Greetings people, sorry it took so long to update, but I have been pretty busy with school and many other things. I initially didn't want to post just the first chapter of the story alone, but I sort of did it as a kind of "testing the waters kind of thing". I'll try to post the chapters sooner, but I also want to take my time and make sure that the story is as well written and detailed as possible.
This is my first story and I'm still hammering out all the fine details and so forth. Also, to answer a question from a review about the one of the characters, Cody. Without giving away much of the story, Cody is basically an American born in Tokyo, Japan i.e. both his parents were from the US living in Japan when Cody was born. Cody was brought up in Tokyo until around the age of 10 to 11 when he returned to the US with the rest of his family. Since he was born to an American family in Japan, he can speak and read both Japanese and English (Although he has somewhat of a difficulty reading Japanese which will be revealed latter in the story).
Chapter 1: Time stands still, the Past and Present meet in the same place.
The two friends just stood and stared at each for what felt like an eternity. It was about eight years ago, on a day just like that one, cold, snow steadily picking up, the sky completely overcast. On that day, he said good-bye to his very close friend, right under the God's Tree. He could never forget that day, the mixed expression of happiness and sadness on her face, which would be forever burned into his memory. How ironic that their next meeting would in the very same spot, on a day just like that.
Kagome didn't really know what to say. She had all but forgotten about Cody. After all, it had been eight years since he moved to the US with his family and she had been preoccupied with Inuyasha, the Shikon no Tama, fighting Naraku, and the many other things involving the Feudal Era. She barely had any time to think about school and her family, let alone someone from her past showing up out of the blue.
After about five minutes of silent staring, Cody seemingly smirked and decided that he would be the one to break the silence. "You smoke" Cody said as he reach reached into his pocket and pulled out a cigarette. "Uh, no, sorry" Kagome said as began to smile more brightly. "Good, don't start, I'll kill that beautiful face of yours." As Kagome lightly blushed from his comment, she noticed the little, blonde hair girl from a few moments ago peeking out from the side of the God's Tree. Cody looked over to the tree and gave a somewhat annoyed look at his young companion and signaled her to join him. "Come on out Mayfa, Kagome won't bite, not unless you get her riled up that is." Mayfa slowly walked over to Cody and hid behind him. "Is she related to you? Last time I checked, you were an only child." Kagome was a little curious about Cody's companion. "Well of course, she is my sister; well sort of…it's a long story." Cody was going to have a hard time explaining the whole situation about Mayfa and the rest of his dysfunctional family.
Kagome smiled cheerfully, walked over and kneeled down so that she was at eye level with Mayfa. "Hi there, so your name is Mayfa, huh? I'm Kagome. I didn't know Cody had a little sister. You guys must be pretty freezing out here. Let's go inside and warm up." Mayfa broke from her shy, nervous look and giggled lightly. The trio began to head towards the house to escape the now steady falling snow, until three young girls came running up, nearly out of breath. "Now this is interesting" Came Cody, taking notice of Kagome's friends. "Hey Kagome, why did you run off on us?" Eri said, panting in between breaths. "Yeah, we are going help you with your boyfriend problems whether you like it or not!" Yuka said as she arrived next to Eri. As Ayumi, showed up, she stopped and looked over at Kagome, Cody and Mayfa. She completely forgot about was she was going to she as she was just seemingly starring at this new guy that was with Kagome.
The guy standing next to Kagome matched the "bad-ass" description of the type of guys that Kagome described to her friends. He was about six feet tall, wore a dark, leather, crimson red trench coat(A/N: A regular kind of coat, not the weird kind that Vash the Stampede wears in Trigun) with matching sun-glasses. He had an all black turtle-neck on with matching jeans and boats. He wore a gray bandana which held back his past-shoulder length dirty-blonde hair. The two most notable features on this guy though were the fact that his left hand was all taped up and right under his eye was a small, but significant horizontal slash scar near his right eye. Despite that, there was something both intriguing and mysterious about this guy.
