Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in Inuyasha. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

But the chracters Mark and Jess are mine.

Chapter 1

It was a beautiful morning in Tokyo, Japan the sun streamed in a room with a young golden

haired girl still dead to the world. But that won't be for long, for down the hallway a young man a little older

then the girl was coming towards her room. His name is Mark and he has long sandy blond hair

that reaches to his shoulders, he has tanned skin and a lithe figure. But the most attractive feature

are his deep blue eyes which could rival a sapphire. Mark is also quite tall, standing at around

5'11". He is wearing black jeans with a red top, that shows his athletic figure. But his most peculiar

feature on his left shoulder is a birthmark in the shape of a blue dragon. Mark

walked up to his sisters bedroom and knocked on the door, but he got no answer so he knocked

louder and yelled, "Jess get up or you'll be late for school."

In her room Jess groaned, "alright Mark I'm getting up." Mark, satisfied with her answer left her

door to go back to the kitchen and finish cooking breakfast. Jess has long golden hair that reaches

to her backside, her skin is a healthy pale color and she has a slim body in the shape of an hourglass.

She has a very unique eye color which is crimson red. Jess is shorter then her brother, she is only 5'5".

Jess is still in her dog pajama bottoms with a matching spagetti strap tank top that hugs her figure. She

also has an odd birthmark on her right shoulder in the shape of a red Pheniox. Jess dragged herself out

of bed, got her scool uniform (same as Kagomes) and a black bra with matching panties went to take a

quick shower.

Meanwhile, down in the kitchen Mark was finishing breakfast, before he has to go to work. Mark

is 21, where Jess is 16 and still going to highschool. Last year their parents died in a plane crash, since

then Mark has been taking care of Jess. As Mark was putting the bacon and eggs on the table for breakfast

he was thinking, 'Today is the anniversary of mom and dads death. I'll ask Jess if she wants to go to the

nearest shrine to pray to them.' Just as Mark sat down to eat, Jess came in the kitchen dressed in her

school uniform. She had her hair up in a ponytail, layed her school bag next to her chair and sat down,

and began to eat her breakfast. Mark decided that this was a good time to ask. "Jess," when she

looked up at him he continued, "today is the anniversary of mom and dads death. I was wondering

if you wanted to go to the nearest shrine to pray to them." Jess closed her eyes, the death of their

parents was hard on her and she still missed them dearly. She opened her eyes, looked at Mark

and he could see the unshed tears in them. She answered him in a voice tinged with sadness, "yeah,

I would like that." Mark hugged his sister and kissed her on the forehead, told her to hurry up so he

could drop her off at school on his way to work. Jess finished her breakfast, and followed Mark out

to his car.

The car ride to Tokyo High was quiet. Mark and Jess were deep in their own thoughts. Jess was

thinking about that faithful day when their parents died. Mark was thinking around the same lines

but also wondering if Jess will be okay, because she was being unusally quiet. When they arrived

at the school Jess looked up and saw her friend Gary and waved to him. Jess was getting out

of the car when Mark said, " I'll pick you up after school, then we can go to sunset shrine and pay

our respects to mom and dad." Jess nodded and gave Mark a peck on the cheek, closed the door

to the car and walked a little solemnly to where Gary was standing. Mark watched from his car with a

heavy sigh. 'Today is going to be a long day.' With that thought in his head he turned the car around

and drove out of the parking lot into the traffic, and headed to his work.

Gary watched his best friend and secret crush walk up to him with a sad frown on her face. Gary

remembered the first day she came here about a year ago, she looked lost and scared the first few

days. It seemed that nobody cared about her to even ask what was wrong. Gary decided that enough

was enough, so he walked up to her and gruffly asked what was wrong. He startled her, when she

looked up at him she got a little scared. Although he didn't blame her because of what he looked like.

Gary has Two lip rings on the side of his bottom lip, shaggy black hair and intense green eyes. He

was wearing a black tank top under his unifom jacket that hugged his lightly muscled chest and abs.

He was at least six feet tall, so he made for an intimidating sight. When she didn't answer him

only kept on staring, he decided to leave. But a hand on his arm stopped him and she told him

about her parents dieing recently. Ever sence then they have been best friends.

A sad sigh brought Gary back form his trip down memory lane to look at the figure next to him.

He took one look at her and knew that she was thinking about her parents. Gary wrapped an

arm around her and gave her a comforting hug. Whispered to her, " Today is the anniversary

of you parents death. Isn't it?" Jess just nodded her head and sucked in his comforting prescence.

They were startled out of their thoughts by the bell ringing signaling the start of the firt period. Gary let

go of Jess and grbbed her hand, " Let's go to class before were're late, and get a lecture form Mr. Brooks."

Jess nodded and they went into the school in a comfortable silence. They went to their homeroom,

arrived just in time. Jess and Gary went to their respective seats and waited for the morning

announcments so that they can go to their first class. After the announcments everyone went to

their classes. Jess and Gary had art together then she had english and he had math. The day was

going pretty slow for Jess but she loved art class so she started to enjoy her class. The assignment

for today was to draw what you are feeling. Jess thought to herself, 'this is going to be a depressing

assignment.' She decided to draw a picture of herself looking out a window with tears running

down her face. Before she got the picture done she actually did shed a few tears, ' Mom,

dad I miss you so much.'

TBC

a/n: I hope you enjoed the first chapter. I'll try to get the next one out as soon as I can.

Ja ne.