Chapter One

Broken Sandals

Kagome Higarashi opened her brown eyes and looked around her room. Ever since she came from the feudal era two nights ago she had a pain in her neck.

"Owwwww! My neck hurts so bad, I gotta tell Inuyasha no more sleeping on the ground for me."

Putting her feet over the side of the bed she stretched like a cat that had been in the warm sun for hours. Walking over to the calendar she spotted a small birthday cake and smiled to herself. Only one more day and she would be sixteen, sweet sixteen, ready for anything that Inuyasha and high school had to give at her

"By the way what happened to Inuyasha? Usually he would be ready to break my door down; it is strangely unusual that he has not showed up already. I hope nonething has happened with Naruku."

Dismissing the problem Kagome went to take a nice hot shower, no longer needing her green school uniform, due to the protest of Japanese kids not being able to express themselves openly in high school as Americans can champagne, school uniforms were totally eliminated. Looking at it in her closet she smirked.

"I wonder why I keep that old thing, I guess it is a memoir of all the fun times I had with Inuyasha"

Putting it back in the closet, Kagome pulled out a whit e shirt with a red flag on it to represent the Japanese flag, or the dot off the Tampax commercial, your choice. Pulling on some jeans and flip-flops, and pulling her hair into a high ponytail, Kagome ran down the stair sing Gwen Stefani in her head. She was just glad that today she would be able to be a normal teen. No demons, no Naruku, just a normal but exciting day. Kagome was so occupied with just being a teen she did not notice that her flip flops had broke and were flapping freely behind her as she walked. It just so happened that as soon as she reached the bottom step she fell face first. Well it was better for her to have fall now then later.

"Kagome are you all right?

Kagome looked up to see her mom's sweet smiling face. Just like her mom to be there when things are bad to make them better.

"Yea, did you have a nice trip?"

And just like her brother Sota to always be there to make things worse.

"Yea Mom I'm fine"

She looked down at her sandal and signed

:"I can't believe I made it all the way down here, and did not notice my sandal was broken!"

"Mistakes happened dear, just be glad that you are OK"

The kitchen was filled with Sota's laughter. As Kagome looked at her brother all she could see was pancakes in his mouth, she wished he would choke, not to kill him but just to shut him up.

"Why don't you wear your white sandals by the door, that way you wont have to go up stairs to change, an I'll throw away your broken ones for you"

"Thanks mom"

Kagome felt guilty always having her mom do things for her like cook, clean, let her go off in the feudal era. She didn't think most moms could handle it.

"So are you all ready for your first day back to school"

Her grandpa looked up from he paper, it was about a man who thought it was all right to wear underwear in his store, all of a sudden Japan was acting all independent and liberal.

"I thought I was, I guess I was wrong"

"Everything will work out Kagome"

"Thanks mom"

Peering over the table she saw her Sota's mouth all filled with pancakes and syrup and she knew breakfast was out of the question.

"I'm not hungry"

"Why that fall jumble up your insides?

"No not the fall, just your face! Bye mom. Bye grandpa"

Kagome left a puzzled and very sticky Sota at the table.

End Chapter One

Next Chapter

Birthday Candles

Well there's my fic the next chapter will be longer. They were originally one chapter but I had to split them up. Please review! Thanks!

Later Days