Chapter 1: The beginning

"My name is Kagome Higurashi. Well, it was until I found out my mom was the former president of the DCA, Drug Company of America. Ever since they tried to kill her family and her, we've been hiding. No one ever knew about my mom's job. We always thought she was the owner of SHOES FOR ALL. I was so close to her and I wish I was with her at this moment. Instead I'm stuck in this hell hole of a place called, Tokyo, Japan for the rest of my life . . . for something I never knew about!!! No one in my family knew this was going to happen. It just did.

"I have no pictures of her. But I have a necklace she gave me when I was 13. I called it the Shikon Jewel because it looks like it from my favorite anime series, Inuyasha. I'm not sure why she gave it to me because she said it was important, but once I turn 16, which is in like 6 months, then she would tell me."

A tear fell off my cheek and onto the piece of paper I was writing on. I never realized I was crying until the tear fell. I lifted my hand to wipe my cheek, not wanting my crying to ruin my makeup. I walked to the mirror to check and sadly, I did not see the raven hair girl with glossy blue eyes. No, I saw a brown hair girl with blue-green eyes. 'Who am I?' I asked myself.

Another tear fell down my cheek and onto my white desk. As that one fell others trailed behind. There was no use stopping them because even if I tried too there would be a war with my tears and my hands.

"I don't know much information about the DCA, but I know that they are horrible people who ask for help, and then they kill you and your family because they think you know too much information. What was my mom thinking?! Well it wasn't because of the money. My family goes on vacation every year that cost a lot of money. I went on a cruise in April, $8,000 for a family of 5!!! That's $1,600 per person . . . a lot of money!

"It hasn't been long since I left. It's just finally settling in me that I won't see my family ever again! Not even my 19-year-old brother who soon will be with us, once he finishes college that is. No one knew about him in my mom's company . . . actually I think no one knew about any of us. I mean she wouldn't dare give out any information about her outside life. Then again maybe she did and that was why they were coming after her.

"I have school tomorrow. I go to a school that I don't even know the name of. Way to go Kagome!"

I put the pen down and walked downstairs to the kitchen where my school's name was. There it was, in some language I couldn't read. I turned it over and I saw it, my favorite language in the world, ENGLISH!!! I ran back to my journal and wrote the name down.

"I just realized that my school is an English school!!! They speak English SWEET!!! It's called Lincoln School. I checked it out the web site on my computer. Now it's only 10:45 p.m. and the time over in Florida is I think only 5:00 p.m. there. I hope I make new friends tomorrow. It's not like I am a foreign exchange student from America . . . oh wait. I am. chuckles.

Well, I'm gonna hit the hay. Kaggie Out!"