CHAPTER 1 – DO YOU LOVE ME?

It was a good day for the residents of the Higurashi household. The occupants sat at the table silently eating their breakfast. The eldest at the table sat mumbling about this that or the other. His daughter lightly shaking her head, trying hard not the laugh at her dear old father for his antics. Osana Higurashi was a proud woman. Proud of her heritage and proud of what she has become as a woman. She bore a beautiful daughter named Kagome as she sat next to her mother drinking tea as she thinks about what lays ahead outside the back doors of her house.

Kagome Higurashi was a fifteen year old girl who loved her family. She adores her friends very much and she is half-way close to her brother. Kagome goes to high school and hopes to go to TU. Her tea was feeling warm going down her throat. She also has a secret only her family knows. She is also the shikon miko that travels 500 years into the past. There she has a new set of friends, and one brash crush on a certain hanyou. Today she has been gone a week and it is time to return to finish her mission looking for the shikon shards. She finishes her breakfast, stands and grabs her big yellow backpack full of supplies as she heaves it on her shoulders. This backpack however is thicker and tougher then her old one so it can handle more abuse.

"Mom. It's time for me to go now."

"Oh. Well, I will miss as always dear. Do be careful."

Kagome checks everything before nodding to her mother. "I will mom. I always do. Just a scratch here or there." She joked as she walks out of the kitchen towards the well house.

Her family saw her off as she walks towards the well house . She knew the dangers she would face as she walks the dangers of fuedal Japan but she had a mission to carry and a responsibility to keep. She waves to her mom, brother and grandpa before she hops into the well where the blue lights and magic carries her 500 years into the past. Where her friends were expected to meet her. Upon touching down softly she then starts to climb the thick vine that cascaded down the well. After a few huffs and puffs she throws her backpack over the top after removing it from her shoulders and climbs over the lip of the well and settled to sit there to catch her breath. She looks around to find the spot empty. She was wondering why Inuyasha hadn't helped her out of the well. She shrugs then hopped down. Gathering her backpack once again on her back she treks down the hill towards the village where Kaede lives. Her mentor and teach in mikonomics as she calls it. Once there she flips open the flap to find Sango Miroku and Shippou there but no Inuyasha.

"Hi guys!"

"Hey Kagome!" They all said at once as they got up and gave her a hug after she dropped her pack on a nearby wall.

"Where's Inuyasha?"

The look on their faces only told her one thing, but Sango confirmed it for her. "He hasn't been back for five days Kagome."

Five days, the exact time she'd been gone from here. With a saddened heart she nodded in acceptance. "Ok. Well we can start searching then. We can't keep waiting for him. You have done that long enough."

The others always have looked up to her as the glue in their little family. She allowed Miroku to carry her backpack for her as they said their goodbye to Kaede and went off to search for the shards on their own. They have done if before and succeeded into finding three shards in a few days battling minor demons. Now today she felt something different in the air. She just knew something different is going to happen. It might be a bad thing or a good thing. She just knew something else was going to happen

Walking in black clad boots was the pristine Western Lord. His thigh length silvery white hair sway slightly with each step he took. Behind him is AhUn with little Rin riding on top on the saddle while the imp known as Jaken waddles closely being but behind his demonic lord. They are slowly heading home and for Rin that is as exciting as any news can get. He has already sent out orders towards the castle about Rin and his warnings. His staff is a caring bunch but knows how to get business done if they want to wrath of their lord for fall on them.

"Eh, excuse me my lord….."

"We will stop soon Jaken". Sesshoumaru interrupts without a pause in his step.

"Y,yes my lord".

"Hahaha, Mr. Jaken got in trouble".

"Shut it you impudent child!" Jaken shouted waving his staff of two heads around. He knows not to harm the little tike.

Soon, Sesshoumaru caught the scent of his brother. So why not have a little fun? He continues to walk but made a slow detour so as to not have Jaken or Rin raise questions. AhUn just rumbled quietly to their master. The beast of burden always enjoys the brothers' arguments.

On the other side of the forest, Inuyasha suddenly stops and his ears began to twitch. He then places his hand on the hilt of sword. The other knew that something or someone is coming so they prep themselves. Soon the white clad prince stepped into the pathway and stopped to look at the group armed and ready before him.

"Sesshoumaru! What the hell are you doing here?"

"I can't come and see my little brother Inuyasha?"

"Half! You damn dog!"

"Why such the hostility? I only come to inform you of the miko, Kikyo, I believe her name is".

"K,Kikyo? What do you know? You leave her alone/!"
"I only come to offer a congratulations to you ….."

"Shut up Sesshoumaru!" The irate hanyou was getting angrier by the minute. He had mated Kikyo the week Kagome was away and he was scared to death to tell her. His fear was coming off of him and Sesshoumaru was loving the scent of it.

"Inuyasha? What is he talking about?" Miroku had a sneaking suspicion of what the hanyou had done and he didn't like how the outcome would be,

"Nothing. MIroku. Sesshoumaru is just talking!"

"Am I Inuyasha? I do recall someone saying "I love only you. Let's be together, forever. Be my mate", is that what you had said to her as I walked by only meters away on my way to camp?"

Inuyasha's ears went flat against his head tighter than usual. Everyone was looking at him, especially Kagome. "Inuyasha?" He turned to the sound of her sweet voice. The voice he had known for an entire year or so now.

"Kagome….I…"

"You said you loved me, remember. Do you love me, Inuyasha?"

"I…you're my best friend…and…"

Kagome just turned her head as she heard him stammer. "I see. So you mated Kikyo while I was away. So you answer my question, honestly, do you love me?"

"I love you as a friend, a best friend….what we have, was…a thing…I mean you mean a lot to me Kagome, you…." He looked up to talk to her after looking at the ground but found her gone. He looked around and saw her walking down the path they was on, with the rest of the group following, and his brother …