A/N: So, I have a new story! Inuyasha is an ordinary guy in Tokyo who has just graduated high school and is now trying to get into a decent college and having a hard time with it. Please review and tell me what you think!

Where Broken Hearts Go

Chapter 1: The Mysterious Dream

By: Aya Kiana

Inuyasha Takahashi looked out the window of his 5th floor Tokyo apartment and released a heavy sigh. Taxis covered the streets and tried to get through the crowds of people bustling hurriedly to their destinations. It was still early morning and the sight of the sun rising behind the multitudes of high rise apartments would have taken anyone's breath away. But nobody in this concrete jungle had any time for things like the sun, including Inuyasha. High school and graduation were still fresh in his mind and his heart yearned for the simplicity of the world of detention and truant officers that he would never return to.

He laughed dryly. How Ironic! When he was in high school he would have done anything to get out, but now that he was finally free he would give anything to be back in. After graduation, reality slapped him in the face, and it hurt like a bitch! It had never occurred to the inattentive teenager that once he graduated his older brother, Sesshomaru, would stop paying his rent and sending him care packages. How he wished he could be a freeloader forever!

Inuyasha had no parents, at least not anymore. They had died some years ago in a car accident. Inuyasha had been just a kid then. He was raised by his older brother, Sesshomaru, who had been in college when the accident took place. Even though he was looking after his delinquent of a brother, Sesshomaru still managed to graduate with honors and get a well paying job at one of Tokyo's top companies. The jerk! Inuyasha fumed to himself. Sesshomaru had made sure Inuyasha at least went to school. They even lived together up until work got so busy that Inuyasha was too much to deal with at home. So, when he was in 10th grade, Sesshomaru got him his own apartment.

Truthfully, Inuyasha had never even considered college, but he recently realized that to make it in the world, especially in Tokyo, you needed a college education of some kind. He began wishing he had taken high school a bit more seriously. Of course, he had failed his entrance exams and was now an official ronin. He had a part time job and was attending cram school. He never got enough sleep and was working himself to death. What had he ever done to deserve this? He sighed again and refrained from answering his own question. The answer would be even more depressing. Luckily for him, today was Sunday. The only day of the week on which he did not have to attend classes or work. So why the hell did I wake up so early? He asked himself, annoyed. With a sigh, hewalked away from the window and climbed back into bed.

Inuyasha stared out into an empty and desolate forest. He blinked and looked all around. As usual, his bangs hung in his face, but instead of being the normal dark shade of his hair, they were white. "Where am I?" He asked the emptiness around him. No answer came, just the sound of the wind moving through the trees. The loneliness was eating away at his soul. He began searching for someone, anyone that could tell him where he was. "Is anybody here?" He shouted, but his voice only echoed back. He started running. He could see a tall tree in the distance and found himself being drawn to it.

When he approached it, he saw how truly massive it was. There was one part of it that looked almost bare. Something about this tree, this forest, seemed familiar to him. It felt like a long forgotten home. He continued searching for a way out of the forest and he came to a clearing. In the middle of the clearing was a square, wooden well. It looked ancient. Inuyasha approached it and looked down inside. About ten feet down was a dirt floor with what appeared to be bones half buried in the dirt. He felt a sharp pain pierce through his heart. He could feel his whole body shaking with the pain of a great loss. It felt like a part of his soul was just beyond this well, and, for reasons he couldn't explain, he jumped into it. Everything around him went black, and there was utter silence. "Did you forget me, Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha bolted up only to find himself still in his room. "Just a dream..." He was sweating badly and he was tired. He threw his covers off and opened his window. He sat back down on his bed as his mind contemplated the dream. The weirdest part was the girl that called out to him in the end. Her voice had sounded so familiar, but he just couldn't place it. Then again, that's how everything had been in that dream. It was a serious case of dejavu. Perhaps he had known the girl when he was younger. Then again probably not, since she sounded about his age. He remembered what she had said. "Did you forget me, Inuyasha?" If he had ever known her, then the answer to the question was obviously yes. But why had she sounded like she was in so much pain? She must have cared for him deeply. Suddenly, he realized who it must have been: his mother. That was the only person he could think of, but that didn't seem to fit. He was in 6th grade when his parents died. Sure he didn't think about them too often anymore, nor did he remember much about them, but still, it's not like he had forgotten them completely. Besides, the voice was too young to be his mothers. Then who?

