A/N: Hey today was the first day of school and it was okay… I guess. The thing is that Kitty is on the other side from Zero, and me. THAT'S NOT FAIR! We all wanted to be together as the group we are. I only have Zero for two periods, chorus, and math. I don't have Kitty in any! *Growls* STUPID PEOPLE! WE JUST WANTED US TO BE TOGETHER! They're EVIL! EVIL! I TELL YOU! EVIL! As you can already guess, I'm high right, now not too much, but still high. I ate too many sweets during dinner. The weird thing is my HAIR! IT'S TURNING SILVER! NATURALLY! TOP IT OFF I JUST NOTICED IT TODAY! I think I'm turning into my hanyou self. What should I do with it? Should I dye it or leave it alone? Help me out people! I'm just going to cut myself off now because I'll just keep on going on. This may be a short chapter. I'm not sure yet. Oh! Before I forget, I'm still looking for songs. One song called Beautiful goodbye would be a good song to listen to during this chapter.

The Melody of Life

Chapter 2: Rush

By: Star Blaze

I had called last night Kagome and aked if couple a friends and me could spend some of the summer at the house in Japan. Of course, I can't be denied. She asked her mom and they said yes. Actually I'm sure the reason they said yes was because they haven't seen me since I left Japan 10 years ago. Well this morning is gonna be complete chaos....

I woke up from a nice peaceful slumber and looked at the clock. "Damn it! It's 8:35! I forgot to set my alarm! I should be picking up everyone right now!" I yelled at myself starting to run around getting dressed to a light blue tight T-shirt, dark blue jeans shorts, ankle length socks, and white sneakers with black strips. Then washed my face, bushed my teeth, and bushed my hair. Grabbed my necklace Kagome gave me then put it on, grabbed Inuyasha, and anything that would keep me busy on the plane. Like my walkmen, notepad, a hair bush, some hair bends, and some books shoving them all in a small bag. After I was done with all that, I stuffed everything that I had left out into my big bag. I threw my big bag over one shoulder and the small one over the other, grabbing my wallet shoving it in my back pocket. Running down stairs yelling "Mom! Let's go!" I heard no reply so I locked up the house and went outside. And there she was in the van waiting for me. She rolled down the window and yelled to me "Throw your stuff in the back and get in!" I rushed doing what I was told, running over to the back throwing my stuff in, running to the passenger side and getting in with my carry bag and Inuyasha. Mom drove as fast as legally possible to Cloud and Tifa's house.

When we arrived, I ran out of the car with Inuyasha in my arms and ranging the doorbell. I heard five different sets of footsteps running towards the door then suddenly stop at the door. After a moment of silence, I heard a loud THUMP then silence once more. Finally after good two or three minutes, I heard one set of footsteps run to the door and unlock it. The door opened with Cloud at the door with messy hair; wearing baggy pants, loose light blue T-shirt, and black and white sneakers.

Taking a deep breath he said "Hey Star. You're late." Then all of the sudden....his hair fell back into place.

'I LOVE how his hair does that! So PRETTY!' "Hi Cloud. I know." I said tilting my head slightly looking pass him at the floor.

I saw everyone on the floor on top of one another with their hair all messed up except for Tifa. She was wearing a white turtle neck sleeves less shirt, a dark blue jeans shorts, ankle length socks, and white sneakers.

"I thought so." I said staring at them. "Come on we have no time to waste! Grab your bags and head out! Don't forget to get your purses and wallets!"

Cynthia was wearing a tight red (OMG! IT'S RED INSTEAD OF PINK) t-shirt that 'Love' written across it in pink(now there's the pink), jeans shorts, ankle length socks and white sneakers with pink strips.

Sora was wearing a loose red T-shirt, baggy pants, and white sneakers with red strips.

Cory was wearing a loose white T-shirt, baggy pants, and white sneakers.

"Okay!" they all yelled. Running to the living room and running back out with all their bags. Cloud waited for everyone to get out of the house "Does everyone have their stuff?"

"Yeah!" everyone replied already out of the door. Looking at everyone outside making sure everyone was out Cloud locked the door. We quickly threw their bags in the back and hopped into the van. We sat in couples, of course. In the very back were Tifa and Cynthia in the middle, Cory, and Sora at the sides. Cory on Madison's side and Sora on Cynthia's side. In the front back were Cloud and me. After everyone was settled in, we took off to the airport. The whole trip we talked about if we should train in Japan. I didn't train there so I didn't know if we should train or not. We all finally decided that we would train there. We arrived at the airport at that time too, I noticed but they others didn't. Then they started talking about what they should do in Japan. I didn't join in that conversation. I looked out the window and started remembering the day we had left Japan and hugged Inuyasha. When we got into the parking area the place was packed. "Damn it's packed." I whispered. Madison stopped talking that instant. "What did you say Star?" she asked making sure. Everyone stopped talking when Madison asked me that. I ignored her and moved closer to okaa-sama and said, "Okaa-sama you don't have to park or take us in. Just stop here and we'll get off. All we need from you are tickets." I looked back at the others they nodded and I looked back at okaa-san.

