My first fanfic!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me so happy!!! SUGOI! I never know what to say in these things so hopefully I'll keep it as short or as long as my brain wants. (For some reason it controls me instead of me controling it, but don't tell it I said that. _) Well, since the all mighty in my head decided it, I'm going to start writing. Don't be surprised if it's a little short, but don't worry, it's just the first chapter so the rest should be in a decent length! Well, here it is!!!! ^_^
Fu.sarah, memor.sam, all.chris, all.andy, Fu.ashley, Pr.ashley, Pr.amy,
Pr.jessie cha. Koga, Rin, sesshomaru, inuyasha, kagome, destiny, ioda,
shippo, aura, miroku, sango, kilala, kohaku Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha but I do have a dream about blah blah blah blah blah......

The Facts of Life

By: Crazyhakujin

Chapter 1: Confrontations

In the year 2087 the world went through an amazing transformation. Mother Nature had decided that man had hurt her enough and an eruption came from the far north that shook the world. Only a few demons, men, and women survived. The humans decided to start over in a way that would please Mother Nature. The demons thought differently. But demons and man alike had nothing to do with the artifact created that would change the world forever. After the eruption, an object was forged from the dead remains of the lost world. One day, as destiny fortold, one of the future generations would find the object and depending on the soul of the discoverer, would change the world for better or for worse.

People... They're always in trouble somehow. No one really knows why. They just know it's true. That brings up the current affair. It's the year 2150 right now. The month is April. A nice spring day smiles on the small country side somewhere in Japan. The cows graze peacefully and the horses run in the fields without a care in the world.
I'm sitting on the porch with my faithful cat Shibui. She sits in the last patch of sunlight on my lap as the day comes to a close. I am sitting peacefully with not a care in the world as to what is going on in the city not to far from the farm. All I am concerened about is the annoying dog that has been chasing poor Shibui. My mother said that the dog was a stray, and I thought the same until a demon came one night. It followed the stray here is what I thought. It was protecting the animal for some strange reason. Or maybe it was a brother to the dog. All I knew was it was a nusciance that needed to leave before my mother got me to get rid of it. And then one day, something weird happened. He arrived with a girl that looked a lot like someone I've known before, but I couldn't remember who. I went in the house and came out with cream for Shibui and some juice for me to sip on as I thought of my current situation. Then he came, the demon who looked like a dog, and he had brought the girl with him again. I wondered what she and the stray pup had anything to do with the dog-demon. He looked as though he was looking for something that he couldn't get his paws on. It also looked like the possession was here on the farm. But, why? Why here? Why now? Why when my father has died and we have no one to protect us? Why when we are very defensless and venurable, do they come? My questions are soon answered as the girl comes forward towards me with a strange pink contraption. I haven't seen one in real life, but I have read books from the past that have caught my attention with such devices.
"Sumimasen," she said. She looked to be about my age, somewhere between 16 and 20 but I wasn't certian. She had the look of a foreigner to me, but her long black hair said that some of her heritage was of mine as well.
"We are looking for an object that's about this big," she motioned with her hands and made the distance between them bigger than about three of her width, " and has strange glowing things on it that look a lot like lamps. We think that it's here somewhere but we don't know where exactly. Have you seen anything like it?"
She looked at me with a face practically screaming her innocence into mine. Her companion came up behind her and glared at me with his large golden eyes. I couldn't help but stare. His eyes caught you in their depths until you could just throw yourself in front of him like a sacrifical lamb, which is what my brain nearly had me do if I didn't have the power to control myself.
"Kagome, let's go. I don't think she's going to have any answers for us since she's just sitting there," he spat. He seemed frustrated," I don't even think she's got the brains to talk."
I looked up at him and opened my mouth to tell this arrogant youkai that I did have brains thank you very much, when his friend turned around and smacked him with all of her strength and shouted," Inuyasha! You should know better than to talk about people in front of me. Now, SIT!"
Suddenly, the dog boy looked as though the weight of the world was just carelessly thrown on his shoulders as he hit the ground with a loud thump. He grunted and said something that was very hard to understand, but it sounded strangely like 'I was only speaking my mind you baka!'
"Well," I said quietly and the girl spun around as if she had just been swore at," if you really must know," I continued without knowing," I'll tell you. It won't be easy though. Come in and we'll have some tea and maybe I'll get out some sake for your rude friend here," I couldn't believe that I was talking to an actual person. It was so hard for me to make friends in the country that my own voice had even surprised me.

Kagomes P.O.V.
We had searched all of Japan and we finally found this old farmhouse that looked to be occupied. Inuyasha went to scout it while I stayed behind to keep camp. I wondered if what the old lady had said about the strange dog was true. She had told Inuyasha and I as we walked with her to her hut that what we were searching for would be marked by a mangy mutt that looked nothing more than a stray. I also wondered why a dog was the chosen marker, but my question was never answered by the woman, because as we arrived at the hut she collapsed and we found her to be dead.
"The dog's there, just like the old hag said." Inuyasha stated as he sat down beside me. He looked tired so I decided not to pound him with questions at the moment and put out the cooking fire to serve our meager dinner.
The next few days Inuyasha scouted the house and I came with him on the last two. We finally decided to confront the girl that had been seen on the porch with her cat on the issue. When I walked up
I was shocked at his behavior and turned around before I knew what I was doing and smacked him full force on his right cheek," Inuyasha! You should know better than to talk about people in front of me. Now, SIT!"
He grunted a reply but I couldn't understand what it was so I prepaired myself to hit him again when a voice that sounded like a small waterfall in the spring time surprised me. I spun around and looked at her with shock painted on my face like a brand new canvas.
"Well," she said, "If you really must know, I'll tell you. It won't be easy though. Come in and we'll have some tea and maybe I'll get out some sake for your rude friend here,"
I couldn't believe my ears. She was going to tell us what we wanted to know! She said it was going to be hard though. I wonder what she ment.
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