Hello and welcome to my first Inuyasha story. Inuyasha and Kagome doesn't belong to me but their children and their friends do. Hope you all enjoy the first chapter.

Summary

Denzo Higurashi and his twin sister Takara had believed that they were normal and there is no such thing as demons or heroes. All that changed when they turned nineteen and they just started college. They discover something about their parents' past and Denzo's new girlfriend was hiding a secret of her own. A secret that was thought to be buried with the abandoned Ayano Labatories that burned down ten years ago. Can the Higurashi twins save Kumiko and her siblings before it's too late?

Chapter #1 Long Talk and Move-In Day

It has been twenty years since their last adventure. Twenty years since the Shikon Jewel was put back together and Naraku has been defeated. Twenty years since they left the Feudal Era. Kagome Higurashi was sitting in the living room reading when she heard loud music coming from the second floor of the house she and her little brother have lived since they were little. She smiled a little as a tear rolled down her cheek. The music was coming from her son's bedroom. Her son Denzo and her daughter Takara were starting college in three days and it felt like yesterday when she found out she was pregnant with them years ago.

Once the search for the jewel shards was over, Inuyasha and Kagome went to the Modern Era. Where they married and had twin children. Her grandfather died when the children were five and her brother moved out a year after the couple married. Her mother stayed behind and helped her daughter and son-in-law. Now it was time for Denzo and Takara to go and find their place in the world.

Inuyasha, who was sitting on the couch next to Kagome, turned and noticed his wife was crying. He raised an eyebrow. What is with her? He winced as the wristband around his right wrist started to feel itchy. The wristband was black with a small silver sword that looked a lot like his Tetsusaiga on it. Kagome made it when she was pregnant and used her powers to empower it so it enables Inuyasha to become human when he wears it. So no one would find out what he really was. A half-demon.

"Stupid wristband." he grumbled as he rubbed it a little. "What is this material anyway?"

"Inuyasha?" Kagome said.

"Huh?"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Inuyasha answered as he continued to rub the skin near the wristband.

"Hey, don't do that, you'll rip it off."

"It's so itchy." he complained. "What did you use to make this anyway?"

"I used cotton." Kagome answered. "And you never complained about it before."

"Yeah, whatever."

Kagome smiled. Inuyasha may appear tough and cold on the outside but on the inside, she knew he was kind-hearted and sweet.

"Why are you crying anyway?" he asked.

"What?"

"You were crying, what's wrong with you?"

"It's just..."

Inuyasha winced as the music upside got louder.

"Hey! Turn that down!" he bellowed.

With that, it was a little quieter as it was eariler. The half-demon in disguse growled and stuck a finger in his ear.

"And they call that music?"

Kagome giggled. "That's one of the things I'm going to miss when the kids are gone."

Inuyasha raise an eyebrow. "What are you talking about? This college they're going to is not far from here is it?"

"It's way across town, Inuyasha." Kagome said. "That's a four hour drive from here."

"So? We'll see them again, wouldn't we? They're strong, they can take care of themselves."

Kagome nodded in agreement. They can take care of themselves now. But to her, they're still her babies. Inuyasha doesn't see it that way though. He believes that they're grown up and must go off on their own.

"So when are they leaving again?" Inuyasha asked.

"After their birthday tomorrow." Kagome answered, her eyes glistening with tears. "They're going to be nineteen soon."

"Now Kagome." Inuyasha said, getting annoyed with his wife's mood swings. "They're adults now, they must go off on their own."

"I know." she sobbed. "I...just can't...believe it's been nineteen years since I was holding them in my arms."

Inuyasha's expressions soften. He reached out and pulled his wife in an embrace. She leaned over and rested her head on Inuyasha's shoulder and buried her face in his shirt. He stroked her hair for a while until she fell asleep. A few minutes later, Kagome's mother walked into the room with a mug of tea in hands. She smiled when she saw the couple on the couch.

"Hello there." she greeted. "What happened in here? I heard crying."

"Kagome is upset cause the kids are leaving tomorrow." Inuyasha answered. "Why is she acting like this? It's not like we're not going to see Denzo and Takara again or something."

"It's something all mothers feel when it's time for their children to leave the nest." Kagome's mother said as she walked over to the chair across from her daughter and son-in-law and sat down, placing the mug on her lap.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked.

"Mothers know that their children have to leave them and go into the world on their own." His mother-in-law explained. "But to us it feels like yesterday when we birth to them. Even though it was years ago."

"Huh." Inuyasha said. "I didn't see it like that."

"Most fathers don't see it like that." Kagome's mother said. "It's natural."

The next day, Denzo Higurashi woke up as the morning light bleed through the curtains and stretched across the floor and shone in his face. He groaned and turned over before pulling the covers over his head. He knew what day it was. His and Takara's birthday and the time to move into their dorm. He turned and looked at the alarm clock on his nightstand. 7:56a.m. Too early to do anything but sleep, which is what Denzo wanted to do right now. He tossed and turned for about an hour before he gave up and heard a groan on the bunk above him.

"Ugh...Denzo." Takara said half-sleep as she turned and looked down at his twin brother. "What's the problem? Bad dream or something?"