"Star…" She thought for a moment. "Okay Star. I'm not going to argue. You all can take care of yourselves and it does help me." She said stopping the van then grabbing her purse searching though it then pulled out the tickets and handed them to me.

"Thanks okaa-san you're the best." I said getting off the van with the others behind me. Okaa-san left the car on and got off her self. Everyone went to the back and got all their bags. When I got my bags, I dropped them to the floor hugged Inuyasha, and walked over to my stepmother. At the same time, she walked to me. When we meet at the middle and okaa-san hugged me. I was shocked for a moment then hugged back. I pulled away from her turned to the others and mouthed to go ahead. Cloud and Tifa nodded picked up their bags and started to walk away with the others following. I turned back to okaa-san. "Ray…."

"Why are you calling me by my name? You haven't called me by my name since I've adopted you." She asked stepping back and getting a bit scared.

"I'm going to try and go back home." I answered.

Her face turned pale. "Your what?" she asked shaking a bit and biting her lower lip.

"I'm sorry it's so sudden but I didn't want to worry you. I wasn't going to tell you until I got to Japan…but I don't like lying to you. You raised me like my real okaa-san would of…" 'Just in a old fashion way.' "I'll try to stay in touch through Kagome. If I don't…Don't be surprised. I may have to stay there. Like I had to stay here…"

Ray started to cry silently listening to my words still looking at me.

"I thank you for everything you did for me up until now. The way you treated me like your own. Teaching me things…helping me out…everything. You loved me with all your heart and I did too." I tried to hold everything in but my eyes watered up and silent tears fell. I turned my back on her, walked to my bags, through them over my shoulder, hugged Inuyasha, and started walking towards the door the others went through. I was at the entrance, when I stopped walking, turned my head towards her, and said "Good bye okaa-san. I will always remember you and love you." I turned my head back and walking in following the scent of they others. I heard Ray run to the car get in and driving off… crying.

'This hurts me as much as it hurts you Ray. I wish I could take the pain away from both of us. But I have Naraku to take out before he does anything to my family.' Silent tears still fell from my face as I walked. 'They are mostly like at the gate already…no they're right in front of me.' I thought sniffing the air, picking up my head and saw Tifa in front of me with the others behind her.

"Star don't cry. It's not like you." Tifa said walking over to me and hugging me. I hugged back with my silent tears still falling. "I can't…I don't know why but I can't." I whispered. Tifa pulled back. "What did you say to Ray?" She asked.

"I…I…I told her I was going back." I stuttered looking away from her.

"You don't tell her the main reason do you?" she whispered.

"No…I didn't tell her that would have made things worse." I said wiping my tears away but to no success, my silent tears still fell.

"That's true. It's better that she doesn't know."

"Yeah…" I whispered wiping my tears again to succeed. "Okay everyone when you talk about my step-mother say Ray okay?" I said putting Inuyasha on my head and walking past the others to the charts on the screens to see how long we have to wait. Tifa followed me. I heard a "What is up with Star?" from Sora.

"We'll talk to Star later when she is ready to talk Sora." Cynthia replied to the bewildered Sora and start to follow Tifa and me with Sora at her heels.

"Hey Tifa wait for me!" Cory yelled to Tifa running to catch up to her. Cloud just sighed and followed the rest of us. I stopped in front of the few dozens of screen charts and searched through the charts for our flight. Tifa also searched through the many charts.

"Here we are!" she yelled pointing to the screen with our flight on it. Everyone looked to where Madison was pointing. It said American Airlines one way trip leaves to Japan at 10 o'clock at gate five.

"That's in an hour." Cloud said sighing looking away from the many screens and started to walk to the baggage area. Everyone followed him dragging the bags at their sides and sighing.

"Let's put our bags on the airplane." Cloud said getting in line to get our bags on the plane and sat his bags on the ground beside him.

I caught up to Cloud put my bags on the floor next to me and rested my head on his shoulder with Inuyasha in my arms. "This is gonna take awhile." I sighed.

"Yeah it is." He replied.

I turned back to the others "You all know we are allowed to bring one bag on to the plane right?" I asked everyone including Cloud.

"Yeah." Cloud replied. "I checked everyone when they came to the house and the all had a bag ready for the plane trip." Cloud finished turning to the others. They all nodded to Cloud as a yes.

Fifteen minutes later we all finally got to the front of the line. We all went together to make everything faster. For everyone's bags to get in took about all together five minutes. Sora and Cynthia were the last ones to get their bags into the luggage. Tifa, Cory, Cloud, and me were waiting for them. "What do we do now?" Tifa asked leaning against Cory with her arm under his arm and her bag over her other shoulder.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm gonna get some snacks." Sora yelled to us running towards a food stand.

