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Chapter 1: Change.
It was still pretty cold out considering it was only the end of March, but they did live in Canada. They were actually pretty lucky as far as Canadian's go, since they lived in Victoria, British Columbia, and it never got really cold. Their house was just outside of the city, on the eastern side of the island. Well actually they lived on the coast. Their house wasn't very big, but it was more than enough for their family of 4. There was Rin, her twin sister Kagome, their younger brother Souta, and their mother Akami. Their house had 5 bedrooms, 4 almost identical rooms upstairs. 2 at the back of the house, each with a personal bathroom and a balcony that overlooked the ocean beach they had in their back yard. The other 2 were only a little smaller, but didn't have bathrooms or balconies, since it faced the street and they shared a bathroom hallway. On the main floor was the master bedroom, which Akami had, the kitchen, the living room, another bathroom, the laundry room, and a gazebo that attached to the kitchen.
Kagome was alone in her bedroom, sitting at her desk, writing in her journal like she did every day when she got home from school. 'Thank god it's the last day of school.. Spring break couldn't have came sooner…'. She looked down at the journal in her hands. 'There isn't one happy entry… why can't I just get over this..?'
Suddenly her door was thrown open. Standing in the frame was a girl who was average height, had waist length hair, that was such a dark brown it was almost black, and dark chocolate brown eyes. The girl had an athletic body since she normally played a lot of sports, only recently quitting them all. It was her twin sister, Rin, they'd often been told that their only difference was that Kagome's hair was jet black, and while Rin had an athletic build, Kagome just had fast metabolism.
Rin bounced into her sister's room and jumped on the bed. "Hey Kagome! Whatcha doing?"
"Oh nothing…" Kagome answered, looking away from her sister and hiding her journal under some papers. 'I hate hiding stuff from her but.. Well she's already moved on from all of this.. I don't want to depress her with this..'
"*sigh* Ok Kagome…" she looked down, playing with her hands. 'She's keeping something from me.. Why can't she just talk to me about this? I've never kept anything from her… I already know what she's thinking about. She can't just ignore this!"
'Shit… she knows I'm keeping something from her… but she's heard this stuff enough..-' Kagome's thoughts were cut short when Rin's head snapped up and she smiled evilly at her shocked sister. "Rin… what's up with the creepy smile…? Oh my god! Please tell me you aren't planning something stupid for the next two weeks…. Please!"
Rin smiled wider "not yet! You'll never guess why I came in here!"
She waited for her to continue, but she just kept smiling, which made Kagome laugh. "Ok. Ok. What is it?"
If possible, Rin's smile got bigger, which honestly Kagome thought was really funny and she laughed. "Come on!" she screamed jumping off of the bed, grabbing Kagome's hand and pulling her out of her room and into the guest room across the hall.
Kagome watched her sister, while let her pull her to the window. 'why is she smiling like that…? And is she... Bouncing..? Weird...'
"LOOK!" she screamed pointing out the window.
Kagome gave her sister a weird look, before rolling her eyes as she turned to look. It only took her a minute to see why Rin was so excited. 'A moving truck!' "There here! The new neighbors are here already? Why? I thought they were only coming in May?"
"Well I guess they are coming early? I mean we did see painters there last week..? I wonder who they are. I hope their as nice as the people who used to live there... it sucks that they had to move… oh my god. I can't wait to meet them!" She pushed Kagome aside trying to see what kind of things the people owned.
"yeah I know… but it was a family thing so- OH MY GOD! Look a car is pulling in behind the moving truck!"
"Hahaha I know. I can see it" she stuck her tongue out.
"Put it back in your mouth before I take it out. Think it's them?"
"Well duh it's them! Geez!" Kagome frowned as Rin rolled her eyes and tried to stick her out again, only to be consumed by laughter. Kagome tried to keep frowning, but soon they were both on the floor laughing at nothing. A few times they'd calmed down, only to burst out laughing again. They'd been rolling on the floor laughing for at least 10 minutes, when a car door was slammed shut outside and they remembered why they were there in the first place. To spy.
