Hi everyone (:
I hope you will enjoy my story Midnight Feathers. I had came up with it when I was sitting in my English class one day and thought fanfiction would be a cool place to post it (: this is my very first fanfiction story so be nice pleaseee! I'm going to try to make this story dramatic as I can, what's not a good story without drama in right ;)? Please review and enjoy (:
*I do not own Inuyasha and the Inuyasha characters. But I do own the plot and story of Midnight Feathers*

Midnight Feathers

Chapter One: Broken Hearts and Unsure Dreams

You must stop him.

What? Stop who?

You must stop him. If he is not stopped…all will be forever lost.

What! Who is this man that must be stopped? What will be forever lost? This isn't making any sense!

Just believe in yourself and your allies. Fight for the beauty of life and love. Don't let the darkness take the light in your soul away, my child.

T-the light in my soul? What does that mean?

All will be clear soon enough, Kagome.

Hey, wait! How do you know my name? Who are you and why are you telling me this?

As I said before Kagome, all will be clear soon. Your true powers haven't been awaken yet, until than you shall be safe.

…W-what? You lost me even more now! What 'true powers' and what am I not safe from?

Until we speak again…Kagome.

"Wait!" Kagome yelled throwing her body up from underneath the blankets, trying to get the voice in her dreams to stay. "It was…it was a dream?" Kagome questioned herself as she took gasps of air. Sweat dripped down her face as she slowly laded back down.

Those dreams…they just felt too real to be normal dreams. But can there really be something like that?

Placing a hand on her forehead, Kagome stared at the ceiling above her bed.

Am I going crazy? Why is this happening to me?

A meow from a fur ball on the end of Kagome's bed snapped her out of her thoughts as the fur ball began to round over to look at Kagome with its tried yellow eyes. Seeing this, Kagome giggled quietly to herself.

"Aw, I'm sorry Buyo. Did I wake you up?" she asked as she stretched down to rub his ear softly. Her smile grew bigger as a quiet purr escaped from the cat's throat. Her fingers stopped moving as she heard rain begin to hit her balcony sliding door. Getting out of bed, Kagome walked over to her balcony. She stopped in the middle of it to look down to the lit up city.

Placing her hand on the cold balcony glass door, she began to miss her family.

Soon after graduating high school, Kagome moved out to the city to be closer to her college. Her mother and grandfather had bought her the beautiful apartment as a surprise moving away gift since Kagome would not let them pay for her books or anything else. Her apartment was on the eleventh floor, it had a small kitchen and dining area, there was two bathrooms plus the master bathroom. She had a guest room along with the master bedroom that she fell in love with. She had a good size living room that came in handy when her friends would come and sleep over. When she moved in the apartment, it had already provided her with furniture which had helped Kagome save money.

But for Kagome, her favorite spot in the apartment was the balcony. The balcony could fit about three to four people on it, and it had the most amazing view. At night, the city seemed like one big club with all the beautiful lights below her and in the morning when the sun would begin to rise into the sky, it would take her breath away.

But as much as Kagome loved her new home, she couldn't help but miss her old one. And now that she started having these weird dreams for the past three nights in a round, all she wants to do is be in her mother's arms. Listening to her mother tell her it's going to be okay and that they were just dreams. But something in the back of Kagome's mind told her that this dreams weren't any ordinary dreams.

Far away thunder snapped Kagome out of her thoughts. Walking away from the balcony, Kagome looked at her alarm clock to see it was 6:57 in the morning. She didn't have to be up for another hour and a half.

A sigh escaped between Kagome's lips as she walked into her bathroom getting a hot shower ready since she knew she could not go back to sleep after the dream.

"My life will never be easy will it…" she said to herself as she walked into the shower. Letting the warm water hit her body, calming her tense muscles.

Closing her eyes, Kagome leaned her head back and let the warm water cover her face. Standing there, Kagome try to make sense of the dreams that seemed to keep coming to her. Was she eating something that was making her have weird dreams? Was work and her college classes stressing her out too much? It had to be something. It wasn't normal to start having a mystery voice talk to you in your dreams. If she told anyone about the dreams, they think she was crazy for sure.

"Oi, you old hag, that kid wasn't it! You made us go all the way over there for nothing!" an annoyed half demon complained as he stomped into the shrines main warehouse finally finding the old priestess that was sitting on the floor putting some old strolls away.

"Must ye be so loud, Inuyasha." Kaede, the elder priestess of Amaterasu shrine, said a little annoyed herself that the young girl that she believed might have be the reincarnation of the great priestess Midoriko, was indeed not the reincarnation. Just a young maiden with stronger spiritual powers than the normal shrine maiden powers was all.