"Hey Sora! Wait for me!" Cynthia yelled to the boy running after him.

"SORA! WATCH OUT!" Cory yelled to the occupied Sora.

"Wha-" Sora yelled back turning to Cory and running into a girl.

"Sora are you okay?" Cynthia asked her fallen boyfriend.

I put Inuyasha in my bag with his head popping out and ran to the scene with the others at my heels. "Are you okay Sora?" I asked him at his side with the others behind me asking the same question.

"Yeah but my HEAD HURTS!" Sora yelled in my ear.

"Damn it Sora! My ears!" I yelled in his ear.

"Owwww! Okay I'll be good." Sora replied whispering.

"Good." I whispered back and turning to the girl still on the floor with some guy at her side. "Sorry, are you okay?" I asked the girl. The girl had hazel eyes, a foot past shoulder length reddish blond hair in a low ponytail, and wearing a white T-shirt that said Stars on it, knee length jeans, and her shoes were white and baby blue and also said Stars on it. She stopped talking to the guy and looked at me in surprise. "You're…" she looked to the others then back at me. "You're the Fire Tigers aren't you?" she asked with excitement and jumping to her feet. She was 5'4 in height. I froze and felt a chill down my spine. 'I feel and smell something familiar about these two. Do I know them no…wait…I smell my family's blood line in them. The guy looks sort of like tou-sama.'

"Yeah, what can we do for you?" Cory said a bit surprised him self with her not answering my question. She ignored that question too and smiled wide. "Hi! I'm Jill Striker." She pointed to the guy beside her. "And this is my older brother Jet." Jill said. He had brown eyes, jet-black spiked hair (like Vash's hair but without the three strands out and shorter), 6 feet in height, a white T-shirt, dark blue baggy pants, and red and black shoes.

"Hi. Nice to meet you. Now let's go Jill. Let's figure out where are gate is before we do anything else." Jet said starting pulling her towards the gates area.

"But THESE ARE THE FIRE TIGERS!" Jill yelled trying to stay in her spot.

"Yeah but does it look like I care?" Jet asked his sister getting a firm hold on her arm.

"No, but all I want is their autographs." Jill said sadly giving her brother the puppy face.

"Damn it! I hate when she gives me that face." Jet said under his breath. "Fine! But that's all you get." Jet said letting go of Jill's arm.

"Yes! Thanks! I'm glad I packed my autograph book!" Jill yelled excitedly hugging her brother.

"Your welcome Jill. Now can you let me go." Jet asked turning blue and gasping for air. Jill dropped Jet on the floor and came running to us. I watched Jet fall painfully to the ground still blue, gasping for air and twitching. However, when he got up he looked fine. He dusted himself off and slowly followed his sister. The next thing I know Jill was hugging me to death. She suddenly froze and slowly backed away and spaced out. "Are you okay Jill?" I asked out of confusion. Jill looked to Jet. "What?" Jet asked walking to his sister's side. After a moment Jill looked like she was minding fighting Jet. Jill staring at Jet and Jet staring back bobbing their heads constantly. (Bobby heads!)

"Okay. I guess we'll just leave now." I said walking away from the weird fight with others following. "Bye!" we yelled running off dragging our bags behind us.

"Hey! Get back here!" I heard Jill and Jet yell after us.

I ran until I was out hearing range with the others at my heels. I finally stopped at near the gate area. "I think we lost them." I said turning to the others. They all were taking big breaths except for Madison at my side.

"I'm still hungry!" Sora complied between breaths.

"Let's go get something to snack on then because I didn't eat a thing this morning." I said grabbing Cloud by the hand and walking toward the food court.

"Hey wait for me!" Sora whined running after Cloud and me grabbing Cynthia on his way.

"What should we do?" Madison asked dropping her bag and turned to Cory.

Cory bent down, dropped his bag, picked up Madison put her over his shoulder, threw both his and Madison's bags over his other shoulder, and slowly followed the rest of us. "Okay this works." Madison said setting herself on Cory's shoulder.

I searched through the many food stands and restaurants and found an ice cream shop. "How does ice cream sound?" I asked everyone.

"FOOD!" Sora yelled.

"I'm with him." Cynthia said.

"Sounds great to me." Cory said adjusting Madison on his shoulder.

"I'm hot of course, I want ice cream." Madison plied fanning herself.

"I don't care." Cloud said walking towards the shop readjusting his bag on his shoulder.

"I'll take that all as a yes." I said with Cloud dragging me with his free arm.

"FOOD! OH YEAH! FOOD!" Sora yelled running to the shop and seeing all the flavors.

"WE KNOW THAT SORA!" We all yelled in unison coming into the shop dragging our bags.