They both trampled each other to get to the window to see what was going on. The only person who had gotten out of the car was the driver. They couldn't see much since she was busy talking to the movers and had her back towards them, so all they could see was that she had knee length black hair. They weren't able to tell much from where they were so they looked at the car. It looked like there were still 3 people in it. Suddenly the woman who had been talking to the moving men walked up to the car and tapped on the window of the car, saying something they couldn't hear. Both of their thoughts were the exact same, as they both gasped 'She's beautiful!' Even though her long hair acted like a curtain, they could tell that she had a nice body, but they couldn't look at her for long because her eyes were holding their attention. They were fascinating! They were such a lively shade of green that they could see it from their window across the street. Neither of them had ever seen eyes that shade before.
Rin gasped and fell over, landing on her butt on the floor at Kagome's feet. "Umm Rin? Hello? Earth to Rin? What's the matter with you?" she asked waving her hand in front of her face.
She lifted a shaky hand and pointed, eyes wide, out the window. "L-l-l-look!"
Kagome eyed her questionably, before looking out the window. "*GASP* Holy shit… their…" She stood there with the same expression as Rin. The 3 people, well boys, had gotten out of the car and were …. Breathe taking to say the least. 'I've never seen anyone, scratch that, anything, like them before…'
The first one had hair down to his knees, and as if the length was weird enough, his hair was white. Not grey, but white, and his eyes were yellow. He was the tallest of the 3 boys, and was obviously a demon. There was no way to miss it. He had claws and fangs, but the most obvious thing was the tattoos he had on his face. There was a blue crescent moon on his forehead where his bangs parted, and two magenta strips on his cheeks.
The second one was only up the first guy's shoulders, and was obviously human. He had his medium length black hair pulled into a small pony tail at the back of his neck. He had very blue eyes that were closer to a purple. He looked normal enough, besides the purple clothe and beads he had wrapped around his right hand.
The last one looked a lot like the first one, but at the same time, completely different. He was obviously a demon as well. He was shorter than the first one, but taller than the second. His hair was up to his butt, but unlike the first boy his hair wasn't white, instead it was silver. His hair looked like silk, but on the top of his head, half hidden by his hair were silver dog ears! His eyes were golden, not yellow like the first boy's. Even though he was obviously a demon, because of his ears, claws and fangs, he didn't have any tattoos like the first guy.
They were all absolutely beautiful, but their expressions freaked Kagome and Rin out. The first one, with the tattoos, was completely emotionless, besides the glare he was sending to the other two boys. 'cool kid…' The second one, with the purple clothe, was staring and smiling weirdly at the girls at the end of the block, while licking his lips. 'Hmmm… I wonder if he knows their 14… Pervert.' The last one, with the dog ears, looked like he was going to kill someone. 'woah..'
Kagome couldn't help but gulp 'great… a loner, a rapist/pedophile, and a murderer… And that's why I hate boys. Some of them are nice to look at, only some, but they are all the same. Their all dick, assholes, idiots, arrogant, narcissistic, rude, and only have one thing on their minds. They all want one thing, and it's always the same one thing. Girls in their pants. Its gross. Stupid boys. Can't trust one of them... especially not my father... He really is the reason I started to hate boys, but Hojo really finished it off. Oh no.. I don't want to think of him… not now… not ever…'
Rin noticed her sister's distress and felt bad. "Hey Kagome? … let's go for a walk ok?" she only got a nod from the girl beside her that looked like she was about to cry. 'I bet she's thinking about Hojo… or maybe even dad… I swear to god, if I ever see Hojo around here again, he'll be sorry… I can't believe him! What right did he have? None!'
Kagome noticed that Rin was shaking from anger and panicked. "Ummmm… we should get going… " 'before she hits someone…' She frowned.
Rin's shaking stopped and she nodded. "yeah probably." She smiled mostly for her sister's benefit.
"This walk is going to feel SOOOOOO good! I think the fresh air is just what I've needed. Should we call Sango and Ayame?"
"OF COURSE! I got it!" she ran down the stairs to call her friends.
