This is my first fic, so please be nice, next chapters will be better.

If I owned Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha the this wouldn't technically be fan fiction would it?

The Fuedal Era

It was almost sunset. Kagome Higurashi was watching Inuyasha from a bush, he seemed to be waiting for something, the only reason she hadn't gone to him yet was an overwhelming feeling telling her to stay put.

She was glad she had obeyed this feeling when Kikyo walked into the clearing. "Inuyasha, my love," she said, walking to the half-demon,

"Kikyo," he said in a tone very unlike his usual one.

Kagome didn't seem to remember most of the conversation, one part that stuck out particularly well in her mind, however, was a comment Inuyasha had made when Kikyo said "You must choose, now, between me, or that girl with whom I share a soul."

"..."

"Inuyasha?"

"I choose you, Kikyo" Inuyasha said before kissing her.

Kagome didn't know howe long it was after that when she heard Kikyo say "Farewell, Inuyasha."

Kagome got up to walk away, she was just going to go home, and refuse to come back for a long time.

Inuyasha's demon hearing heard her move, and his sense of smell recognized the scent that he had been too preoccupied to notice before.

"Kagome...I'm so sorry," Inuyasha said, Kagome came out into the open.

"How can you love some one whose dearest ambition is to take you to hell?" she asked, holding back her tears; Inuyasha would not see her cry over him, she would not allow that.

"I'm going home, don't follow me...I'll come back eventually."

And with that she took off into the night, finally letting tears fall as she ran to the well that would take her home, to the present.

The Present

Yusuke Urameshi was sitting on the roof of the school; waiting for Keiko, she had said that she wanted to talk to him about something important. "Why is she taking so damn long? It's almost sunset!" Yusuke said out loud.

At that moment, Keiko walked through the door that lead back into the school. "About damn time," Yuskuke thought. Keiko walked past him, appearing to look out at the sunset, really she was keeping her face hidden in case she started crying again.

"Yusuke...I have some bad news..." she said hesitantly. "I was accepted at a scool for the gifted, it's really far away." Yusuke could here her voice start to shake very slightly. "How long are you going to be there?" Yusuke interupted, he had a really bad feeling about where this was going.

Keiko looked back at him sadly as she answered "Four years."

"But...but..what about..?"

"I'm really sorry," she said as she turned back away, tears close to breaking through.

"THEN WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GOING?" Yuske had sprung to his feet.

"It'll be really good for my future, and my parents want me to go." Keiko said. "I thought about it alot Yusuke, and I'm going to go, and besides, I'll be back every summer."

"That's not good enough." Yusuke said in a surprisingly quiet and calm voice, though part of his world was collapsing.

"Yusuke, I'm going, you can't change that...I don't expect you to wait for me...I can't ask that of you," Keiko said, even though they weren't technically a couple.

"So this is it? The end of...us?" Yusuke asked, sadness in his voice.

"NO, we'll still be friends, and if we both happen to be single when I get back-" She stopped realizing that Yusuke might not want her back, and that the chances of him being single weren't great anyway.

"I really am sorry Yusuke."

"Yeah, sure." She could here the depression in his voice, it pierced her heart like knives made of ice.

"I-I'll call you later." She decended down into the school, leaving Yusuke sitting there alone

"No, you won't," Yusuke thought to himself.

Kagome had left the fuedal erea without even stopping in the village. She had gone straight to her room after arriving in her own time and had locked herself inside while she cried herself to sleep. She didn't sleep well, her dreams played the scene she had just witnessed over and over again. Each time she woke up she would invariably begin crying again.

Yusuke had a different method of dealing with heartache, after a few minutes sitting alone on the rooftop, he too had gone straight home, but only stayed long enough to steal some of his mother's vodka. He downed the bottle almost at once, then went looking for a fight. He had never been drunk before, dispite being the biggest badass in school; his reason was simple: he had seen what alcahol could do from watvhing his mom, and he rarely wanrted to make an ass out of himself. Of course, he really didn't care at the moment, he was just in need of as many distractions as he could find.

Kagome woke up, sick of reliving Kikyo and Inuyasha's kiss, she wanted to talk to someone, Sango being the ideal choice, but that would require her going back through the well and risk seeing Inuyasha, and that was the last thing she wanted at the moment.

