*Disclaimer*: Don't sue me, I have no money. I can give you lint, but other than that, don't hold your breath.
Chapter~1
Kagome stared intently out of the window at the trees outside. She listened as the rain fell intensely on the roof, gutter, and the window pane of the school. She was having trouble concentrating on her math exam. She hadn't been to the past in over a month. It wasn't as if it was by choice. Once she got back to her present-time from her last visit to the past, she realized that she was really behind in her school work. In order to pass her classes, she needed ti stay and make-up her work. Kagome had become so attached to the past that she couldn't stop thinking about it.
No, she wouldn't think about it. Just this last test. After this and homework she'd be in the past with houshi-sama, Sango-san, Shippo-san, and Inuyasha (whom she would miss most of all). Just a few more problems. Kagome scribbled a barely legible phrase onto her exam. One more to go. She put her hand in her backpack a clasped over a shard. Most of the shards were tucked away in an "Aleeve" bottle inside a "Sailor Moon" pencil box with pencils o the top, inside a "Card Captor" lunch box in the back of an underwear drawer. But despite the danger she kept one shard for good luck. It was locked in a locket on a gold chain. Done. Finally. Kagome stood up on shaky legs from sitting so long. With her test paper in one hand and her locket in the other she walked up to the teacher's desk and placed her test down on the pile of test papers and walked back to her desk. Just then the bell rang. Without looking she tried dropping her locket into her backpack. Unfortunately the gold- chain locket fell to the floor.
Mariko Ashido sat behind Kagome. She had been friends with Kagome since the first day of junior-high. They weren't close, but they were good friends. She was 15, and had black hair down to her bosom, soft velvet eyes, an dressed in similar attire as Kagome. There was something about Mariko that Kagome couldn't put a finger on it. *back to where we were* Mariko notices Kagome's locket and decides to return it to the Higurashi's shrine.