--Okily doke. I finally got around to putting this up. I have no idea why it took me sooo long to get this started – wait! Yes I do! Writers' Block. I COULD NOT write for the past few weeks. It got severly annoying. Then I remembered that I had this story webbed out in my notebook, so I decided to start it.

--This story takes place a year after the wedding. It's a month or two AFTER their first anniversary.

-x-x-x-x-

Chapter 1: The Trip

InuYasha heaved a sigh as he pushed the big wooden front door open. He walked into the large foyer and shut the door. As soon as he heard the soft click! Of it shutting all the way, he dropped his hand and put his keys on the little wood table that stood next to the door.

"DADDY!!!" He couldn't help but smile at his 5 year old daughter, Kiyuki. He chuckled as she came running down the stairs, the pig-tails on the top of her head bouncing with each step. She ran up to him and he swiftly scooped her up and sat her on his hip as he continued on to the kitchen to find Kagome.

"How was your day?" He asked.

"Good cause mommy made me a sandywhich for lunch!" She replied, grinning. He stared at her, confused.

"What does she normally make you for lunch?" He asked. He loved how easy it was to read the emotions on her face – just like Kagome. She may look like him, but her personality was purely Kagome.

"I don't remember…" Kiyuki scratched her head as she tried to remember all the way to lunchtime yesterday.

InuYasha stopped a half dozen feet from the kitchen door and put Kiyuki down on the floor. "Shhhh," he put his finger to his lips and Kiyuki copied him, giggling quietly. He smiled and took light, quiet steps as he pushed open the swinging door to the kitchen. Kagome was over at the counter reading the mail.

He looked over his should to see the Kiyuki had stopped in the doorway. He walked silently up behind Kagome and wrapped his arms around her so suddenly, she jumped. He rested his chin on her shoulder and smiled.

"Good lord, do you have to scare me like that?" She asked, stealing a kiss and then looking back at her mail.

"You know, one would thing you'd remember everyday that I'm going to scare you." He mumbled, trying to read over her shoulder.

"One would think you'd…grow…up…" Kagome stated, her voice trailing off at the end. His hands dropped from her waist and he stepped up to the counter, standing next to her. He picked up an envelope that lay unopened on the counter. "Hey, what's wrong?" She studied his face. His eyebrows pulled together as he read the return address. In red ink across the front was "Urgent".

"No, it couldn't…" He flipped it over and ripped it open. Kiyuki felt the tension in the air and walked over to Kagome, who picked her up and sat her on her hip.

His eye's widened as they skimmed over the black ink.

Okay. So. I know this is seriously short, but no worries. I may post more soon. I won't start up the "once-a-day" thing until, most likely 2 weeks from now. By then school will start. Right now though, I really have to get my summer homework done, so, yeah. That'll take a while. We have to do a character analysis for every character in a book we have to read, then read two plays and re-write a scene which won't be hard at all. Well, I'll update later I hope.

Any ideas on what could be in the letter? Cause I sure as hell have no idea XD. That's partly why I stopped. I've been writing this chapter for the past 3 days. I'll continue when I figure out what will go in the letter.