AU- I was sick and tired of writing fan fics that were about the Feudal Era so I wanted to try out something new. I hope that you guys like this as much as you like my other ones.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MOST OF THE CHARACTERS USED IN THIS. SO DON'T TURN ME IN FOR FRAUD OR ANYTHING.

IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 I DO NOT SUGGEST YOU READ THIS FOR THERE IS A LOT OF ADULT CONTENT

A NEW BEGINNING

SUMMARY: Kagome lives in New York and things aren't going well. Her long time boyfriend Hojo has a dark secret that Kagome is going to find out. Will she give up on love or will her friend Inuyasha confess his feelings for her and make her be able to fall in love again? AU

Chapter 1

Son of a Bitch

Kagome put out her cigarette. She was going for a walk to Hojo's house. She knew that he was up to something, and wanted to find out what. It wasn't like him to just cancel plans with her for no reason at all. She needed to know if he still loved her, and if he didn't the reasons behind it. If only her car wasn't being repaired she would able to drive, and wouldn't that be a lot faster. But the walk was fine; it was a nice fall evening.

Once she arrived at Hojo's she noticed that there was another car in the driveway besides his. Kagome thought of whose car it could possibly be. He had a lot of friends, most of which she did not know, so it could be possible that it could be one of theirs, but in Kagome's heart she didn't think that it was possible. She now wished that she would have listened to her best friends Inuyasha and Faith. They warned her that Hojo wasn't as good as he seemed, and Kagome had a feeling that she was about to find out that they were right.

Kagome and Hojo had dated for about two years before Kagome started to have suspicions about him. It's just that Kagome never had enough guts to confront Hojo about them until now. Kagome gathered as much courage as she could and walked up the steps to Hojo's front door. It was ajar and she could hear talking from inside, and he wasn't with one of his guy friends either, unless one of his guy friends just happened to sound like a woman.

"Come on baby; let's go back to my bedroom. I'll make it worth you while." Hojo said to his company.

"Oh… you're such a bad boy Hojo! I'll be right there." His company responded, and her voice, it sound vaguely familiar.

At hearing this Kagome wanted to turn back home. So it was true. All of it. Hojo was a bad guy like her friends had been telling her from the beginning, if only she would have listened. But thinking on returning home and cussing up a storm over the phone about what she had just over heard, Kagome decided that it would be better if she would go inside and confront the problem right here and now. This way Hojo couldn't try and deny it by saying that it was the TV or something. So Kagome got out her keys and decided to act like she just got there.

"Hojo, I came by to make sure that you were alright. I thought that maybe you were sick and that's why you cancelled on me." Kagome said while walking through the door.

Hojo's company was in complete and utter shock on Kagome's appearance and looked around for a place to hide. She didn't want Kagome to see her. If Kagome was going to bust him on cheating she didn't want Kagome to know who it was Hojo was cheating on her with. But it was too late. When she finally thought of a good place to hide Kagome was already standing in the entrance to the living room, her mouth agape.

"So this is why you were telling me that Hojo wasn't a good guy you bitch! Because you knew first hand! I can't believe that you would do something like this to me, I thought that you were my friend." Kagome said tears forming in her eyes.

Faith approached Kagome trying to comfort her. "Look Kagome, I can explain."

"Don't touch me! Don't even look at me. I don't even want you near me! You betrayed me in the worst possible way Faith, the worse possible way. I can't even begin to explain how much pain that you both have caused me. My boyfriend of two and a half years has been cheating on me with my so called best friend. When did this start?" Kagome paused as to let Faith answer, on response Faith opened her mouth as to tell her. "On second thought I don't even want to know. You know what, you can have him. I don't want him anymore. Tell him that I hope he dies a horrible death and rots in hell. Since he's not man enough to be out here with you."

"Actually he's…" Faith began before Kagome cut her off.