"Okay, okay I'll shut up." Sora replied and ordered Cynthia and himself some ice cream.

"Good." Cory said directing Madison in a booth handing her his bag and her bag and followed Sora to order them ice cream.

Cloud directed me to the booth were Madison was, sat me down, handed me his bag, and went to go order us some ice cream. I saw Sora and Cynthia walk over to another booth out of the corner of my eye and started wondering "Is there something wrong with Cloud?" I asked Madison.

"Maybe, I'm not sure really. He hasn't talked very much since yesterday. Did something happen yesterday between you two?"

"Well..."

"Spit it out."

"Well I don't want to get really close to him any more."

"Why?"

"I'm not sure how he'll feel if I die against Naraku or what he'll do."

"..." "Umm...I never thought of that. You dying...I just can't see that."

"Well that may happen. Naraku is a very strong youkai and if I let my guard down, he'll have a chance of killing me. I need both my heart and mind focused when I fight him, and if I get too close to Cloud I might not have that focus when it really counts...I can't get close to anyone anymore than I already am." ' Yet, I want to act normal. Is that even possible in my situation?' I asked my self.

Madison thought for a moment and whispered "Your right! We have to save your family…" two familiar guys walked in cutting off Madison. One guy had light brown hair, honey brown eyes, a muscular body and was wearing plain baggy pants and a loose white T-shirt. The other guy had spiked jet-black hair, dark brown eyes, and a muscular body and was wearing plain baggy shorts and a loose red shirt. "This is not good." I whispered to Madison. The two guys spotted us, came, and sat down beside Madison and me.

"Hey Star!" the guy with brown hair flirted sitting next to me.

"Hey Madison!" the guy with black hair flirted sitting next to Madison.

We knew these two. They had classes with us. Like all the guys in school, they liked us but tried to get with us harder than the other guys. Although we were with Cloud and Cory, they hit on us but they learned to stay away when Cloud and Cory were there the hard way. Though losing many street races with them. No matter how many times they tried to beat Cloud and Cory, they always lost.

"Hi Richard." I replied annoyed.

"Hi Jordan." Madison said rolling her eyes also annoyed.

Richard scooted close to me and put an arm around me. Jordan did the same to Madison. I stayed calm but Madison started to squirm a bit getting unconvertible.

"Richard!"

"Jordan!"

They both jerked off us hearing their names from behind them and turned towards the voices that called them.

"Cloud!" Richard said staring wide eyed.

"Cory!" Jordan said surprised and getting a bit nervous.

Cloud and Cory handed Madison and me their and our cups of ice cream. We smiled put their cups on table and started happily eating our ice cream. Cloud and Cory smirked seeing us occupied and gave a cold glare to Richard and Jordan. "Get up." Cloud said angrily. That simply got both Madison's and my attention. The two did as they were told. Cloud reached out his hand for mine and Cory did the same to Madison both with evil smiles. (At the same time as if they rehearsed it. CRAZY! This comment is from Kitty's story). Madison looked at Cory's hand then to his face, nodded put her cup on the table, and took his hand. I put my cup on the table and took Cloud's hand. Cloud pulled me up kissed me passionately wrapping his arms around me taking me in a warm embrace. I closed my eyes and melted in his arms. 'No I can't do this. I must try to stay away from Cloud…although it hurts him and me. The more closer I get to him the harder it will be to focus on Naraku.' I pulled away from the kiss put one arm around Cloud's waist and turned to Madison. It seemed Cory did the same to Madison as Cloud did to me but they were still passionately kissing each other. I rolled my eyes at the two and looked at Richard and Jordan. They were both staring at us wide eyed with their mouths slightly hanging open. I slowly walked towards the two and whispered, "Madison." When I walked by her. She slowly stopped kissing Cory and watched me walk towards Richard and Jordan. When I got to, the two I looked them in the eyes and slowly risen my hands under their chins then gently pushed up and closed their mouths. I turned around slowly walked back to the booth picked up Cloud's and my cup of ice cream and hand Cloud his cup then grabbed my bag. Madison (still be held by Cory) grabbed Cory's cup and hand it to him then grabbed hers and happily started eating again. I smiled and slowly walked passed Richard and Jordan out of the shop eating my ice cream happily with Cloud at my heels grabbing his bag before following. I stopped outside the shop with Cloud at my side and waited for the others. The others were confused for a moment. Then they regained themselves then grabbed their bags and followed us with their ice creams in hand. Behind them were Richard and Jordan. 'Not this again. Wait I have an idea!' I thought. I tried to finish my ice cream as fast as I could and waited until someone finished their ice cream. It was Cloud. 'Great! I can have some fun with him.' I got a good grip on my bag and yelled "Race you to the gates Cloud!" then ran to a trashcan throwing away my cup and ran towards the gate area. Cloud accepted by running after me and through his cup away too and followed me. I slowed down letting Cloud catch up to me. I smiled at him and he smirked back then sped up to the gate area. I heard people talking asking how could people running so fast. I ignored it and started to speed up to catch up to Cloud but to no success. He was already at the gate sitting in a chair with his arms crossed and his head down when I got there. I stopped running a few feet away from him and slowly walked towards him and sat in the chair next to him. "Your speed has increased. What have you been up to Cloud?" I asked smiling surprised at how dramatically his speed had increased since we last raced each other.

