Beloved

Authors Note: This story is dedicated to Inuyasha and Kikyou, Do not flame me on for any of the coupling, you have been warned. For everyone else please enjoy.

Chapter 1: How we first met

It was raining hard; it started out slow, a slow but calming rain, and turning into a violent storm. Today was the night of the new moon, and seemed very familiar to Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome said quizzically as Inuyasha looked out the door into the rain. Kagome knew it was the night of the new moon and that Inuyasha tended to get nervous right before he transformed but…this time he seemed sadder. "Yea… Sorry... I think I'm going out for a bit okay?"

Sango looked up from the pot from where she was cooking the ramen. "Are you sure that would be a wise decision?" Miroku said from behind Sango, Shippo on his shoulder. "You'll miss the ramen! And it's only a few minutes from being done." Shippo said sniffing at Sango's cooking "And it smells so good" "He's already gone Shippo." Kagome said solemnly. Everyone looked to where Kagome sat, her head was down and she seemed slightly upset, trying desperately to hide her sadness, Silence over took the group as the kettle whizzed and Sango took it off "Ramen's ready."

Inuyasha's POV

"I didn't mean to hurt Kagome like that…I could tell she was upset but…I just…Not when it's like this."

I stopped. I could feel it, right here in front of the time tree, I was going to transform into the way I met Kikyou and at the spot I lost her. I could see my claws slowly disappear and nails come into there place. My ears, my fangs, my hair were all becoming that as of a human.

I couldn't help but hurt, the night being cold and wet and me being in the situation I was in, It was reliving the moment all over again except…without Kikyou.

50 years ago, the beginning of this all…When I first met Kikyou.

"How long do you intend to hide?" Her voice was bitter as she spoke to me, she never saw me, yet she knew my presence was there, Lighting flashed and I could see her face more clearly, mud staining her cheeks and a firm look in her eyes.

"Are you also after the shickon no tama?" She spoke again looking directly at me, my back towards her as I perched in one of a trees lower branches in my human form.

"Shikon no Tama? What's this shikon no tama thing?" I asked, lighting crackled and I saw her cold face looking at me and then she spoke "If you don't' know it's just as well."

But that was just the beginning as she spoke her cold words "However if you don't want to be killed, don't come near me." Her lips were tight as she turned and prepared to go home, stopping a few feet away from where she was from me, she had stopped and just then fallen over unconscious. I raced to her side and knelt before her, she had battled herself until she lost consciousness, and I knew she was a great miko. Just then her people had called for her and I raced off, it was later that night, I heard from an obsessed demon what the shickon no tama was and that's what started mine and Kikyou's unforgettable past.

I looked up, somewhere during the memory I must have held my heart for when I looked down, My hand was clutching at my chest. "No matter how many days past…I never forget". I muttered under my breath. "Never forget what?" I spun around and there stood Kagome, standing beneath her pink umbrella looking at me. "Um…Nothing." I replied as I turned my head back to the tree. She walked beside me offering some of her umbrella but I shrugged it off.

"The time tree…" Kagome smiled. "It's where I met you." I looked at the ground, "It's where I lost Kikyou." I stated and as soon as the words slipped through my mouth, I instantly wanted to pull them back. She looked at me "Is that why you went out alone? Did you sense Kikyou?" Kagome asked, I shook my head, "I've just been thinking on the past, that's all, go on in you'll get sick." Kagome stood by my side, looking at me sincerely, patting my shoulder, "I'm here for you Inuyasha." And that was the last thing she said to me as she walked inside.

"Kikyou…" I whispered before turning around to spend the rest of the night in Kaede's hut.

Authors Note: What ya guys think? It's not to bad? Lol R&R please