." He gives her a slight smile before turning around and cups his hands behind his back for her to get on. "I know a place where we can clean it and get it to stop hurting."

Kagome nods and slowly climbs onto his back, wrapping her arms around his shoulders. He stands up and walks further into the forest. After a few minutes the two arrive at a clearing where a small garden has been built and tended to with care.

"A veggie garden?" Kagome looks at her new friend curiously from over his shoulder.

"No, it's an herb garden. These kinds of plants can do amazing things." He sets her down next to the garden and grabs a few leaves from one of the plants. Crushing them in his hand he turns back to Kagome and gently runs the crushed leaves over her scraped knee. At first Kagome feels the pain in her knee increase but then it quickly disappears and her knee feels numb. She looks at her knee to see that it has stopped bleeding and looks a lot smaller than it seemed earlier. "Wow! That's so cool. How did you know that plants would do that?" Her eyes light up, "Can you show me how to use plants like that?" She gives him a bright smile and he seems to blush slightly but it goes away rather quickly.

"Um, sure."

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After that first meeting the two met regularly at the secret garden in the forest. Suichi taught her about the various herbs that could be used for healing injuries and many that could be used to help with symptoms when one was ill. Over the years it became so normal for them both that Kagome never questioned why some of the herbs Suichi taught her about were ones that no one else had even heard of. When Suichi entered middle school he came less and less often until eventually he stopped coming at all. Kagome still came to the garden but after several months of Suichi not showing up at all Kagome also left the garden. Not long after Kagome stopped going to the garden she fell through the well and began her adventures in the feudal era.

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I hope that this was an enjoyable chapter. Not sure when the next one will be getting written or uploaded but I hope to do it soon.