"You have increased your speed too. What have you been up to?" he replied picking up his head slightly opening one eye and almost smirked.

I smiled and decided to say, "Well that training lately must have done it."

Cloud opened his other eye; "There's your answer. I've been training too."

I stood up put my bag in the chair I was sitting in and sat in Cloud's lap with him watching me. I searched his pale blue eyes and ran my hand though his blond hair. I brought my hand to his face then leaned my face to his and nudged my nose against his. He smirked searching my eyes and I smiled then hugged him and rested my head on his chest. I felt his chin on my head then I closed my eyes and lightly purred.

"Star!" I heard a familiar voice yell.

'Oh no! It's Jill!' I lifted head, "Cloud let's go." I said getting up quickly.

"Why?" he asked getting up bewildered.

"I heard Jill yell my name." I said walking the oppose direction of her voice.

"Okay, but what should we do?"

"Umm…do you have the time?"

"Nope."

"Then let's go look for the others, and find the time."

"That works." He replied following me.

We headed back towards the ice cream shop and found everyone about half way there.

"Madison!" I yelled waving my hand in the air.

"Star! We lost Richard and Jordan!" she yelled running toward us with Cory, Cynthia, and Sora at her heels.

"We almost bumped into Jill." I said with her in front of me.

"You did?" she asked surprised.

"Yeah we almost did." I sighed.

"Why did you do run off like that for?" Cynthia asked very confused.

"To lose Richard and Jordan of course." I replied.

"Well that worked." Sora sighed put one arm over Cynthia's shoulders.

"Yeah that worked out perfectly." Cory said coming up behind Madison.

"Yep! It sure did!" I said smiling.

"Last call for Japan at gate 5!" the intercom said repeating it's self.

We all looked at each other and then ran towards the gates.

"How come we didn't hear it the first time it started to call for passengers?" Madison asked running beside me.

"I don't know. We could been doing something or we not paying attention."

"Stop chatting and keep running!" Cloud yelled from behind us.

"Okay!" We said picking up the speed.

"Hey Lee!" I heard a familiar voice say from not too far away. 'Hey that's Jill's voice.'

"Madison did you hear that?" I asked facing her.

"Hear what?"

"I heard Jill's voice again. Just listen."

"AHHH!" a young man's voice yelled. I heard Jill giggle. "Jill…" the voice gasped for air. "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" he yelled.

"You should have seen your face Lee! Price less! Jill really got you this time!" I heard another familiar voice say between laughs. 'Hey and that's Jet's voice.'

"Where are you headed to this time Lee?" Jet asked regaining his breath and helping him up I think.

"I'm looking for Vash the Stampede." The guy so called Lee replied.

"Why would he be looking for Vash?" Madison asked me.

"Who is Vash the Stampede?" Jet asked Lee.

"He's a very talented guns men. I've heard about him and came to check it out." Lee replied.

"Oh! I bet I know what your gonna ask him too. Your gonna ask if he'll train you. Am I right Lee?" Jill asked.

"Damn it Jill! Why did you have to read my mind?" Lee yelled

"Did you know that?" Madison asked me.

"I always wondered Vash has such fast reflexes but I never thought he would be a professional guns men." I replied. "And did you hear Lee? He yelled at Jill asking why she had read his mind."

"That explains why Jill and Jet seemed to be talking earlier."

"Hey! Star! Madison! Hurry up and get over here!" Cory yelled waiting for us at the gate.

"We're coming!" I yelled back to him. "We're at the gates…so let's just forget for now."

"Sounds good to me!" Madison said running towards the gate.

"Hey! Wait for me!" I yelled running after her.

On the plane…

We sat in first class, which was very nice area. We couldn't decide where to sit though but when we finally found seats, everyone sat in couples. The order we sat in was Madison with Cory on one side and me on the other with Cloud at my side, and on Cloud, side was Sora with Cynthia on his side. I wasn't really paying attention to anything until the plane took off. It's been awhile since I've been in a plane and I forgot how it felt to take off…so I was a bit shaken up when we got into the air. I was so caught up in my thoughts. I almost didn't hear "Star? Are you okay?" Cloud asked worried.

I quickly put myself together. "I'm fine Cloud. No need to worry. I just forgot how felt to be on plane." I smiling and facing Cloud.

"Okay. As long your okay."

"Thanks Cloud." I said turning to Madison.

