***Author's note: hey guys!!! this is my new story, which wasn't inspired by anything. It's another AU, and Kagome is 15, in her sophomore year in high school. Inuyasha is 17 in junior year. I've had this typed for a while. Like in the middle of 'Are You Falling for Your Best Friend, Inuyasha?'. I hope you like it!!!

FYI: I don't own Inuyasha. The characters Amaterasu, Jurou, and Chiyo are mine though.

Chapter 1

Kagome groaned as she rolled over and turned her wailing alarm clock off. She rolled onto her back and groaned a second time.

It was Monday. Again.

Today would be as boring as always.

Kagome sighed and got up. The first thing she did was put on the locket her father gave her before he died.

The locket was oval and Kagome could never get it open. She had no idea if there was anything inside it.

She didn't want to go to school again. But on the bright side she only had two and a half years before she graduated.

Kagome pulled on a skirt and a shirt and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and brush her hair.

She went downstairs to eat breakfast, after she was done in the bathroom. After she was done with that she put on her coat.

"Mom, I'll see you when I get home! I have drama club today!" Kagome called into the kitchen.

"Alright sweetie, call me when you are coming home!" her mother called back.

"Okay, Mom!" Kagome said as she was heading out the door.

Kagome always walked to school. She liked walking to and from school. It gave her time to think.

When she got to school, Sango, her best friend, stopped at her locker. Sango was in the same grade as Kagome.

"Kagome!" Sango called, running toward her locker.

"Hey Sango!" Kagome called back.

"Are you going to that drama club meeting tonight?" she asked.

"Yeah, why?" Kagome asked.

"I was wondering if you want to hang out later. But if you're going then I guess we can hang out some other time," Sango stated.

"What about tomorrow?" Kagome asked.

"Alright," Sango said. "We can hang out at my house."

"Okay," Kagome said.

They heard the bell ring. They said goodbye and hurried to their homeroom.

Kagome sighed. Her homeroom was really loud. Everyone was screaming at each other.

Kagome was glad when it came time to go to lunch. Kagome met Amaterasu and Sango at Sango's locker.

They headed down to lunch together. Kagome, Sango, Amaterasu went up to get their food.

While Kagome was talking to Sango and Amaterasu, who had dark brown hair and dark blue eyes, and not watching where she was going, she bumped into someone. She turned to see who she bumped into, and saw a boy, probably a grade higher than her, with silver hair, and golden eyes.

"Sorry," she mumbled quickly. She stared at him for a second longer, and started talking to Sango and Amaterasu again.

Inuyasha stared after the girl. She had black hair and chocolate brown eyes. She seemed like she barely noticed him. He shook his head.

"Inuyasha," Miroku said, trying to get his friend's attention. "Inuyasha, what are you looking at?"

Inuyasha looked back at Miroku and Jurou, who had black hair and eyes. "Nothing."

After school Kagome was glad that she had the drama club meeting. The meeting was just about the play that they were planning. There would be meetings every Monday.

After the meeting it was dark. She had to walk back home.

She called her mom.

"Mom, I'm on my way home. I'll see you when I get there," she told her.

"Alright," her mother said.

When she was walking back she saw a black van waiting at the corner. She didn't like it. It seemed like a bad sign. Kagome also noticed a couple of other people on the street. She didn't know who they were though.

She started to walk faster down the street to her house, which was a couple of blocks away from the school. She was feeling nervous.

She touched her locket. She sighed when it was still there. She remembered what her father said when he gave it to her.

"Watch this for me, Kagome," he had said. "Keep this safe."

Then the day after he never came home. Kagome was five when he gave it to her. She had always waited for him to come home. She remembered that when she was supposed to be sleeping, police officers came to her front door. Her mother answered it. After the police officers said something to her mother, she started crying.

The next morning Kagome had come downstairs to see her mother at the kitchen table crying. Her grandfather stood next to her, patting her back. Her father was still not there.

"Mommy, where's Daddy?" she had asked.

Her mother looked up at her, and held her arms out to her. Kagome ran into her mother's arms.

"Sweetie, Daddy's gone," her mother had told her.

"What?"

"Daddy's gone, sweetie. He-he isn't coming home," her mother had cried.

Her grandfather had then shown her the news. It said that her father had been killed. He was walking out to his car from work.

Kagome shook her head. She didn't want to remember. She came out of her memories and looked at her surroundings. She was almost home. She noticed the black van from the school.

The black van stopped and three people got out. One woman and two men. They started walking to her. Kagome sped up.

They sped up too. Kagome started running. They started running after her.

Kagome stumbled, but kept running. She clutched her locket so it wouldn't fall off.

One of the men grabbed her from behind. She screamed, pushing her foot back into his knee. He let go, surprise taking hold of him, and Kagome hurried forward. The bigger man grabbed her this time and she tried kicking him but he blocked her.

She screamed again. The man started dragging her back to the van. She thrashed, trying to break free.

She couldn't, she was stuck. They had her trapped.

"Hey!" she heard someone shout. It was an unfamiliar boy's voice.

She heard footsteps running over to her and the man started to hurry her to the van.

She was ripped from the man and then she stumbled to the side. She saw the other two on the ground, hurrying to the van. They looked frightened.

Kagome was on the ground. She couldn't breath. She wondered if this was the same thing that had happened to her father. She knew she was having a panic attack.