"No, I want to sleep but I can't and it's too early to do anything." Denzo answered. "Mom, Dad, and Grandma are probably still in bed."

"Well, we can talk for a while." Takara suggested.

"Talk? About what?"

"About the dream we had a few nights ago."

Denzo raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean 'same dream'? You dreamt about a man in the shadows saying the time has come?"

Takara nodded. "Yeah." she said. "You know it's weird that we're sharing the same dreams."

"What's so weird about that? We share the same room and birthday don't we?"

Takara chuckled. "Yeah...but no one has the same dream as someone else. It's not natural. Anyway did you have the dream again?"

"Yeah, I did." Denzo pushed the covers off him and sat up, running fingers through his hair as he tried to remember the dream. "It was the same as before. A figure standing in the shadows of a dark room. Looking at me with creepy red eyes and saying the time is near. But this time, he step out of the shadows and into the light and..."

"And what?"

"I woke up." Denzo said. "What about you?"

"It was the same as yours." Takara said. "Same shadows in a dark room, strange figure in the dark corner of the room, same strange red eyes and same 'the time is near' praise. He too stepped out of the shadows."

"Did you see who it was?"

"Not very well. Only he was dressed in red, with sliver hair and yellow eyes."

"Silver hair?" Denzo chuckled "Who would dye their hair sliver?"

Takara shrugged. "Beats me. I'm sure it's nothing."

"I'm not sure, Takara. That voice sound familiar."

"Yeah, come to think of it, he does sound familiar, but did we last heard that voice before?"

"Who cares? Dreams can't come true. Lets go back to sleep."

"Fine."

Takara turned over and stared at the wall for a few minutes. She didn't want to admit it, but she was worried about the dream. She held her left wrist out and stared at the black wristband with a silver sword embroded into the material around it. She quiet turned over and looked down from her bunk to see Denzo's left wrist sticking out from the covers and resting on his chest. On it was the same wristband she was wearing. The wristband she and her brother have been wearing for long as they can remember. They don't know why and for some reason they can't take them.

"I know it was a dream but it felt real." she thought. "And that voice. It sound almost like Dad. Only it was a like a growling dog or something."

With that, she fell asleep.

A few hours later, after they were moved into their dorm. Denzo, Takara and their parents spent time at the shops in town. After dinner, Kagome and Inuyasha dropped Denzo and Takara off at their dorm and hugged them both tightly for about ten minutes before Inuyasha had to tear her away from them.

"Now, Kagome." he said as he pulled his wife off Denzo. "Let them breathe."

"Yeah, Mom don't embrass us." Denzo said smoothing out his hair after his mother messed it up.

"I'm not embrassing you and your sister." Kagome said. "I'm just proud of you too."

Denzo and Takara blushed. Noticing the looks on their faces, Inuyasha said. "Ok, Kagome it's time to go."

"In a minute, Inuyasha." she said as she reached into her bag and pulled out two small boxes.

"These are for you two." she asked gave them to her children. "A birthday present."

Denzo and Takara exchanged looks before accepting the presents. They never gotten much for their birthday over the years, execpt a trip to other country or to far-a-way town. How is this birthday different from the rest? Other then them going to college.

"Thanks, mom." Denzo said looking at the box. "What is it?"

"You'll find out later." she answered. "Have a good year you two."

"Behave yourselves." Inuyasha warned as he and Kagome left.

"Bye, Mom and Dad." Takara said.

"So you later." Denzo said as he watched their parents pull out of the campus parking lot. Once they were gone, Denzo and Takara went up to their dorm rooms.

"I wonder what's in this." Denzo said looking at the box.

"Beats me." Takara said, shaking hers a bit. "I wonder what's with Mom. We're not staying here forever."

"You know how Mom is, Takara." Denzo said. "Overprotective and never wanting us to grow up. You remember how she was when we told her we got accepted here?"

"I do." Takara said. "She cried for two days."

"Yeah."

Once they reached the third floor, Denzo went right to his dorm room while Takara went left to hers. Denzo pulled out his key and went inside. Once inside, he sat at his desk and looked at the small box his mother gave him. It was about the size of of his own palm and tied with a gold and silver ribbon. He untied the ribbon and opened the box. Inside was a string of blood red beads.

"What?" Denzo said as he took the beads out and held them up to get a better look. They looked like the beads his parents sold at the shrine he and Takara grew up at. Beads for protection. Attached to the beads was a small tag saying.

"With these beads, no one who wishes to hurt you will touch you. Happy Birthday Mom and Dad."

"Yup, these are protection beads alright." he said as he placed them on the desk. "Like I ever need cheap jewelry to keep jerks away."

He laughed as he pulled off his shirt, threw it into the hamper and went to bed. That night, while everyone was asleep. No one knew that someone was watching the Higurashi twins sleep. Outside in the tallest branch, sat a figure with a small frame and long hair. She stayed in the shadows as she saw the lights in the rooms Denzo and Takara were in turned off.

"They've arrived." She thought. "I have to get close to them. They're the only ones who can help us."