"Your welcome Star." He replied in almost a whisper.

"What do think we should we should do when we get there? I think it's gonna be daytime when we get there." I told Madison but mostly to everyone.

"I don't know." Madison replied. "Me either." Cory replied agreeing with Madison.

I turned to the other side of me with Cloud, Sora, and Cynthia and asked, "Do you guys know what you want to do?"

"Nope." Cloud and Cynthia replied. I look at Sora waiting for his answer.

"What?" he asked puzzled.

"What do you think we should do?"

"EAT!" Sora yelled out of nowhere.

Everyone on the plane looked us with a cold stare. "Sorry…" we apologized get nervous.

"DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!" They all yelled at us angrily and went back to their business. This freaked me out quiet a bit. "Was it just me or did that really happen?" I asked Madison whispering.

"It's just happened and it was quiet weird." Madison whispered back. We all looked at Sora blaming him for what just happened.

"We just had ice cream a few minutes ago." I looking at my watch and gasped. (Hey I didn't have a watch before.) "Their mind. We had ice cream about three hours ago. Time flew by fast." I sighed. 'No wonder Sora is hungry. We ate three hours ago and we ran a lot.' "Okay. When we get there, we'll eat." I said agreeing with Sora. Everyone looked at me as if I was crazy or something. "What?" I asked bewildered by the way the were looking at me. "What did you just say?" They asked surprised.

"We'll eat when we get there. What's the big deal about that? We'll be hungry by the time we get there." I told them still bewildered.

"You agreed with Sora." Cloud, Madison, Cory, and Cynthia said surprised. Cloud put his hand on my forehead. "Does she have a fever? She doesn't seem hot." He said taking his hand off my forehead.

"Are you sure Cloud? Let me check." Madison said putting her hand on my forehead.

"Hmm your right Cloud." Madison said after a moment and took off her hand off my forehead.

"You guys aren't checking right. Here let me try." Cory said putting his hand on my forehead. "Oops. You guys were checking right." He said after an annoying moments and took his hand off.

"Well…there has to be something wrong with her." Cynthia said.

"Can I tell you guys something?" I asked in a very sweet voice.

"What?" they asked leaning forward.

"I'M NOT SICK!" I yelled enraged.

Once again everyone looked at us with a cold stare and yelled, "DIDN'T WE SAY TO BE QUIET!"

Getting more enraged I yelled, "WILL YOU PEOPLE SHUT UP?"

The whole plane was silent for a moment. Everyone staring at me then after a sec they went back to what ever they were doing.

"Oh! Yeah. Wow! That's something new." I said surprised myself at what I had just done.

"Hey! Why are you guys surprised about that?" Sora very confused. We burst out laughing at Sora's bewilderment. "I'm still hungry!" Sora whined. We started laughing harder at Sora and his whining. After awhile we had calm down I got my walkmen out and put a CD in and heard Beautiful goodbye play. 'This sorta describes Ray and me now.' I thought pressing the repeat button. I took Inuyasha out of my bag and hugged him tightly. Then I closed my eyes and turned up the music. I soon fell asleep to the music.

Dream…

I looked around and then at myself. I was about four years old. 'I'm a little kid and I'm in hanyou form.' "Star!" I heard three familiar voices yell. I turned around to see okaa-sama, tou-sama, and Zero by our palace. I just stood there but I saw little me run to them. 'Okay this is very weird. I see myself as a little kid…but it makes me feel good see this and yet I yarn for them.' I followed the little me and walked by her. 'They don't even see me. Well that's okay. This is only a dream. Although it feels real like my last dream that had…I remember this day. This is when…' My thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash. 'Speak of the devil.' Zero and little me ran towards the loud crash and I followed at their heels. I saw what I had seen that day. Tou-sama standing in front of okaa-sama with a white baboon before them. It lunged forward towards tou-sama but he dodged picking up okaa-sama and ran towards us. He sat okaa-sama beside us and said, "Don't worry my children. I'll take care of this youkai." He turned to the beast and yelled "What is your name, and why have you come here?"

"I'm the youkai Naraku and I have come to kill you and you're family.

"Not as long as I live you won't." He yelled running towards Naraku transforming to his true form. A huge dog youkai with silver blue fur, red eyes, and had a blue diamond with little shard shapes on each side of the diamond on his forehead.

"Get him tou-sama!" Zero and little me yelled.

Okaa-sama grabbed Zero and little me from behind and tightly held on to them. I just stood there remembering exactly how I felt right then. Okaa-sama was crying on Zero and little me. Zero and little me turned around and hugged her back. 'Zero and me really wanted to help tou-sama but we couldn't leave okaa-sama…we just couldn't. We knew that tou-sama could handle himself but we still wanted to help him yet we had to stay with okaa-sama.' Then something happened that I didn't remember it happening. Naraku won against tou-sama. I stared wide-eyed at tou-sama's died body so did okaa-sama, Zero, and little me. 'This didn't happen. I don't remember this happening.' Evil loud laughs interrupted my thoughts. "Star…" Naraku said looking at me. Okaa-sama, Zero, and little me turned towards me and stared.