The other man, the one who had restrained her, had hurried to the van after the others. He had a bloody nose.

She watched the van drive away, hyperventilating. She touched her neck. Her locket wasn't there. She looked around, still hyperventilating.

She spotted it, several feet away from her.

A boy with white hair and golden eyes hurried over to her. She remembered him from somewhere.

"Hey, it's okay, they're gone," he told her gently. She still hadn't stopped hyperventilating, and she was starting to feel dizzy.

He picked her up around the waist, trying to get her to stand. He put his hands on her shoulders.

"Hey, you're safe now. They won't hurt you," he told her. She started to calm down some, her breathing starting to return to normal.

"M-my locket," she gasped.

The boy looked around. He spotted it. He walked over to pick it up. He walked back and held it up to her.

"This?" he asked.

Kagome nodded. He handed it to her. She put it back on.

Her breathing was back to normal. "Thank you," she mumbled.

"Not a problem," he mumbled back. "Hey, don't you go to my school? I think you bumped into me today at lunch."

She nodded. "Yeah, I think so."

"Do you want me to walk back home with you?" he asked. "I'm Inuyasha Takudo, by the way."

"I'm Kagome Higurashi, you don't have to walk with me back home," she stated.

"Well, I will anyway. I want to make sure you don't run into those guys again," Inuyasha told her.

Kagome smiled at him. "Thanks."

Inuyasha smiled back. "So what grade are you in?"

"I'm a sophomore, I'm fifteen years old. My sixteenth birthday is in a couple of weeks. How about you?" Kagome asked.

"I'm a junior, I'm seventeen," Inuyasha stated. "When is your birthday?"

"May third," Kagome told him.

"Well, happy early birthday," Inuyasha told her.

Kagome laughed. "Thanks."

They were a couple of houses down from her house.

"Do you always walk home by yourself?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome nodded. "Yeah, I walk to school too. I like it, it gives me time to think."

Inuyasha nodded. "It's not safe, you know."

"I know now," Kagome said.

Inuyasha looked at her. He liked her. She made him smile. He wanted to spend more time with her.

"What do you think about?" Inuyasha asked.

"I don't know. A lot of things," Kagome stated. She stopped. They were in front of her house. "This is my house. I guess I'll see you around."

"Yeah, I guess so," Inuyasha said. He felt a little sad. "Bye."

Kagome waved. "Bye." She started up her porch stairs.

Inuyasha watched her until she closed the door after waving to him again.

He smiled to himself. He hoped to see her again. He couldn't wait until tomorrow. He started walking home.

Kagome closed the door. Her mother hurried into the hall.

"Kagome! What took you so long?" her mother exclaimed. "I was so worried!"

"I-I was walking home and three people tried to kidnap me," she told her mother. "But this guy Inuyasha saved me."

Kagome's mother hugged her. "Thank god you're safe!"

Sota popped his head into the hall from the living room. "Hey sis, you're home!"

Shippo stuck his head out after Sota. "Hi Kagome," he said.

"Hi Shippo," Kagome called. "Hi Sota. Mom, could you let go? I'm tired. I want to go to bed."

"Alright, honey. I'm just so glad you're safe!" her mother told her.

"Okay Mom," Kagome said. Her mother let her go and Kagome hurried upstairs to her room.

She grabbed a shirt and sweat pants and headed into the bathroom to shower and get ready for bed.

When she exited the bathroom, she went to her room and climbed in bed. She thought about of the events of the night and Inuyasha. She wanted to see him again. She liked him. She drifted to sleep thinking about him.

When Inuyasha closed the door to his house Rin was waiting for him. Sesshomaru was sitting on a chair, in the kitchen. He was looking into the living room. He was grinning.

Rin's arms were crossed. She looked mad.

"Inuyasha, you're late," she stated. "Where were you?"

Sesshomaru was waiting for Rin to blow up.

"This girl was being abducted. I helped her then walked her home," Inuyasha stated.

Rin's anger disappeared. Her eyes shown with concern. "Is she okay?"

"Yeah, she was fine after I calmed her down. She started having a panic attack," Inuyasha told Rin.

"Oh! How old is she?" Rin asked.

"She's turning sixteen in May," Inuyasha said.

"So you've gotten to know her?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Heh. I only talked to her when I walked her home," Inuyasha mumbled.

"Well what's her name?" Rin asked. "Does she go to your school?"

"Her name's Kagome, she's a sophomore in my school," Inuyasha muttered.

"Is she pretty?" Rin asked.

Inuyasha looked at her incredulously. He was trying not to blush. "I don't know!"

"How could you not know, little brother?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I wasn't looking at her that way," Inuyasha told him. "She's younger than me."

"That doesn't mean a thing," Rin said.

Inuyasha was about to blush, so he turned on his heal and marched up the stairs. "I'm going to bed," he muttered on his way up.

When Inuyasha closed his bedroom door, he sighed, running a hand through his hair. He got changed and went to sleep early, so he could wake up early. He had a couple of plans in the morning.

*****Author's note: hmm.... what is Inuyasha planning?? Lol... I hoped you liked this chapter, I hope you guys keep reading this story!!! I have big plans for this story, just like my other one, 'Are You Falling for Your Best Friend, Inuyasha?'. This is going to be another long story, and after posting this I'm gonna post another chapter to another long story. Please review!!!