Knowing it wouldn't take Sango and Ayame long to get there, since they both lived only a few blocks away, they got ready. Sango lived the block over and Ayame lived to blocks the other way in an old farm house. A few moments later there was a loud knock on the door, and Rin opened it. Standing in front of her was a very pissed off wolf demon, with her red hair pulled into pig tails on both sides of her head, and her green eyes glaring daggers. Rin stepped back and eyed her cautiously. "Ayame…? What's… wrong…?"
Ayame practically growled her answer back. "THAT PERVERT OVER THERE JUST TRIED TO GROPE ME!"
"OH MY GOD! Are you ok?"
"Of course not!"
Kagome walked into the room and laughed at her pissed off friend "hey Ayame! What's up your ass?"
Ayame growled "shut up! It's not funny! That pervert over there tried to grope me!"
"Which one?" Kagome asked suddenly pissed.
"The one with that weird purple thing on his hand…"
Kagome started to walk out the door when Rin grabbed her by the wrist. "Kagome. Don't. I don't want you doing anything you'll regret-" it wasn't that Rin didn't want to help Ayame out, but sometimes, well a lot of the times, Kagome could go too far, which worried Rin more than the pervert.
"Oh don't worry Rin. I won't regret this one bit." She smiled and walked out the door leaving a stunned Rin and Ayame behind. She looked at the human standing at the edge of the driveway smiling cockily. 'Douche.' She walked right up to him and put her hands on her hips "what the hell do you think your doin-"
The one with the dog ears walked up beside the human and cut her off. "what the hell do youthink you're doing yelling at him, while standing on our property! Well?"
She was so shocked at what had just happened she hadn't answered him in time and he got impatient, which honestly made her even angrier. An evil thought came into her head when he said that 'why am I shocked? He can't hurt me! I'm a miko, and a pretty damn powerful one at that. I could purify his ass at any moment.' she smiled confidently at him, which caused him to gulp and the other demon that had walked over to smirk. "Listen here dog. I'm a miko, so don't piss me off, or I'll just purify your ass. Got that?"
"Oh. I'm shaking in my converses." He mocked her and she frowned.
He was really pissing her off, so she had to concentrate very hard on not letting her spiritual powers slip even more than they already had. Rin ran up to try and calm her down, but it wasn't working. Just when Rin was about to panic, Kagome's eyes went wide and her powers stopped.
"Kagome! Chill! He's not worth it!" Rin screamed shaking her sister's shoulders, as Ayame ran up.
Kagome ignored her sister and as she smiled wickedly 'I can't believe I'm about to say this… it's really bitchy… but hey! He did start it…' "I just figured it out! Why your aura was so different from other demons. You're only a half demon!"
The first guy smirked while the only with dog ears visibly flinched at her words and growled 'damn her.' "Shut the fuck up! Ok?"
"Whatever. We're leaving any ways. Come on girls. I can see Sango." She stopped and turned around to face the human. "Oh and you. Don't EVER touch one of my friends again. Got that? Good. Bye now." She smiled with fake sweetness.
The guy with the dog ears was still growling. 'Girl's and their stupid hormones.' All of the boys watched as 'Sango' walked up to the girls. 'She's pretty, I guess, but I don't know…' she had chocolate brown eyes and matching brown hair, pulled into a high pony tail. 'Yeah defiantly pretty, Miroku's gonna grab her for sure...' 'But if she's so pretty, why are you still looking at the other girl? The one that yelled at you?' 'Shut up! She needs to learn some manner's… what a bitch!' He stood there having a conversation with himself for who knows how long, before his ass of a half brother ruined it for him.
"Idiot…" he mumbled under his breath as he passed.
"Fuck off, Sesshomaru!" he yelled, only making his brother smirk at him. He ignored him and watched the girls walk away from his house. 'So her name Kagome? ' He actually did think she was pretty, but there was no way he was going to admit that out loud. 'Damnit…'
The human stood there watching the 4 ladies walk away. 'Damn. Those are the four most beautiful girls' I have ever seen…And they live across the street! Grabbing that red head was defiantly worth it just to have those other two walk up and 'confront me' but Inuyasha just had to ruin it… stupid dog… yet none of those girls even compared to the last one… Sang… Sango! That was it. … Sango…' "*sigh* Sango…" he whispered.
