As you might have guessed, I don't own Inuyasha _ ' but I prefer not to cuz then I have to guess on what's going to happen! ^_^ *************************************************************

"You're 'it'!" Kagome exclaimed in her high-pitched 6 year old voice and tagging one of her friends, "Oley-Oley-Oxen-Free!"

It was Halloween and Kagome and her friends were playing hide and go seek in her grandfather's shrine. The rest of the kids came out of their hiding places and were getting ready for the next round.

"Kagome, before we start can I ask you something?" Hojo asked as he pulled off his 'Godzilla' mask.

"Hurry up, before all the good hiding places are taken!" Kagome replied looking frantically around for an idea.

"Would you be my girlfriend?" he asked bashfully.

"Hojo you're icky! Boys are gross!" Kagome yelled as the girl who was 'it' began counting aloud...

"6...7...8...9...10..."

Kagome quickly ran to her porch but there were already three kids hiding there, she ran to the garbage cans, but Hojo was close by, "27...28...29...30...". Running out of ideas she looked around and noticed the shrine, and barely made it inside, "42...43...44...", but the door jammed as she tried to close it, then seeing the dry well, "50!!! Ready or not here I come!", she jumped in...

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"Inuyasha!" His mother called looking out the window. A small boy in a red kimono and silver hair and dog ears came to the door. His mother pointed out the window, "Look Inuyasha, there's some boys playing with kites, why don't you go join them?"

Inuyasha looked at his mother then at his feet, "I can't mama...they won't let me."

His mother turned to him with a hurt face for her son, "Why not, honey?"

"Mama, they keep calling me names, like 'Hanyou' or-or 'Half- breed'...they're mean mama, they're mean!" Inuyasha leapt into his mothers arms cried into them as she rocked him.

"Honey, don't cry...you're 8 years old now...don't you want to be a big boy?" His mother did her best not to cry with him, especially since this was what he dealt with everyday of his life. She stroked his silver hair and held him tight, "Inuyasha, please stop crying..."

"How can I?! No one will play with me, they think I'm strange!!!" Inuyasha pulled from his mother's grasp and ran out of the room. His mother would have followed but he was much to fast for her since he was half-demon.

Inuyasha ran to his secret hiding place, a well in the middle of the forest. He sat leaning against it crying into the sleeves of his kimono. He looked up into the sun-setting sky, 'All I want is a friend...' he thought.

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Kagome sat quietly as she heard her friends scream and laugh while she sat. But as she waited a bright light came from beneath her and the sounds of her friends disappeared. She was so scared she couldn't scream, but strangely enchanted with the light until she felt herself floating. After a moment she was back at the bottom of the well, not wasting anytime she began to climb up, as she got closer she heard someone sobbing. She climbed up and looked down to see a boy with a 'doggy costume' crying.

"Why are you crying?" Kagome asked pulling herself out of the well.

"Ahhh!" Inuyasha jumped up, freaked out, and got in his fighting position, "S-s-say your name or feel my wrath!"

"My name's Kagome!" She said cringing against the well.

Inuyasha let down his fighting position and sniffed the air...'she smells like flowers--yuck!'

"What's your name?" Kagome asked.

"You don't know who I am?" Inuyasha asked confused. 'Everyone in the village knows my name, they don't play with me either...' "It's Inuyasha," he said lowering his head.