"I know exactly where he is! He's in the fucking bedroom waiting for you to join him. Well I won't have him kept waiting any longer come on." Kagome said gripping Faith's hair and pulling her to Hojo's bedroom door. "I found this whore in you living room. I hope you like having a whore in your bed instead of me. We're done Hojo, we're through. If you even come to my house, or try to talk to me in public I will not hesitate to cut off you dick and force feed it to you. And we'll see how much pleasure you give Faith then! We'll just see." Kagome threw Faith into his bedroom and stormed out of Hojo's house. She was in tears. She didn't want to go home and be all alone so she ended up walking to Inuyasha's house.

"I told you it was a bad idea to give her a house key." Faith said with a smirk across her face.

"And I told you to lock and chain the door." Hojo said a bit pissed off at everyone but himself. "Come over here and get me off bitch!"

"Right away master." Faith said in a sarcastic tone.

Once Kagome got to Inuyasha's house Kagome rang the door bell, tears streaming down her face and all. She was a bit surprised in herself for being able to make it to his house in the time that she did, due to how bad that she's been crying.

Inuyasha answered the door in nothing more than his boxers and was completely surprised that Kagome was the one that was standing there. And crying none the less. He thought that Hojo was taking her out tonight because they were together for two and a half years. "Kagome, why are you here? I thought that you were going to be out with Hojo tonight."

"I don't want to explain right now. I would have gone home but I don't want to be alone. Do you mind if I stay the night? I'll tell you everything in the morning."

"No, of course I don't mind, come in, come in." Inuyasha said stepping aside so Kagome could get through the door. "You can have my bed, I'll take the couch. I can see that you've had a rough night so I want you to be as comfortable as possible."

"Inuyasha, you don't have to do that." Kagome said trying to take control of her emotions. "I don't need special treatment. I'm not special or anything so there's no reason for you to be treating me as such."

"Kagome, of course you're special. I don't know why you would think such a thing. I think that you are very special in fact." Inuyasha said with a smile.

"You don't mean that. You're just trying to make me feel better." Kagome said still all down and depressed about what she had witnessed about a half an hour earlier.

"Of course I mean it!" Inuyasha said all defensive. "Why wouldn't I?"

"I don't know, Inuyasha, I really don't know. But at least someone cares about me." Kagome said no longer crying.

"I'm not the only one that cares about you. Faith and Hojo care about you too."

So much for Kagome no longer crying. Inuyasha's last statement threw her emotions all out of wack once again and she started hysterical crying again.

"Kagome, what did I say? Why are you crying again?" Inuyasha said pulling Kagome close to him and starting to stroke her hair with his hand.

"I'll tell you all about it in the morning. Right now I want to try and get some sleep. If you insist on me having your bed then I have to insist that you stay with me until I fall asleep. That is if you don't mind. I just don't want to be alone right now."

"Of course I don't mind. I'll get you one of my shirts that you can wear and then I'll tuck you in for bed. How does that sound?"

"Wonderful." Kagome said with a sad little smile gracing her lips.

Inuyasha led Kagome to his bedroom and took out one of his t-shirts from his dresser. "Here, you can wear this. You can even get it all teary and snotty. I'll leave the room so you can get dressed. Once you're ready for me to tuck you in just give me a yell. I'll just be outside the door. I'll even leave it open for you if you would like."

Kagome gave Inuyasha a nod and he then left the room. "What a great guy. He definitely knows how to treat a lady. I just wonder if he knew about Faith's little love affair with Hojo. I guess I'll find that out in the morning. No need to get involved with that now. I just want to sleep. I'm too tired from crying all night to even start to think about telling Inuyasha that Hojo has been cheating on me tonight." Kagome thought as she was getting herself dressed in Inuyasha's t-shirt. "It even smells like him." Kagome smiled. "Okay Inuyasha, I'm dressed. You can come in now."

Inuyasha did what he was told and entered him bedroom. After he had tucked Kagome into bed he asked her, "Do you still want me to stay with you or are you okay to fall asleep without my company?"