Sesshomaru was trying to keep the shock off of his face. He hadn't gone close to that Kagome girl because she'd smelt familiar, but it was faint. He couldn't place it but when the other human girl came near, the scent wasn't deluded, and he remembered why he knew that scent. 'Damnit… But she couldn't be her… she looks so different… there's no way… maybe I'm just confusing the scent because it's been so long..?' He shook his head. He hoped that since she hadn't glanced twice at him, that that meant she'd either forgotten or she wasn't the same person. 'I do not need this right now… what was that girls name? Ren- No. Rin…'
With the girls:
Kagome was fuming. "Who do those boys think they are! Their so rude! I mean we were here first! They need to get that threw all of their thick skulls! God I hate boys! Why do they even exist!" she inhaled deeply after saying all that in one breath.
"Umm for reproduction?" Sango said with a smirk.
"For pleasure." Ayame stated with a wink.
"Hahaha guys. All true. But their still dicks. And now their across the road! Gross!" Kagome stopped to gag and Rin cleared her throat.
"Umm ladies? Did anyone else notice how emotionless that older guy was? The one that stayed away from the other two?" 'He seems so familiar… but from where?'
"No sorry. I was trying to control my spiritual powers so I wouldn't purify that ass. Even if he would've deserved it… too bad the neighbors tend to frown upon that…" she mumbled mostly to herself.
"I saw how you caught his attention when you ran up to help Kagome." Ayame winked. "It looked like he was in shock or something. I don't know why but after a little he growled… none of you would've heard it because you're not awesome enough to be demons such as myself" she smiled.
"What! No he didn't! That's a load of shit and you know it. Besides! That's not the expression I saw! Hell there wasn't an expression for me to see! He's emotionless!"
"Whatever Rin. I get the 'I told you so' when you two start to date. Anyways! Kagome I wouldn't be laughing if I were you. That 'ass' you were talking about? Yeah him. He was watching you leave, and it wasn't with a glare…"
"Ayame! You're so full of shit!" they both screamed.
"Hahaha. Ok guys. Whatever you say."
"So… umm… guys?" Sango interrupted, shyly waiting for their attention. "That guy with the purple thing..? He's kinda… good looking…?" She blushed.
The other 3 girl's looked at each other in shock then at Sango. Rin and Kagome were the only ones who actually had a problem with all boys. Ayame was just testy because of problems with her crush, Koga, and Sango was just really shy and a little insecure. Especially when it came to the boys at her school, who only started to pay attention to her now that she finally developed a little more, which made it even weirder that she was even admitting a guy was cute. Rin and Kagome were having the exact same thoughts. 'Oh no! That guy is a pervert!' Before they could say anything Ayame giggled.
"Hehehe Sango's got a crush! Oh my god! We have to introduce you!"
Kagome elbowed her and tried to cover up what she was saying with a loud cough. "Umm Aya… we don't even know his name…"
"Oh don't worry about that! We'll figure it out!" she was smiling so wide and Sango was a really bright red, while Rin and Kagome wore identical masks of shock and horror.
"Aya-" they both tried to aid Sango, but were interrupted by a call at the other end of the block.
"KAGOME!"
'Shit. Not now…' They were trapped because if they walked forward they would run into the man calling her name and if they turned around they would run into their new neighbors. He caught up to them in a second. He was tanned and had his dark brown hair pulled into a high ponytail, a lot like Sango's, with a brown head band just above his forehead. He had mesmerizing crystal blue eyes, and was obviously a wolf demon, like Ayame, with his pointed ears and tail. 'Koga. Damnit…' "Hey… Koga… what's up..?" She replied hesitantly, looking at the fuming Ayame who was sending him death glares.
"So I noticed that your new neighbors are here already. It just had to be Dog demons, didn't it?"
"What's that supposed to mean, Koga?"
"I'll show you! Come on Kagome!" he reached out and grabbed her hand, dragging her back down the street to the boy's house.