The alcahol began to wear off very slightly, and Yusuke realized he had no idea what part of town he was in, he didn't care much, but it was damned inconvienient. He really had no idea where he should go, not wanting to go home and wait for Keiko to call. He wandered around some more, he could tell he was on the outskirts of town, he could see small forest,which seemed to be part of people's back yard, he decided to go walking through them as he hadn't found a fight yet.

As luck would have it Yusuke did run into someone who knew where he was, and who knew Yusuke himself. The fox's hightened sense of smell cought the scent of vodka in the ait before it caught the scent that accompanied it. "Yusuke...this can't be good, it would probably be wise to keep him near until the alcohol wears off entirely..." Kurama thought as he moved in the direction the smell was coming from (A/N I picked Kurama to find Yusuke because he's the most intelligent and sympathetic member of the team by a long shot).

"Yusuke?" Kurama asked when he was near enough for Yusuke to hear him, knowing full well it was him.

"Heyyyy, Kurama!" Yusuke said in a drunken slur.

"Yusuke, what are you doing here, and why are you drunk?" Kurama asked.

"NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS, FOX!" Yusuke shouted, suddenly violent.

"Yusuke, please calm dow-" Kurama was cut off as Yusuke punched at him, though he missed by a long shot.

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Yusuke yelled.

Kurama knew that Yusuke wasn't really much of a threat to him in his current state, but he decided that it would be best to end this fight. He pulled some sort of powder from his pocket and threw it at Yusuke, who fell, as he felt energy leaving him, he said "What the hell did you do to me?"

"The powder are spores of a plant that react to alcohol, and being as inebriated as you are..." Kurama stopped, he realized that he was talking to an unconcious teenager.

He heaved a sigh and sat down at the base of a nearby tree, as he waited for Yusuke to wake up.

Kagome woke up the next morning, feeling as if she hadn't slept at all. She needed to talk to some one, anyone, that could help her, she found her mother first. Her mother didn't ask her what had happened, though she gathered a vague image of what had happened. She let her daughter cry herself to silence.

"Honey, I can't tell you how to live your life or who you should share it with, but I think you need to let go of Inuyasha..."

Kagome looked back up at her mother without speaking. She knew she needed some one who wasn't going to ditch her every time a past lover came into her life.

"Thanks for listening, mom"

Across town, Yusuke Urameshi was waking up with a killer hangover, having no idea where he was or how he'd gotten there. "What the hell? was I really that drunk?" Yusuke thought.

"You know, you realy shouldn't drink that much without building up a tolerance first, and certainly not all at once," said a voice nearby.

"KURAMA! WHAT THE HELL?" Yusuke was even more surprised now.

"Good Morning, Yusuke." Kurama said.

"What the hell is going on?" Yusuke asked without hesitation.

"Well, you showed up around here, drunk, and apparently with something on your mind..." Kurama stated.

Yusuke did not respond.

"Yusuke, you are my friend, and I am concerned, please tell me, I hardly believe that you get drunk and wander the streets on a normal basis."

"Well..." Yusuke began, he told Kurama what had happened.

Kurama listened, he knew that Yusuke was more hurt then he was letting on.

"I dunno what to do, Kurama..."

Kurama looked into Yusuke's eyes and simply said "Move on."

"...Sorry, Kurama, you're not my type" Yusuke said with a joking grin on his face, he felt much better after talking to Kurama, although still not nearly as good as usual.

Kurama rolled his eyes. "You can't take anything seriously, can you?"

"Sorry, reflex."

Yusuke considered this, he had loved Keiko, but she was leaving him for a school, it wasn't as if she didn't stand out at the one they were at. "Yeah, he's probably right, as usual.." Yusuke thought.

Two weeks later...

Kagome had not returned to the Fuedal era yet, though she thought she should soon. She was using this opportunity to catch up on her schoolwork. She was thouroughly enjoying having a normal life. She had not acted on her mother's advice yet...she didn't know when she would be ready to do this either. She had told her friends that she was no longer with the jealous, rude, arrogant, bad boy, which they were pleased to hear, convinced she should be with Hojo. She didn't realy like Hojo like that though.