"Even if I was okay I would want you to stay with me. My heart has been torn in millions of pieces and I'm hoping that your company will help it to heal. Even if it's just a little."

Inuyasha smiled. "Okay Kagome, I'll stay. Just rest you head in my lap and sleep."

Kagome rested her head in Inuyasha lap and let him stroke her hair. It was nice. She loved the way that he comforted her. If she didn't know any better she would be sure that he liked her more than a friend, but she definitely knew better. But it was wishful thinking. Kagome began to think about what it would be like to have Inuyasha as her boyfriend and gave a silent laugh. She soon fell asleep afterwards.

Inuyasha noticing this decided to lift Kagome's head off of his lap, but reconsidered once Kagome started to stir from his movement. "I guess I'll be sleeping here tonight." Inuyasha thought to himself. "I don't want to disturb her sleep. I wonder what Kagome meant by saying that her heart was torn in a million pieces tonight. Did Hojo hurt her? If he did I'll kill him. Kagome doesn't need to be treated like that. Maybe he stood her up. Maybe she got in a fight with her mom. I know how bad their fights can get. Kagome ended up calling her mom a bitch and ran all the way to my house afterwards. But whatever it is she's really hurt and I have to do my best to help her, even if it means that all I do is listen." Inuyasha leaned down and gave Kagome a kiss on her head and fell asleep himself.

The sun shining through the window woke up Inuyasha. Kagome was still asleep so Inuyasha decided to move her head onto the pillow so he could make her breakfast. He figured that it was one of the best things that he could do to try and heal her broken heart. Once Kagome's head was resting nicely on the pillow, Inuyasha kissed Kagome's forehead and left the room to make her breakfast.

Little did Inuyasha know but Kagome was up a little before him and was just laying there with her eyes closed listening to his heartbeat. "Did Inuyasha just kiss me?" Kagome thought to herself. "If he did I know he didn't mean anything by it. Probably just wishing me more sleep. I mean Hojo never gave me kisses like that. Come to think about it Hojo never gave me kisses unless he wanted sex or a blow job. Hojo…." Kagome began to cry silently. Once she was able to control her emotions she went out to the kitchen because she could smell the welcoming smell of the breakfast that Inuyasha was cooking.

"Well I didn't know that you cooked." Kagome said coming into the kitchen to sit at the table. "You're not trying to poison me or anything are you?" Kagome said jokingly.

Inuyasha noticing the joke responded, "Of course not, I would never think of it. …Now maybe if it was Wednesday…."

"Inuyasha!"

"What?"

"It is Wednesday you dork!"

"Oh it is? Then I meant Friday. Now if it was Friday I would definitely poison your breakfast."

The two of them laughed at that and Inuyasha sat Kagome's breakfast in front of her than sat beside her. "Not to pry or anything but I was wondering if you were ready to tell me about why you were so heartbroken last night."

Kagome swallowed the bite of food that she just finished chewing and nodded her head. "Yes, I'm ready to tell you. But first I need you to promise me something. If you knew whatever it is I'm about to tell you tell me that you knew and tell me why you didn't tell me when you found out. Do you promise?"

"Yes Kagome, I promise. Now what is it that you want to tell me?"

"Okay… it all started about an hour before our dinner reservations. Hojo called and cancelled them on me. I didn't really mind, I really didn't want to go out, but what I did mind is that he didn't have a reason behind canceling. I didn't pry and ask him why, I just told him that I understood. But I didn't. So I decided to walk over to his house and see what he was up to. So once I got there I saw another car in the driveway. I wanted to think that it was one of his guy friends' cars but my heart wouldn't let me believe it. So I walk up to the door which I find it ajar." Kagome's eyes started to form tears but she didn't want to stop telling Inuyasha what she had found out about twelve hours earlier.

