Ch. 38 updated. When Inuyasha uses the jewel to become a full demon, it has a tragic outcome. This story touches painful subjects of love betrayed, survival, and redemption. This is a dark, sometimes bitter story for emotionally adult readers who understand that even the best people sometimes lose themselves and the pain of returning to those feelings. In short, it's a love story.

What happens when fate takes Kagome back to a month before Inuyasha was pinned to the tree? Will she ever get back to the right time? Will she change the past or leave it the way it is?

Nominated Best AU and Best Lemon by the IY Fanguild. First place Best AU by Feudal Association. Inuyasha Takahashi is the guy no girl can resist, but when he sets his sights on Kagome Higurashi, he has met his match. Full summary inside. IK

AU: Kagome could have simply turned around and gone back upstairs, leaving Miroku alone to deal with an unconscious hanyou in the back seat of his car. But no one ever said Kagome always took the easy way out… [Warning: language]

She broke up with him three years ago. Today he hit her with his car. Recording a album is hard enough, but when you throw in a girlfriend you never stopped loving, and a child you never knew you had, life for the famous Inuyasha just got harder.

CH 10 AU IKS triangle. Kagome is engaged to Sesshoumaru as part of a business arrangement. Wait till she discovers that the stranger she had drunkenly tried to seduce one night at the bar is his brother Inuyasha.