"You all can see me now?" I asked a bit surprised. They nodded.

"Yes I can see you Star. They can too. I can't wait till you come so I can finally kill you and your family." Naraku said.

"This isn't real this didn't happen. I won't let you really do this Naraku!" I yelled fully enraged.

"Oh but already have my lady." He said laughing evilly.

Naraku disappeared and everything around me turned into forest. I saw a huge red youkai with at least five horns on his body running after something. I was curious so ran after the youkai then went in front of him to see what he was chasing. I saw the back of a young girl dog hanyou with silver blue hair with a band in it, wearing blue kimono, and had a sword. I took deep breath and smelt the air. 'She looks so familiar and her scent is so familiar too…is it Zero? Is it really her?' "Zero!" I yelled speeding up to catch up to her. The girl turned around still running stared and whispered, "Star..."

"It is you Zero!" I yelled.

She stopped and stared. "Star! It is you!" she looked up "Star! Watch out!" she yelled.

I turned around and saw the red youkai. I lunged towards it and yelled, "Steel Claw!" It was suppose to kill the damn thing but it only made a deep wound in its chest. "What the hell? Zero! How come you haven't killed this thing?" I yelled.

"It has shards of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls!"

"You have a sword don't you?" 'How can that be possible? I thought the Scared Jewel was burned with that priestess that died 40 years ago…well 50 years I think it is now.'

"Yes!" Zero replied interrupting my thoughts.

"Well use it!"

"Alright!" she yelled starting to run off but time seem to slow for a moment when she said, "Meet me a the well you fell in." Then she took off running toward the well.

End of Dream

I felt someone shaking me. "Star…Star wake up!" a familiar voice called.

I slowly started to wake up. "Huh?" I replied to the voice opening my eyes slowly.

"Good your wake because we're here in Tokyo. We'll land in a few minutes." Cloud said.

'I thought I was listening to my walkmen. They must turned it off and put it away.' "Okay." I said picking up myself into sitting position. "I was asleep the whole time?" I asked Cloud putting Inuyasha on top of my head.

"Yeah you've been asleep the whole time." He replied.

Before I knew it we were getting off the plane and going towards the baggage area. I kept a close eye and ear for Kim, Kagome, and Sota.

I stopped walking hearing a familiar voice, "Kagome! Sota! Hurry were late!" I looked around and searched. 'That's Kim! I know it! Where are they though?'

"Star? What's wrong?" Madison asked.

"I heard them."

"Who?"

"I heard my Aunt Kim at least." I said still searching.

"Oh! Okay."

I finally found them. "Aunt Kim over here!" I yelled waving my hand in the air wildly.

"Star!" Kim yelled running up to me and giving me a big hug Kagome and Sota were running at her heels.

Kim still looked the same as I remember but was wearing a white sleeve less shirt with a long light blue skirt. Kagome still looked the same too just older. She was wearing a school uniform similar to our school uniforms back in the U.S. but her uniform was green and she had a shorter skirt. Sota was wearing green T-shirt and jeans shorts.

"Hi Aunt Kim." I said hugging Kim back. I stop hugging Kim and turned to Kagome and Sota. "Hi Kagome!" I said hugging her.

"Star!" she yelled hugging me tight.

I let go of Kagome back up and turned to my friends. "Aunt Kim, Kagome, Sota. These are my friends."

"Hi!" Kim and Kagome said happily.

I stood beside Cloud and looked up to him, "This is Cloud my…boyfriend."

"Hi Kagome and umm…" Cloud greeted looking at them.

"You all can call me Kim." She replied to Cloud as well as everyone else.

"Hello Kim." Cloud said with a slight nod.

"So this is Cloud. He's cute." Kagome said.

"Yeah this is him…so you do like guys." I replied getting a blush from Kagome. I walked over to Madison and put my arm on her shoulder. "And this is his sister Madison."

"Hello!" Madison replied with a wave.

"The guy next to her is Cory, her boyfriend."

"Hey!" Cory said with a small wave.

I walked over to Cynthia and Sora. Then I stood next to Sora. "This is Sora…" I moved over to Cynthia. "And this is Cynthia, his girlfriend."

"Hello!" They replied both giving a wave.

"Thank you for letting my friends and me stay at your house for the summer Aunt Kim." I said with a big smile on my face, turned to the others, and nodded.

"Thank you Kim!" they all said.

"Your welcome."

I looked behind Aunt Kim and saw Sota looking at the floor. "Hey Sota. You've grown. Come and give me a hug." I kneeling down in front him opening my arms. Sota looked up to me. His eyes watering up and he jumped into my arms crying. He surprised me at first, but I hugged him, stood up, and held him in my arms trying to calm him.

