A new story, I like the idea and I hope you do to. This Idea was hatched a while ago. I would like to dedicate this story to Dee (you know who you are). Also to Greywolf, just because.

Chapter 1

The Painting

She sighed as the teacher handed out a massive amount of homework. 'I am going to be up all night working on this,' she thought gravely. Sometimes it seemed as if the teachers expected students to live for school. Finally the bell rang and she made her way to the front of the school to meet her friends. Kagome Higurashi lived at the Sunset Shrine in the heart of Tokyo with her mother, grandfather, and brother, Sota. She was a good student and normally loved school. Lately however the mundane routine of her daily life was depressing. Her brother had noticed it and confronted Kagome yesterday.

FLASHBACK

Kagome was doodling in her room when she heard a knock on her door. "Come in," she called. She looked up from her sketchpad as Sota opened her door. "Hey what's up?"

"Uh, is something on your mind Kagome" he asked hesitantly.

"No, not really. Why?"

"You just seem so distant lately. Like your getting ready to go somewhere," she beckoned to him and he came and sat beside her.

"I'm not planing on going anywhere. I just feel like I need a change that's all. And I promise that If I do go anywhere you'll be the first to know," she hugged him. He smiled up at her and padded out of her room.

END

'Poor Sota' she thought as she walked down the front steps, 'he's been so quite ever sense dad left.' Their father had left them a year ago and hasn't been heard of sense. It had a horrible impact on Sota, now he is half convinced that she is going to leave to.

Yumi, Aymi, and Yuma were waiting for her, they waved as she trotted up. The four of them have been friends sense grammar school and have made a tradition of hanging out every Wednesday afternoon. Today they had decided to visit a museum together for their art class. Homework was always more fun with friends.

"So, Kagome, I heard that Hojo from B class asked you out," Yumi nudged her friend with a knowing smile.

"Yeah well, I…He's just not my type," Kagome blushed as her friends fixed her with an astonished look.

"Hansom and smart aren't your type. Dang Kag," Aymi opened the door to the museum, "Your hard to figure."

"Its not that, it's just he's too, um…" but Kagome couldn't think of anything else to say. Hojo was a perfectly nice boy so why didn't she like him. 'He is a wimp, that's why, and he is as mundane as the rest of my life.'

"Well, fine if Kagome doesn't want him I'll take him," said Yuma as they walked up to the ticket booth.

After they paid Kagome asked, "So, what exactly are we looking for?"

Aymi checked the assignment paper, "Umm… we are supposed to find paintings that interest us."

"The paintings are through here," called Yuma, reading the sign. They walked into the gallery and split up promising to meet again in twenty minutes.

Kagome glanced at the paintings around her. As she turned to look elsewhere one in particular caught her eye. It depicted a forest from the sky. 'Wow, that is strange,' she thought, 'I wonder where the artiest was to get that view point?' The painting enraptured Kagome. She drew closer when a thin whisper wafted threw the hall on a nonexistent wind. Kagome found herself strangely drawn towards the painting and was about to touch it when suddenly Hojo's voice sounded behind her, "Hey, Kagome. Fancy meeting you here."

Kagome gasped and spun, "Oh, hi Hojo."

"So, do you want to go and get some ice-cream," he asked smiling.

"No, that's ok," she said backing away.

"Come on it will be fun," he reached out for her.

She right up agents the painting when suddenly she found herself falling. She closed her eyes, expecting to meet the floor. When she just continued to fall she looked down. That was a mistake. She was falling from the sky and below her she saw an emerald green forest. Terrified she screamed as loud as she could. 'Oh god, I'm gonna die,' found herself thinking, quiet rightly. The wind whipped her raven hair into her face as tears coursed down her cheeks. Suddenly she stopped falling, confused she wiped her hair away and found herself being held by a silver man. That was too much for Kagome, she fainted.

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Inuyasha slowly raised his crossbow and aimed for the deer in the clearing ahead. Brushing his silver hair out of his golden eyes he smirked, congratulating himself on his find. He was about to shoot when a scream tore though the forest startling the deer. He cursed as the deer bounded away and turned to search the sky. A familiar shadow fell over him, he climbed the nearest tree and jumped onto the back of his friend and bonded, Rumiko. She was the largest and fastest dragon in the IronWater Doom. (AN: I named the doom before I created my account and I aint changing it. So there) Her red scales shone and her golden stripes glittered as the afternoon sun struck them.

/Who screamed/ he asked her using their mental link/'Cause I'm gonna find them and kill 'em/

/Look up/ Rumiko answered, 'smiling' through their link.

Inuyasha looked just in time to catch a falling woman. "What the… who the hell is this," he asked aloud.

/I do not know, she just appeared out of nowhere/ she was just as confused as he was.

/Maybe she fell from her bonded/ he mused.

/Absolutely not/ Rumiko practically shouted /A bonded would never let it's rider fall/

/Well, in any case, we had better bring her to the doom. She's out like a light/ he sighed /So much for deer stake/

Rumiko chuckled as she winged for their home at Mythic River.