The phone rang, tearing Inuyasha from his thoughts. He strolled over to his desk and picked it up. "Hello?... Yeah, count me in!" Inuyasha stole a glance at the clock. It was 1:30. "Okay, I'll meet you guys in about an hour. I gotta take a shower." He began to undress as his friend chatted away on the other end of the line. "Later." He hung up and tossed the phone on his bed, all thoughts of the dream and the mysterious girl gone from his head.

The freezing wind bit into Inuyasha and caused a chill to run down his spine. Not even a heavy coat was enough to keep out the bitter cold that came with the season. Christmas was only two weeks away and Inuyasha needed to start saving up so that he could buy Christmas presents. A night on the town was always fun, but he really needed to stop spending money on things he couldn't afford.

The sound of the subway slowing to a stop beside him and the announcements being made over the speaker tore him from his thoughts. He quietly boarded the crowded subway and, seeing that there were no available seats, took a spot in the center of the aisle. The area around him grew more compact as people boarded at various stops. It was normal for this time of year. Everyone was busy trying to finish up their Christmas shopping and visiting family and friends in the city. An older man shoved Inuyasha to the side to make room for his wife, causing Inuyasha to bump into the girl standing beside him. She momentarily quit fidgeting with her cell phone to glance up at him questioningly. "Sorry..." He muttered apologetically.

"S'okay." She flashed him a quick smile, though to Inuyasha it seemed a little forced, and continued pressing various buttons on her cell. Finally, she brought it to her ear and listened carefully. It was loud enough that Inuyasha, who had very good hearing, could make out everything being said with ease. 'Friday, December 1st 2006' The mechanical voice rattled off.

December 1st? Inuyasha thought puzzeled. But today is the 15th. Why is she just now listening to a message over 2 weeks old?

'Hey, Yuka.' Inuyasha listened carefully as the message played, curiosity getting the better of him. 'I'm almost to the station so it'll be about ten minutes. What movie are we seeing again?' The girl in the message sounded like her mind was far away from the subject of movies. There was a certain sadness to her tone that sounded so familiar to him. Suddenly, it hit him like a ton of bricks. That's her! His mind screamed. He didn't want to make it obvious that he had been eaves dropping, but he absolutely had to know who that girl was. She had the exact same voice as the girl from his dream.

"Excuse me?" He cautiously turned to the girl beside him who was busy putting her phone back into her purse.

"Yea?" She looked up at him, waiting for him to continue.

"Who were you talking to just now?" He tried not to sound too nosy. The girl gave him a quizzical look.

"My friend." She said hesitantly.

"Oh!" Inuyasha mused, Like I didn't already know that!' "What's her name?" He tried to make it sound like small talk.

"Forget it! She wouldn't be interested in you!" She gave him a glare and turned away. Inuyasha thought about responding with Well that's not what she said last night!' But decided against it since the girl would probably get the wrong idea. He noticed that under her coat she was wearing a junior high uniform composed of a short green skirt and a long white blouse. I wonder if her friend goes to the same school? He thought silently.

Snow plummeted down as he exited the subway station and started walking the short distance to his apartment. Once again, he was wiped out and felt that he could sleep for hours. Too bad he needed to be at work by 8:00 a.m.

There was nothing but darkness. Darkness was all he could see. It engulfed his entire body and everything around it. He took a few hesitant steps forward with his arms outstretched in case he were to bump into something. He turned left and right but never came to anything. Finally, his foot hit a hard object. It came to about a few inches below his waist. He reached down to touch it and his hand gripped a piece of wood a couple inches thick. He traced the rim of it and found that it made a square shape. There was nothing inside of the square as far down as he could reach. It's that well... He listened but heard nothing. But I'm not in the forest. Then where? He turned around and continued walking. After a few steps his foot hit something hard again.

He knelt down and felt the area in front of him. It seemed to be steps. He began climbing the stairs slowly and almost fell when he reached the top and tried to take another step. There was a small sliver of light running vertically in front of him. He walked up to it and realized that it was a door. He pulled it open and gazed out at what appeared to be a courtyard covered in inches of snow.

The moon gave off enough light see by and Inuyasha looked at everything around him. There was a house a few yards away with a tall red entrance to a Shrine. In the far off distance he could see the lights of Tokyo. He turned to the left and saw the silhouette of a girl standing in front of a huge tree. That's the same tree that was in my other dream! He thought the girl was wearing the same school uniform as the girl on the train. Her head was bent, and since it was dark he couldn't see her face, but he could see that she had long black hair that stopped about halfway down her back. He started to run toward her but tripped and fell face first into the snow.

Inuyasha opened his eyes to see that he was still in his bedroom tangled up in his sheets. He blinked a few times and groaned. That was it! He was going to find out who that girl was if it was the last thing he ever did!