Kagome wasn't the only one spending alot more time at School. Yusuke could also be seen at his classes too, he didn't realy want to be there, but Koenma had ordered him to, he of course had told Yusuke it was for a mission and would get back to him on the details, but the real reason was because Kurama had told him about what had happened, and since Keiko had always been an emotional trigger for Yusuke he decided that it would be safer for all involved if Yusuke were distracted somewhat. Koenma was surprised that Yusuke hadn't complained about the "mission" too much, he seemed alot more docile then usual.

The school day was over, Yusuke was in detention with Mr. Takanawa, leaning back in a chair and waiting for it to be over. It should be any minute...

KNOCK KNOCK

"Enter" said Mr. Takanawa.

Yusuke looked at the door just as a beautiful girl entered. She aproached the teacher's desk and asked for some notes or something, Yusuke wasn't really listening, he was busy staring at her form, that is until he leaned back so far that he fell over backward. "Here you are Ms. Higurashi." Yusuke heard as he picked himself up off the floor.

About half a minute later Yusuke was out of Mr. Takanawa's classroom. He was thinking about Kurama's advice...if only he could have gotten out of there a little bit sooner, he could have at least gotten her first name. It wasn't as if many girls talked to him, they were afraid of him because of his reputation as a dangerous street punk.

"Damn it! That bastard couldn't have let me out just a few seconds earlier," Yusuke thought.

He started walking home, but it seemed luck was on his side. He spotted her just ahead of him as she turned into an alley, he suddenly got a bad feeling. A few seconds later he knew why, five older boys followed her into the alley. He sped up.

Kagome turned into the alley, which formed a shortcut, her mind on the boy she had just seen in detention. "I wonder who he was, I've never seen him before, he was cute..." Kagome stared to turn red, even though she knew that she was alone.

She heard footsteps behind her. As she looked she knew she was in trouble. The boys surrounded her. "Hey there pretty girl, wanna come have some fun?"

"No...I think I'll pass..." she said calmly, but she was terrified.

"No, you won't," said one of the boys as he pushed her down. One of them pulled out a knife after she was on the ground. "I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!! I SURVIVE COUNTLESS DEMONS AND HUMANS ARE GOING TO KILL ME!" She closed her eyes as she prepared for the inevitable.

WHOOSH!

Kagome heard the sound of someone jumping through the air, flesh hitting flesh, and the sounds of five people running away. "Inuyasha's come for me," Kagome thought as she opened her eyes. The sight she saw was not what she expected.

"You'd better run!" Said a boy in a green uniform with gelled back hair, the boy she'd seen at school just minutes ago.

"Are you ok?' he asked, leaning over and offering his hand to her. She was shaking violently.

"I-I think so..." Kagome said, still slightly in shock. She took his hand and pulled herself up. She suddenly felt much safer, as if this boy had some kind of power to protect. "I don't think those guys will be back, but maybe it'd be safer if I walked you home..." Yusuke said, a faint trace of pink in his face.

"..."

"I understand if you don't want me too, I just thought-"

"Ok."

Yusuke was surprised, but pleased. They walked side by side, Kagome still on high alert. Eventually they arived at the shrine.

"You probably saved my life..." Kagome said.

"It was nothin'" Yusuke said, starting to blush slightly.

"I wish I knew how to thank you..."

Yusuke grinned in a way that reminded her of Miroku in some of his less-than-innocent moments.

"Well...maybe a date..." Yusuke said, he didn't feel bad about asking her this, she was much calmer now, he still turned red though.

Kagome turned red too, but she smiled, judging by the grin she was sure she was about to ask her to bear his children. She thought about it, he had just saved her from being killed, she would also be following her mother's advice, not to mention she found him very attractive, and she felt she could trust him.

"Sure" she said, though this whole thing seemed like something from a corny story to her. "I'm Kagome by the way, Kagome Higurashi."

"Yusuke Urameshi, at your service." He said, taking her hand and kissing it "I have got to thank Kurama for telling me this one" Yusuke thought.

NEXT CHAPTER: First Date, First Kiss, First Hint

Sorry, this chapter kinda sucked, I promise the next will be better, comments, questions,