"He's been looking forward to seeing you." Kim said.

"I can tell." I replied rubbing his back.

"Who that?" Sora asked confused.

"That's my little brother Sota." Kagome told they gang.

"Let's go get our luggage." I told everyone walking toward the baggage area.

"Okay." Cloud said following me with the others following him.

"What just happened okaa-sama?" I heard Kagome ask.

"I don't know but we better go follow them before they get lost." Kim replied.

"Alright okaa-sama." Kagome said starting to follow us.

'It's good to be back here. It will be better to be back at my own time.' Sota stirred in my arms. 'He fell asleep. I carry him until he wakes up. He really did miss me. Does everyone back home miss me this much? I hope they do because I know I miss them as much as Sota missed me. Well I'll have to find out. I'll try going though the well tomorrow but that mean I have to tell Kim, Kagome, and Sota what I really am. I'll do that tonight. I have too and plus everyone will want to come with me. They all were my family at one point but I want to go back to my real family. I know I could live the rest my life here but…I have a hole in my heart and I know how to full that hole. I have to go back home to where I belong. I wonder how much things have changed back home. How will they react to me? Do they think I'm dead? No I have to focus. The first thing is to see if my family is okay. Then I have to find and kill Naraku.'

"Star. Star. Are you okay?" Madison asked.

"Huh? Yeah I'm fine Madison." I replied coming back to reality.

"No something is wrong. What is it?"

"Madison do you need to ask?"

"Oh! Okay."

"Thanks for worrying though."

"Any time. Hey is kid asleep?"

"Yeah. Why so you ask?"

"I was just wondering…should we make the guys carry all the bags?"

"Why?"

"Cause we can."

"True. Okay I'll go with that."

"Hey Cynthia come here!" Madison yelled.

Cynthia came to us and asked, "What?"

"Do you think we should make the guys carry our bags?"

Cynthia thought for a moment and said, "Alright that will be fun, but let carry our bags that we took on the plane."

"It settled then we'll get the guys to carry everything but our bags that we took on the plane."

We all got our own bags and meet at the front gate. The girls and me (still holding sleeping Sota) walked over to the boys with our bags and put our bags on the floor. Then we all stated flirting with our guy saying, "Would you please carry my bag?" in sweet voices. They all easily fell for it. "Okay." They all said in daydream voices.

"Thanks!" we (the girls and me) all said and started walking out of the airport into the parking lot.

"Hey!" the boys said realizing what had just happened to them.

"You already said yes." We replied turning to them.

"Whatever." They all muttered under their breaths. Cloud easily swigs his and my bags over his shoulders. Cory had harder time with his and Madison's bags. He was dragging the bags behind him but still managed to catch up to us. Sora was having a bit of more trouble with his and Cynthia bags and was starting to complain, "Cynthia what did you shove in here?"

"Sora do you really want to know?" Madison asked the starting to get annoying Sora.

"I don't think I do." He replied trying to deal with his duty.

"Good!" we (boys and girls) all said surprising Sora.

We busted out laughing at him walking towards the doors.

"Now starving!" Sora complained.

I stopped and asked the complaining Sora, "I told you we would eat when we got here didn't I?"

"Yeah but I'm still hungry. Plus I'm carrying this." He said picking up the bags off the floor and set them back down.

"Well…what do you feel like eating?" Aunt Kim asked walking in the middle of the mini war of the girls and boys.

"Pizza!" Sora yelled running up to Kim.

"What do you all want?" Kim asked turning to the rest of the group.

"I'll have whatever Sora wants." Cynthia said agreeing with Sora.

"I'll have whatever everyone else wants." I replied.

"Anywhere that I can have seafood." Madison said. We all looked at Madison as if she was crazy or something. "What?" she asked confused by the looks.

"We'll talk later." I whispered low so only, she could hear me.

"I'm with Star. I'll eat whatever everyone else wants." Cloud replied still giving his sister an odd stare.

"I'm with Madison. Seafood sound good." Cory replied.

"Okay let's put this together. We can have pizza with anchovies." Kim said end before starting mini war.

"Alright!" Everyone replied.

A/N: I'm gonna cut it off here because I'll go into the next chapter before you know it. It took me three pages just to try to end this chapter. So anyway I'm sorry it took me awhile to get this done so I'm not gonna type any more right here and start typing the next chapter for you guys. Well…not yet I'm gonna read the other chapters fix them and print them out. Oh! Next time on Melody of Life…we eat and go shopping for the day. That night I tell Kagome, Kim, and Sota what I really am, and I sneak over to the well and go jump down then come back. We all go to my era the next day and meet Kagome's friends. Okay that's enough of what is gonna happen in the next chapter. Until next chapter. Bye! *Star prints chapter*