Chapter One

Kagome Higarashi groaned. She didn't want to go back to school. Yet the school year had begun again. Her alarm clock kept beeping at her with its annoying squawk which was always reminding her that it was time to get up. Kagome grabbed the alarm clock and threw it across the room. The alarm clock smashed up against the wall and with a last pathetic squeak, broke. Kagome cursed. That was the 5th alarm clock she had broken that year. Her mom wasn't going to be pleased. She got up and picked up all the shattered pieces of plastic and threw them into her waste paper basket. It landed with a dull thud. She checked her watch and decided she had enough time to get a quick shower.

Coming out of the shower she dried her long raven black hair. She went and sat at her desk and pulled a brush threw her hair while staring into her mirror and frowned. Her startling blue eyes glared back at her. She really didn't want to go back to school where the guys were always harassing her. It wasn't Kagome's fault that she had a slim but gently curvy body that seemed to always make the boys go crazy. She got up from her desk and started hunting around for some clothes that hopefully wouldn't attract to much unwanted attention.

Down stairs in the kitchen her mother was making breakfast. Emiko stirred the pancake batter and poured some onto the hot skillet. The batter began to bubble on top as the bottom cooked. She hummed to herself as she waited for the pancake to finish cooking. Souta, Kagome's younger brother, came bounding down the stairs and into the kitchen.

Souta sat in a kitchen chair rubbing his brown eyes while he waited for Kagome to show. Emiko who was sort of small but slim picked up the heavy skillet with breakfast in it and brought it to the table where she set it down on top of a pot holder.

Kagome came walking down the stairs grumbling about having to be up so early. She hated having to get up at the crack of dawn. She could smell something delicious wafting from the kitchen. She walked threw the door way, patted Souta's light brown hair and sat down at the kitchen table. The delicious smell was coming from the skillet in the middle of the table which held quite a few pancakes. Evidently her mom had been busy that morning. Emiko passed out plates and started dishing out pancakes to everyone.

"Where's the butter? And the syrup?" asked Souta. He was always asking questions and in the morning it rather annoyed Kagome.

"It's probably in the refrigerator," Kagome snapped at her brother. She was too tired to want to deal with his constant questions.

Souta just rolled his eyes and got up to get the butter and syrup. Her mother though scowled at Kagome. "You know better then to use that surly tone when you get up. Souta was just asking a simple question," she harped at Kagome.

"Sorry, just tired," Kagome grumbled. Her mom was always getting on her case it seemed. Kagome sighed and finished breakfast. If she didn't hurry she would be late for school on the first day back.

She grabbed her bag on her way out the door. Hurrying down the shrine steps she didn't notice the man with long silver hair until it was too late. Kagome crashed right into him. Down they tumbled in a mess of tangled limbs. Kagome groaned as she untangled herself from the stranger.

"I'm so sorry! I was in a hurry and wasn't paying attention," she said quickly to the man. He just looked at her. He looked like he had seen a ghost. Kagome frowned. "Are you alright sir?" she asked.

He seemed to come to his sense suddenly. "Yeah I'm fine. I shouldn't have been standing where I was I guess," he said staring at Kagome. His golden eyes searched her face; but for what? Kagome couldn't tell. She shook off the feeling that something wasn't quite right about the man. She offered him her hand and pulled him to his feet.

"Sorry but I gotta get going now," she said as she looked at her watch. The first day of school and already she was late! "See you another time maybe". She took off for school.

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Sesshomaru couldn't believe he had found her so easily. But she wasn't how he remembered. Then again it had been centuries since he had last seen her. She looked different as well. Maybe that was due to reincarnation but he hoped that with the tricks he had picked up since her untimely death he could change her back to how she once was. He sighed and continued on his way to work. If his brother found out Sesshomaru would never hear the end of it. Inuyasha was still laughing about the Human Hater falling in love with a human.

Sesshomaru entered Taishio Co. and walked up to his secretary. "Hold all calls for the day and cancel all of my meeting. I have something that just came up that's much more important than the company," He said walking into his office. His secretary just stared at him. It wasn't like Sesshomaru to put of work that could be done now.

Walking into his office Sesshomaru noticed that someone had already been in there. He looked around and saw his brother and father sitting at his desk waiting for him. He let out an inward groan. He didn't want to have to deal with their crap this morning. All he wanted to do was look up the spells he would need to make Kagome his again.

"Good morning Sesshomaru," his father, InuTaishio, said with a grin. Sesshomaru knew that grin all to well. His father had another girl he was going to force on Sesshomaru. Inuyasha smirked up at Sesshomaru knowing where this was going.

"Father don't start with the girls. I have to much do today to deal with those annoyingly squawky girls you're always trying to set me up with," Sesshomaru said with a slight sneer on his face. All he wanted to do was kick out his brother and father so he could get some work done on making Kagome his again. Inuyasha got up and grabbed a cup of coffee then sat back down again.

"What kinds of work as I see you don't have the latest business transactions with you to go over," his father said. When computers first came around his father created Taishio Co. which ended up being the biggest business in the lines of software. They had expanded to include everything that had to do with software; from computers to I Pods.

Sesshomaru really didn't want to get into this discussion. His father was supposed to have retired 20 years ago due to a heart attack. InuTaishio didn't seem to care that his health wasn't at the best and continued to try and work.

"Look I have a lot of things I have to do now you please get out of my office," Sesshomaru said calmly.

"Look bro I know you probably do have something really important to do but we need to tell you something," Inuyasha began. Sesshomaru just stared at him. The last person he wanted in his office was Inuyasha. "We found Kagome". Sesshomaru just stared.