My first completed chaptered fic. It's not that long, only 7 chapters and an epilogue, but for me this is an accomplishment. I have the thing completely written but it can be changed if people point out stuff I messed up. If any one can help me with the grammar I'd appreciate it.

Some of the characters might seem a little OOC, but I like to believe that in 500 years demons can change. If you think Sesshomaru is the greatest ever than you might get a little annoyed. I don't bash him exactly, but I do make a little fun of his character. Yuri is intentionally OOC for the character (like it isn't too obvious) who she is a reincarnation of.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and any characters from it which appear or are mentioned.

Chapter 1

Yuri snuck a glance up then quickly resumed looking at her textbook. Good, the little girl was gone. She was half tempted to ask the guy sitting at the next table if he had noticed that pale little girl that had been standing by the bushes. She didn't because, to tell the truth, she was afraid of his answer. She didn't want to hear that no he hadn't or even worse, that there had been no one standing by the bushes. She was afraid his answer would reveal that it had all been in her head. She'd always considered herself to be sane rational person but lately she had begun to wonder, and that was really scaring her. Surely it was a bad sign when a person doubts their own sanity.

It had been years since Yuri had first seen the pale little girl. She could remember a time in junior high when she was suddenly very aware of the girl. Probably she had seen the girl in elementary school but didn't remember because how much the girl really stood out hadn't struck her. It seemed that every so often in a crowd she would pick out a pale little girl. Probably the same person- after all how common was skin so pale it looked lifeless, white hair and dark, dark eyes? And the girl always always was wearing white. Usually she wore a simple white dress, but sometimes she wore an old fashioned kimono.

When she was younger and had seen the girl in crowds Yuri had just assumed that the girl must have lived and went to school nearby. But lately she'd started seeing the child more and more especially on her college campus. Now she was suspicious not that the girl was stalking her, but that the girl was actually just an apparition. Yuri had gradually started doubting the reality of the girl when she noticed that no one else seemed to react to her. Surely with such unusual looks at least one person would be giving her a second glance. Then there was the fact that the apparition never seemed to grow older and apart from changing clothes and that fact the sometimes she held a mirror and sometimes not, never seemed to change with the passing years. And finally and worst of all, Yuri had seen her simply vanish once, not disappear into a crowd but simply be there one moment and then gone the next.

She supposed that the wise thing to do would be to tell someone like a doctor. Perhaps a psychiatrist would lie her down on the couch and, after listing to her say all sorts of random anecdotes, come up with an explanation that the little girl was nothing more than a manifestation of her inner child or secret feelings or some other kind of Freudian junk. It was entirely possible that the little girl only showed up when she was stressed. This would certainly explain why she saw the apparition more often nowadays. Seeing it and doubting her sanity was leading to more and more stress. It was positive reinforcement cycle so things were just getting worse and worse.

Yuri frowned. She was reading her textbook but not comprehending a word as her mind was elsewhere, still thinking of the girl in white. This was ridiculous. She needed to concentrate if she wanted to get her school work done. After reading the same paragraph over and over she gave up. It wasn't worth it. She'd just have to do it later. Instead she pulled the novel she was reading purely for enjoyment out of her book bag. Funny how her mind wandered or she started falling asleep when reading school work but never when reading for pleasure. It was just one of those things.

She went the rest of the day without seeing the little girl. This was pretty common as so far the little apparition had only manifested itself a few times a week. Never had she seen it twice in one day.

The following day she started in good spirits. She had woken up completely retested and refreshed. During her first class her mind hadn't wandered at all during lecture and she took good coherent notes. Her other classes went well too. It wasn't till afternoon then anything odd happened. She had bio lab that day. Apparently this was one of those classes were they would have to collect some data, do some write up and give a formal presentation to the class, what fun. Also they would get to work in groups of three. Even worse the teacher had preassigned their partners. This was where her trouble started.

Yuri listened as her teacher listed off her name and had to refrain from groaning when he listed her first partner. She had worked with Ayumi before and while she thought that the girl was nice enough, Ayumi was really busy so scheduling time to work together was a pain. When the teacher announced that the third member of the group would be Ginta, Yuri didn't see any problem with this but apparently Ginta did. "I don't want to work with her," he announced out to the room. The teacher unsure what to do that an upper-class college student would act to so immature decided to ignore it. He went back to calling names off. Ginta buried his head in notebook refusing to make eye contact with his classmates who were now giving him weird looks. Yuri felt her classmates' gazes as they glanced at her and Ayumi trying to figure out which girl had gotten Ginta so upset.

Yuri felt her cheeks burn as she pretended the handout their teacher had given them needed more scrutiny. She could pretty much guess that it was her that Ginta had a problem with. Every now and then in class she'd notice him starring at her like he wasn't even aware he was doing it. Then he would catch himself and pointedly look away. Once he'd sat next to her. He'd been late that day and it was the only empty seat. He looked so horrified at the prospect that he'd stood their scanning the room for any other seat. Yuri could remember losing her temper and snapping "Sit already!" under her breath. Later the day when the teacher asked them to compare their answers with their neighbor he had pointedly ignored her. Yuri had told herself that he was pissed about the comment but she had uneasy feeling about the guy.

After assigning groups their teacher was nice enough to let them have the rest of lab to get started and set up times to work on the project. Yuri discovered that Ayumi's schedule apparently hadn't opened up any since last semester. She was going out of town that weekend. Ginta very reluctantly agreed to meet with Yuri on Saturday to start on the preliminaries of their experiment, while Ayumi did some research on her own. Yuri had a feeling the only reason Ginta agreed was to avoid making an even bigger scene in front of Ayumi. For the rest of the period they got some work done, but Ginta made a point of ignoring Yuri as much as possible. Yuri barely managed to keep her temper from going off on the guy. She could only wonder what it would be like without Ayumi between them.

Lab had done the trick and by the time it was over Yuri's good mood from earlier had changed into storm clouds. So it was just perfect that she saw him. He was sitting at the tables they have outside the business building reading some paper. She did her best to ignore him. She thought of him as the tall man and if he wasn't stalking her, then he was stalking some other girl who went to her school and hung out and the same places on the weekends and oh what the heck she the one was being stalked by him. She told herself it was just a coincidence but to be honest she was just relieved that he wasn't also in her head.

She knew that he was real because she had actually seen him interact with other people. Once, the man sitting next to him had asked him something- the time most likely. And another time a fellow student who was running late for class and not paying attention to where she was going had crashed into him. Yuri had let out a sigh relief when this occurred. It had been the first time she been given concrete proof that she wasn't just seeing things. The tall man was quite handsome, so much so that she'd overheard some of the girls gossiping about him. He had very fine features, not that she was looking and lovely sliver or white hair. Not really a guy that it was such a great tragedy to be stalked by, but she couldn't figure out why her. She thought that maybe she first saw him in late junior high but she wasn't really sure. Before this year she only saw him once or twice a year. If he hadn't stood out in a crowd she would probably have never noticed him. But now she had been seeing him three or four time a week and it was pretty clear that he was stalking her, or someone who was always in the same places as her.

Yuri was tempted to march right up to him and ask him why he was following her. But when she ran the scenario in her head he would only deny and without any concrete proof she would come off as a fool. One of these days she would get her answers. But for now she swallowed her temper for the second time, ignored it and attempted to pretend that everything was normal even though she could feel her world slowly tipping off its axis. All that she needed to make the day complete would be to see the pale girl. If she did she would seriously lose it. Nothing strange happened for the rest of day but Yuri knew in her heart it was only a matter of time.

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