Hello all! I'm a novice here and so please no evil reviews! I am an Inuyasha/Kagome fan but I don't support people being mean on Kikyo. So, this fanfic will not be about bullying Kikyo or anything like that. Please review if you like the story because in a world of fanfiction, reviews make the world go round! Haha. and it also makes my day! This first chapter is quite gloomy because it was when Kagome just had her poor nine year old heart shattered. But! It is necessary for this chapter so that there will be a plot of some sort.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and I never will. weeps

Chapter one: Before it all...

The sun was setting and the sky was an artist's paint pad that had all sorts of colors blended together. However, this was not a beautiful day. On the streets below, you can see and hear a girl around the age of nine, running down the streets crying her heart out.

'I know it's foolish to think I could possibly find true love at such a young age...' she thought miserably, 'but...I thought, it was real and it had filled me with so much happiness the first time he had taken my hands and said that he would always be with me even after hundreds and hundreds of years.'

Suddenly cracking a sad smile, Kagome Higurashi stared confused and dreamily at the skies. 'Who knew it was all a lie from the start?'

Deciding to be strong and not ruin anyone else's mood, Kagome ran up the steps of her shrine and plastered on a happy, cheerful -maybe too cheerful- facade.

"Tadaima! I'm home. Grandpa! Mom! Souta!"

When she saw that no one was home yet, she fixed herself a quick meal and dashed up to her room to slumber and forget all the thougths that now threatened to engulf her.

Before she could completely fall asleep, however, one last image of her thought-to-be soul mate flashed before her and she cried like never before. Running to her window, she flung it open and into the cool night breeze, she shouted to her heart's content.

"I...KAGOME HIGURASHI...VOW NEVER AGAIN TO FALL IN...LOVE WITH ANYONE ANYWHERE. I...VOW NEVER TO...LIKE SOMEONE OR EVEN TO HAVE A...CRUSH ON SOMEONE! I...WILL...NEVER BE HURT AGAIN AND IN TURN...NEVER EVER HURT ANYONE AGAIN!"