Cody stared back at Ayumi and took off his crimson red sun-glasses and looked back at Kagome's young, curly-haired friend. If I knew Kagome had cute friends like her over there, I would have made some stupid excuse to come here sooner. His glasses that he wore virtually everywhere hid his dark, azure blue eyes which now began to draw in Ayumi even more. His eyes reflected a variety of emotions all at once including sadness, melancholy, and at the same time happiness and even now desire.
Unbeknownst to Kagome and her friends, Cody's eyes were one of his "secret weapons" and you stared into them long enough, even the most uptight female could be easily lost and subdued. Perhaps being Cody's long-time friend was Kagome's immunity to his "rare" charm. Cody's thoughts, which were usually so focused on important matters, gave way quickly to incoherent ones about cute and lovely Ayumi was. His wondering thoughts were soon interrupted by Mayfa as she noticed the starring contest between the two, which at this point was not going to have a victor any time this century.
"Hey Cody, why are you starring at that girl over there, are you falling in love with her or something?" Cody nearly swallowed his cigarette at the remark and his face began to blush which almost matched the color of his glasses. "I, Um,..Well, heh heh, what makes you say that?" It was Cody's only response as he slipped his glasses back on in a half-effort to cover his embracement. Mayfa began to giggle as she pointed to Cody "Because were staring out into space when you were looking at her. Plus, your face was starting to turn kinda red, like it's doing right now. I may be young but I can tell when people love each other, and you love that girl." Cody couldn't really do much but stare at the ground in sheer embarrassment. Mayfa was usually a very quiet, shy girl in front of strangers, but once you break that "layer of ice", no one was safe from her young and naïve questions and observations.
Mayfa walked over Ayumi and introduced herself. "Hi, My name's Mayfa, that goofy, blushing guy who is in love with you over there is my brother Cody. Do you have a boyfriend? I hope not, because he really needs a girlfriend, although he says he doesn't. Are you friends of Kagome? You must be because all of you are wearing green skirts under your coats?
As Mayfa bombarded Ayumi with a storm of questions, Cody spit his cigarette out of his mouth and smacked his face with his right hand in disbelief. "I should have known this would happen. When Mayfa gets curious and wants to help, she will ask a thousand questions and will not rest under all of them are answered. Trying to stop here would be like trying to stop a tank, and those are possible to stop." Cody took out another cigarette, lit it up and looked over towards Kagome. "Hey, weren't we going inside?"
Kagome only smiled and nodded as she headed towards the door. Well, at least now I a secret weapon in case Eri, Yuka, or Ayumi ask Inuyasha too many questions. I'll just sick Mayfa on them, and she will question them out of submission. Speaking of Inuyasha, where is he anyway, there doesn't seem to be anyone home. I told Inuyasha not to leave the house, and he promised me that he would stay here in the present until at least I got home from school. Did he return to the Past or maybe he went looking for me? Where is he? Where is everyone? What is going on!!
Kagome sighed worriedly and waved over to everyone else to come inside and escape from the cold, winter weather. "Hey, aren't you guys coming."
"Coming" Mayfa laughed as she ran to join Cody and Kagome who were just entering the house.
As Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi walked slowly towards the house, they began to whisper to each other. "I wonder who those two were. Cody and Mayfa, I believe? Are they related to her boyfriend?" Eri whispered. "They must be. They guy really looks like he's the bad-ass type. If that is the case, we must find out all we can about this guy. Maybe he knows something about Inuyasha that Kagome doesn't." which Yuka whispered to her friends. Ayumi slightly blushed when she spoke "Yeah, I like to get know him." The way she whispered sounded like she wasn't paying attention to friends or anything else for that matter.
Little did anyone of them know what would behold any of them that coming night or the days ahead for that matter.
Hmm, what is going to happen now? Seems like Cody has taken an interest in one of Kagome's friends and vice-versa. Don't worry people, this is a Inuyasha and Kagome fic. The whole purpose of Cody and Mayfa are basically to help create the sub-plot in the story and also put the main story together here, which will all come together pretty soon. The first two chapters were more or less the introduction of the new characters
Speaking of Inuyasha, he will make his appearance in the next chapter, and mayhem will ensue. If you thought Mayfa was bad with Cody and Ayumi, just wait until she gets unleashed on Inuyasha and Kagome. No one is safe!
Until next time. Later.