A/N: This is my first fanfic submitted on a site, so don't blame me if anything is messed up. I'm trying to do my best.

I do not own any of the actual Inuyasha characters, so don't flame me just because I make up my own characters. Thank you.

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i'Riiinnnggg. Rrriiinngg'/i It was 7:30 in the morning, and Kagome needed to go to school today. Her arm reached out from under the covers and turned off the alarm with a small sigh. 'Why do I have to go to school now? Why can't it be summer again?' It was the first day back to school from the summer break and Kagome wasn't too happy about going back to school, since she saw her friends everyday during the summer.

"Kagome, honey, you need to get up for school. You don't want to be late like always, you know." Kagome's mom was happy that the kids were going back to school, because they were a complete mess over the summer. "Kagome, get up." Kagome's mom kept shaking her until she was finally awake.

"Alright, alright. I'm up mom!" Kagome slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes in confusion. 'I had a really weird dream with a dog...'

Within minutes, Kagome was running the water for a bath. 'I haven't felt this good in a while.. but I'm still wondering about the dream..' She got out a few minutes later and quickly dried herself and put her school uniform on and ran downstairs to get some breakfast. 'That's weird.. where is Grampa and Souta?' She looked around and saw only her mom cooking breakfast.

"Mom, where is Grampa and Souta? Wouldn't they be here waiting impatiently for the food?" Kagome smiled at what she just said. Her grampa was always the one trying to keep the family out of danger of some sort. But there really was no danger to the family. Everything was peaceful and nice, until Kagome's friends came over during the summer.

"Grampa and Souta are out by the shrine. Your silly grampa is trying to teach Souta something," Kagome's mom turned to her and smiled, "Could you please go get them Kagome? Breakfast will be ready in two minutes."

Kagome nodded and walked outside to the shrine. The Higurashi shrine was important to Grampa, and he'd risk his life saving the whole family. After walking into the shrine, she finally saw Grampa and Souta sitting on the edge of the well. 'I don't know why we have a well here, we don't use it.' Kagome shook her head and walked up to them.

"Grampa, Souta, breakfast is ready!" Kagome blinked and saw that they were gone instantly. She slightly laughed and headed back inside to eat. After going inside and eating, she choose to clean the dishes before going to school. After that, she headed for school.

After walking a few miles on the sidewalk, her friends saw her and ran up to her saying 'Hello' and 'Konnichiwa' and everything. They all hugged each other, and talked and laughed on their way to the school. After arriving at the school, Kagome saw Hojo, her ex-boyfriend.

"Hey Kagome! How are you doing?" Hojo was smiling when he saw her because they haven't seen each other in two week since Hojo went to the United States as a vacation.

"Hey Hojo! I'm great, what about you? Did you have fun in the United States?" Kagome was getting her books ready while she was walking to her first class.

"I'm great as well! The United States was amazing! Did you know that they have McDonald's while we have WacDonalds? They are both the same fast food restaurant though!" Hojo's face was full of joy, but his heart still hurt from when Kagome broke up with him.

"That's amazing! Well, this is my class. I'll see you later, alright?" Kagome waved to Hojo and went into the classroom and sat in the seat she always sat in. A few minutes later, her friends came in and surrounded her desk.

"So are you two getting back together?" "Do you still like him, Kagome?" "Did he give you a present?" "Was his trip in the United States cool?" All her friends were bugging her about Hojo because they wanted the two to be together again. After all, they were a cute couple.

==========After School==========

'I'm glad school is finally over for today!' Kagome smiled as she saw her friends come up to her and talk about their day.

"Hey Kagome, can we go to your house today? You know we all need help with our homework!" One of her friends asked. Everyone had these gleaming twinkles in their eyes, and puppy eyes, which Kagome couldn't resist.

"Alright, alright. We can study by the sacred tree, alright?" Kagome laughed and started walking home with everyone.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at Kagome's house. They went inside to greet Kagome's mom, and then out the back door leading to the shrine and sacred tree. Kagome pointed to the sacred tree and told everyone to sit around there. As she walked two inches forward, she looked at the tree and gasped. She saw a boy-- no, a dog boy-- pinned to the truth with an arrow. She moved a little closer and the boy disappeared.

"Kagome, are you alright?" One of her friends asked. Kagome blinked and looked at how everyone was staring at her. They looked at the tree and back to her, with puzzled looks. "Did you see something?"

"I-I.. uhh.. No, I didn't. I'm fine." Kagome blushed and walked over by the tree and sat down. The next hour was nothing but homework and laughs. Kagome's mom brought everyone some crackers and juice and told everyone that they could stay for dinner if they want. Kagome and her mom laughed at everyone since they were so happy they were going crazy.

"Thank you Ms. Higurashi!!" Everyone yelled. When they were done with their homework, they decided to play around a little bit. Hours later, they had dinner and everyone had gone home. Kagome was really tired, but cleaned up her house to say thanks to her mom.

"Kagome, sweetie, you need to go on to bed. I'll clean the rest of this." Kagome smiled and hugged her mom. She went up the stairs to go to her room, set her alarm and fell asleep.

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A/N: I hope you liked it so far. I'm working on Chapter 2 already, since I really have nothing better to do Please, please review! Thanks.