A/N: Hello. Some of you may notice this story is not new. I posted it a while back, but discontinued because I couldn't think of anything else to add to it. I have finished it, so I decided to repost it. For newcomers to my story, I have altered things to make it work: Kagome is not Kikyou's reincarnation, and Kaede doesn't exist because I didn't need her. Nothing of InuYasha is mine other than this story, and there will be no Japanese in it for those who don't know any Japanese. Enough chatter, here you go. Hope you enjoy.

Prologue

Five-year old Higurashi Kagome walked outside through the rain to the area where the shrine resided on her family's land. With her little brother Souta, who was only one-year old, demanding her mother's attention constantly, her mother didn't seem to have time for her. She understood it was hard taking care of a baby, but she thought her mother took it overboard.

Not that she'd ever say anything about it.

Not that she'd ever say anything about anything.

Kagome hadn't spoken since her father died in the house fire last year, shortly after Souta had been born. Only Kagome and her father had been home. He was taking a nap when she saw the flames, but she hadn't been able to wake him up to get him out. The firemen arrived and pulled the child out of the house, but they didn't get to her father in time.

Since that day, fire petrified her.

Since that day, she hadn't breathed a word.

She walked to the well-house and sat on the edge of said well swinging her legs, remembering that day vividly as silent tears fell.

She swung her one leg too hard, throwing herself off balance and falling backwards into the well. Even with herself falling into an unknown depth, she made no sound.

New Face, New World, New Life

Tears.

Blood.

A human, but it carried scent of rain.

The small half-demon knew it well, the scent of humans. After all, his mother was human and he lived in a human village. He may have only looked five years old, but that was in demon aging. In human years he was around one-hundred, so he knew these things well enough.

He rushed to the well in the woods, where he could tell the scent had come from. Arriving at the scene, he looked down through the dark, only able to see the small human, looking around and shivering with cold, thanks to the God-given gift of sunlight.

"What are you doing down there?" he called. She looked up at him with large, brown, tear-stained eyes. "How'd you even get down there? That fall would injure a human, if not kill him."

She just looked down to the ground, letting her shoulder-length hair cascade around her shoulders, her bangs over her eyes.

He could hear sniffling, barely, but his demonic senses picked it up nonetheless. Jumping down, he landed softly next to her. With his back to the girl, he said, "Climb on. I'll get you out of here." Kagome lifted her head and looked at him like he had the plague. "Do you want to get out of here or not, Human?"

She nodded, proceeding to pull out her pen and paper she kept in her pocket.

My name is Kagome.

He looked at it for a few moments as though he were examining it. "That's some weird writing. I don't know it. Where are you from?"

She went to write it down out of habit, and as soon as the pen touched the paper she stopped, remember what he'd just said. He couldn't read her writing.

But she wouldn't talk, so she continued to stare at him, occasionally blinking. He realized she wasn't going to answer his question, so he turned and took a knee, preparing for her to climb on his back. This time she did.

She notice how warm his haori was as he gripped her legs and jumped up out of the well.

Landing as softly as he had inside it, even with an extra person on him, the half-demon thought it was awfully strange how she jumped off his back and stepped a couple yards away. This was one strange human. Her clothes were almost as strange as her, he noted.

"So I'm InuYasha. Who are you?" he asked nonchalantly, locking his hands behind his head.

She remembered the writing not working, but she couldn't talk either, so she mouthed her name.

"Look, Human. I don't read lips! Just tell me your name already!"

She shrank back slightly when he yelled at her, then whispered gravelly, "Kagome."

"Well hop back on, Kagome. You can stay with me. Unless you got somewhere to be."

She shook her head, taking baby steps back toward him. Climbing onto his back, she soon fell into a much needed sleep.

A/N: Hello again. Please review. This was brought to my attention last time, but I changed it back after seeing the third movie. I know InuYasha is supposed to be about 15 when him and Kagome meet, but that's in appearance. In the third movie, myouga and the sword's guardian say InuTaisho died two hundred years ago, meaning at the present time in the movie InuYasha was two hundred years old since his dad died saving him when he was born. Just thought I'd let y'all know.

-rea