Author's Note: If any of you have read my previous story The Wishing Well, this something you need to know…I kinda, sorta…deleted it. Before you say anything, let me explain! I read through my story again, and I was like "People actually liked this crap?!" You see, I thought it was childish and immature for a love story. I decided to try and rewrite this story again, but with a much different approach. A thing you should know about me, is that if I really don't like any of my stories, I tend to delete them, yeah, sorry about that ^^;. So, let's cross our fingers and hope that third time's a charm!

Rated: T

Disclaimer: Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and my OC belongs to me.

Nobody Wants to be Lonely

Chapter 1

Early in the morning, a raven-haired, blue-eyed, young woman jumped out from the Bone Eater's Well, with a huge yellow backpack. This particular young girl happened to be a miko from the future, named Kagome Higurashi. She was now seventeen-years-old, and miraculously, managed to get into high school, which was a surprise even for her, considering she was "sick" most of the time, and was gone most of the time she was in middle school.

It was the summer, so Kagome had enough time to come to Feudal Era and search for Jewel Shards, with her friends, which consisted of a inu hanyou, a fox kit, a perverted monk, a demon slayer, and a two-tailed neko demon.

After two years of searching for Jewel Shards the group had not completed their mission of finding the shards and destroying Naraku.

Kagome had long ago ditched her old middle school uniform, for a pair of jeans, a T-shirt, and tennis shoes. She soon, realized that whenever she wore her uniform to the Feudal Era, she was actually dressed…indecently, to the people of this time. Anyway, she made a mental list of all the things she had in her bag to make sure she didn't need to go back and get something.

'Let's see, ramen for Inuyasha, candy for Shippou, extra clothes, a sleeping bag, a first aid kit…" Kagome's thoughts were interrupted when something caught her eye.

A body lay sprawled out in the middle of a road, Kagome took to get to the village. The body appeared to belong to that of a young hanyou girl. An inu hanyou. Just like Inuyasha, but there were many differences between the two. Well, for one, this girl did not have silver hair like Inuyasha, instead her hair was what looked like caramel, it was tied into a loose braid, she also had, which was very strange to Kagome, a long fluffy tail.

Inuyasha did not have a tail. Though, Sesshoumaru had a tail. But, Kagome wasn't sure if it was a tail or a very fluffy pelt. She didn't even know if the thing was attached or not…

Anyway, it seemed like the only feature the two shared was the cute, fuzzy dog ears. Kagome wondered if they had the same eye color, but she couldn't see, since the girl's eyes were closed.

This snapped Kagome back into reality.

The miko gasped in horror, when she saw that the girl had a wide, bloody, deep wound in her stomach area, and was losing a lot of blood.

Kagome dropped her backpack to the ground, and began quickly rummaging through its contents in search of the first aid kit, and prayed to Kami that she wouldn't be too late.

With a frustrated growl, she gave up her search, and decided to try and heal the wound with her powers.

For the past two years, Kagome has trained with Kaede with her powers, and she has gotten quite stronger if she did say so herself, but was she ready for this?

The miko took a deep breath, closing her eyes, and placed her hands, which were glowing pink, over the girl's wound, she focused her powers on the wound. She made absolutely sure that she would heal the girl, and not purify her by mistake. When she opened her eyes again, she saw that the wound was completely closed up, but there was still one other thing to check.

Kagome lowered her ear to the girl's heart. It was very slow and quiet, but it was a heartbeat nonetheless. The miko breathed a sigh of relief.

Kagome was stuck with yet, another problem. She realized that girl's kimono was still stained with blood. Then, she realized that she had another kimono in her backpack. Once again, she dug through her backpack and was able to find the kimono. It was turquoise with violet butterflies on the skirt, and a light green obi.

She intended it to be a gift for Rin, the cute little girl that followed Sesshoumaru around, since she only had that checkered kimono.

Oh well, this kimono was a little too big for her anyway. Hopefully, it will fit this girl though. Kagome took off the girl's ruined kimono, and dressed her in the new one.

It fit perfectly!

Kagome decided that she would try to buy Rin another kimono when she and the others started traveling again.

Kagome laid the hanyou girl down, with her small head resting on her lap. The young woman was contemplating, whether she should wait here until the girl woke up, or take her back to the village. She didn't have to think for much longer, for the girl had opened her eyes.

The first thing thought that came to Kagome's mind were that the girl's eyes were not the same as Inuyasha's. Instead of gold, they were a beautiful violet. The girl sat straight up, and looked around at her surroundings.

"Um, hello there." Kagome said.

The girl looked at Kagome.

She blurted out, "You have pretty eyes."

Kagome was taken aback by the girl's sudden compliment, but she gave her a warm smile. "Why, thank you very much. You have very pretty eyes also."

The girl smiled sheepishly. She never saw that kind of eye color on human, usually they were brown, that's why it was so strange to see it on this particular human, but it was still pretty just the same.

"Can you tell me what happened to you?" Kagome asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I found you lying on the ground with a deep wound. I immediately sealed up the wound again with my miko powers, also, since your old kimono was ruined, I replaced it with a new one."

The girl looked down, and noticed that she was wearing a different kimono from her previous one, but this one was much prettier.

'Wait a minute…did this woman say she was a miko?' The girl thought.

She had heard that demons and mikos were enemies, and mikos sought to purify demons…and hanyous. So why did this miko help her? The hanyou didn't sense any threat from her, in fact she actually felt…relaxed in the woman's presence.

"Why…why did you save me?" The girl asked. "Don't mikos hate my kind?"

"Well, it's true that most mikos do hate demons…but I have a friend who's a hanyou named Inuyasha, another friend who has the cutest neko demon, and I adopted a fox kit named Shippou. Besides, I couldn't just watch you die. You're still so young. By the way, my name is Kagome, what's yours?"

"Rika, and about what happened to me…all I remember was a dark, evil figure."

"Do you have any parents?" Kagome asked.

"Just mama…papa left us years ago."

"I'm sorry."

"It's okay I was really young at the time anyway."

"Do you live close by?"

"Mm hm! My and mama's hut is not too far from here."

"Would you like me to walk you there?"

"No...I can find it by myself."

"If you insist, besides I can't keep my friends waiting too long."

Kagome stood up, grabbed her backpack, and slung over her shoulders. She started walking towards the village, then turned around and waved to Rika, while saying, "See ya around!"

Rika waved back, and watched as Kagome walked farther and farther away. What Kagome did for Rika had touched her heart. The other humans she had come across would've just let her die...but Kagome didn't. Not only did Kagome heal her wound, she gave her a brand new kimono too! Rika had only that one, since her and her mother couldn't afford another.

Rika had made up her mind, and decided that she would repay Kagome's kindness with a gift. Not just any gift, but something extraordinary, something that will make Kagome happy. But, Rika had no ideas.

"Hmm, maybe if I follow Kagome and her companions while they travel, I'll be sure to get some ideas!"

Also, there was something that Rika did not tell Kagome, about…how she got that terrible wound. The dark evil figure was true, but the thing was, it had killed her mother, and then it tried to kill her, she managed to get away, but she could only run so far, before she passed out. Anyway, Rika dared not go back home in fear that the evil thing was still there. She decided that it was best if she followed Kagome.

So, Rika ran to catch up with the miko.

Author's Note: So…did you like it? Come on, I need some reviews! Also, some constructive criticism please, but NO FLAMES!