She tensed and reached for Ayame, Rin, or Sango. Heck she didn't care what she grabbed onto at that point. "Stop Koga!" she screamed when she finally grabbed onto someone. Too bad they were already in front of the boy's house. The three boys were already at the edge of their lawn, starring. 'Probably because they could smell Koga and hear me yell at him. Great…'
A growl interrupted her thoughts; make that two and a smirk from the older kid. The one with the dog ears was growling at Koga, and Koga was growling back, while that pervert tried to get out from in between the two. Kagome realized that that was probably a smart idea and tried to get her hand out of his grasp, which was getting tighter and tighter.
"KOGA! Let go of my flipping hand! PLEASE! I can't feel my hand! KOGA!" Finally getting fed up with him, she slapped him across the face, which defiantly got his attention. "Let go of my hand, NOW! Don't make me say it again! What have I said about personal space? Well? LET GO!"
Everyone but Kagome and Koga were laughing, especially Ayame and the kid with the dog ears, he was on the ground, holding his stomach. Koga finally let go of her hand and growled at the kid on the ground. "Hey mutt face. What's so funny?"
"Hey wolf breath! Nothing out of the ordinary, just your face!"
"Why you! You half breed!" That's when an ear splitting snarl came from the guy on the ground. He slowly stood up, making eye contact with Koga. "Touchy subject mutt?" the only answer he got was a louder snarl.
"OK! That's enough!" Kagome screamed, stepping in between the growling demons.
He didn't know why but when that girl stepped in between Koga and himself, he felt calm, but there was no way he would show it. Without his permission his growling got noticeably softer. 'Damnit.'
"KOGA! Apologize right now! That's a terrible thing to say! Say you're sorry!"
He felt a smug smile spread across his face at the same time as an amused smile spread across his half brothers. Suddenly his face became sad when he smelt his mother and turned to see her standing at the door way, crying. 'oh shit…' no one else had noticed her yet, and he didn't want her to hear anymore. "Mother…" he walked up to her, turning his back on a very shocked Koga. "Mother, why are you crying?"
She waved him off dismissively and walked around him, towards Kagome and Koga. Kagome didn't know why she felt so bad, seeing the dog eared kid's mother so sad. 'She's too beautiful to be crying…'
"Izaiyo…I'm so sorry you heard that…" Koga said with his head down. Suddenly everyone in the yard was very tense.
'So Koga does know them…'
"Koga…" Izaiyo said quietly "why? Why do you two still fight like this? You and Inuyasha used to be so close until you're grandparents and his father died. What happened?" She was nearing hysterics and Inuyasha was slowly walking closer to his mother.
"I… do not know Izaiyo… but I'm sorry…"
"It's ok Koga. I just wish things could go back to the way things were before… Oh! Where are my manners! I'm so sorry you had to see that ladies." She turned towards Kagome, Rin, Sango, and Ayame. "I'd like to introduce myself. I am Izaiyo." She smiled.
"It's quite alright miss Izaiyo," she smiled remembering what had happened six years before. "I am Ayame." She watched as recognition washed over her face.
"I'm Kagome. Pleased to meet you."
"I'm Kagome's twin sister, Rin." She smiled hugely.
From where Sesshomaru was sitting, he could hear everything and had visibly paled. 'Shit…'
"And I'm Sango." She smiled shyly.
Izaiyo smiled wider than the four girls. "Oh you're all so nice. I'm glad to have you as neighbors. Oh sorry! I forgot to introduce my boys!" she smiled and pointed to the pervert that had grabbed Ayame and that Sango thought was good looking. "This is my nephew, Miroku. I will apologize, hopefully in advance, for some of his… *cough*behavior…" before Sango could ask, he reached out and grabbed her butt, while she shrieked and gave him a death glare. "Again… sorry…" she looked away shaking her head. She then pointed to the older kid that was standing farther away from everyone else, the one that Rin had asked about. "And this is my stepson, Sesshomaru-" He just nodded.
All of a sudden everything clicked in her head. "SESSHOMARU! I thought you were familiar! The name just made everything click!" Rin screamed ignoring the looks she got from EVERYONE.
"Umm…" he said at a loss for words. When her name had been said he'd known that this was the right girl, but now that she remembered him as well, he didn't know what to do. Without his own permission, he felt a small smile tug at the corners of his lips. 'Yup… it's her…' He nodded."yes, hello Rin… It's been awhile…"