Kaede looked up at Inuyasha with her one good eye. He stood tall in front of her, his beautiful silver hair blew gently as the light spring air that blew into the warehouse making the two dog ears on the top of his head twitch slightly. He wore a tight red muscle t-shirt that showed off some of his muscles nicely, lose blue jeans and a black pair of Nike shoes. Inuyasha stared back at the old women with his amber eyes.

One of Inuyasha's brows began to rise slightly.

"Keh, what are you looking at me like that for old hag?" Inuyasha asked rudely.

"Inuyasha, must you be so rude to lady Kaede?" a young man said as he walked in the warehouse along with a young woman. The man had black short hair that he tied into small pony tail , he wore a black tank top that also nicely showed his muscles, lose jeans and a white pair of Nikes. The young women beside him had long beautiful brown hair that she put into a low pony tail, she wore a navy blue tank top, some comfortable gray sweatpants and brown flip flops.

"You know Inuyasha, Miroku's right," the young women said while putting her hands on her hips.

"Feh, don't really need your two cents right now Sango. That trip was a waste of our time." Inuyasha stated dryly.

"Aww, your only saying that because the kids at lived in the shrine tried to touch your ears." Miroku teased lightly while Sango giggle at the cute memory of the little kids trying to get a touch at Inuyasha's ears.

A growl escaped Inuyasha's throat as he remembered the brats at the shrine. Sick of hearing the giggles that make his face turn red with embarrassment, Inuyasha stormed out of the warehouse muttering words to himself that the other couldn't make out. The giggles died out as Inuyasha was out of sight.

"I can see Inuyasha's pain in his eyes when ye left a week ago." Kaeda said as she began to put the scrolls back again.

Miroku and Sango both looked at each other with sad looks knowing that Kaeda was telling the truth.

"He'll never get over what Kikyo did, will he." Sango stated than asked quietly. Miroku put a hand on Sango's shoulder as her eyes grew sadder for Inuyasha.

"No, I don't think he will. Why Kikyo did what she did when she found out she was not the reincarnation of Lady Midoriko, I will never understand. She was a very strong priestess that made Inuyasha happy, why would she throw away their happiness because of something as petty as this… I truly do not understand. And I can see the pain in Inuyasha's eyes as ye leaves to shrines in search of the reincarnation of Lady Midoriko, it truly breaks my heart as well to see the sadness still in his eyes and heart." Kaeda said as she put away the last old scroll.

Slowly standing up, Kaeda turned to look at Miroku and Sango.

"Come lets head inside," she said, "Ye must tell me what happened when the young children tried to touch Inuyasha's ears." Kaeda said with a smile.

Miroku smiled and Sango giggled once again as the three left the shrine warehouse and walked to Keada's hut.

What they didn't know was there was a silver haired half demon sitting within the trees, listening into their conversation.

Inuyasha's heart began to hurt as the memories of Kikyo and him together came back. It's been almost two years since Kikyo had died, but it still hurt like she left him yesterday. When Kikyo first died, Inuyasha felt alone, complete dead inside. Why didn't she want to stay with him? He would have made her happier in her time of need. He would had done anything for her, anything she ever wanted he would have gotten it for her. After she died, Inuyasha isolated himself in his room for six months. He wouldn't eat anything for weeks on end. Some people would try to tell him that Kikyo was in a better place or that Kikyo was at peace now, wasn't Kikyo happy being with him? Wouldn't she be in a better place if she was alive with him? Miroku and Sango became angry with Kikyo for leaving him without a goodbye or anything. Sango was the angriest though, she would throw and break things that would be dared to place near her. Inuyasha remembered when it was the last week of the fifth month of being isolated alone, Sango came to his room in the middle of the night. She found him sitting in a ball by the window. She got on her knees, hugged him tightly and began to cry. She would say over and over again that she loved him and would never leave him, she had missed her best friend quietly. Over and over again she would say it crying her eyes out. That broke Inuyasha. He hugged Sango back and cried along with her. At the end of that week, Inuyasha came out of his room and started his new lonely life without Kikyo. Sure he had his friends with him, but it just wouldn't be the same.

Why did you leave me Kikyo…? I loved you… I thought you loved me too…

Inuyasha thought this everyday when Kikyo died. He guessed it was easier for Kikyo to leave a dirty, low half demon like himself behind without a goodbye.

Inuyasha closed his eyes as a tear rolled down his cheek. He wanted to move on and be happy….but it's just too hard when a love one leaves your life forever.

Well that's the first chapter!
I had actually had a hard time trying to figure out a best way to open the story. I had made a totally different version of chapter one, I didn't like it as much I as this one. It just didn't flow right. I kinda wanted the first chapter to let you guys know where Inuyasha and Kagome were at in their lives.
My dear friend told me that she REALLY got the point when she was reading how sad Inuyasha was. Haha, im srry if the whole inuyasha part got on your nerves(; haha.

Please Review(: let me know what you think of Midnight Feathers!

Off to write the next chapter (: