Happy Halloween all of you guys! I hope you like this adaptation of Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride. So, I do not own InuYasha.

I don't want to get married, and to someone I don't know at that. I look up at the blue and purple butterfly that I captured early this morning. I grabbed the small detail pencil and drew the last of the small little designs of the left top wing and blew the paper and closed the book gently. I stood and released the butterfly into the desolate street of my small town.

The butterfly fluttered around my colorless room and out my creaky window. I looked after the butterfly, wishing that I could go with it, away from this house and from my parents who have the rest of my life planned for me.

"Where is Kagome? Kagome, get down here!" I heard my mother yell. "We're supposed to meet the Takahashi's in fifteen minutes for your wedding rehearsal! Hurry up! And put on that eyeliner I bought you, not the black you usually wear!"

I know my mom means well, but I mean you think that she could be a little more understanding. She chose dad, her marriage wasn't chosen for her. I got up reluctantly and pushed my chair into my desk. I went over to my grey bad and picked up the two sticks of eyeliner. After a minute of thinking, I threw the one my mother bought for me in the trash and applied the black. It didn't look so bad.

I didn't carry a purse, even though my mother wants me to. The Takahashi's are a big deal in this one-horse town. They're ancestors are the town founders, so they get places. Well, their grandparents managed to gamble away the large fortune that the family had accumulated for years, and now that it's all gone, they need money or the name will be ruined forever.

That's where I come in, the daughter of wealthy store owners. My father owns a large grocery store in the middle of our city, because our town is too small for a Kroger or Food Lion. It isn't the only store, but over the years of his teenage years, my father got to know a few people and was on his high school baseball team.

It is my mother who is the socialite of this house. She was homecoming and prom queen, a cheerleader and softball player and she won a pageant or two. When word got out that she married the school's star baseball player, and they opened up a store, people started coming, and so on and so forth. Now, my family has money to spare, and that's why the Takahashi's looked at me for the bride of their son, InuYasha.

Now, you might be wondering what's in it for my parents. Well, when I marry into their family, they get all the rights that the Takahashi's do. They'll get access to all the most exclusive clubs, the best of everything. They'll be living like lords in the 1800's.

However, I'm the one that gets the rotten end of the deal. InuYasha was able to choose me as his bride, my parents get the perks, his parents get the money from me, and I get thrown into a marriage I don't want, I don't get to choose who I want to marry, I don't get to be courted, or do anything.

I sulked downstairs, where my father was sitting on the couch and reading the newspaper, and my mother was standing above him. "She needs to be on her best behavior today! It'll be the first time she sees InuYasha and she's been sulky all month. You must talk to her."

"Think about this, Kai, she's been thrown into this marriage without her consent and she's been thrown the worst end of the deal. The least you could do is let her pick her own dress." My mother had already had my dress picked out. I told you she had everything planned out for me. My father looked to where I was standing. "Hello darling. How are you this morning? Are you feeling any better from last night?"

I nodded as my only response and my mother rolled her eyes. "Let's go sweetie, we don't want to be late to meet your new groom." My mother ushered me out of the house and into the backseat of the car. I buckled my seatbelt because I was seventeen and couldn't ride without one in the backseat yet. Yes, I'm only seventeen and I'm getting married. I'll be eighteen soon enough and when I turn, that's when the marriage will happen.

I looked out the window into the dreary streets, where many old people sweeping the streets, where middle aged women were walking into the store my father owns, just going about the same thing every day, not really living, just functioning. Is this what I've been drafted for? Just functioning and not living? At least I have my piano and I hope he'll let me keep playing it.

We arrived and I was rushed out of the car and hurried up the stairs. My mother rang the doorbell and started fixing me. "Why didn't you wear the eyeliner I told you to? You know we want him to like you and you know that this is the only first chance you're ever going to get with him." The door opened and she continued to yell at me. My father cleared his throat rather loudly and she turned to meet the butler that opened the door.

She waltzed inside like she was a queen and started making comments. There was a grand staircase, and on it were two people. The male had silver hair, was tall and had a smile on his face. He had small purple stripes under his golden eyes. Next to him, I could only assume his wife, had long black hair, and chocolate brown eyes. She wore a long purple dress, and he wore a blue button-up shirt and dress pants.

My mother had on a green dress, and my father had on a grey button-up with kaki's on. I was the only girl with pants, and the only one with jeans on too. My mother yelled at that for me too.

"Hello and welcome to our home." Said the male, who I could only assume was Mr. Takahashi. "I am Mr. Takahashi, and this is my lovely wife Mrs. Takahashi." They walked down the stairs and stood in front of us.

"I am Mr. Higurashi, and you remember my wife, Mrs. Takahashi. And this is Kagome." My father stepped aside and my mother grabbed my elbow and slung me forward to meet my future in-laws.

They looked over me and started to see if they approved of me. I think they did, because they wanted to talk to my parents, me completely forgotten and I heard the door shut. I looked around the room and there was a grand piano in the middle of the room. I walked over to it and it was covered in dust, but still beautiful. I stroked the keys and made a melody come out of my fingertips. I sat on the piano bench and started to play my composition.

I didn't hear footsteps going down the stairs. I turned around and there were two golden eyes staring back at me. I jumped up from the piano bench and it fell over.

"I'm sorry, it was just here, and my parents just left me here. I didn't think it would be a big problem. I'm so sorry." I bent over to pick the stool up, but he bent down too.

"No, no, it was great. I only came down to see who was playing it. What was that? I've never heard it before."

We put the bench back to where it was. "I should hope not, I wrote it." I brushed off the dust. I stood up straighter, but I was still slouching.

"Did you really?" I nodded. "Wow. That sounded great." He looked nostalgic. "I wish I'd learned to play. I would've, but my father didn't want me to. He wanted me to be a doctor more than anything, and I'm working on it, and I love the idea of helping people, I just wish he would've let me learn to play piano." He brushed his fingers on one of the keys.

I stepped forward and put my hand on his and pressed one of the keys down and moved his hand down the piano so he could play a scale and the chord that goes with it. "That's how you play a C scale and a chord."

He smiled and looked up at me. "Who are you?"

"I'm Kagome. Are you InuYasha?"

"I am. So, we are to be married soon, as soon as you turn eighteen."

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Are you ready?" What in seven hells was I supposed to say to that? Was I ready to give up my life for a doctor? Hell no I wasn't!

"I guess so." I looked at the small and pathetic flower in a small vase on top of the piano. If that ever fell, the piano might be ruined.

"You don't want to marry me?" He took on an amused tone.

"I don't know you."

A door was opened loudly. "Kagome, where are you! You were supposed to come in with us! Stupid girl, where are you?"

I sighed. "I'm where you left me mother." I rolled my eyes, and InuYasha stifled a laugh.

My mother waltzed in and saw InuYasha and straightened up immediately. "Well hello, InuYasha, how nice to see you again." She gave him a smile.

He gave her a smile. "Nice to see you too Mrs. Higurashi."

"I see you have met my daughter, Kagome." My mother smiled at me and stood next to me and pinched me to make me stand up straight. "Well, should we go into the chapel, what pastor is waiting for the rehearsal for your wedding."

Soon, my father and InuYasha's parents followed and we were on our way across the bridge and to the church.

This is the end of the first chapter, and I hope you keep reading.