"Kagome, you can stop. You don't need to tell me what happened if you don't feel up to it. I don't want you to reopen any scars that you aren't ready to reopen. I don't want to see you hurting Kagome, I really don't." Inuyasha pleaded with her.

"Don't worry about me Inuyasha. To be perfectly honest with you I'm probably going to hurt whether or not I tell you. I just think its better that I tell someone so I can feel a little bit better about everything. I don't want to feel this emptiness any longer."

"Okay Kagome, whatever you think is best. I won't try to stop you again."

"Okay then, back to what I was saying. I found the front door ajar when I got up to the porch. Then I started to hear talking. I soon found out that his company wasn't a man but a woman. Hojo told the bitch, in not so many words, to meet him in his bedroom. She told him that she would. I thought the voice sounded familiar on top of things. I took my keys out of my purse since I have a key to Hojo's house. I acted like I was coming to check on him because I thought that he was sick. He was already in his bedroom when I entered, but I came face to face with his company, Faith." Kagome started to cry coming to this point in her story and Inuyasha started to comfort her.

"Kagome, I had no idea. If I did I definitely would have told her how much of a whore I thought that she was to even try to do a stunt like that. And to betray one of her best friends in the worst possible was imaginable. I can't believe she did something like that. I am so sorry."

Kagome open her mouth to tell him that he doesn't need to be sorry, but the phone rang before she got the chance.

"I'm sorry Kagome, but I probably should get that. It could be Sesshomaru; I have plans with him later."

"Okay, go ahead and answer it." Kagome knew that Inuyasha didn't need her permission to answer his phone, but she wanted to let him know that it was okay for him to do so.

"Hello?" Inuyasha answered the phone thinking that he would hear Sesshomaru's voice at the other end.

"Hey sexy, it's Faith."

"What do you want whore?"

"Is that anyway to talk to me? I figured that I would let you take me out like you've wanted."

"No thanks. I don't know what kind of diseases you have after fooling around with Hojo and frankly, I don't want them."

"I have no idea what you're talking about. Hojo and I have never fooled around." Faith quickly changed the subject. "Anyways, by any chance do you know where Kagome is? Hojo is looking for her."

"No I don't, and even if I did I wouldn't tell you. Anyways, I got to get back to my breakfast. I hope you rot in hell you bitch." Inuyasha said before hanging up the phone.

"What did she want?" Kagome asked not really wanting to know.

"Well, she wanted me to take her out and she also wanted to know where you were so she could tell Hojo."

"Well thanks for not telling my whereabouts."

"No problem, what are true friends for anyway?"

Kagome smiled. "Anyways, I would like to finish my little nightmare if you don't mind." Inuyasha nodded his approval and Kagome continued. "Now where was I? … Oh now I remember. So I see Faith in the living room and I start cussing her out. I just couldn't believe that she would do something like that to me. I end up dragging her down the hall to Hojo's room, cuss him out, break up with him, and throw Faith in there by her hair before running out of there. I left his key; he can give it to Faith for all I care. Those to can have their little love every night to. I just hope they get what they deserve for betraying me in this way and rot in hell for all eternity."

"Yeah, I have to admit that would be nice."

"Inuyasha! I never knew you to be so cruel." Kagome laughed.

"Well there are a lot of things that you don't know about me Kagome."

"Like…?" Kagome said hoping Inuyasha would answer her.

"Well a lot of things, things that I would rather not get into right now if you don't mind. I just don't want to be a complete open book to you; I would like to hold onto my secrets as long as I can thank you."

"You're welcome." Kagome laughed thinking that she was funny. "No problem. Keep them for as long as you want. But just remember that when you are ready to tell me that I will be here to listen to you just like you were here to listen to me."

"Thanks Kagome, that was very reassuring."

"No problem Inuyasha. Like you said, what are true friends for anyways?"

Authors Note: Well there's my first chapter of my new fan fic. I hope you enjoyed it:)